The current ABS 2025 In-Person Meeting program is listed below. Please be sure to reference this page regularly as program changes are expected up until the meeting.
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Wednesday, July 9 |
| Time | Constellation AB | Columbia-Frederick | Annapolis-Baltimore | Chesapeake A | Chesapeake B |
| 9:45 am - 12:15 pm | New Life in the City: Urban Animal Behavior (1) | International collaborations in animal behavior: The case of Latin America (1) | Social decision making
Moderator(s): Santiago Meneses , Etya Amsalem | Stress reduction in companion animals and other furry friends
Moderator(s): Sally Dickinson, Jill A. Villarreal | Mechanisms of Song
Moderator(s): Chiti Arvind, Alexander G. Allison |
| 9:45 | Introduction and perspective on the importance of studying animal behavior in an increasingly urban world
B. Seymoure | Introduction
I. Escalante, X. Bernal, A. Maldonado-Chaparro | Decisions under duress: personal vs. social information use in the Greater Ani
J. LaPergola, C. Riehl | Socialization, Handling, and Low-Stress Techniques for Veterinary Procedures in Laboratory Dogs and Cats
J. Watson | Birdsong dialects, differential responses to songs and links to genetic population structure
C. Arvind, S. Sawant, R. Srinivasan, V. Robin |
| 9:50 | Studies of The Mating Systems of Swordtail Fishes Through International Collaborations
O. Rios-Cardenas |
| 10:00 | Impacts Of Artificial Light And Urban Heat Islands On Urban Mammals
T. Stankowich, E. Blackwell | Starvation Risk Influences the Use of Social Information in a Foraging Model
K. Kroeger, I. Hamilton | The Impact of Physical Conditioning on SAR Dog Performance
S. Dickinson | Finding the units of cultural transmission in Albert’s lyrebird vocalizations with Zipfian statistics
V. Ferdinand, A. Dalziell, J. Welbergen, F. Backhouse |
| 10:15 | So many tucos, so little time … collaborative characterizations of ctenomyid social behavior
E. Lacey | A social bee can learn a novel queen pheromone
E. Amsalem, A. Hefetz | Increasing ease of nail trims for shelter cats using behavior modification
J. Link, J. Posluns, C. Moody | A Study of Psittacine Vocal Learning and Reproduction of Human Speech Sounds
K. Vilches Castaño, L. Benedict |
| 10:30 | What makes an urban ant?
P. Clint | Social Facilitation in Eastern and Asian Box Turtles (Terrapene carolina carolina and Cuora mccordi)
G. Weyman-Heller, S. Simmons, J. Mendelson III, S. Brosnan | "Play and hunting behavior in domestic cats (Felis catus): are hunters more interested in play?"
H. Chung, A. Sih, C. Moody | Nestling Calls Develop Similarly but Show Acoustic Differences Among Isolated Populations of a Macaw
A. Allison, T. Wright |
| 10:45 | Resource Heterogeneity Affects Migration and Connectivity of the Behavioral Ecologist Metapopulation
J. Stynoski | Electrocommunication and Swim Behaviors Reflect Social Hierarchy in Mormyrid Weakly Electric Fish
C. Diebold, M. Fukutomi, M. Pujol, E. Karacelebi, E. Schumacher, B. Carlson | Exploring the Efficacy of using Keeper Ratings to Characterize Red Panda (Ailurus spp.) Personality
S. Huskisson, K. Delaski, N. Songsasen, E. Freeman | Morphological and Ecological Predictors of Vocal Amplitude across Birds
J. CT Menezes, J. Podos |
| 11:00 | Black widows in an urban desert: the behavior of an urban pest
J. Johnson | Worker density drives reproductive dynamics within bumble bee colonies
E. Messner, E. Amsalem | Going to the Vet? Don’t Fret: Using Scale Mats and Treats to Promote Low-Stress Vet Visits for Dogs
T. Score, K. Spaulding, E. Feuerbacher, R. Foster-Drescher | Loss of complex female song but not duetting in the ancestors of Carolina wrens
