The current ABS 2026 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 17 |
| Time | Pavillion | Rosewood | Rookwood | Caprice | Salon H & I |
| 9:30 am - 12:00 pm | Allee Symposium (1) | Symposium: Predator, Prey, and Pet: Domestic Cats in Our Society (1) | Vocal communication | Sexual selection | Cognition and learning |
| 9:30 | Bumblebee queens differ in brain morphology but not learning performance across life stages.
L. Richardson, S. Jha, C. Jernigan, F. Muth | Introduction
H. Chung | From Frogs to Fitness: Exploring the Acoustic Preferences of a Frog-Biting Mosquito
R. Singh, Y. Cheng, S. Moeller, X. Bernal | Claws—What are they good for? Sexual selection, signaling and antipredator behavior in snapping shrimp
M. Hughes | Who Are the Smart Birds? Biased Choice of Study Species in Avian Cognition Research.
K. McCune |
| 9:45 | Importance of individual variation in exploring domestic cat (Felis catus) behavior
H. Chung, C. Moody, B. Sacks, A. Sih | Signals across media:agonistic responses to calls and substrate-borne vibrations in a Neotropical frog
L. Arcila-Pérez, L. Rueda-Solano, R. Cocroft, J. Molina | Dominant Male Burton's Mouthbrooder Prefer Bower Entry Sizes Equal to or Greater than Body Length
A. Fulmer, G. Sadongei, L. Arnold | Spatial Learning in the Harvester Phalangium opilio using a T-Maze with an Aversive Stimulus
P. Foerder |
| 10:00 | Adaptive Significance of Winner and Loser Effects
N. Smith, R. Dukas | Calling in the Anthropocene: Anuran Signal Transmission in Urban Environments
I. Wyatt, K. González, A. Ospina-L., X. Bernal | Strength of mate preference for genetic background is sexually dimorphic in Bicyclus anynana butterflies
E. Westerman , K. Kasmaii, W. Hoffert, A. Cerveny, A. Barnhart, G. Pask | From Brains to Biological Invasions: Investigating Cognition Across Scales in a Polyphenic Beetle
R. Westwick, M. Towse, A. Moczek |
| 10:15 | Evaluating the impact of treat preference on shelter cats’ response to feeding enrichment
A. Andrukonis, G. Brooks, E. Feuerbacher | Who to trust? Mountain chickadees discriminate among social signalers to find food
S. Haley, V. Heinen, J. Welklin, L. Whitenack, B. Sonnenberg, A. Richmond, K. Johnson, C. Branch, V. Pravosudov | Effect of seminal fluid adipokinetic hormone on female mating behavior in Aedes aegypti
L. Sirot, F. Nanfack Minkeu, W. Reid, G. Briggs, D. Parsana, M. Wright, J. Baek, A. McGlade | Infected Behaviors- Honey Bee As A Model For Infection Associated Cognitive Decline Studies
M. Vengarai, C. Huntress, M. Hagadorn, P. Kunjadiya, K. Brooker, C. Rittschof |
| 10:30 | A cryptic role for reciprocal helping in a cooperatively breeding bird
A. Earl, G. Carter, A. Berlinger, E. Korir, S. Shah, W. Watetu, D. Rubenstein | Evolution of vocal mimicry within Mimidae
D. Gammon | Assortative mating and sexual selection on signal and preference loci in the European corn borer
E. Dopman, A. Murray | Endogenous Oxytocin Elevation Influences Knowledge Acquisition in Captive Tufted Capuchins
P. Petschl, S. Brosnan |
| 10:45 | Understanding behavior and activity of adult shelter cat pairs categorized as bonded and non-bonded
J. Link, C. Moody | Decoding the duets of yellow-naped amazons
C. Dahlin, B. Killinger, M. Snipe, S. Owen, G. Brianna, R. Lily | Dietary induced changes in gut microbiome and urinary profiles in males alter females’ mate choice
D. Liu, Y. He, R. Shi, R. Li, Z. Yan, J. Li, M. Yang, R. Wei | Long-Distance Migration as a Driver of Cognitive Evolution in Monarch Butterflies
D. Assadia, D. Green |
| 11:00 | Visual prey categorization in the jumping spider brain
A. Winsor, L. Remage-Healey, R. Hoy, E. Jakob | The vocal repertoire of nesting Åga (Mariana Crow, Corvus kubaryi)
