Day 6 of #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social and I am finally presenting, on my last PhD chapter, and my current postdoctoral work at 11:45 AM in Hall 2. If anyone is interested in butterflies, flies, ejaculate, brain, and behaviour, do come to my talk 😁🦋🪰🧠 @asab.org @wolfnerlab.bsky.social

Kanika Rawat talks about whether stress experienced in one stage is carried over to the next stage in metamorphosis using mosquito larvae! A case for cellular epigenetic inheritance as defined by Eva Jablonka? #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

@josharbon.bsky.social spoke on intergroup interactions in African mongooses #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

Gokul Valiya Parambil gave an amazing talk on weapons use and aggression behaviours in Rock Agamas! #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

Gokul Bhaskaran gave a brilliant talk on the similarities and differences in predatory aggression and conspecific aggression (both intermale and maternal aggression) in bank voles #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

Dinesh Rao spoke about how insects avoid their "not so" conspicuous (conspicuous to us) predators (obviously by considering their umwelt) #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

Dheeraj C. L tells us how sexual signalling is affected by predation risk in Agamas, by using incredibly funny cartoons 😂 #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

Anoushka Datta spoke about the correlative effects of predation (active vs ambush predators) and competition in anti-predatory behaviours of mosquito larvae #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

Andrew Spires talks about kinship and aggression in fruitflies #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org g

Lizards as pest control, Jugaad (and extortion) in Macaques, seed dispersing tortoises on the hunt for mango jelly, aggressive potential queens, and the power of press releases. A great selection of talks in the Animal Congition and its implications symposium at #Behaviour2025

@harishprakashhp.bsky.social talks about movement of mesocarnivores in a mosiac and human shaped landscapes! And students, go check out his new lab at GITAM in Vizag! #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

Shruti Unnikrishnan spoke about contrasting dominance structures in two primitively eusocial paper wasp species. #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

@coldbloodedcog.bsky.social talks about cognition in Red-footed tortoise in the context of seed dispersal. And these tortoise love mango jelly! #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

Anindya "Rana" Sinha gave an excellent historical account and used vernacular ethology in his talk on Macaques in India!

Moths with an eye for symmetry? 🌸 Join me this Saturday, the 30th, at #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social to hear all about it

Day 5 of #Behaviour2025 kicks off with a plenary by @samellisq.bsky.social on a question that I have thought about many times. Why does menopause evolve in some species but not in others? And how do social structures and conflict contribute to their evolution? @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

Balamurali GS talks about stressors' effects on cognitive biases in Bumblebees, and the transmission of such a stress to other bees! #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

@ba-whittaker.bsky.social gave an incredible talk on information bias in neat-building related cognition in zebra finches #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

Jennifer Colbourne presented on tool use emergence and selection acting on such emerged behaviour for it to become inherited and specialized! #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

@augustpaula.bsky.social showed how ants make spatiotemporal decisions using ants tethered to a virtual reality rig! That is freaking awesome!! #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

Annika Boussard looked at heatwaves and brain size linked cognition in guppies #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

@laurenguillette.bsky.social presents string pulling, nest building, and sex specific cognitive differences in learning in Zebrafinches! I knew only about bumblebees pulling strings, but this is insanely cool too! #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

Dr. Molly Cummings talks about social experience driving cognitive capacities in swordtail fish! #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

Prof Mewa Singh gave an incredible talk on the lives of monkeys in India's urban ecosystems, and how they have adapted to living in urban environments for over centuries, the conservation efforts, and policies needed in saving monkey habitats! #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

@thebeesearcher.bsky.social, Rui Oliveira, @viveknityananda.bsky.social, @coldbloodedcog.bsky.social, and Pragya Singh discuss the importance of failure and reporting failed experiments, and animal failure in cognition research! #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

#Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social Do check out my classmate from Masters and my long time friend Tripti Shukla's Vanwasi Aadiwasi stall where she has amazing artifacts made by tribal communities from Arunachal Pradesh!!!

Sanjay Sane speaks about airflow sensing by antennae (and bristles on the head) in moths which makes them initiate flight #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

Akanksha Rathore talks about lekking behaviour in blackbucks, and the use of satellite data and drones in tracking the temporal dynamics of lekking sites! Very cool! #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

Serena Ding speaks about the tower behaviour in C. elegans, used for collective dispersal on a host! This is such a cool behaviour! Check out their cool work here doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

@zwitscherarmin.bsky.social @bahllab.bsky.social talks about ontogenetic switching of zebrafish behaviour, and the underlying modes in which individuals in different life stages use cues to change (and maintain) their brightness preferences! #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

Kuo-Hua Huang: integration of social and depth information using VR in zebrafish #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

Nachum Ulanovsky: Neural basis of navigation in social bats, and how the neural basis of navigation measured in the lab inform the neuroscience of navigation in the more complex wild environments! #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

Day 3 of #Behaviour2025 kicks off with a plenary I was personally looking forward to by Gene Robinson on the genomics of social insect brains that are the basis of their complex individual and social behaviours! @behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

Intraspecific competition for host egg resource benefits foraging parasitoid wasps. A great talk by Saskya van Nouhuys! #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social

Ritabrata Chowdhury @ritabrata1907.bsky.social presented on the physical interactions between "wax running" ants and waxy surface of Macaranga trees. #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social

Radhika Venkatesan talks about tritrophic interactions between Brassicae plants, their Diamondback moth herbivores (hosts), and their ecto and endoparasitoids. Strong preferences by parasitoids based on HIPVs of different plants and larval diet odour! #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social

Dumas Gálvez presented Darwin Diaz's research on the use of vibratory cues by ants by orb weaving spiders to find acacia plants. An interesting tritrophic interaction in Panamanian forests! #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social

Aaditya Gupta presented some interesting effects of mite parasitism on female peninsular rock agama behaviours. #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social

Microbes in an animal behaviour conference!! Samay Pande talks about predator-prey dynamics by bacteria using lab experimental evolution and the evolution towards synergy and coexistence! #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social

Bodhisatta Nandy speaks about life history strategies and how they affect sexual selection and conflict. Faster development changes a lot of mating and postmating traits! #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social

Rabi Sankar Pal gives an incredible talk on an interesting mating behaviour, sperm transfer, hatchability, and female remating behaviour in Chrysomelid beetles #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social

Sanaa Khan from @katelaskowski.bsky.social lab talks about when males of Atlantic mollies transfer their sperm to sperm parasites Amazon mollies. An amazing talk with incredibly cool results! #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social

Rohini Theenoor spoke on how female preference, and number of progeny changes with age in parasitoid wasps #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social

Rui Oliveira spoke about the connections between sociality and cognitive abilities in zebrafish and flies. Many genes, and cognitive abilities associated with sociality differences in fish, while flies have variation in social vs asocial learning! #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social

Prof. Rohini Balakrishnan presented the #Behaviour2025 plenary talk on the topic of signals, mate-finding & mate choice: the importance of spatial context @CES_IISc #plenarytalk #scienceconference

Dr. Rohini Balakrishnan talked about context depended mate choice in crickets and katydids! What an incredible body of work on mate choice and sexual selection!

Hironori Mieda spoke about body size and male alternative reproductive tactics in Lampreys #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social

Biliana Todorova talks about how female cryptic choice is affected with male age and its ejaculate age. Sensory cues are incredibly important in making that decision! #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social

Dr. Imroze Khan talked about reproductive traits under thermal stress in flies! Very interesting results and a lot of potential future questions! #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social

An excellent keynote to kick off #Behaviour2025 by Dr. Susan Alberts looking at early life adversity in mothers and their intergenerational effects on their offspring! @behaviour2025.bsky.social