Alexander Kotrschal
@kotrschala
Evolutionary behavioral biologist at Wageningen University, Netherlands - - - Fish, cognition, brains...not necessarily in that order
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14-08-2018 07:33:19
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Congratulations to Dr Krista van den Heuvel !!! Well done, using your flexible brain to defend your thesis. We learned a lot about the flexible brain of great tits that underwent difficult reversal learning tasks 🎲⁉️🐦
How 'happy' are fish about stuff they experience? Difficult to find out - Judith Epping and Séverine Kotrschal used a judgment paradigm test how holding conditions affect mental state in guppies: doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15…
One of my PhD chapters is out today! Three generations of great tits and hundreds of reversal learning tests reveal limited repeatability and no heritability of cognitive flexibility. Shoutout to Kees van Oers, Alexander Kotrschal and John Quinn for their guidance. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…
New NIOO publication: Artificial selection for reversal #learning reveals limited repeatability and no #heritability of cognitive flexibility in great tits, by Kees van Oers and others. #parusmajor #animalpersonality #cognition #quantitativegenetics doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2…
Undoubtedly, one of my most fun collaborations. Wonderful #natural #history combined with a neat field #experiment. Our 🌟NEW🌟 paper, led by the brilliant Sam Matchette, shows the hunting advantage #trumpetfish gain by #shadowing movements of herbivores. tinyurl.com/4p424mbx
Join us! We have two fully funded PhD positions available in my @WWTF VRG Group Universität Wien investigating the ontogeny and individual variation in extractive foraging. All info here: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Scientific… and jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Scientific… Please RT!
Evolution of schooling drives changes in neuroanatomy & motion characteristics across predation contexts in guppies. By Alberto Corral-López out at Nature Communications! nature.com/articles/s4146…. w Alexander Kotrschal Maddi (Maji) James Herbert-Read Wouter van der Bijl Maksym Romenskyy Niclas Kolm and others.
Deep learning reveals the role of copy number variation in the genetic architecture of a highly polymorphic sexual trait. Wouter van der Bijl did it all - selection experiment, pedigrees, neural nets, GWAS - for the architecture of color and pattern in guppies biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
🆕In a paper in NeoBiota, Davide Bottacini & his team from Wageningen U&R update on the spread of the devil #firefish in the Mediterranean Sea. ⚠️The #marinespecies is one of the most successful #invasive marine #fishes. 🗞️News story by BBC News (UK)'s BBC Wildlife. discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/f…
Can fisheries change how clever fish are? We think yes. See our reflection on cognition effects of fisheries in Trends in Ecology & Evolution sciencedirect.com/science/articl… wird Alexander Kotrschal Science of Intelligence IGB Berlin (now on Bluesky)
Predation drives life history and morphology evolution? We tested the classic textbook story of guppies and their predators 🐟🐟 Hannah De Waele Regina Vega Trejo @catarina_vp Jori Noordenbos Elizabeth Phillips Bart Pollux preprint: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…
