Identification
            Personal identification
- Full name
- Renata da Silva Mendonça
Citation names
- Mendonça, R.S.
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- FE1C-6C0E-4B82
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-7689-099X
Email addresses
- re.mendonca@proton.me (Personal)
Telephones
- Mobile phone
- 
                           - 913707359 (Personal)
 
Knowledge fields
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Behavioural Sciences Biology
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | 
| Spanish; Castilian | Upper intermediate (B2) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | 
| French | Intermediate (B1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Intermediate (B1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Intermediate (B1) | 
Education
            | Degree | Classification | |
|---|---|---|
| 2013/04 - 2017/05 Concluded | Primate Behavior and Cognition (Doctor) Major in Primate behavior Kyoto Daigaku Reichorui Kenkyujo, Japan "Development and behavior of wild immature Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus morio) in Danum Valley" (THESIS/DISSERTATION) | |
| 2010/10 - 2012/08 Concluded | Human Evolution and Biology (Mestrado) Major in Biological Anthropology Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal "Chimpanzee’s social cognition and behavior mediated by touch panel tasks" (THESIS/DISSERTATION) | 18 | 
| 2007/09 - 2010/07 Concluded | Biologia (Licenciatura) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal "Bachelor project: Relationship between a couple of common gibbons (Hylobates lar) and their offspring in Lagos Zoo" (THESIS/DISSERTATION) | 15 | 
| 2009/10 - 2010/02 Concluded | Biologia (Bachelor) Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 
Affiliation
            Science
| Category Host institution | Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020/05/01 - 2023/03/31 | Postdoc (Research) | Kyoto Daigaku Yasei Dobutsu Kenkyu Center, Japan | 
| Kyoto Daigaku Yasei Dobutsu Kenkyu Center, Japan | ||
| 2019/04/01 - 2020/04/30 | Postdoc (Research) | Kyoto Daigaku Koto Kenkyuin, Japan | 
| Kyoto Daigaku, Japan | ||
| 2017/04/01 - 2019/03/31 | Postdoc (Research) | Kyoto Daigaku Reichorui Kenkyujo, Japan | 
| Kyoto Daigaku Reichorui Kenkyujo, Japan | 
Projects
            Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2017/05 - Current | Garranos horse studies in Northern Portugal Post-doc
                                     Kyoto Daigaku Yasei Dobutsu Kenkyu Center, Japan Kyoto Daigaku Koto Kenkyuin, Japan | Nihon Shokubutsu Bunrui Gakkai | 
Outputs
            Publications
| Book chapter | 
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| Conference paper | 
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| Conference poster | 
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| Journal article | 
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| Magazine article | 
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Activities
            Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/03/03 | Comparing the Social Relationships of Feral Horses during Breeding and Non-breeding Season Using Drones and GPS Tags | The 17th International Symposium of Primatology and Wildlife Science. Kyoto, Japan | 
| 2021/07 | Affiliation patterns and social dynamics in a population of Garranos population in Serra d'Arga | The 1st International Congress of Equinology and Equestrian Tourism, Município de Viana do Castelo, Portugal  (Viana do Castelo, Portugal) | 
| 2019 | Feral horses’ reactions to dead and dying conspecifics | Third Kyoto Workshop on Evolutionary Thanatology: Death in Non-humans, and Human Perspectives Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan) | 
| 2019 | Collective departure in feral horses | The 12th International Symposium of Primatology and Wildlife Kyoto University (Kyoto) | 
| 2019 | Estimation of force working between individuals in feral horses | ASAB summer conference University of Konstanz (Kontanz, Germany) | 
| 2019 | Investigating the causes of adult and foal disappearance/mortality in feral horses, North of Portugal: A preliminary approach on prey-predator interactions | 11th PWS, Primate and Wildlife Science Symposium Kyoto University (Kyoto) | 
| 2019 | Mechanism to maintain group cohesion: communication of feral horses (Equus cavallus) living in Serra d¿Arga, Portugal | Protolang 6  (Lisboa, Portugal) | 
