Had an amazing week at ISBE 🇮🇹🍝☀️🦎 so many inspiring talks and cool people. And very happy to present our review on social behaviour and urbanization! @behavecobie.bsky.social
Avery Maune
@averymaune.bsky.social
Behavioral ecologist interested in the social consequences of environmental change Postdoc at Bielefeld University
Officially Dr. Maune 🎉🍾 Thank you to my incredible supervisors @lizabeldm.bsky.social and Barbara Caspers! And to all of my colleagues who made this journey so much fun 🤗 @behavecobie.bsky.social
Our shiny new study shows birds love wing-shandy as much as the next animal – even more so in the wild than in captivity! 💦🦜🦆🐦⬛🦃💦 Yet another nail in the coffin for the tired idea that animals only have sex to procreate. Our piece for The Conversation here: theconversation.com/birds-mastur...
Birds masturbate, and that’s perfectly normal
Some bird keepers have tried to drug their animals to stop them engaging in solo sex.
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Have you considered the role of epigenetic variation in niche individualization? We explored the interplay between interindividual phenotypic variation and epigenetic processes in a paper recently published in Trends of Ecology and Evolution 🧪 Read more here: www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
My interview with @manymindspod.bsky.social! Come for a deep dive into the evolution of kissing 💋, stay for the earth-shattering insights 🤯 "fish don't run" 🐠🏃 "monkeys tend to loll around quite a lot" 🙈 "chimps have moved on to grass-in-bumhole behaviour" 🍑🌱 disi.org/origins-of-t...
Origins of the kiss - DISI
Exploring our world's diverse forms of mind—human, animal, machine—from diverse perspectives.
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Happy 2026! I am glad to have ended 2025 one step closer to finishing my PhD. Published the first chapter of my thesis where we talk about the importance and ways of studying sex-specific effects while investigating shared mating traits. Read here: doi.org/10.1007/s002...
The significance of disentangling shared mating traits: A review of empirical approaches - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Sexual conflict has been shown to be widespread between males and females. In most cases, shared mating traits like copulation duration or sperm transfer speed are at the heart of such conflicts as th...
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2025. The impact of urbanisation on social behaviour: a comprehensive review. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The impact of urbanisation on social behaviour: a comprehensive review
Urbanisation is a key driver of global environmental change and presents animals with novel stressors and challenges. It can fundamentally influence social behaviour and has the potential to reshape ...
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🎉 Very excited to share that our review on the impact of urbanization on animal social behaviour is out now in Biological Reviews! We synthesize evidence across taxa to understand how city life reshapes social systems 🏙️🐦🐒🦎🦝🐟 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @lizabeldm.bsky.social
The impact of urbanisation on social behaviour: a comprehensive review
Urbanisation is a key driver of global environmental change and presents animals with novel stressors and challenges. It can fundamentally influence social behaviour and has the potential to reshape ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
1/9 I came across this paper published in #BiologyLetters @royalsociety.org by @averymaune.bsky.social and her collaborators, while working on a university project. It is about social structure in urban lizards and how cities seem to shape interaction amongst individuals. doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
City lizards are more social
Abstract. Cities are expanding globally, exposing animals to novel ecological conditions that can alter the frequency and nature of their social interactio
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New paper out now in @jexpbiol.bsky.social! Led by star PhD student @miaryras.bsky.social, we tested the effects of winter warming (a constant increase as well as fluctuating temps - see pic) on common wall lizard behaviour and physiology. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
After the Ngogo chimpanzee group killed 21 members of neighboring groups and expanded their territory by 22%, female birth rates more than doubled and infant survival increased sharply—showing clear fitness benefits from intergroup killing. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/TKmf50XuPjY
How can we make scientific events such as #conferences more #inclusive? Read about the study we conducted during #Behaviour2023 as a nice and concise summary in the press-release here 👉 aktuell.uni-bielefeld.de/2025/10/06/r...
Watch #BiologyLetters author Avery Maune talk about new research revealing that urbanization can reshape social behaviour in the common wall lizard (Podarcis muralis): cassyni.com/events/3Hp2U... #AnimalBehaviour #ethology
Royal Society Publishing@royalsocietypublishing.org · 10mo agoCity lizards are more social. In a new paper in #BiologyLetters, social network analysis revealed that urban lizards have more social connections and stronger bonds than their non-urban counterparts. buff.ly/kqf2YfZ | #Behaviour #UrbanEcology
City lizards are more social. In a new paper in #BiologyLetters, social network analysis revealed that urban lizards have more social connections and stronger bonds than their non-urban counterparts. buff.ly/kqf2YfZ | #Behaviour #UrbanEcology
New paper! 🦎 Urbanization reshapes the social behaviour of wall lizards Now out in #BiologyLetters @royalsocietypublishing.org 🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @averymaune.bsky.social
📢 City lizards are more social ! Thrilled to share the first paper from my PhD, out now in #BiologyLetters @royalsocietypublishing.org ! We show that urban lizards are more social than their non-urban counterparts 🦎🏙️🌳🧪 doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... @behavecobie.bsky.social
PAPER: Territorial damselfish are more aggressive to neighbours if their neighbour is larger, but this weakens If they don't know each other link.springer.com/article/10.1... Led by my awesome former PhD student @sheppardcat.bsky.social @lec-reefs.bsky.social @envisiondtp.bsky.social #FishInBottles
Familiarity mediated by body size predicts intraspecific aggression in farming damselfishes - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Abstract Aggressive territoriality can have significant benefits for resource acquisition yet is a costly behaviour. Selection should therefore favour mechanisms that allow individuals to modify their...
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