Studying social structure and the evolution of sociality
We are recruiting student volunteers or work/study students to help us provide daily care to our Bobwhite quail in the lab.
We are recruiting student volunteers or work/study students to help with data collection in the lab.
Work with PhD student Sanjay Prasher to assist in his research on bobwhite quail sociality. Sanjay recorded hours of video of quail moving around and interacting with each other in a flight pen.… [Read full details]
I am very grateful to UC for funding an internal grant proposal to support new work with our bobwhite quail.
I’ll be recruiting undergrads to help with this research soon! Visit this page for information.
From UC’s Office of Research Press Release: (see the full version here)
I am really grateful to UC for funding an internal grant that will support new social experiments with our quail system and the establishment of a brand new system where we will work on betta fish! My goal is to look at how both species respond to social perturbations and compare these results to those that my team has already collected for parakeets.… [Read full details]
We were really excited to have the chance to talk with Ann Thompson from WXVU recently about some of our work with bobwhite quail in the lab. Read more about our work with “the bobs” below, or check out the recording!… [Read full details]
The first paper on our bobwhite quail research is out! You can read the full open-access version here in Animal Behavior and Cognition.
This paper explains the quality control system we have for tracking and double-checking our animal care for “the bobs”.… [Read full details]