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Meet our symposium speaker: Dr. Jon Bielby

Dr. Jon Bielby is a Reader in Animal Behaviour at Liverpool John Moores University. Dr. Bielby has worked with amphibians and reptiles for almost 20 years, and although his initial focus was heavily conservation-based, his interests now include welfare in living collections, the pet trade, and society. This shift in emphasis has been driven by his research on amphibian chytridiomycosis, and an increasing wish to understand and cater for the needs of individual animals rather Read more…

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Meet our symposium speaker: Dr. Anna Wilkinson

Dr. Anna Wilkinson is a Professor of Animal Cognition at the University of Lincoln. Dr. Wilkinson is interested in how animals perceive the world, how they process the vast amount of information that they perceive every day and why they attend to certain aspects of their environment. In particular, Dr. Wilkinson is interested in how reptiles learn about the environment and how it alters the decisions that they make. Dr. Wilkinson’s work has revealed remarkable Read more…

By kproudfoot, ago