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The Australasian Society for the Study of ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR Annual The Australasian Society for the Study of ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR (ASSAB) Annual Meeting 2013 July 1-4 University of Auckland Program and Abstracts Welcome to the 2013 Meeting of the Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour at the University of Auckland! The meeting has been supported by the School of Biological Sciences, the School of Psychology, the School of Biomedical Science, the Faculty of Science of the University of Auckland and by the Australasian Society for the study of Animal Behaviour. We wish you enjoyable and productive conference! Misha Vorobyev Local organizing committee: Misha Vorobyev (chair), Olga Ganeshina, Nicola Ludin, Maria Vorobieva, Guy Warman, Alex Woo. Front page photo: Richard Gibson The conference will be opened on Monday 1st July at 3pm at the Owen G. Glen Building, University of Auckland. The welcome reception will be held on Monday 1st July from 6pm till 8pm at the Owen G. Glen Building, University of Auckland. The conference dinner will be held on Wednesday 3rd July from 7pm till 12am at the Floating Pavilion, 220 Quay Street Viaduct Harbour, Auckland 1010. The Floating Pavilion is located in the heart of the Viaduct Harbour entertainment precinct. It takes 25 min walk to get to the Floating pavilion from the Owen G. Glen Building. Floating Pavilion Owen G. Glen Building Monday 1st July 14:00 Registration 15:00 Opening the conference Misha Vorobyev, Chair of the Local Organising Committee Welcome remarks: Prof. Gillian Lewis, Head of the UOA School of Biological Sciences Welcome address: Andrew Barron, President of the ASSAB 15:30 Plenary lecture Michael Walker, Joshua Guilbert, Claire Postlethwaite The magnetic sense and its use in navigation Navigation 16:25-18:00 Chair: Mike Walker 16:25 Invited talk: Jochen Zeil, Ajay Narendra, Elmar Mair, Wolfgang Stürzl Insect homing and the navigational information content of foraging habitats 16:45 Mathieu Lihoreau Rivalries over nectar acquisition in traplining bees 16:57 Melissa Van De Wetering, Ajay Narendra and Heloise Gibb Navigation during nest relocation in the semi-arid beauty ant, Calomyrmex purpureus 17:09 Patrick Schultheiss, Ken Cheng, Sabine S. Nooten, Jonathan Ives, Rüdiger Wehner Salt lake searchers: how Melophorus desert ants find the nest in a featureless salt-pan 17:21 Matthew D.M. Pawley, James F. Cheeseman, Marti J. Anderson, Craig Miller, Guy R. Warman Quantifying animal movement – how you can test if landmarks are used 17:33 – 18:00 General Discussion. Moderator: Jochen Zeil 18:00 Welcome reception 1 Tuesday 2nd July 9:00 Plenary Lecture Gadi Katzir Visually guided behaviour: What can we learn from chameleons? Vision related behaviour and signalling 1 9:55-10:32 Chair: Olga Ganeshina 9:55 Invited talk: Andy T.D. Bennett, Raoul FH Ribot, Justin Eastwood, Leo Joseph, Katherine L Buchanan, Matthew L. Berg Redneck Wonderland: the maintenance of diversity in a parrot species complex 10:20 Cody J. Dey, James Dale Comparative evidence that red bills in birds function as badges of status . 10:32 Coffee break Vision related behaviour and signalling 2 10:55-12:20 Chair: Andy Bennett 10:55 Matthew L. Brien, Grahame J. Webb, Keith A. Christian Agonistic behaviour in hatchling Australian freshwater crocodiles (Crocodylus johnstoni) and interactions with the saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) 11:07 Richard A. Peters, Peta S. Taylor, Robyn M. Murphy Biochemical profile of Jacky lizard muscle and its implications for signalling 11:19 Catalina Amaya-Perilla, Gregory Holwell You shall not pass! Territoriality and agonistic behaviour in male redcoat damselflies (Xanthocnemis zealandica) 11:31 Yinnon Dolev, Ximena Nelson Spiders respond to stick figure representations of prey 11:43 Eunice J. Tan, Chris A. M. Reid, Mark A. Elgar Aggregation and survival in leaf beetles 11:55 Gavin J Taylor, Mandyam V. Srinivasan Virtual reality: bees stay a step ahead of mice on the ball 12:07 Misha Vorobyev, Jaime Martinez, Randolf Menzel Colour choices in honeybees: ideal observer model and peak shift 2 12:20 Lunch and poster session 13: 40 Plenary lecture Kentaro Arikawa, Michiyo Kinoshita What and how do flower-visiting butterflies see? Vocalisation 14:35-15:25 Chair Martin Wild 14:35 Samuel D. Hill, Weihong Ji, Kevin A. Parker, Christophe Amiot, Sarah J. Wells