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FW: Friday Seminar by Erica van de Waal on social learning in primates
by Hannah Buchanan-Smith 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

Seminar of interest in St Andrews this Friday (7th) at 3:30pm in the Old Library. Dr Erica van de Waal will deliver a talk titled: Field experiments reveal the scope of social learning in vervet monkeys Please read below for further details....Hannah From: Andrew Whiten [mailto:aw2@st-andrews.ac.uk] Sent: 05 November 2014 11:28 To: Christopher Templeton; Emily Messer; McGuigan, Nicola; Patrick; Andrew Whalen; Amy Deacon; Anne Magurran; Ana Navarrete Rodriguez; Ann Smet; Alice Cowie; Amanda Lucas; Alina Loth; Amanda Seed; Andy Gardner; Kagari Aoki; Amanda Stansbury; Barbara Klump; Benjamin Turnbull; Braulio Leon-Lopez; Bethany Roberts; Cara Evans; Camille Troisi; Charlotte Brand; Charlotte Cure; Camille Coye; Clare; Catherine Hobaiter; Catharine Cross; Carolina Mayer; Christian Rutz; Carl Smith; Christopher Templeton; Cedric Zimmer; Daniel van der Post; Daphna Buchsbaum; Dan Cownden; Darren Parker; David Pritchard; David Shuker; Deborah Russell; Emma Blackburn; Eira Ihalainen; Emma-Louise Bryant; Elena Miu; Emily; Esmeralda Quiros Guerrero; Emily Burdfield-Steel; Emily Burdett; Erica van de Waal; Elisabeth Greenway; Elisabeth Greenway; Filipa Samarra; Gavin Ballantyne; Gordon Hastie; Georgina Glaser; Gillian Vale; Grant Brown; Gillian Brown; Heather Anderson; Helen Cunnold; Helene Cochet; Ida Bailey; Iain Matthews; Jefferson Graves; Jessica van der Wal; Jonathan Gordon; Jennifer Botting; James Ounsley; James St Clair; Kate Arnold; Kirsty Graham; Kalliopi-Charitomeni Gkikopoulou; Katherine Dickerson; Katherine Meacham; Kate Morgan; Keelin Murray; Kevin Laland; Kaitlin Palmer; Klaus Zuberbuhler; Lara Wood; Dollbaum, Lea Johanna; Luke Rendell; Lewis Dean; Livio Favaro; Lindsay Wilson; Luca Lamoni; Lauren Guillette; Charlotte Dunn; Liam Dougherty; Lorraine Wilson; Marina; Maria Tello Ramos; Michael Emmerson; Michael Ritchie; Michaela Roberts; Michal Arbilly; Mark Johnson; Miguel Neves Dos Reis; Murillo Pagnotta; Michelle Young; Tomoko Narazaki; Neeltje Boogert; Nicola Cook; Nora Carlson; Nigel Kenworthy; Nathan Bailey; Olga Filatova; Patricia Willmer; Patricia Arranz Alonso; Peter Slater; Puja Singh; Peter Tyack; Patrick Miller; Philip Shaw; Peter Tyack; Mara Casalini; Rebecca Boulton; Rachel Harrison; Ruoting Tao; Richard Byrne; Sarah Deventer; Sara Tavares; Susan Healy; Sumir Keenan; Sascha Hooker; Sonja Heinrich; Sarah Davis; Stacy DeRuiter; Stephanie King; Silvana Neves; Sally Street; Shoko Sugasawa; Samuel Ivande; Stuart Watson; Tilen Genov; Thomas Gotz; Verena Dietrich-Bischoff; Vincent Janik; Will Cresswell; Yannis Papastamatiou; Zachary Hall Cc: Alexander Weiss (alex.weiss(a)ed.ac.uk) Anthony Little; Christine Caldwell; Craig Roberts; Cunningham, Clare (c.cunningham(a)abertay.ac.uk) Hannah Buchanan-Smith; Hardie, Scott (S.Hardie(a)abertay.ac.uk) James Anderson; Lusseau, David (d.lusseau(a)abdn.ac.uk) Phyllis Lee; Sarah Vick Subject: Friday Seminar by Erica van de Waal on social learning in primates Dear All (BDG List and SPRG Core) - I think many of you may be interested in this talk here on Friday - it will be based on the Tinbergen prize lecture Erica gave earlier at the European Conference on Behavioural Biology, but updated and expanded ... We will go for a meal in Zizzi's at 6.30 so do please either sign up on the sheet I am putting in the Psych mail room, or email me to let me know - Andy W. This week's Seminar will take place this Friday (7th) at 3:30pm in the Old Library. Dr Erica van de Waal will deliver a talk titled: Field experiments reveal the scope of social learning in vervet monkeys Behavioural tradition has been an active topic in animal behaviour since the renowned Japanese macaque studies of half a century ago, yet controlled field experiments to clearly identify social learning in the wild began only recently. This talk describes a series of social learning experiments with our population of vervet monkeys in South Africa, which have now been studied for seven years. We follow over a hundred monkeys in several neighbouring groups. In an experiment with wild vervet monkeys, Chlorocebus aethiops, inspired by the famous Japanese macaque food cleaning study, we found that naïve vervet monkey infants copy variations in how their mother handle sandy fruits. In a complementary study we adapted an established laboratory experimental paradigm to create 'artificial fruits' to test for copying of different actions. Earlier we demonstrated social learning from high ranking female models of which part of such a 'fruit' to forage from; now, we used a new artificial fruit ('vervetable') which can be opened either be sliding a door to the side or instead pulling it open. This thus tests for matching of the action used to access the reward inside. Pilot tests on four semi-captive vervet groups showed significant similarity to the technique initially demonstrated, both overall and on the first trial. Here we present 'vervetable' results for wild vervets, including identification of the social rules of whom to learn from and its broad implications for cultural transmission. In a further experiment, we showed experimentally that wild vervet monkeys will abandon personal foraging preferences in favour of group norms new to them. Groups first learned to avoid the bitter-tasting alternative of two foods. Presentations of these options untreated months later revealed all new infants naïve to the foods adopting maternal preferences. Moreover, males migrating between groups where the alternative food was eaten switched to the new local norm. Such powerful effects of social learning represent a more potent force than hitherto recognized in shaping group differences among wild animals. Our follow up studies have revealed that the time spent eating the local preference correlates with rank in adult females. Is it due to low ranked females being under pressure to be more exploratory? Or is it due to limited access to their preferred colour, as more dominant individuals monopolize it? We were able to test these hypotheses in our population because two group splits occurred, with three low ranking females leaving their origin group, to create their own group and became then alpha, beta and gamma in it. A significant change in foraging preference, converging on that of the previous dominant monkeys in their origin group, was observed after the group split, indicating how biased transmission may lead to population level traditions As normal, the Seminar will be followed by an informal wine reception which all are welcome to attend.

