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ABS-2018-Program.Pdf CONFERENCE PROGRAM 55th Annual Conference of the Animal Behavior Society University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee August 2-6, 2018 2 ESCAPE THE CITY Discover the Natural World August 3-6, 2018 Show this ad or your conference badge to receive $5 OFF ADMISSION. MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM 800 West Wells Street, Milwaukee, WI 53233 ABS 2018 | AUGUST 2-6 414-278-2702 | www.mpm.edu 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE TABLE OF CONTENTS GENERAL INFORMATION 2 WELCOME LETTER 3 AWARDS 4 PLENARIES & FELLOW TALKS 5 SYMPOSIA 6 WORKSHOPS 8 EVENTS & MEETINGS 9 FILM FESTIVAL 10 ABS 2019 - SAVE THE DATE 11 PROGRAM SUMMARY 12 THURSDAY, AUGUST 2 14 FRIDAY, AUGUST 3 14 SATURDAY, AUGUST 4 18 SUNDAY, AUGUST 5 21 MONDAY, AUGUST 6 24 POSTER SESSIONS 26 TALK INDEX 32 SPONSORS & EXHIBITORS 36 CAMPUS MAP OUTSIDE BACK COVER ABS 2018 | AUGUST 2-6 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MILWAUKEE 2 GENERAL INFORMATION DATES CAMPUS HOUSING CHECK-IN The 55th Annual Animal Behavior Society Conference begins Delegates who are staying on campus will proceed to the Sandburg Thursday, August 2nd and concludes Monday, August 6th, 2018. Hall (3400 N. Maryland Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53201) or River View Residence Hall (2340 North Commerce Street, Milwaukee, REGISTRATION INFORMATION WI 53211 ) to check in. The Front Desk will be available 24 hrs The Registration Desk is located in the Student Union “Pangaea at both Residence Halls for check-in. Please note that there is a Mall” on Level 1, and will be open during the following hours: $25.00 lost key fee. Wednesday 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PRE-ORDERED MEAL PLAN CARDS & PARKING Thursday- Sunday 7:30 am - 7:30 pm PASSES Monday 7:30 am - 2:00 pm Please note that your pre-purchased meal plan card and pre- purchased parking passes will be available for pick-up at University INSTRUCTIONS TO TALK PRESENTERS Housing check-in. • Talks will be strictly timed by moderators to keep the concurrent sessions synchronous. DINING INFORMATION • Contributed Talks should be 12 minutes long. There will be 3 Sandburg Cafe (Meal Plan) GENERAL INFORMATION minutes allotted for questions & transition between speakers. • All rooms will have both a Mac and PC connected to the Breakfast Service 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM presentation system. Lunch Service 11:00 AM - 1:30 PM • Important Note: You will not be able to connect your own Dinner Service 4:30 PM - 7:00 PM (8 PM on SAT) computer to the projection system for a contributed or symposium talk. Dining at the Sandburg Cafe is all you can eat in one trip and the • PCs will be configured with Windows 10 & MS Office 2017. cafe will work to meet any dietary restrictions. Any guest that has • Macs will be configured with High Sierra (aka MacOS 10.13), not purchased a meal card in advance may still visit the cafe and MS Office 2017 and Keynote (current version). will be charged the following walk-in rates: • All presentations should be formatted for 4:3 aspect ratio. Power Point: Design -> Slide Size: Standard (4:3). Breakfast ~$10.00 • Please be sure that all videos are directly embeded in your Lunch ~$11.00 Powerpoint file and that they are checked in the Speaker Dinner ~$12.00 Ready Room well in advance of your presentation. VLC Player will be available on the PCs. Apple discontinued support for Thursday, August 2 QuickTime on PC. Please note, VLC will play .MOV, .MP4 Union Grind: 7:30 AM - 3:00 PM, First Floor Student Union and other file types associated with QuickTime. Please note Union Station: 7:00 AM - 5:30 PM, Ground Floor Student Union ‘presenter view’ will NOT be available. Sandburg Restor: 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM, Sandburg Towers • It is highly recommended that speakers bring their presentations on a jump drive to their sessions as back-up. Friday, August 3 Union Grind: 7:30 AM - 3:00 PM, First Floor Student Union • All talks must be uploaded using the speaker presentation Union Station: 7:00 AM - 4:30 PM, Ground Floor Student Union upload station at least 4 hours before the scheduled Sandburg Restor: 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM, Sandburg Towers presentation time. The Speaker Ready room is located in Lubar Room 116 and will close 45 minutes prior to each Saturday, August 4 session. Union Grind: 7:30 AM - 2:00 PM, First Floor Student Union Gasthaus: 12:00 PM - 10:00 PM, Basement Student Union INSTRUCTIONS TO POSTER PRESENTERS Sandburg Restor: 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM, Sandburg Towers All posters will be displayed in the Student Union 2nd Floor Lounge. There will be two official poster sessions: Poster Session 1: Friday, Sunday August 5 August 3, and Poster Session 2: Sunday, August 5. Assigned poster Union Grind: 7:00 AM - 2:00 PM, First Floor Student Union numbers are listed in this program and in the online conference