Studying social structure and the evolution of sociality
My postdoc Grace Smith-Vidaurre just posted a new preprint about her work with monk parakeet vocalizations. The preprint is posted on EcoEvoRxiv.
Animals can actively encode different types of identity information in communication signals, such as group membership, individual identity, or social status.… [Read full details]
New preprint is available on ecoevorxiv here! With gorgeous art by V. Darby Moore.
We used data on 12 species of parrots who form mixed species groups to eat clay from exposed cliffs along rivers in Peru to determine the simplest methods each species could be using to make co-occurrence and joining decisions involving other species.… [Read full details]
Annemarie led our latest work on parakeet social dynamics and posted a preprint with our early results. The preprint is available on ecoevorxiv here.
Coming soon: more replication from our two additional groups in 2022! Preprint will be updated soon.
Dominance hierarchies direct and structure aggression in a myriad of species.… [Read full details]
We just posted a new preprint “Social manipulations disentangle rank effects of individual characteristics and social history”. This paper was led by Hobson Lab postdoc Annemarie van der Marel, with support from Hobson Lab PhD students Xavier Francis, Claire O’Connell, Chelsea Carminito, and our former postbac Cesar Estien (who is currently a PhD student at UC Berkeley).… [Read full details]
New work, led by Cesar Estien, is now posted as a preprint!
Cesar Omar Estien, Claire L. O’Connell, Xavier Francis, Grace Smith-Vidaurre, Bryan M. Kluever, Elizabeth A. Hobson, Anne Marie van der Marel
Human-wildlife interactions continue to increase due to anthropogenic disturbances, with some interactions resulting in conflict.… [Read full details]