What we do

We are interested in animal social behaviour. Specifically, we are working on aggression, dominance, and sociality. We seek to better understand social behaviour through the integration of functional, developmental, and mechanistic approaches.

The primary system for the laboratory is the cooperatively breeding fish, the daffodil cichlid (Neolamprologus pulcher).

Areas of research:

• Agonism, dominance, and contest behaviour

• Cooperative breeding, sociality, and group living

• Neural and endocrine mechanisms of social behaviour

• Signalling and communication

• Brain evolution and plasticity

• Cognition