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Welcome to ASSAB 201812th - 14th July
Welcome to the 46th meeting of the Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour! We are very excited to have you at this gathering of researchers fascinated by the study of animal behaviour. Thank you so much for coming along to share your research and making this year’s conference possible.
This meeting has been sponsored by:• The University of Queensland • Griffith University • Queensland University of Technology.
Our meeting room is at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre (Glenelg Street & Merivale Street South Brisbane QLD 4101)on the Plaza level, Room P11. For easy access to the room please enter the convention centre from Grey Street and go up in the ele-vator to the Plaza level.
We hope you enjoy your time in Brisbane and at ASSAB 2018!
Warm regards, ASSAB 2018 Local Organising Committee
Karen Cheney, William Feeney, Robbie Wilson, Darryl Jones (Grif-fith), Stuart Parsons (QUT), Laurie Mitchell, Cedric van den Berg, Naomi Green.
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8:00 Registration opens
9:00-10.30
Communications workshop, ‘Re-thinking Abstracts’ with Amanda Niehaus (everyone welcome)
10.30-11.00
Morning tea
11.00-12.00
Communications workshop, ‘Re-thinking Abstracts’ with Amanda Niehaus (cont.)
12:00-13:00
Lunch (please purchase your own lunch - on this day only)
13:00 Official welcome
Session 1 (Plenary Intro and Chair: Darryl Jones)13:15Plenary
Rob Heinsohn
Colourful plumage and behaviour: par-rots move to centre stage in evolution and conservation
14:00 Alex Taylor Mental template matching as a cultural trans-mission mechanism
14:15 Dianne Brunton When facts don’t fit theory: female song, repro-ductive success, and sexual selection
14:30 Fanny-Linn Hovring Kraft*
Transgenerational effects of stress on song learning
14:45 5-min stand and stretch break
14:50 Antone Martinho Doubling the sensitive period: ducklings begin imprinting up to nine days before hatching
15:05Speed
Daniella Teixeira* Bioacoustics, behaviour and black-cockatoos: a new approach to conservation
15:08Speed
Jarrod Mesken* Geographic variation in calls of the noisy min-ers reveal underlying selection mechanisms
15:12Speed
Salit Kark Mynas vs. miners: Can behaviour help explain invasion processes?
* indicates student presenter
ASSAB 2018 Program - Thursday 12th July
ASSAB 2018 Program - Thursday 12th July
15:15-15:45
Afternoon tea
Session 2 (Chair: Naomi Green)15:45 Trevor Murray Ant navigation in a reconstructed visual
environment16:00 Jim McLean Behaviour in motion: an R package for animal
trajectory analysis16:15 Emily Baird Path integration in dung beetles
16:30 Andy Bennett How do nomadic waterbirds find water in the desert?
16:45 5-min stand and stretch break
16:50 Miriam Henze Stop sign in different colours: an aposematic colour polymorphic moth seen through the eyes of mates and predators
17:05 Ximena Nelson Modular vision in jumping spiders
17:20 Adelaide Sibeaux*
Viewing colours with dorsal and ventral retinas and its effects on spectral sensitivity
17:35Speed
Gabriella Scata* Comparison of courtship displays in squid and octopus
17:38Speed
Hong Vo* Neuronal pathways of the lateral protocerebrum of mantis shrimps
17:41Speed
Jemma Hudson* Visual acuity in the coral reef fish Rhinecanthus aculeatus: are chromatic and achromatic signals processed differently?
17:44Speed
Carl Santiago* Colour perception in a coral reef fish: examining the detectability of suprathreshold colours
17:50 Student awards presentation
18:00-19:30
Welcome function (drinks and canapés) and poster session
19:30 Informal social gathering at The Charming Squire (next to the Convention Centre)
* indicates student presenter
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Alejandra Lopez Galan*
Reproductive behaviour and changes in body patterns across the lifespan of Sepia plangon
Alison Behie-Valentine
The role of natural disasters in the behavioural adaptation of primates
Braxton Jones* The administration of chemical weaponry from the Stick Insect Candovia pallida
Candice Larkin* Nest-site selection and polymorphism of the little eagle Hieraaetus morphnoides near Armidale, NSW
Chantelle Derez* Reptile survival in an urban jungle
Claire Taylor* The effect of climatic variables and host group size on egg size investment of the parasitic Horsfield’s bronze-cuckoo
Georgina Binns* Don’t eat me! Tracking warning signal variation through land-scape and time
James O’Hanlon Do ants influence the diversity and distribution of stick insects?
