Ever feel like our culture has gone wrong? If so, we're maybe not alone. Check out this mind-bending story of the emergence of a behavioral tradition where capuchin monkeys abduct infant howler monkeys led by @zoegoldsborough.bsky.social and @bjjbarrett.bsky.social of @livingingroups.bsky.social !

Humans have many unusual traditions. But did you know animals’ strange behaviors can become culture too? Out now in Current Biology (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...) we show the rise and spread of a surprising tradition: interspecies infant abduction. Interactive timeline (www.ab.mpg.de/671374) 🧵 (1/12)

End your work week with decreasing hazard functions and truncated power laws; start your weekend with surprising similarities between meerkat, coati and hyaena behavior! Cool new research by @pminasandra.bsky.social and collaborators below & here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Heads up animal behavior researchers! Amazing opportunity: 3 3-year independent postdoctoral fellowships based in Panama at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Deadline July 15. Come collaborate with @livingingroups @MPI_animalbehav...

Zzzzzzzzzzzz! Don't sleep through the November 20 deadline! Fully funded PhD to explore how sleep shapes societies, and societies shape sleep! https://imprs-qbee.mpg.de/69052/doctoral-position-social-dynamics-of-sleep-in-baboons-from-the-lab-to-the-field @livingingroups...

4 days left to apply! Fully funded PhD within an ERC-funded project on the collective dynamics of sleeping in (baboon) groups. Come join us @imprs_qbee @MPI_animalbehav @CBehav @UniKonstanz...

For decades, women at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute @stri_panama have had to shoulder the burden of protecting themselves and each other from discrimination, harassment and sexual assault....

Trash Parrots Invent New Skill in Australian Suburbs https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/22/science/trash-parrots-australia.html?smid=tw-share

Congratulations @DanPapageorgiou ! What a fantastic defense--with a little something for everyone! #vulturineguineafowl #intergroup relationships #animaltracking #collectivebehaviour @IMPRS_OrgBio @MPI_animalbehav

Congratulations, (almost) Dr. Clatterbuck @Cocotross! Thanks for the fantastic exit seminar! and thanks for my first ever experience sitting on an all-women dissertation committee!

Need a break from the US presidential election? Learn about primate politics on @Radiolab--Democracy? Despotism? How DO baboons decide? https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/how-win-friends-and-influence-baboons @livingingroups @ariSPeshkin @DamienFarine...

I am unreasonably proud of our cat-o-lantern!

Excited to see @ClaudioMonteza and @pedroluis_ho expanding what we know about the birds of Coiba NP! Congratulations, guys! Aves de islas Jicarón y Jicarita http://www.thepanamanews.com/2020/07/aves-de-islas-jicaron-y-jicarita/ via @The Panama News

Perfect sunny afternoon during naptime... @MerlinSheldrake describes, better than I ever could, what I love about the kind of science I do 1/n

@livingingroups is searching for a scientist with international field-work experience to coordinate and support field- and lab-based research on animal behavior in the Dept. for the Ecology of Animal Societies @unikonstanz @maxplanckpress @CBehav....

How does information about the location of fossa spread through a sifaka population? Help us find out! Post-doc in the Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies @livingingroups in the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior: https://www.ab.mpg.de/209814/job_full_offer_14338079

Join us! Funded @IMPRS_OrgBio PhD positions in our new department for the Ecology of Animal Societies @livingingroups working with @RoiHarel , @MegCrofoot , @ariSPeshkin , @bjjbarrett and Susan Perry @capuchinfound. Applications due Jan 15. https://www.orn.mpg.de/projects

How do monkeys decide? Smithsonian Magazine just published a great story about the research @GraceHDavis and Lucia Torrez are doing on BCI in Panama, investigating how capuchin monkeys and spider monkeys reach (or fail to reach)...