| 2019 | Lateral position preferences in feral horses | Behavior 2019  (Chicago) | 
| 2019 | Collective departure in feral horses: combining wild animals with drone | SWARM2019: The 3rd International Symposium on Swarm Behavior and Bio-inspired Robotics  (Okinawa) | 
| 2019 | Behavioral responses of feral horses toward dying and dead conspecifics | The 14th International Conference on Environmental Enrichment  (Kyoto, Japan) | 
| 2018 | Social behavior of feral horses in Serra d'Arga, North of Portugal | First international scientific Horse meeting Sorbonne University, France (Chantilly, France) | 
| 2018 | Presentation of the results on the study of feral horses in Serra d’ Arga, Northern Portugal | II Seminar “Percursos do Homem e do Garrano no Noroeste Português Municipality of Viana do Castelo (Lanheses, Portugal) | 
| 2018 | The portuguese horses of Serra d'Arga | Agir Pour la Biodiversité. Comprendé la Biodiversité et ses enjeux UNESCO (Paris, France) | 
| 2018 | Lateral Position preference in feral horses. | 10th PWS, Primate and Wildlife Science Symposium Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan) | 
| 2018 | Investigating the causes of adult and foal disappearance/mortality in feral horses, North of Portugal: A preliminary approach on prey-predator interactions. | 9th PWS, Primate and Wildlife Science Symposium Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan) | 
| 2018 | Mothers and Other Groups React to Injured Foals in Feral Horses (in Japanese) | The 37th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Behavior Society of Japan  (Kyoto, Japan) | 
| 2018 | Female responses during harding in the harem group: analysis of motion using aerial photography and motion tracking | The 31st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Equine Science  (Tokyo, Japan) | 
| 2017 | Launching a new project to study feral horses in Serra d’ Arga, Northern Portuga | I Seminar “Percursos do Homem e do Garrano no Noroeste Português”, Lanheses, Portugal Municipality of Viana do Castelo (Viana do Castelo, Portugal) | 
| 2017 | The relationship between pregnancy of wild Borneo Orangutan and fruit productivity | The 6th International Seminar on Biodiversity and Evolution Kyoto University  (Kyoto, Japan) | 
| 2017 | The ecology of female social behavior and maternal behavior in feral ponies, Serra d’Arga | 7th PWS, Primate and Wildlife Science Symposium Kyoto University ( Inuyama, Japan) | 
| 2017 | Vision behavior in wild horse group: Verification of synchronicity at group / individual level (in Japanese) | Joint meeting of Japanese Society of Livestock Management Applied Animal Behavior Society  (Hyogo, Japan) | 
| 2016 | Mother-infant interactions, behavior and development of immature orangutans in Borneo | II Primate research symposium in the Amazon forest . National Primate Center  (Pará, Brazil) | 
| 2016 | Analysis of Spatial Behavior in Feral Horses (in Japanese) | The 35th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Animal Behavior  (Niigata, Japan) | 
| 2016 | Mother-offspring interactions before weaning and behaviour of immature orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus morio) in Danum Valley, Borneo | Joint meeting of the International Primatological Society and the American Society of Primatologists International Primatological Society  (Chicago, United States) | 
| 2016 | Why do orangutans develop slower than other great apes? A study on a Bornean population | 31st International Congress of Psychology  (Yokohama) | 
| 2016 | Mother-offspring interactions and immature behavior in wild Bornean orangutans in Malaysian Borneo: Implications for orangutan development | 4th PWS, Primate and Wildlife Science Symposium Kyoto Universite ( Inuyama, Japan) | 
| 2016 | Studies on spatial behavior of a population of feral horses using drones (in Japanese) | The 61st Primates Workshop  (Inuyama, Japan) | 
| 2015 | Mother-infant behavior in wild Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus morio) in Danum Valley Conservation Area: implications for conservation | Rainforest Ecology & Conservation in Borneo  (Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia) | 
| 2015 | Mother-offspring interactions before weaning and behavior of immature wild Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygameus morio) in Danum Valley | II Bio Anthropological Meeting: life, death and in between University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal) | 