Luis Namad-Rohen*
The colours of octopus
Laurie Mitchell* Triggerfish uses chromaticity and lightness for object segregation
Megan Head Increased temperature disrupts chemical communication in some lizard species: the importance of local adaptation and distribu-tion
Molly Gilmour* Effect of personality on body condition of foraging herbivores in the semi-arid zone
Seer Jonathan Ikurior*
Behavioural activity levels of parasite-infected and uninfected young sheep
Thomas White Comparing colours using visual models
Valerio Tettamanti*
Ontogenetic changes of feeding behaviour in spotted unicornfish (Naso brevirostris) and their histological and molecular relationships
Vivien Rothenberger*
Does variation in background hue and saturation (chromatic noise) influence colour discrimination?
ASSAB 2018 Program - Friday 13th July
8:40 Welcome/Housekeeping
Session 3 (Plenary Intro: Will Feeney/ Chair: Scarlett Howard)8:45Plenary
Lisa Schwanz
Thermal parental effects: how parents shape the thermal world and pheno-type of their offspring
9:30 Stephan Leu Movement strategies in a prey species
9:45 Alexandra Grutter
Predator, prey, and parasites: longterm effect of clean-er presence on free-living stages of Gnathiid isopod parasites
10:00 William Feeney
Predation drives recurrent convergence of aninterspecies mutualism
10:15 Rohini Balakishnan
Predation risk of acoustic communication in a tree cricket
10:30 Meg Edwards*
To eat or not to eat: a bandicoot’s dilemma when facing predation
10:45-11:15
Morning tea
Session 4 (Chair: Fanny-Linn Hovring Kraft)11:15 Mariella
HerbersteinAnimal behaviour across landscapes – challenges for 21st century behavioural ecology
11:30 Rebecca Wheatley
Optimum escape strategy depends on both relative performance and habitat characteristics
11:45 Andreia Ramos*
Selection for male aggression enhances female aggres-sion in the siamese fighting fish Betta splendens
12:00 Wesley Webb*
Koe: open-source software to segment, manage and classify birdsong syllables
12:15 Amanda Niehaus
Fact or fiction?
* indicates student presenter
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ASSAB 2018 Program - Friday 13th July
Session 4 (cont.)12:30Speed
Misha Lavoie*
Do male house mice adapt sperm sex ratio based on social conditions?
12:33Speed
Hieu Thi Pham*
Aged female calling strategies and the response
12:36Speed
Morgane Merien*
The advantages of mating once, many times or not at all: a study of facultative parthenogenesis in female stick insects (Phasmatodea)
12:39Speed
Sarah Jane Ball*
Keep your enemies closer – social drivers of agonistic behaviors in male australian eastern water dragons
12:42Speed
Scarlett Howard*
Naïve honeybee foragers learn configured but not deconstructed flowers
12:45-13:30
Lunch
Session 5 (Chair: Will Feeney)13:30 Darryl Jones Does feeding change the behaviour of garden birds?
