37th Annual Meeting of the
Animal Behavior Society
August 5 - 9, 2000
Morehouse College and Zoo Atlanta

Tentative Schedule
Warning: Schedule is subject to sudden change!
Last change made on July 11, 2000.

Saturday, August 5

9:00-6:00pm Executive Committee Meeting (Kilgore Student Center, 2nd floor seminar rooms)

1:00-7:00pm Registration (Kilgore Student Center - South Lounge).

5:30-9:00pm Opening Picnic with Blues Band & Dancing (Chivers Dining Hall)

7:00-9:00pm Film Session 1 (201 Dansby Hall; See list of films in Registration Packet materials)

Sunday, August 6

8:30am – 10:15am Introduction and Opening Ceremonies

Duane Jackson: "Charles Turner: The forgotten animal behaviorist" (Martin Luther King Jr. Chapel)

Keynote address: Robert Trivers "The evolutionary logic of self-deception" (Martin Luther King Jr. Chapel)

10:15am – 10:30 am BREAK (Lane Dining Hall)
     

Sale Hall

  

NMM LR1

  

NMM LR2
     

Dispersal Symposium

  

Parental Care 1

  

Mate Choice 1
     

Moderator: Veronica Doerr

  

Moderator: Timothy Parker

  

Moderator: Molly Morris

10:30 AM

10:45 AM

  

Dispersal Symposium Introduction. Doerr.

  

PORTER INSERT

38

Mate choice models & sampling costs. Luttbeg.

10:45 AM

11:00 AM

2

Dispersal tactics & territory acquisition in birds. Stutchbury.

17

Age & parental behavior in house sparrows. Hatch.

39

Sperm allocation in group breeders. Harris.

11:00 AM

11:15 AM

18

Response to sibling birth among rhesus monkeys. DeVinney et al.

40

Chorus participation by male bullfrogs. Judge & Brooks.

11:15 AM

11:30 AM

3

Natal dispersal & territories in song sparrows. Arcese & Keller.

19

Egg ejection & nutrient investment in cuckoos. Macedo et al.

41

Lek-like mating in a carnivore, the coati. Booth-Binczik et al.

11:30 AM

11:45 AM

4

Demography & dispersal in Florida scrub-jays. Bowman & Hamel.

20

House wren nest defense behavior. Sproat.

42

Behavioral & genetic data from grouse leks. Gibson et al.

11:45 AM

12:00 PM

5

Relationship between sociality & dispersal. Doerr.

21

Brood size & post-fledging survival. Nesbitt.

43

Random mate choice in the convict cichlid. Cleveland et al.

12:00 PM 1:30 PM LUNCH

     

Sale Hall

  

NMM LR1

  

NMM LR2
     

Dispersal Symposium

  

Parental Care 2

  

Mate Choice 2
     

Moderator: Veronica Doerr

  

Moderator: Larkspur Morton

  

Moderator: Bernard Luttbeg

1:30 PM

1:45 PM

    

22

Sex differences in separation-rejection vocalizations. Tomaszycki et al.

44

Ardent females & coy males in Drosophila. Gowaty et al.

1:45 PM

2:00 PM

6

Individual variation in dispersal & settlement. Badyaev.

23

Maternal recognition of offspring vocalizations. Jovanovic et al.

45

Mate choice & fitness in Drosophila. Anderson et al.

2:00 PM

2:15 PM

7

Dispersal strategies in the acorn woodpecker. Haydock & Koenig.

24

Cooperative breeding & maternal investment. Bales.

46

Female mate-choice & grosbeak plumage color. Ballentine & Hill.

2:15 PM

2:30 PM

8

Dispersal-range analysis. Doerr.

25

Prolactin influences alloparenting in marmosets. Roberts et al.

47

Female choice & male behavior in damselfish. Oliver.

2:30 PM

2:45 PM

26

Maternal behavior in captive drills. Forthman et al.

48

Competition, female choice, & size in beetles. Yturralde.

2:45 PM

3:00 PM

9

The evolution of sex-biased dispersal. Alberts & Lewis.

27

Behavioral development of gorillas. Tarou et al.

49

Female brooding & male mate choice in quail. Ruscio et al.

