ABGG
Animal Behavior Graduate Group
Winter 2016 Seminar Series
Fridays @ 12:10 pm in 1150 Hart Hall
Grad students: Winter ANB290-001 CRN# 11065
Undergrads: for course credit, contact Gail Patricelli (GPatricelli@ucdavis.edu)
Jan 8
Spines, Shields, & Sprays: The Evolution of Antipredator Defenses and
Aposematism in Mammals (host: Dick Coss: rgcoss@ucdavis.edu)
Ted Stankowich,
Cal State Long Breach
Jan 15
Leks, lies, and audiotape: the adaptive significance of vocal dialects in a
lekking hummingbird (host: Alan Krakauer: ahkrakauer@ucdavis.edu)
Julian Kapoor,
Cornell University
Jan 22
Causes and Consequences of Animal Personality Variation, From Parasitism to
Invasion
Sean Fogenburg,
UC Davis
Jan 29
Animal Aeroacoustics: singing feathers, humming of hummingbirds, and the
silent flight of owls (host: Alan Krakauer: ahkrakauer@ucdavis.edu)
Chris Clark,
UC Riverside
Feb 5
Storer Lecture: Strategies to die for in settling contests over territory
ownership (host: Katrina Brock: kebrock@ucdavis.edu)
Peter Nonacs,
UCLA
Feb 12
Learning and Mate Choice (host: Gail Patricelli: gpatricelli@ucdavis.edu)
Eileen Hebets
University of Nebraska
Feb 19
What’s your move? Movement as a link between personality, spatial dynamics
and social network in animal populations
Orr Spiegel,
UC Davis
Feb 26
From Transect Sampling Methods to an Ecological Model of Sit-and-Wait
Versus Active-Search Hunting
Cody Ross,
UC Davis
Mar 4
The roles of two, complementary RFamide peptides in female reproductive
physiology and behavior (host: Joanna Chiu: jcchiu@ucdavis.edu)
Lance Kriegsfeld,
UC Berkeley
Mar 11
Individual variation in cognition in wild mountain chickadees from different
elevations (host: Tom Hahn: tphahn@ucdavis.edu)
Rebecca Croston,
U. Nevada Reno
Note: Animals not to scale