J. Price, M. Willson, R. Pare |
| 11:15 | Mutual Mate Choice and Courtship Dynamics in a Neotropical Frog
A. Piette, K. Hoke, J. Robertson | Inactive leaf-cutter ants play a crucial role in task allocation during colony workload shifts
S. Meneses, S. Garnier, C. Rockenbach, N. Korzeniecki, J. Fewell, R. Clark | Pain Catastrophizing Scale-Dog Owners (PCSDO): A Novel Tool for Assessing Caregiver Catastrophizing
R. Caddiell, K. Love, D. Knazovicky, E. McNamee, B. Lascelles, M. Gruen | Comparing the structure and function of female song in closely related temperate and tropical orioles
M. Moyer, M. Ocasio, N. Nieves-Colón, E. Osorio, E. Bare, B. Lohr, K. Omland |
| 11:30 | Sexual Selection in the City
K. Sanchez | Social Preference of Female Carollia perspicillata Bats
J. Montoya, I. Marin, N. Sul, A. Salles | How Cat Coat Color in Petfinder Photos Influences Human Perception of Cat Emotion and Perceived Adoptability
J. Villarreal, J. Ha | Rhythmic entrainment or note-by-note coordination: the mechanism of fast duetting in little crake
J. Jedlikowski, P. Rek |
| 11:45 | Social Behavior and Auditory Processing in Bats
A. Salles | Collective Decision-Making Dynamics in Cockroach Groups
S. Garnier, P. Chow, H. Rotstein | Understanding the Characteristics of Reactive Dogs and Their Owners
S. Sobol, V. Grenier, P. Stansell, H. Shean, J. Ziker, S. Volsche | Does Character Displacement Drive Communication Signal Evolution in Sympatric North American Chickadees?
C. Stevenson, S. Zhang, G. Jung, C. Branch |
| 12:00 | Large Locust Swarms: Directed Marching and Collective Foraging
V. Varma, L. Costello, D. Gorbonos, G. Sword, E. Couzin-Fuchs, I. Couzin | Attachment in Golden Retrievers: How Well Do You Know Your Dog?
R. Wray, S. Barton, E. Hecht | Parrot Vocal Repertoire Evolution
W. Buchanan, L. Benedict, C. Dahlin, T. Wright, A. Iwaniuk |
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Wednesday, July 9 |
| Time | Constellation AB | Columbia-Frederick | Annapolis-Baltimore | Chesapeake A | Chesapeake B |
| 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm | New Life in the City: Urban Animal Behavior (2) | Genetic mechanisms of behavior
Moderator(s): Isaac Miller-Crews, Karan Odom | Larval development and adult performance
Moderator(s): Siobhan K. Calhoun , Jaimie Wyckoff | Cooperation is a Fishy Business
Moderator(s): Riva J. Riley, Alex Karnish | It pays to think: Decisions in Foraging and Navigation
Moderator(s): Andre Rodrigues, Chi-Yun Kuo |
| 1:30 | From Fear to Food: How Urbanization Influences Wildlife Behavior and Diet
E. Carlen | Transcriptomics reveal neurogenomic associations with female and male song in a temperate songbird
K. Odom, T. Liddle, N. Prior, A. Magnaterra, C. Haakenson, C. Krieg, T. Stevenson, G. Ball | What makes us unique? The developmental causes of behavioral variation in a clonal fish
J. Gallagher, A. Perkes, E. Chirila, C. Chang, K. Kacevas, K. Laskowski | Influence of Stimulus Color, Size, and Motion on Cleaner Shrimp Signaling and Cleaning Behavior
M. Ball, E. Caves | Balancing Risks and Rewards: How Bees Navigate Floral Deception and Reliability
A. Rodrigues, C. Hemingway |
| 1:45 | Response to geographic variation in song causes differential gene expression in song sparrow blood
S. Nowicki, G. Macedo, S. Peters, B. McKeanna, S. Lipshutz | Effect of Long-Term Predation on Behavior, Swim Endurance, and Oxidative Stress in Stickleback
M. Rogers, J. Hellmann | Drivers of cleaning mutualism dynamics in the bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus)
D. Cryan, C. Osenberg | More experience during initial learning of spatial information improves cognitive flexibility in chickadees