3:00 PM

3:15 PM

10

Prospecting for breeding sites. Reed.

28

Giant Panda mother-cub social play. Snyder et al.

50

Mating system and over-mark duration in voles. Ferkin et al.

3:15 PM

3:30 PM

29

Rearing & sexual behavior in captive chimps. Baker et al.

51

Cannibalism & fecundity selection in spiders. Johnson.

BREAK (Archer Hall Gym – see the posters and exhibits too!)

     

Sale Hall

  

NMM LR1

  

NMM LR2
     

Dispersal Symposium

  

Learning of Social Signals

  

Mate Choice 2
     

Moderator: Veronica Doerr

  

Moderator: James Burns

  

Moderator: Nancy Kreiter

3:45 PM

4:00 PM

11

Colony size variation & individual dispersal tactics. Safran.

30

First-time song learning in adult starlings. Chaiken.

52

SS, life history, & antagonistic pleiotropy. Brandt.

4:00 PM

4:15 PM

31

Social experience & communication in cowbirds. White.

53

Hyena reproductive success & fitness filters. Engh et al.

4:15 PM

4:30 PM

12

Habitat selection by dispersal. Stamps.

32

Social interaction & vocal convergence in chickadees. Freeberg & Lucas.

54

Breeding site, life history & the opportunity for SS. Shuster.

4:30 PM

4:45 PM

33

The process of vocal imitation. Tchernichovski et al.

55

Sexual vs. natural selection in corollas. Abraham.

4:45 PM

5:00 PM

13

Dispersal Symposium Conclusion. Doerr.

34

Call convergence within groups of female budgerigars. Hile & Striedter.

56

Sexual selection in golden pheasants. Hill.

5:00 PM

5:15 PM

14

Demography & cost of dispersal. Baker.

35

Mate copying in humans. Dugatkin.

240

Genetic variation in male traits in Drosophila. Mack.

5:15 PM

5:30 PM

15

Dispersal in Yellow-eyed Juncos. Sullivan.

36

Cross-fostering alters aggression in mice. Bester-Meredith & Marler.

57

Divided spawning bouts as a response to conflict. Sikkel & Kramer.

5:30 PM

5:45 PM

16

Linking dispersal and marriage in humans. Towner.

37

The Westermarck effect in Drosophila. Kim.

58

Phenotypic plasticity in gambusia life-history. Abney & Clemons.

7:00pm Workshop: Diversity (Mr. Eddie Gaffney – Morehouse College Dean of Student Services; NMM LR1)

Workshop: Meet with the American editors of Animal Behaviour (Jeff Lucas, Executive Editor; NMM LR2)

8:00pm Workshop: Federal funding in animal behavior (John Byers - NSF & Susan Volman - NIH; NMM LR2)

Film Session 2 (201 Dansby Hall; see list of films in Registration Packet materials)

 

Monday, August 7

8:00am – 10:30am Fellows lecture: (Martin Luther King Jr. Chapel)

Christine R. Boake "New Promises for Behavior Genetics for a New Decade"

ABS Business meeting (all are welcome; Martin Luther King Jr. Chapel)

10:30am – 10:45 am BREAK (Lane Dining Hall; see the posters and exhibits in Archer Hall Gym too!)
     

Sale Hall

  

NMM LR1

  

NMM LR2
     

W. C. Allee Competition

  

Mechanisms of behavior

  

Behavioral Context
     

Moderator: Mike Beecher

  

Moderator: Jennifer Nesbitt

  

Moderator: Hans Hofman

10:45 AM

11:00 AM

    

81

Hormonal condition and position of over-marks. Leonard.

102

Bystander observation & contest dynamics. Earley & Dugatkin.

11:00 AM

11:15 AM

61

Cryptic female choice in ground squirrels. Cody.

82

Source of scent marks varies with state in voles. Lee & Ferkin.

103

Carryovers, tradeoffs & performance across situations. Sih.

11:15 AM

11:30 AM

62

Environment & communication of wild marmosets. de la Torre.

83

Arginine vasotocin & calling in treefrogs. Martin et al.

104

Cost free reliable signalling in jumping spiders. Taylor et al.