13:45 Jackson Owens*
The demography and movement patterns of an isolated population of macropods
14:00 Rebecca Fox Is male harassment really costly? Disentangling the costs and benefits of the opportunity to remate on female fitness
14:15 Alexis Levengood*
Dolphins keep their friends close but their enemies closer
14:30 Kasha Strickland
Safety in numbers: sex differences and among-individu-al variation in the social plasticity of water dragons
14:45 Renee Firman
Harsh environmental conditions favour the evolution of sociality in the Australian rodents
* indicates student presenter
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ASSAB 2018 Program - Friday 13th July
Session 5 (cont.)15:00Speed
Catarina Vila Pouca*
Quantity discrimination in sharks incubated under climate warming
15:03Speed
Julianna Kadar*
Tri-axial accelerometers classify fine-scale behaviours in the Port Jackson shark
15:06Speed
Coralie Delme*
Sex-based effects of morphology on the social networks of the eastern water dragon
15:09Speed
La Toya Jamieson*
You aren’t my real mum! Detection dogs’ responses to a change of handler
15:15-15:45
Afternoon tea
Session 6 (Chair: Laurie Mitchell)15:45 John Endler Local visual contrast may be more important than entire
pattern visual contrast in courting guppies16:00 Richard
PetersIncreased conspicuousness of a movement-based signal in the presence of a predator
16:15 Cedric van den Berg*
48 shades of grey - detection and discrimination thresh-olds in fish
16:30 Andrew Hunter*
Optimising behavioural strategies between competing agents: using the soccer penalty as a model system
16:45 Cassandra Mark-Chan*
Multifaceted deception in the North Island lichen moth, Declana atronivea: a morphological and behavioural investigation
17:00Speed
Biplang Yadok*
Density, population size and activity periods of African giant pouched rats (Cricetomys sp. Nov) in a West African montane forest landscape
17:03Speed
Geoffrey Hughes*
The thermal landscape as a predictor of wood turtle (Glyptemys insculpta) movements at the home range scale
17:06Speed
Lucy Farrow*
Reliability detection in a social avian species, the noisy miner
17:09Speed
Anne Gaskett
Why don’t orchid pollinators go extinct? Counteradaptations and resilience to sexual deception
* indicates student presenter
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ASSAB 2018 Program - Friday 13th July
17:15 Walk to QUT: Garden’s Point Campus (Room 421, Kindler Theatre, P-Block)
18:00Public Lecture
Prof. Rob Brooks
A diamond is not forever: the eternal conflict over the price of sex
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Walking route from Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre to QUT Garden’s Point.
Map data ©2018 Google 200 m
Walk 1.8 km, 23 minBrisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre CarPark to Kindler Theatre
ASSAB The 46th meeting of the Australasian Society
for the Study of Animal Behaviour
2018
A DIAMOND IS NOT FOREVER: THE ETERNAL CONFLICT OVER THE PRICE OF SEX
Scientia Professor Robert Brooks
Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, The University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Sex, reproduction and family living often radiate sublime beauty, infusing the arts and all of human creativity, quickening our pulses and elevating our hearts. Why, then, so much heartbreak and misery? How can sex sometimes be so intoxicating and at other times so toxic? Having spent much of my working life studying the dark side of sex in small animals, I have recently descended into the study of human relations and how Darwinian processes combine with economic and cultural forces to make sex and reproduction so complicated for individuals and for socie-ties. I will discuss ideas about sex as a social transaction, how a rising price of sex has made humans the complex cultural and economic beings we are today, and how the origins of much human conflict can be found in the battle over the price of sex.
Friday 13 July 2018, 6 pm Queensland University of Technology (QUT)Room 421 (Kindler Theater), P-Block, Garden’s Point Campus, Brisbane
Public Lecture
Prof. Rob Brooks
ASSAB 2018 Program - Saturday 14th July
8:40 Welcome/Housekeeping
Session 7 (Plenary Intro: Karen Cheney/Chair: Cedric van den Berg)8:45Plenary
Martin Stevens
Camouflaged crabs and multi-coloured prawns - how colour change and behaviour allow animals to cope with environmental change
9:30 Alexandrea Kranz
Colour pattern phenotypic divergence can be predicted by the light environment
9:45 Naomi Green*
Colour discrimination thresholds in triggerfish, Rhinecanthus aculeatus: an Ishihara-style test of animal colour vision
10:00 Kawsar Khan*
Sexual dimorphic blue bands function as intra-sexual aposematic signal in the pond damselfly
10:15 Vivek Cyriac* Digging into the evolution of conspicuous ventral coloration in the fossorial snake family Uropeltidae
10:30 Kaja Wierucka*
Sensory cues and their role in recognition in Australian sea lions
10:45-11:15
Morning tea
Session 8 (Chair: Morgane Merien)11:15 Erin
Powell*Physiological costs of bearing weaponry in New Zea-land harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones)
11:30 Alan Vincent* Investigating the effects of environmental change on sexual behaviour, conflict, and female fitness in seed beetles
11:45 Michelle Roper*
Sexual dimorphism of the New Zealand bellbird syr-inx: the potential influence of syrinx size on frequen-cy range and song complexity
12:00 Miguel Bedoya-Pérez
Sexual selection in capybaras: a female perspective
* indicates student presenter
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Session 8 (cont.)12:15 Danielle
SulikowskiFluctuating asymmetry and structural laterality: divergent functions of patterns of facial asymmetry
12:30Speed
Melissa Griffin*
How the availability of habitat affects the forma-tion of harems in the bark beetle Ips grandicollis
12:33Speed
Alfonso Aceves-Aparicio*
Investigation of the defense-based mating system in two-tailed spiders
12:36Speed
Priscilla Wehi
Alpine weta forage their way to winter
12:39Speed
Tasmin Rymer
Bold doesn’t mean smart: personality and cognition in the fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat
12:42Speed
Ondi Crino Effects of developmental stress on mitochondrial function
12:45-13:45
Lunch and AGM (to be held in P11)
Session 9 (Chair: Alexis Levengood)
13:45Plenary
Tanya Latty
Beyond the brain: decision making and in-formation processing in ant colonies and slime mould amoebas
14:30 Samuel Aguilar*
Making a quick escape: trade-offs between time and risk in solving mazes
14:45 Ashton Dickerson*
Nocturnal song rate and its relationship with lunar light intensity in the willie wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys)
15:00 Christopher Johnson*
How do roads influence the movements of birds in Brisbane?
