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BSc-MSc Thesis and Internship Projects, Wageningen University

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Greylag Goose: ontogeny of vocalisations
The calls of goslings will be recorded every day/week to measure the ontogeny of calls including social context and cues to individuality in call characteristics. You will learn how to record, label, and archive calls and analyse ...
Supervisor: Alexander Kotrschal
Department: Behavioural Ecology

How human - bee interaction may affect bee health Fieldwork in Sweden or Netherlands
Healthy bees are crucial for the global food production. About one third of human diet directly or indirectly depends on successful pollination by bees. But the western honey bee struggles to survive. Colony numbers are rapidly de ...
Supervisor: Séverine kotrschal
Department: Behavioural Ecology

Are bigger groups better care-providers?
Group living can have various benefits: Larger groups might be able to defend larger territories, have better protection from predators, or might have more helpers taking care of the offspring in case of cooperatively breeding spe ...
Supervisor: Miriam Kuspiel
Sjouke A. Kingma
Kat L. Bebbington

Department: Behavioural Ecology

Cats consuming natural prey or commercial foods – differences in eating behaviour
Modern foods for pet cats are primarily designed to be safe, tasty and nutritious. The act of eating of such foods (i.e. bites, chews, swallowing) impacts on many aspects, like oral health and appetite regulation. Modern manmade f ...
Supervisor: Bonne Beerda, Guido Bosch
Department: Behavioural Ecology

Active and passive anti-predator defence in a cooperatively breeding bird
Group-living can have many benefits, such as better protection from predators. White helmetshrikes, for example, actively mob and attack predators in nest vicinity to protect their brood. Larger groups might thus be better able to ...
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Sjouke A. Kingma
Kat L. Bebbington

Department: Behavioural Ecology

Apenheul
Foerageergedrag in losloopgebied met meerdere apensoorten Opdracht: gedragsobservaties en onderzoek van meerdere diersoorten (â€œmixed-speciesâ€) in losloopgebied met insectenmuur. Apenheul staat o.a. bekend om de ruime gebie ...
Supervisor: Bonne Beerda
Department: Behavioural Ecology

Animal Communication: Songbird vocal communication
Birdsong is among the best studied signalling systems in animals. In most species in the temperate zones, only the males sing, mainly to advertise and defend a territory and to attract a female. Song can reflect a range of differe ...
Supervisor: Marc Naguib
Department: Behavioural Ecology

Songbird behaviour: personality traits and social interactions
There exists close collaboration between the BHE chair group and the Netherlands Institute of Ecology in Wageningen (NIOO-KNAW) and this allows students to contribute to ongoing projects with songbirds. Details on the available pr ...
Supervisor: Marc Naguib and Kees van Oers (NIOO-KNAW)
Department: Behavioural Ecology

Animal Communication: Breeding behaviour and communication in wild Australian zebra finches
NEW: The project takes place in the Australian outbacks at Fowlers gap Arid Zone Research Station in NSW where a team of researchers and students (from WUR, Macquarie University, Sydney) studies the ecology of wild zebra finches. ...
Supervisor: Marc Naguib and Chris Tyson
Department: Behavioural Ecology

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