11:30 AM

11:45 AM

63

Song predicts cell-mediated & humoral immunity. Duffy.

84

Are turkey snoods condition-dependent? Buchholz & Holberton.

105

Deception in ringtailed lemurs. Deaner.

11:45 AM

12:00 PM

64

Variation in neighbor/stranger recognition. Hyman.

85

Energy regulation patterns in fox squirrels. Zielinski et al.

106

Lowering pitch during vocal interactions. Bee et al.

12:00 PM 1:30 PM LUNCH (see the posters and exhibits in Archer Hall Gym too!)
     

Sale Hall

  

NMM LR1

  

NMM LR2
     

W. C. Allee Competition

  

Mate Choice 3

  

Predator-Prey
     

Moderator: Mike Beecher

  

Moderator: Ellen Davis

  

Moderator: Andrea Bixler

1:30 PM

1:45 PM

65

Natural vs. sexual selection & cricket mating signals. Kolluru.

86

Preferences and tuning curves in weakly electric fish. Triefenbach.

107

Can predators be ‘induced’ to prefer certain prey? Rayor et al.

1:45 PM

2:00 PM

66

Social influence on song use by sparrows. Liu.

87

What is sexy about cricket courtship song? Fitzpatrick et al.

108

Chemosensory detection of snakes by iguanas. Bealor & Krekorian.

2:00 PM

2:15 PM

67

Evolution of social monogamy in snapping shrimp. Mathews.

88

Salamanders punish fickle male partners & strangers. Prosen & Jaeger.

109

Chemosensory preferences in garter snakes. Burghardt.

2:15 PM

2:30 PM

68

Emotional awareness in chimpanzees. Parr.

89

Geographic variation & mate choice in mollies. Gabor & Ryan.

110

Do stabilmenta in orb webs attract predators? Li.

2:30 PM

2:45 PM

69

The Ecology of Payoffs in Producer-Scrounger. Robinette.

90

Vole responses to over-marks. Woodward et al.

111

Predator-prey interactions: spiders & salamanders. Lee et al.

2:45 PM

3:00 PM

70

Early life and corticosterone. Sims.

91

Breeding & parental care in songbirds. Adamson.

112

Sexual dietary partitioning in river otters. Blundell et al.

3:00 PM

3:15 PM

71

Female Drosophila prefer energetic pulses. Talyn.

92

Reproduction & pair relationships in Cockatiels. Spoon.

113

Social mitigation of neophobia in kingbirds. Mabey.

3:15 PM

3:30 PM

72

Good genes in gray tree frog calls. Welch.

93

Mate choice & a moving avian hybrid zone. Bronson et al.

114

Food sharing & competitive exclusion in chimps. Preuschoft & de Waal.

BREAK (Archer Hall Gym – see the posters and exhibits too!)
     

Sale Hall

  

NMM LR1

  

NMM LR2
     

Habitat Choice

  

Mating & Repro. Success

  

Social Behavior 1
     

Moderator: J. Michael Reed

  

Moderator: Kimberly Ehman

  

Moderator: Robert Huber

3:45 PM

4:00 PM

73

Magnetic map navigation in newts. Freake et al.

94

Extra-pair paternity & fertilization success. Stutchbury et al.

115

Communal vs selfish caching among gray squirrels. Spritzer.

4:00 PM

4:15 PM

74

Bluebirds, ectoparasitism & predation. Stanback et al.

95

No benefits for repeated beetle matings. Orsetti & Rutowski.

116

Resource-based behavior of the Stickleback. Doucette et al.

4:15 PM

4:30 PM

75

Scaling the depths of hypoxia. Robb & Abrahams.

96

Multiple mating, litter size & pregnancy rate in voles. Dunlap-Lehtila et al.

117

Monkey’s understanding of their partner’s role. Brosnan & de Waal.

4:30 PM

4:45 PM

76

Color & behavior response to ultraviolet radiation. Garcia & Sih.

97

Mating success, behavior & coloration in cichlids. Jackson & Lloyd.

118

Brown capuchins & short-term crowding. Gong et al.

4:45 PM

5:00 PM

77

Positional orientation in perching damselflies. Medeiros.

