Mind bender: how neuroactive drug pollution impacts wildlife cognition. This Project aims to investigate how widespread contamination by neuroactive drugs affects wildlife cognition and survival, and

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Mind bender: how neuroactive drug pollution impacts wildlife cognition. This Project aims to investigate how widespread contamination by neuroactive drugs affects wildlife cognition and survival, and thus, the ecological communities they inhabit. It expects to generate new mechanistic insights into the emerging threat of pharmaceutical pollution across different scales of ecological complexity, from controlled laboratory experimentation to studies in the wild. Expected outcomes include new knowledge of direct relevance to chemical risk assessment and regulation. Findings should contribute significantly to understanding how wildlife respond to palpable environmental hazards, and enhance the evidence base for managing and securing biodiversity and vulnerable water resources—both in Australia and globally.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 3103 - Ecology. Lead: Prof Bob Wong