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Amazing two day event on "The Value of Human-Animal Interactions” in Stirling, 18-19 September

by Hannah Buchanan-Smith

At Paws for Progress we are thrilled to be hosting a two day event focusing on “The Value of Human-Animal Interactions”. This event will be held on Friday the 18th and Saturday the 19th of September at the Stirling Court Hotel on the University of Stirling campus. We would be delighted if you could join us to explore and celebrate the incredible relationship between humans and animals. Across the two days there will be a range of excellent guest speakers who will discuss the value of HAI in a variety of settings including health care, education and rehabilitation. The event will feature talks from Rebecca Leonardi (Paws for Progress), Elizabeth Ormerod (SCAS), Belinda Johnston (Our Special Friends), Jo Williams (The University of Edinburgh) and Lesley Winton (Fostering Compassion), alongside many networking opportunities and interactive workshops. Workshops will be run by representatives from a range of organisations, including Dementia Dog, Dogs for the Disabled, Star Wards, SSPOT, People and Animals, Turn About Pegasus and more. Refreshments will be provided throughout the day alongside a 2 course lunch, and there will also be the opportunity to bring your own information stand or display for no extra charge. Please get in touch with us at info(a)pawsforprogress.co.uk<mailto:info@pawsforprogress.co.uk> to book a space for your stand. Early bird tickets: We are currently offering discounts for those of you who book early. Currently,1 day passes are available at a discounted rate of £120 whilst 2 day passes are available at a fantastic price of £200. This offer is only available until the 14th of August and thereafter 1 day passes will be available for £150, and 2 day passes at £250. Please do share the attached poster with details of the event with friends and colleagues. Further details about the event are also available at www.pawsforprogress.com<http://www.pawsforprogress.com/> and please get in touch with us at info(a)pawsforprogress.co.uk<mailto:info@pawsforprogress.co.uk> with any queries. Tickets are available at the following link: http://shop.stir.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&catid=27&prod… We hope to see many of you at the event, and look forward to welcoming you to an amazing two days of sharing experience, knowledge and celebrating the fantastic work which is being carried out across the UK to embrace the incredible relationship between humans and animals. With kind regards, The team at Paws for Progress Hope to see some of you there! Check out: New methods for monitoring and improving welfare of laboratory dogs<http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/news/policy/2014/140918-n-animal-welfate-laboratory-…> Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith Professor, Behaviour and Evolution Research Group Director of Learning and Teaching in SNS Psychology, School of Natural Sciences University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA Scotland Tel: 01786 467674 Fax: 01786 467641 E-mail: h.m.buchanan-smith(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:h.m.buchanan-smith@stir.ac.uk> Home page: https://rms.stir.ac.uk/converis-stirling/person/11925 http://marmosetcare.com/ http://www.247animalwelfare.eu/index.html

9 years, 11 months

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BERG social media links

by Hannah Buchanan-Smith

Dear BERGers Laura Hall is doing an excellent job in leading me (no longer kicking and screaming, but calmly!) into engaging with social media. Laura has set up BERG's own Facebook and twitter links: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Behaviour-and-Evolution-Research-Group-at-Un… https://twitter.com/BERG_Stirling Please do follow, and also send Laura details of your recent publications, research highlights, prizes, awards or other exciting news so that they can be shared. It would also be great to be able to have some photos and/or videos. E-mail: laura.hall(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:laura.hall@stir.ac.uk> Let's promote the excellent work we do.... My best, Hannah Check out: New methods for monitoring and improving welfare of laboratory dogs<http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/news/policy/2014/140918-n-animal-welfate-laboratory-…> Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith Professor, Behaviour and Evolution Research Group Director of Learning and Teaching in SNS Psychology, School of Natural Sciences University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA Scotland Tel: 01786 467674 Fax: 01786 467641 E-mail: h.m.buchanan-smith(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:h.m.buchanan-smith@stir.ac.uk> Home page: https://rms.stir.ac.uk/converis-stirling/person/11925 http://marmosetcare.com/ http://www.247animalwelfare.eu/index.html

