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Activities and Meetings Future meetings of the Ethologische Gesellschaft Zürich, 17 ‐ 19 February 2011 Dear colleagues, Activities and Meetings it is a great pleasure to invite you to the next topical meeting of the Ethological Society, which will take place in Zürich, 17.‐19.2.2011. The topic will be on cooperation and conflict. However, we have reserved two sessions for free contributions, and of course we will accept posters of an any subject as well. Therefore, we hope to provide an attractive setting for behavioural biologists in general. Also, as you will see from the list of invited speakers, the approaches taken by these guests is very variable, ranging from physiology to evolutiony biology. Confirmed plenray speakers are: Sarah Brosnan (Geogia State University), Mike Cant (University of Exeter), Franjo Weissing (University of Groningen), Carsten Schradin (University of Zürich), and Nina Wedell (University of Exeter). The website with more detailed information concerning, travel, accommodation, program, etc. will soon be up. Claudia Fichtel will announce this information in a separate email. Deadline for abstract submission will be the 31 st of December. Mid January, contributors will be informed whether their presentation will be oral or a poster. We are looking forward to welcoming you in Zürich Barbara König and Redouan Bshary Future meetings of the Ethologische Gesellschaft For the forthcoming years, we encourage proposals for such topical conferences, which have been quite successful since we started these meeting in 2006. Organizers are free to choose a main topic for the conference as well as the size and duration of the meeting. We prefer meetings to be scheduled in February, to avoid overlap with other commitments during the main “conference and holiday seasons”. From our own experience, having the meetings at your own place is fun and inspiring. The workloads of organizing the meeting also is not too high, given that after all the meetings will remain comparatively small and thus are ideal for discussions and vigorous exchange of ideas. 27
Reports from previous conferences THE HOTTEST CONFERENCE OF THE YEAR! Activities and Meetings What do you normally do with the program booklet you receive at a conference? Probably, you mark the talks you plan to attend. You might write down comments or ideas you get during an interesting lecture. Maybe you even paint little stars or boxes while waiting for a less exciting presentation to end. Now, please imagine a lecture hall, where almost all the audience is fanning themselves air with the program booklet. Different techniques are applied: Some fold the booklet in the middle, to have a more robust hand fan. Some hold it on the long edge; some on the small. Some with the right hand; some with the left. Some fan quickly; some slowly. But all fan. Welcome to the V European Conference on Behavioural Biology! Like every two years, behavioural biologists from all over Europe met to discuss results, exchange ideas and chat with old colleagues. This year the ECBB took place in Ferrara, Italy. Choosing an Italian city in the mid of July resulted in the supposedly hottest conference of the year. Despite the extreme temperatures, Leonida Fusani, associate professor at the University of Ferrara, and his team, managed to organise a sympathetic and successful conference. Elisabetta Visalberghi started the series of talks, by presenting the fascinating tool using abilities of capuchins: Those little monkeys not only use stone tools to crack open nuts. They also carefully select and transport the most appropriate tool for a specific task; an ability so far mostly associated with great apes and humans. The human abilities of tool use could be observed on the next day: Redouan Bshary, presenting the well‐deserved Tinbergen award to Katharina Hirschenhauser with warm and appreciatory words, applied all his manual skills to unwrap the bouquet of flowers. After finally receiving award and flowers, Katharina gave us an appealing overview of her work on hormones and behaviour. We learnt that the self‐perception of a fighter might be more important in the activation of testosterone associated genes than the actual outcome of the fight. In her plenary talk, Joan Strassmann gave an interesting introduction on the concept of organismality, applying this to her groups present work on Dictyostelium discoideum. Her vivid and inspiring presentation could even bring a true mammalogist to forget that it is "only" microbes, she is talking about. While Joan succeeded in presenting a whole world in a petri dish, Martin Wikelski needed the entire globe. He gave us a broad overview of what he and his co‐workers were and are achieving with the help of aircrafts, online databases (e.g. http://www.movebank.org/) and possibly NASA. And also, what he might be doing, if there was the money for it. To get a better grip on this money, he suggested, we European behavioural biologists should unite forces. Also Joan Strassmann had an idea of how corporative behaviour could improve our working success: She proposed, everybody should 28
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