Animal Cognition & Ecology lab

What do insects know? How do they feel? How do they make decisions? How do they coordinate their societies? These are the questions the Animal Cognition & Ecology laboratory (ACElab) seeks to address. We mainly focus on insects, especially ants and other social insects, but will study anything without a spine which can't get away fast enough. A second emerging pillar of our research is the chemical ecology of insects - what they smell, what those smells are, and why is that insect so smelly?

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