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FW: July 1st Living Links Research Forum at Edinburgh Zoo

by Hannah Buchanan-Smith

Apologies for cross postings, but in case of interest to a wider audience.... From: Amanda Seed [mailto:ams18@st-andrews.ac.uk] Sent: 19 June 2015 10:33 To: Hannah Buchanan-Smith; Andrew Whiten; Lara Wood; Kristin Descovich; 'lhopper(a)lpzoo.org'; Phyllis Lee; Christine Caldwell; 'Research(a)blairdrummond.com'; 'SPearson(a)rzss.org.uk'; 'AMacri(a)rzss.org.uk'; Hayley Ash; 'antoine(a)thgroup.co'; 'L.Robinson(a)ed.ac.uk'; 'd.m.altschul(a)sms.ed.ac.uk'; 'Morton.blake(a)gmail.com'; Erica van de Waal; 'Lucille.bellegarde(a)sruc.ac.uk'; Rachel Harrison; Lizzie Webber; Stuart Watson; Camille Troisi; 'j.wathan(a)sussex.ac.uk'; 'sophia.m.daoudi(a)gmail.com'; 'mariawollnik(a)gmail.com'; 'Sonia.rey.planellas(a)gmail.com'; Jennifer Botting; Lewis Dean; 'S1443883(a)sms.ed.ac.uk'; Emily Cibulka; Sumir Keenan; 'Mairimac3(a)hotmail.com'; 'louisatasker(a)gmail.com'; 'abates(a)rzss.org.uk'; 'sullivan.e13(a)gmail.com'; 'Katie Slocombe'; 'adowling(a)rzss.org.uk'; Emily Messer Subject: July 1st Living Links Research Forum at Edinburgh Zoo Dear all, We are holding a little research forum about some of the recently completed and congoing research at Living Links in the Budongo Trail lecture theatre at Edinburgh zoo, on July 1st, 10.30. You can also hear more about plans for 'Wild Links' for capuchin and squirrel monkeys - which some of you might have heard a bit about at the Burn. Details about the programme can be found here, also pasted below. http://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/events/2015/07/monkeys,-apes-me-%E2%80%93-re… It would be lovely to see some of you there. Best wishes, Amanda 10:30 - Welcome and overview to research conducted at Edinburgh Zoo - Prof Andy White and Dr Amanda Seed - University of St Andrews 10.45 - Dr. Lara Wood, University of St Andrews Living Links cubicle research and results from a recent study with capuchin monkeys This talk will give an overview of how Living Links researchers work with the monkeys in the research cubicles. Following this, data will be presented on a recent experiment investigating whether the location of the edible reward within an artificial-fruit puzzle can affect capuchins' success in extracting it and imitation of others' actions. In nature, foraging actions a monkey may copy are typically around the edible goal, like peeling a fruit or shelling a nut, and things we humans copy where there is more separation (e.g. a light switch) may be more difficult for a monkey to grasp. Nineteen monkeys participated in the full experiment. A human demonstrated how to obtain food from a puzzle using one of two actions. The food was either close to (5cm), or far from (20cm), the action. Capuchins were less likely to watch the human demonstrator's action and less successful at retrieving the reward, when the food was far from rather than close to those demonstrated actions. There was tentative evidence of learning from the demonstrator which was affected by food location. The implications of these results will be discussed. 11.15 Dr. Lewis Dean, University of St Andrews A 'micro-culture' study of young children visiting Budongo Trail We are studying what gives us humans the ability to build up complex cultures over time, compared to other primates. To do this we are creating 'micro-cultures' in little groups, including children. For this, Zoo visitors aged 4-6 years were invited to take part in a game to get a series of prizes out of a complex apparatus. Starting with a group of three children, we replaced a child every five minutes until there was a completely new group, echoing cultural generations. By examining how the groups interacted with the apparatus and with one another, we can shed light on the evolution of human culture. 11.45 Zita Polgár, University of Edinburgh Assessing individual differences in squirrel monkeys - Personality and interaction with zoo visitors The goal of this study is to determine whether there are individual differences between squirrel monkeys in how they respond to different groups of visitors at the viewing window. Do some monkeys prefer coming to the window when there are large groups there, while others when there is just a single person? Do some show preferences for interacting with children rather than adults? Answering these questions will help us better understand the relationship between the monkeys and the visitors as well as allowing us to improve individual welfare and design better enclosures. Another goal of this study is to assess how this window approaching behaviour is correlated with the individual personality scores that are given to the monkeys by the keepers. Overall, we expect that there will be a general trend for the monkeys to come to the window more frequently when there are larger visitor groups there - they are quite curious! In addition, we predict that those monkeys who score highest in bold and sociable personality traits will be the most frequent visitors while those monkeys who score lower on these traits will be less frequent visitors and may show a preference for smaller visitor groups. 12.15 Sophia Daoudi and Prof. Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith, University of Stirling The quest to establish a new long-term field station for conservation and primate research in Suriname. Primate researchers value the opportunity to conduct both captive and field studies, to test hypotheses derived from the field under controlled conditions in captivity and from that, generate further hypotheses to be examined in the wild. At Living Links in Edinburgh zoo, we study the behaviour of capuchin and squirrel monkeys living in captivity in mixed-species groups. In this talk we will describe our attempt to find an appropriate 'wild link' for our population of captive monkeys and establish a long-term field station. The Guiana Shield is a biodiversity hotspot containing one of the largest protected tropical areas within the Neotropics and is home to a wide variety of flora and fauna. The Raleighvallen Nature Reserve, Suriname forms part of this region and is relatively unaffected by anthropogenic disturbances such as hunting and deforestation, making it an ideal location to conduct baseline biological and ecological research. We shall describe preliminary plans to re-establish the Conservation International (CI) field station to allow us to conduct long-term projects investigating the 8 sympatric primate species in addition to other fauna and flora. The first project will investigate the understudied polyspecific associations between the tufted brown capuchin (Sapajus apella) and the common squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus). If we can re-establish this site, it might be possible to twin the CI field station with the Living Links to Human Evolution Research Centre, Royal Zoological Society Scotland (RZSS), Edinburgh Zoo. 12.45 - end.