A. Stafford, A. Clark | Sex and mating success impact resource allocation and life history traits in Gryllus vocalis field crickets
M. Von Deylen, S. Gershman, A. Muñoz-García | Social Learning in Dogs (Canis familiaris): A systematic review and meta- analysis
A. Parks, F. Subiaul, J. Stevens, C. Buckley, Y. Buckley, Colleen- Saberzadeh Ardest |
| 11:15 | Post-adoption behaviour and adopter satisfaction of undersocialized kittens
J. Ellis | Quantitative Comparisons of Changes in Northern Cardinal Songs Over Time and Space
S. Halkin | Alternative hypotheses for sexual size dimorphism in the Hispaniolan Woodpecker
J. LaPergola | Comparative Cognition in Bumblebees and Its Association with Gut Microbiomes
S. Pimplikar, N. Villabona, K. Watrous, T. Hammer, F. Muth |
| 11:30 | How relaxed preferences facilitate the evolution of novel animal signals
G. Welsh, J. Gallagher, M. Westwood, R. Tinghitella | Vocal labeling in vampire bats
J. Vrtilek, G. Carter | Copulatory Courtship and Cryptic Female Choice in Scathophaga stercoraria Yellow Dung Flies
H. Asgari, R. Rodríguez | Gut microbiome linked to spatial memory but not cognitive flexibility in wild food-caching chickadees
A. Richmond, B. Sonnenberg, L. Whitenack, C. Branch, S. Haley, B. Trevelline, E. Bridge, V. Pravosudov |
| 11:45 | Vocal performance constraints span the three major domains of acoustic signaling
J. Podos, J. Menezes | The adaptive significance of polyandry: a meta-analysis
R. Dukas, M. Dobbin, J. Chen , J. Yan | Food-Caching Chickadees Do Not Exhibit Age-Related Cognitive Decline Within Their Natural Lifespan
K. Johnson, J. Welklin, B. Sonnenberg, C. Branch, S. Haley, A. Richmond, E. Bridge, V. Pravosudov |
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Friday, July 17 |
| Time | Pavillion | Rosewood | Rookwood | Caprice |
| 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Allee Symposium (2) | Symposium: Predator, Prey, and Pet: Domestic Cats in Our Society (2) | Mating systems | Development and behavior |
| 1:30 | A Comprehensive Test of Multiple Song Functions in Female Red-winged Blackbirds
C. Barros, L. Benedict | Thinking Like a Cat: How Understanding Feline Cognition Can Improve Cat Welfare
K. Vitale | Phenotypic Plasticity, Assortative Mating and Adaptive Divergence in Threespine Stickleback Fish
M. Wund, M. Sanda, K. Veeramah | Pupation substrate preference and its effects on eclosion and morphology in black soldier flies
S. Durosaro, R. Rodriguez-Guevara, A. Glica, M. Barrett |
| 1:45 | Variation at a single locus predicts female preference for male ornamentation in a butterfly
B. Kester, K. Kasmaii, E. Westerman | A Total Snooze? Novel Insights into Yawning in Dairy Calves
B. Downey, E. Hafner, M. Joye, B. Wermuth |
| 2:00 | Latent preference for red ornamentation overrides existing preferences and blurs species boundaries
L. Yan, N. Huh, I. Ashton, D. Ibañez, M. Rosenthal, M. Hedin, D. Elias | Meeting the Behavioral Needs of Pet Cats Indoors
A. Valuska | Temperature and Social Context Jointly Shape Mating and Parenting in a Wild Mediterranean Fish
L. Alissa, S. Marsh-Rollo, K. Stiver, S. Alonzo | Development of personality across metamorphosis in Ranitomeya imitator tadpoles
Y. Yang, G. Angeli, P. Carabantes, B. Qiu, O. Feagles |
| 2:15 | Testing male and female mate choice in Culex pipiens mosquitoes
S. Villarreal | A multi-angle view of plasticity and function of iridescence in Morpho butterflies
J. Rubin, P. Wagh, L. Camino, Y. Lopez-Tacoaman, G. Hernandez, W. McMillan |
| 2:30 | Evolving Aggression: Direct, indirect, and inbreeding effects on social interactions of house crickets
S. M A | Careful Cats: Can Understanding Behavior Keep our Cats Safe from Predators?
M. Weaver, E. Strauss | Breeding experience and pair-bond duration increase reproductive success in a cooperative breeder.
