#animal #behavior: Courtship displays that grab and hold attention CurrentBiology

New research shows meerkat social group membership strongly shapes gut microbiomes and beneficial bacterial co-occurrence, beyond individual health or environmental exposure. ⬇️ buff.ly/neW6LHH @krishsubramaniam.bsky.social

🚨 Come join the fantastic long-tailed tit team 🚨 🐦We are recruiting a field technician to collect behavioural data on a long-term studied population of wild long-tailed tits (passerine birds). 🪶20 months contract in Sheffield, UK. 🌲Deadline: 23/11/2025. jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...

2025. The intricate relationship between stress and animal welfare: from historical perspective to new avenues. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🧪ETHOLOGY: When the air gets dry, cockroaches huddle up! 💨🪳 Kryger et al. show that Madagascar hissing cockroaches aggregate more under low humidity — a plastic, adaptive response to desiccation risk. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1111/eth.... #AnimalBehavior #Insects #Plasticity #ClimateChange

Impact of human presence and activity on urban Eurasian red squirrels’ innovative problem-solving #UrbanWildlife #Mammal #Cognition doi.org/10.1093/behe...

PhD studentship on antimicrobial resistance in wild baboons! Fully-funded by @swbiodtp.bsky.social Application deadline: Wed 3 Dec 2025. More details: bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo.... Apply here: www.swbio.ac.uk/programme/ho... @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social @xavh.bsky.social

🧪ETHOLOGY: Imagine you wake up as a hermaphrodite marine worm - who should you trade eggs with?! 🐛💞🥚 Loubière & Lorenzi show that Ophryotrocha diadema trade eggs equally with familiar and unfamiliar partners — suggesting reciprocity without individual recognition. Read here: doi.org/10.1111/eth....

Still a few days to apply!

New paper out in iScience. We found the pattern of Guinea baboon meat transfers follows the shape of their nested multi-level society. Transfers of meat are more tolerant at the lower levels of the society and are more likely to occur along stronger social relationships. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Award alert! 🎖️🚨 Every other year, the Ethologische Gesellschaft awards the Niko Tinbergen Award to outstanding post-doc level researchers in Behavioural Biology (<=6yrs post PhD exam). ...and this year is one of these years! Please send us your nominations! 🫵 Infos: www.etho-ges.de/wordpress/aw...

‼️ Thrilled to share my first article on the Kalahari meerkats ‼️, in @animalecology.bsky.social! Group membership strongly influences gut microbiomes & especially the co-occurrence of beneficial bacteria, beyond animals' age or sex, disease status, or environmental exposure doi.org/10.1111/1365...

🧪ETHOLOGY: How does ingesting microplastics mess with fish minds? 🧠🐟 Lucon-Xiccato et al. tested if synthetic (PE) vs. biodegradable (PBAT) microplastics affects zebrafish cognition. While PE significantly reduced brain activity, learning ability didn't change. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1111/eth....

Out 🌟TODAY🌟 in the #new volume of @asab.org #AnimalBehaviour, is latest #PhD chapter from the fantastic #Chun-ChiehLiao: Functionally referential communication about danger in cooperatively breeding white-winged choughs #fieldwork #experiments With #RobMagrath #RobHeinsohn doi.org/10.1016/j.an... 1/

🧪ETHOLOGY: Condition-dependent risk-taking in mice! 🐭💥🍔 Lopez-Hervas et al. show that diet quality and body mass shape mice’s reactions to risk — heavier or better-fed individuals play it safer, supporting the asset-protection hypothesis! Read here, it's #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1111/eth....

A special type of fishing takes place in southern Brazil: dolphins drive the prey into the net. The fishermen work so closely together that even their heart rates synchronise. Discovered by a research team led by #UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social biologist @hanjabrrr.bsky.social: t1p.de/d56g3

New paper today in Proc B @royalsociety.org. We explored nest architecture in 3,685 species of birds, modelling the multivariate nature of nests, i.e. how shape, location or attachment co-occur. Then we explored how the environment affected nest architecture evolution. Spoilers in the title! 🪺🐦🌍

Spooky web patterns known as "stabilimenta" may help spiders sense prey, a new study finds, adding fresh insight to a decades-old debate about the function of these structures

New #PhD ad alert! Interested in wild #bee #cognition and #brains in different #bumblebees? Want to live in #Newcastle and the beautiful north-east of England? Check out this project with me, @lenariab.bsky.social and Sarah Scott. Contact me for further information. iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

NEW PAPER in #ornithology shows that some #raptors switched foraging strategy when #COVID19 lockdowns reduced the availability of #roadkill: buff.ly/jUug7Yj

We have an open PhD student position in evolutionary ecology in our lab @creaf.cat in Barcelona! 🦎 🌳 🦆 🐍 Applications open until Nov. 10th, 2025. Please help us spread the word! Link to position description and requirements: creaf.factorialhr.com/job_posting/... Lab website: oriollapiedralab.com

❓ Want to join us? 📢 Fully funded #PhD for UK-domiciled Black heritage candidates 🐵 Biological market monitoring & manipulation in social animals #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork 👥 With me, #LaurenBrent & #PatrickKennedy 🎓 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social ℹ️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🙏Share widely

🚨🚨Job! 🚨🚨Permanent (75% time) job! We are a pretty awesome research group & seek a manager who deals with everything: personnel tasks, organizing retreats, preparing code for teaching / data structures for research... Fluency in German & English essential. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/51527

🚨Fully-funded PhD opportunity in my group🚨 🧬How does parental ageing shape the next generation?🐾 Find out by studying meerkats! 🧪Epigenetic clocks ✨Bioinformatics 📊Long-term data 🌍Kalahari fieldwork 💡Big evolutionary questions Get in touch or APPLY NOW Please share! www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