10 years

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Environmental Enrichment course

by Hannah Buchanan-Smith

Dear BERGers Mark Kingston Jones – former Stirling student and former employee at the Safari Park (amongst other things!) is running an excellent Student Environmental Enrichment Course, hosted by Five Sisters Zoo, in West Calder, Scotland from Tuesday 21st to Friday 24th July 2015. Please see attached if interested. Best, Hannah

10 years, 1 month

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BERG: Lesley Craig

by Hannah Buchanan-Smith

Dear BERGers On Wednesday 15th April, we have our last BERG seminar for the semester. Lesley Craig will be presenting on "Can enhancing connection to individual chimpanzees promote conservation strategy?" She will be discussing the importance of how a more personalised experience with a chimpanzee can enhance zoo visitor attitudes to conservation, compared with general educative information - She'll present data collected from Edinburgh Zoo and Blair Drummond. As usual, we will meet in room 3A94 (Psychology common room) at 5:30pm, and will have drinks and nibbles available. I hope to see you all on Wednesday night! Hannah If you wish to subscribe (or unsubscribe) to the BERG mailing list please follow instructions here: http://lists.stir.ac.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/berg Behaviour and Evolution Research Group (BERG) seminar programme: http://www.stir.ac.uk/natural-sciences/research/seminars/psychology/berg-se…

10 years, 2 months

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Chimpanzee relationships at BERG

by Kristin Descovich

Dear BERGers, This Wednesday, 1st April, we have Joshua Lemin presenting on: "Relationship quality and relationship asymmetry among captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)". He will be discussing measures of relationship quality among captive chimpanzees and how he is using a Social Network Analysis approach to further quantify those measures. He will also discuss emotional contagion within the chimpanzee group and its influence on the way social partners interact. As usual, we will meet in room 3A94 (Psychology common room) at 5:30pm, with drinks and nibbles. For details on upcoming BERG seminars please visit: www.stir.ac.uk/natural-sciences/research/seminars/psychology/berg-seminars<http://www.stir.ac.uk/natural-sciences/research/seminars/psychology/berg-se…>. I hope to see you all on Wednesday night! Kris Dr Kris Descovich Research Fellow in Animal Welfare Psychology, School of Natural Sciences University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA Scotland Tel: 01786 467643 E-mail: kristin.descovich(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:kristin.descovich@stir.ac.uk> Behaviour and Evolution Research Group (BERG) seminar programme: http://www.stir.ac.uk/natural-sciences/research/seminars/psychology/berg-se…

