ERC Consolidator Grant · 2020
Navigating, Decision-Making and Sociality, Studying Behavior in the Wild from Birth to Adulthood
In the movie the ‘Truman Show’, Truman Burbank is astonished when discovering that he spent his entire life in a TV show. Monitoring a human’s life is unethical, but many sociologists secretly dream about running such an experiment. Behavior-Island will allow to continuously monitor and manipulate a large population of bats from birth to adulthood. Behavior-Island will be established on Mauritius - the home of P. niger, which is a very interesting bat-model that: (a) lives for decades relying on long-term memory; (b) roosts in large colonies and is highly social; (c) exhibits immense spatio-temporal memory; and (d) is large enough to carry many sensors allowing to track its pups from day…
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