The ASAB Medal is a scientific award given by the

Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) is a British organization founded in 1936 to promote ethology, and the study of animal behaviour. ASAB holds conferences, offers grants, and publishes a peer-reviewed journal, '' Animal Beha ...

(ASAB). It is cast in bronze to a design by

Jonathan Kingdon Jonathan Kingdon (born 1935 in Tanzania) is a zoologist, science author, and artist; a research associate at the University of Oxford. He focuses on taxonomic illustration and evolution of the mammals of Africa. He is a contributor to The Oxford ...

, awarded "annually for contributions to the science of animal behaviour - through teaching, writing, broadcasting, research, through fostering any of these activities, or through contributing to the affairs of ASAB itself."

ASAB Medallists

* 1995

John Maynard Smith John Maynard Smith (6 January 1920 – 19 April 2004) was a British theoretical and mathematical evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Originally an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War, he took a second degree in genetics ...

* 1996

Nicholas B. Davies Nicholas Barry Davies FRS (born 1952) is a British field naturalist and zoologist, and Emeritus Professor of Behavioural Ecology at the University of Cambridge, where he is also a Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke College. Research His books with John ...

* 1997 Robert A. Hinde * 1998 Aubrey W.G. Manning * 1999 Peter J.B. Slater * 2000 John R. Krebs * 2001

P.P.G. Bateson Sir Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson, (31 March 1938 – 1 August 2017) was an English biologist with interests in ethology and phenotypic plasticity. Bateson was a professor at the University of Cambridge and served as president of the Zoologic ...

* 2002 Geoffrey A. Parker * 2003 John C. Wingfield * 2004 John Alcock * 2005

Linda Partridge Professor Dame Linda Partridge (born 18 March 1950) is a British geneticist, who studies the biology and genetics of ageing ( biogerontology) and age-related diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Partridge is currently ...

* 2006

Felicity Huntingford Felicity Anne Huntingford FRSE (born 17 June 1948) is an aquatic ecologist known for her work in fish behaviour. Career Huntingford's research interests include the aggression in sticklebacks and the welfare of farmed fish. She is the author ...

* 2007 Robert Elwood * 2008

Christopher John Barnard Christopher John Barnard (2 September 1952 – 1 June 2007) was a British evolutionary biologist, Professor of Animal Behaviour at the University of Nottingham The University of Nottingham is a public university, public research university in No ...

Gilbert, Franci
"Chris Barnard - Animal behaviourist"
The Independent, 1 September 2007, retrieved 7 March 2015 * 2009 Marian Stamp Dawkins * 2010 Michael Dockery * 2011

Alan Grafen Alan Grafen is a Scottish ethologist and evolutionary biologist. He currently teaches and undertakes research at St John's College, Oxford. Along with regular contributions to scientific journals, Grafen is known publicly for his work as co-edit ...

* 2012

Tim Birkhead Timothy Robert Birkhead One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: (born 1950) is a British ornithologist. He has been Professor of Behaviour and Evolution at the University of Sheffield ...

* 2013

Alasdair Houston Alasdair Iain Houston is an English evolutionary biologist and ecologist known for his work in behavioural ecology. He is Emeritus Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Bristol. He was elected a fellow of the Royal S ...

and John McNamara * 2014

Tim Clutton-Brock Timothy Hugh Clutton-Brock (born 13 August 1946) is a British zoologist known for his comparative studies of the behavioural ecology of mammals, particularly red deer and meerkats.Pat Monaghan Patricia Monaghan is Regius Professor of Zoology in the Institute of biodiversity, animal health & comparative medicine at the University of Glasgow. Biography Monaghan was educated at Durham University where her PhD investigated the uti ...

* 2016 * 2017

Jane Hurst Jane Louise Hurst is the William Prescott Professor of Animal Science at the University of Liverpool. She is Head of Mammalian Behaviour & Evolution. She studies scent communication between mammals, as well as animal welfare and pest control. S ...

* 2018

Innes Cuthill Innes C. Cuthill (born 1960) is a professor of behavioural ecology at the University of Bristol. His main research interest is in camouflage, in particular how it evolves in response to the colour vision of other animals such as predators. Life In ...

References

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