S. Barve, G. Beauchamp, T. Bakley, J. Fitzpatrick | Ontogeny of Prey Capture Behaviors in a Web-Building Spider
M. Rittinger, R. Rodríguez |
| 2:45 | Female Southern Flying Squirrels Prefer Males From Different Forest Locations
K. Ekholm, A. Freeman | Hidden Variation: Characterizing Social Responsiveness from Individual Development to Collective Outcomes
A. Valente, K. Miller |
| 3:00 | Optimal tuning not required: birds communicate effectively with mismatched auditory filters.
M. Muñoz, W. Halfwerk | Predation by Domestic Cats as a Conservation Problem in the United States
J. Losos | Investment in social relationships drives movement patterns in spotted hyenas
J. Woerner, K. Fowler, A. Gersick, K. Holekamp, F. Jensen, M. Onsare, M. Pioon, A. Strandburg-Peshkin, E. Strauss | Using social behavior in bees to explore how early-life experience impacts neural system
M. Hagadorn, R. Marion, E. Brus, C. Rittschof |
| 3:15 | Examining the drivers of divorce in male-male cooperative alliances in a tropical lekking bird
D. Gutierrez-Carrillo, E. DuVal | Early life adversity leads to delayed age at first birth in bottlenose dolphins
V. Foroughirad, M. McEntee, M. MacQueeney, J. Mann |
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Friday, July 17 |
| Time | Pavillion | Rosewood | Rookwood | Caprice |
| 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Allee Symposium (3) | Symposium: Predator, Prey, and Pet: Domestic Cats in Our Society (3) | Social structures | Vision and light |
| 4:00 | Raccoons optimally forage for information: exploration-exploitation tradeoffs in innovation
H. Griebling, S. Johnson, S. Benson-Amram | Beyond predation: Impacts of introduced terrestrial mammalian predators on their native counterparts
M. Zuercher, D. Shier, G. Grether | Understanding the drivers and variability of lemur social structures
C. Shearer, C. Drea | Dynamic focusing through retinal movements in Habronattus pyrrithrix jumping spiders
D. Korman, O. Harris, J. Michaels, S. Clark, K. Fezza, E. Buschbeck, E. Alexander, N. Morehouse |
| 4:15 | The role of parental care in the development of mating biases for aposematic color in Ranitomeya poison frogs
O. Feagles, Y. Yang | Poison Dart Frog Visual Enrichment Preferences and their Effects on Behavior
J. Diaz, K. Kohl |
| 4:30 | Nest placement mediates biparental care and nest success via a detectability–predation trade-off.
F. Fernandez-Duque, K. Salehzadeh, A. Groszek, J. Mydlinski, A. Roman-Alcocer, A. Bell, M. Hauber | Rewiring mechanisms of the social structure in a guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus)
A. Maldonado-Chaparro, A. Romero-Chacón, M. Cardona-Restrepo | Decoupled acoustic, visual, and morphological patterns of variation in Andean siskins under high gene flow
A. Casale, M. Canio, P. Fracas, L. Barone, S. Lucero, B. Bukowski, P. Lavinia, L. Campagna, P. Tubaro, D. Lijtmaer |
| 4:45 | Investigating two social learning strategies in embryonic Fathead Minnows (Pimephales promelas)
A. Yake, J. Ward | Tick-Tock! Do Clock Genes Underlie Variation in the Circadian Timing of Cichlid Locomotor Activity?
C. Hoff, N. Holtz, E. Lloyd, A. Keene, R. Albertson |
| 5:00 | The Signal Ecology of Anuran Communication Networks in Tropical Forests
K. González, X. Bernal | Nest Entrance Modification in Temnothorax rugatulus is Consistent with a Defensive Role
S. Pitterman, P. Ghosh, S. Pratt |
| 5:15 | Exploring fission-fusion dynamics in California quail using RFID tracking
A. Roth, P. Rao, V. Kumar |
