Dr Nicolas Claidiere (St. Andrews) will be giving a seminar entitled:
The study of conformity in capuchin monkeys and humans<http://www.psychology.stir.ac.uk/news/documents/Poster-Claidiere.pdf>
on Thursday 14th October at 4pm in 3A94, Cottrell Building, University of Stirling
The abstract is here:
http://www.psychology.stir.ac.uk/news/documents/Poster-Claidiere.pdf
Please let me know by 5pm on Tuesday 12th October, if you'd like to join us for dinner afterwards. We plan to go for tapas at the Meditteranea (http://www.mediterranearestaurant.com/) .
(Feel free to forward to others who might be interested)
Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith
Behaviour and Evolution Research Group
Department of Psychology
University of Stirling
Stirling
FK9 4LA
Scotland
Tel: 01786 467674
Fax: 01786 467641
E-mail: h.m.buchanan-smith(a)stir.ac.uk
http://www.psychology.stir.ac.uk/staff/hbuchanan/index.php
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Dear all
Tomorrow (soon to be Dr) Vicki Fishlock will give a presentation entitled:
Ecological Pushes and Social Pulls: Forest Elephant Sociality
I look forward to seeing you there (3A94 in Cottrell, at 5.30pm as usual).
Hannah
The schedule is here: http://www.psychology.stir.ac.uk/research/BERGmeetings.php
Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith
Department of Psychology
University of Stirling
Stirling
FK9 4LA
e-mail: h.m.buchanan-smith(a)stir.ac.uk
phone: 01786 467674
fax: 01786 467641
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In case this is of interest to anyone...
Christine.
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Conversation: [sfeca] Job opportunities at Wild Futures Monkey Sanctuary, Cornwall, UK
Subject: [sfeca] Job opportunities at Wild Futures Monkey Sanctuary, Cornwall, UK
Primate Keeper at Wild Futures' Monkey Sanctuary, Looe, Cornwall
This is a rare and exciting opportunity for up to three people to join an experienced team of primate carers at a highly respected primate sanctuary. Public speaking, practical skills and a passion and empathy for our fellow primates are some of the skills, interests and qualities being sought.
For at least one of the roles, strong practical skills are desirable to aid enclosure enrichment and maintenance as well as contributing to management of the Sanctuary grounds and gardens. One of the keeper roles will also have an education focus.
Candidates will be formally interviewed for these positions and selected according to demonstrated ability to fulfil the following:
Primary Responsibilities
To become a member of the Primate Welfare Team at Wild Futures' Monkey Sanctuary. You will be aware of and have a commitment to the aims of Wild Futures. You will learn to distinguish individual monkeys and to show a sensitivity towards them which indicates your suitability as a keeper. Under the supervision of experienced staff you will be trained to become one of the monkeys' primary caregivers.
Daily duties include: cleaning and enriching enclosures, helping with the rehabilitation and socialisation of the primates, preparing and distributing food and medication; all whilst monitoring the health and well-being of the monkeys in your care. You will be responsible for maintaining daily up-to date information on the status and wellbeing of each individual through a computer database.
You will also: learn about general primate healthcare, assist in keeping up to date with the latest research in primate healthcare and welfare, participate in all aspects of a monkey's veterinary visit, upkeep and ordering of medication, help with enclosure maintenance. You will help co-ordinate and train volunteers and carry out other tasks that are essential to the day to day running of the Sanctuary.
The Sanctuary is open to the public for seven months of the year. You will be required to educate visitors and other groups, via public talks and workshops, about the individual primates in our care, about primates in the wild and the problems that they face in captivity, about the conservation of primates, and about the history and ethos of Wild Futures and the Monkey Sanctuary. You will also be asked to help at the admissions desk, as the need arises.
Other responsibilities
You will also:
Share responsibility for tasks essential to the running of the Sanctuary (such as cleaning public toilets, doing the weekly shopping trip) via a rota system.
Be expected to develop and maintain good communications with all team members and to demonstrate a good sense of humour!
Need to show that you can be flexible in your work, adapting to new situations as they arise and you will be able to prioritise work according to tasks you have been given (with monkey care taking priority).
Be expected to work five full days a week plus up to two nights 'cover' (overnight responsibility), and to be flexible about your days off.
You will have an allowance of thirty days annual leave per annum. Must be flexible about annual leave and willing to work on bank holidays.
