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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Saturday, July 12 |
| Time | Constellation AB | Columbia-Frederick | Annapolis-Baltimore | Chesapeake A |
| 9:30 am - 12:00 pm | Special Session: Honoring Steve Nowicki
Moderator(s): Melissa Hughes, Jeff Podos | Behavior & Conservation
Moderator(s): Kathleen Church, Kiran Basava | Cooperation and Animal Societies
Moderator(s): Emily C. Laub | Plastic Signals, Plastic Preference
Moderator(s): David B McDonald , Molly Morris |
| 9:30 | The Jazz Singer: Syllable Structure and Sequencing in the Improvised Grasshopper Sparrow Warble Song
B. Lohr, R. Glisson | The importance of animal behavior to conservation in the Great Lakes: an expert consensus of key issues.
K. Church, B. Seymoure, S. Jenks, N. Kohn, N. Mandrak, N. Smith, P. Bednekoff, J. Brownscombe, P. Bzonek, P. Kemp, S. Larocque, J. Midwood, B. Neff, C. Semeniuk, M. McPhee, A. Ricciardi | Becoming Social: The Dynamics of Task Allocation and Spatial Organization in Developing Bumblebee Colonies
A. Easton-Calabria, S. Loebertman, J. Crall | Female House Wrens Sing More in Competitive Mating Contexts
M. Gleason, K. Odom, C. Krieg |
| 9:45 | How good are the data? Different animals, different questions: crustacean signaling and weaponry
M. Hughes | Improving Conservation Outcomes for an Imperiled Amphibian: The Role of Behavior and Release Methods
K. Nelson, E. Stonecypher, S. Zaslow, L. Lord, S. Lance | Extra-pair paternity explains cooperation in a bird species
I. Krams, T. Krama | Variation in female mate preference: mitigating the growth-mortality tradeoff in Xiphophorus multilineatus
M. Morris, O. Stringer, M. Koogler, F. Pape, B. Rittinger, R. Cross, M. Weinstein, O. Rios-Cardenas |
| 10:00 | Who's Going to Bell the Cat? Adventures in Bioacoustics
J. Podos | Predicting Density-Dependent Sexual Behavior and its role on Population Dynamics for Conservation Management
P. Brahma, S. Colette | Costs of social partner selection impact fitness and assessment behavior in Paper wasp queens
E. Laub, N. Pinter-Wollman, E. Tibbetts | The Effect of Insecticides on Sexual Communication and Its Implications on Species Reproductive Barriers
S. Padhy, M. Xu |
| 10:15 | Follow Your Curiosity: Antifungal Egg Protection in the Absence of Parental Care
S. Weiss | The Animal Culture Database (ACDB)
K. Basava | Long-term impacts of demographic change on social dynamics in Asian elephants
A. Madsen, T. Pushpakumara, U. Weerathunga, U. Padmalal, D. Weerakoon, S. de Silva | Enchenopa Treehoppers (Hemiptera: Membracidae) Do Not Use Spontaneous Signals to Counter Wind Noise
S. Seidita, R. Rodríguez |
| 10:30 | If it Sounds Good, it is Good: Exploring the Social Functions of Animal Signals
R. Anderson | WildAIID: Wildlife Artificial Intelligence Identification
T. Ord, T. Khan, H. Mughal, E. Meijering | Ant societies are redundancy systems, not optimal systems, adapted to unpredictable, high-risk environments
D. Cassill | When to choose wisely; male mate choice is contingent upon sperm reserves
S. Khan, E. Negus, K. Laskowski |
| 10:45 | Ideas are cheap: recording birdsong amid pandemic shutdowns and funding uncertainty
E. Derryberry | Feeder Invertebrate Welfare: A New Frontier
S. O'Brien | Tolerating Unhelpful Helpers: When Should Parents Accept Offspring That Delay Breeding?
A. Rodrigues, C. Riehl | Female audience shapes complexity and syntax of courtship displays in a lek-mating manakin
D. McDonald, L. Taylor, N. Oakley |
| 11:00 | Does a total solar eclipse trick birds into singing a new dawn chorus? It’s an Empirical Question!
K. Rosvall | Urbanization increases the use of human behavioral cues by American crows
D. Colucci, A. Clark | End of Session | End of Session |
| 11:15 | We’re all human: a tale of risk, failure, and success in the study of categorical perception
E. Caves, M. Zipple, P. Green, S. Johnsen | End of Session |
