🐒 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...

Who wants to spend 6 months at the Kalahari Research Centre?

You’ve seen the science of #CBehav, now see the vibe! 🎬✨ One of our brilliant students put together this incredible video using moments from the course. Turn the volume up for this one! 🎶🕺💃👇 www.instagram.com/reel/DZm8hz4... @cbehav.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social @asab.org

And just like that, the final day of #CBehav has come to an end. 😭🏜️ Tomorrow, the students and TAs begin the long journey back home. Today was all about the final presentations, and it is honestly mind-blowing what these 4 teams managed to accomplish in just 6 days of fieldwork! 🧵👇

Tomorrow is the final day of #CBehav! Time truly flies. ⏱️🏜️ Our 4 teams are working hard to finalize their data analysis and prep their big presentations for tomorrow.

Field course update from #CBehav! 🏜️📊 We have officially started project week and things are incredibly busy. The groups are out collecting data for 4 exciting projects this year! No time for a long update but here's a quick look at today's action! ☕️🏃‍♂️👇W

Day 7 of #CBehav! 🌅 We woke up before the sun and spent the morning visiting meerkats, Cape ground squirrels and yellow mongooses

​Day 6 of #CBehav! 🏜️ Yes, we skipped the Day 5 post, but we have a valid excuse. Got invited to a Party by the amazing crew here at the KRC and got back way too late for social media. 🥳🍻

Day 4 of #CBehav! 🏜️ Woke up super early to start the morning in the field observing the social dynamics of Cape ground squirrel groups. 🐿️📊

Day 3 of #CBehav kicked off with animal communication theory, followed by students heading out into the field to practice recording audio! 📻🎙️

Day 2 of #CBehav was packed! We kicked things off with @cinig.bsky.social Gall discussing observation methods and role of ethics in animal behavior research. 🐾

First day of the course 🏜️ was all about fieldwork essentials: radio comms, GPS navigation, and radio telemetry tracking.

The journey begins! 🚍 This bus is officially on standby to take the students to the Kalahari Research Centre 🇿🇦 for the @cbehav.bsky.social field course 🌅🐀🐦‍⬛🦛🦋 Make sure to watch this space, we’ll be posting updates and photos from the field! 📷✨

🐤Yellowhammers! 🎶Birdsong! 💃Individuality! 🥁Rhythm! Our #EditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal: “Yellowhammer males sing using individual isochronous rhythms and maximize rhythmic dissimilarity with neighbours” Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2026.123552

Do you love animal behavior & want to share that joy with younger folks? Write a short article on animal behavior for Frontiers for Young Minds (ages 8–15), co-authored with an undergrad! Part of an international ABS collection. Expression of interest due April 30. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🚨REPOST PLEASE! 🙏🏻 Calling all South African 🇿🇦 zoology students! You have ONE more week to apply to our Collective Behaviour Field Course 📍Two weeks at the Kalahari Research Centre 🗓️ June 2026 💸 Fully funded Application details are at www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/cbfc DM for any questions

📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us ❓Quantifying animal #movement patterns & behavioural #interactions in a changing world 👥Joint position in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social & #MacquarieUniversity 📆19th April deadline tinyurl.com/343acaev #maths #modelling #data #fieldwork #Australia 🙏PLEASE SHARE

New paper from us: "A dataset of insect sounds from 459 species for bioacoustic machine learning", published in Scientific Data, led by Marius Faiß https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-026-07123-4 #bioacoustics #datasets

Delighted to see our paper featured on the cover of the Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org Thanks Pam Hurkens for the lovely image of a heavily pregnant meerkat being weighed at our field site.

Check out our new blog post!🚨 Authors provide an overview of the animal2vec framework, including its capabilities and potential for usage in animal behavior, ecology, and conservation research 🔊 🌍 🧪 Read more here👇

Paper Out in #NYAS: Using Rhythmic Notation and Musical Analysis on Animal Communication: A Case Study on Sperm Whales🔊🐳 doi.org/10.1111/nyas... We use Western music notation to transcribe sperm whale codas. What can we learn about them using musical analysis🎼🎶?

🧪Before the day begins, meerkats share a unique ritual. After emerging from their burrows, they spend up to an hour "sunning" to warm up for the day. During this quiet time, they produce soft, tonal "sunning calls". Just standing, sunbathing, and calling. But why❓ #bioacoustics #meerkats #kalahari

🚨Watch out! A new meerkat update is coming your way tomorrow 🐾☀️ Stay tuned for a full thread 📅

After a trip to the ER for an extremely avoidable silly accident, I started wondering about the neuroscience behind being clumsy. Sounds interesting? Have a look at my post on Substack!

🧪Here is a photo of a pūkeko, standing in a wetland, not making a sound🐦 BUT... off-camera things get loud and complex. Simple sounds combine into calls and calls stack into sequences. New paper lead by @cinig.bsky.social with @cecibaldoni.bsky.social @pminasandra.bsky.social #bioacoustics

🚨🧪Listening to animals at scale is hard. animal2vec does the listening for you, automatically finding and classifying animal calls in huge datasets. Plus: MeerKAT, a massive new meerkat vocalization dataset, now public. #bioacoustics besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/99RWYS...

