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NEWSLETTER Animal Behavior Society NEWSLETTER Vol. 59, No. 2 May 2014 Animal Behavior Society A quarterly Sue Margulis, Secretary publication Department of Animal Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation Department of Biology Canisius College, Buffalo, NY 14208 Macy Madden, Editorial Assistant Department of Animal Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation Canisius College, Buffalo, NY 14208 ANNOUNCING THE 2014 STUDENT I would also like to thank Shan Duncan and Lori Pierce GRANT AWARDS for administrative support; John Swaddle (2nd Member-at-Large) for administering the Developing Gail Patricelli, Senior Member-at-Large, Nations Research Awards, reviewing proposals and Chair 2014 Student Research Grant Committee providing guidance; Alison Bell (3rd Member-at- Large) for reviewing proposals and providing We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2014 guidance; and especially to all ABS members who Student Research Grants. We received many high- donated the funds that make this program such a quality proposals, but as in previous years, the number success. of applications exceeded the number we could fund. Of the 198 applications submitted, 43 were awarded funding. GEORGE W. BARLOW AWARD Each proposal was reviewed independently by two Justin P. Suraci, University of Victoria, Re- referees, who provided evaluations and constructive establishing fear in an island mesopredator feedback for the student grant writers. This would have been an impossible task without the dedication of an E. O. WILSON CONSERVATION AWARD all-star team of 55 colleagues who volunteered their time and expertise. I extend a sincere thank you to the Rachel Y. Chock, University of California, Los following referees: Çağlar Akçay, Christina Alligood, Angeles, Interspecific competition and conservation of Andrea Aspbury, Mitchell Baker, Peter Bednekoff, the Pacific pocket mouse Lauryn Benedict, Ximena Bernal, Anuradha Bhat, Bronwyn Heather Bleakley, Victoria Braithwaite, John DAVID TUBER APPLIED ANIMAL BEHAVIOR Byers, Sonia Cavigelli, Vladimir Dinets, Edward AWARD Dochtermann, Aimee Dunlap, Vanessa Ezenwa, Kasey Fowler-Finn, Renee Robinette Ha, Anne Jacobs, Meghan Martin-Wintle, Portland State University, Jennifer Jandt, Chadwick Johnson, Gita Kolluru, David Oregon Zoo, San Diego Zoo, The effect of mate Lahti, Bernard Lohr, Scott MacDougall-Shackleton, preference on reproductive success in the ex-situ Andrew Mason, Bob Montgomerie, Daniel Papaj, endangered species breeding program for the giant Walter Piper, Vladimir Pravosudov, Jonathan Pruitt, panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) Marilyn Ramenofsky, Jennifer Rehage, Dustin Reichard, Oscar Rios Cardenas, Ann Rypstra, Scott Sandra Troxell-Smith, University of Illinois at Sakaluk, Julia Saltz, Ingo Schlupp, Bruce Schulte, Chicago, Welfare assessment through foraging: Renata Sousa-Lima Mobley, Colette St. Mary, Mark understanding the animals' points of view Stanback, Ronald Swaisgood, Ryan Taylor, Christopher Templeton, Elizabeth Tibbetts, Eric AMY R. SAMUELS CETACEAN BEHAVIOR Walters, Tina Wey, David White, Brian Wisenden, AND CONSERVATION AWARD Timothy Wright, Matthew Wund and Marlene Zuk 1 Mauricio Cantor, Dalhousie University, The temporal stability of the cultural society of sperm whales Sean Ehlman, University of California, Davis, Effects of increased turbidity on antipredator behaviors in the guppy STUDENT RESEARCH AWARDS Emily K. Elderbrock, University of Memphis, Effects Nicole Frances Angeli, Texas A&M University, of corticosterone on development of Florida scrub-jays Movement of a critically endangered lizard in a novel habitat with implications for future translocations Nicole Fischer, University of Arizona, Neural mechanisms of division of labor in Temnothorax ants Jean-Nicolas Audet, McGill University, Effects of urbanization on cognitive abilities and Brendan Graham, University of Windsor, Patterns of immunocompetence in Caribbean birds song learning and dispersal in a neotropical duetting songbird Valentina Gómez Bahamón, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, Aerodynamic performance of wing Matthew Hasenjager, University of Louisville, A shape variants in the partially migratory fork-tailed network-based comparison of social learning strategies flycatcher (Tyrannus savana) in guppy populations Christian Elizbeth Bautista-Hernández, Universidad Jenny Hazlehurst, Tulane University, Does nectar Autonoma del Estado de Hidalgo, The role of behavior robbery impact plant reproduction by altering animal in maintaining a melanistic phenotype and an pollinator behavior? associated functional oncogene in Xiphophorus Virginia K. Heinen, University of Minnesota, The Miles Kuiling Bensky, University of Illinois Urbana- effect of temporal fluctuations on social information Champaign, Do individuals behave differently because reliability