Studying social structure and the evolution of sociality
Grace has a new paper now out in PLOS Computational Biology!
Grace Smith-Vidaurre , Valeria Pérez-Marrufo, Elizabeth A. Hobson, Alejandro Salinas-Melgoza, Timothy F. Wright
Animals can actively encode different types of identity information in learned communication signals, such as group membership or individual identity.… [Read full details]
A new paper, led by Hobson Lab postdoc Annemarie van der Marel, was just published!
In this paper, we wanted to test whether social history was an important factor in rank dynamics in captive groups of monk parakeets. My previous results, using computational approaches, suggested that this was the case, but we really wanted to conduct experimental manipulations to test it in action.… [Read full details]
Mike Miller did a great press release for our recent paper on rank dynamics and social history in monk parakeets. Thanks Mike!
Stephen Hawking famously said showing up is half the battle.
Huge congratulations to Darby for winning an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!!
Darby will join my lab as a PhD student in Fall 2023 and will work on merging conservation practices with animal behavior and sociality in parrots. She joins the lab after two years as a post-bac on our parakeet crews in 2022 and 2023. … [Read full details]
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]
