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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Friday, July 11 |
| Time | Columbia-Frederick | Annapolis-Baltimore | Constellation AB | Pratt-Calvert | Chesapeake A | Chesapeake B |
| 9:30 am - 12:00 pm | International collaborations in animal behavior: The case of Latin America (2) | Allee Symposium for Best Student Paper (1) | Human hazards in the wild
Moderator(s): Madeleine E. Zuercher, Olivia Spagnuolo | Cognitive diversity in Mammals
Moderator(s): Janet Mann, Rebecca A. Singer | Parental Care and plasticity
Moderator(s): Cara A. Krieg, Leah E. Schwarz | Predation and Sensory Perception
Moderator(s): Jennifer Mather, Osnat Malka |
| 9:30 | Effects of signaling height on signal transmission and species interactions in networks
K. González, X. Bernal | The Effect of Testosterone on Song Development in Male Grasshopper Sparrows
R. Glisson, G. Ball, B. Lohr | Measuring sea turtle response behaviors relative to a marine hazard
J. Reavis, B. Witherington, M. Bresette, J. Wang, S. Pratt, D. DeNardo, J. Senko | Dolphin Beach Culture
J. Mann, M. MacQueeney, B. Sargeant, C. Frere, V. Foroughirad | Female-Female Aggression and Nestling Brooding: Benefit or Constraint?
C. Krieg | Comparative Osmoregulation Strategies and Host Plant Adaptation in Bemisia tabaci
O. Malka, S. Morin |
| 9:45 | Impacts of feral cats on the ecology and behavior of island-endemic ringtails
M. Zuercher, D. Shier, C. Tzintzun Sánchez, F. Paredes de los Rios, G. Grether | Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) Conversations: Methodological Insights into Turn- Taking Dynamics
S. Gazda, J. Vlaeyen, S. Pika | Primates and Disability: Behavioral Flexibility, Maternal Care, and the Potential for Innovation
B. Stewart, M. Joyce, J. Creeggan, S. Eccles, M. Gerwing, S. Turner | Molecular and behavioral aspects of sweet taste perception in the phloem-feeding whitefly Bemisia tabaci.
O. Aidlin Harari, E. Yakir, O. Malka, J. Bohbot, S. Morin |
| 10:00 | From necessity to virtue and back: Collaboration and complicated communication in Neotropical birds
T. Wright | Shared and distinct neuroendocrine mechanisms of mammalian social behavior
A. Schrock | Influences of human attitudes and activities on sea otter and harbor seal behavior in Homer, Alaska
S. Jackson, D. Boege Tobin, S. Spehar, M. McPhee | Risk Sensitivity in Female Beluga Whales (Delphinapterus leucas)
M. Babb, K. Flammer, C. Spilker, K. Ford, E. Sadtler, E. D'Ambra, S. Brosnan | Singing in male and female Bullock's orioles for coordination of biparental care
J. Lacson, K. McGraw | Session Pause |
| 10:15 | Effects of captivity on roosting behavior in the endangered whooping crane
W. Inghram, A. Lacy, M. Wellington, M. McPhee | Sit! Stay! … Willpower? Can Dogs Learn Self Control?
E. Furlong, R. Singer, C. Jones, R. Welch, I. Perry, Z. Silver | The Developmental Pathway Toward Infant Independence in Wild Assamese Macaques
A. Arbaiza Bayona, R. Mundry, S. Malaivijitnond, S. Meesawat, O. Schülke, J. Ostner | Chemotactile foraging strategies by wild Octopus hummelincki Adam
M. Pereira Andrade, J. Mather, C. D. dos Santos |
| 10:30 | Crusty smelly forearms: A collaborative approach to the study of sexual signaling in a frog-eating bat
R. Page, V. Flores, N. Cabezón, A. Sánchez, G. Cohen, C. Rodríguez, H. Fernández-Marín, M. Muñoz-Romo | Fluctuating selection maintains variation in colony size of a colonial bird
O. Pletcher, C. Brown | Wildlife-exclusion fences change the behavioral responses of large mammals to major interstate highways
E. Peterson, M. Loftin, A. Liao, T. McGuin, M. Martell, S. Slama, G. Cosyleon | Advancing Methods for Canine Self-Control: Testing and Training in Real-World Settings
R. Singer, E. Furlong, Z. Silver | Adapting to the unknown: How invasive predators influence parental care in stickleback
E. Arredondo, B. Byrd, L. Stein | Color vision improves a jumping spider’s ability to find and consume colorful prey in a complex habitat
L. Lietzenmayer, P. Brahma, C. Faustino, Z. Krausman, A. Persad, K. Stone, A. Willer, L. Taylor |
| 10:45 | Human Presence: A Problem or Panacea for Conserving Wild Equid on Shared Landscapes?
