New paper on sheep vocal expression of negative arousal using behaviour and eye thermal profiles as independent indicators for validation 🐑🐑🐑 @behaveco.bsky.social

Important read for animal welfare researchers: new paper by Roi Mandel and colleagues on what they term ‘pragmatism bias’, i.e. tendencies to focus on intensive production systems, short-term gains, and symptoms rather than root causes. It is time for a change if we want to widen our knowledge!

Elephants May Hear Ground Vibrations Through Their Bones Bone-conduction hearing in elephants and humans: a middle-ear comparative study🧪 www.frontiersin.org/journals/aud... These mechanisms may explain elephants' ability to detect ground-borne acoustic signals over long distances.

𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐙𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬' 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 [via Julie Elie & @sciam.bsky.social] 🧪🥼🐦💬 "birds not only announce who they are and what they are doing, but also use individual signatures [for recognition]" www.scientificamerican.com/article/will... #birds #animals #language #individuality

Great apes may have been laughing with a similar rhythm to modern humans for at least 15 million years, suggests study in @commsbio.nature.com. Findings suggest laughter has become faster, more variable, and increasingly influenced by the situation it occurs in. 🧪 #evosky #evolution

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 out now in TREE @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social "Constraint and convergence in the evolution of vertebrate sound production". Thanks to Christian Herbst, Coen Elemans, and @tecumsehfitch.bsky.social for a great collaboration. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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What is much more fun than watching a football match? Watching & scoring parakeet videos together 🤗 3h with 11 people spared 4 days of work for 1 student 💪🏼 @behaveco.bsky.social

My department has funding for 2-year MByRes studentships (full tuition fees and research allowance) on ecosystem resilience, broadly defined. Apply to do a project with me modelling social-ecological networks. #culturalevolution #socialnetworks ecologyconservation.exeter.ac.uk/masteer-coho...

Have a look at the final publication here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Turns out (and I know we've all suspected it) chimp culture may be way broader and richer than 39 behaviors. 😉

How do other animals experience time? It's been a pleasure to work with @singhal.bsky.social and @anilseth.bsky.social on a paper exploring how temporal illusions and other experimental strategies can shed light on this. It's our today! www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

The Trump admin is trying to dismantle a major ocean monitoring network that helps scientists track data related to climate change and ocean conditions - which would worsen weather models that save lives. Good news: some lawmakers are beginning to fight back. Articles: zurl.co/l3ouf

🎉Out today: the labour of love that's our NEW paper showing dwarf #mongooses pre-emptively change #behaviour in anticipation of #intergroup #conflict... & this depends on relative group size (threat level). 👥Led by the brilliant @josharbon.bsky.social @natecoevo.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415...

🦑 🐋 #whale #pilotwhale #shipnoise #Gibraltar "They found the mammals were able to increase the volume of their calls used for short distances, but long-distance calling was more challenging, according to their recently published study." Link to study in comments share.google/IWIEgtmWE5by...

1/4 The enormous complexity of algae fishing Researchers have studied in detail how chimpanzees in Guinea fish for algae. They prepare their tools (up to 4 m long) in advance, and use 22 different techniques. (paper) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

1/5 Goats and sheep pass the marshmallow test (with flying colors) In this study, goats were able to resist temptation for 63 seconds on average in order to obtain a better reward. Sheep waited 54 seconds. (paper) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

2026. Review: The roles of individuality and social life in shaping positive animal welfare in livestock species www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How do social networks become adaptive? From self-organisation and phase transitions to cultural learning, social networks are shaped by feedback between individual interactions and collective dynamics. Check my new @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New paper in @pnas.org - using playback experiments we provide further evidence that bottlenose dolphins can use individual identity signals + social memory to guide decision-making. Female dolphins use individual vocal labels to track coercive males | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I am very pleased to say that the new IBAC @ibacsocial.bsky.social website is out 🤗 thanks to former PhD student @romainlefevre.bsky.social for the beautiful work!: ibac.info

Chance to join the incredible banded mongoose project! 🇺🇬❤️ 3 year postdoc on the mongoose project, working on the evolution and maintenance of group identity in animal societies. The closing date for applications is 16 June 2026. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRN272/p...

🐘 “Are you talking to me?” New study by our colleagues A. Surreault-Châble et al. shows that captive Asian elephants distinguish familiar from unfamiliar human voices, and search for keepers when hearing Elephant-Directed Speech 🔊🐘 Open Access article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Join the award event for the Year 2 of the Coller Dolittle Challenge for Two-Way Interspecies Communication on the 25.6 at 15:00 UK time on Zoom link below, for a great list of talks from short-listed applicants and a plenary talk:
zoom.us/webinar/regi...

