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Our research integrates perspectives from evolutionary ecology, animal behavior, and physiology in an effort to understand how natural selection and current conditions shape decision-making in mammals. We combine naturalistic observations on free-living mammals with field experiments, genetic and endocrine analyses, and social network statistics to test the predictions of evolutionary theory.
Our research integrates perspectives from evolutionary ecology, animal behavior, and physiology in an effort to understand how natural selection and current conditions shape decision-making in mammals. We combine naturalistic observations on free-living mammals with field experiments, genetic and endocrine analyses, and social network statistics to test the predictions of evolutionary theory.
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- So enjoyed presenting on Comparative Mammalian Social Evolution at the International Remote Seminar on Frontiers in Social Evolution (FINE) - Check out my full talk and our lively discussion on YouTube!
- Join us at the Animal Behavior Society's 2021 meeting. We are hosting a symposium: Weaving the Future of Animal Behavior: Technological Advances to Reveal the Secret Lives of Animals and giving a talk at the symposium - Resource Limitation: A Tie That Binds in the Evolution of Sociality?
- New articles: Observing the unwatchable, Host heterogeneity, Anthropogenic change, Context matters, Social networks, Reproductive skew, Venom resistance, Benefits of dominance, Female leadership, and more!
- Excellence in Teaching Awards from the Animal Behavior Society and Phi Beta Kappa
- Chelsea Ortiz won herself an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to pursue her Ph.D. in Animal Behavior Group at UC-Davis to study behavioral syndromes of California ground squirrels in collaboration with Andy Sih
- National Science Foundation funded co-mentoring w/ Andy Sih and Jill Barrett Research Program supports Women in Science and honored by “Inspiring Programs in STEM Award” from INSIGHT into Diversity.