98

Female preference for vertical bars in swordtails. Morris & Hesselman.

119

Provisioning & social behavior in iguanas. Lacy & Martins.

5:00 PM

5:15 PM

78

Temperature avoidance behavior of lobster. Schreiber & Watson.

99

Ability of male spiders to travel to female webs. Linn & Christenson.

120

Self-organized social environments in cowbirds. Smith.

5:15 PM

5:30 PM

79

Of lobsters, robots, and plumes: Odor tracking. Grasso et al.

100

Mating behavior in cuttlefish. Foster-Aitchison & Boal.

121

Techniques for visualizing social behavior in cowbirds. Duncan et al.

5:30 PM

5:45 PM

80

Habitat, disturbance & abandonment of breeding areas in fur seals. Sommer et al.

101

Mating status, age & cannibalism in spiders. Kreiter et al.

122

Novel metrics for dominance matrices. Dickey et al.

7:00pm Workshop: Non-academic careers for animal behaviorists (ABS Education Committee; NMM LR1)

Executive Committee meeting 2 (Kilgore Student Center, 2nd floor seminar rooms)

8:00pm Workshop: How to get the most out of your interactions with the media

(ABS Public Relations Committee; NMM LR2)

 

Tuesday, August 8

8:00am – 9:15am Fellows lecture: (Martin Luther King Jr. Chapel)

Hugh Drummond "Controlling siblings"

9:15am – 9:30 am BREAK (Lane Dining Hall; see the posters and exhibits in Archer Hall Gym too!)
     

Sale Hall

  

NMM LR1

  

NMM LR2
     

Animal Learning & Cognition

  

Evolution of signals

  

Dominance & Resource Defense
     

Moderator: Diana Reiss

  

Moderator: Steve Shuster

  

Moderator: Janet Bester-Meredith

9:30 AM

9:45 AM

124

Visual discrimination learning in a marsupial. Bonney & Wynne.

146

Female preferences & male plumage in finches. Hill & McGraw.

    

9:45 AM

10:00 AM

125

Memory for food caches in chickadees. Pravosudov & Clayton.

147

The evolution of female choice in wax moths. Rodriguez S.

171

Contingent behavior in a cichlid fish. Hofmann et al.

10:00 AM

10:15 AM

126

Fruit smearing: food transformation in chimps. Fernandez-Carriba & Loeches.

148

Female receptivity & male diversification in spiders. Hebets & Maddison.

172

Age, sex, morphology & dominance in sparrows. Hein et al.

10:15 AM

10:30 AM

127

Food neophobia in Rhesus macaques. Johnson.

149

Combining sensory modalities in a display. Thompson & Martins.

174

Scent marking & aggression: are they correlated? Mech & Dunlap-Lehtila.

10:30 AM

10:45 AM

128

Parasitic infection & spatial learning in mice. DesRosiers & Rau.

150

Correlated evolution of song in Darwin’s finches. Podos.

175

Landmarks & territory establishment in a Cichlid. LaManna & Eason.

10:45 AM

11:00 AM

129

Fly switching with branches by elephants. Hart & Hart.

151

Do colorful birds sing most complex songs? Badyaev et al.

176

Territoriality in a cannibalistic predator. Moya-Laraño & Wise.

11:00 AM

11:15 AM

130

Discrimination of natural stimuli by chimps. Brown.

152

Avian auditory brainstem responses. Freeberg et al.

177

Burrows as a resource for mantis shrimps. Wortham.

11:15 AM

11:30 AM

    

153

Geographic variation in flycatcher songs. Leger.

178

Food distribution & squirrel aggression. Mirmovitch.

11:30 AM

11:45 AM

132

Stereotypic blue tits and psychiatric tasks. Garner & Mason.

154

Vocal communication in lowland gorillas. Gibeault & MacDonald.

179

Dominance, home range & mare foraging. Powell.

11:45 AM

12:00 PM

133

Environmental enrichment & development of parrots. Meehan et al.

155

Calling song transect of two cricket species. Higgins.

180

Food hoarding & sociality in flying squirrels. Winterrowd & Weigl.

