Claire L. O'Connell

Claire L. O'Connell

PhD candidate investigating affiliative relationship formation and recovery and social resilience

Publications

Perturbations highlight importance of social history in parakeet rank dynamics

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/cz/article/67/1/101/6050802](https://academic.oup.com/beheco/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/beheco/arad015/7093242?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false)

Temporary Behavioral Responses to Playbacks by a Pest Parrot and Implications for Management

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

A comparison of common behavioral observation software applications and recommendations for use

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

A framework to evaluate whether to pool or separate behaviors in a multilayer network

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