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The Wild Things Conference Returns Saturday, March 1, 2025 - SOLD OUT

We’re thrilled to welcome you again to learn and share your expertise with our community. We’ve put together an exciting lineup of workshops and sessions from regional and national experts, plus meet & greets, video content, exhibitors, and sponsors. With over 140 presentations and discussion panels to choose from, the in-person program engages a diverse range of topics, research, and skills, and plenty of opportunities to meet with friends, old and new.

Thank you as well to our sponsors, scholarship supporters, and exhibitors who are all helping to make this another tremendously successful Wild Things.

Tickets for Wild Things 2025 are sold out. For additional information on the 2025 conference, visit wildthingscommunity.org.

**PLEASE NOTE: Some details are subject to change.**

NOTICE: Please be advised that photos and videos will be taken during Wild Things 2025. By attending, you consent to be photographed, filmed, and/or otherwise recorded. Your attendance on this event constitutes your agreement to the use of any resulting media by Friends of Illinois Nature Preserves for promotional, marketing, or any other purpose in perpetuity, without further approval or any compensation. 

Saturday March 1, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CST
As wildlife adapts to the ever-growing human population, they may modify their behavior to survive in human-modified environments. Understanding how a species may modify their behavior, or how their development may be negatively impacted by modifications, is necessary for predicting the impacts of global change on biodiversity. I conducted an experiment to assess how anthropogenic sounds affected turtle nesting behavior and offspring development at Thomson Causeway using recorded sounds (nature, traffic, construction, and people talking). I expect that turtles exposed to anthropogenic sounds will have shorter nesting times, higher levels of boldness behavior, and higher egg retention rates than the turtles exposed to nature sounds. I also expect to find that hatchlings exposed to anthropogenic sounds during development will have lower survival rates, and higher levels of boldness behavior, than those exposed to nature sounds.
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Sara S Crow

Natural Science Technical Assistant, Northeastern Illinois University
I'm the Natural Science Technical Assistant in the Biology Department at Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU), where I prepare labs for various classes and support research initiatives. I am NEIU alumna, where I earned a bachelor’s degree in Biology with a minor in Environmental... Read More →
Saturday March 1, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CST
Rooms 21-23 & 32-34

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