Behavioural Ecology Group KU

25/06/2024

Congratulations to Cornelia Hindhede Warrer on successfully defending her M.Sc. co-supervised by Rob Davis and Damaris Riedner.

Her research on identifying high-snaring risk areas in
Kruger National Park is a significant step forward for carnivore conservation 👏🐕🇩🇰🇿🇦

21/06/2024

Our affiliate PhD researcher Anna Osiecka successfully defended her PhD thesis "Vocal behaviour and information coding in a pelagic Arctic seabird, the little auk (Alle alle)".

Huge congrats and good luck for your future career 🐦🇩🇰🇵🇱🎉

19/06/2024

🐴🐷 Can Different Species Understand Each Other's Emotions? Join Elodie Mandel-Briefer as she explores this fascinating topic in our upcoming Lecture! 📆 June 22, Saturday ⏰ 5 pm BST | 12 pm EDT | 9 am PST 🔗 Register via the link:

June 22 2024, 17:00 BST/ 12:00 EDT/ 09:00 PST (5pm BST/ 12pm EDT/ 9am PST) Can Different Species Understand Each Other's Emotions? The expression and perception of emotions play an important role in social species, as they regulate interactions. The existence of similarities between species in the

17/06/2024

The season of graduation continues with Drew Larson, who brilliantly graduated with a thesis on "Preference of Ring-Tailed Lemurs (Lemur catta) for ecologically relevant auditory enrichment: a multi-zoo study". 🐒🇺🇸🇩🇰🎉

12/06/2024

One more MSc student graduated last week. Giovanni Leonardi successfully defended his master’s thesis: "Effects and Roles of Vocal Learning on Vocal Signature and Contagion of Emotions in Peach-fronted Parakeets (Eupsittula aurea)." 🦜🇮🇹🇩🇰🎉

10/06/2024

Do you know a parrot that talks or sings? We want to hear from it!! 🦜🎚

Help the ManyParrots consortium understand abilities and across parrot species.

Learn more & fill 1 or 2 brief surveys here: https://manyparrots.org

Featuring our fresh Ph.D. Anna Osiecka!!

05/06/2024

Last week, our MSc student Alice Fratesi successfully defended her master's thesis on how digital methodologies can improve the conservation of the long-tailed macaque 🐒🇮🇹🇩🇰🎉

This project was supervised by Elodie Briefer, Enrico Di Minin from the University of Helsinki, Daniel Rueskov Krejmar Nielsen from The Long-Tailed Macaque Project

31/05/2024

Innovative computer modeling employing primate distribution and behavior data provides crucial population size estimates for conservation strategies. Find out how combining camera traps and citizen science can improve wildlife conservation in a new study led by our affiliate Malene Friis Hansen 🐒🇩🇰

A flexible model estimates the upper limit of animal population sizes by accounting for habitat diversity and species’ behavior.

28/05/2024

Our PhD student, Anna Osiecka, will soon defend her thesis on little auk vocal behaviour. Since the defense is in Polish, we're happy to invite you to an English pre-defense talk this Wednesday, at 13:00 CET. Come join us for a brief summary of these seabirds' vocal world!! 🐦🇵🇱🇩🇰

The meeting takes place online via zoom, link in the comment:

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23/05/2024

Our group just published a theme issue on how vocalizations shape social behaviour in animals.

A new piece of cutting-edge research supported by
Carlsbergfondet

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/2024/379/1905

Acoustic communication plays a crucial role in many species. The study of how animals communicate with sounds, how they make collective decisions, and how their social groups are structured, are three areas of research that have been well studied separately. Despite the potentially important functio...

09/05/2024

We are organising a IBAC/VIHAR free online workshop on 25-26.9 on AI and bioacoustics!! Submit your abstract and join us for two days of training, great plenaries and talks!!

Join the Bioacoustics & AI 101 online workshop, Sept 25-26, 2024. Explore cutting-edge AI applications in sound analysis, and learn to demystify AI.

16/04/2024

Mark your calendars: our course 'Introduction to programming in R for biologists' will take place in Copenhagen, July 1-6.

Registration will open soon. The course is mainly for PhD students in Behavioural Ecology. Others can also apply.

Organized by our postdoc Josefine Bohr Brask, deadline 15th May.

More info:

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