Studying social structure and the evolution of sociality
With my collaborators Grace Smith-Vidaurre (New Mexico State University) and Alejandro Salinas-Melgoza (Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo), we compiled the first comprehensive report of the very recent and still on-going monk parakeet invasion in Mexico.
We used a combination of international trade regulations, global import/export data, and observational reports of feral monk parakeets to describe when and where the invasion started.… [Read full details]
My new paper, co-first-authored with Donald Brightsmith, was published in Ibis. In this paper, we weigh evidence for competing hypotheses about why parrots in the Peruvian rainforest eat clay.
Our new paper was published in Animal Behaviour. This review started as a group project among several Psychology students. Todd and Jessica, faculty members in Psychology, and I, a postdoc at NIMBioS, later joined the team and together we turned the project into a finished paper.… [Read full details]
My paper “Social feedback and the emergence of rank in animal society” was published in PLOS Computational Biology. The paper is the result of some really fun collaborative work with Simon DeDeo, where we ask: what do individuals understand about rank, when do they understand it, and how do they figure it out?… [Read full details]
My new paper, “Behavioral flexibility and species invasions: the adaptive flexibility hypothesis”, led by Tim Wright and Jessica Eberhard, has been published.