IEC International Ethological Conference Rennes, 19-24 August 2009
 

Oral sessions schedule


August 20th - 15h30-16h30 : Ontogeny /Development

Oral Session 1a - Early development and bonding (1h) (LH 2)
Oral Session 1b – Laterality: developmental and perceptual issues (1h) (LH 3)
Oral Session 1c – Vocal development and learning (1h) (LH 7)
Oral Session 1d – Memory (1h) (LH 4)
Oral Session 1e – Social and photoperiodic influences on sexual and social behavior (1h) (LH 1)



Time Talk Lecture Hall
August 20th23741
15h30-15h45Oral session a
Do puppies-mother bonds, in the dog, fulfill the criteria of an "attachment"?

Florence May, Bertrand L. Deputte, & Jean-Luc Durand
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Oral session b
Influence of maternal testosterone on lateralization, competitive behaviour and androgen receptor density in domestic chicks

Kristina Pfannkuche, B. J. Riedstra, M. Gahr, & T. G. G. Groothuis
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Oral session c
Vocal ontogeny of a social signal in wild chimpanzees

Marion Laporte and Klaus Zuberbühler
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Oral session d
Early associative learning enhances long-term memory retention in a social insect

Andrés Arenas, Vanesa M. Fernández, & Walter M. Farina
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Oral session e
Challenging assumptions about the development and execution of sexual behavior

Alexander T. Baugh & Michael J. Ryan
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15h45-16h00Oral session a
Neonatal handling affects durably bonding and social development: experimental studies in the domestic foal

Séverine Henry, Marie-Annick Richard-Yris, Sylvie Tordjman, & Martine Hausberger
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Oral session b
Behavioural lateralisation and personality in zebrafish (Brachydanio rerio): development, consistency and early light effects

Sergey Budaev & Richard Andrew
. X . . .
Oral session c
Adult song learning – are pied flycatchers open-ended learners?

Ane Eriksen, Tore Slagsvolt, & Helene M. Lampe
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Oral session d
Long-term memory after maxilla-labium extension response conditioning in Camponotus fellah ants

Fernando J. Guerrieri, Jean-Marc Devaud, Martin Giurfa, & Patrizia d’Ettorre
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Oral session e
Influence of photoperiod and social experience on crayfish agonistic behavior

Susan Jenks, K. Malone, D. Hansen, L. Reles, G. DeBlasio
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16h00-16h15Oral session a
Olfactory guidance of suckling in kittens: inborn and learned responses

Robyn Hudson, Daniel González, Lourdes Arteaga, & Gina Raihani
X . . . .
Oral session b
Species-typical side biases of horses

Nicole P. Austin and Lesley J. Rogers
. X . . .
Oral session c
Does song learning produce conformity or novelty in white-crowned sparrow song?

Douglas Nelson & Angelika Poesel
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Oral session d
Long and short term olfactory memory in mice

Richard Brown, Rhian Gunn, Aimee Wong, Timothy O’Leary, Ashley Whittaker, & Heather M. Schellinck
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Oral session e
Chronobiology and social life in birds

Laureline Formanek, Marie-Annick Richard-Yris, Cécilia Houdelier, & Sophie Lumineau
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16h15-16h30Oral session a
The ontogenetic development of gaze following among Barbary macaques

Julia Fischer, Anke Gutmann, Ralph Pirow, & Christoph Teufel
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Oral session b
Are horses lateralized for the auditory processing of whinnies varying in their degree of familiarity?

