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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Saturday, July 18 |
| Time | Pavillion | Rosewood | Caprice | Salon H & I |
| 9:30 am - 11:30 am | Weird behaviors: You gotta see this! | Parental care | Living in a group | Mechanisms of social behavior |
| 9:30 | Buried Alive: Sand Burial Behaviors of the Round Stingray (Urobatis halleri)
N. Benasfre, B. Perlman | Citizen science reveals parental care evolution in harvestmen
L. Grossel, G. Machado | From Solitary to Social: How Intragroup Context Alters Cleaning Behavior in Ancylomenes pedersoni
M. Ball, E. Caves | Social information does not rescue individuals from choice overload
T. Freeberg, J. Tanner, C. Hemingway |
| 9:45 | Uncovering the ‘baffling’ diversity of a tool-use behaviour in tree crickets
A. Pattanaik, T. McClain, J. Tanner | Maternal behavior in wild moor macaques (Macaca maura). Do mothers invest differently in daughters and sons?
M. Lara | Comparing social structure across monk parakeet groups with different early life experiences
V. Moore, M. Ball, E. Hobson | Investigation of Social Preferences in Zebra Finches: The Role of Internal State and Social Context
M. Elson, R. Hsu, A. Ophir, N. Prior |
| 10:00 | Climatic variation shapes the expression of worthless nuptial gifts in spiders
M. Mendez, L. Almanza, F. Gonzalez, L. Ricioli, B. Buzatto, F. Labarque, M. Albo | 3D-Printed Rodents Of Unusual Size Reveal Nest Defense Strategies Of A Cavity-Nesting Songbird
D. Reichard, A. Swanson, A. Panozzo, C. Kent | The effects of group density, size, and composition on Carolina chickadee (Poecile carolinensis) behavior
B. Coppinger | Does calling in chickadees and titmice represent a personality-like behavior?
H. Brooks |
| 10:15 | Ladies’ choice: characterizing a novel female signal in Enchenopa treehoppers
L. Goodrum, D. Little, R. Rodríguez | Adult California quail are more likely to exhibit defensive rushing behavior when chicks are younger
A. Sidare, N. Valdés Heredia, J. Gee, D. Jerome, A. Roth | Social connections, group size and social stability affect foraging in mixed songbird flocks
M. Reichert, J. Firth, C. Troisi, J. Quinn | Testing the endocrine mechanisms that regulate female song using steroid hormone implants
K. Odom, R. Srinivasan, G. Ball |
| 10:30 | Animal-borne biologgers reveal importance of aerial capture of flying fish by red-footed boobies.
A. Schiffmiller, H. Young, S. Shaffer, G. Breed | Coordinated dual foraging increases chick growth rate in Manx shearwaters
B. Harrington, T. Guilford | Group membership changes affected the rise and fall of dominance rank in bobwhite quail
M. Wang, A. Staab, E. Hobson | The dance between hormones and behavior: social interactions in a neotropical lizard
S. Ventura, P. Peixoto, J. de Carvalo, C. Galdino, F. Gomes |
| 10:45 | Bats That Forage Like Lions: Small Predators Hunt Large Prey with Surprising Efficiency
R. Page, P. Madsen, S. Mortensen, G. Cohen, L. Stidsholt, A. Baier | Disentangling the roles of neural and peripheral androgen signaling in paternal care in birds
J. Fornara, D. Duffey, K. Rosvall | Let’s Be Friends: The Southern Flying Squirrel as a New Model Species For Social Behavior
A. Freeman, K. Mitzel, K. Ekholm | Sickness Behavior in Prairie Vole Peer Relationships
G. Young, G. Naik, A. Beery |
| 11:00 | Diurnal Foraging in a Nocturnal Predator, the Ogre-faced Spider
J. Stafstrom, E. Hebets, R. Hoy | The effect of deficiencies in nutrient stores on diet intake and brood provisioning ability in honey bees
A. Weger, C. Rittschof | Signal Amplification Over a Long-Distance Communication Network Enables Collective Action in Hyenas
E. Strauss, F. Jensen, J. Woerner, A. Gersick, M. Hyer, M. Johnson, M. Onsare, M. Pioon, K. Holekamp, A. Strandburg-Peshkin | How does mental state impact mass behavior in larval zebrafish?
W. Botta, B. Mistry, K. Severi, S. Garnier |
| 11:15 | Identifying Bottlenose Dolphins (T. erebennus) Performing Novel Shipside Feeding in South Carolina
M. Taylor, C. Deaver, M. Weinpress-Galipeau, P. Fair, H. Bouchillon, J. Cusick | Metabolic Resilience to Starvation Is Shaped by Early-Life Maternal Care in Bumble Bees
C. Pereira Costa, S. Woodard |
