Studying social structure and the evolution of sociality
Congratulations to Emily DuVal on winning the Katma Award!
The AOS Katma Award recognizes papers proposing ideas or testing theories that replace current dogma or settled opinion and that could change the course of thinking about the biology of birds.… [Read full details]
Thanks Mike for a nice update on activities in my lab!
It’s easy for students in Elizabeth Hobson’s lab at the University of Cincinnati to get attached to their study subjects.
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.
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]
Mike Miller did a nice overview of my recent paper “A Low-Cost Solution for Documenting, Tracking, and Verifying Cage-Level Animal Husbandry Tasks Using Wireless QR Scanners and Cloud-Based Spreadsheets“.
Read the full text here.
A University of Cincinnati biologist is using tech more commonly found in Amazon distribution warehouses to care for birds in her lab.
Hobson Lab Masters student (and postdoc with CREW at the Cincinnati Zoo) Julie Barnes got pulled in on an exciting project recently — the zoo asked for her help getting an ultrasound on their pregnant hippo!
Check out the story here:
How do you perform an ultrasound on a hippopotamus?
Mike Miller with UC Press wrote a nice overview of our new special issue on dominance hierarchies, published earlier this week.
Link to the article: https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2022/01/pecking-order–uc-biologist-explains-100-years-of-dominance-hierarchies.html
Dominance hierarchies were first described in chickens a century ago by a Norwegian zoologist who coined the term “pecking order.”
Mike Miller wrote a nice press release of Annemarie’s new paper!
Just because you’re paranoid, that doesn’t mean everything isn’t actually trying to kill you.
Annemarie’s new paper on ground squirrels was profiled in the Billings Gazette, who also made a cute comic describing her work.
Paper available here | UC’s press release on the paper | Coverage & comic here
A summary of one of my recent papers was just published. This work, led by Don Brightsmith, could provide important insight into the movements, ecology, and conservation of large macaws. See the paper here: http://www.ace-eco.org/vol16/iss1/art14/, and the link to the summary here.