A comparative study on the vocalisations of mainland and Chatham Island tui (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae) 14:47 Branislav Igic, Amelia Coman, David Drynan, Robert Magrath. Brown thornbills mimic different heterospecific alarm calls in response to different types of danger 15:00 Raoul Schwing, Ximena J. Nelson, Stuart Parsons Kea have calls that induce and maintain play behaviour 15:12 Rachael M. Wood, Richard A. Peters, Martin J Steinbauer Vibrational signalling during the courtship of Anoeoconeossa bundoorensis (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) 15:25 Coffee Break Mate choice, reproduction and sexual selection 1 15:45-16:46 Chair Ximena Nelson 15:45 Anna L. Carter, Nicola J. Mitchell, Michael R. Kearney, Stephen Hartley, Nicola J. Nelson Nesting behaviour and environment interact to inform predictions of offspring sex ratios in New Zealand tuatara 15:58 Cory Toth, Georgia Cummings, Todd Dennis, Stuart Parsons Is lek breeding actually rare in bats? A case study of New Zealand’s Lesser Short-tailed Bat 16:10 Sarah Wells, Weihong Ji, James Dale, Beatrix Jones, Dianne Gleeson Sexual size dimorphism is a strong correlate to extra-pair paternity in the tui (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae) 16:22 Katherine L. Barry Males are sexually deceived by poor-quality females in a sexually cannibalistic praying mantid 16:34 Dhobasheni Newman, Greg Holwell Phylogenetic approaches to understanding the evolution of female resistance in seaweed flies (Coelopidae: Diptera) 3 16:46 Coffee break Mate choice, reproduction and sexual selection 2 17:00-18:10 Chair Jochen Zeil 17:00 Christina J. Painting, Thomas Buckley, Gregory Holwell Fighting and sneaking: Flexible alternative reproductive tactics in the New Zealand giraffe weevil (Lasiorhnychus barbicornis) 17:12 Nik Tatarnic, Gerasimos Cassis Surviving in sympatry: paragenital divergence and sexual mimicry between a pair of traumatically inseminating plant bugs 17:24 Priscilla Wehi, Murray Jorgensen, Mary Morgan-Richards Female chemical signals and male mate recognition in the nocturnal tree weta Hemideina thoracica 17:36 Leilani Walker, Greg Holwell Effects of food availability in the sexually cannibalistic Springbok mantis Miomantis caffra 17:48 – 18:10 General Discussion. Moderator: Andy Bennett 18:10 ASSAB Board meeting rd Wednesday 3 July 9:00 Plenary Lecture Paul G. McDonald Understanding complex social systems: some miner considerations Foraging 9:55-10:31 Chair: Guy Warman 9:55 James C. Makinson, Timothy M. Schaerf, Benjamin P. Oldroyd, Madeleine Beekman Chasing liquid gold: reproductive swarming in the red dwarf honey bee (Apis florea) 10:07 Miguel A. Bedoya-Pérez, Ido Isler, Peter B. Banks, Clare McArthur Roles of a volatile terpene in plant-herbivore interactions: a foraging odour cue as well as a toxin? 10:19 Jingjing Zhang, Kathleen M. O’Reilly, Todd E. Dennis 4 A fine-scale time budget of little blue penguins provides insights into the foraging strategies of land-breeding coastal seabirds in New Zealand 10:31 Luke S.C. McCowan, Mylene M. Mariette, Simon C. Griffith ‘Slow’ and ‘fast’ foraging styles are dependent on personality in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) 10:43 Coffee break Social ecology 11:05-12:41 Chair: Paul McDonald 11:05 Michael G. Anderson, Laura Lester, Raymond Thomas, Liana Zanette The importance of host selection: the effect of compensatory growth on Brown-headed Cowbirds (Molothrus ater) 11:17 Larissa Trompf, Culum Brown Personality affects learning and trade-offs between private and social information in female guppies (Poecilia reticulata) 11:29 Timon van Asten, Michelle Hall, Raoul Mulder The bold and the sociable - personality and natal dispersal in male superb fairy-wrens (Malurus cyaneus) 11:41 Naïla Even, Andrew B. Barron Role of stress sensitivity on organisation of division of labour in honeybees 11:53 Lisa Hodgkin, Matthew Symonds, Mark Elgar Knowledge and leadership in Perga affinis sawfly larvae 12:05 Michael J. Holmes, Benjamin P. 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Antifreeze Glycoproteins of Fish Leeches in Antarctica 15:21 Virginia Moreno, Phillip J. Bishop, Dianne H. Brunton Movement patterns and habitat needs of the Critically Endangered frog Telmatobufo bullocki (Anura: Calyptocephalellidae) 15:33 Dalila Rendon, Mary Whitehouse, Phillip Taylor Wolf spiders affect insecticide-resistant cotton bollworms
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