Muriel Basile, S. Boivin, C. Blois-Heulin, M. Hausberger, & A. Lemasson
. X . . .
Oral session c
Influence of social conditions in song sharing in the adult canary

Catherine Del Negro & Katia Lehongre
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Oral session d
Transgenic mice with Alzheimer’s disease learn in social context

Anna Kiryk, Robert K. Filipkowski, Marcin Wawrzyniak, Victoria Lioudyno, Ewelina Knapska, Tomasz Gorkiewicz, Marcin Balcerzyk, Fred Van Leuven, & Leszek Kaczmarek
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Oral session e

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August 20th - 17h00-18h30 : Ontogeny /Development

Oral Session 2a – Social development (1h30) (LH 2)
Oral Session 2b – Consequences of early experience and parental effects (1h30) (LH 1)
Oral Session 2c – Social transmission (1h30) (LH 7)
Oral Session 2d – Memory (1h30) (LH 3)



Time Talk Lecture Hall
August 20th2173
17h00-17h15Oral session a
What sort of influence do adult horses exert on youngsters?

Marie Bourjade & Martine Hausberger
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Oral session b
The adaptive significance of a maternal effect in the African cichlid Simochromis pleurospilus

Francisca Segers & Barbara Taborsky
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Oral session c
Familiarity breeds contempt: why some formal models of social learning may have gotten it wrong

Bennett Galef
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Oral session d
Ants remember: reconnaissance in house-hunting ants

Nathalie Stroeymeyt, Martin Giurfa, & Nigel R. Franks
. . . X
17h15-17h30Oral session a
Social environment affects juvenile development in male European ground squirrels

Eva Millesi & Anna Strauss
X . . .
Oral session b
Long-term effects of early environmental conditions and growth on African elephant survival and success

Phyllis C. Lee, Lesley A. Smith, & Cynthia J. Moss
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Oral session c
Public information and social learning in fishes

Mike Webster
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Oral session d
The role of retrograde signaling in long-term facilitation in aplysia

David Glanzman, Diancai Cai, & Shanping Chen
. . . X
17h30-17h45Oral session a
Early social environment determines social competence in a cooperative breeder

Barbara Taborsky & Cornelia Arnold
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Oral session b
Transmission of behaviour modifications across generations in chickens

Per Jensen & Daniel Nätt
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Oral session c
The importance of social cues in propagation fronts and other new environments

Alexandra Rodriguez, Philippe Clergeau, Martine Hausberger, & Laurence Henry
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Oral session d
A computational model of caching and recovery in corvids

Elske van der Vaart, Rineke Verbrugge, & Charlotte Hemelrijk
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17h45-18h00Oral session a
Social competence of adult formerly singly-caged chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) is associated with age at onset of deprivation

Elfriede Kalcher, Cornelia Franz, Karl Crailsheim, & Signe Preuschoft
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Oral session b
Female canary differential allocation in eggs is influenced by eavesdropping on male-male singing interactions

Violaine Garcia-Fernandez, Mathieu Amy, André Lacroix, Giorgio Malacarne, & Gérard Leboucher
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Oral session c
Imitation learning in the wild

Corsin Müller
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Oral session d
Spatial cognition: a lesson of parsimony by the ants

Antoine Wystrach, Ken Cheng, & Guy Beugnon
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18h00-18h15Oral session a
Beyond nature-nurture: predicting the effects of natal experience on habitat preference

Judy Stamps
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Oral session b
Diving behaviour of chinstrap penguins in relation to sex: which sex dives harder for chicks?

Yoshihisa Mori, A. Takahashi, N. Kokubun, & H.-C. Shin
. X . .
Oral session c
“Males are better pupils with a new teacher”: social factors improving mice observational learning

Pascal Carlier, Michel Pratte, & Marc Jamon
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Oral session d
Orientation in a crowded environment: Can king penguin chicks find their crčches after a displacement?

