doc. Mgr. Alice Exnerová, Ph.D.

Area of expertise: animal behaviour, comparative cognition, antipredator defence strategies, aposematism and mimicry, ornithology

Research: My team’s research centres on two main themes: (a) Evolution and function of antipredator defence strategies, such as camouflage and aposematism, where we investigate how different predators respond to prey defences, how predators learn, remember and generalise prey warning signals, and how they assess mimetic resemblance among species. Our main model taxa include passerine birds, mantids, jumping spiders, milkweed bugs, and hoverflies. (b) Comparative avian cognition, where we focus on cross-species comparisons of the performance of passerine birds in various cognitive tasks, and the effects of age and personality. 

Teaching: Cognitive Ecology, Ethology and Sociobiology, General Ornithology, Systematic Ornithology, Practical Course in Ethological Methods, Practical Course in Vertebrate Morphology.