Supervision
| Thesis Title Role | Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 - Current | Social behavior of two lemur species in captivity Co-supervisor | Ecologia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal | 
| 2021 - Current | Feeding behaviour of feral horses in Arga mountain: Differences in forage selection between sexes Co-supervisor | Ecologia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal | 
| 2019 - Current | Examining the possible mechanisms and adaptive significance of single and multi-male groups in Horse societies (Unofficial
                                 co-supervision) Co-supervisor | Kyoto Daigaku Yasei Dobutsu Kenkyu Center, Japan | 
| 2018/04 - 2021/03 | Spatial positioning of individuals within groups of feral horses (Unofficial co-supervision) Co-supervisor | Kyoto Daigaku Yasei Dobutsu Kenkyu Center, Japan | 
| 2019 - 2020 | Evidence of lateralization in social interactions in a population of feral horses Co-supervisor | Neurociências Cognitivas e Comportamentais (Master) Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigacao, Portugal | 
| 2018 - 2019 | Patterns and behavioural determinants related to wolf predation on free-ranging horses Co-supervisor | Biodiversidade, Genética e Evolução (Master) Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal | 
| 2017 - 2018 | Auditory enrichment on two primate species, Common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) and green monkeys (Chlorocebus sabaeus) in
                                 Maia Zoo Co-supervisor | Evolução e Biologia Humanas (Master) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal | 
Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 - Current | II Bio Anthropological Meeting: life, death and in between. Coimbra, Portugal  (2015) Conference (Co-organisor) | Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal | 
| 2013 - Current | I Bio Anthropological Meeting: life, death and in between. Coimbra, Portugal  (2013) Conference (Co-organisor) | Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal | 
| 2023/02/01 - 2023/11/04 | 2º Encontro aberto de Primatologia  (2022/11/04) Meeting (Co-organisor) | 
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event | Event name Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021/11 - Current | Class on the evolution of reproductive behavior and sexual selection, Advanced Course in Global Ecology, Institute of Education
                                 and Citizenship, Portugal (2 hours) (in Portuguese) Seminar | Advanced Course in Global Ecology | 
| 2017/10/25 - 2017/10/27 | Invited lecture on Social learning and social intelligence in Primates (6 hours)  (in Portuguese)
                                 Subject: Primate Cognition, Master course of Human Evolution and Biology, Life Sciences Department, 
                                 University of Coimbra, Portugal Other | Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal | 
Committee member
| Activity description Role | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 - 2016 | Member of GEEvH committee (Group of Studies in Human Evolution,Portugal) Member | Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal | 
Consulting
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/04/01 - 2023/09/30 | Consultadoria especializada na área da valoração dos SE e das metodologias e formas de cálculo do valor económico e natural. Levantamento da estimativa de valores económicos dos serviços dos ecossistemas chave de cada uma das 12 Reservas da Biosfera e apoio na execução de análises multi-critério. | Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal | 
Evaluation committee
| Activity description Role | Institution / Organization | Funding entity | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 - Current | Member of the Selection Committee of Claudia Sousa Memorial Fund for the Advancement of Portuguese Primatology. Primate Research
                                 Institute, Kyoto University Evaluator | Kyoto Daigaku Reichorui Kenkyujo, Japan | Nihon Shokubutsu Bunrui Gakkai | 
Distinctions
            Award
| 2016 | Award for poster presentation in the 4th Primatology and Wildlife Science congress Kyoto Daigaku, Japan | 
| 2013 | ITP-HOPE overseas research and training grant, September 2013 Kyoto Daigaku, Japan | 
| 2013 | ITP-HOPE overseas research and training grant, April 2013 Kyoto Daigaku, Japan | 