Anna P. Nesterova, Jerome Mardon, & Francesco Bonadonna
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18h15-18h30Oral session a
Swinging with the times: Social flexibility in the African striped mouse

Neville Pillay & Carsten Schradin
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Oral session b
Effects of parental care in zebra finches

Leslie Phillmore, Angela Aube, & Jacquelyn Cormier
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Oral session c

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Oral session d

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August 21st - 17h30-18h30 : Causality / Mechanisms

Oral Session a – Perception (1h) (LH 7)
Oral Session b – Categories (1h) (LH 2)
Oral Session c – Tools and cognition (1h) (LH 1)
Oral Session d – Physiological aspects of sexual and social behavior (1h) (LH 3)
Oral Session e – Reproduction (1h) (LH 4)
Oral Session f – Personality in animals (1h) (LH 6)



Time Talk Lecture Hall
August 21st721346
17h30-17h45Oral session a
Configurational processing by an insect brain

Aurore Avargučs-Weber, Geoffrey Portelli, Julie Bénard, Adrian Dyer, & Martin Giurfa
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Oral session b
Heifers (Bos taurus) discriminate familiar from unfamiliar conspecifics using only visual stimuli

Marjorie Coulon, Bertrand L. Deputte, & Claude Baudoin
. X . . . .
Oral session c
Chimpanzees and bonobos use functional but not arbitrary information to solve the broken string task

Amanda Seed & Anna Albiach-Serrano
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Oral session d
Aerobic capacity and fighting ability in the hermit crab Pagurus bernhardus

Sophie Mowles, Peter Cotton, & Mark Briffa
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Oral session e
Immunomodulation by sexual chemical cues

Ekaterina Litvinova, Elena Goncharova, & Michail Moshkin
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Oral session f
Boldness and intermittent locomotion in bluegill sunfish, Lepomis macrochirus

Alexander D. M. Wilson & Jean-Guy J. Godin
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17h45-18h00Oral session a
Seasonal plasticity of the olfactory circuit in songbirds assessed with In vivo Manganese-Enhanced MRI (MEMRI)

Geert De Groof, Steiger Silke, Helga Gwinner, & Annemie Van der Linden
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Oral session b
Discrimination of human and dog faces and inversion response in the domestic dog (Canis familiaris)

Anaďs Racca, Eleonora Amadei, Kun Guo, Séverine Ligout, Kerstin Meints, & Daniel Mills
. X . . . .
Oral session c
Tool use and Physical Cognition in the Eurasian Jay (Garrulus glandarius)

Lucy Cheke, Chris Bird, Nathan Emery, & Nicola Clayton
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Oral session d
Motivational trade-off and potential pain experience in crustaceans

Robert Elwood
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Oral session e
Male-induced pregnancy block (the Bruce effect) in ungulates

Ludek Bartos, Jitka Bartosova, Jana Sindelarova, & Jan Pluhacek
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Oral session f
Aggression-boldness syndrome varies with population and measurement conditions

Emilia Martins & Anuradha Bhat
. . . . . X
18h00-18h15Oral session a
Perception of context-specific communication calls in tree shrews

Wiebke Köhler, Simone Schehka, & Elke Zimmermann
X . . . . .
Oral session b
Pigeons are able to recognize the representational nature of pictures

Ulrike Aust & Ludwig Huber
. X . . . .
Oral session c
String pulling by neotropical parrots

Andressa Borsari, Cynthia Schuck-Paim, & Eduardo B. Ottoni
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Oral session d
High sensibility to social regulation of reproduction and life history traits in mound-building mice

Christophe Féron, Nicolas Bousquet, & Patrick Gouat
. . . X . .
Oral session e
Reception of sex pheromones in house mouse

Anna Voznesenskaia
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Oral session f
Personality relates to risk-sensitive foraging in grey mouse lemurs (Microcebus murinus)

Melanie Dammhahn
. . . . . X
18h15-18h30Oral session a
Shape reconstruction from object echoes in the nectar feeding bat Glossophaga soricina

Georgina Ross & Marc Holderied
X . . . . .
Oral session b
Exclusion performances in ravens and jackdaws

Christian Schloegl, Anneke Dierks, & Thomas Bugnyar
. X . . . .
Oral session c
Learning and mirror use in pigs

Donald M. Broom, Hilana Sena, & Kiera L. Moynihan
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Oral session d
Sexual motivation and social competition are reflected in hormone metabolites from quail droppings

