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PROGRAM

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Welcome to ASSAB 201812th - 14th July

Welcome to the 46th meeting of the Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour! We are very excited to have you at this gathering of researchers fascinated by the study of animal behaviour. Thank you so much for coming along to share your research and making this year’s conference possible.

This meeting has been sponsored by:• The University of Queensland • Griffith University • Queensland University of Technology.

Our meeting room is at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre (Glenelg Street & Merivale Street South Brisbane QLD 4101)on the Plaza level, Room P11. For easy access to the room please enter the convention centre from Grey Street and go up in the ele-vator to the Plaza level.

We hope you enjoy your time in Brisbane and at ASSAB 2018!

Warm regards, ASSAB 2018 Local Organising Committee

Karen Cheney, William Feeney, Robbie Wilson, Darryl Jones (Grif-fith), Stuart Parsons (QUT), Laurie Mitchell, Cedric van den Berg, Naomi Green.

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8:00 Registration opens

9:00-10.30

Communications workshop, ‘Re-thinking Abstracts’ with Amanda Niehaus (everyone welcome)

10.30-11.00

Morning tea

11.00-12.00

Communications workshop, ‘Re-thinking Abstracts’ with Amanda Niehaus (cont.)

12:00-13:00

Lunch (please purchase your own lunch - on this day only)

13:00 Official welcome

Session 1 (Plenary Intro and Chair: Darryl Jones)13:15Plenary

Rob Heinsohn

Colourful plumage and behaviour: par-rots move to centre stage in evolution and conservation

14:00 Alex Taylor Mental template matching as a cultural trans-mission mechanism

14:15 Dianne Brunton When facts don’t fit theory: female song, repro-ductive success, and sexual selection

14:30 Fanny-Linn Hovring Kraft*

Transgenerational effects of stress on song learning

14:45 5-min stand and stretch break

14:50 Antone Martinho Doubling the sensitive period: ducklings begin imprinting up to nine days before hatching

15:05Speed

Daniella Teixeira* Bioacoustics, behaviour and black-cockatoos: a new approach to conservation

15:08Speed

Jarrod Mesken* Geographic variation in calls of the noisy min-ers reveal underlying selection mechanisms

15:12Speed

Salit Kark Mynas vs. miners: Can behaviour help explain invasion processes?

* indicates student presenter

ASSAB 2018 Program - Thursday 12th July

ASSAB 2018 Program - Thursday 12th July

15:15-15:45

Afternoon tea

Session 2 (Chair: Naomi Green)15:45 Trevor Murray Ant navigation in a reconstructed visual

environment16:00 Jim McLean Behaviour in motion: an R package for animal

trajectory analysis16:15 Emily Baird Path integration in dung beetles

16:30 Andy Bennett How do nomadic waterbirds find water in the desert?

16:45 5-min stand and stretch break

16:50 Miriam Henze Stop sign in different colours: an aposematic colour polymorphic moth seen through the eyes of mates and predators

17:05 Ximena Nelson Modular vision in jumping spiders

17:20 Adelaide Sibeaux*

Viewing colours with dorsal and ventral retinas and its effects on spectral sensitivity

17:35Speed

Gabriella Scata* Comparison of courtship displays in squid and octopus

17:38Speed

Hong Vo* Neuronal pathways of the lateral protocerebrum of mantis shrimps

17:41Speed

Jemma Hudson* Visual acuity in the coral reef fish Rhinecanthus aculeatus: are chromatic and achromatic signals processed differently?

17:44Speed

Carl Santiago* Colour perception in a coral reef fish: examining the detectability of suprathreshold colours

17:50 Student awards presentation

18:00-19:30

Welcome function (drinks and canapés) and poster session

19:30 Informal social gathering at The Charming Squire (next to the Convention Centre)

* indicates student presenter

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5POSTERS

Alejandra Lopez Galan*

Reproductive behaviour and changes in body patterns across the lifespan of Sepia plangon

Alison Behie-Valentine

The role of natural disasters in the behavioural adaptation of primates

Braxton Jones* The administration of chemical weaponry from the Stick Insect Candovia pallida

Candice Larkin* Nest-site selection and polymorphism of the little eagle Hieraaetus morphnoides near Armidale, NSW

Chantelle Derez* Reptile survival in an urban jungle

Claire Taylor* The effect of climatic variables and host group size on egg size investment of the parasitic Horsfield’s bronze-cuckoo

Georgina Binns* Don’t eat me! Tracking warning signal variation through land-scape and time

James O’Hanlon Do ants influence the diversity and distribution of stick insects?