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BERG Seminar 5th November
by Hannah Buchanan-Smith 04 Nov '14

04 Nov '14

________________________________ From: Rebecca Leonardi Sent: 04 November 2014 13:34 To: berg(a)lists.stir.ac.uk<mailto:berg@lists.stir.ac.uk> Subject: BERG Seminar 5th November Dear all, We have an external seminar for BERG on Wednesday. We look forward to welcoming Dr Melanie Connor, a Senior Researcher at Scotland’s Rural College in Edinburgh, who will give a talk entitled: Adolescents and a ‘Duty of Care’ towards animals. Melanie is involved in a project about promoting a duty of care towards animals among young people http://www.sruc.ac.uk/info/120243/animal_behaviour_and_welfare/1319/promoti… Meeting in the Psychology common room, 3A94, 5.30pm, drinks and nibbles as usual. Please do come! Hope to see you then, Rebecca Rebecca Leonardi Paws for Progress Psychology, School of Natural Sciences University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA Telephone: 07875 678370 Email: rebecca.leonardi(a)stir.ac.uk<mailto:rebecca.leonardi@stir.ac.uk> www.pawsforprogress.com<http://www.pawsforprogress.com/> 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.

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BERG - Blake tomorrow
by Hannah Buchanan-Smith 21 Oct '14

21 Oct '14

Dear all Blake Morton will give a talk on Wednesday entitled: "Psychological Convergence Between Bottlenose Dolphins and Great Apes? Insights from Personality Structure" Psychology common room, 3A94, 5.30pm, drinks and nibbles as usual. Please do come! See you then I hope, 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. Recently launched: http://marmosetcare.com/ Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith Professor, Behaviour and Evolution Research Group 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

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A few changes to programme
by Hannah Buchanan-Smith 16 Oct '14

16 Oct '14

Dear all Just in case you were working from the old programme, I'd just like to let you know of two changes: 1) Blake Morton will be speaking on a different topic next week - now he will present on "Psychological Convergence Between Bottlenose Dolphins and Great Apes? Insights from Personality Structure" 2) We also have a change to the 10 December slot - now we have Liz Williamson who will talk about the "State of the Apes" The BERG pages will be updated in due course. Best, Hannah Recently launched: http://marmosetcare.com/ Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith Professor, Behaviour and Evolution Research Group 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

