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 Behaviou ...

(ASAB). It is cast in

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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 Oxfor ...

, 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 mathematical and theoretical biology, theoretical and mathematical evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Originally an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War, he ...

* 1996 Nicholas B. Davies * 1997 Robert A. Hinde * 1998 Aubrey W.G. Manning * 1999 Peter J.B. Slater * 2000 John R. Krebs * 2001 P.P.G. Bateson * 2002 Geoffrey A. Parker * 2003 John C. Wingfield * 2004 John Alcock * 2005

Linda Partridge 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 Weldon Profe ...

* 2006 Felicity Huntingford * 2007 Robert Elwood * 2008 Christopher John BarnardGilbert, Franci
"Chris Barnard - Animal behaviourist"
The Independent, 1 September 2007, retrieved 7 March 2015 * 2009

Marian Stamp Dawkins Marian Stamp Dawkins (born Marian Ellina Stamp; 13 February 1945) is a British biologist and professor of ethology at the University of Oxford. Her research interests include vision in birds, animal signalling, behavioural synchrony, animal ...

* 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-edi ...

* 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 a British ornithologist who is Regius Professor of Zoology in the School of biodiversity, one health & veterinary medicine at the University of Glasgow. Education Monaghan was educated at Durham University where her PhD ...

* 2016 * 2017 Jane Hurst * 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 C ...

* 2019 Alex Kacelnik * 2020 Leigh Simmons * 2021 Anne Magurran * 2022

Nicola Clayton Nicola Susan Clayton (born 22 November 1962CLAYTON, Prof. Nicola Susan
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* 2023 Ben Hatchwell * 2024 Rebecca Kilner

References

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