Slater, P. J. B.

Peter Slater is Kennedy Professor of Natural History at St Andrews University in Scotland. He is a former Editor of Animal Behaviour and of Advances in the Study of Behavior and is a Past President of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour, which association awarded him its medal in 1999. In 1991 he was elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is the author of around 150 scientific papers and several books, and has been studying acoustic communication, largely in birds, for 30 years.