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No elephants on Wednesday
by Hannah Buchanan-Smith 14 Oct '14

14 Oct '14

Dear all Vicky Fishlock has just been in and whispered to me that she has laryngitis and is therefore unable speak at BERG on Wednesday on elephants, We shall go back to Plan A, and do introductions, and I'll give a Rwenzori mountain holiday Pecha Kucha! 24th September, 3A94, 5.30pm, drinks and nibbles as usual. Please do come so we can all meet the new folk and start to get to know each other. See you then I hope, Hannah If you have new students who might wish to be on the BERG mailing list, please send them this e-mail. 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. Recently launched: http://marmosetcare.com/ Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith Professor, Behaviour and Evolution Research Group 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 -- The University of Stirling has been ranked in the top 12 of UK universities for graduate employment*. 94% of our 2012 graduates were in work and/or further study within six months of graduation. *The Telegraph The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.

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FW: UFAW LINK - news of three awards and the AWSS meeting
by Hannah Buchanan-Smith 08 Oct '14

08 Oct '14

Fyi - as BERG is sponsored by UFAW From: Stephen Wickens [mailto:wickens@ufaw.org.uk] Sent: 07 October 2014 13:55 To: 'Stephen Wickens' Subject: UFAW LINK - news of three awards and the AWSS meeting Dear Colleague, This email is to notify you that UFAW is now seeking applications for its Animal Welfare Student Scholarships (AWSS) for 2015. Similarly HSA is seeking applications for its Dorothy Sidley scholarships. Please also note that this year the AWSS meeting is being held at Newcastle University on 3rd December. In addition, UFAW is seeking applications for the UFAW Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Animal Welfare Science and UFAW Young Animal Welfare Scientist of the Year Award. Previous winners of the former include Professor Marian Stamp-Dawkins, Professor John Webster and Professor Peter Sandøe, the latter Dr Lisa Collins, Dr Charlotte Burn and Dr Nuno Franco. Further details of each can be found in the attached press releases and on our website: http://www.ufaw.org.uk/news.php I'd be grateful if you could draw the attention of the staff and students at your institution to these. Thank you. Steve Dr Stephen Wickens Universities Federation for Animal Welfare The Old School, Brewhouse Hill, Wheathampstead, Herts AL4 8AN, UK Email: wickens(a)ufaw.org.uk<mailto:wickens@ufaw.org.uk> Direct Tel: +44(0)1276 500880 Office: +44(0)1582 831818 (tel), 831414 (fax) www.ufaw.org.uk Registered Charity No 207996 (Registered in England) and Company Limited by Guarantee No 579991 The Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW) is an independent registered UK charity that works to develop and promote improvements in the welfare of all animals through scientific and educational activity worldwide. Science in the service of animal welfare

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Today's seminar - change of venue 2A43
by Hannah Buchanan-Smith 08 Oct '14

08 Oct '14

BERG today has Caroline Allen talking about Effects of wearing deodorant on the availability of certain cues from body odour (masculinity & femininity). It is in a different venue 2A43. There have been some updates to the BERG schedule - please see http://www.stir.ac.uk/natural-sciences/research/seminars/psychology/berg-se… 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.

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This week's seminar - and dinner
by Hannah Buchanan-Smith 29 Sep '14

29 Sep '14

There is no BERG seminar on Tuesday, but instead we have Dr Lewis Dean (St. Andrews) giving this week's seminar on cultural evolution at 4pm, Thursday 2nd October, 3A94. Please see attached poster with abstract. For anyone wishing to go to dinner with Lewis, please let Vicki Fishlock (vicki.fishlock(a)gmail.com<mailto:vicki.fishlock@gmail.com>) know before Wed, so we can book a table in the Mediterranean (tapas in town). BERG is on again on 8th October....with Caroline Allen talking about Effects of wearing deodorant on the availability of certain cues from body odour (masculinity & femininity). 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.