10 years, 2 months

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BERG on Wednesday - Sealion training + Research opportunities at Blair Drummond Safari Park

by Hannah Buchanan-Smith

Dear BERGers, This Wednesday, 1st April, we have the wonderful Sam Clark from Blair Drummond Safari Park presenting on: "Advantages of training sealions in a zoo environment". Additionally, several other keepers from Blair Drummond will be joining us to discuss potential research projects that will be available at the park. No commitment - just come and learn about what might be available as potential research projects. As usual, we will meet in room 3A94 (Psychology common room) at 5:30pm, with drinks and nibbles. For details on upcoming BERG seminars please visit: www.stir.ac.uk/natural-sciences/research/seminars/psychology/berg-seminars<http://www.stir.ac.uk/natural-sciences/research/seminars/psychology/berg-se…>. I hope to see you all on Wednesday night! Best, Hannah To sign up to the BERG mailing list new folk must complete the form available here: http://lists.stir.ac.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/berg You can also use this link to unsubscribe. Check out: New methods for monitoring and improving welfare of laboratory dogs<http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/news/policy/2014/140918-n-animal-welfate-laboratory-…> Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith Professor, Behaviour and Evolution Research Group Director of Learning and Teaching in SNS Psychology, School of Natural Sciences University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA Scotland Tel: 01786 467674 Fax: 01786 467641 E-mail: h.m.buchanan-smith(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:h.m.buchanan-smith@stir.ac.uk> Home page: https://rms.stir.ac.uk/converis-stirling/person/11925 http://marmosetcare.com/ http://www.247animalwelfare.eu/index.html

10 years, 2 months

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BERG: Observational learning in parrots

by Kristin Descovich

Dear BERGers, This Wednesday we will have Deborah Bruce presenting on "Observational learning in African grey parrots". The capacity for vocal imitation in this parrot species is unparalleled, however little is known about their capability for observational learning. Deborah is going to examine recent evidence from a group of African Greys on imitative and emulative forms of observational learning during an artificial fruit paradigm. As usual, we will meet in room 3A94 (Psychology common room) at 5:30pm, and will have drinks and nibbles available. For details on upcoming BERG seminars please visit: www.stir.ac.uk/natural-sciences/research/seminars/psychology/berg-seminars<http://www.stir.ac.uk/natural-sciences/research/seminars/psychology/berg-se…>. I hope to see you all on Wednesday night! Kris Dr Kris Descovich Research Fellow in Animal Welfare Psychology, School of Natural Sciences University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA Scotland Tel: 01786 467643 E-mail: kristin.descovich(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:kristin.descovich@stir.ac.uk> Behaviour and Evolution Research Group (BERG) seminar programme: http://www.stir.ac.uk/natural-sciences/research/seminars/psychology/berg-se…

10 years, 3 months

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FW: SCAB 2015 Programme

by Hannah Buchanan-Smith

SCAB pogramme attached – looks great – and details of how to register on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SCAB2015 From: Scab The Conference [mailto:scab.the.conference@gmail.com] Sent: 17 March 2015 17:59 To: Axel Wiberg Subject: SCAB 2015 Programme Hi All, Attached you will find a programme, as it stands, of the upcoming SCAB meeting on the 28th March. Talks will be allocated 15 minutes including questions. Additionally, I have attached a list of the current posters that will be presented at the meeting. The size of the boards for these posters are A0 so that is the maximum size we'll be able to accommodate. Registration for posters and general attendees is still open. Please don't hesitate to contact us with questions. Cheers, The SCAB team

10 years, 3 months

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Tonight's BERG is BACK ON: Jim Anderson speaking

by Christine Caldwell

Hello all, As you will know by now, Iain Valentine was unable to come and talk to us about the pandas at the zoo. But as it happens we are really fortunate to have Jim Anderson back with us at the moment (visiting from Kyoto), and Jim has agreed to give us a short talk about some research that he has been working on. So, if you would like to join us, BERG will start at 5.30pm as per usual in the Psychology common room (3A94). Hope to see you there! Christine. Dr Christine A. Caldwell Senior Lecturer in Psychology School of Natural Sciences University of Stirling FK9 4LA Website: https://sites.google.com/site/christineannacaldwell

