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| Title | Greylag Goose: adult behaviour using scan and focal sampling |
| Group | Behavioural Ecology |
| Project type | thesis |
| Credits | 36 |
| Supervisor(s) | Alexander Kotrschal |
| Examiner(s) | Alexander Kotrschal |
| Contact info | alexander.kotrschal@wur.nl |
| Begin date | 2024/01/01 |
| End date | 2024/12/31 |
| Description | Using our GooseGander app, you will become proficient at using the two most common techniques for behavioural data collection: scan and focal sampling. The data can be used to quantify patterns of social proximity, social interactions and time budgets in adult geese. The data you collect will be part of the long-term greylag goose behavioural data repository that will be available to you for analysis, depending on the specific question you choose to develop. For example, what are time budget differences in paired geese versus singletons? How does spatial position of a goose (center vs edge) affect trade-offs in self maintenance (feeding vs vigilance behaviour)? Is social rank -- we have this information for each member of the flock -- associated with time budgets?
Fieldwork: In Alm Valley, Austria @Konrad Lorenz Institute |
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