Do you have a background in behavioural ecology and are you interested in doing a PhD in Australia? I’m looking for new grad students so check out our website (BobWongLab.org) or come find me in Torino at #ISBE2026. 🐟🐠

It's official: #Behaviour2027 is happening in Vienna next summer!

🐒 Work with primates? Have you observed 3 or more individuals grooming together? Polyadic grooming is barely documented and we know little about its distribution. Please take 1–2 minutes to fill out this short survey and share: forms.gle/cLPB1mnwrjJo...

We are excited to announce that #Behaviour2027 (XXXIX International Ethological Congress) will be taking place in Vienna, Austria! We are looking forward to having you all join us next year from August 23-27. Please follow and share!

Opportunity to pursue a doctoral thesis in the Goffin Lab and the Kea Lab The research will focus on play, exploration, and problem-solving abilities in cockatoos and kea. If exploring the minds of other species fascinates you, I highly recommend this opportunity.

@crab-exeter.bsky.social are a fantastic group of researchers, and a real beacon of excellence for Exeter. What a huge and deeply sad act of self sabotage this would be. Please consider signing their open letter👇🏻

It's official! You can now register for #ASABWinter2026 ❄️ It's nice to look forward to cooler times.😮‍💨 Deadline Aug 15

The University of Exeter have announced a programme of academic staff cuts, including all of www.exeter.ac.uk/research/gro... Sign the open letter of support at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @crab-exeter.bsky.social

Incredible. That’s Frankfurt, London, and the Smithsonian all with calls for herpetology curators open at the same time. Unheard of!

"Whose Larva Is This?" A quick guide to figure out what you're looking at when you find something that resembles a worm or a Zerg unit crawling around. #insect #bug #education #SciArt

🦎 Fascinating new insights have revealed how a Tokay gecko's sex and hatchling size are shaped by nest temperatures: doi.org/10.3897/herpetozoa.39.e165454 ➡️ Check out @pensoft.net's latest blog post for further insights from researcher Dr. Birgit Szabo: blog.pensoft.net/2026/06/12/u...

🦎 Fascinating new insights have revealed how a Tokay gecko's sex and hatchling size are shaped by nest temperatures: doi.org/10.3897/herpetozoa.39.e165454 ➡️ Check out our latest blog post for further insights from researcher Dr. Birgit Szabo: blog.pensoft.net/2026/06/12/u... #tokaygecko

Zebra finch parents change the brains of chicks inside eggs just by singing to them! Adult zebra finches sing heat songs when temperatures are high & the sound changes blood vessels in the hypothalamus, potentially protecting the chicks from heat stroke doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Does it matter whether you use focal sampling or scan sampling to collect animal behaviour data? We used simulations to find out, testing how accurate and precise each method is across a range of behaviours, study systems, and observation protocols.

Fine #sensory innervation of the contact surface of #lamellae bearing adhesive setae in the tokay gecko zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #adhesion #geckos @elissazcameron.bsky.social @amcell.bsky.social @uhl-lab.bsky.social

I am back at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia for 5 weeks and today I met an old friend 😍 the easter bluetongue skink 🦎 Oh, how I missed this place ❤️ and the people @lizardlab.bsky.social

Did you ever wonder how the pre- and post-natal environment influence Tokay gecko development in captivity? Look no further! I answer this question in my new paper published in Herpetozoa (open access): doi.org/10.3897/herp... #herps

Two postdoc positions at the Messerli Research Institute in Vienna in the research area of human-animal interactions: www.vetmeduni.ac.at/fileadmin/v/...

📢Webinar alert📢 Join us for our new webinar, together with @liftcostaction.bsky.social, as Dr Kat Wehrheim explores the philosophical journey of inter-species kinship & what indigenous perspectives can teach us about agency in relationships. ⏰ 5 pm CEST 📅 May 4th 🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We believe research should be accessible to as many readers as possible, so we are proud to announce that authors can now include a translation of their abstract in an additional language in their JEB paper For more information go to journals.biologists.com/jeb/pages/jo...

The desert rain frog's high-pitched squeak mimics a squeaky toy, serving as an effective defense when threatened. This unique frog skips the tadpole stage entirely.

Join us on campus & online on Thursday, 30 April 2026 at 1pm for a seminar by Dr Ettore Camerlenghi, Assoc Research Fellow, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University. Details: rb.gy/4tr6qx

Dr. Alice Auerspreg started our #problemsolving session off strong by introducing us to tool-based self grooming in companion bovine #CO32026 Pictured below is a slide from the presentation: Veronica the cow holding a brush handle in her mouth & scratching her posterior with the bristled side.

New paper alert 📣 We tested how a change in housing and diet (alone or together) affect parasite load in captive geckos. Only when both occur together does the parasite output increase suggesting that these manipulations induce stress. OA paper here: doi.org/10.7717/peer...