10 years, 3 months

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No BERG tonight

by Kristin Descovich

Dear BERGers, Unfortunately our speaker for tonight is unable to make it. However, this is for very good reasons as the female giant panda has come into season unexpectedly. As you can imagine, this is a significant event that happens only once a year for a very short time and therefore Iain Valentine is in the midst of preparations regarding this. We look forward to welcoming him some time in the near future. My apologies for any inconvenience, Kind Regards, Kris

10 years, 3 months

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Giant Pandas at BERG

by Kristin Descovich

Dear BERGers, This Wednesday we will have a very interesting guest from the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland. Iain Valentine is the Director of the Giant Panda Project at Edinburgh Zoo and he will be visiting us to present on this topic: "Giant pandas at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland". As usual, we will meet in room 3A94 (Psychology common room) at 5:30pm, and will have drinks and nibbles available. For details on upcoming BERG seminars please visit: www.stir.ac.uk/natural-sciences/research/seminars/psychology/berg-seminars. I hope to see you all on Wednesday night! Kris Dr Kris Descovich Research Fellow in Animal Welfare Psychology, School of Natural Sciences University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA Scotland Tel: 01786 467643 E-mail: kristin.descovich(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:kristin.descovich@stir.ac.uk> Behaviour and Evolution Research Group (BERG) seminar programme: http://www.stir.ac.uk/natural-sciences/research/seminars/psychology/berg-se…

10 years, 3 months

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Global explosion of infrastructure

by Hannah Buchanan-Smith

Some shocking facts about destruction but the good news is the fight back. I have the article if anyone wishes a copy. Best, Hannah ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Laurance, Bill <bill.laurance(a)jcu.edu.au<mailto:bill.laurance@jcu.edu.au>> Date: 13 March 2015 at 10:15 Subject: Global explosion of infrastructure To: "Laurance, Bill" <bill.laurance(a)jcu.edu.au<mailto:bill.laurance@jcu.edu.au>> Dear colleagues, I'd like to draw your attention to our article that has just appeared online in Current Biology—see attached. This is being used as a springboard for a major effort by scores of eminent scientists and luminaries to lobby the leaders of the G20 nations to rethink their astonishing plans to more than double total global investment in roads, hydroelectric dams, power lines, gas lines, mining, fossil-fuel projects, and other major infrastructure over the next 15 years. See also these brief, popular synopses, which provide a nice snapshot of our main findings: https://theconversation.com/roads-to-ruin-the-pitfalls-of-the-g20s-infrastr… http://alert-conservation.org/issues-research-highlights/2015/3/8/alert-sci… Apologies for any cross-postings. Please do forward to interested friends and colleagues! All best, Bill William F. Laurance, FAAAS Distinguished Research Professor & Australian Laureate Prince Bernhard Chair in International Nature Conservation Director of the Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science (TESS) [cid:44C4EC78-A517-4CA5-834E-ED6D51BCFB7B] Director of ALERT (ALERT-conservation.org) [cid:19A88B51-0715-435E-AB56-D9B8C373A8C0] Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science (TESS) & College of Marine and Environmental Sciences James Cook University Cairns, Queensland 4878, Australia Phones: +61-7-4038-1518<tel:%2B61-7-4038-1518> and +61-7-4232-1819<tel:%2B61-7-4232-1819> Email: bill.laurance(a)jcu.edu.au<mailto:bill.laurance@jcu.edu.au> Lab website: http://laurancelab.org/ Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F_Laurance

10 years, 3 months

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FW: SCAB 2015 Talk Deadline

by Hannah Buchanan-Smith

Still time to offer a talk! From: Scab The Conference [mailto:scab.the.conference@gmail.com] Sent: 12 March 2015 16:44 To: Axel Wiberg Subject: SCAB 2015 Talk Deadline Hi All, The deadline for registering your talk at SCAB 2015 is tomorrow! There are still places left and we're looking for more speakers. Pass the news on to all your friends and colleagues. Register your talk here: http://onlineshop.st-andrews.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&c… Once again, I've attached a skeleton form of the programme for the day. Talks will be allocated 15 minutes including question as at previous conferences. General attendees and poster registrations will be accepted for longer. We would also like to make a call for anyone willing to be a judge for the poster and talk competitions to come forward. Looking forward to seeing you all soon! Best wishes, The SCAB team

