User:Daniel.amarante

Born
Vienna, Austria

Education
Awarded BSc in Biology from the University of Vienna, Austria in 2011 MSc by Research in Animal Cognition and Welfare at the University of Lincoln, UK

Fields
Biology, Zoological, Ecology

Thesis
"Parrots in Madagascar"

Current Job
Technical Assistant to Dahari in Western Indian Ocean island of Anjouan, since 2018.

Articles
Wilkinson, Anna & Mandl, Isabella & Bugnyar, Thomas & Huber, Ludwig. (2010). Gaze following in the red-footed tortoise (Geochelone carbonaria). Animal cognition. 13. 765-9. 10.1007/s10071-010-0320-2.

Dr. Isabella Mandl was born in Austria, studied Biology on the University of Vienna and then a MSc by Research in Animal Cognition and Welfare at the University of Lincoln, UK.

Her scientific works include collaborations with Christian Reinhard Blum, Franziska C. Schädelin, Christoph Schwitzer, Anna Wilkinson and Ludwig Huber.

She currently works for the NGO Dahari in Comoros, where she is a technical assistant to the ecology research team. Isabella’s interest in animal behaviour stems from a desire to understand the world around her (some may call it control-issues) and her passion for conservation comes from seeing first-hand what happens to the natural world if we do not protect it.

Biography
When she was around seven years old, she had already made up her mind to become a world explorer. The National Geographic was her go-to read at that age and she devoured any article on animals or different cultures. She wanted to be a female Gerald Durrell, or a journalist who would come back to report on new and exciting animals she had discovered. Her parents always supported her dreams.

Over the last decade she has been led in her career decisions by the desire to study a particular mechanism/species or to experience a particular environment. The MSc degree she completed in the UK because at that time she found the German-speaking academic environment too competitive (and generally unpalatable). She ended up working on parrots for her MSc thesis after studying fish, tortoises and geese during her undergrad. Her PhD on sportive lemurs was born out of an urge to visit Madagascar and work outside rather than in a laboratory environment, so when she was offered a place to develop and conduct her own project on the island under supervision from the University of Bristol, she took it up.

Articles
Wilkinson, Anna & Sebanz, Natalie & Mandl, Isabella & Huber, Ludwig. (2011). No evidence of contagious yawning in the red-footed tortoise Geochelone carbonaria. Current Zoology. 57. 10.1093/czoolo/57.4.477.

Wilkinson, Anna & Mandl, Isabella & Bugnyar, Thomas & Huber, Ludwig. (2010). Gaze following in the red-footed tortoise (Geochelone carbonaria). Animal cognition. 13. 765-9. 10.1007/s10071-010-0320-2.