D. Rubenstein | Chimpanzees flexibly prepare for multiple mutually exclusive future outcomes in an inverted Y-tube task
E. Warren, D. Biro, R. Mann, E. Herrmann, C. Krupenye | Mating and parenting in warmer waters: long-term trends in nesting behavior of a Mediterranean fish
L. Alissa, K. Stiver, S. Alonzo | Mechanisms of Grassland Bird Decline Through the Lens of Predator Habitat Selection
A. Amiri, G. Bastille-Rousseau, M. Eichholz |
| 11:00 | How do tropical Opiliones form mixed-species aggregations?
M. Freire, V. Vasquez, G. Tamayo-Castillo, I. Escalante | Exchanging microbes and information: the effects of social variation in California ground squirrels
E. Person, A. Binnett, U. Midthun, C. Ortiz-Jimenez, S. Wild, E. Lacey, J. Smith | Effects of livestock abundance on space use by lions, cheetahs, and black-backed jackals in southern Kenya
O. Spagnuolo, S. Salome, R. Fisher, A. Richardson, K. Holekamp | Session Pause | The effects of urbanization on offspring begging behavior
I. Carvalho Provinciato, J. Ouyang | Insights into the secretive behavior of mesopredators through personality, optimal foraging, and crypsis
O. Da Cunha, L. Horne, J. Mead, J. Johnson, B. Seymoure |
| 11:15 | Influence of social plasticity on primates’ ability to cope with anthropogenic change
M. Lutz, J. Hubbard, A. Morris, R. Chen, A. Crabbe, J. Li, R. Li, R. Ponce, K. Scantlin, A. Siddiqui, B. McCowan, D. Caillaud | Bonobos show anticipatory motor planning: Implications for the morphological constraint hypothesis
N. Awad Schwob, A. Epping, J. Taglialatela | Evolution of parental care in Opiliones: a response to predation or a path to new habitats?
L. Grossel, J. Gilbert, G. Machado | Hunting in a tough neighbourhood: Octopus interactions with territorial and follower fish
J. Mather, M. Andrade |
| 11:30 | Following evolutionary traces of nuptial gifts in spiders: sexual selection and environment
M. Albo | Stress coping variation in a species with alternative mating tactics
S. Thakur | Correlated Behavioral Responses to Anthropogenic Threats in a Human-Commensal Reptile
R. Szeligowski, Z. Routh, M. Chevalier, A. Sih | Bonobos track dominance as an abstract social role
L. Carvajal, A. Bastos, P. Wood, C. Krupenye | Female Parental Behavior Influences Fry Parental Choice Depending on Fry Size in a Cichlid
N. Santangelo, N. van Breukelen | End of Session |
| 11:45 | Livestock in wild spaces: unraveling species-specific responses to cattle in the Maasai Mara
A. Guthmann, A. Cheruiyot, M. Onyango, C. Packer | Bonobos attempt to startle a human experimenter by monitoring nuanced cues of attention.
L. Townrow, C. Krupenye | Infanticide leading cause of infant mortality in endangered Milne-Edwards Sifakas
L. Schwarz |
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Friday, July 11 |
| Time | Columbia-Frederick | Annapolis-Baltimore | Constellation AB | Pratt-Calvert | Chesapeake A | Chesapeake B |
| 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm | International collaborations in animal behavior: The case of Latin America (3) | Allee Symposium for Best Student Paper (2) | Applied Behavior in ungulates
Moderator(s): Sue McDonnell, Drew Arbogast | Cognitive diversity in Inverts
Moderator(s): Kenichi Iwasaki, Madison A. Rittinger | All about hormones
Moderator(s): Megan K. Freiler, Cheng-Yu Li | Vocal Variance
Moderator(s): Sylvia L. Halkin, Logan S. James |
| 1:30 | The fieldwork that we envision: A future of equitable field biology and reciprocity with local communities (Pre-Recorded)
V. Ramírez-Castañeda | Sexual conflict, social networks, and the fitness consequences of female multiple mating
J. Yan, M. Dobbin, J. Rosenbaum, D. Yang, J. Chen, R. Dukas | Increased total duration of penile prolapse during trazodone treatment in horses
R. Turner, C. Torcivia, S. McDonnell | The role of learning in territory defense by Madagascar hissing cockroaches (Gromphadorhina portentosa)
