Felicity Anne Huntingford

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This so ...

(born 17 June 1948) is an

aquatic ecologist An aquatic ecosystem is an ecosystem formed by surrounding a body of water, in contrast to land-based terrestrial ecosystems. Aquatic ecosystems contain communities of organisms that are dependent on each other and on their environment. The two ...

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 and editor of several widely cited and reviewed books, including the textbook ''The Study of Animal Behaviour.'' Huntingford has served as president of the

Fisheries Society of the British Isles The Fisheries Society of the British Isles is an international, non-political, learned society, based in the United Kingdom, that supports scientific activity in fish biology and management through charitable sponsorship. Membership is open to anyo ...

, 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 ...

, and the

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Awards and honours

Huntingford was elected to the

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in 1996 in the discipline of organismal and environmental biology. Huntingford has presented as an invited lecturer in several named lecture series. Huntingford was awarded the 2001 Tinbergen Lecture by the

. She also delivered the 2012

(FSBI) Jack Jones Lecture. Huntingford has been honoured with several major academic awards, including the 2006 ASAB Medal and the 2013 FSBI Beverton Medal. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in 2009.

Selected published works

References

External links

Faculty website at University of Glasgow
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