Luis Namad-Rohen*

The colours of octopus

Laurie Mitchell* Triggerfish uses chromaticity and lightness for object segregation

Megan Head Increased temperature disrupts chemical communication in some lizard species: the importance of local adaptation and distribu-tion

Molly Gilmour* Effect of personality on body condition of foraging herbivores in the semi-arid zone

Seer Jonathan Ikurior*

Behavioural activity levels of parasite-infected and uninfected young sheep

Thomas White Comparing colours using visual models

Valerio Tettamanti*

Ontogenetic changes of feeding behaviour in spotted unicornfish (Naso brevirostris) and their histological and molecular relationships

Vivien Rothenberger*

Does variation in background hue and saturation (chromatic noise) influence colour discrimination?

ASSAB 2018 Program - Friday 13th July

8:40 Welcome/Housekeeping

Session 3 (Plenary Intro: Will Feeney/ Chair: Scarlett Howard)8:45Plenary

Lisa Schwanz

Thermal parental effects: how parents shape the thermal world and pheno-type of their offspring

9:30 Stephan Leu Movement strategies in a prey species

9:45 Alexandra Grutter

Predator, prey, and parasites: longterm effect of clean-er presence on free-living stages of Gnathiid isopod parasites

10:00 William Feeney

Predation drives recurrent convergence of aninterspecies mutualism

10:15 Rohini Balakishnan

Predation risk of acoustic communication in a tree cricket

10:30 Meg Edwards*

To eat or not to eat: a bandicoot’s dilemma when facing predation

10:45-11:15

Morning tea

Session 4 (Chair: Fanny-Linn Hovring Kraft)11:15 Mariella

HerbersteinAnimal behaviour across landscapes – challenges for 21st century behavioural ecology

11:30 Rebecca Wheatley

Optimum escape strategy depends on both relative performance and habitat characteristics

11:45 Andreia Ramos*

Selection for male aggression enhances female aggres-sion in the siamese fighting fish Betta splendens

12:00 Wesley Webb*

Koe: open-source software to segment, manage and classify birdsong syllables

12:15 Amanda Niehaus

Fact or fiction?

* indicates student presenter

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ASSAB 2018 Program - Friday 13th July

Session 4 (cont.)12:30Speed

Misha Lavoie*

Do male house mice adapt sperm sex ratio based on social conditions?

12:33Speed

Hieu Thi Pham*

Aged female calling strategies and the response

12:36Speed

Morgane Merien*

The advantages of mating once, many times or not at all: a study of facultative parthenogenesis in female stick insects (Phasmatodea)

12:39Speed

Sarah Jane Ball*

Keep your enemies closer – social drivers of agonistic behaviors in male australian eastern water dragons

12:42Speed

Scarlett Howard*

Naïve honeybee foragers learn configured but not deconstructed flowers

12:45-13:30

Lunch

Session 5 (Chair: Will Feeney)13:30 Darryl Jones Does feeding change the behaviour of garden birds?

13:45 Jackson Owens*

The demography and movement patterns of an isolated population of macropods

14:00 Rebecca Fox Is male harassment really costly? Disentangling the costs and benefits of the opportunity to remate on female fitness

14:15 Alexis Levengood*

Dolphins keep their friends close but their enemies closer

14:30 Kasha Strickland

Safety in numbers: sex differences and among-individu-al variation in the social plasticity of water dragons

14:45 Renee Firman

Harsh environmental conditions favour the evolution of sociality in the Australian rodents

* indicates student presenter

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ASSAB 2018 Program - Friday 13th July