R. Gazes, M. Albaitis, C. Mack | Hormonal Modulation in the Auditory Brainstem of Prairie Voles (Microtus ochrogaster)
C. Sergott, A. Gensky, E. McCullagh | Northern Cardinal Songs Change in Similar Ways Over Time and Space
S. Halkin |
| 1:45 | Behavioral Signature of Gastric Discomfort in Horses
S. McDonnell, C. Torcivia | Bumblebee Queens Are Better at Reversal Learning Than Workers.
S. Pimplikar, J. Buelow, F. Muth | Region-Specific Patterns of Brain Corticosterone and Vocal Dynamics in Paired and Unpaired Zebra Finches
P. Verzola-Olivio, M. Elson, C. Haakenson, J. Brown, G. Ball, N. Prior | How Does the Absence of a Dawn Chorus Affect Vocal Performance?
J. Vazquez-Cardona, D. Logue |
| 2:00 | Looking Forward: Charting the future of ethical and impacful collaborations in Latin American animal behavior research
I. Escalante, X. Bernal, A. Maldonado-Chaparro, P. Trillo, E. Bruna | Female interactions influence mate choice decisions via sexual competitiveness and intergenerational effects
D. Little, R. Rodriguez | Efficacy of Lidocaine Topical Solution in Reducing Discomfort Reaction of Horses to Intramuscular Vaccination
C. Torcivia, S. McDonnell | Fruit flies as a model to study organism-object interactions
K. Iwasaki, A. Cassod, C. Neuhauser, C. Stokes, S. Kawano, S. Rayshubskiy | Experimentally induced mating stimulates gonadal hormones but not glucocorticoids in gray treefrogs
M. Freiler, L. Halstead, M. Bee, A. Baugh | Vocal variation in chestnut-backed and mountain chickadees of the Sierra Nevada
A. Muth, A. Costa, M. Peery, C. Wood, C. Branch |
| 2:15 | Personality, Surface Temperature and Exit Velocity during Handling in Addax nasomaculatus Antelopes
M. Villagrán, C. Echaides, M. Seltmann, V. Šlipogor, B. Esattore, M. Ceva, M. Perdomo, A. Machiñena, J. Damián | Multimodal Learning in the Yellow-fever Mosquito, Aedes aegypti
G. Van Susteren, J. Riffell | High Temperature Promotes Androgenic Activity and Sex Change in a Mangrove Rivulus Killifish
C. Li, A. Waits , C. Deng, R. Earley | Looking for Mr. Perfect: Call duration and call period preferences of female Gray Treefrogs
G. Höbel, K. Stratman |
| 2:30 | End of Session | The yellow gene influences aversive mate preference learning in the butterfly Bicyclus anynana
Y. Ter, D. Ernst, K. Farfan-Pira, E. Westerman | Temperament Assessment Using Novel Object Tests to Understand Mental States of Rhinos in Human Care
K. Chimpen Mac Leod, M. Jones, D. Arbogast, E. Bach, P. Pennington, A. Richardson, J. Rivera, L. Metrione, E. Freeman | Tarsi Gustation in Dipteran Flies
G. Todd, Z. Gerau, A. Dunlap | The Effect of Isotocin on Social Behavior and Mating Success in Symphodus ocellatus
M. Molinari, K. Stiver, L. Alissa, S. Alonzo | Vocal flexibility in the social interactions of female zebra and Bengalese finches
L. James, B. Hoffman, J. Liu, M. Miron, E. Chemla, J. Sakata, O. Pietquin, S. Woolley |
| 2:45 | Can Humans Promote Relaxation in Horses? Behavioral and Cardiac Responses to Grooming and Massage
J. Rushing | Bumblebee queens are more sensitive to scents and learn olfactory associations better than workers
M. Kimball, F. Muth | Endogenous Oxytocin Manipulation in Captive Tufted Capuchins (Sapajus apella) Alters Social Behavior
G. Gnanadesikan, N. Furgala, A. Mistry, S. Brosnan, M. Benítez | Humpback Whale Song Development in the North Pacific Feeding Grounds
E. Wall, B. Hendricks, J. Wray, V. Vergara, D. Mennill |
| 3:00 | Keep your conspecifics close but your heterospecifics closer: mixed-species groups are more efficient foragers
J. Aguiñaga, K. Laskowski | A Comparison of Affiliative and Agonistic Behaviors Among Ex Situ White and Black Rhinos
D. Arbogast, K. Chimpen Mac Leod, E. Bach, P. Pennington, A. Richardson, J. Rivera, L. Metrione, E. Freeman | Insightful Spiders? Cellar Spiders Solve a Prey Capture Problem Differently Across Repeated Trials
M. Rittinger, A. Mueller, R. Rodríguez | Hormonal Mechanisms of Caste Differentiation in Bombus impatiens: A New Insight into Polyphenism
S. Modarres Hasani, N. Derstine, E. Amsalem | Not a copy-catbird: structure, context, and individual distinctiveness in highly complex birdsong
A. Kornreich, M. Youngblood, J. Clark, T. Daniels |
| 3:15 | End of Session | Bumblebee queens differ in brain morphology but not learning performance across life stages
L. Richardson, C. Jernigan, S. Jha, F. Muth | Antennal Drumming: Larval transcriptional response to adult social signals in a paper wasp.