15:15 Sarah Khalil*
Plasma carotenoids predict plumage phenotype in the red-backed fairywren
15:30 Anita Freudmann*
Foraging ecology and roosting behaviour of Eastern tube-nosed bats
* indicates student presenter
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ASSAB 2018 Program - Saturday 14th July
15:45-16:15
Afternoon tea
Session 10 (Chair: Erin Powell)16:15 Federica Poli Effects of ovarian fluid on sperm traits and its implica-
tions on cryptic female choice in zebrafish16:30 Christina
PaintingHigher mating success but no survival cost to being large in the New Zealand giraffe weevil
16:45 Stephen Zozaya*
Using pheromones to understand Australia’s cryptic lizard diversity
17:00 Rebecca Moss*
Male-male competition and species interactions
17:15 5-min stand and stretch break
17:20 Bruno Buzatto
Correlated evolutionary response between alternative male morphs and sexes
17:35 Lisa Evans How intra-colony differences in bumble bee learning ability influences their foraging choices
17:50 Pariya Tork* Pathways of ocular entrainment in Marpissa marina (Araneae, Salticidae)
18:05Speed
Eve Cooper* Ageing with a silver-spoon: a meta-analysis of the effect of developmental environment on senescence
18:08Speed
Iván Beltrán*
Can reproductive behavioural traits buffer the effect of climate change in lizards? Testing a species with variable incubation duration
* indicates student presenter
18:15 Conference photo and dinnerSkyroom, Brisbane Convention and Exhibition CentrePresentations: Best 15-min student talk, Best student speed talk, Best student poster, Photo and Video winners, Trivia Winners
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List of Delegates
First Name Last Name Institution Email Alfonso Aceves Macquarie University [email protected] Samuel Aguilar Argüello University of Canterbury [email protected] Emily Baird Lund University [email protected] Rohini Balakrishnan Indian Institute of Science [email protected] Sarah Ball University of the Sunshine Coast [email protected] Miguel Bedoya-Pérez The University of Sydney [email protected] Alison Behie-Valentine Australian National University [email protected] Iván Beltrán Macquarie University [email protected] Andy Bennett Deakin University [email protected] Georgina Binns Macquarie University [email protected] Robert Brooks University of New South Wales [email protected] Dianne Brunton Massey University [email protected] Bruno Buzatto Macquarie University [email protected] Karen Cheney The University of Queensland [email protected] Eve Cooper Australian National University [email protected] Ondi Crino Deakin University [email protected] Vivek Cyriac Indian Institute of Science
Education and Research [email protected]
Coralie Delme University of the Sunshine Coast [email protected] Chantelle Derez The University of Queensland [email protected] Ashton Dickerson The University of Melbourne [email protected] Megan Edwards The University of Queensland [email protected] John Endler Deakin University [email protected] Lisa Evans Plant and Food Research [email protected] Lucy Farrow University of New England [email protected] William Feeney The University of Queensland [email protected] Renee Firman University of Western Australia [email protected] Diana Fisher The University of Queensland [email protected] Jade Fountain University of New England [email protected] Rebecca Fox Australian National University [email protected] Celine Frere University of the Sunshine Coast [email protected] Anita Freudmann Queensland University of
Technology [email protected]
Anne Gaskett University of Auckland [email protected] Molly Gilmour Macquarie University [email protected] Naomi Green The University of Queensland [email protected] Melissa Griffin Deakin University [email protected] Alexandra Grutter The University of Queensland [email protected] Megan Head Australian National University [email protected] Robert Heinsohn Australian National University [email protected] Miriam Henze The University of Queensland [email protected] Mariella Herberstein Macquarie University [email protected] Fanny-Linn Hovring Kraft Deakin University [email protected] Scarlett Howard RMIT University [email protected] Jemma Hudson The University of Queensland [email protected] Geoffrey Hughes University