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Mandy Ridley is a Professor at the University of Western Australia, specializing in behavioral ecology. She obtained her PhD in Behavioral Ecology from Cambridge University in 2004 and has a BSc (Hons) in Animal Ecology from Lincoln University, New Zealand, awarded in 1999. Following her doctoral studies, she held postdoctoral positions at Newnham College and the University of Cape Town before joining Macquarie University as a Lecturer in 2009 and moving to UWA in 2012 as an ARC Future Fellow. Her research investigates the behaviors, reproductive success, and cognitive abilities of cooperatively breeding birds, examining how group size influences demographic and behavioral changes. She is deeply invested in understanding the impacts of climate change on animal behavior and reproductive dynamics. Throughout her career, she has secured multiple grants from the ARC for projects focused on cognitive abilities and social interactions among bird species, contributing to the fields of conservation biology and behavioral ecology.
University of Western Australia • Perth, Australia
Leading research projects in behavioral ecology and conducting undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
Macquarie University • Sydney, Australia
Teaching and conducting research in animal behavior.
University of Cape Town • Cape Town, South Africa
Researching social behavior and population dynamics of various bird species.
Cambridge University • Cambridge, UK
Studied cooperative breeding and group dynamics in relation to environmental variables.
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