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BSc-MSc Thesis and Internship Projects, Wageningen University

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Identifying horse-directed parenting styles
Parenting styles are known to impact on behavioural development in children and recently we identified dog-directed parenting styles. Next we want to find out if parenting styles exist also in the owner � horse relationships. This ...
Supervisor: Bonne Beerda, Lydia Nieuwe Weme
Department: Behavioural Ecology

Reproductive strategies in a changing world
On top of rising temperatures, contemporary climate change is increasing the variability of weather patterns as well as the frequency, duration and severity of extreme events. A critical consequence of these changing patterns is f ...
Supervisor: Gretchen Wagner
Department: Behavioural Ecology

The evolution of reproductive flexibility in birds
Studies of life-history evolution have historically focused on the variation in mean values of traits, and regularly assume fixed reproductive values within species. However, the extent to which individuals can flexibly respond to ...
Supervisor: Gretchen Wagner
Department: Behavioural Ecology

Conservation Behaviour: Effectiveness of animal conditioning interventions in mitigating Human-Wildlife conflicts (meta-analysis)
We did a comprehensive search for publications potentially containing evidence on the effectiveness of animal conditioning interventions in reducing Human-wildlife conflicts. The next steps are to extract metadata and to conduct a ...
Supervisor: Lysanne Snijders
Department: Behavioural Ecology

Social Behaviour: Do more social fish always get more food? (video-analysis)
BSc/MSc: How do populations that live under various selective forces differ in social information use? We have collected social data and videos on foraging behaviour of six different guppy (Poecilia reticulata) populations to answ ...
Supervisor: Lysanne Snijders
Department: Behavioural Ecology

Animal cognition: Mate choice for cognition- Do females fall for clever males? Laboratory based experimental work.
Being intelligent has many advantages. For a female guppy this means higher chances of survival under predator pressure, better ability to adapt to a changing environment, making more correct mate choices and generally learning fa ...
Supervisor: S�verine Kotrschal
Department: Behavioural Ecology

Animal cognition: Testing for theory of mind in fish. Laboratory based experimental work.
Fish are known to learn socially and copy the behaviour of conspecifics especially in a mate choice and foraging context. But are they also capable to assess the cognitive skills of another individual and adjust their copying or s ...
Supervisor: S�verine Kotrschal
Department: Behavioural Ecology

URGENT - Trinidad - field work in the Caribbean
We are looking for enthusiastic master students with an interest in behavioural ecology for a project aiming to study the effect of predation pressure on wild Trinidadian guppies (poecilia reticulata). You should be prepared to ...
Supervisor: Hannah De Waele
Catarina Vila Pouca
Department: Behavioural Ecology

Costs and benefits of family-living in black wheatears � Autumn fieldwork in Spain
Black wheatears are a passerine bird that live in the Iberian peninsula and northern Africa. While most of the offspring disperse from the parental territory when they reach independence, some juveniles from each family delay disp ...
Supervisor: Gretchen Wagner
Department: Behavioural Ecology

Parental care behaviour and reproductive strategies in birds � Spring fieldwork in Spain
MSc thesis projects are available for the breeding season (spring- early summer) at our field site near Guadix, Spain. Field studies focus on the reproductive behaviour of diverse bird species, including black wheatears, European ...
Supervisor: Gretchen Wagner
Department: Behavioural Ecology

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