• Exploration and navigation in rodents
• Interactions between raptors (barn owls, kestrels) and rodents
• Compulsive behavior in animals and humans
• Parental behavior and postnatal development in rodents

Zor R ,Keren H ,Hermesh H, Szechtman H, MortJ , Eilam D. Obsessive compulsive disorder: a disorder of pessimal (non-functional) motor behavior. Acta Psychiatr Scand, 111 (2009).

Fux M, Eilam D. How barnowls (Tytoalba) visually follow moving voles (Microtus socialis) before attacking them. Physiology & Behavior 98, 359-366 (2009).

Avni R, Tzvaigrach Y ,Eilam D. Exploration and navigation in the blind mole rat (Spalax ehrenbergi): global calibration as a primer of spatial representation. The Journal of Experimental Biology 211, 2817-2826 (2008).

Eilam D, Zor R, Szechtman H, Hermesh H. Rituals, stereotypy and compulsive behavior in animals and humans. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 30, 456-471 (2006).

Eilam D. Die hard: A blend of freezing and fleeing as a dynamic defense -

Implications for the control of defensive behavior. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 29 (2005) 1181-1191.

Eilam D. Postnatal development of body architecture and gait in several rodent species. The Journal of Experimental Biology 200, 1339 - 1350 (1997).

Lab supervisor 

Pazit Zadicario ( pazitz@post.tau.ac.il )

Ph.D. students

Rama Zor in collaboration with Prof. Haggai Hermesh (Geha Mental Health) ( zorrama@gmail.com )

Osnut Yaski in collaboration with Prof. Juval Portugali (The Departement of Geography and Human Environment)

(osnutyas@post.tau.ac.il )

Hila Keren in collaboration with Dr. Joel Mort (U.S. Air Force research lab) ( hila_keren@yahoo.com)

M.Sc. students

Rony Izhar ( ronyizha@post.tau.ac.il )

Dafna Ben Yehoshua ( dafnabe4@post.tau.ac.il )

Video clips

OCD Ritual

Zor et al., 2007

‘Looping’: a navigation mechanism in a dark open field

Zadicario et al., 2005

•  Looping in a jird in dark open field

Freezing and fleeing in voles and spiny mice

Edut and Eilam 2003, 2004

• Freeze and flee in voles

Forced babysitting in social voles

Libhaber and Eilam, 2002

• Clip 1
• Clip 2
• Clip 3

Aggressive interactions between Acomys cahirinus and Acomys russatus

Facilities

My laboratory is located at The I. Meir Segal's Center for Zoological Research. This is a unique facility, a zoo in the university campus, which belongs to the Department of Zoology and is dedicated to research, animal conservation, and education.

My office and student's room have the scenic view of the zoo. Additional student's room, experimentation room, and the collection of wild animals in the research zoo are available for our use.

Lots of video equipment, computers and other gadgets are available in my lab, including a tracking systems (Ethovision by Noldus), 24-hr video monitoring systems, infrared light sources, video cameras, etc.

Altogether, these facilities provide an excellent, efficient and pleasant working environment.

Our research animals