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Staff Members - Academic
| Biological Sciences Staff | Publications |
Professor Joe Waas
| Role: |
Senior Lecturer |
| Qualifications: |
BSc (Hons) Trent PhD Cant |
| Email: |
j.waas@waikato.ac.nz |
| Location: |
R.2.21 |
| Contact: |
[+64] (7) 838 4286 |
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Research Interests:
Research activities related to the behaviour and ecology of birds, fish and mammals including studies of:
(1) animal communication;
(2) the biology of aggression;
(3) animal welfare;
(4) social factors influencing reproductive physiology;
(5) conservation biology;
(6) social recognition systems; and
(7) the ontogeny of social behaviour.
Research and postgraduate study are encouraged in the Department of Biological Sciences. All research students acquire basic research skills and a knowledge of techniques, as well as training in specialist disciplines.
See more publications [as compiled by the Department of Biological Sciences].
See current graduate students.
Click here to go to the Centre for Biodiversity and Ecology Research (CBER).
Selected Publications:
Waas, J.R., Colgan, P.W. and Boag, P.T. 2005. Playback of colony sound alters the breeding schedule and clutch size in zebra finch colonies. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B. 272, 383-388.
Nakagawa, S. & Waas, J.R. 2004. ‘O sibling, where art thou?’ – a review of avian sibling recognition with respect to the mammalian literature. Biological Reviews 79, 101-119.
Bright, A. & Waas, J.R. 2002. Effects of bill pigmentation and UV reflectance during territory establishment in the blackbird. Animal Behaviour 64, 207-213.
Nakagawa, S., Waas, J.R. & Miyazaki, M. 2001. Heart rate changes reveal that little blue penguin chicks (Eudyptula minor) can use vocal signatures to discriminate familiar from unfamiliar chicks. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 50, 180-188.
Waas, J.R., Caulfield, M., Colgan, PM. & Boag, P.T. 2000. Colony sound facilitates sex and agonistic activities in royal penguins. Animal Behaviour 60, 77-84.
Waas, J.R. & Wordsworth, A.F. 1999. Female zebra finch prefer symmetrically banded males, but only during interactive mate choice tests. Animal Behaviour 57,
Research Publications:
You may like to view publications from 1997 onwards for Professor Joe Waas
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