Felicity Anne Huntingford FRSE (born 17 June 1948)[1] is an aquatic ecologist known for her work in fish behaviour.

Career

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Huntingford's research interests include the aggression in sticklebacks and the welfare of farmed fish.

She is the author and editor of several widely cited and reviewed books,[2][3] including the textbook The Study of Animal Behaviour.

Huntingford has served as president of the Fisheries Society of the British Isles,[4] the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour, and the World Council of Fisheries Societies.[5] She is Emeritus Professor of Functional Ecology at the University of Glasgow.

Awards and honours

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Huntingford was elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1996 in the discipline of organismal and environmental biology.[6]

Huntingford has presented as an invited lecturer in several named lecture series. Huntingford was awarded the 2001 Tinbergen Lecture by the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour.[7] She also delivered the 2012 Fisheries Society of the British Isles (FSBI) Jack Jones Lecture.[8]

Huntingford has been honoured with several major academic awards, including the 2006 ASAB Medal[9] and the 2013 FSBI Beverton Medal.[10]

She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in 2009.[11]

Selected published works

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Huntingford, F.A. (1976). "The relationship between anti-predator behaviour and aggression among conspecifics in the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus Aculeatus". Animal Behaviour. 24 (2): 245–260. doi:10.1016/S0003-3472(76)80034-6. S2CID 53194777.

Huntingford, Felicity (1984). The Study of Animal Behaviour. Chapman and Hall. ISBN 978-0412223204.

Huntingford, F.; Turner, A. (1987). Animal Conflict. Chapman and Hall. ISBN 9789401090087.

Thorpe, J.E.; Mangel, M.; Metcalfe, N.B.; Huntingford, F.A. (1998). "Modelling the proximate basis of salmonid life-history variation, with application to Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L.". Evolutionary Ecology. 12 (5): 581–599. Bibcode:1998EvEco..12..581T. doi:10.1023/a:1022351814644. S2CID 36023623.

Huntingford, F.A. (2004). "Implications of domestication and rearing conditions for the behaviour of cultivated fishes". Journal of Fish Biology. 65 (s1): 122–142. Bibcode:2004JFBio..65S.122H. doi:10.1111/j.0022-1112.2004.00562.x.

Huntingford, F.A.; Adams, C.; Braithwaite, V.A.; Kadri, S.; Pottinger, T.G.; Sandøe, P.; Turnbull, J.F. (2006). "Current issues in fish welfare" (PDF). Journal of Fish Biology. 68 (2): 332–372. Bibcode:2006JFBio..68..332H. doi:10.1111/j.0022-1112.2006.001046.x.

Östlund-Nilsson, S.; Mayer, I.; Huntingford, F., eds. (2006). Biology of the three-spined stickleback. CRC Press. ISBN 9780849332197.

References

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  1. ^ "Birthdays". The Guardian. 17 June 2014. p. 37.
  2. ^ Halliday, Tim (30 July 1987). "Roots of Aggression". New Scientist. 115 (1571): 57.
  3. ^ Demarest, Jack (1985). "Review of: The Study of Animal Behaviour". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 60 (1): 114. doi:10.1086/414275.
  4. ^ "History of the Society". FSBI. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  5. ^ "6th World Fisheries Congress - 2012 - Edinburgh, Scotland". World Council of Fisheries Societies. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  6. ^ "Professor Felicity Ann Huntingford FRSE". Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  7. ^ "Tinbergen Lecturer". ASAB. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  8. ^ "Symposium Theme: The Physiology of Fish Behaviour". FSBI. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  9. ^ "The ASAB Medal". ASAB. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  10. ^ "The medals". FSBI. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  11. ^ "Utsedda hedersdoktorer vid SLU (Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet)" (PDF). Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
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