Katharina Hirschenhauser, Kathi Spreitzer, & Erich Möstl
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Oral session e
Sex boar pheromone androstenone may show pheromonal activity in mice

Maria Klyuchnikova & Vera Voznessenskaya
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Oral session f
Emergence of correlated traits

Johanneke Oosten & Charlotte K. Hemelrijk
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August 22nd - 11h00-12h30 : Applied and Fundamental Ethology

Oral Session a – Farm animals and welfare (1h30) (LH 1)
Oral Session b – Human/animal relationships: pets and horses (1h30) (LH 7)
Oral Session c – Methods and techniques: pain, stress and conservation (1h30) (LH 4)
Oral Session d – Approaching remarkable behaviours (1h30) (LH 2)



Time Talk Lecture Hall
August 22nd1742
11h00-11h15Oral session a
Behavioural responses to fear challenges in gestating sows as predictors of feeding adaptation during lactation

Marie-Christine Meunier-Salaün & Rozenn Guillemet
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Oral session b
Autistic children and pets: What types of interactions? A parent survey

Grandgeorge Marine, Eric Lemonnier, Sylvie Tordjman, Michel Deleau, & Martine Hausberger
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Oral session c
Wildlife Conservation Canines: From laboratory to field, from ribbonsnakes to pine martens

Michael Demontfaucon, Meredith Flannery, Deborah Austin, & Simon Gadbois
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Oral session d
Analysis of insect flapping sound focusing on the sound generation mechanism and its control

Yoshinobu Inada, Hao Liu, & Takashi Aoyama
. . . X
11h15-11h30Oral session a
Consequences of social instability during pregnancy in goats

Inger Lise Andersen, Sabine Roussel, Bjarne Braastad, Andrew Janczak, Geir Steinheim, & Knut Egil Bře1
X . . .
Oral session b
Training induces lasting memories of humans in horses

Carol Sankey, Séverine Henry, Marie-Annick Richard-Yris, & Martine Hausberger
. X . .
Oral session c
Pain responses to surgical implantation of telemetry devices: evidence from endangered Steller sea lions

Kristen Walker, M. Horning, J. Mellish, & D. Weary
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Oral session d
Hidden channels of communication in stomatopod crustaceans

Roy Caldwell
. . . X
11h30-11h45Oral session a
Social aspect of emotions in animals – its role in animal welfare

Marek Špinka
X . . .
Oral session b
Do dogs follow the cues provided by the deceiver?

Akiko Takaoka & Kazuo Fujita
. X . .
Oral session c
Does cleaner-client mutualism improve indicators of stress and condition in resident reef fish?

Albert Ros, Jeanne Lusa, Meghann Meyer, Rui Oliveira, & Redouan Bshary
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Oral session d
Nightlong sing-a-thon in the Asian stubtail (Urosphena squameiceps)

Masayoshi Kamioki, Jiro Ogawa, & Keisuke Ueda
. . . X
11h45-12h00Oral session a
What animal welfare brought to ethology

Isabelle Veissier & B. Forkman
X . . .
Oral session b
Responsiveness of domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) to verbal OBJECT and ACTION commands

Daniela Ramos & Daniel S. Mills
. X . .
Oral session c
Can the foraging behaviour of shorebirds explain their decline in the Murray Estuary, South Australia?

Justine Keuning, Jeremy Robertson, & Sabine Dittmann
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Oral session d
Nest building by weaver birds

Susan Healy, Patrick Walsh, & Mike Hansell
. . . X
12h00-12h15Oral session a
Fish personality as a measure of phenotypic plasticity in rainbow trout clones

Sandie Millot, Samuel Pean, Anne-Lise Mayeras, Laurent Labbé, Mathilde Dupont-Nivet, & Marie-Laure Begout
X . . .
Oral session b
The early ontogeny of dog-human communication: Evidence for the domestication hypothesis

Juliane Kaminski, Julia Riedel, Katrin Schumann, Josep Call, & Michael Tomasello
. X . .
Oral session c
Murid stress odours: A review and a “low tech” method of collection

Jamie Dallaire, Georgia Jane Mason, & Nicholas Ware
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Oral session d
Radio tagging and data mining reveal the dynamic of ants emigration to new nest site

Guénael Cabanes, Attilio Giordana, & Dominique Fresneau
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12h15-12h30Oral session a
Touching/stroking farm mammals during human-animal interactions: What does it mean for them?

