Dear Bergers,
I'm delighted to announce that this week's BERG seminar, Wednesday April 5th, at 4pm online, will be Dr Lucie Rigaill from Université Rennes. The title of her talk is, "Multimodal sexual communication in Afro-Eurasian monkeys." The abstract, teams link,
and schedule of future talks are below:
Abstract
Reproduction is a crucial activity for all animal species. Individuals have to find mating opportunities, defend partners, and mate at the appropriate timing to maximize their reproductive success while dealing with the cost associated with reproduction (e.g.,
production of gametes, physiological stress).To guide their mating decision, individuals exchange information about their attributes and status through multiple sensory modalities. I have been studying how primates strategically mate using sexual communication
and especially ovulatory signals in several species of Afro-Eurasian monkeys (olive baboons, Japanese macaques, cherry-crowned mangabeys, humans). I will present some of my results on the role of female visual (skin coloration, swelling), auditory (vocalisation),
and olfactory(vaginal secretion) modalities in ovulatory signalling and mating strategies.
Teams link:
Future Talks
April 12 |
16:00 |
Mike Radford |
University of Aberdeen |
TBA |
In - person: C3A94 |
April 19th |
16:00 |
Alexandra Horowitz |
Barnard College |
Who is the dog? |
Online |
April 26th |
16:00 |
Pawel Fedurek |
University of Stirling |
Sound Recording Workshop |
In - person: C3A94 |
May 3rd |
10:00 AM |
Cécile Sarabian |
University of Hong Kong |
Risk perception and potential applications in wildlife management and conservation |
Online |
May 10th |
16:00 |
Arnaud Tognetti |
Karolinska Institutet |
Identification of sickness: some past, current and future projects. |
Online |
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Sharon
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Sharon Kessler (she/her), PhD
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