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Cooperation, dispersal, and climate adaptation in Australian fairy-wrens
MSc thesis projects are available to study purple-crowned fairy-wrens in the Kimberley, Australia. Project topics can include cooperative breeding, dispersal, parental care, brood parasitism, and climate change, but are not limite ...
Supervisor: Niki Teunissen
Department: Behavioural Ecology
 
Animal Personality
Animal personality; a topic that has received much attention over the last 3 decades. Within this research field, many field, lab, data or literature studies are possible. Studies ranging from behaviorual studies, genetics and g ...
Supervisor: Kees van Oers or other staff at BHE
Department: Behavioural Ecology
 
Fieldwork in Norway: Adapting to the Arctic light, a study of the biological rhythms of Northern great tits
We are looking for highly motivated, independent students to join us during the fieldwork to monitor breeding birds in Tromsø, Norway. You will have the opportunity to learn several different methods to work with birds in the fiel ...
Supervisor: Barbara Tomotani (Artctic University Tromsø, Norway)
Department: Behavioural Ecology
 
Ecological behavioural genetics, genomics and epigenetics
Behaviour is plastic and has a genetic background at the same time. How can we explain behavioural variation from genetic data? This thesis or internship allows you to combine interests in behaviour(al ecology) and (epi)genetics.  ...
Supervisor: Kees van Oers (WUR-BHE/NIOO-KNAW)
Department: Behavioural Ecology
 
Behavioural innovation promotes population expansion in great tits
Thesis and internship projects possible on wild birds and on captive birds. Anthropogenic activities, such as the expansion of human settlements and global climate change, change the environment at an unprecedented rate. This cau ...
Supervisor: Kees van Oers (WUR-BHE/NIOO-KNAW) Xiaomei Chi (WUR/NIOO)
Department: Behavioural Ecology
 
Investigating Referential Alarm calls (fieldwork in Brazil)
MSc students. The fieldwork takes place between December and April in Florestal/Minas Gerais, in southeastern Brazil. In this project, you will investigate if the Lined Seedeater has referential alarm calls. In the fieldwork ...
Supervisor: Filipe Cunha
Department: Behavioural Ecology
 
(Fieldwork) Environmental constraints in nest parasitism
Fieldwork from August to November in Florestal/Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil. In this project, you will study the nest parasitism behaviour of the Shiny cowbird. We want to better understand how the environmental aspects o ...
Supervisor: Filipe Cunha
Department: Behavioural Ecology
 
(fieldwork) Territorial males adjust their songs according to intruders’ song complexity
The fieldwork takes place between December and April in Florestal/Minas Gerais, Brazil. In this project, we want to understand if territorial male birds can adjust their song according to the 'level of expertise' of their intru ...
Supervisor: Filipe Cunha
Department: Behavioural Ecology
 
Kazakhstan Bactrianus house sparrow
Specifically, myself and my PhD student (Ruth Fawthrop) are looking for a motivated Master student to join us in Kazakhstan to work with the Bactrianus house sparrow. Details of the project are available here: https://nioo.kna ...
Supervisor: Rowe, Melissah <M.Rowe@nioo.knaw.nl>
Department: Behavioural Ecology
 
Parallel evolution in brain anatomy: do sympatric species evolve together in response to predation?
Animals need cognitive abilities to estimate predation risk and adjust behaviour accordingly. As cognition is governed by brain anatomy, predation pressure is likely linked to brain evolution. Despite a number of studies now hav ...
Supervisor: Alexander Kotrschal
Department: Behavioural Ecology
 
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