Xavier Boivin, Claudia Schmied, Céline Tallet, Ines Windschnurer, & Susanne Waiblinger
X . . .
Oral session b
Followers and individualists – the integration of socially mediated and individually obtained information in dogs

Péter Pongrácz & Ádám Miklósi
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Oral session c
Animal behaviour and human safety: Identifying "at risk" situations in human-horse interactions

C.Fureix, P.Jego, & M.Hausberger
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Oral session d
Tool use by a group of capuchin monkeys: retracing the dissemination of a behavioral tradition

Eduardo B. Ottoni, C. G. Coelho, B. D. Resende, M. Mannu, T. Falótico, & P. Izar
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August 23rd - 15h30-16h30 : Functions

Oral Session 1a – Species and social vocal recognition (1h) (LH 6)
Oral Session 1b – Leadership (1h) (LH 1)
Oral Session 1c – Antipredator behavior (1h) (LH 3)
Oral Session 1d - Movements/groups (1h) (LH 4)
Oral Session 1e – Friendships and cooperation (1h) (LH 7)



Time Talk Lecture Hall
August 23rd61347
15h30-15h45Oral session a
Vocal identity and social recognition in domestic horses

Alban Lemasson, Catherine Blois-Heulin, Anais Boulin, & Martine Hausberger
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Oral session b
Distributed leadership in ants during foraging

Bertrand Collignon & Claire Detrain
. X . . .
Oral session c
Correlation of average corticosterone levels with anti-predator behaviour in meerkats

Irene Voellmy, Marie-France Barrette, Steven L. Monfort, & Marta B. Manser
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Oral session d
Dynamics of seasonal movements in a trans-pacific migrant seabird, the Westland petrel (Procellaria westlandica)

Todd J. Landers, Matt J. Rayner, Richard A. Phillips, & Mark E. Hauber
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Oral session e
Instrumental cooperation and social tolerance in white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus)

Odile Petit, Cécile Fruteau, & Susan E. Perry
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15h45-16h00Oral session a
Social knowledge and individual recognition: Insights from playback experiments on elephants and horses

Karen McComb
X . . . .
Oral session b
Qualitative behavioural assessment (QBA) of sheep naďve and habituated to transport

Sarah L. Wickham, T. Collins, A. L. Barnes, D. T. Beaty, D. Miller, C. Stockman, & P. A. Fleming.
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Oral session c
Zebrafish antipredatory responses: A future for translational research?

Robert Gerlai
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Oral session d
Sleeping site ecology drives social evolution in mouse lemurs (Microcebus spp.)

Ute Radespiel
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Oral session e
The role of state in the evolution of cooperation

Zoltan Barta, Dora Huszar, John M. McNamara, & Michael Taborsky
. . . . X
16h00-16h15Oral session a
Who are you? Individual recognition in common ravens using a habituation/dishabituation design

Markus Boeckle & Thomas Bugnyar
X . . . .
Oral session b
Incidental leaders and naďve followers in sheep

Marie-Helene Pillot, Jacques Gautrais, Jean-Louis Deneubourg, & Richard Bon
. X . . .
Oral session c
Embryonic learning and the ghost of predation future: Threat-sensitive and temporal risk assessment by amphibians

Maud Ferrari & Douglas P. Chivers
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Oral session d
Communal roosting in cooperatively breeder groups of carrion crow: The weather influence and social function