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Schedule
by Hannah Buchanan-Smith 25 Sep '14

25 Sep '14

Dear all Thanks to those who came to BERG last night - a nice buzz. Attached is the schedule as promised. Please update me as you firm up details/titles. There is no meeting next week; Caroline Allen will speak on 8th October. Many thanks, 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. Recently launched: http://marmosetcare.com/ Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith Professor, Behaviour and Evolution Research Group 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

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FW: 2nd call for papers: UFAW Symposium 'Animal Populations – World Resources and Animal Welfare'
by Hannah Buchanan-Smith 22 Sep '14

22 Sep '14

As our BERG seminars are generously funded by UFAW, and as their University link, I shall send on various bits of information about UFAW, and their meetings. Hannah From: Stephen Wickens [mailto:wickens@ufaw.org.uk] Sent: 22 September 2014 12:22 To: 'Stephen Wickens' Subject: 2nd call for papers: UFAW Symposium 'Animal Populations – World Resources and Animal Welfare' Animal Populations – World Resources and Animal Welfare UFAW International Animal Welfare Science Symposium Zagreb, Croatia 14-15th July 2015 Humans and their kept animals (farm and companion animals) comprise the larger part of the world's vertebrate biomass. The world’s resources are limited, and as humans use more of these, fewer resources are available for wild and other animals. Whether like it or not, we humans now control or greatly influence the population sizes of many, and perhaps all, other vertebrate species, and decisions that we make to keep more of some species e.g., domestic, and farm animals have implications on the numbers and welfare of animals of other species that the world can support. How do we apportion resources between kept and wild animals? How do we balance the welfare interests of one species against that of another? Modern veterinary science enables us to keep a high proportion of animals alive to old age (when we wish it), but these occupy niches that would otherwise have been filled by young replacements: but is fewer long-lived animals better than more short-lived ones? Little effort seems to have been made to address how such balances should be struck. It appears that it is time to try to decide how many of which animals we want and how to achieve that most humanely. This meeting will consider issues surrounding the rationales and methodologies of humane control of animal populations (kept and free-living) in pursuit of preserving biodiversity and minimising welfare risks to animals. Programme: The following speakers have already been confirmed: • Professor Donald Broom (University of Cambridge, UK) ‘New directions for sustainable animal production systems and the role of animal welfare’ • Professor David Fraser (University of British Columbia, Canada) ‘Cars, cats, climate change and other neglected problems of animal welfare’ • Professor David Macdonald (University of Oxford, UK) ‘Animal welfare: From rough trade to compassionate conservation’ • Professor Frauke Ohl (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) ‘Considering animal welfare: Does context matter?’ Contributing to the symposium: UFAW is inviting further contributions to the symposium on subjects related to the theme of humane control of animal populations. Areas that we would be interested in this conference addressing include, but are not limited to, contributions relating to: • Domestic animal/wildlife conflicts, e.g. feral dogs, domestic cats • Welfare aspects of husbandry changes made to reduce livestock greenhouse gas emissions • Humane control of invasive vertebrates • The implications for wildlife and their resources of maintaining unwanted domesticated animals • Humane reintroductions • How do we take decisions regarding the fate of animals that are no longer needed such as research animals, zoo animals? • Farmed livestock population management – how many is enough? Please submit a title and abstract for consideration by email before Wednesday 26th November 2014. Both oral and poster presentations will be accepted. Abstracts of all accepted talks and posters will be placed on UFAW’s website in advance of the symposium. Further details on how to format the abstract can be found on the symposium webpage. Registration details Early registration for the symposium is at the reduced cost of £180 per person until 1st March 2015, registration will be £215 thereafter. Places are limited so please contact us as soon as possible to register your attendance. Prices include attendance at the symposium for the two days, lunch and refreshments and a drinks reception on the evening of the 14th July. Further details on the symposium, including a registration form and booking accommodation can be found on the UFAW website: http://www.ufaw.org.uk/zagreb2015.php Contact details: Dr Stephen Wickens, Zagreb 2015, UFAW, The Old School, Brewhouse Hill, Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, AL4 8AN, UK. Tel: +44(0)1582 831818; Fax: +44(0)1582 831414; Email: wickens(a)ufaw.org.uk<file:///\\wickens@ufaw.org.uk> The Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW) is an independent registered charity that works to develop and promote improvements in the welfare of all animals through scientific and educational activity worldwide. Assisting in the organisation of this meeting is Dr Mario Ostović of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia. The Humane Slaughter Association (HSA), UFAW’s sister charity, is holding a symposium at the same venue on the 16-17th July 2015, see www.hsa.org.uk<http://www.hsa.org.uk> for further details. -- The University of Stirling has been ranked in the top 12 of UK universities for graduate employment*. 94% of our 2012 graduates were in work and/or further study within six months of graduation. *The Telegraph The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.

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