12:00 PM 1:30 PM LUNCH (see the posters and exhibits in Archer Hall Gym too!)

   

Sale Hall

  

NMM LR1

  

NMM LR2
     

Applied Animal Behavior Contributed Papers & Symposium

  

Recognition & Mate Choice

  

Foraging
     

Moderators: Susan Margulis & John Wright

  

Moderator: Todd Freeberg

  

Moderator: Stephen Mullin

1:30 PM

1:45 PM

134

Early rearing experience & chimp development. Bloomsmith et al.

156

Self-referent phenotype matching in cowbirds. Hauber et al.

181

Experience, heredity, & foraging behavior in salamanders. Peterson.

1:45 PM

2:00 PM

135

Dog aggression & electronic pet containment. Polsky.

157

Signature bugles of elk. Johnson & Clarke.

182

Floral traits & pollinator foraging behavior. Gegear & Laverty.

2:00 PM

2:15 PM

136

Ecology & behavior of the Black Howler Monkey. Oglesby & Markowitz.

158

Habituation-discrimination & kinship in voles. Tang-Martinez & Bixler.

183

Object retrieval, effort & deprivation in rats. Wallace.

2:15 PM

2:30 PM

137

Harbor Seals & Kayaks. Bohorquez et al.

159

Minimizing mistakes in species recognition. Hankison & Morris.

184

Discrimination of foraging paths by different models. Strauss et al.

2:30 PM

2:45 PM

138

Reactive distances in applied ethology. Waring.

160

Male mate-choice & population discrimination. Bissell & Martins.

185

Search and attack rates of flush-pursuers. Jablonski.

2:45 PM

3:00 PM

  

Introduction to applied animal behavior symposium. Simpson.

161

Male-female conflict & hybridization of crickets. Benedix.

186

Laterality in the visual detection of predators. Franklin & Lima.

3:00 PM

3:15 PM

140

Learning theory & lab animal well-being. Bayne.

162

Sex diffs in mate size preference in cichlids. Beeching et al.

187

Predation risk, foraging & group in barnacles. Mauck & Harkless.

3:15 PM

3:30 PM

  

PARKER insert

188

Injured-prey cue during predator-prey interactions. McCarthy & Dickey.

BREAK (Archer Hall Gym – see the posters and exhibits too!)

     

Sale Hall

  

NMM LR1

  

NMM LR2
     

Applied Animal Behavior Symposium (cont.)

  

Social Behavior 2

  

Anti-predator behavior
     

Moderator: John Wright

  

Moderator: Frank Grasso

  

Moderator: Jennifer Gillette

3:45 PM

4:00 PM

141

Avoidance learning in companion animals. Reid.

163

Behavior of gorillas following death of the silverback. Hoff & Maple.

189

Autotomy, sprint speed & foraging in spiders. Amaya & Formanowicz.

4:00 PM

4:15 PM

164

Policing through conflict intervention. Flack & de Waal.

190

Avoiding versus confronting the predator. Leal.

4:15 PM

4:30 PM

142

Foraging Behavior. Provenza.

165

The costs of ant slavery. Hare & Alloway.

191

Escape ability of migrating sandpipers. Burns & Ydenberg.

4:30 PM

4:45 PM

166

Optimal skew in large groups. Hamilton & Dill.

192

Escape speed & flight distance in spiders. Formanowicz & Nelson.

4:45 PM

5:00 PM

143

Training captive-born animals for reintroduction. Kleiman & Beck.

168

Association patterns of bottlenose dolphins. Quintana-Rizzo & Wells.

193

Behavioral responses of a fish to predator signals. Parker & Rittschof.

5:00 PM

5:15 PM

169

Behavior of the New Guinea Singing Dog. Koler-Matznick et al.

194

Temp., physical condition & antipredator behavior. Navas et al.

5:15 PM

5:30 PM

144

Roosting behavior of a reintroduced finch. Gray et al.

170

Sex ratio & gonadosomatic index in sifakas. Pochron et al.

195

Avoidance of chemical alarm cues in salamanders. Hucko & Cupp.

5:30 PM

5:45 PM

      

196

Can alarm calls be directed to predators? Bergstrom & Lachmann.

