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Published in Behavioral Ecology, 2023
We performed a series of social perturbations to find what determines dominance rank in monk parakeets. We found that 1. bodyweight is not associated with rank, 2. reintroduced birds were not able to regain their rank following reintroduction, and 3. top-ranked birds experienced greater relative rank losses. These results, in addition to our previous work, suggests that social history is important for structuring monk parakeet dominance hierarhcies Read more
Recommended citation: Annemarie van der Marel, Xavier Francis, Claire L O’Connell, Cesar O Estien, Chelsea Carminito, Virginia Darby Moore, Nickolas Lormand, Bryan M Kluever, Elizabeth A Hobson, Perturbations highlight importance of social history in parakeet rank dynamics, Behavioral Ecology, 2023; arad015, https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arad015 https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article/34/3/457/7093242
Published in Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2022
Our experiment evaluated the efficacy of two stimuli: predator vocalizations as potential repulsion and conspecific vocalizations as potential attraction stimuli for parakeets. Our results demonstrate that predator playbacks may be particularly useful for completing management objectives, such as temporary removal from a location. Read more
Recommended citation: Estien, C. O., O’Connell, C. L., Francis, X., Smith-Vidaurre, G., Kluever, B. M., Hobson, E. A., & van der Marel, A. (2022). Temporary behavioral responses to playbacks by a pest parrot and implications for management. Animal Behavior and Cognition, 9(4), 363-384. https://doi.org/10.26451/abc.09.04.01.2022 https://www.animalbehaviorandcognition.org/article.php?id=1329
Published in Ethology, 2021
We review six software applications for handheld computers that are available for real-time entry of behavioral observations: Animal Behaviour Pro, Animal Observer, BORIS, CyberTracker, Prim8, and ZooMonitor. Read more
Recommended citation: van der Marel, A., O’Connell, C. L., Prasher, S., Carminito, C., Francis, X., & Hobson, E. A. (2021). A comparison of low-cost behavioral observation software applications and recommendations for use. Ethology. http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.07576 https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.07576
Published in Current Zoology, 2020
We designed 2 reference models to test whether randomizing the number of interactions across behavior types results in similar structural patterns as the observed data. Read more
Recommended citation: van der Marel, A., Prasher, S., Carminito, C., O’Connell, C. L., Phillips, A., Kluever, B. M., & Hobson, E. A. (2021). A framework to evaluate whether to pool or separate behaviors in a multilayer network. Current Zoology, 67(1), 101–111. https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoaa077 https://academic.oup.com/cz/article/67/1/101/6050802