Animal Behavior in the Tropics

Join us for two mornings of presentations by prospective NOMIS-STRI Animal Behavior Fellows!

September 25 & 26

8:30 - 11:30am (Panama time)

Fellowship applicants will present their research as a part of the fellowship evaluation

Zoom link: https://smithsonian.zoom.us/j/89129642856?pwd=pboYVz3vomE6Aa3hYl0LsOHMUa...

Wed Sept 25

8:30am
Opening words and welcome
Josh Tewksbury, STRI Director

8:40am
Jenna Kohles, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany
The role of bat sociality in reducing environmental uncertainty

9:15am
Amalia Ceballos, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
The evolution of social behaviors in caterpillars: mechanisms and consequences

9:50am
Ricardo Cossio, Stanford University, US
Linking parental care and spatial cognition: a neurobiology approach

Thur Sept 26

8:30am
Judith Smit, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands
Flexible vibes: the proximate and ultimate causes of behavioral plasticity in vibrationally duetting insects

9:05am
Elena Tamburin, Fundación Alium Pacific, Colombia
Cognitive abilities into real life practice: How individual and social learning guide decision-making processes in sharks (SharkLearn)

9:35am
Luke Larter, University of Texas at Austin, US
Choruses as a model for social evolution: Variation in how costs and benefits scale across social environments can drive divergent social strategies