5:45 PM

6:00 PM

  

Applied animal behavior symposium summary. Zawistowski.

    

197

Sepioteuthis fish avoidance strategies. Mather.

7:00pm – 10:00pm John Paul Scott Founders' Award Poster Session (Archer Hall Gym)

Regular Poster Session

Reception

 

John Paul Scott Founders' Award Poster Session (Archer Hall Gym):

P1 Foraging behaviors of predatory mites. Fengyou.

P2 Social experience & communication in Rhesus. Ford et al.

P3 Specialization in bumble bee thermoregulation. Gardner & Foster.

P4 Parental care & sexual selection in frogs. Heying.

P6 Are satellite male treefrogs competitively inferior? Humfeld.

P7 Activity budgets of black-and-white ruffed lemurs. Kurtz.

P8 Divergence between lines of D. melanogaster. McDonald & Boake.

P9 Swordtail vertical body bars & female choice. Merry & Morris.

P10 Olfactory communication of free-ranging otters. Tobin & Bourne.

P11 Natural Concept Formation in Captive Orangutans. Vonk & MacDonald.

 

Regular Poster Session: (Archer Hall Gym)

P12 Female Mosquitofish prefer larger males. Achat & Taylor.

P13 Biased offspring sex ratios in house wrens. Albrecht & Johnson.

P14 Stress responses in cattle during restraint. Andrade et al.

P15 Mixed-species leks in prairie grouse. Aspbury et al.

P16 Time & energy allocation in ground squirrels. Bachman.

P17 Sex. selection & ornamentation in female birds. Beall et al.

P18 Testing for peripheral vigilance. Bednekoff & Lima.

P19 Visual priming by jays searching for prey. Belik.

P20 People petting cats: a complex interaction. Bernstein.

P21 Androgens, season and electric organ discharge. Black-Decima & Durig.

P22 Attenuated Courtship and Parental Care. Bockelman & Itzkowitz.

P23 Female response to male grassquits. Borges et al.

P24 Dominance behavior as pathogen avoidance. Brown & LeBrun.

P25 Seed exploitation by the Rice Weevil. Campbell.

P26 Maternal investment in communal cuckoos. Cariello et al.

P27 The role of a Volatinia display. Carvalho et al.

P28 Seasonal changes in activity areas of Woodrats. Chavez & Post.

P29 Capuchins' success with tools in a food task. Cummins-Sebree et al.

P30 Head-shake behavior of captive elephants. Dale et al.

P31 Burrow dispersion in ghost crabs. Davisson & Crowe.

P32 Food hoarding & intake in pregnant hamsters. Day et al.

P33 Predator assessment by scent in kangaroo rats. DeAngelo & Randall.

P34 Microsatellites to analyze paternity in finches. Dervan & Hill.

P35 Exploratory Learning In Octopuses. Dunham.

P36 Bee juvenile hormone increases prior to foraging. Elekonich et al.

P37 Digital acquisition of simultaneous events. Elsberry et al.

P38 Differential scanning in seals. Galloway et al.

P39 Maternal transport in rhesus during the first weeks. Ganas et al.

P40 Ornaments in female cardinals & quality. Jawor & Breitwisch.

P41 Female coloration & mate choice in Cichlids. Justice & Bailey.

P42 Spatial learning in the cuttlefish. Karson et al.

P43 Food, hormone levels & mate preferences in mice. Kruper.

P44 Egg appearance & rejection of dissimilar eggs. Lahti & Lahti.

P46 Instances of Twinning in Tufted Capuchins. Leighty & Byrne.

P47 Tasks & reproductive skew in wasp foundresses. Liebert.

P48 Natal recruitment in a population of armadillos. Loughry & McDonough.

P50 Landmarks, water depth & navigation in elephantnose. Malwal & Cain.

P51 Breaching Behavior In Barred Sand Bass. Moore & Margulis.

P52 Male aggressive calling and female selectivity in frogs. Marshall et al.

P53 Social interactions in captive elephants. Martens & Dale.

P54 Individual-odor discrimination by hamsters. Mayeaux & Johnston.

P55 Social development of Rhesus infants. McCormack et al.

