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Ida Bailey

Traplining

Hummingbirds forage by revisiting flowers and it is thought that they do so by following routes or sequences that are repeated through time (traplines). To determine if this is in fact the case, Maria recorded the…

Risk Sensitivity

Animals will often base their decision about where to forage on how variable a resource is as well as the size of the mean reward they can get from it. This is know as risk sensitive foraging. In the image below, a…

Sunbird fieldwork commences

Ida Bailey is flying to Pretoria, South Africa, to help initiate a research project investigating how flower morphology influences the foraging decision of sunbirds. The research is being conducted in collaboration…

Scottish Conference on Animal Behaviour

The Scottish Conference of Animal Behaviour (SCAB) was located in our home university, St Andrews, this year and was quite well attended; everyone in the lab went. Individuals from our lab presented 4 different talks,…

Easter ASAB

This year’s Easter conference for the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) was held at Durham University, hosted by the Behaviour Ecology and Evolution Research (BEER) Centre. Three members of the Healy…