Session 5 (cont.)15:00Speed

Catarina Vila Pouca*

Quantity discrimination in sharks incubated under climate warming

15:03Speed

Julianna Kadar*

Tri-axial accelerometers classify fine-scale behaviours in the Port Jackson shark

15:06Speed

Coralie Delme*

Sex-based effects of morphology on the social networks of the eastern water dragon

15:09Speed

La Toya Jamieson*

You aren’t my real mum! Detection dogs’ responses to a change of handler

15:15-15:45

Afternoon tea

Session 6 (Chair: Laurie Mitchell)15:45 John Endler Local visual contrast may be more important than entire

pattern visual contrast in courting guppies16:00 Richard

PetersIncreased conspicuousness of a movement-based signal in the presence of a predator

16:15 Cedric van den Berg*

48 shades of grey - detection and discrimination thresh-olds in fish

16:30 Andrew Hunter*

Optimising behavioural strategies between competing agents: using the soccer penalty as a model system

16:45 Cassandra Mark-Chan*

Multifaceted deception in the North Island lichen moth, Declana atronivea: a morphological and behavioural investigation

17:00Speed

Biplang Yadok*

Density, population size and activity periods of African giant pouched rats (Cricetomys sp. Nov) in a West African montane forest landscape

17:03Speed

Geoffrey Hughes*

The thermal landscape as a predictor of wood turtle (Glyptemys insculpta) movements at the home range scale

17:06Speed

Lucy Farrow*

Reliability detection in a social avian species, the noisy miner

17:09Speed

Anne Gaskett

Why don’t orchid pollinators go extinct? Counteradaptations and resilience to sexual deception

* indicates student presenter

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ASSAB 2018 Program - Friday 13th July

17:15 Walk to QUT: Garden’s Point Campus (Room 421, Kindler Theatre, P-Block)

18:00Public Lecture

Prof. Rob Brooks

A diamond is not forever: the eternal conflict over the price of sex

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Walking route from Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre to QUT Garden’s Point.

Map data ©2018 Google 200 m

Walk 1.8 km, 23 minBrisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre CarPark to Kindler Theatre

ASSAB The 46th meeting of the Australasian Society

for the Study of Animal Behaviour

2018

A DIAMOND IS NOT FOREVER: THE ETERNAL CONFLICT OVER THE PRICE OF SEX

Scientia Professor Robert Brooks

Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, The University of New South Wales, Sydney.

Sex, reproduction and family living often radiate sublime beauty, infusing the arts and all of human creativity, quickening our pulses and elevating our hearts. Why, then, so much heartbreak and misery? How can sex sometimes be so intoxicating and at other times so toxic? Having spent much of my working life studying the dark side of sex in small animals, I have recently descended into the study of human relations and how Darwinian processes combine with economic and cultural forces to make sex and reproduction so complicated for individuals and for socie-ties. I will discuss ideas about sex as a social transaction, how a rising price of sex has made humans the complex cultural and economic beings we are today, and how the origins of much human conflict can be found in the battle over the price of sex.

Friday 13 July 2018, 6 pm Queensland University of Technology (QUT)Room 421 (Kindler Theater), P-Block, Garden’s Point Campus, Brisbane

Public Lecture

Prof. Rob Brooks

ASSAB 2018 Program - Saturday 14th July

8:40 Welcome/Housekeeping

Session 7 (Plenary Intro: Karen Cheney/Chair: Cedric van den Berg)8:45Plenary

Martin Stevens

Camouflaged crabs and multi-coloured prawns - how colour change and behaviour allow animals to cope with environmental change

9:30 Alexandrea Kranz

Colour pattern phenotypic divergence can be predicted by the light environment

9:45 Naomi Green*

Colour discrimination thresholds in triggerfish, Rhinecanthus aculeatus: an Ishihara-style test of animal colour vision

10:00 Kawsar Khan*

Sexual dimorphic blue bands function as intra-sexual aposematic signal in the pond damselfly

10:15 Vivek Cyriac* Digging into the evolution of conspicuous ventral coloration in the fossorial snake family Uropeltidae

10:30 Kaja Wierucka*

Sensory cues and their role in recognition in Australian sea lions

10:45-11:15

Morning tea

Session 8 (Chair: Morgane Merien)11:15 Erin

Powell*Physiological costs of bearing weaponry in New Zea-land harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones)

