Advances in the Study of Behavior

Marc Naguib is professor in Behavioural Ecology at the Animal Sciences Department of Wageningen University, The Netherlands. He studied biology at the Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany and received his PhD (1995) at UNC Chapel Hill, NC in the US. After his PhD held positions at the Freie Universitaet Berlin (1995-1999) and Bielefeld University (2000-2007) in Germany, and at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (2008-2011), until he was appointed in 2011 as Chair of the Behavioural Ecology Group at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. He is specialized in vocal communication, social behaviour, animal personality and the effects of conditions experienced during early development on behaviour and life history traits, mainly using song birds as model. His research group is also involved in animal welfare research using farm animals. He has served for many years on the council of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) and of the Ethologische Gesellschaft. He published > 80 scientific publications and has been Editor for Advances in the Study of Behaviour since 2003. Since 2014 he is Executive Editor.

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Marc Naguib

1. Countersinging in birds

David M. Logue

2. Do hosts of avian brood parasites discriminate parasitic vs. predatory threats? A meta-analysis

Shelby L. Lawson, Janice K. Enos, Nicholas D. Antonson, Sharon A. Gill and Mark E. Hauber

3. Dogs’ (Canis lupus familiaris) behavioral adaptations to a human-dominated niche: A review and novel hypothesis

Clive D. L. Wynne

4. The evolution of delayed dispersal and different routes to breeding in social birds

Sjouke A. Kingma , Kat Bebbington, Niki Teunissen, Anne Peters and Jan Komdeur

5. Understanding the potential impact of climate change on the behaviour and demography of social species: The pied babbler (Turdoides bicolor) as a case study

Amanda R. Ridley, Elizabeth M. Wiley, Amanda R. Bourne, Susan J. Cunningham and Martha J Nelson-Flower