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...

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...

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

Comparative life-cycle analyses reveal interacting climatic and biotic drivers of population responses to climate change url: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

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.

Kotz, Amano & Watson show that exposure to heat extremes is associated with declines in bird populations, especially in tropical regions @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social ‪ @pik-potsdam.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our results revise prevailing theories of mammalian social evolution, revealing that pair-living emerged early, shifting the focus of mammalian social evolution from the origins of pair-living to the origins of group-living. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Here we first quantified and described bush Karoo rat lodges as an example of animal architecture, then compared conditions inside versus outside the architecture, before experimentally testing for its function.

The email-newsletter Solo-Times number 3 is now available for download. solitaryliving.weebly.com/newsletter.h...

Close encounters of the friendly kind: pacific between‐group interactions in primates - Grueter - Biological Reviews - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Front page of the New York Post.

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...

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

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....

And of course it's not just locations that it can identify. As a harmless example, it's quite good at unexposed and blurry photos of little brown birds, for example. It's easy to imagine more nefarious uses. In any case, we've written more about it at the end of our Lesson 9 in our LLM course.

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

Humans lived in African rainforests 150,000 years ago, far earlier than believed – new research theconversation.com/humans-lived...

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...

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...

Ganzheitliche Kundenzufriedenheit: Rüstungsunternehmen befragt Getroffene [Video] www.der-postillon.com/2025/04/kund...

A new understanding of why some animals evolved to be loners, and the benefits that brings, shows that a social lifestyle isn’t necessarily superior

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...

The program of our symposium is filling up. But there are still places to register as participant to listen to many exciting talks. www.stripedmouse.com/symposium-25...

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...

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...

Weil Eier knapp werden: Trump droht mit Einmarsch auf Osterinsel

Solar farms can host up to three times as many birds as crop fields – new research theconversation.com/solar-farms-...

Unwind, explore, and connect at #Behaviour2025! 🌿📸🌊 Conferences are not only about science! Choose from a variety of social event options (paid) to explore the heritage, history and biodiversity of Kolkata and make your trip unforgettable.

Kash Patel wants to criminally charge groups who received EPA grants for climate change projects. You know, like those greedy bastards at Habitat for Humanity. He thinks climate change isn't real, so he thinks these groups have committed fraud. Which of course is fucking crazy.

Make-Up-Verwechslung: Trump trägt versehentlich Eyeliner und Vance orangen Selbstbräuner

We modelled how early human ancestors ran – and found they were surprisingly slow theconversation.com/we-modelled-...

"Habe ich vielleicht nicht genügend Hitlergrüße gemacht?"– Musk sucht verzweifelt nach Ursachen für Teslas Kurseinbruch

A new chapter has begun for two of the world’s most popular preprint platforms, bioRxiv and medRxiv, with the launch of a non-profit organization that will manage them https://go.nature.com/4iCVnHL

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.

Nearly all desert animals drink water when they get the opportunity to do so, even when its full with bees!