Rubén Vera, Elisa Chiarati, Daniela Canestrari, & Vittorio Baglione
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Oral session e
Inequity aversion and friendship in long-tailed macaques

Jorg Massen & E. H. M. Sterck
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16h15-16h30Oral session a
Bats use echolocation calls to identify familiar and unfamiliar conspecifics and heterospecific species

Silke Heucke, Michael Taborsky, & Dina Dechmann
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Oral session b

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Oral session c
Predator generalization by fish and amphibians

Douglas Chivers & Maud C. O. Ferrari
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Oral session d
Behaviour of birds active in mixed-species flocks: patterns and variation

Nancy Harrison & Michael J. Whitehouse
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Oral session e
Social network analysis of primate grooming markets

Ronald Noë & Bernhard Voelkl
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August 23rd - 17h00-18h30 : Functions

Oral Session 2a – Acoustic communication in mammals (1h30) (LH 2)
Oral Session 2b – Collective behaviors (1h30) (LH 1)
Oral Session 2c – Feeding and moving (1h30) (LH 4)
Oral Session 2d – Reproductive behavior (1h30) (LH 3)
Oral Session 2e – Birdsong (1h30) (LH 6)
Oral Session 2f – Conflicts and affiliations (1h30) (LH 7)



Time Talk Lecture Hall
August 23rd214367
17h00-17h15Oral session a
Predator-specific alarm calls in colobine referential communication

Agnčs Candiotti and Klaus Zuberbühler
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Oral session b
Movement coordination reached by quorum decisions in social foraging meerkats

Christophe Bousquet & Marta Manser
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Oral session c
Effect of grazing intensity on foraging behaviour and patch selection by horses

Géraldine Fleurance, Bertrand Dumont, Anne Farruggia, Nadčge Edouard, & L. Lanore
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Oral session d
Do blue petrels get a sniff of low-cost breeding opportunities?

Francesco Bonadonna & Jerome Mardon
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Oral session e
Perception of local, foreign and mixed dialect songs in ortolan bunting Emberiza hortulana

Tomasz Osiejuk, Agnieszka Bielecka, & Micha Skierczyński
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Oral session f
Co-evolutionary arms race at nestling stage: Hosts eject evicting brood-parasite young

Kihoko Tokue, Nozomu Sato, Masayoshi Kamioki, Richard Noske, & Keisuke Ueda
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17h15-17h30Oral session a
Vocal expression of emotion and its acoustic encoding in sheep

Frédéric Sčbe, Pascal Poindron, David Reby, Raymond Nowak, Angel Fierros, & Dominique Blache
X . . . . .
Oral session b
Self-organisation underlies decision-making processes in macaques

Cédric Sueur, Odile Petit, & Jean-Louis Deneubourg
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Oral session c
Is seed selection affected by habitat structure in the seed-harvester ant Messor barbarus?

Abel Bernadou, Xavier Espadaler, Virginie Dos-Reis, & Vincent Fourcassié
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Oral session d
Artificial ornaments manipulate intrinsic male quality as well as female preferences in wild zebra finches

Emma Pariser & Simon Griffith
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Oral session e
Overproduction of song types correlates with reduced paternity in the Puget Sound white-crowned sparrow

Angelika Poesel, Douglas A. Nelson, & H. Lisle Gibbs
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Oral session f
How to emancipate from social parasites? A comparative study of host-parasite interactions

Olivier Delattre, Rumsaďs Blatrix, & Stéphane Chameron
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17h30-17h45Oral session a
Relation between the level of acoustic variability and the call social function in red-capped mangabeys

Hélčne Bouchet, Anne-Sophie Pellier, Catherine Blois-Heulin, & Alban Lemasson
X . . . . .
Oral session b
Simple rules, complex systems: Using individual based-models to understand social organization of macaques

Ivan Puga-Gonzalez & Charlotte Hemelrijk
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Oral session c
How ant behaviour shape plant seed dispersal?