of New England [email protected] Andrew Hunter The University of Queensland [email protected] Seer Ikurior Massey University [email protected] La Toya Jamieson The University of Queensland [email protected] Chris Johnson Griffith University [email protected] Darryl Jones Griffith University [email protected] Braxton Jones Macquarie University [email protected] Julianna Kadar Macquarie University [email protected] Salit Kark The University of Queensland [email protected] Sarah Khalil Tulane University [email protected] Kawsar Khan Macquarie University [email protected] Alexandrea Kranz Deakin University [email protected] Candice Larkin University of New England [email protected] Tanya Latty University of Sydney [email protected]
Misha Lavoie University of Western Australia [email protected] Stephan Leu Macquarie University [email protected] Alexis Levengood University of the Sunshine Coast [email protected] Alejandra Lopez Galan Queensland Brain Institute [email protected] Cassandra Mark-Chan University of Auckland [email protected] Antone Martinho University of Oxford [email protected] Paul McDonald University of New England [email protected] Jim McLean Macquarie University [email protected] Morgane Merien University of Auckland [email protected] Jarrod Mesken University of New England [email protected] Laurie Mitchell The University of Queensland [email protected] Rebecca Moss James Cook University [email protected] Trevor Murray Australian National University [email protected] Luis Nahmad-Rohen University of Auckland [email protected] Ximena Nelson University of Canterbury [email protected] Amanda Niehaus The University of Queensland [email protected] James O'Hanlon University of New England [email protected] Christina Painting University of Auckland [email protected] Richard Peters La Trobe University [email protected] Hieu Pham The University of Melbourne [email protected] Federica Poli University of Western Australia [email protected] Erin Powell University of Auckland [email protected] Andreia Ramos University of Saint Joseph [email protected] Lucy Ransome Griffith University [email protected] Julien Renoult CEFE-CNRS [email protected] Michelle Roper Massey University [email protected] Vivien Rothenberger The University of Queensland [email protected] Tasmin Rymer James Cook University [email protected] Carl Santiago The University of Queensland [email protected] Gabriella Scata Queensland Brain Institute [email protected] Lisa Schwanz University of New South Wales [email protected] Adélaïde Sibeaux Deakin University [email protected] Jay Stafstrom University of New South Wales [email protected] Martin Stevens The University of Exeter [email protected] Kasha Strickland University of the Sunshine Coast [email protected] Danielle Sulikowski Charles Sturt University [email protected] Claire Taylor Australian National University [email protected] Alex Taylor University of Auckland [email protected] Daniella Teixeira The University of Queensland [email protected] Valerio Tettamanti Queensland Brain Institute [email protected] Pariya Tork University of Canterbury [email protected] Cedric van den Berg The University of Queensland [email protected] Catarina Vila Pouca Macquarie University [email protected] Alan Vincent Australian National University [email protected] Hong Vo Queensland Brain Institute [email protected] Erin Watson The University of Queensland [email protected] Wesley Webb Massey University [email protected] Priscilla Wehi (McAllum) Te Punaha Matatini [email protected] Rebecca Wheatley The University of Queensland [email protected] Thomas White University of Sydney [email protected] Kaja Wierucka Macquarie University / Universite
Paris-Sud [email protected]
Kelly Williams La Trobe University [email protected] Robbie Wilson The University of Queensland [email protected] Biplang Yadok University of Canterbury [email protected] Jochen Zeil Australian National University [email protected] Stephen Zozaya James Cook University [email protected]
Thank you to everyone who helped in the organisation of this conference:
Karen Cheney, Ondi Crino, Will Feeney, Naomi Green, Jemma Hudson, Darryl Jones, Alejandra Lopez Galan,
Laurie Mitchell, Stuart Parsons, Vivien Rothenberger, Carl Santiago, Cedric van den Berg
