Nooooo! I had tayra to take the whole thing!!

This was one of my favorite talks so far! I love the integration of modeling with creative experiments and I cannot stop telling people about bespoke quail snack machines...

Come on, now. Don't be silly.
I was at least six.

Oof - multiple typos in my alt-text (can you edit that after the fact?!) but it's unusual (not "usually" as I wrote) at our colony in the Gulf of Alaska. Usually just a couple 3-egg clutches per year (out of hundreds).

It's totally wild that these little adorable things pop into the world, look around their new world all soft and warm under doting parents... and choose murder.

We have an ethogram, but currently, multiple aggressive behaviors are lumped - we quantify intensity via rate or proportion of time spent. We do single out "neck-wringing" as a particularly intense & vicious-seeming behavior. Parsing out the behaviors that comprise aggression would be worthwhile!

RE why I study this: it's a horrid and fascinating phenomenon at the interface of physiology and behavioral ecology - what's not to like?!

I currently study physiology & behavior of siblicide in a Pacific pop. of black-legged kittiwakes (𝑅𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑎 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑦𝑙𝑎). I'm at a PUI (primarily undergraduate institution) & have amazing undergrads working on projects about the interactions of glucocorticoids, metabolism, behavior & sex. #seabirds

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