Cammy Beyts
Research Fellow
Contact details
Address
- Street
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The Roslin Institute
Easter Bush Campus
Midlothian - City
- Post code
- EH25 9RG
Background
I completed my undergraduate degree in Zoology at The University of Nottingham where I developed a strong interest in animal behaviour and behavioural ecology. After graduating, I was employed as a research scientist in industry before returning to academia to complete a PhD in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Edinburgh in 2022. I am now a Post Doctorial researcher at The Roslin Institute. My main research interests are on individual variation in animal behaviour.
Research summary
I am a behavioural ecologist interested in within species variation in individual behaviour. I use a combination of sensor technology, experimental design and statistical techniques to answer questions about how an individual’s environment and past experiences can influence variability, both within themselves and amongst each other as well as at a group level.
During my PhD, I used amphibian tadpoles as model organism to understand the how individual variation in behaviour is influenced by environmental factors such as competition, food availability and human disturbance.
My post-doctoral research is on the behaviour of commercially bred Pekin ducks. I use multiple sources of environmental, sensor, genomic and phenotypes collected on individual ducks to improve both understanding of individuals and flock performance.