Distinguished Animal Behaviorist: Jerram Brown

Distinguished Animal Behaviorist address: Jerram Brown, Emeritus of SUNY Albany, Studies on Behavior and Ecology of the Mexican Jay, 1969-2004. Wednesday 8:45 -- 9:45 am

Abstract:

My research since 1957 has often depended on recognition of identifiable individuals. Such studies often result in the investigator getting to know the animals as individuals. I review here some examples of this that were bypassed in my published papers. After a brief review of our field methods I consider the complexity of social life for a single individual (XMO.OMY), his lifetime reproductive success and its correlates, the importance of "paybacks" relative to kinship in feeding young, and the possible ways be which inbreeding can be caused and avoided by dispersal.