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————————————————13th November 2025————————————————
1st session — 6:00AM GMT to 9:00AM GMT
6:15AM | PLENARY: V V Binoy, Understanding the ‘Tiger of the River’: Behavioural insights to support conservation of the freshwater megafish mahseer
7:15AM | BREAK/Posters session
8:00AM | Náyade Álvarez Quintero, Heatwaves during embryonic development reveal duration-dependent effects in zebrafish
8:20AM | Eszter Matrai, Cognitive enrichments provide insight into social dynamics and cooperation in dolphins groups
8:40AM | Syamira Syazuana Zaini, A Multi-Modal Behavioral Assessment of Post-Ovariohysterectomy Pain and Stress in Cats
1st Side Event
12:00PM | Francisca Sconce; Andy G.Howe and Ellen Rotheray, Connecting Science and Society: Insect Outreach in Action
2nd session — 2:05PM GMT to 5:10PM GMT
2:05PM | PLENARY: Amir Patel, Studying Cheetahs Through The Lens of Robotics
3:05PM | BREAK/Posters session
3:50PM | Denise Nery, Visual Learning Performance in Foragers of the South American Bumblebee Bombus pauloensis
4:10PM | Pizza Chow, Impact of Human Presence and Activity on Urban Eurasian Red Squirrels' Innovative Problem-Solving
4:30PM | Matías Muñoz, Optimal tuning not required: birds communicate effectively with mismatched auditory filters
4:50PM | João de Almeida, The hottest or the brightest? Evaluating which climatic factor determines investment in mating behaviors of a conspicuous dragonfly
3rd session — 10:05PM GMT to 00:45AM GMT
10:05PM | PLENARY: Floria Mora-Kepfer Uy, Parasites exploit plasticity to reprogram social wasps
11:05PM | BREAK/Posters session
11:25PM | Laura Cuaya, The Sound of Fun in Dogs: Acoustic and Behavioral Markers of Play-Panting
11:45PM | Ipshita Gayen, Preparing for winters: Social influences on seasonal caching in Black-Capped Chickadees
00:05AM | Jean-Noël Houchat, Long-term aversive memory is promoted by the presence of conspecifics in the lobster cockroach Nauphoeta cinerea
00:25AM | Nicole St jacques, Anthropogenic Noise Disrupts Habituation to Conspecific Song in Zebra Finches
———————————————14th November 2025———————————————
1st session — 8:00AM GMT to 9:20AM GMT
6:15AM | PLENARY: Wen-Sung Chung, Inside Out: sexual dimorphism and neural plasticity shape the brain and behaviour in octopuses
7:15AM | BREAK/Posters session
8:00AM | Lena Dressler, Cryptic Vocal Communication in the Proboscis Bat (Rhynchonycteris naso)
8:20AM | Hassani Ahamada Nouwair, Feeding behavior of the red-fronted brown lemur (Eulemur rufifrons) at the Kirindy dry forest, western of Madagascar
8:40AM | Andani Mavhila, Assessing short-term stress responses in captive African elephants (Loxodonta africana) using novel behavioural and physiological measurements
9:00AM | Sourabh Biswas, Enough to Share? A Field Test of the Resource Dispersion Hypothesis in Urban Carnivore
2nd Side event
12:00PM | Sakina-Dorothée Ayata, Using the right media to convey the right message to the right target audience: lessons learned from my experiences in science communication
2nd session — 2:05PM GMT to 5:10PM GMT
2:05PM | PLENARY: Anna Stöckl, An insect’s view on flowers: from nectary guidance to pattern recognition
3:05PM | BREAK/Posters session
3:50PM | Yuri Matos, Size is almost everything: males, but not females, choose partners based on size in the spider Trichonephila clavipes
4:10PM | Jack Brand, Pharmaceutical pollution alters river-to-sea migration success in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
4:30PM | Blake Morton, Wild raccoons are more innovative but not bolder than another ecological generalist, the Virginia opossum, on a pull-string task
4:50PM | Lara Morales, Nest Defense in related antarctic top predators: Links to reproduction and thopic ecology
3rd Side Event
7:00PM | Thibaud Monnin; Erica van de Waal and Gopal Murali, Research Adaptation in the Face of Climate Change: Insights from Animal Behaviour
3rd session — 23:25PM GMT to 00:45AM GMT
10:05PM | PLENARY: Sabrina Amador-Vargas, Building nests among ants: are fungal rhizomorphs in bird nests ant deterrents?
11:05PM | BREAK/Posters session
11:25PM | Pushkar Wagh, Ontogenetic variation in thermal tolerance and behavioral thermoregulation in the Asian common Toad, Duttaphrynus melanostictus
11:45PM | Santiago Meneses, Inactive leaf-cutter ants play a crucial role in task allocation during colony workload shifts
00:05AM | Debottam Bhattacharjee, Does seasonal home range expansion behaviour in feral water buffalo depend on vegetation density?
00:25AM | William Botta, The complex interplay of sensory systems affecting mass behavior in zebrafish