10 years, 3 months

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Celebrations for Dr Ash to be

by Hannah Buchanan-Smith

Hayley passed her viva with minor corrections - celebrations in the common room now. Check out: New methods for monitoring and improving welfare of laboratory dogs<http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/news/policy/2014/140918-n-animal-welfate-laboratory-…> Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith Professor, Behaviour and Evolution Research Group Director of Learning and Teaching in SNS Psychology, School of Natural Sciences University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA Scotland Tel: 01786 467674 Fax: 01786 467641 E-mail: h.m.buchanan-smith(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:h.m.buchanan-smith@stir.ac.uk> Home page: https://rms.stir.ac.uk/converis-stirling/person/11925 http://marmosetcare.com/

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Thursday's Division Seminar

by Kristin Descovich

Dear BERGers, I hope you all had a productive / relaxing time over the Reading break. This Wednesday we will not have a BERG meeting, as there is a BERG related speaker presenting the Psychology Division seminar on Thursday and we would like to encourage everyone to come along, particularly those interested in human-animal interaction. The speaker will be Dr Jo Williams from the University of Edinburgh, who will be presenting: "Promoting positive interactions between children and animals." The event will be held in room 3A94 (Psychology common room) at 4pm on Thursday the 3rd of March, and a poster is attached. Please pass this on to any other people who may be interested in attending. Kind Regards, Kris Dr Kris Descovich Research Fellow in Animal Welfare Psychology, School of Natural Sciences University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA Scotland Tel: 01786 467643 E-mail: kristin.descovich(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:kristin.descovich@stir.ac.uk> Behaviour and Evolution Research Group (BERG) seminar programme: http://www.stir.ac.uk/natural-sciences/research/seminars/psychology/berg-se…

10 years, 3 months

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Calling all Animal Behaviour Scientists

by Hannah Buchanan-Smith

Do you research animal cognition and behaviour? Do you love what you do? Then why not tell visitors at RZSS - Edinburgh Zoo how cool it is? The Living Links Public Engagement Prize is a new competition aimed at animal behaviour researchers. It is being run as part of our 'Animal Cultures' event in the Edinburgh International Science Festival. Further details see here - note deadline 27th March. http://www.living-links.org/calling-all-animal-behaviour-scientists/ Hannah Check out: New methods for monitoring and improving welfare of laboratory dogs<http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/news/policy/2014/140918-n-animal-welfate-laboratory-…> Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith Professor, Behaviour and Evolution Research Group Director of Learning and Teaching in SNS Psychology, School of Natural Sciences University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA Scotland Tel: 01786 467674 Fax: 01786 467641 E-mail: h.m.buchanan-smith(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:h.m.buchanan-smith@stir.ac.uk> Home page: https://rms.stir.ac.uk/converis-stirling/person/11925 http://marmosetcare.com/

