Louis Lefebvre
Associated researcher
Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications
Pere Virgili Health Research Institute
Spain
Biography
Louis Lefebvre is professor at McGill University (Québec, Canada) and did his postdoc at Oxford University with Prof. Richard Dawkins. The non-genetic means by which new behaviours originate and are maintained and transmitted in animal populations is the focus of his research. Innovations, learning and cultural transmission are studied in the field, in captivity and with data from the literature. Most of the research is on birds; field work is conducted on nine avian species out of the Bellairs Research Institute of McGill University, Barbados, and on feral pigeons in Montréal.
Research Interest
Animal behaviour, learning, cultural transmission in birds, feeding innovations in Barbados
Publications
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"Innovating innovation rate and its relationship with brains, ecology and general intelligence Lefebvre L., Reader S.M., Sol D.2013Brain, Behavior and Evolution81: 143-145"
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"The life-history basis of behavioural innovations Sol D., Sayol F., Ducatez S., Lefebvre L.2016Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences37100"
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"Relative brain size and its relation with the associative pallium in birds Sayol F., Lefebvre L., Sol D.2016Brain, Behavior and Evolution87: 69-77"