R. Brown, M. Sheehan | Testing for individual-level call variation in northern bobwhite quail
A. Staab, G. Smith-Vidaurre, L. McWhorter, E. Hobson |
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Friday, July 11 |
| Time | Annapolis-Baltimore | Constellation AB | Columbia-Frederick | Chesapeake A |
| 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Allee Symposium for Best Student Paper (3) | Social aggression
Moderator(s): P.A. Green, Matina Donadlson-Matasci | Disease Ecology in Animal Behavior
Moderator(s): Svjetlana Kruse , Gerald S. Wilkinson | What about now? Acoustic challenges in communication II
Moderator(s): Alejandro Marcillo, Dana L. Moseley |
| 4:00 | It Takes Two to Colonize: Choosiness of founders under variable sex ratios may decrease invasive potential.
L. Taylor, M. Andrade | Turtle ant colonies keep friends close, and enemies closer
M. Donaldson-Matasci, M. Douglas | Songbird uropygial gland bacteria vary with season and migration distance
L. Grieves, G. Gloor | In response to urban noise, gray catbirds are immediately flexible in song frequency and amplitude
E. Osorio, A. Williams, J. Calvert, E. Naman, E. Dray, J. Vickers, S. Eppert, D. Moseley |
| 4:15 | Third-Party intervention in dyadic conflicts among male African cichlids Astatotilapia burtoni
A. Fulmer, E. deKay, G. Ferrell | Using experimental and micro-CT approaches to assess parasite manipulation of spider behavior
A. La Luz Maldonado, K. Henry, N. Keiser | Should I speak up? Impacts of noise pollution on bird song structure
C. Templeton, R. Crawford, A. Dank, B. Mathews, J. McCutcheon |
| 4:30 | Group composition buffers collective function from individual impairment
J. Nguyen, C. Cook | Discrimination between third party friendly relationships in rhesus macaques
W. O'Hearn, R. Hooper, S. Margorian, D. Philips, C. Whalen, J. Higham, L. Brent | Urinary neopterin reveals sex differences in immune activation in an extremely polygynous bat
J. Kaiser, D. Adams, G. Wilkinson | Call Characteristics and Social Context Influence Vocal Contests in Green Tree Frogs.
A. Marcillo, H. Pitigala, M. Reichert |
| 4:45 | The co-evolution of fighting behavior and armor morphology in mantis shrimp (Stomatopoda)
P. Green, K. Prudente, M. Ball | The gut microbiome as a physiological adaptation to pregnancy: evidence from wild baboons
C. Southworth, L. Barrios, S. Alberts, J. Tung, E. Archie | Coping with noise: How vocalizations and hearing sensitivity vary among urban and rural soundscapes.
A. Vélez, C. Schwartz, T. Haslett |
| 5:00 | End of Session | End of Session | Sexual Selection Influences Epigenetic Aging and Immune Function in a Polygynous Bat
G. Wilkinson, D. Adams, J. Rayner, S. Hex | Urbanization drives changes in avian communities and shapes vocal mimicry in the song of gray catbirds
D. Moseley, J. Tolchin |
| 5:15 | Ants modify thier food preference and self-medicate due to pathogen exposure.
S. Kruse , J. Cummings , M. Pekora, D. Wheeler, P. Rosario Abreu, J. Melendez | End of Session |
