A5020759431- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Marine animal studies overview
- Marine and fisheries research
- Crustacean biology and ecology
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Photovoltaic Systems and Sustainability
- Bird parasitology and diseases
- Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Fractal and DNA sequence analysis
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Zoological Society of San Diego
2018-2025
San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research
2018-2024
Digital Research Alliance of Canada
2021-2024
Stockholm Environment Institute
2024
Dartmouth College
2016-2021
University of Cambridge
2014-2018
University of California, Berkeley
2012-2016
University of California System
2015
•Animal behaviour affects conservation and is driven by underlying cognition.•Using cognitive principles can modify across taxonomic groups.•We discuss concepts previously unexplored in contexts.•We create a novel guide for applying cognition to diverse issues. Every animal occupies unique world based on its sensory capacities, attentional learning biases. Behaviour results from the interaction of this with environment. As humans alter environments, processes ranging perceptual learned...
The extent to which animals respond fearfully novel stimuli may critically influence their ability survive alongside humans. However, it is unclear whether the fear of objects, object neophobia, consistently varies in response human disturbance. Where variation has been documented, this due a change towards specific stimuli, or symptomatic general behaviour. We measured levels neophobia free-flying birds across urban and rural habitats, comparing corvids, family known for being behaviourally...
Abstract The conservation of at‐risk species increasingly relies on ex situ breeding programs, whose success hinges producing offspring. Even relatively successful programs can face unseen barriers to reproductive fitness. What may seem like minor choices in husbandry and management impact outputs, thereby reducing the effectiveness recovery efforts. Additionally, given that many endangered are understudied, there be unique, fitness‐relevant aspects their biology which go undetected without...
Animal welfare and conservation breeding have overlapping compatible goals that are occasionally divergent. Efforts to improve enclosures, provide enriching experiences, address behavioral physical needs further the causes of animal in all zoo settings. However, by mitigating stress, increasing competence, enhancing reproduction, health, survival, programs must also focus on preparing animals for release into wild. Therefore facilities strike a balance promoting high welfare, while...
Neophobia, or the fear of novelty, may offer benefits to animals by limiting their exposure unknown danger, but can also impose costs preventing exploration potential resources. The and neophobia vary throughout year if predation pressure, resource distribution conspecific competition changes seasonally. Despite such variation, levels are often assumed be temporally individually stable. Whether not expression seasonally fluctuates equally for all individuals is crucial understanding drivers,...
Although examples of successful applications behavioral ecology research to policy and management exist, knowledge generated from such is in many cases under-utilized by managers makers. On their own, empirical studies traditional reviews do not offer the robust syntheses that makers require make evidence-based decisions evidence-informed policy. Similar revolution medicine, application formal systematic review processes has potential invigorate field accelerate uptake evidence management....
Many animals respond well behaviorally to stimuli associated with human-induced rapid environmental change (HIREC), such as novel predators or food sources. Yet others make errors and succumb evolutionary traps: approaching even preferring low quality, dangerous toxic options, avoiding beneficial stimuli, wasting resources responding neutral payoffs. A common expectation is that learning should help adjust HIREC; however, not always expected favored in many scenarios expose ecological traps....
Abstract Although wild animals increasingly encounter human-produced food and objects, it is unknown how they learn to discriminate beneficial from dangerous novelty. Since social learning allows capitalize on the risk-taking of others avoid endangering themselves, should be used around novel unpredictable stimuli. However, unclear whether use cues equally all types novelty at times year. We assessed wild, individually marked jackdaws—a highly neophobic, yet adaptable species—are influenced...
Integrating knowledge and principles of animal behavior into wildlife conservation management has led to some concrete successes but failed improve outcomes in other cases. Many interventions involve attempts either attract or repel animals, which we refer as approach/avoidance issues. These can be reframed issues manipulating the decisions animals make, are driven by their perceptual abilities attentional biases, well value attribute current stimuli past learned experiences. processes all...
Social learning and animal culture can influence conservation outcomes in significant ways. Culture is a dynamic phenomenon; socially learned behaviours be transmitted within and/or between generations among populations, which facilitate resilience, or other circumstances generate vulnerability. driver of evolutionary diversification, population structure demography, shaping sociality influencing underlying biological processes such as reproduction survival, affecting fitness. This theme...
Human–wildlife conflict (HWC), is currently one of the most pressing conservation challenges. We restrict ourselves here to wildlife behaviour that perceived negatively impact social, economic or cultural aspects human life species concern. HWC often involves wild animals consuming anthropogenic resources, such as crops livestock, either out necessity (loss habitat and natural prey) consequence opportunistic behaviour. A variety interventions are undertaken reduce HWC, differing in...
Abstract Solar power is a renewable energy source with great potential to help meet increasing global demands and reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. However, research scarce how solar facilities affect wildlife. With input from professionals in ecology, conservation, energy, we conducted research‐prioritization process identified key questions needed better understand impacts of We focused animal behavior, which can be used identify population responses before mortality or other fitness...
Theory suggests that the balance between unknown dangers and novel opportunities drives evolution of species-level neophobia. Juveniles show lower neophobia than adults, within mammals birds, presumably to help minimize costs avoiding beneficial novelty, adults tend be more neophobic, reduce risks focus on known stimuli. How these dynamics function in island species with fewer from predators toxic prey is not well understood. Yet, predicting levels at different age classes may highly...
We are currently witnessing a mass extinction event. In this context, behavior and cognition research can play vital role in our efforts to conserve biodiversity. However, on threatened species also poses additional challenges for maintaining rigorous reproducibility standards. identify four main barriers carrying out replication studies: resource availability, publication bias, regulatory constraints, social factors. argue that all exacerbated when the focus is species, they likely persist...
Animal translocations commonly fail due to predation after release, especially if animals are reared in human care, away from natural pressure. Anti-predator training can be a useful tool for combating the predator naivety of released animals, but its effective implementation requires attention numerous details. We present step-by-step development an anti-predator regime, tailored critically endangered `alalā (Corvus hawaiiensis). `Alalā last remaining corvid species Hawaiian islands, and...