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(fieldwork) Territorial males adjust their songs according to intrudersâ€™ 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

Animal Communication and Conservation: Effect of urban disturbances on bird singing
Human disturbances affect the natural environment both acoustically and visually. Traffic noise and street lights are two of the most prominent environmental pollutants which affecting diurnal activity patterns of wildlife. Birds ...
Supervisor: Marc Naguib (BHE)
Pim van Hooft (WEC)
Sjouke Kingma (BHE)

Department: Behavioural Ecology

Eco-accoustics for nature-positive food production
While ecological farming aims for sustainable production with the least impact on the environment, a natural consequence of that is the presence of pests. A lack of biodiversity in the natural prey of the pests leads to significan ...
Supervisor: Cunha, Filipe
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: Catarina Vila Pouca
Department: Behavioural Ecology

Work in Crete - Can a conspicuous predator camouflage through background matching? Lionfish-prey interactions.
Lionfish (Pterois volitans/miles) are among the most effective predators on Earth; they catch up to 85% of the prey that they target. Their success as hunters is due to prey barely reacting when they are approached by a lionfish. ...
Supervisor: Alexander Kotrschal
Department: Behavioural Ecology

Foraging strategies in a social herbivore (the fallow deer, Dama dama). Field work at the landgoed Oranje Nassaus Oord in Renkum.
For social foragers, movement as a group could increase foraging efficiency through collective discovery of high-quality food sources. This would require an efficient mechanism for transferring information about food quality betwe ...
Supervisor: Séverine Denise Kotrschal
Alexander Kotrschal
Department: Behavioural Ecology

(Fieldwork) Cognitive abilities of Red-legged seriema
There are a few observations of Red-legged seriema cracking nuts on the ground. We want to know more about this behaviour and try to understand some interesting aspects of cognitive abilities, cultural transmission, and learning ...
Supervisor: Filipe Cunha & Alexander Kotrschal
Department: Behavioural Ecology

Animal cognition: dogs' understanding of human knowledge
Dogs are outstandingly skillful in understanding humans. They understand simple gestures even when they are not/minimally socialized, something great apes or wolves can only do after excessive training. Dogs have also shown to und ...
Supervisor: Bonne Beerda, Jori Noordenbos
Department: Behavioural Ecology

Social Behaviour: Does duck feeding change the social behaviour of coots in winter?
One element of urbanization is providing wild animals with supplemental food. Feeding ducks is a prime example and happens on a massive scale. What consequences does this extra influx of resources have on animal behaviour. Do wate ...
Supervisor: Lysanne Snijders (WUR-BHE), Sven Teurlincx (NIOO-KNAW)
Department: Behavioural Ecology

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