Your chance to contribute to an exciting special issue on personality research in Personality Science! Don't hesitate to contact the guest editors (see below) to propose a manuscript

The science funding crisis threatens the careers of future #behavioral ecologists BES

#CrowCoG is hiring🚨MULTIPLE PAID RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS 🚨for our 2026 field season (May - Sep)! Field and aviary-based positions - come help us study the remarkable tool-making New Caledonian crows. Apply here: bit.ly/3WlxxHE

Now that we're properly moved in & set up in the new Life & Mind Building, we're pleased to restart our tradition of Friday afternoon seminar speakers, kicking off with Alex Thornton of @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social at 3.30pm on 31 Oct. Also live streamed: see below for details. Corvid-themed for 🎃

Exciting new work from former team members Eric Romero, Cwyn Solvi, Fei Peng and colleagues makes the cover of Science: affective contagion in bumblebees! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

An integrative, peer‐reviewed and open‐source cooperative‐breeding database (Co‐BreeD) - Ben Mocha - Journal of Animal Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

IT'S THIS TIME OF THE YEAR AGAIN!! 🧪🦢🐸🐀 Registration for the Annual Meeting of the Ethological Society is open! Join the science & networking fun in Grünau im Almtal 16-21 February 2026 univie.eventsair.com/etho26-dkcog...

🚨New paper out Our study reveals how barn owl parents coordinate nightly chick feeding. Females step up when males underperform & pairs that meet more often at the nest share work more equally boosting chick survival🦉 doi.org/10.1016/j.is... @unil.bsky.social @vogelwarte.bsky.social #movementecology

New paper: Anti-predator behaviour in Darwin’s finches after predator removal. After invasive mammals were removed from Floreana Island in 2023, how did finches adjust their anti-predator behaviour in a changed world? link.springer.com/article/10.1... Picture: A. Katsis

In a paper under review @abigaildesmond.bsky.social and I argue that self-directed tool use should be the most common form of novel (and possibly temporary) tool use, because of the immediacy of the feedback and the stability of the self as an environment. Fingers crossed it survives review! 🧪🪮🐼

📢 #CFP: Wild Animal Initiative is accepting grant applications for projects studying wild animal welfare. 🗓️ Submit your EOI form by November 14 to be considered. 🧪 #wildlife #biology #zoology #ecoevo #animalbehavior #animalbehaviour #physiology #conservation #science

🧪 ETHOLOGY: Picky or pragmatic? 🪰🌸 Crossley et al. show that three pollinating fly species differ in their innate colour preferences: Eristalis tenax loves yellow, while Calliphora stygia and Musca domestica show no strong bias—all prefer more saturated hues. doi.org/10.1111/eth.... #OpenAccess

For what seems like forever, I've wanted to know what benefits we get from our friends - or in other words, why these relationships evolved. tinyurl.com/55dnkeh7

📣 Are you interested in applied animal ethology and perceptual abilities of animals? Do you want to help us disentangle how animal emotions are modulated by their sensory environment? Then, you might be the postdoc we are looking for🌠 More info: www.slu.se/en/about-slu... #appliedethology #postcoc

Fear of novelty varies across species & individuals, impacting adaptability & survival. @themanybirds.bsky.social @drrmiller.bsky.social &co assess #neophobia in 1400 subjects from 136 #bird species, identifying phylogenetic influences & broad ecological drivers @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4haLEsN

Temperature can reverse sexual conflict, facilitating population growth doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Roberto García-Roa et al.

Is passive acoustic monitoring worth it for terrestrial mammals? 🎙️🐨 We find it's not the one for all solution, but for vocal species, yes! It's highly effective & saves lots of time and money, especially in the long-term. Find out more: doi.org/10.1111/2041... 🔈🦊🧪🌎 @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social

1️⃣ month to go! ⏰ #ABL2025, our annual international online conference is on the 13–14 Nov 🎉 6 plenaries • 24 talks • 40+ posters • 3 workshops • lively Discord chats.. and more ! 🌐 Free registration — register now! 👉 ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org

Canids seem to be the routine lovers, reusing their travel routes more than felids. This shapes hunting, encounters, and even disease spread. Insights from 1,239 GPS-tracked carnivores, including the Arctic foxes we track on Bylot Island 🧪🌿🌎🌐🦊. Read in the latest PNAS at bitly.cx/TxI2

🧪 ETHOLOGY: When missiles fly, snakes move 💥🐍 Liang et al. report that explosions from missile interceptions triggered immediate movement in snakes during armed conflict — reactions scaled with blast intensity but vanished after feeding. #OpenAccess: 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/eth.... #BehaviouralNote

⭐PhD position available!⭐ Come join us @imprs-qbee.bsky.social to study communication and collective behavior in animal groups! We're looking for someone excited to use computational approaches to tackle biological questions, using our full-group tracking datasets imprs-qbee.mpg.de/121465/analy...

ETHOLOGY: Sibling adoption in wild orangutans 🦧👭 Scott et al. report the first detailed case of sibling adoption in wild Bornean orangutansi. After maternal loss, an older sister adopted her younger sibling—accelerating independence while ensuring survival. It's #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1111/eth....

Ultrasonic signals support a large-scale communication landscape in wild mice. See our paper here: www.cell.com/current-biol... @currentbiology.bsky.social #bioacoustics

ETHOLOGY: Observing animal behaviour can be time cosuming - “Piecewise-Continuous Sampling” can offer a smart middle ground between continuous & instantaneous sampling— reducing bias and effort in behavioral data collection 🐜📹 Lynch et al. test it on harvester ants 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/eth.... #Methods

🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Within-flock heterogeneity in exploration affects flock behavior in a highly gregarious bird #AnimalPersonality #Bird #Starling doi.org/10.1093/behe...