A. Richmond, V. Heinen, J. Welklin, B. Sonnenberg , S. Haley, L. Whitenack, E. Bridge, V. Pravosudov |
| 2:00 | Reduced Visibility and Audibility Prompt Anti-predator Behavior Even in a Predator-free Environment
D. Herrera | Genes implicated in imprinting-like learning differentially impact innate preference
K. Farfán Pira, D. Ernst, E. Westerman | The effect of juvenile acoustic environment on Gryllus pennsylvanicus field cricket calling song
T. Bowers, S. Gershman | Exploring Relationships Between Body Size and Cleaning Behaviors in the Shrimp Ancylomenes pedersoni
B. Barbee, E. Caves | Landmark Use by Navigating Egyptian Fruit Bats
K. Eveland, N. Finger, C. Moss |
| 2:15 | Genetics of natural variation in sociability
J. Rosenbaum, K. Choe, I. Dworkin, R. Dukas | Meandering Amazon Mollies: Contrasting Early Life and Acute Predation Stress Effects on Navigation
S. Calhoun, K. Laskowski, A. Engelsgjerd, E. Yamamoto | Behavioral Contexts of Rapid Color Change in Fish, with an Emphasis on Cleaning Interactions
D. Chang, E. Caves | Shifting expectations: How bumblebees adjust foraging behavior based on reward history
C. Hemingway, S. Chan, C. Caudle |
| 2:30 | Coyotes exhibit reduced fearfulness, greater exploration, and more frequently solve puzzles in more urbanized areas (Pre-Recorded)
S. Raymond | Genetic Integration of Morphology and Behavior in Gryllus integer
K. Takumi, N. Dochtermann | The Effects of Fire During Embryogenesis on Adult Condition in a Native and Introduced Field Cricket
M. Von Deylen, S. Gershman | Behavioral convergence mitigates stress and enhances foraging performance in Corydoradinae catfish
E. Lac, M. Siddiqui, N. Todirita, D. Chase, S. Haine, G. Wilkinson , R. Riley | Pollen-Microbe Interactions In Nectar Weakly Influence Bee Foraging Behavior
S. Ekemezie, C. Davis, M. Russo, L. Carpenter, A. Russell |
| 2:45 | Social challenges and brain networks: transcriptomic patterns of social instability
I. Miller-Crews, K. Rosvall | A Spring Fling: Fecal Firing in Fiery Skipper Caterpillars (Hylephila phyleus)
J. Wyckoff, P. Khandelwal, J. Socha, J. Olberding | Nuanced effects of relative size on social motivation in a highly gregarious catfish
R. Riley, J. Kern, A. Jungwirth, M. Siddiqui, A. Chiang, N. Eisen, E. Lac, G. Wilkinson | VTE in the Echolocating Bat: Future Decision-Making Through Cue-Guided Navigation
M. Jaroszewski, N. Finger, K. Eveland, C. Moss |
| 3:00 | A Collaborative Social-Ecological Research Approach to Inform and Address Urban Coyote Management Challenges
M. Weaver, R. Davenport, A. Monterastelli, M. Romolini, E. Strauss | The effects of past experience on current gene expression in a social butterfly
K. Kasmaii, E. Westerman | Early life predation threat primes a clonal fish’s brain and behavior to deal with risk later in life
A. Trocinski, J. Gallagher, K. Laskowski | The Effects of Third-party Species on Client Behavior at Cleaner Shrimp Stations
A. Karnish, S. Ratchford, E. Caves | Song output is an indicator of cognitive ability in mountain chickadees
S. Haley, B. Sonnenberg, V. Heinen, V. Pravosudov, C. Branch |
| 3:15 | Win, lose, draw inference: Bayes formula predicts changes in neural gene expression from winner-loser effects
A. Perkes, A. Whitehead, K. Laskowski | End of Session | End of Session | What determines the level of predator avoidance towards unprofitable prey? A meta-analysis
C. Kuo |
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Wednesday, July 9 |
| Time | Constellation AB | Columbia-Frederick | Annapolis-Baltimore | Chesapeake A | Chesapeake B |