11:30 Alan Vincent* Investigating the effects of environmental change on sexual behaviour, conflict, and female fitness in seed beetles

11:45 Michelle Roper*

Sexual dimorphism of the New Zealand bellbird syr-inx: the potential influence of syrinx size on frequen-cy range and song complexity

12:00 Miguel Bedoya-Pérez

Sexual selection in capybaras: a female perspective

* indicates student presenter

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Session 8 (cont.)12:15 Danielle

SulikowskiFluctuating asymmetry and structural laterality: divergent functions of patterns of facial asymmetry

12:30Speed

Melissa Griffin*

How the availability of habitat affects the forma-tion of harems in the bark beetle Ips grandicollis

12:33Speed

Alfonso Aceves-Aparicio*

Investigation of the defense-based mating system in two-tailed spiders

12:36Speed

Priscilla Wehi

Alpine weta forage their way to winter

12:39Speed

Tasmin Rymer

Bold doesn’t mean smart: personality and cognition in the fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat

12:42Speed

Ondi Crino Effects of developmental stress on mitochondrial function

12:45-13:45

Lunch and AGM (to be held in P11)

Session 9 (Chair: Alexis Levengood)

13:45Plenary

Tanya Latty

Beyond the brain: decision making and in-formation processing in ant colonies and slime mould amoebas

14:30 Samuel Aguilar*

Making a quick escape: trade-offs between time and risk in solving mazes

14:45 Ashton Dickerson*

Nocturnal song rate and its relationship with lunar light intensity in the willie wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys)

15:00 Christopher Johnson*

How do roads influence the movements of birds in Brisbane?

15:15 Sarah Khalil*

Plasma carotenoids predict plumage phenotype in the red-backed fairywren

15:30 Anita Freudmann*

Foraging ecology and roosting behaviour of Eastern tube-nosed bats

* indicates student presenter

ASSAB 2018 Program - Saturday 14th July12

ASSAB 2018 Program - Saturday 14th July

15:45-16:15

Afternoon tea

Session 10 (Chair: Erin Powell)16:15 Federica Poli Effects of ovarian fluid on sperm traits and its implica-

tions on cryptic female choice in zebrafish16:30 Christina

PaintingHigher mating success but no survival cost to being large in the New Zealand giraffe weevil

16:45 Stephen Zozaya*

Using pheromones to understand Australia’s cryptic lizard diversity

17:00 Rebecca Moss*

Male-male competition and species interactions

17:15 5-min stand and stretch break

17:20 Bruno Buzatto

Correlated evolutionary response between alternative male morphs and sexes

17:35 Lisa Evans How intra-colony differences in bumble bee learning ability influences their foraging choices

17:50 Pariya Tork* Pathways of ocular entrainment in Marpissa marina (Araneae, Salticidae)

18:05Speed

Eve Cooper* Ageing with a silver-spoon: a meta-analysis of the effect of developmental environment on senescence

18:08Speed

Iván Beltrán*

Can reproductive behavioural traits buffer the effect of climate change in lizards? Testing a species with variable incubation duration

* indicates student presenter

18:15 Conference photo and dinnerSkyroom, Brisbane Convention and Exhibition CentrePresentations: Best 15-min student talk, Best student speed talk, Best student poster, Photo and Video winners, Trivia Winners

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List of Delegates

First Name Last Name Institution Email Alfonso Aceves Macquarie University alfonso.aceves-aparicio@hdr.mq.edu.au Samuel Aguilar Argüello University of Canterbury audaxthirteen@gmail.com Emily Baird Lund University emily.baird@biol.lu.se Rohini Balakrishnan Indian Institute of Science brohini@iisc.ac.in Sarah Ball University of the Sunshine Coast sarah.ball@research.usc.edu.au Miguel Bedoya-Pérez The University of Sydney miguel.bedoyaperez@sydney.edu.au Alison Behie-Valentine Australian National University alison.behie@anu.edu.au Iván Beltrán Macquarie University ivan.beltran@students.mq.edu.au Andy Bennett Deakin University andy.bennett@deakin.edu.au Georgina Binns Macquarie University georgina.binns@hdr.mq.edu.au Robert Brooks University of New South Wales rob.brooks@unsw.edu.au Dianne Brunton Massey University d.h.brunton@massey.ac.nz Bruno Buzatto Macquarie University bruno.buzatto@gmail.com Karen Cheney The University of Queensland k.cheney@uq.edu.au Eve Cooper Australian National University eve.cooper@anu.edu.au Ondi Crino Deakin University ondi.crino@deakin.edu.au Vivek Cyriac Indian Institute of Science