10 years, 3 months

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SCAB 2015

by Hannah Buchanan-Smith

Dear BERGers Please find attached details of this year’s Scottish Conference on Animal Behaviour (SCAB) on Saturday 28th March in St. Andrews. I very much hope that there will be good Stirling attendance – speakers and audience. ABSTRACT SUBMISSION CLOSES ON 13th MARCH. All details below/on website/facebook page. Best, Hannah From: Scab The Conference [mailto:scab.the.conference@gmail.com] Sent: 20 February 2015 13:41 To: Axel Wiberg Subject: SCAB 2015 Dear SCAB Attendee, You're receiving this e-mail because you were on a mailing list for last year's SCAB conference in Edinburgh. Hopefully you will have heard recently about the upcoming SCAB 2015 in St Andrews. We have finally come to a stage where we can start collecting registrations and talk/poster submissions for the upcoming conference at the the end of March (Saturday 28th). Registration for conferences here at St Andrews is required to go through our Online Shop service. I would therefore direct your attention to the link below where you will be able to pay the registration fee and submit abstracts and titles for your talks. You can also enter dietary information and other essentials. SCAB website here<http://onlineshop.st-andrews.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&d…> You can keep up to date with further developments on Facebook as well, search for "SCAB 2015" I've also been contacted by Mike Hansell who is compiling a history of the SCAB meetings. He informs me that the first meeting was held in 1976 here in St Andrews. He has asked me to include a call for information from attendees who are willing to contribute. "SCAB is Forty but has no history! You can help find it. The first meeting of SCAB was in the University of St Andrews in 1976; so this year’s meeting on 28th March in St Andrews is a historic event. The problem is that SCAB has no history. The great success of SCAB has been the opportunity it has given to younger researchers to present their work in a critical yet informal environment. It has also given valuable experience to conference organisers, its informal arrangements allowing the meeting to pass annually from one University to the next on a ‘your turn I think’ basis. It travels light, leaving its history behind it. But, I believe that history is important and I am now trying to rescue what I can of it. I plan to lodge this information in the Archive of the University of Glasgow and I am now asking you if you can provide information that will fill in gaps that currently exist in my record on where the meetings were held, the programme of speakers and posters and the Conference organisers. I will be contacting you directly towards the end of February with further details of the aim of this project and also a spreadsheet showing what I currently know and do not know of past meetings. Please look at these two items and contact me with any information you think might help. SCAB needs a history! Mike Hansell IBAHCM, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ Mike.Hansell(a)glasgow.ac.uk<mailto:Mike.Hansell@glasgow.ac.uk>" Please forward this message on to any of your colleagues and friends who would be interested in attending or giving a talk at SCAB. I've also attached a conference poster to this e-mail and I would be grateful if you could put it up in your departments (if one is not already up) to advertise the event. Should you have any further questions you can reply to this e-mail or write directly to raww(a)st-andrews.ac.uk<mailto:raww@st-andrews.ac.uk> or evg(a)st-andrews.ac.uk<mailto:evg@st-andrews.ac.uk> We're looking forward to seeing you all here in St Andrews soon, Best wishes, The SCAB Team

10 years, 4 months

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FW: Monday seminar - Public attitudes and involvement, conservation conflicts, and science-policy interfaces

by Hannah Buchanan-Smith

This looks like an interesting seminar..... --------------- The seminar on Monday (23rd Feb) will be by Juliette Young (CEH, Edinburgh)..... 12 noon in A6 (Cottrell building). Juliette has been leading on some really interesting interdisciplinary work and has on-going collaborations with folk in BES. Title: Public attitudes and involvement, conservation conflicts, and science-policy interfaces Summary: This presentation will provide a whistle-stop tour of some of the interdisciplinary research we carry out at CEH Edinburgh. Topics covered will include: assessing public understanding of biodiversity and its management in Scotland; exploring stakeholder involvement in Natura 2000; managing, mapping and resolving conservation conflicts; developing effective science-policy interfaces, including an update on the IPBES. Bio: I have been working at CEH since 2002. Although I started my career as a zoologist, I have since become a mix of natural and social scientist, having done a PhD in social sciences. Most of my work now focusses on the political dimension of biodiversity conservation, with a focus on protected areas, science-policy-society dialogue and conflicts.

10 years, 4 months

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Josep Call talk in Edinburgh - 24 Feb

by Hannah Buchanan-Smith

Tuesday, 24 February 12.30noon – LUNCHTIME TALK Chrystal MacMillan Building - Seminar Room 2 Josep Call, Max Planck Insitute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig & School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews http://www.eva.mpg.de/psycho/staff/call/ "Apes as intuitive statisticians" Abstract Numerous animal species are capable of selecting the larger of two quantities even when those are presented concurrently and fall outside either object file or subitizing range. Much less is known about animals’ ability to spontaneously estimate probabilities, an ability that should be distinguished from sensitivity to reinforcement probabilities. In this talk I will present data on how great apes estimate probabilities in tasks that require comparing two probabilities and extrapolating from populations to samples to net the highest possible payoff. These data have implications for several disciplines including comparative cognition, logic, and experimental economics. Host: Alex Weiss

10 years, 4 months

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Free online course on Animal Welfare

by Hannah Buchanan-Smith

Dear Bergers This MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on Animal Welfare offered by our colleagues in Edinburgh has just come to my attention - a week late, but still time to sign up. https://www.coursera.org/course/animal Enjoy! I know it features Living Links somewhere in it.... Best, Hannah