Salary £13,000 per annum gross.
Applicants must be UK or EU residents or have permission to work in the UK.
Please send a CV and letter of interest to 'Healthcare/Keeper role' before 10 November 2010, preferably via email. Please include a SAE if you apply by post.
healthcare(a)wildfutures.org
Healthcare/Keeper
Wild Futures
The Monkey Sanctuary
Murrayton House
Looe
Cornwall
www.wildfutures.org
Registered Charity no. 1102532
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Today's meeting is in 2A43 - not the usual common room.
Hannah
6th October
in 2A43 Lou Tasker Linking welfare and science: Ten years of welfare-positive housing changes and the effects on biological data
Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith
Behaviour and Evolution Research Group
Department of Psychology
University of Stirling
Stirling
FK9 4LA
Scotland
Tel: 01786 467674
Fax: 01786 467641
E-mail: h.m.buchanan-smith(a)stir.ac.uk
http://www.psychology.stir.ac.uk/staff/hbuchanan/index.php
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Hi folks,
With Lou being in town for her BERG talk this Wednesday (Linking welfare and
science: Ten years of welfare-positive housing changes and the effects on
biological data), we thought it would be nice to set aside some more time
for discussion and catching up.
If anyone would like to join us for some good eats at the Med, please let me
know before Wednesday afternoon. If there are enough of us I'll make a
reservation.
Many thanks,
Betsy
Elizabeth (Betsy) Herrelko
Postgraduate Student, The Chimpcam Project
Honorary Research Associate, Royal Zoological Society of Scotland
Department of Psychology
University of Stirling
FK9 4LA
www.chimpcam.com
Dear all
Tomorrow Betsy Herrelko will give a short presentation entitled:
Assessing welfare: A new cognitive research programme for the chimpanzees of Budongo Trail, RZSS.
I look forward to seeing you there (3A94 in Cottrell, at 5.30pm as usual).
Hannah
The schedule is here: http://www.psychology.stir.ac.uk/research/BERGmeetings.php
Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith
Behaviour and Evolution Research Group
Department of Psychology
University of Stirling
Stirling
FK9 4LA
Scotland
Tel: 01786 467674
Fax: 01786 467641
E-mail: h.m.buchanan-smith(a)stir.ac.uk
http://www.psychology.stir.ac.uk/staff/hbuchanan/index.php
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The provisional BERG meeting schedule is now on our website:
http://www.psychology.stir.ac.uk/research/BERGmeetings.php
It looks great and thanks to all those who have already offered to present.
There are three slots that need to be filled - any of you Kyoto goers fancy re-running your talks?
Dates available are: 29th Sept., 17th Nov., and 15th Dec.
Hope to see you tomorrow at 5.30pm in 3A94....those absent may find themselves allocated to one of the slots.... ; )
Hannah
PS Please make sure new folk know about this. Anyone new who has not signed up to the BERG mailing list should do so directly through the link above.
Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith
Behaviour and Evolution Research Group
Department of Psychology
University of Stirling
Stirling
FK9 4LA
Scotland
Tel: 01786 467674
Fax: 01786 467641
E-mail: h.m.buchanan-smith(a)stir.ac.uk
http://www.psychology.stir.ac.uk/staff/hbuchanan/index.php
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Dear BERGERS
Our first meeting is a week today - Wednesday 22nd September at 5.30pm in the Psychology Common Room (drinks, nibbles, introductions and a catch up on summer news!).
I am pleased that there has been a good response to my plea for presentations.
We still have a few spaces though - as I write there is still availability on:
29th September, 3rd , 10th November and 15th December.
Please consider signing up for one of those dates - http://www.doodle.com/i82m7hep72armu78
Many thanks, Hannah
Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith
Behaviour and Evolution Research Group
Department of Psychology
University of Stirling
Stirling
FK9 4LA
Scotland
Tel: 01786 467674
Fax: 01786 467641
E-mail: h.m.buchanan-smith(a)stir.ac.uk
http://www.psychology.stir.ac.uk/staff/hbuchanan/index.php
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Dear all BERGers
A special welcome to Craig and our new intake of MSc and PhD students! The BERG meetings will be on Wednesdays, at 5.30pm in the Psychology common room (3A94 Cottrell).