Education and Research vivek.philip14@iisertvm.ac.in

Coralie Delme University of the Sunshine Coast coralie.delme@gmail.com Chantelle Derez The University of Queensland chantelle.derez@uqconnect.edu.au Ashton Dickerson The University of Melbourne ashtond@student.unimelb.edu.au Megan Edwards The University of Queensland megan.edwards@uqconnect.edu.au John Endler Deakin University John.Endler@deakin.edu.au Lisa Evans Plant and Food Research lisa.evans@plantandfood.co.nz Lucy Farrow University of New England lfarrow3@une.edu.au William Feeney The University of Queensland w.feeney@uq.edu.au Renee Firman University of Western Australia renee.firman@uwa.edu.au Diana Fisher The University of Queensland d.fisher@uq.edu.au Jade Fountain University of New England jfounta3@myune.edu.au Rebecca Fox Australian National University rebecca.fox@anu.edu.au Celine Frere University of the Sunshine Coast cfrere@usc.edu.au Anita Freudmann Queensland University of

Technology a.freudmann@qut.edu.au

Anne Gaskett University of Auckland a.gaskett@auckland.ac.nz Molly Gilmour Macquarie University molly.gilmour@hdr.mq.edu.au Naomi Green The University of Queensland naomi.green@uqconnect.edu.au Melissa Griffin Deakin University mgri@deakin.edu.au Alexandra Grutter The University of Queensland a.grutter@uq.edu.au Megan Head Australian National University megan.head@anu.edu.au Robert Heinsohn Australian National University Robert.Heinsohn@anu.edu.au Miriam Henze The University of Queensland m.henze@uq.edu.au Mariella Herberstein Macquarie University marie.herberstein@mq.edu.au Fanny-Linn Hovring Kraft Deakin University f.hovringkraft@deakin.edu.au Scarlett Howard RMIT University scarlett.howard@rmit.edu.au Jemma Hudson The University of Queensland jemma.hudson@uqconnect.edu.au Geoffrey Hughes University of New England ghughe20@myune.edu.au Andrew Hunter The University of Queensland r.wilson@uq.edu.au Seer Ikurior Massey University S.Ikurior@massey.ac.nz La Toya Jamieson The University of Queensland la.jamieson@uqconnect.edu.au Chris Johnson Griffith University christopher.johnson2@uqconnect.edu.au Darryl Jones Griffith University d.jones@griffith.edu.au Braxton Jones Macquarie University braxton926@gmail.com Julianna Kadar Macquarie University julianna-piroska.kadar@hdr.mq.edu.au Salit Kark The University of Queensland s.kark@uq.edu.au Sarah Khalil Tulane University sarah.khalil93@gmail.com Kawsar Khan Macquarie University kawsar.khan@mq.edu.au Alexandrea Kranz Deakin University xandy.kranz@deakin.edu.au Candice Larkin University of New England clarkin6@myune.edu.au Tanya Latty University of Sydney tanya.latty@sydney.edu.au

