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Behaviour17 Conference

Posted on August 5, 2017 by

Scientific conferences are some of the biggest highlights of my year. I just attended the Behavior2017 Conference in the beautiful seaside town of Estoril, Portugal. I’m still early enough in my scientific career that when I attend a conference, I … Continue reading →

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Updates (July 2017)

Posted on July 6, 2017 by

New timeline July 30- August 4, 2017: I’ll be at the Behavior 2017 Meeting in Portugal September 3, 2017: Team Vampire wraps up captive experiments and we begin our fieldwork led by Dr. Simon Ripperger. October 15, 2017: I leave Panama. … Continue reading →

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Some advice for grad students

Posted on July 5, 2017 by

With my new lab starting in Fall 2018, I am now interested in prospective graduate students and postdocs. More information on how to apply here. Below are some of my thoughts and advice on applying to graduate schools and being a … Continue reading →

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Team Vampire, Spring 2017

Posted on June 11, 2017 by

Katharina Eggert is from Germany and visited STRI from March until May 2017. She helped with a broad variety of projects including scoring cooperation in vampire bats, maintaining a system of monitoring bat roosts, and measuring exploration of novel objects … Continue reading →

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Latest paper: social bet-hedging in vampire bats (and two other recent and related studies)

Posted on May 24, 2017 by

Our latest paper here.  Also some early press here. There are actually three recent papers on social networks and the benefits of network size in primates (by Laurent Brent and co-authors), songbirds (by Josh Firth and co-authors), and bats (by me … Continue reading →

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Latest paper: Reproductive seasonality, sex ratio and philopatry in Argentina’s common vampire bats

Posted on April 28, 2017 by

It can be found here. Summary: 35 years of field observations 13,642 mist-net captures and 181 whole roost captures vampire bats in Argentina (near the southern limit of their range) have a reproductive season (unlike most other places) we have … Continue reading →

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A new field site in Panama

Posted on April 16, 2017 by

I am hoping to develop some new long-term field sites for future work on vampire bats. On March 27, I traveled with Austin Garrido, Rob Mies (director of the Organization for Bat Conservation), his daughter Georgia Mies, and labmates May Dixon, … Continue reading →

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