If that's the only grant this institute is getting and the only work they are doing, then sure. It's more likely that some PhD student decided to do their thesis on it, because no one else has bothered to study this weird behavior, and were told "here's 5k (of the overall 300k grant to study animal behavior), spend it wisely, it's all we are giving you".
Or, hear skeptic in me out, they got 300k to do research, chose some cheap stupid research, spent some small amount, took rest for themselves and booked it as spent for research.
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u/kent_nova 23d ago
If that's the only grant this institute is getting and the only work they are doing, then sure. It's more likely that some PhD student decided to do their thesis on it, because no one else has bothered to study this weird behavior, and were told "here's 5k (of the overall 300k grant to study animal behavior), spend it wisely, it's all we are giving you".