Misha Lavoie University of Western Australia 21833982@student.uwa.edu.au Stephan Leu Macquarie University stephan.leu@mq.edu.au Alexis Levengood University of the Sunshine Coast Alexis.levengood@research.usc.edu.au Alejandra Lopez Galan Queensland Brain Institute a.lopezgalan@uq.edu.au Cassandra Mark-Chan University of Auckland cmar167@aucklanduni.ac.nz Antone Martinho University of Oxford antone.martinho@zoo.ox.ac.uk Paul McDonald University of New England paul.mcdonald@une.edu.au Jim McLean Macquarie University jim_mclean@optusnet.com.au Morgane Merien University of Auckland morganemerien@gmail.com Jarrod Mesken University of New England jmesken@myune.edu.au Laurie Mitchell The University of Queensland laurie.mitchell@uqconnect.edu.au Rebecca Moss James Cook University rebecca.moss1@my.jcu.edu.au Trevor Murray Australian National University trevor.murray@anu.edu.au Luis Nahmad-Rohen University of Auckland nahmadluis@gmail.com Ximena Nelson University of Canterbury Ximena.nelson@canterbury.ac.nz Amanda Niehaus The University of Queensland a.niehaus@uq.edu.au James O'Hanlon University of New England johanlon@une.edu.au Christina Painting University of Auckland chrissiepainting@gmail.com Richard Peters La Trobe University richard.peters@latrobe.edu.au Hieu Pham The University of Melbourne thip3@student.unimelb.edu.au Federica Poli University of Western Australia federica.poli@uwa.edu.au Erin Powell University of Auckland epow209@aucklanduni.ac.nz Andreia Ramos University of Saint Joseph andreia.ramos@usj.edu.mo Lucy Ransome Griffith University lucyransome@hotmail.com Julien Renoult CEFE-CNRS julien.renoult@gmail.com Michelle Roper Massey University m.roper@massey.ac.nz Vivien Rothenberger The University of Queensland v.rothenberger@uq.edu.au Tasmin Rymer James Cook University Tasmin.Rymer@jcu.edu.au Carl Santiago The University of Queensland carl.santiago@uqconnect.edu.au Gabriella Scata Queensland Brain Institute g.scata@uq.edu.au Lisa Schwanz University of New South Wales l.schwanz@unsw.edu.au Adélaïde Sibeaux Deakin University asibeaux@deakin.edu.au Jay Stafstrom University of New South Wales jstaf@huskers.unl.edu Martin Stevens The University of Exeter Martin.Stevens@exeter.ac.uk Kasha Strickland University of the Sunshine Coast Kasha.strickland@research.usc.edu.au Danielle Sulikowski Charles Sturt University danielle.sulikowski@ymail.com Claire Taylor Australian National University claire.j.taylor@anu.edu.au Alex Taylor University of Auckland alexander.taylor@auckland.ac.nz Daniella Teixeira The University of Queensland d.teixeira@uq.edu.au Valerio Tettamanti Queensland Brain Institute v.tettamanti@uq.edu.au Pariya Tork University of Canterbury pariatork.ac@gmail.com Cedric van den Berg The University of Queensland ced.vdb@gmail.com Catarina Vila Pouca Macquarie University catarina.vilapouca@mq.edu.au Alan Vincent Australian National University Alan.Vincent@anu.edu.au Hong Vo Queensland Brain Institute h.vo1@uq.edu.au Erin Watson The University of Queensland erin.watson@uq.net.au Wesley Webb Massey University w.webb@massey.ac.nz Priscilla Wehi (McAllum) Te Punaha Matatini wehip@landcareresearch.co.nz Rebecca Wheatley The University of Queensland r.wheatley@uq.edu.au Thomas White University of Sydney thomas.white@sydney.edu.au Kaja Wierucka Macquarie University / Universite

Paris-Sud kaja.wierucka@hdr.mq.edu.au

Kelly Williams La Trobe University 18287806@students.latrobe.edu.au Robbie Wilson The University of Queensland r.wilson@uq.edu.au Biplang Yadok University of Canterbury biplang.yadok@pg.canterbury.ac.nz Jochen Zeil Australian National University jochen.zeil@anu.edu.au Stephen Zozaya James Cook University stephen.zozaya@my.jcu.edu.au

Thank you to everyone who helped in the organisation of this conference:

Karen Cheney, Ondi Crino, Will Feeney, Naomi Green, Jemma Hudson, Darryl Jones, Alejandra Lopez Galan,

Laurie Mitchell, Stuart Parsons, Vivien Rothenberger, Carl Santiago, Cedric van den Berg

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