Here comes a new paper! and a great summary by @keesvanoers.bsky.social

My new paper is a contemporary review of animal games (i.e., rule-, role- and reward-based play), and how games can be leveraged in animal behaviour, cognition and welfare research following a recent proposal in humans (Allen et al 2024, Nat Hum Behav) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The first @themanybirds.bsky.social study on neophobia has finally been released as a preprint! Together with 120+ collaborators, we studied avoidance behavior in 136 bird species, revealing both phylogenetic and ecological signatures. Very proud to be involved! 🧪🪶 doi.org/10.31219/osf...

We are delighted to announce that ManyBirds Study 1 “Evolutionary drivers of neophobia across the avian clade” is now available in pre-print: doi.org/10.31219/osf... and been submitted for peer-review publication. 1/