Birgit Szabo 🦎🐸🏳️‍🌈, PhD

1. Animals are adapted to the environment: from body shape to mental abilities. But we still wonder

What shapes mental abilities?

To get an answer we need to study a broad range of animals, including 🦎 like the Tokay #gecko, a social #lizard from South-East Asia
#AnimBehav2023

Well, the cat is out of the bag now! I will be joining @ECoBird_UGent as a postdoc to work on cognition, welfare and maybe conservation in birds. New place, new group & new animal models = new and exciting research to come. I am very excited to start this new chapter!

📢 New paper allert 📢
Our new study on the ability of Tokay gecko males and females to chemically discriminate between familiar and unfamiliar mates is out now (OA) in @SpringerANCO "Olfactory cognition" @eva_ringler

doi.org/10.1007/s10071…

On the way to #ECBB2024! Looking forward to some awesome science talks this week!! If you are interested in lizard 🦎 cognition, come to my talk tomorrow in the cognition session!

My grant attempts 🤣🤣