Here @linde-makuya.bsky.social shows that in the central place foragers bush Karoo rat, daily ranges are a very good estimate for home ranges. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Adaptation to harshness is fundamentally different from the adaptive stress response: Results from a 20 years long case study in African striped mice zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Unfortunately the last FINE for this season had to be cancelled. But here you get a first glimpse to the FINE program in spring 2026, which will start end of February. The full program will be sent around in time.

@carsten-schradin.bsky.social @michael-griesser.bsky.social @dustinrubenstein.com @luciabruscagnin.bsky.social @vbaglione.bsky.social @odedkeynan.bsky.social @linde-makuya.bsky.social @andyradford.bsky.social @nataliekes.bsky.social @anavleitao.bsky.social @miyawarrington.bsky.social

Here we show - using long-term data of 12 years - that serum osmolality increases in striped mice in the dry season, and the harsher the dry season, the stronger the increase, indicating dehydration. @antoinestier.bsky.social @iphc-strasbourg.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...

Watch here the great talk by Cyril Grüter last night about multi-level societies in primates. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1SE...

Todays FINE 2nd December, Cyril Grüter, University of Oxford, UK Title: Evolution of Inter-Group Social Dynamics and Multilevel Organization in Primates   Zoom link opens at 16 :45 /10:45 urosario.zoom.us/j/87594920134   YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...

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/...

rdcu.be/eMwfX Overall, our findings indicate mutual tolerance between neighbours of this solitary species in relation to shared foraging grounds. This mutual tolerance may facilitate spatial overlap among kin and could represent a precursor to more complex cooperative behaviour.

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/...

FINE SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT 21 October, 11:00 New York / 17:00 Paris Ally Harari, Department of Entomology, ARO Volcani Center, Israel Title: Decision making in relation to sex in a moth YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...

Note that there will be no FINE the 7th Oct and 14th Oct. FINE will be back 21st Oct with a talk by Alli Harari.

Special FINE 30th September 2025 17:00 Paris / 11:00 New York 60min panel talks followed by 60min general discussion Zoom link opens at 16 :45 /10:45 urosario.zoom.us/j/83337249371 Meeting ID: 833 3724 9371 YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...

Ultrasonic signals support a large-scale communication landscape in wild mice: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

DONT miss todays FINE 23rd September, James Tumulty, Rhodes College, USA Title: Evidence of a selective link between cooperation and individual recognition in a paper wasp. Live on YoutTube 11:00 New York / 17:00 Paris www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...

Today FINE 9th September, Adam Reddon, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom 17:00 Paris / 11:00 New York Title: Conflict management in social fishes Zoom link opens at 16 :45 /10:45 urosario.zoom.us/j/82256099694

Join us tomorrow for the first FINE of the Fall 2025: 2nd September, Andrew Bass, Cornell University (USA) Title: Crystal Clear Brains: Benefits & Tradeoffs of Miniaturization in Danionella Fishes When: 2nd September, presentation starts at 11:00 NYC / 17:00 Paris.

FINE Fall 2025 will start in just 4 weeks. Here is the preliminary program. Stay tuned!

Here is a first glimpse of our program in fall, FINE season 11. The full program will be available in August.

Last week season 10 of Fine finished. You can watch each of the exciting talks we had in this and all previous seasons on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/@seminaronfr...

TODAYS FINE 11:00 New York / 17:00 Paeris Geoff While, University of Tasmania, Australia The Evolutionary Ecology of Family Living in Lizards Australian lizards exhibit remarkable diversity in social organization based around family life. YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...

TODAYS FINE, May 13th 2025, 11 AM NYC / 5 PM Paris Erin Siracussa, University of Exeter, United Kingdom Title: Social ageing: Toward a deeper understanding of the intersection between sociality and senescence YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...

Tuesday, May 6th 2025, 11 AM NYC / 5 PM Paris Eli Strauss, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany Title: Exploring nepotistic societies with spotted hyenas Live on zoom for subscribers. YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...

