Program Overview

A detailed scientific program will be available shortly but to assist in your planning, the following overview provides a snapshot of the Congress days:

Sunday 29 September	Registration opening from 1300hrs Welcome Reception from 1700hrs
Monday 30 September	Featuring Plenary Presentations 0900-0945hrs Professor John Endler- 2020 Hamilton Lecture Presentation title: Coloration, vision, and natural history as generators of hypotheses 1630-1715hrs Professor Claire Spottiswoode Presentation title: The natural history of a human-animal mutualism Oral contribution presentations Poster & Exhibition viewing Poster Presentation Session from 1715-1845hrs
Tuesday 1 October	Featuring Plenary Presentations 0830-0915hrs Professor Shinichi Nakagawa - Presentation Title: Recapitulating and replicating behavioural ecology 1600-1645hrs Professor Maren Vitousek Presentation Title: Coping with stress: from mechanisms to evolutionary consequences Oral contribution presentations Poster & Exhibition viewing Poster Presentation Session from 1645-1815hrs LGBTQIA+ (and allies) Trivia Night (optional)
Wednesday 2 October	Featuring Plenary Presentation 0830-0915hrs Professor Roxana Torres Presentation Title: Sexual selection from a life history perspective Oral contribution presentations Poster & Exhibition viewing Afternoon break, including optional tours Evening Public Lecture (optional) 1800hrs
Thursday 3 October	Featuring Plenary Presentation 0830-0915hrs Professor Ashleigh Griffin Presentation Title: Behavioural ecology at the invisible scale: Challenges and solutions 1600-1645hrs Professor Florian Schiestl Presentation Title: Pollinator behavior and flower evolution: new insights into an old question Oral contribution presentations Poster & Exhibition viewing Evening Congress Event (optional) from 1900hrs
Friday 4 October	Featuring Plenary Presentation 1515-1600hrs Professor Kavita Isvaran 2024 Hamilton Lecture Presentation Title: Re-imagining competition among females: drawing from varied life-histories and ecological contexts Oral contribution presentations Poster & Exhibition viewing Congress Close 1615hrs

An outstanding array of international plenary presenters will lead the program (view here for more information). These sessions will be complemented by many contributed oral presentations and posters addressing the following themes:

Altruism and cooperation
Anthropogenic change
Applied animal behaviour
Behavioural genomics
Behavioural plasticity
Contests
Communication
Conservation behaviour
Endocrine mechanisms
Foraging
Host-parasite interactions
Human behaviour
Learning and cognition

Life histories
Mating systems
Movement
Neurophysiological mechanisms
Outreach
Parental care
Plant-animal interactions
Predator-prey interactions
Sensory ecology
Sexual selection
Social behaviour
Welfare

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