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Species Recognition in Brood Parasitic Birds and their Hosts - Dr. Mark E. Hauber, CUNY
Tuesday, March 31, 2026, 02:00pm - 03:30pm
152 Frelinghuysen Rd, Psych Bldg., Busch Campus, Room 105
Abstract: Brood parasitic birds represent several evolutionary and ontogenetic dilemmas for researchers: how do parasites recognize their own species when raised by a different one and why do hosts accept parasitic eggs and chicks instead of rejecting them. Here I use examples from our neuroethological approaches to species recognition in both parasites and hosts to resolve these puzzles.
Bio: Dr. Mark Huber
Dr. Mark E. Hauber is a native of Hungary, a graduate of Yale and Cornell universities, and conducted postdoc research at UC Berkeley. After faculty appointments at Auckland, Illinois, and Hunter College, he is now associate dean for the sciences at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has published broadly on both the neuroethology of species recognition in songbirds and the conservation ecology of seabirds. He is a fellow of the AAAS, the Animal Behavior Society, and the American Ornithological Society.