Petr Veselý

Personal data

Name: Petr
Surname: Veselý
Born: 1982, Rakovník, Czech Republic

Contacts

E-mail: petr-vesely@seznam.cz
Phone: +420 38 902 2241

Theses

Veselý P. 2010
Dangerous prey recognition in avian predators
PhD thesis (pdf, 3MB)

Veselý P, 2010
Newly emerged Batesian mimicry protects only unfamiliar prey 
Rigorous thesis (pdf, 0,5MB)

Veselý P. 2006
Effect of recent food experience on warning signal efficacy in insect prey
MSc thesis (pdf, 0,2MB)

Veselý P. 2004
Reaction of great tit (Parus major) and blue tit (Parus caeruleus) to red shieldbug (Graphosoma lienatum) 
BSc thesis (pdf, 0,5MB)

Occupation

University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Faculty of Science: Assistant

Special skills

Languages – English, German, basics of Spanish and Latin
Others – watercraft licence, ringing permission

Hobbies – travelling, yachting, arts

Lectures

Zoogeography, Ornithology, Animal ecology

Selected publications

Scientific papers

Prokopová M, Veselý P, Fuchs R, Zrzavý J (2010)
The role of size and colour pattern in protection of developmental stages of the red firebug (Pyrrhocoris apterus) against avian predators
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2010, 100, 890–898 (pdf 0,5MB)

Dolenská M, Nedvěd O, Veselý P, Tesařová M, Fuchs R 2009
What constitutes the warning signals of aposematic ladybirds (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) to birds: colour, pattern or general appearance?
Biological Journal of The Linnean Society,98 (1), 234-242. (pdf 0,3MB)

Veselý P and Fuchs R 2009 
Newly emerged Batesian mimicry protects only unfamiliar prey. 
Evolutionary Ecology, DOI 10.1007/s10682-008-9281-1 (pdf 0,3MB)

Veselý P, Veselá S, Fuchs R, Zrzavý J (2006)
Are gregarious red-black shieldbugs, Graphosoma lineatum (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), really aposematic? An experimental approach 
Evolutionary Ecology Research, 2006, 8: 881–890 (pdf 0,2MB)

Posters and abstracts

Veselý P, Fuchs R (2011)
Field experiments: a potential in animal cognition research
ASAB summer meeting, August 2011, St. Andrews, UK (pdf 0,5MB).

Karlíková Z, Veselý P, Fuchs R (2011)
Recognition and discrimination of prey by great tits (Parus major)
ASAB summer meeting, August 2011, St. Andrews, UK.

Cibulková A, Veselý P, Fuchs R (2011)
Passerine birds' ability to recognize warning signal and Batesian mimicry
The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour; Summer Conference 2011; St Andrews, Scotland. 18-19 August 2011; Collection of abstracts, pp. 27 (pdf, 1,5MB)

Cibulková A, Veselý P, Fuchs R (2011)
Passerine birds’ ability to recognize warning signal and Batesian mimicry
2^nd ToK conference of CompCog meeting, July 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

Průchová A, Luhanová D, Prášková M, Veselý P, Fuchs R (2011)
Pattern as a key feature in recognition of warningly coloured prey
2^nd ToK conference of CompCog meeting, July 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

Veselý P, Cibulková A, Fuchs R (2009)
Importance of color in dangerous prey recognition in great tits. 
31st International Ethological Conference, srpen 2009, Rennes, France, Proceedings of abstracts, pp. 447. (pdf 0,5MB)

Veselý P., Fuchs R. a S. Veselá (2006)
Visual antipredatory signalization of red cotton bug – Dysdercus cingulatus (Heteroptera, Pyrrhocoridae) 
VIIIth European Congress of Entomology, September 2006, Izmir, Turkey.

Tesařová M, Dolenská M, Nedvěd O, Fuchs R, Veselý R (2006)
Antipredatory signalization of ladybirds (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)
VIIIth European Congress of Entomology, September 2006, Izmir, Turkey. (pdf 0,5MB)

Veselý P., Barcalová S., Fuchs R. a J. Zrzavý (2004)
Reaction of blue tit (Parus caeruleus) and Great tit (Parus major) to the shield bug (Graphosoma lineatum) 
10th International Congress in Behavioural Ecology ISBE, july 2004, Jyväskylä, Finland. (pdf 0,5MB)

Barcalová S, Fučíková E, Veselý P, Landová E, Prokopová M, Exnerová A, Fuchs R, Zrzavý J (2004)
Pattern of reaction to aposematic and artificially non-aposematic Pyrrhocoris apterus (Heteroptera: Pyrrhocoridae) within two genera of insectivorous birds (Parus, Sylvia)
10th International Congress in Behavioural Ecology ISBE, july 2004, Jyväskylä, Finland,. (pdf 0,5MB)