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(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 |
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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 |
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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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Do predators make prey smarter? Cognition in fish
Predation affects the evolution of life history, morphology and behaviour of prey. Surprisingly, the link between predation and these traits has not been tested experimentally. To fill this knowledge gap, we created six lines of a ...
Supervisor: Hannah De Waele
Department: Behavioural Ecology |
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Can Predatory Fish See UV?
Many species of coral reef fish have been shown to possess ultraviolet (UV) vision. UV vision has mostly been investigated in smaller prey fish, as bigger predatory fish are assumed to be UV-blind for several reasons. We hypothesi ...
Supervisor: Elizabeth Phillips, Alexander Kotrschal
Department: Behavioural Ecology |
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Linking Social Competence & Cognition in a Cooperatively Breeding Fish
Social competence is the ability to accurately perceive and respond appropriately to social situations. In the cooperatively breeding cichlid (Neolamprologus pulcher), research has shown that early-life rearing conditions can impa ...
Supervisor: Elizabeth Phillips, Alexander Kotrschal
Department: Behavioural Ecology |
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How to prosper as a parent – bulbuls breeding in a hot savanna
Fieldwork starts end of September/beginning of October
Birds are particularly susceptible to temperature, especially during incubation. Both nest attendance and parental care, increase offspring survival, but are costly to the ...
Supervisor: Elke Molenaar, larger project involves: Sjouke Kingma, Kevin Matson (WEC), Marc Naguib
Department: Behavioural Ecology |
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Greylag Goose: individuality cues in adult calls
The calls of adult geese will be recorded on a regular basis to measure the social and ecological context of call types and cues to individuality in call characteristics. You will learn how to record, label, and archive calls and ...
Supervisor: Alexander Kotrschal
Department: Behavioural Ecology |
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