A5085679688- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Marine animal studies overview
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Customer Service Quality and Loyalty
- Speech Recognition and Synthesis
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Plant Surface Properties and Treatments
- Aeolian processes and effects
- Chemistry and Stereochemistry Studies
- Animal Nutrition and Physiology
- Statistical and Computational Modeling
- Livestock and Poultry Management
- Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
- Insect behavior and control techniques
- Music and Audio Processing
- Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Securities Regulation and Market Practices
- Speech and Audio Processing
- Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement
University of Konstanz
2021-2025
Mills College
2022-2025
Northeastern University
2025
Tel Aviv University
2022-2024
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
2022-2024
University of Exeter
2024
Singer (United States)
2024
University of Zurich
2012-2020
Kalahari Meerkat Project
2014-2020
Humans may play a key role in providing small prey mammals spatial and temporal refuge from predators, but few studies have captured the heterogeneity of these effects across space time. Global COVID-19 lockdown restrictions offered unique opportunity to investigate how sudden change human presence semi-urban park impacted wildlife. Here, we quantify changes distributions humans natural predators influenced landscape fear for California ground squirrel (Otospermophilus beecheyi) pandemic...
Summary Multiple approaches exist to model patterns of space use across species, among them resource selection analysis, statistical home‐range modelling and mechanistic movement modelling. Mechanistic models combine the benefits these approaches, describing emergent territorial based on fine‐scale individual‐ or group‐movement rules incorporating interactions with neighbours environment. These have not, date, been extended dynamic contexts. Using models, we explore meerkat ( Suricata...
Abstract In various animal species conspecifics aggregate at sleeping sites. Such aggregations can act as information centres where individuals acquire up‐to‐date knowledge about their environment. some species, communal sites comprise from multiple groups, each group maintains stable membership over time. We used GPS tracking to simultaneously record movement in a population of wild vulturine guineafowl ( Acryllium vulturinum ) investigate whether facilitate the transfer among across...
Group coordination, when ‘on the move’ or visibility is low, a challenge faced by many social living animals. While some animals manage to maintain cohesion solely through visual contact, mechanism of group other modes communication, necessity contact reduced, not yet understood. Meerkats ( Suricata suricatta ), small, carnivore, forage as cohesive while moving continuously. foraging, they frequently emit ‘close calls’, soft close-range calls. Variations in their call rates based on local...
Abstract Anthropogenic disturbances are widely recognized for their far-reaching consequences on the survival and reproduction of wildlife, but we understand comparatively little about effects social lives group-living animals. Here examined these short-term changes in affiliative behavior as part a long-term study human-tolerant socially flexible population California ground squirrels (Otospermophilus beecheyi). We used network analysis to examine individual consistency response by humans,...
In recent years, there has been an increase of interest in plant behaviour as represented by growth-driven responses. These are generally classified into nastic (internally driven) and tropic (environmentally movements. Nastic movements include circumnutations, a circular movement organs commonly associated with search exploration, while tropisms refer to the directed growth toward or away from environmental stimuli, such light gravity. Tracking these is therefore fundamental for study...
Abstract Territoriality and stable home ranges are a common space‐use pattern among animals. These provide its inhabitants with important resources thus favourable territories associated an increased fitness. While the role of territory quality changes ownership have often been investigated, territorial boundaries less studied. Here, we investigated in social mammal species, applying novel analytical approach, calculating long‐term dissimilarity space use using distancematrices based on...
Abstract Animals that travel together in groups must constantly come to consensus about both the direction and speed of movement, often simultaneously. Contributions collective decisions may vary among group members, yet inferring who has influence over is challenging, largely due multifaceted nature influence. Here we collected high-resolution GPS data from five habituated meerkat their natural habitat during foraging developed a method quantify individual speed. We find are correlated, but...
Circumnutations are widespread in plants and typically associated with exploratory movements; however, a quantitative understanding of their role remains elusive. In this study we report, for the first time, noisy circumnutations facilitating an optimal growth pattern within crowded group mutually shading plants. We revisit problem self-organization observed sunflowers, mediated by shade response interactions. Our analysis reveals that circumnutation movements conform to bounded random walk...
The efficiency of communication between animals is determined by the perception range signals. With changes in environment, signal transmission a sender and receiver can be influenced both directly, where signal's propagation quality itself affected, indirectly senders or receivers' behaviour impaired, impacting for example distance them. Here we investigated how meerkats (Suricata suricatta) Kalahari Desert adjust to these challenges context maintaining group cohesion through contact calls....
Bioacoustic research provides invaluable insights into the behavior, ecology, and conservation of animals. Most bioacoustic datasets consist long recordings where events interest, such as vocalizations, are exceedingly rare. Analyzing these poses a monumental challenge to researchers, deep learning techniques have emerged standard method. Their adaptation remains challenging, focusing on models conceived for computer vision, audio waveforms engineered spectrographic representations training...
The soundscape experienced by animals early in life can affect their behaviour later life. For birds, sounds the egg influence how individuals learn to respond specific calls post-hatching. However, acoustic experiences subsequent social remains unknown. Here, we investigate exposure maternal ‘cluck’ pre-hatching affects of domestic chickens ( Gallus gallus domesticus ) at 3–5 days and 17–21 old. We incubated eggs played cluck half them. After hatching, raised chicks small groups occupying...
Physical grooming is often used to maintain social bonds in animal groups. However, as group size increases, the time available for each member may become limited. Vocal exchanges have been proposed alleviate this limitation and serve a solution sustaining without need physical proximity. To explore functional similarities between vocal exchanges, we examined effect of dominance dyadic bond strength interacting partners on intensity interaction meerkats (Suricata suricatta). Focusing...
Abstract Circumnutations are widespread in plants and typically associated with exploratory movements, however a quantitative understanding of their role remains elusive. In this study we report, for the first time, noisy circumnutations facilitating an optimal growth pattern within crowded group mutually shading plants. We revisit problem self-organization observed sunflowers, mediated by shade response interactions. Our analysis reveals that circumnutation movements conform to bounded...