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]
Perception of relationships
My new paper was published in a special issue on Animal Social Networks. I am extremely proud of my fantastic undergraduate collaborators on this work, Darlene John and Tiffany McIntosh. They both were essential in getting the data for these experiments during a long field season in Florida.
… [Read full details] Socio-ecology of parakeets
Hobson, Elizabeth, Michael Avery, Timothy Wright. The socioecology of Monk Parakeets: insights into parrot social complexity. The Auk: Ornithological Advances 131(4): 756-775.
**Note: Due to a bug in SOCPROG 2.4,
… [Read full details] Adaptive flexibility hypothesis – new paper
My new paper, “Behavioral flexibility and species invasions: the adaptive flexibility hypothesis”, led by Tim Wright and Jessica Eberhard, has been published.
Abstract
Behavioral flexibility is an important adaptive response to changing environments for many animal species. Such plasticity may also promote the invasion of novel habitats by introduced species by providing them with the ability to expand or change their ecological niche, a longstanding idea with recent empirical support.