prof.dr. M (Marc) Naguib

Professor in Behavioural Ecology

Director Wageningen Institute of Animal Sciences (WIAS Graduate School)

Please use the website link below for information about me and my research

(currently the University is being re-build so not all links are working):

http://www.behaviouralecology.nl/

http://www.behaviouralecology.nl/marc-naguib

Research interests

My research covers a range of different topics on the behavioural mechanisms, their development, function and evolution, mainly using birds as model organisms. My main research interest has been on animal vocal communication and territoriality, including the spatial and social organisation of animal societies, with a focus on songbirds as model system. For most of my research I have been using nightingales, great tits and zebra finches as model species. A current focus is on social organisation of wild zebra finches in Australia. I am also interested in conservation behaviour and human wildlife conflicts, topics on which we run two large inter-disciplinary projects (Eco2 and CONNECT projects).
Within my research lines, we cover topics such as:

• animal communication
• bioacoustics
• birdsong
• movement ecology (radio-tracking)
• spatial and territorial behaviour
• animal cognition
• social interactions and social organisation
• animal personality
• conservation behaviour 

• Lucie Burgers Stichting (1-11-2015/30-6-2031)
  Council member
• Netherlands Society for Behavioural Biology (NVG) (1-12-2020/31-12-2099)
  Society president; chair