Megan Lambert: Unlocking animals' innovative responses to change
How do animals come up with new solutions to unfamiliar challenges? In her project, Megan Lambert (Department of Behavioural & Cognitive Biology) is investigating when and how birds innovate - a behavior important for coping with change, yet whose immediate drivers are not fully understood. Focusing on two notoriously inquisitive bird species, the kea parrot and the striated caracara, she and her team will be exploring which traits support innovation, when innovations are likely to arise under natural conditions, and how these new behaviors spread. Understanding these processes is important for revealing how behavior, cognition, and context shape animals' responses to environmental change - and how we can best support their conservation.
Merit Awards for Eduard Fadeev and Katharina Lust
Eduard Fadeev (Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology) and Katharina Lust (Department of Neuroscience and Developmental Biology) qualified for the jury hearing on the basis of the outstanding reviews of their proposals, but were not selected to receive an ASTRA Award. Instead, they were given a Merit Award in the form of reduced funding for their research project. The funding volume of a Merit Award is equivalent to that of an average FWF project.
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