Award details

BBSRC David Phillips Fellowship: Contextual vocal learning and decision-making in social birds

Reference	BB/C520555/1
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Andrew Radford
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	University of Cambridge
Department	Zoology
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	331,114
Status	Completed
Type	Fellowships
Start date	01/10/2005
End date	30/09/2006
Duration	12 months

Abstract

By conducting the first experimental investigation of contextual vocal learning on a social bird species (the pied babbler), I plan to advance substantially our understanding of animal communication. Specifically, my three key objectives are to assess: (a) whether birds have the cognitive ability to learn and alter their calls depending on context; (b) when juveniles start correctly giving and responding to a variety of intraspecific and heterospecific calls; and (c) whether receivers take into account the caller's identity when responding to particular calls.

Summary

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Committee	Closed Committee - Animal Sciences (AS)
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	Fellowship - David Phillips Fellowship (DF) [1995-2015]
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

Associated awards:

BB/C520555/2 BBSRC David Phillips Fellowship: Contextual vocal learning and decision-making in social birds

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