Claire Detrain & Pablo Servigne
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Oral session d
The impact of triumph displays on “eavesdropping” little blue penguins

Solveig Mouterde, J. R. Waas, D. Duganzich, L. M. Molles, S. Helps, & F. Helps
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Oral session e
A unique alarm song that warns of danger and varies between singers

Diane Colombelli-Negrel, Jeremy Robertson, & Sonia Kleindorfer
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Oral session f
Linear and stable dominance hierarchies in cooperative breeding groups of carrion crow (Corvus corone corone)

Elisa Chiarati, Daniela Canestrari, Rubén Vera Gomez, & Vittorio Baglione
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17h45-18h00Oral session a
Affective and referential aspects of agonistic and non-agonistic dog vocalizations

Tamás Faragó, Péter Pongrácz, Friederike Range, Zsófia Virányi, & Ádám Miklósi
X . . . . .
Oral session b
Emergence of division of labour in forced associations of solitary individuals

Raphael Jeanson, Rebecca M. Clark, C. Tate Holbrook, Susan M. Bertram, Penelope F. Kukuk, & Jennifer H. Fewell
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Oral session c
Out in the cold: Flexible foraging decision-making in the in the African ice rat

Ute Schwaibold & Neville Pillay
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Oral session d
Nocturnal vision involved in mate choice: female European treefrogs (Hyla arborea) prefer conspicuous males

Doris Gomez, Christina Richardson, Thierry Lengagne, Sandrine Plenet, Pierre Joly, Jean-Paul Léna, & Marc Théry
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Oral session e
Vocal communication at nest between mates in wild zebra finches: a private vocal duet?

Clementine Vignal, Julie E. Elie, Mylčne Mariette, Simon Griffith, & Nicolas Mathevon
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Oral session f
What ravens do after a fight: the post-conflict behaviour of Corvus corax

Orlaith Fraser & Thomas Bugnyar
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18h00-18h15Oral session a
Acoustic communication in the Asian elephant, Elephas maximus maximus

Shermin de Silva
X . . . . .
Oral session b
To what extent conspecifics affect activity budgeting in social animals? Experimental and theoretical approach

Pablo Michelena & Jean-Louis Deneubourg
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Oral session c
The relation of explorative characteristics of a parrot to extractive root foraging

Gyula Koppany Gajdon, Laurent Amann, Mark O’Hara, Alice M. I. Auersperg, Ria Brejaart, & Ludwig Huber
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Oral session d
Reproductive skew in highly social fish species: A critical appraisal

Michael Taborsky
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Oral session e
Experimental analysis of singing direction as a tool to investigate the function of bird song

Henrik Brumm
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Oral session f
The evolution and ontogeny of postconflict third-party affiliation in corvids

Corina Logan, Nathan J. Emery, & Nicola S. Clayton
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18h15-18h30Oral session a

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Oral session b

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Oral session c
Multi-scale movements of West African buffalos

Daniel Cornelis, Simon Benhamou, Georges Janeau, & Cédric Gaucherel
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Oral session d
Reproductive behaviour of Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) under the promiscuity mating system

Mariya N. Erofeeva & S. V. Naidenko
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Oral session e
Intruder distance influences response behavior in territorial male nightingales

Conny Bartsch, Michael Weiss, Constance Scharff, & Silke Kipper
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Oral session f

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August 24th - 15h30-16h30 : Evolution

Oral Session a – Populations and local vocal variations (1h) (LH 3)
Oral Session b – Comparative approaches to vocal communication (1h) (LH 4)
Oral Session c – Language and animal communication (1h) (LH 1)
Oral Session d – Regulation/reproduction (1h) (LH 2)
Oral Session e – Evolution/reproduction (1h) (LH 7)
Oral Session f – Evolution of brain and cognition (1h) (LH 6)



Time Talk Lecture Hall
August 24th341276
15h30-15h45Oral session a
A murmuration of starlings: Reduced vocal diversity in more populous groups?

