Bird songs share surprising similarities with human music and speech, according to a large-scale Science study comparing vocalizations across hundreds of bird species and dozens of human languages. https://scim.ag/4BDPWTt

Pervasive patterns in bird songs resemble those in human speech and song and are independent of vocal learning

Bird songs are often described as analogs to human speech and songs, but expansive comparisons are necessary to determine analogy and mechanistic substrates. By analyzing global corpora consisting of ...

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The Bouba and Kiki effect exists in dogs too This is further evidence that this cross-modal relationship is not unique to language. Nor is it unique to interaction with humans, as it also occurs in newborn chicks. (paper) royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

📢Two fully funded #PhD options at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social: Intergroup communication & conflict in mountain gorillas tinyurl.com/3b389a4s @robinmorrison.bsky.social Ecology and conservation of migratory birds under global change tinyurl.com/5n7f79yk @fyguo.bsky.social 📆Deadline: 13th Dec 2026

Exciting EPSRC-funded PhD opportunity to develop tech and software to record and understand wild animal behaviour. Based @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful Cornwall. Supervisors: Alex Thornton (@cornishjackdaws.bsky.social), @kjhockings.bsky.social & Monica Craciun Apply: tinyurl.com/v79p8en8

“Primate Cultures, Human Evolution and Conservation: Building a Collaborative Research Agenda for West Africa.” 📅 21 October 2026 ⏰ 1:00 PM GMT | 3:00 PM Paris time 👉 Zoom registration: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Please note that you will need to register through Zoom, even when preregistered.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Inaugural IRL ChiMP4IC Online Symposium_Primates cultures, human evolution and conservation. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about ...

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I am recruiting for a 2-year postdoc position with our group at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior! Learn more & apply here: tinyurl.com/3n88uv2p Deadline: 20 Dec 2026 Start date: Flexible in 2027 @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social

Postdoctoral position (m/f/d) | Oceanic Collective Intelligence

We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher to join this collective effort in 2027, focusing in particular on questions concerning social foraging and collective behavior in two oceanic predator-prey sys...

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🚨🐵Primate Job: @plasticprimates.bsky.social have teamed up with @monkeyforest.bsky.social and we have a postdoctoral researcher position opening to explore Barbary macaque population and conservation genomics. Details are here (tinyurl.com/mr275rrm) but feel to reach out to me with any questions!

🧑‍🎓 [Jan-June 2027] We offer two 6-month research projects (Master's thesis or gap-year internship) on meerkat vocal communication 🎤 at the University of Zurich 🇨🇭 Check it out! mathildemartin-research.com/wp-content/u...

We are offering 3 #PhD positions in our Ecology of Animal Societies Department @livingingroups.bsky.social at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior - check them out! imprs-qbee.mpg.de/66685/current

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Join us for your bachelor or master projects on Japanese macaque affect & cognition at the Affenberg Research Station in Austria. Details in the photo 👇 Write to us: affenberg.lewi@univie.ac.at / debottam.bhattacharjee@uni-goettingen.de Project abstract link: gepris.dfg.de/project/5630...

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

Le Lab International de Recherche ChiMP4IC lance son 1er symposium en ligne: "Cultures des primates, évolution humaine & conservation : construire un agenda collaboratif de recherche pour l’Afrique de l’Ouest" 📆 21 oct, 15h–18h, UTC+2 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 Inscrivez-vous dès maintenant: www.chimp4ic.org/general-5

📣🎓 Open #PhD Position (3.5 years) 🎓📣 Want to come work with me on culture and social bonds in apes? 🐵 Apply to join my new group in the @livingingroups.bsky.social at @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social. Full job posting: imprs-qbee.mpg.de/131133/cultu... Deadline 📅 23 October 2026 Please share widely!

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Using AI to ‘talk to animals’ might make us feel clever – but what, if anything, does it do for them?

