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SUMMARY:Begging\, vigilance and interspecies interactions in pied babblers
  - Alex Thompson (University of Cambridge)
DTSTART:20140128T160000Z
DTEND:20140128T170000Z
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CONTACT:Dieter Lukas
DESCRIPTION:Living in groups presents individuals with social opportunitie
 s and challenges that solitary species do not face. For example\, offsprin
 g have a greater choice of who to solicit food from\, it enables the evolu
 tion of complex vigilance behaviours and has the potential to change how a
  species influence can influence the behaviours of other species. I will p
 resent some of the work that I have carried out for my PhD and in collabor
 ation with other researchers from the Pied Babbler Project. The work that 
 I will be presenting varies from investigations into within-group social b
 ehaviours (such as begging and sentinel behaviour)\, to how different spec
 ies interact in the environment. I will reveal how field experiments on ou
 r wild population have uncovered some of the complexities of the lives of 
 these cooperative birds.
LOCATION:Part II Lecture Theatre\, Department of Zoology
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