Florence Levrero, Martine Hausberger, & Adrian Craig
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Oral session b
Species vocal signature and intra-sex interaction in two hybridizing seabirds: A role in inter-specific introgression?

Charlotte Curé, Nicolas Mathevon, & Thierry Aubin
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Oral session c
Proto-syntax in wild Campbell’s monkeys: affixation and call combination

Karim Ouattara, Alban Lemasson, & Klaus Zuberbühler
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Oral session d
Reproductive regulation without morphological castes and without aggression in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata

Raghavendra Gadagkar, Anindita Bhadra, Aniruddha Mitra, Sujata A. Deshpande, K. Chandrasekhar, & Dattatraya G. Naik
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Oral session e
Is multiple mating costly or beneficial for female horseshoe crabs?

H. Jane Brockmann & Sheri L. Johnson
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Oral session f
Animal consciousness and the question of necessity versus sufficiency

David Edelman, Anil K. Seth, & Graziano Fiorito
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15h45-16h00Oral session a
Population differentiation of Zonotrichia capensis males’ song: effect of density in size repertory and complexity

Mauricio Soto-Gamboa, Felipe Moreno- Gómez, Marcelo Flores, & Carmen P. Silva
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Oral session b
Behavioral phylogeny in deer: The relevance of vocal characters

Henri Cap, Pierre Deleporte, Stéphane Aulagnier, Jean Joachim, & D. Reby
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Oral session c
Audition drives speciation in nocturnal lemurs

Elke Zimmermann
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Oral session d
The heritability of Gestalt odour used in ant nestmate recognition

Jelle van Zweden, Josefine Brask, Jan Christensen, Timothy Linksvayer, Jacobus Boomsma, & Patrizia d’Ettorre
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Oral session e
No terminal investment in pipefish males: Only young males exhibit risk-prone courtship behavior

Gunilla Rosenqvist, Anna Billing, & Anders Berglund
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Oral session f
Which hypothesis can explain the evolution of brain size?

Candy Rowe & Sue Healy
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16h00-16h15Oral session a
Great tits can adjust song type switching behaviour to avoid masking effects of (urban) noise

Wouter Halfwerk & Hans Slabbekoorn
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Oral session b
Vocalizations of northern muriquis (Brachyteles hypoxanthus) and the evolution of primate vocal communications

Didier Demolin, César Ades, & Francisco Mendes
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Oral session c
Communication via prosodic cues in bat contact calls

Sabine Schmidt
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Oral session d
Evolution of sexual behavior and morphology in a clade of banana slugs (Ariolimax (Meadarion); Stylommatophora)

Janet L Leonard, John S. Pearse, & Thierry Backeljau
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Oral session e
Variable risk-taking behavior by males of a sexually cannibalistic praying mantis

William Brown & Gregory Muntz
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Oral session f
Cooperation and numerical assessment of opponents in conflicts between groups of free-ranging dogs

Roberto Bonanni, Paola Valsecchi, & Eugenia Natoli
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16h15-16h30Oral session a

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Oral session b
On the significance of ‘Tchi-faks’: A reflection on species-recognition in loud-calls of Malagasy sifakas (Propithecus spp.)

Claudia Fichtel
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Oral session c
ABBA revisited: Can songbirds really detect syntactic structure?

Caroline A. A. Van Heijningen, J. de Visser, W. M. Zuidema, & C. J. ten Cate
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Oral session d
The chemical visiting card: A way to strengthen social bounds in the monogamous mound-building mouse

Patrick Gouat, Clovis Levrez, & Christophe Féron
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Oral session e
Learning and species recognition: Exploring mate preferences in Calopteryx damselflies using neural networks

Anders Brodin & Erik Svensson
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Oral session f
Calculating pay-offs before gambling in monkeys

Bernard Thierry, S. Steelandt, V. Dufour, & M. H. Broihanne
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