Programme:
programme, posters, & abstracts (pdf)
31 July, 2008
| 12:00-17:00 | Registration |
| 17:00 – 17:20 | Conference Opening |
| 17:20 – 18:00 | 50 years on! |
| 18:00 – 19:30 | Wine reception |
Morning, 1 August, 2008
| 9:00-10:00 | Bird song and sexual selection |
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee |
| 10:30-10:45 | Female voices as cues to fertility? |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | What’s love got to do with it? - Conflict and cooperation in duets of the gray-breasted wood-wren (Henicorhina leucophrys) |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Limits on the independent vocal behavior of the right and left syrinx during two-voice phenomena |
| 11:15 – 11:30 | Two sides of the call: vocal tract modelling and vocalizations in lemurs |
| 11:30 – 11:45 | Vocal processing in the left and right hemispheres |
| 11:45 – 12:00 | Inter- and uni-modal discrimination by chimpanzees based on auditory and visual information L. Martinez & T. Matsuzawa |
| 12:00 – 12:15 | Can songbirds detect recursive syntax patterns? |
| 12:15 – 12:30 | Wild chimpanzees distinguish between different scream types: evidence from a playback study |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch Break |
Afternoon, 1 August, 2008
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Performance limits on bird song: timing and consequences |
| 15:00 – 15:15 | Geographic variation of signature whistle types from Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) in coastal Zanzibar |
| 15:15 – 15:30 | Vocal communication in a hybrid zone between two African dove species |
| 15:30 – 15:45 | Sperm whale codas at the individual level: repertoires, overlapping interactions and spatial scales |
| 15:45 – 16:00 | Sex role convergence, territoriality and vocal behaviour in Australian magpies |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Poster Session with Coffee |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Vocal duetting in neotropical wrens: acoustic communication in the animal kingdom’s most coordinated singers |
Morning, 2 August 2008
| 9:00-10:00 | Use of vocal production learning to compensate for varying noise or competing signals |
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Acoustic flexibility in singing birds under noisy urban conditions |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Causes and consequences of urban song divergence in the European blackbird |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Seismic noise induces increase in blue whale call production |
| 11:15 – 11:30 | Mechanisms of song adaptation to urban noise in the house finch: syllable pitch plasticity or differential syllable use? |
| 11:30 – 11:45 | To what extent do high frequency calls minimize the risk from eavesdroppers for African wild dogs? |
| 11:45 – 12:00 | On the function of song type repertoires: testing the 'anti- exhaustion hypothesis' in chaffinches |
| 12:00 – 12:15 | Wild chimpanzees modify the structure of their calls as a function of audience composition |
| 12:15 – 12:30 | Why do grey seals vocalise underwater? An investigation into the function of grey seal underwater calls using playback experiments |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch Break |
Afternoon, 2 August 2008
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Communication and social learning in cooperatively breeding primates |
| 15:00 – 15:15 | Beauty is in the ear of the beholder: Culture and condition affect female songbirds’ mating preferences |
| 15:15 – 15:30 | Spontaneous categorization in African grey parrots (Psittacus erithacus) during referential communication learning |
| 15:30 – 15:45 | Social mechanisms of vocal learning in songbirds and human infants |
| 15:45 – 16:00 | Neural signature of tutor song in pre-singing zebra finches: an emerging birdsong memory |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Poster session with coffee |
| 17:00 – 17-15 | Interspecific communication about danger: does alarm-call similarity promote understanding? |
| 17:15 – 17:30 | What do functionally referential alarm calls refer to? Insights from the meerkat ‘animal moving’ call |
| 17:30 – 17:45 | Selfish or cooperative? Sentinel calling in a social bird |
| 17:45 – 18:00 | Song consistency reflects age in banded wrens |
| 18:00 – 18:15 | Closing remarks |
| 19:30 – | Banquet & Ceilidh |