Gasthaus: 12:00 PM - 11:00 PM, Basement Student Union program (http:// program.abs2018.org). Sandburg Restor: 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM, Sandburg Towers All posters must fit within an area no larger than 42” wide X 40” Monday, August 6 high. Poster boards will be available beginning at 2 PM on Friday, Union Grind: 7:30 AM - 3:00 PM, First Floor Student Union August 3 for poster mounting. Please place your poster on the Union Station: 7:00 AM - 5:30 PM, Ground Floor Student Union board with the correct number leaving the board number visible. Sandburg Restor: 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM, Sandburg Towers Mounting materials will be provided on the boards. Presenters are asked to stand by and present their poster from PARKING 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm during their assigned poster session The designated parking lot for this conference is the Student Union Parking Structure located at 2200 East Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, PRIVACY STATEMENT WI 53211. Daily parking pass are $8 per day/with Saturday @$3/ Audio recording of presentations at ABS meetings is permitted Sunday @$2). Pre-purchased parking passes can be picked up only with prior approval of the speaker. Video recording may be at Information Center on the Ground Level of the Student Union. allowed only under special circumstances with prior approval of the Hours of operation are Monday-Friday: 7am-10pm and Saturday/ Program Officers, the Executive Committee and the speaker. Sunday: 7am-10pm. You may call the Union Information Center at 414-229-4825 to pre-purchase parking codes starting on Thursday. WiFi ACCESS WIFI is available for all conference attendees using these login Hourly parking is also available in surface lots near the Union details: (e.g., Sciences lot). However, please read the signs carefully as some spots are reserved for Faculty & Staff prior to 1 PM or require Username: ABS Guest special permits. Password: absguest ONLINE/MOBILE PROGRAM Follow @ABS2018 on Twitter for the lastest news and updates. ABS attendees may access the online conference program in Use #ABS2018 to share your experience. multiple formats at http://program.abs2018.org. ABS 2018 | AUGUST 2-6 3 ABS 2018 WELCOME ABS 2018 WELCOME Dear ABS Members and Friends, We are pleased to invite you to Milwaukee, Wisconsin for the 55th annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society. We look forward to hosting you on our campus at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), which is located near the shores of Lake Michigan. Milwaukee is an ideal location with easy access from across the country. The Milwaukee airport has been rated one of the ten best in the US and offers nonstop, affordable flights to 35 of the largest cities in the US. We are also 90 min north of the Chicago airport, which has direct buses to Milwaukee. Milwaukee is often called Brew City for it’s long history of beer making, or the City of Festivals, as it hosts non-stop festivals during the summer, including Summerfest, the worlds largest music festival. We also have a spectacular art museum with moveable “wings” and a world-class zoo that will be the site of the banquet on the last night. UW-Milwaukee is located a few miles north of downtown in a residential area next to Lake Michigan and several greenbelt parks. The campus has many rooms available at low prices in suite-style dorm accommodations. There are also hotels within a 10 min drive (affordable parking is available on campus), although none are within walking distance. The “east side” around campus hosts a wide variety of dining and drinking options, including microbreweries and scenic Biergartens. For more variety, there are over 100 restaurants a short bus or car ride away in downtown. The academic program has outstanding plenary speakers lined up; including Damian Elias (UC-Berkeley, “Complex communication in spiders: How we discovered that we don’t know anything”), Katie Slocombe (York University, England, “Chimpanzee Communication: Have We Underestimated Vocalisations?”), Gordon Burghardt (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, “Are we smart enough to know how smart the early animal behaviorists are?”), our ABS Fellows talk by, George W. Uetz (University of Cincinnati, “Multimodal communication in wolf spiders: content, context and consequences”), as well as the ABS Presidential Talk by Jeff Podos (University of Massachusetts - Amherst, “Galapagos Finches in a Web of Adaptation”). Conference symposia include “Sexual Dialogues” and “What Are We Not Asking About The Evolution of Behavior That We Should Be Asking”, “Animal Behavior in Historical Context: Novel Insights From Interdisciplinary Encounters”, “How Enemies Shape Communication Systems”, and the Presidential Symposium, “Animal Communication, Cognition, and the Evolution of Language”. Other highlights include the annual Allee Symposium for Best Student Paper, the Charle4s H.
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