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Very glad that this is finally out! Former PhD student Bing found that wild plains zebras use visual and tactile cues to decide when to move as a group. Thanks to Cedric Sueur for the collaboration!

Plains zebra (Equus quagga) group movement decisions are associated with visual and tactile behaviours performed by initiators, followers and non-followers - Behavioral Ecology and SociobiologyDiverging needs often occurs among group members, prompting group-living animals to engage in collective decision-making, such as coordinating collective movement. Existing models classify these decis...link.springer.com

I had the pleasure to write a commentary in Science about the very comprehensive paper by @quentinbacquele.bsky.social et al. (same issue), on the factors influencing birdsong across the world. Link to my commentary: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/..., originally paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Birdsong diversity across the worldBirdsong motifs are shaped by evolutionary history, biological traits, and environmental constraintswww.science.org

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

Acoustic markers of negative arousal in lambs: Evidence from behavioural and eye thermal profilesVocalisations are known indicators of emotional arousal in animals, but their assessment using simultaneously collected physiological and behavioural …www.sciencedirect.com

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!

Frontiers | Pragmatism bias in farm animal welfare scienceA fundamental role of farm animal welfare science is to generate evidence-based knowledge on animals’ needs and well-being to inform decision-makers, and ult...www.frontiersin.org

Coming up in two days! 🤗

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

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

International Bioacoustics Society (IBAC) | Since 1969Welcome to the International Bioacoustics Society. Join our global community studying biological sounds, animal communication, and eco-acoustics.ibac.info

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

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...

How AI Could Help Us 'Talk' to Animals - Dr. Elodie Mandel-Briefer - #15open.spotify.com

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:
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Coller Dolittle Challenge for Two-way Inter-species Communication - Second Annual Awards. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joi...Join us for the Coller Dolittle Challenge Awards, a live virtual ceremony celebrating cutting‑edge research in animal communication. Hosted by the Jeremy Coller Foundation in partnership with Tel Aviv...zoom.us