"misinformation is widespread in biological systems spanning levels of organization, and [...] is probably an inevitable property that inherits from fundamental constraints on biological communication systems, rather than a pathology" royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...

🚀 Guess who’s back? 🛰️🥳💫 ICARUS, our global wildlife-tracking system, returns to orbit aboard the GENA-OT satellite, which launched from Vandenberg SFB today 🎉 This is step one for ICARUS 2.0: full global coverage, smaller sensors, near-real-time. Congrats @animaltracking.bsky.social + team ICARUS

2025. Burden of a failed error culture in biologging. #AnimalWelfare #AnimalEthics via @asab.org #AnimalBehaviour www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🧠 New paper on breathing and the brain, out now @plos.org Computational Biology! 🫁 "The respiratory cycle modulates distinct dynamics of affective and perceptual decision-making" doi.org/10.1371/jour... We show how respiratory 'tidal computations' alter our decisons!

🚨Who wants to work with Kalahari meerkats? A MSc project with @mathildemartin.bsky.social at the University of Zurich. #bioacoustics 🧪

Great summary of our study by @uni-konstanz.de Thank you so much 👍🏻

🚨STOP SCROLLING, IT’S AN EMERGENCY BROADCAST📣 This message will self-destruct in 10…9…8…7…⏰ …now that I have your attention: 🧪Our new paper on Alerting Components in animal vocalization is out in AnimBehav🎉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #AnimalBehaviour #Bioacoustics #Communication

🚨New meerkat paper alert‼️

A special type of fishing takes place in southern Brazil: dolphins drive the prey into the net. The fishermen work so closely together that even their heart rates synchronise. Discovered by a research team led by #UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social biologist @hanjabrrr.bsky.social: t1p.de/d56g3

1/6 The Cooperative-Breeding Database (Co-BreeD) is alive! Co-BreeD covers key biological parameters relevant to cooperative breeding research in birds and mammals. Get your copy of this updateable & open-access database: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @animalecology.bsky.social

Less than a week left to apply!

🚨Fully-funded PhD opportunity in my group🚨 🧬How does parental ageing shape the next generation?🐾 Find out by studying meerkats! 🧪Epigenetic clocks ✨Bioinformatics 📊Long-term data 🌍Kalahari fieldwork 💡Big evolutionary questions Get in touch or APPLY NOW Please share! www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)

🔊3 years in the making OUT NOW & #OA: "Zebra finch tutees not only share the melody but also the rhythm of their tutor’s song" in #ScientificReports together with Judith Varkevisser and Michelle Spierings, APCs covered by #projectDEAL. #bioacoustics #rhythm #zebrafinch #AnimalBehavior 🧵1/6

Opportunity to join our team. Open to African students at Masters or PhD level.

Interested in a PhD in quantitative animal behavior? Applications are open through October for PhD projects starting in 2026: imprs-qbee.mpg.de/32524/apply For an inside look at the projects, let our doctoral students be your guide 👇 Videos by @alexhhchan.bsky.social

⭐PhD position available!⭐ Come join us @imprs-qbee.bsky.social to study communication and collective behavior in animal groups! We're looking for someone excited to use computational approaches to tackle biological questions, using our full-group tracking datasets imprs-qbee.mpg.de/121465/analy...

War is over, so here's a great fellowship to do a postdoc in Israel. Get in touch if interested: azrielifoundation.org/azrieli-fell...

MitWissen ist der youtube Kanal in dem ich jeden Mittwoch eine bereits publizierte Studie aus der Verhaltensbiologie auf Deutsch vorstelle. Die letzten zwei Monate war Sendepause, aber nächsten Mittwoch gehts wieder los. Bis dahin gibts hier: www.youtube.com/@MitWissenbe... 28 videos zum angucken!

Bielefeld University seeks a postdoc for a 6-year scientific assistant position in Animal Behaviour, starting March 2026. Apply by Sept 10, 2025. More info: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/arbeitsgruppen/behaviour #job

Fantastic urban ecology from ralphpeterson.bsky.social et al! 1. Fieldwork on free-ranging rats in NYC 2. Thermal imaging and ultrasonic audio 3. Social vocalizations across contexts “We transfer AI-driven methods…to the study of rats in the wild” doi.org/10.1101/2025... #prattle💬 #bioacoustics

🚨Research assistant position in the Kalahari Research Centre!

Kalahari sunsets. Nothing beats this. #Kalahari #NaturePhotography

📣 Join the K/Creative Ape Team 🤓 2 PhDs on Creativity in Wild Chimpanzees & Bonobos; w myself & the v awesome @kathelijnekoops.bsky.social @snf-fns.ch Uni Zurich @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @efp2026.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social @primbehavecol.bsky.social 🐵🧪