Jenny Coomes

Jenny graduated from the University of Exeter’s Penryn campus in 2015 with a BSc in Zoology. Throughout her three years she established a keen interest in ornithology, animal behaviour and evolution. For her third year project she worked on colour change and camouflage in shore crabs and having enjoyed designing and carrying out a research experiment, she was inspired to continue on at the Penryn campus to do a Masters by Research in 2016. Her Masters thesis was entitled “Collective responses to antipredator recruitment calls in the jackdaw” with Dr Alex Thornton and the Cornish Jackdaw Project. She has now just completed her PhD with Professor John Quinn and the Evolutionary Ecology of Cognition team at UCC. Her thesis was entitled "Cognition and personality when deciding what to eat: foraging plasticity and diet in the great tit".