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We aim to understand the evolution and regulation of cooperative relationships. I use grooming and food sharing to gain insights into the social lives of vampire bats. My lab starts Fall 2018 at The Ohio State University.
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- Do you hear what I hear? Hearing sensitivity of the common vampire bat
- The use of the terms "reciprocity" and "reciprocal altruism" in biology
- An essay about caves and the origins of echolocation
- Field notes on weekend trip to Costa Rica (with disc-winged bats!)
- Review of "The Social Conquest of Earth" by E. O. Wilson
- Goals of science vs Goals of scientists (& a love letter to PLOS One)
Category Archives: News
Updates: June 2018
A few updates: I’m delighted to announce my first three graduate students at Ohio State University: Bridget Brown, Theresa Chen, and Imran Razik. Read more about them here. Theresa and Imran have both won competitive fellowships from the university. We published … Continue reading
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Fieldwork: Lamanai, Belize
This week I’ve been working with a team of bat researchers in Lamanai, Belize (an archaeological site of the ruins of a Mayan city). We are collecting data for a study on the effects of sickness behavior on social associations … Continue reading
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Some pics from Panama and Germany
I’m finally seeing bats flying around here at dusk in Germany, and for the first time I’m missing Panama a bit. But it’s not that I don’t like Panama, I just love where I am now! I’ve been trying to make … Continue reading
Tracking our vampire bats after they are released into the wild
After almost 2 years of cooperation experiments in captivity, we are now attempting to monitor the social relationships of our vampire bats as we release them back into the wild. We are hoping to track bat-bat and bat-cow encounters. To … Continue reading
Final month in Panama
I have only one month left in Panama! We wrapped up data collection for our captive experiments, and we are now shifting to fieldwork. On June 28, I hired our last research intern for Panama, Darija Josic (MSc in Biology), … Continue reading
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Meeting with the vampire bat control team, and footage of a white-winged vampire bat
On September 1, bat workers with the Ministry of Agricultural Development (MIDA) in Colon visited the Gamboa Bat Lab. We had an amazing and informative meeting and shared experiences working with vampires and other bats. We are hoping to develop … Continue reading
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Job opening: Animal Behavior PI position at Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (also 3 ecology positions)
The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) has openings for 5 Staff Scientists. These are Principle Investigator positions where you run your own research lab as if you were a professor, but with minimal teaching duties. The STRI Staff Scientists pursue independent, … Continue reading
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