In case you missed the live FINE on Tuesday, you can watch here the amazing talk by Isabella Capelini about the evolution of parental care in amphibians. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEun...

The homepage on solitary living has just been updated. Let me know if you have any publications, commentaries, as well as descriptions of your solitary study species and yourself to be included into our next Newsletter and the homepage. solitaryliving.weebly.com/researchers....

TODAYS FINE April 29th 2025, Isabella Capelini, Queens University, Belfast, Ireland Title: Drivers and consequences of the evolution of parental care diversity in amphibians. How to attend: YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX... Zoom: Ask for the link

Bush Karoo rats sometimes eat left overs, but do not actively store food. Thus, their dried plant material -plantong - is similar to South African biltong with regards to heat conserving food, but less so in function. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Watch here last weeks FINE by Mike Webster about Sexual signals & divergence in Australian fairywrens: From genes to behavior to speciation www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNMD...

Todays FINE FINE SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT April 22nd, Martín Kowaleski Title: Life history traits and social dynamics in black and gold howler monkeys (Alouatta caraya) in northern Argentina April 22nd, presentation starts at 11:00 NYC / 17:00 Paris. YouTube www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...

April 15th, Mike Webster, Cornell University, USA Starts at 11:00 NYC / 17:00 Paris. Title: Sexual signals & divergence in Australian fairywrens: From fenes to behavior to speciation Theory suggests that social interactions play a critical role in the process of speciation.

In this paper, Qiu and Makuya study the relationship between resting metabolic rate and range size of bush Karoo rats. They show that larger range sizes provides sufficient energy to support increased RMR in female bush Karoo rats. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

African striped mice control the production and temporal dynamics of their vocalisations, addressing targeted information to specific receivers via the acoustic channel. doi.org/10.1016/j.bb...

FINE tomorrow: We are excited to invite you to participate in a discussion about the past, present, and future of FINE on April 8th. To help guide our conversation and gather your valuable insights, we created a short survey forms.gle/BWpK4Htp2Z12... YouTube www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...

Todays FINE April 1st 2025, Camille Testard, Harvard University, USA Title: Neuroethology of sociality and its role in environmental resilience YouTube www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...

If you missed the great talk by Mikey Pardo about communication in elephants, then you can watch it here www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEFJ...

March 25th 2025, Mickey Pardo, Cornell University, USA 11 AM NYC / 4 PM Paris Title: Elephant vocal communication: A promising model for language evolution. YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...

If you missed yesterdays talk from Vincent Formica about what one can learn about social structure, aging and evolution by marking 5000 long-lived beetles in a beautiful forest, then its time to watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VVD...

Todays FINE: Tuesday, March 18th 2025, 11 AM NYC / 5 PM Paris Vincent Formica, Swarthmore College, USA Title: Population age structure changes the shape of beetle society and the landscape of social selection Register to get the zoom link, or watch on youtube www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...

On the International Women`s Day we celebrate our research station manage, and by now Dr. Lindelani Makuya, postdoc in France. Without her strong dedication, the bush Karoo project and SKRS wont exist anymore.

Some solitary mammals have surprisingly social lives: what I’ve learned from a tiny South African rodent theconversation.com/some-solitar...

If you consider participating in our symposium on the “Evolution, Ecology and Mechanisms of Solitary Living” at Behaviour2025 behaviourindia2025.in/symposia.html Then send us your abstract latest by the 11th March and we will can still consider it: [email protected]

If you missed Jonathan Henshews great talk about mating and care system yesterday, then you can watch it now here www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ie5...

FINE SEMINAR Today 11 AM NYC / 5 PM Paris Jonathan Henshaw, University of Freiburg, Germany Title: Who cares and why? The coevolution of parental care and mating competition YouTube . www.youtube.com/channel/UClX.... To get the zoom link, email us at [email protected]

Great talk by Hal Whitehead about sperm whale clans yesterday. If you missed it, then watch it here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQbA...