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DESCRIPTION:Change notice: changed location\n Conservation behavior is the 
 application of animal behavior knowledge and methodologies to help conserv
 e species and ecosystems. In order to ensure that behavioral research can 
 indeed be useful in conservation contexts\, the choice of the study system
  and research question has to be made together with conservation practitio
 ners\, and study results must be translated into feasible and actionable r
 ecommendations. Nevertheless\, in this talk I am going to focus on approac
 hing a conservation behavior problem from a behavioral standpoint\, and I 
 will use tolerance to humans in the Nubian ibex\, <i>Capra nubiana\,</i> a
 s a case study. Nubian ibex are iconic desert-adapted social ungulates tha
 t once ranged widely in North Africa\, across the Arabian Peninsula\, and 
 into the Levant\, but are now threatened throughout most of their range. T
 hey form local populations around perennial water sources\, but in recent 
 years\, some of these water sources are artificial\, and are found inside 
 human settlements. Ibex in such anthropogenic environments show increased 
 tolerance towards humans\, and this high tolerance leads to many cases of 
 human-ibex conflict which is detrimental to both humans and ibex. I will d
 emonstrate how we have applied Niko Tinbergen’s ‘four questions’ app
 roach to understand the causation\, development\, evolution\, and function
  of tolerance to humans in the Nubian ibex\, and will discuss how the insi
 ghts gained in these studies can be used to alleviate human-ibex conflict.
 \nSpeaker: Oded Berger-Tal
LAST-MODIFIED:20260119T103015Z
LOCATION:MPI-AB Möggingen\, Room: Seminar room MPI-AB Möggingen + Online
ORGANIZER;CN=Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior:mailto:refrat@ab.mpg.d
 e
SUMMARY:Institute Seminar by Oded Berger-Tal: Applying Tinbergen’s four q
 uestions to a conservation problem: Tolerance to humans in a social desert
  species
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