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Wed 11th Feb

by Kristin Descovich

Dear BERGers, This Wednesday we have a special guest all the way from Argentina. Dr Viridiana Gonzalez from the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste will be speaking on the "Environmental education program at the Corrientes Biological Research Station". Please do come along and invite any friends that may be interested. We will meet in the Psychology common room 3A94 at 5:30pm and will have drinks, nibbles and an abundance of stimulating conversation as per usual. A current BERG schedule is also attached. Hope to see you all on Wednesday night. Cheers and regards, Kris Dr Kris Descovich Research Fellow in Animal Welfare Psychology, School of Natural Sciences University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA Scotland Tel: 01786 467643 E-mail: kristin.descovich(a)stir.ac.uk

10 years, 4 months

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Wed 4th Feb

by Kristin Descovich

Dear BERGers, We are back to our usual meetings on Wednesday night. Kicking us off for the semester is Dr Sonia Rey Planelles from the Institute of Aquaculture with a presentation entitled "Environmental temperature and fish: What does it have to do with personality, emotions and welfare?" Please do come along, and invite any friends that may be interested. We will meet in the Psychology common room 3A94 and will have drinks and nibbles as usual. A current BERG schedule is also attached. Hope to see you all on Wednesday night. Cheers, Kris Dr Kris Descovich Research Fellow in Animal Welfare Psychology, School of Natural Sciences University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA Scotland Tel: 01786 467643 E-mail: kristin.descovich(a)stir.ac.uk

10 years, 4 months

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Professor Ian Peers - Thursday seminar

by Hannah Buchanan-Smith

Dear all Our seminar speaker this week, Ian Peers has been made an Honorary Professor in Psychology. Please can I encourage you to come to his talk (details below) – Ian provides important links with industry (impact), and is of interest to health psychologists as well an animal researchers, and those interested in stats and experimental design. He is also offering stats advice. So come along and meet him! I shall be taking Ian out for dinner after his talk – please let me know by noon on Wednesday if you’d like to join us and I shall make a plan. Thanks, Hannah ________________________________ From: Roswitha Lucht Sent: 26 January 2015 12:09 To: Psychology Staff Subject: Psychology Research Seminar on 29th January , at 4pm in 3A94 - Professor Ian Peers Dear All Please may we invite you to come along to our next Research Seminar on Thursday, 29th January, at 4pm in the Psychology Common Room 3A94. Professor Ian Peers, from the University of Stirling and Global Head Statistics AstraZeneca, will be giving a talk with the title Animal Research in Biopharmaceutical R&D, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Impact of Good Statistical Practice. We would like to encourage academics, research staff and postgraduate students to please make every effort to attend these seminars. We look forward to seeing you and attach a poster with the event. Kind Regards Roswitha Roswitha Lucht Administrative Assistant Psychology School of Natural Sciences University of Stirling E: roswitha.lucht(a)stid.ac.uk<mailto:roswitha.lucht@stid.ac.uk> T: +44 (0) 1786 467640

10 years, 5 months

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BERG + Susan Cheyne visit

by Kristin Descovich

Dear BERGers, Please see the attached current BERG schedule for the Spring. Note that on several weeks there is no BERG meeting because a BERG related speaker will be presenting the Psychology division seminar on the Thursday at 4pm. We still need a few more speakers! Please consider giving a seminar this semester. Presenting at BERG is an excellent way to practice talks, hone presentation skills, get feedback on grant application ideas, or lead discussion of a research paper. You might also like to host a post-graduate student or colleague from a nearby University. We have some funds to support local travel and dinner for external speakers. You can sign up by following this link to the doodle poll. https://doodle.com/5kc3zpst4bs2aty2 Please add your name and select a date that is vacant, then email your presentation title as soon as possible to me at kristin.descovich(a)stir.ac.uk. This Thursday at 4pm we are very lucky to have Dr Susan Cheyne from the University of Oxford and Outrop giving the Psychology seminar on "Primates, peat-lands, cats and conservation: Saving the Bornean peat swamp forests". Susan does amazing work in Indonesia with primates and a myriad of other species, so please do come along and listen. We will head afterwards to The Meadowpark for dinner. If you would like to join us, please email me by Wed night. Our BERG meetings are only as good as we make them, so encourage any students or colleagues interested in behaviour and evolution to come along to a meeting, or sign up to the BERG mailing list at http://lists.stir.ac.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/berg. You can also use this link to unsubscribe. I look forward to seeing you all at BERG on the 4th of February! Cheers and regards, Kris

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