| 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | New Life in the City: Urban Animal Behavior (3) | Bet hedging in reproduction
Moderator(s): Sushant Potdar, Jennifer Hellmann | Receiving Social Cues
Moderator(s): Romina A Najarro-Flores, Brian Springall | Complex Social Interactions
Moderator(s): Erin R. Siracusa, Elinor M. Lichtenberg | Methods in animal behavior research
Moderator(s): Grace Smith-Vidaurre, Matthew J. Hasenjager |
| 4:00 | Risky Cities: Mesocarnivore risk-taking varies with urban heterogeneity (Pre-Recorded)
C. Estien | Is Timing Everything? Examining the importance of parasitism timing to cowbird reproductive success
J. Boldrick, J. Hoover, W. Schelsky, M. Hauber | Correlated evolution of morphology and signaling behavior in piculet woodpeckers
N. Moody, J. De Padova, M. Fuxjager | Social information use across trophic guilds
E. Lichtenberg, M. Muñiz, B. Meadows, P. Lopez | Detecting complex information in synthetic vocalizations with traditional bioacoustics tools
B. Coppinger, S. Eckhardt, A. Cross, R. Samman, G. Juárez, V. Ferdinand, G. Smith-Vidaurre |
| 4:15 | Don’t put all eggs into one basket! Oviposition dynamics in a hawkmoth
E. Briceno-Aguilar, M. Wiehler, B. Hansson, M. Knaden | Preliminary data on the evaluation of the auditory role in the maintenance of song dialects
R. Najarro-Flores, J. Lucas | An experimental test of food distribution on female social relationships
E. Siracusa, J. Negron-Del Valle, D. Phillips, M. Platt, N. Snyder-Mackler, J. Higham, L. Brent | Comparing analytical approaches for inferring vocal information encoding
G. Smith-Vidaurre |
| 4:30 | Conclusion and next steps for studying animal behavior in an ever urbanizing world
L. Stanton | Females do not experience a boost in offspring production from leg autotomy
J. Boothroyd, S. Smit, L. Cirino, N. Zlotnik, C. Miller | Session Pause | Thigmotactic and behavioral interactions of two sympatric scrub millipede species of Florida
A. Sawl | You won’t believe this one simple trick to improving replication and rigor in behavioral ecology
K. Laskowski, J. Pick, R. O'Dea |
| 4:45 | Social plasticity changes male ejaculate composition in the butterfly Bicyclus anynana
S. Potdar, E. Westerman | Brazilian Free-Tailed Bats Sometimes Distinguish Between Different Callers
B. Springall, M. Smotherman, E. Gillam | Mixed Minnows: Partner and predator effects on behavior and condition of Tennessee Dace
C. Swartzbaugh, A. George, K. Capps, S. Lance | A new, rigorous method to calculate repeatability from time-to-event data
K. McCune, C. Williams, N. Dochtermann, H. Schielzeth, S. Nakagawa |
| 5:00 | Population-level variation in sperm-mediated paternal effects in threespined sticklebacks
J. Hellmann, M. Bensky, A. Bell | Reproductive State Shapes Auditory Perception and Host-Searching Behavior in Ormia ochracea
L. Bitner, J. Cho-Ah Ying, Q. Vu, A. Rossinow, J. Morgan, C. Greene, A. Whalen, A. Mason, N. Lee | Social Foraging Strategy Depends on the Identity of Paired Individuals in the Fruit Bat Rousettus aegyptiacus
A. Pergams, M. Haus, C. Estrada, J. Brown, A. Salles | Disentangling “how to act” vs. “when to act” in behavioral diffusions
M. Hasenjager, N. Fefferman |
| 5:15 | Predicting the future: Mechanisms of Anticipatory Reproduction in North American red squirrels
J. Williams-Soriano, L. Petrullo, S. Boutin, J. Lane, A. McAdam, B. Dantzer | End of Session | Mixed-species interactions driven by oddity effect, not conspecific preference, in Corydoradinae catfish
M. Siddiqui, E. Lac, J. Kern, S. Haine, A. Chiang, R. Goldring, G. Wilkinson, R. Riley | The Hidden Cost of Free Labor: How Unpaid Internships Undermine Diversity Goals
A. Kincaid, S. Gazda, M. McPhee, D. Lee |