(No) Birdbrain at Docville last night🎬 Really interesting take on bird cognition and conservation. Great to see @fredverb.bsky.social and @ecobird.bsky.social research brought to the screen 🐦 A short science documentary by Lode Desmet

In one week I'll be talking about tips for reproducible R code and why science would love you to try these tips on your own code too 🧪😍🌏 It's an online talk, so feel free to watch comfortably from your couch. Hope to see you there! @sortee.bsky.social #rstats events.humanitix.com/sortee-webin...

Our TREE paper is now out in its final published form! Well done @yoricklambreghts.com for leading this and doing the heavy lifting! DM him for a PDF. @cellpress.bsky.social

Deadline for applying is 9 march. Don't miss out!

📣 I am excited to share some new collaborative work published in Biology Letter @royalsocietypublishing.org on spatial learning and lateralisation in lizards 🦎! Check out the full OA paper here: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... #AnimalCognition #ThinkLikeALizard

Three field seasons 219 lizards 🦎 >1,000 hours of behavioural video scoring Proud of Ioanna Gavriilidi for getting this major chapter of her PhD on insularity and lizard behaviur published. Serious dedication!

Sixty orchid mantis babies hatch at once, turning from fragile noodles to tiny kung fu fighters in minutes.

🦎 Funded 4-year PhD position on Lizard Evolutionary Ecology in our lab at UCLouvain (Belgium)! Apply before 9 March! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...

Want to know what we know about Crocodylian acoustics? 🐊 Read "Roars, Rumbles, and Resonance: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Crocodylian Acoustic Signals" doi.org/10.1002/ece3... #science #biology #animalbehaviour

Banded mongooses discriminate relatedness and MHC diversity in unfamiliar conspecifics #SocialCommunication #Olfaction #Recognition doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Job alert! The University of Zurich is hiring a professor for Evolutionary Anthropology and Primatology. Learn more here: www.appointments.mnf.uzh.ch/auth/Apply/0...

Humans are transforming the natural world at an unprecedented scale and rate. We, at #UCLouvain 🇧🇪, are organizing a symposium on how organisms, populations, and communities respond to these human-induced environmental changes. April 29–30, 2026! Join us: www.uclouvain.be/en/research-...

I have prepared a video summarizing the study. Please come back here after reading the thread : ) youtu.be/bAk4PFEuWKQ English also youtu.be/CETjjZBMT5c Spanish youtu.be/tkpjlCxDJZA German (Thanks to Esau Dharma for providing the Spanish voice for Witgar Wiegele!)

A fun and informative video by @zefrank.bsky.social (True Facts) about our research on Goffin's cockatoos!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq9J...

📢 The deadline for the ISBE Early Career Award has been extended to the 20th of January 2026!! See all the details here: www.behavecol.com/awards

🎉 What a way to end the year! Very excited to see our new paper on 🐭 innovation and mate choice out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.11.077 With the amazing @fragdarm.bsky.social, @valmazza.bsky.social & Anja Guenther

I had the honour of working to bring @auersperga.bsky.social’s baby to life. It’s a VERY heavy baby - over 200 references (and yes I read them all) - but necessary to do justice to our new hypothesis of combinatory tool use origins 📝👶🛠️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Our recent paper on lizard societies now online in a special issue of Animal Behaviour. DM if you want me to send you a PDF.

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🦎Tokay gecko (Gekko gecko). Called 'tokay' because that is what the sound of a male sounds like. Max. size 40 cm (15.7"). Found in tropical Asia, from northeastern India in the west to Indonesia in the east. Considered Least Concern by the IUCN. 📷by kuritafsheen77 on Freepik

Abstract (and travel award) submission deadline has been extended to the 7th of January 2026. Don’t miss the chance to submit your contribution and be part of the scientific program of ISBE2026!

2022. Are Goats Smart? Revealing Goat Intelligence. Understanding Domestic Goat Behavior and Cognition. goatjournal.iamcountryside.com/ownership/ar...

It’s a proud moment when your star exPhD student, now early career researcher, is the senior author on a Biology Letters paper in the same issue of Biology Letters as you. And to be precise, the paper above! @lizabeldm.bsky.social

"A lack of contact with nature and limited knowledge about nature can reinforce each other in a negative spiral." #Biophobia - people can fear what they don't know or understand. Education in and about nature is vital phys.org/news/2025-12...

Interested in open, reliable & transparent science in ecology & evolution? Become a member of the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology @sortee.bsky.social! Membership is open to all and it's optional to join at no cost 👉 sortee.org/join/

A huge congrats to Dr Jai Lake! Jai just gave his exit seminar at Macquarie on why lizards are social. To be slightly more precise, his PhD was about the mechanisms underlying sociality. Papers are submitted and in prep! Watch this space. Jai was cosupervised by Geoff While at Univ. Tasmania.