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BSc-MSc Thesis and Internship Projects, Wageningen University

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Conservation Behaviour and Ecology of New Zealand birds
New Zealand's native vertebrates are threatened by invasive species from Europe and Australia. As a consequences several Ecosanctuaries have been set up, where the fauna is protected by a fence keeping non native predators out. Bu ...
Supervisor: Marc Naguib
Department: Behavioural Ecology

Animal Communication: The ecology of acoustic communication
Animal signals underly selection by the acoustic properties of the environment in which they are used to communicate. During transmission signals degrade and attenuate so that a distant receiver will make its decision based on a s ...
Supervisor: Marc Naguib
Hugo Loning
Department: Behavioural Ecology

Animal Communication: Noise effects on animal vocal communication
Noise (and light) pollution is increasingly becoming ubiquitous in urban and also rural environments, due to traffic and other human activities. The project provides different options. ...
Supervisor: Marc Naguib and Hugo Loning
Department: Behavioural Ecology

Behavioural Ecology Open topics
We offer a range of topics and opportunities for theses which are not all listed here, covering topics suggested by students, research in zoos or with colleages/institutions abroad which whom we can arrange these and internships. ...
Supervisor: Marc Naguib & other BHE staff
Department: Behavioural Ecology

Human Behaviour
Human behaviour, just like animal behaviour, is fascinating to study from a biological perspectives. Topics for these can be discussed and can range from topics late mate preference, cooperation, communication or other ideas you ...
Supervisor: Marc Naguib
Department: Behavioural Ecology

Tracking cuckoos: how do they select a suitable host nest to lay their egg?
Cuckoos lay their eggs in nests of other species who subsequently take care of it. How do cuckoos find and select a nest to lay their egg in? What do they base their choice on? Using radio-telemetry, we will follow levaillant’s cu ...
Supervisor: Sjouke A. Kingma

Department: Behavioural Ecology

Climate change and heat-stress in birds: Does climate affect behaviour and/or physiology of wild birds?
The world’s climate is rapidly changing; whether individuals can adapt to such change is highly unclear. In this project we will catch birds and monitor nests to determine how climatic variables affect individuals health, parental ...
Supervisor: Kat Bebbington
Sjouke Anne Kingma

Department: Behavioural Ecology

Conflict over parental care: are parents negotiating?
Since parental care is costly, evolutionary theory states that each parents wants the other parent to do the majority of the work in raising offspring. One proposed mechanism by which parents are predicted to avoid being exploited ...
Supervisor: Kat Bebbington
Sjouke Anne Kingma

Department: Behavioural Ecology

Insect behaviour: Behavioural adaptations against parasite spread in bumblebees. Laboratory based experimental work.
Bumblebees are primitively eusocial insects. They lack many of the sophisticated social defences against parasite spread that are thought to be key to the ecological success of highly eusocial insects, such as honey bees and ants. ...
Supervisor: Séverine Kotrschal
Department: Behavioural Ecology

The Cinderella-effect: do stepparents have a negative effect on individuals? [comparative study]
In humans, the prevalence of abuse and violence among step-parents and their step-children is higher than that among that of biological parents and their children. In group-living birds, where individuals stay with their parents f ...
Supervisor: Sjouke A. Kingma
Department: Behavioural Ecology

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