2026. Disparate social structures are underpinned by distinct social rules across a primate radiation | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Half of tropical forests have been lost, mostly for beef, driving biodiversity loss. If allowed to naturally regenerate, >90% of abundance & diversity returns & ~75% similarity to old-growth forest within 30yrs. Invasive pasture grasses prevented faster recovery. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

2025. goats failed to show behavioural differences when a familiar human's face and voice were mismatched versus matched. Heart rate changes hinted at some sensitivity to incongruency, but evidence for cross‑modal recognition of humans remains inconclusive. doi.org/10.7717/peer...

🐒 Post-doc Opportunity 🐒 ... annndd we're now also advertising a 3-year Research Fellow position at NTU as part of our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded project. More info: jamiewhitehouse.github.io/mappingconne... Apply here: vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... Deadline: 19th June :) Please repost!

2024. Review of allogrooming in ungulates found evidence for hygienic, physiological & social functions including bond formation and tension reduction. But many gaps remain, particularly in testing biological market theories and using allogrooming as a welfare indicator. doi.org/10.1111/mam....

Exciting to see our new paper exploring how human activities reshape predator–prey interactions featured on this month's cover of TREE! A big thanks to @predator-smarts.bsky.social and the team, and to Angus Emmott for the fantastic cover photo! Open-Access paper 👉 www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

2026. Seasonal shifts in muskox metabolic rates and energy expenditure are primarily governed by ambient temperature royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Is bigger always better? For social animals, group size is a dilemma: big groups face more internal competition, yet hold an edge over smaller neighbors. 33 years of data on 12 wild capuchin groups reveals how these forces shape behavior. Out today in *Nat Eco & Evo*: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am reposting this with a working link: www.survey-xact.dk/LinkCollecto...

We need your input ☺️ Please help my MSc student Mia with her work on emotion expression and how humans perceive valence in artificial sounds (based on animal sound features) by filling out this very short and anonymous survey: ‭‭https://www.survey-xact.dk/LinkCollector?key=96FZC8CDL532‬‬

1/2 Adult play Although phylogeny predicts which primates play as adults (if play exists in one species, it is more likely to exist in close ones), it is whether or not the society is tolerant (and not despotic) that best predicts this behavior (paper) royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

🚨New PhD opportunity🚨 Understanding sheep foraging decisions under heat stress conditions Location: Adelaide University Contact: [email protected] Details: stephanleu-ecology.com/phd-opportun... Application deadline: 17 May 2026

Long podcast covering many topics, from skylarks to animal emotions (while also trying to remember correctly results of studies of colleagues 😂) open.spotify.com/episode/5og7...

🐒 PhD Opportunity 🐒 I'm excited to announce that we are now welcoming applications for a 3-year fully funded PhD position at Nottingham Trent University as part of our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded project. More info: jamiewhitehouse.github.io/mappingconne... Apply here: tinyurl.com/PhDNTU

My supervisor Kano is advertising multiple open positions! Check out the doc :) Open Positions @ Kyushu Univ (Kano Lab) Postdoc / Tech staff / PhD-MSc Eye-gaze & social cognition (exp + field + CV) 🎥 youtu.be/rXT-yjQzJxU 📁 docs.google.com/document/d/1... @animalopps.bsky.social

2026. Why women leave academia: A longitudinal study of the leaky pipeline in German sociology link.springer.com/article/10.1...

new from us: "Impact of meteorological variations and provisioning on the body condition of feral cattle in a subtropical climate" led by @tania-perroux.bsky.social - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

2026. Horses’ cross-modal recognition of human emotions extends to fear vs joy www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Join the award event for the Year 2 of the Coller Dolittle Challenge for Two-Way Interspecies Communication on the 25.6 at 15:00 UK time on Zoom link below, for a great list of talks from short-listed applicants and a plenary talk:
zoom.us/webinar/regi...

📣ATTENTION!!! Postdoc position on Creativity in Wild Chimpanzees and Bonobos 🤩 With the APE Group & Wildminds Lab @nakedprimate.bsky.social Come join us!!! ✨Please RT✨ @efprimatology.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social

🦇 Ever caught a glimpse of a bat darting through the night with precision? What if sound is all they need to navigate and connect? 🚀 🎤 @berlinbatlab.bsky.social Mirjam Knörnschild (Evolutionary Ethology Lab, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin) explores echolocation, social calls & even bat dialects.

We have an open MSc Project Position at the Urban Vervet Project, and are currently looking for a motivated teammate to discover species interactions in a human altered environment 👇🏼 For more INFO👇🏼

🔊Cornell K. Lisa Yang Centre for Conservation Bioacoustics: Assistant Director positions open. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31941

Come and join our team! With an application deadline in 1 week, we're hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Ecology in the Department of Biology at University of Windsor: efhc.fa.ca2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social

New meerkat paper with Marta Manser, by former PhD student Isabel Driscoll, showing that short note calls acoustic structure differs between sentinel and sunning contexts: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🔊Out now with @lsburchardt.bsky.social @marcosqoliva.bsky.social, Kouřil & Petrusková: Yellowhammer males sing using individual isochronous rhythms & maximise rhythmic dissimilarity with their neighbours. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...