The first meeting will be on Wednesday, 22nd September with a social get-together welcome, drinks, nibbles and report summer news. Please let me know if anyone wants to offer to entertain with fabulous photography, et.
The success of these meetings relies upon us to contribute….
Please would you sign up for one of our meeting slots for this semester, using the online sign-up:
http://www.doodle.com/i82m7hep72armu78
This will show you which slots are still available. Just sign up for one that is still free, and I will add you to our schedule and get in touch about your topic/title.
The schedule will eventually be posted here: http://www.psychology.stir.ac.uk/research/BERGmeetings.php
Remember we are happy to have talks, research proposals and paper discussions (you lead it).
Thanks, and hope to see you on 22nd September for our introductory meeting!
All the best,
Hannah
PS I have asked Linda to send this out to our new intake.
Craig - note you will have to sign up here: http://lists.stir.ac.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/berg
Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith
Behaviour and Evolution Research Group
Department of Psychology
University of Stirling
Stirling
FK9 4LA
Scotland
Tel: 01786 467674
Fax: 01786 467641
E-mail: h.m.buchanan-smith(a)stir.ac.uk
http://www.psychology.stir.ac.uk/staff/hbuchanan/index.php
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Dear all,
Just a reminder about tomorrow's BERG meeting. It will be our last meeting for the semester, and Lou Tasker will be presenting some of her PhD work on the welfare of laboratory macaques. We start at 5.30pm as per usual in the Psychology common room (3A94 Cottrell).
Hope to see you there!
Christine.
Dear all,
Some of you may be interested....
Echo - An Unforgettable Elephant
A celebration of the life and legacy of Echo, the world's most famous elephant, who was born in 1945 and died in 2009, and who Natural World followed for the last 20 years of her life.
The timing of Echo's death could not be worse. The wise old matriarch had guided her family for half a century but the cruellest drought in living memory devastated her home under the shadow of Kilimanjaro. Will her 38-strong band of relatives and descendants overcome the loss of their leader, hunger and poachers to survive?
Thu 5 Aug 2010
20:00
BBC Two (except Northern Ireland (Analogue), Wales (Analogue))
Sun 8 Aug 2010
18:00
BBC Two (England, Northern Ireland, Wales only)
Article at the following link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tcf7z
See also Mike Birkhead's wonderful commentary: http://www.mikebirkhead.com/
And they are apparently playing all the original series on BBC4 on the 4th of August!
Best
Phyllis
P.C. Lee
Professor & Head of Department
Department of Psychology
University of Stirling
Stirling, Scotland
FK9 4LA
+44 (0) 1786 467656
Fax: 01786 467641
phyllis.lee(a)stir.ac.uk
Dear all,
Just a reminder about this tomorrow's BERG meeting. Sophia Daoudi, one of our current final year students, will be presenting research that she carried out on the capuchins and squirrel monkeys at the Living Links facility at Edinburgh Zoo last summer as a bursary project, working with Hannah Buchanan-Smith.
The meeting starts at 5.30pm as per usual, in the Psychology common room (3A94 Cottrell). Drinks and nibbles will be provided.
Hope to see you there.
Christine.
Dear all,
Unfortunately, Lou Tasker has had to cancel her talk for BERG, which was originally scheduled for tomorrow (Wed 28 April) so we have no meeting this week. Lou has rescheduled for 19 May instead. We have another change to the schedule for next week too, because Darren McGarry from RZSS has also had to cancel. However, Darren has arranged for someone else to come along from the zoo in his place. So next week we will have a talk from Simon Girling, the Head Veterinary Surgeon at RZSS. Simon will be giving a talk on veterinary medicine in conservation.
The revised schedule is available at: http://www.psychology.stir.ac.uk/research/BERGmeetings.php
Christine.
Dear All,
Apologies
for any cross posting but I would be very grateful if you could pass on the
information to any parties that may be interested in the following events being
held at Howletts and Port Lympne later this year:
The Third Student Environmental Enrichment Course (SEEC): July 26th - 29th
Due to the continued success and high demand the third SEEC will be running
at Howletts and Port Lympne this July. This course is designed specifically for
college and university students (past or present) who do not currently work
within a zoo setting, but are looking to do so as a career. The course aim is
to provide valuable experience and an overview of additional useful skills to a
would-be keeper's CV. Please note you must be 18 or over to attend this course.
The Second UK ‘The Shape of Enrichment' Workshop: Sept 6th - 9th
Howletts and Port Lympne hosted the 1st UK Shape workshop in
March 2009 and is very pleased to announce that Valerie Hare is returning in
Sept to run a second 4 day workshop aimed at keepers, managers, supervisors,
curators, and veterinarians working in this field.
Places for both are limited so please
register early to avoid disappointment. For more information please visit:
http://www.aspinallfoundation.org/portlympne/keepers-and-rangers/view/241
Many thanks and best wishes, Mark Kingston
Jones
Just some extra information about the BERG meeting tomorrow - Blake Morton's presentation will be on "Asian Ape Resource Cognition: Cross-Species Comparison in Use and Visitation to Food Trees".
Christine.
Dear all,
Just a reminder about tomorrow's BERG meeting. Blake Morton will be presenting. We start at 5.30pm as per usual in the Psychology common room (3A94 Cottrell). Drinks and nibbles will be provided.
Also, unfortunately Lou Tasker is now unable to present next week (28 April) as originally planned. Her talk has been rescheduled to 19 May. This means we have a slot free next week, so if anyone has anything that they would like to present (or a journal article they would like to discuss), then please just let me know. Thanks.
Hope to see you at tomorrow's meeting.
Christine.
Dear all,
Just a reminder about tomorrow's BERG meeting. Becky Leonardi (one of our final year undergraduates) will be giving a presentation about her dissertation project on exchange behaviour in dogs. We start at 5.30pm as usual in the Psychology common room (3A94 Cottrell). Drinks and nibbles will be provided.
Hope to see you there!
Christine.
Dr Christine Caldwell
Department of Psychology
University of Stirling
Stirling
FK9 4PA
http://www.psychology.stir.ac.uk/staff/ccaldwell
Dear all,
Just a reminder about tomorrow's BERG meeting. Cristina Matthews, who is currently working with me as a research assistant, will be giving a talk on the dissertation project she did last year as part of her Masters degree at Edinburgh University (Evolution of Language and Cognition MSc). Cristina will be presenting this work at the Evolang meeting in Utrecht in a couple of weeks time, so this is a practice run for her conference talk.
We start at 5.30pm as usual in the Psychology common room (3A94 Cottrell). Drinks and nibbles will be provided.
Hope to see you there!
Christine.
Dear all,
Apologies for any cross posting! We have now extended the deadline for the upcoming course until the 11th April (I think because it is in the holiday a lot of people have jobs…) so if you wouldn’t mind circulating this again I would be very grateful!
Hopefully catch up with most of you at PSGB if your going!
Many thanks and best wishes, Mark
Please note the change of email address
Mark Kingston Jones
Education, Enrichment and Research Officer - Howletts and Port Lympne Wild Animal Parks
Howletts Wild Animal Trust
Email research(a)aspinallfoundation.org
UK Reg Co. No. 4711904 Charity No 1100845
Dear all,
Just a reminder about the BERG meeting tomorrow. Adam Milligan, one of our PhD students, will be giving a talk entitled: Lateralisation of Emotion in Social Mammals. We start at 5.30pm as per usual, in the Psychology common room (3A94 Cottrell). Drinks and nibbles will be provided.
Christine.
Dr Christine Caldwell
Department of Psychology
University of Stirling
Stirling
FK9 4PA
http://www.psychology.stir.ac.uk/staff/ccaldwell
Dear all,
Just a reminder about tomorrow's BERG meeting. Maria Desougi will be giving a talk entitled: Ageing in Canine Companion Animal Ownership. Maria works in the Department of Applied Social Science here at Stirling, and the work that she will be talking about tomorrow is a sociological study which explored how dogs come to be regarded as older, and what the implications are of canine ageing for animal-human interactions.
The meeting starts at 5.30pm as usual, in the Psychology common room (3A94 Cottrell). Drinks and nibbles will be provided.
Hope to see you there.
Christine.
I figure quite a few might wish to sign this.
Peter
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Dear all,
Just a reminder about tomorrow's BERG meeting. Jim Anderson will be giving a talk on: "Are monkeys "fast" learners? Effects of video playback speed on observational learning". Wednesday 5.30pm in the Psychology common room (3A94 Cottrell) as usual. Drinks and nibbles will be provided.
Hope to see you there!
Christine.