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Projects - dr. SA (Sjouke) Kingma
Current projects:
- Cooperation and conflict resolution in communally breeding speckled mousebirds (eSwatini / Swaziland)
- Causes and consequences of cooperative breeding in birds (comparative analyses)
- The adaptive benefits of group living, dispersal and communal breeding in Seychelles warblers (Seychellen)
- The ecological drivers of communal breeding in burying beetles (Nederland)
- Dispersal and helping behaviour in cooperatively breeding purple-crowned fairy-wrens (Australia)
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ECO2 project: human wildlife interactions & conservation
This INREF programme, ECO2, investigates, analyses, and tests key ideas for integrating ecology and socio-economics and the possibilities for... -
Cooperation and conflict resolution in communally breeding speckled mousebirds
The Social Savanna project was set up in 2017 with the goal of understanding the evolutionary drivers of sociality and cooperation in birds. -
Communication, anti-predator and territorial behaviours in the Eurasian magpie
Alarm calls have become a major interest in the study of communication complexity in animals and the evolution of language. To investigate the... -
Dispersal and sociality in cooperatively breeding purple-crowned fairy-wrens
Many animals live in social groups, yet we do not fully understand why, especially when this means they give up their own reproduction. Why do... -
Automated radio telemetry methods to uncover the social lives of birds
In this project, researchers are working on developing analytical tools and data workflows to track small, free-living animals. Until recently, it was...