Open symposia: anything behaviour!
There will be room for presentations of which the topic is not covered by the current symposia. Submissions will be thematically grouped where possible. The number of open symposia will be decided based on abstract submissions, but we reserved approximately one quarter of the slots for open symposia.
Judit Abdai, MTA-ELTE Comparative Ethology Research Group, Budapest, Hungary | Investigating animacy perception in cats and dogs using artificial agents |
Jorg Massen, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands | Do birds enjoy flying? |
Valeria Mazza, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany | Smarts in the city: innovation in rural and urban small mammals |
Mark O’Hara, Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria | The use of a tool set by wild Goffin’s cockatoos |
Raoul Schwing, Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna/University of Vienna/Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria | Sequential Learning in Kea (Nestor notabilis) |
Steve Whalan, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia | Brainless sponge larvae can settle to conspecifics, but is that evidence of communication and cognition? |