As animal behaviorists increasingly use AI in their research, they grapple with how to wield the technology responsibly

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‼️Field work position ‼️ We are looking for a research assistant for chimpanzee field work in Cote d'Ivoire, starting November. 🐵🌳📹 Have field experience, speak French, and want to study chimps with us? Take a look and reach out!

Please sign the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Nonhuman Primates, which calls for recognition and protection of primates as sentient beings with their own interests, cultures & dignity. Sign here: forms.gle/h5X8eAQHyBSh... #Primatology #AnimalEthics #Conservation #Biodiversity #AnimalLaw

🚨Master's project on dog cognition🚨 Are you a Master's student? Into animal behaviour? Do you think dogs are cool? We've got a project for you. Check the flyer below 👇

What would it take for AI to decode animal communication? In our new opinion piece, we argue that animal signals should not be understood only by how similar they sound, but by how the receiver perceives them. 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

The Horizon MSCA Postdoc fellowship deadline is approaching: url-shortener.me/OLZ3 If ur a postdoc interested in endangered primate (Barbary macaque) genomics, we (www.plasticprimateslab.com) have a lot data ready to go + more samples on the way! Pls get in touch before 10 August if interested.

Interested in animal urbanization and human wildlife co-existence, join our team this fall 👇🏼

Urban Vervet Project@urbanvervetproject.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨🐒Join the Urban Vervet Project! We are currently looking for a research assistant to strengthen our on-site team at the beautiful Simbithi Eco Estate in South Africa. More info below 👇 @sofiaforss.bsky.social

Research Assistant at TCP wanted: Want to observe behaviour of wild chimpanzees? Want to live in a tropical rainforest? Want to protect endangered wildlife? If YES and you are interested in science, here is your chance. Apply here 👇 JOBS | Mysite share.google/npb1Knr0B3vP...

🐒 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...

Polyadic grooming in primates

survey about observations of polyadic grooming in primate species

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🚨🐵 Paid primate work: We are seeking a new camp and research coordinator for the Born To Be Wild Project; Tazekka National Park, Morocco: Details here (sadly due to funding constraints only available for EU, and potentially UK applicants at a push): groups.google.com/a/g-groups.w...

Human language is incredibly complex. But why do some primates have richer vocal repertoires than others? Open access paper in Primates: we ask what explains that variation and how lifespan, brains, groups, & conflict have shaped primate vocal communication. Open Access: rdcu.be/foZ5M 🐒🧪Thread 👇

Beautiful work by @stephaniellaura.bsky.social @stephanielking.bsky.social @mandyridley.bsky.social providing “evidence of multi-level non-adjacent organisation & learned syntactic structure in a semantic non-human system” — a very rich syntax in a communication system outside human language 🧪

Socially learned call sequences reveal gradual development of higher-order structure

Syntax was long considered to distinguish human language from other vocal systems, with parallels in non-human animals historically limited to song. However, song lacks discrete meaning, which is a cr...

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New paper: how complex is parrot communication? Yellow-naped amazons use duet calls built from 36 call types arranged by syntactic rules, with many calls biased toward or exclusive to one sex, revealing sophisticated vocal communication. ➡️ vist.ly/56r7w #ornithology #birds #syntax

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/...

🚨We're hiring again, this time for a research assistant position 🚨 The position is to help with a project looking at learning and social behaviour in birds along an urban gradient Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social 📆28th June deadline More info: shorturl.at/vBxiW #ringing #fieldwork

Life in MoyenBafing gets pretty exciting for us too! Come help us learn about these incredible chimpanzees and the wonderful MB landscape they live in! RA positions in our field team from July, apply now! 🧪

The Moyen Bafing Chimp Project@mbchimp.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We’re hiring Research Assistants with the Moyen Bafing Chimpanzee Project! Help contribute to a growing wild chimpanzee research & conservation project in West Africa 🐵 Apply now (open until filled, starting dates from July). More info👇or dm for Qs #conservation #science #fieldwork #primates 🧪

The 2nd microgrants round of the year is open! Please share and donate any amount if you can ! More info: opencollective.com/animal-behav...