they have different microbiomes? A study of natural variation in three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus Chenghui Ju, Queens College, City University of New aculeatus) York, An integrative analysis to characterize song diversity of house finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) in Sara N. Carter, The University of Memphis, North America Regulation of the expression of sexual behavior in female Damaraland mole-rats Carl Keiser, University of Pittsburgh, Pathogen- driven collapse of social groups: behavioural Antonio Celis-Murillo, University of Illinois at variation, individual immunity and the traits of patient Urbana-Champaign, Is cheating for everyone? Patterns zero of extraterritorial forays and extra-pair paternity in field sparrows (Spizella pusilla) Rebecca E. Koch, Auburn University, Understanding female mate choice for carotenoid-based ornaments Charline Couchoux, Université du Québec à Montréal, Personality, relatedness and vocal Dovid Y. Kozlovsky, University of Nevada, Reno, The communication in eastern chipmunks relationship between urban environment, cognition, exploration and neophobia in food-caching mountain Danielle D'Amore, Ohio University, The effect of chickadees (Poecile gambeli) behavioral syndromes on life history traits, plasticity, and the success of invasion in Xiphophorus fishes Corinna A. Most, University of California, San Diego, The role of caregiver responsiveness and alternative Jesse Delia, Boston University, Social dynamics of caregivers in the social development of wild infant paternal care, hatching plasticity, and mate choice in olive baboons (P. anubis) in Laikipia, Kenya two glassfrogs Amy J. Ort, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Theory Rachael E. Derbyshire, University of Guelph, of mind or behavior reading? Food competition in the Examining the hoard-rot hypothesis in a boreal highly social pinyon jay songbird: an experimental test of the food limitation assumption 2 Michael Pardo, Cornell University, Syntax of Asian Amanda Williams, University of Colorado, Boulder, elephant calls Growing, growing, gone: do agriculture systems facilitate or hinder bats Romina Vanesa Pfoh, Instituto de Biología Subtropical, UNAM, Grooming market in tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella nigritus): an experimental approach Natalie Pilakouta, University of Edinburgh, Parent- offspring conflict in burying beetles: Measuring fitness ANNOUNCING THE 2014 DEVELOPING costs and benefits of parental resource allocation in NATIONS RESEARCH AWARDS the field John Swaddle, 2nd Member-at-Large, 2014 Student Karla Daniela Rivera-Cáceres, University of Miami, Research Grant Committee Flexibility of duet codes in adult plain wrens With a record pool of applicants we are particularly Michael Rodriguez, University of Colorado, Boulder, excited to announce that the following students have Sensitivity to host plant signals: can host specialists been awarded 2014 Developing Nations Research locate ant-plant hosts faster? Grant (DNG) awards. These young scientists are proposing excellent work! Kelly L Ronald, Purdue University, Taking the sensory approach: individual variation in multimodal Gloriana Chaverri, Universidad de Costa Rica, The sensory processing and the implications for mate- role of leaf acoustics on roost preference in Spix’s choice disc-winged bat Ryan J Seddon, Indiana State University, Robin Suyesh, University of Delhi, Partitioning of the Melanization in western fence lizard (Sceloporus signalling niche in two sympatric assemblages of bush occidentalis) populations: behavioral, hormonal, and frogs from the Western Ghats of India hematological differences CONGRATULATIONS TO NEWLY- Richard Kendall Simpson, Arizona State University, The evolution of hummingbird iridescent coloration ELECTED FELLOWS and display behavior The Animal Behavior Society is pleased to announce Amanda R. Smith, Illinois State University, the election of five new Fellows of the Society. The Dopaminergic response to conspecific song in the awards will be presented at the 2014 meeting. The European starling, Sturnus vulgaris newly-elected Fellows are in alphabetical order: Ashlee Nichole Smith, Brigham Young University, Jeff Alberts, professor in the Brood parasitism as an alternative reproductive department of psychology at Indiana strategy in Nicrophorus University. His work on prenatal development and weaning is Alicia Michelle Rich Stout, Indiana University, central to the field of developmental Bloomington, The application of molecular ecology to psychobiology and his many years of measure the effect of an open-mosaic habitat on supervising the development of the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) animal laboratory on the space station population density, range use, and concept of and ground breaking experiments with animals in orbit,
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