P56 Behavioral sampling techniques for cattle. Mitlohner et al.

P57 Female preferences and male familiarity in mosquitofish. Moore & Bruce.

P58 Allomaternal care in wild squirrel monkeys. Morton.

P59 Social learning in a cooperatively breeding primate. Moscovice & Snowdon.

P60 Risk of predation and a sexually dimorphic trait. Moyaho & Macias Garcia.

P61 Age dependent variation in cricket courtship song. Muller & Nolen.

P62 Dinosaur nest ecology & predation. Mullin et al.

P63 Reproductive investment in guira cuckoos. Muniz & Cariello.

P64 Migratory status of the flammulated owl. Nickel & McCallum.

P65 Acoustic elements of cricket courtship song. Nolen & Muller.

P66 The winner effect in Peromyscus mice. Oyegbile & Marler.

P67 Discrimination among predatory gulls by terns. Palestis & Burger.

P68 Paternal quality & maternal investment in junglefowl. Parker.

P69 Cooperative infant care by bats. Porter.

P70 Neurochemical correlates of learning in the anole. Punzo.

P71 Paternal effort & paternity in sunfish. Rios-Cardenas.

P72 Experience effects on combinatorial strategy selection. Rosengart et al.

P73 Activity Pattern of the Black Howler Monkey. Schick et al.

P74 Small and large crayfish fight with different strategies. Schroeder.

P75 Status, time outside, and estrous cyclicity in elephants. Schulte et al.

P76 Daily travel distances of coyotes. Servin et al.

P77 Moonlight & spatial learning in steppe ferrets. Sheffer et al.

P78 Dominance & grazing in Icelandic horse. Sigurjónsdóttir & Thórhallsdóttir.

P79 Responses of great gerbils to alarm vocalizations. Smith et al.

P80 Geographic variation & desertion in frigatebirds. Solares-Rojas & Osorno.

P81 Aggressive strategies in Crayfish. Stocker & Huber.

P82 Social interactions & time budgets of mares at foaling. Thorhallsdottir et al.

P83 Assortative mating by ornamentation in Cardinals. Wallace et al.

P85 Primate Conservation and Behavior. White.

P86 Ectoparasite densities & parental provisioning. Whitekiller & Marvin.

P87 Winter foraging behavior of sapsuckers. Wilkins.

P88 Competition between ants and burying beetles. Woodard & Post.

P89 Ultrasonic vocalization & development in mice. Vieira & Brown.

P90 Song structure & difficulty in cardinals. Brooks et al.

P91 Mouth color in nestling dark-eyed juncos. Clotfelter et al.

P92 Within-song type variation effects on male and female wrentits. Thomas

P93 Effects of acoustic playback on distress vocalizations. Wansaw & Cheng

P94 Heterospecific stimulation and starling song. Engle

P95 Age-related effects on scent-marking in Meadow voles. Heath & Ferkin

P96 Countershading & Communication III: More Species' Accounts. Justice et al.

P97 Correlates of behavior of captive African Elephants. Partan et al.

P98 Threat, aggression, game theory & Anolis carolinensis. Hurd

P99 Reproductive character displacement in treefrogs. Höbel

P100 Phenotypic damage & repro. success in armadillos. McDonough & Loughry

P101 Behavioral bauplans from flagellate to fish. Jensen

P102 The post-reproductive life span of female primates. Sherry et al.

P103 Animal behavior as a high school elective course. Smith.

P104 Assessing temperament in young puppies. Reid & Penny.

Wednesday, August 9

8:00am – 9:30am Plenary Lecture:

P. Dee Boersma "Magellanic Penguins & Marine Protection: Using Behavior & Ecology for Conservation"

(ABS Conservation Committee; Martin Luther King Jr. Chapel)

9:15am – 9:30 am BREAK (Lane Dining Hall; see the posters and exhibits in Archer Hall Gym too!)
     

Sale Hall

  

NMM LR1

  

NMM LR2
     

Conservation

  

Communication 1

  

Mate Choice 4
     

Comparing Primates & Cetaceans Symposium

        
     

Moderators: Richard Buchholz & Brenda McCowan

  

Moderator: Daniel Leger

  

Moderator: Allison Welch

9:30 AM

9:45 AM

199

Environmental Enrichment for Giant Pandas. Swaisgood.

209

Shared acoustic resources in frogs. Narins & Garcia-Rutledge.

224

Extra-pair mate choice in female Tree Swallows. Stapleton.

9:45 AM

10:00 AM

200

Vocal behavior & conservation in wild parrots. Clemmons.

210

Male color & lighting environment in killifish. Fuller.

225

Mate sampling by female barking treefrogs. Murphy.

10:00 AM

10:15 AM

201

Behavioral differences of captive-born tamarins. Stoinski et al.

211

Color and signal effectiveness in anoline displays. Fleishman & Persons.

226

Urinary odour preferences of MHC mice. Ehman & Scott.

10:15 AM

10:30 AM

202

Indicators of stress in shorebirds. Hannam et al.

212

Recognition of cetacean vocalizations. Blackwood.

227

Pheromonal wedding ring hypothesis. Gillette & Jaeger.

10:30 AM

10:45 AM

203

Animal behavior curriculum for middle and high school. Margulis.

213

Eye size, vision, and behavior in butterflies. Rutowski.

228

Mate choice & optimal outbreeding in voles. Bixler & Tang-Martinez.

10:45 AM

11:00 AM

204

Introduction to Primate and Cetacean symposium. Marino.

214

Carotenoid- and melanin-based plumage. McGraw.

229

Mate choice of male convict cichlids. Santangelo & Itzkowitz.

11:00 AM

11:15 AM

 

 

Primate and Cetacean Brains. Marino.

215

Alarm calls of the great gerbil. Collins & Randall.

230

Association patterns & mate choice in hyenas. Szykman et al.

11:15 AM

11:30 AM

216

Social communication about food in tamarins. Snowdon & Boe.

231

Female mate choice predicts future male traits. Davis.

11:30 AM

11:45 AM

205

Dolphins and Chimpanzees: Cognitive Cousins? Herman.

217

Functional implications of rhesus acoustics. Owren & Nederhouser.

232

Mate Choice and Male-male Competition in Gobies. Suk & Choe.

11:45 AM

12:00 PM

218

Structure & function of macaque screams. Gouzoules et al.

233

Gambusia response based on condition. Benson et al.

12:00 PM 1:30 PM LUNCH

               
     

Sale Hall

  

NMM LR1

  

NMM LR2
     

Comparing Primates & Cetaceans Symposium

  

Communication 2

  

Immune Systems & Behavior
     

Moderator: Lori Marino

  

Moderator: Penny Bernstein

  

Moderator: Shirley DesRosiers

1:30 PM

1:45 PM

206

Vocal development and communication. McCowan et al.

219

Acoustic behavior & reproduction in catfishes. Kaatz & Lobel.

234

Testosterone and parasite resistance in a finch. Duckworth et al.

1:45 PM

2:00 PM

220

Coyote barks & howls. Mitchell et al.

235

Social environment & immunity in red jungle fowl. Zuk & Johnsen.

2:00 PM

2:15 PM

207

Are other animals primate-like? de Waal.

221

Classification of cat vocalizations by humans. Nicastro.

236

Disease risk in primates. Nunn et al.

2:15 PM

2:30 PM

222

Vocalizations in American Crows & Fish Crows. Rose & Cynx.

237

Nest mites & reproduction of the house finch. Stoehr et al.

2:30 PM

2:45 PM

208

Comparisons at the extremes: primates & cetaceans. Deacon.

223

Predation intensity & signal use in a lizard. Simon.

238

Immune response & parental effort in swallows. Ardia.

2:45 PM

3:00 PM

    

239

MHC variation in solitary and social Tuco-tucos. Lacey & Hambuch.

3:30pm Buses leave for Zoo Atlanta. Meet in front of the Martin Luther King Jr. Chapel & Gloster Hall

6:00pm - 9:00pm Closing Celebration (Zoo Atlanta, ARC)

Dinner (both indoor, air-conditioned and outdoor dining areas will be available)

Award announcements (Allee, Founder’s and others. Awards will be announced in the ARC auditorium)

Music and dancing