Some heartening news. Really great initiative! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Indigenous-led conservation helps save endangered cockatoo

An Indigenous community in Indonesia has found a way to protect one of the world's rarest cockatoos without abandoning a centuries-old sacred tradition, offering a new model for conservation.&nbsp...

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Comportamiento animal ante un elipse total de sol Me ha entrevistado Samuel A. Pilar @rtvenoticias.rtve.es para que le hablase de cómo reaccionan otras especies ante un evento así. Creo que le ha quedado un artículo precioso. Es un tema interesante. www.rtve.es/noticias/202...

Curiosidad, indiferencia o necesidad de aparearse: así reaccionan los animales ante un eclipse solar

Curiosidad, indiferencia o necesidad de aparearse: así reaccionan los animales ante un eclipse solar

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Curiosidad, indiferencia o necesidad de aparearse: así reaccionan los animales ante un eclipse solar

Curiosidad, indiferencia o necesidad de aparearse: así reaccionan los animales ante un eclipse solar

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1/6 A desire for knowledge in mice Although the study has some limitations, it provides evidence consistent with specific epistemic curiosity, something that is extremely rare to demonstrate in non-human animals. (paper) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Join us in Vienna! We are looking for a #PhD student and a #Postdoc to investigate #innovation in great #apes: PhD ad: share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/... Postdoc ad: share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/... Application deadline: August 17th. Please share widely!

1/8 Chimpanzees and bonobos seek physical contact when they anticipate a socially stressful situation. Physical contact reduces the tension that follows. The most interesting finding, however, is the importance of differences between groups. (paper) royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

1/2 Object play in mid-flight The behavior of dropping objects while in flight and catching them before they hit the ground has been documented in more than 25 species of birds, ranging from gulls to swallows, birds of prey, and corvids. (paper, 2013) www.researchgate.net/publication/...

1/2 Cosmic Justice from Early Childhood In this experiment, 150 children aged 5, 9, and 14 months were less surprised when negative (unintended) events happened to bad (antisocial) people than to good (prosocial) people. (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

1/4 Orcas making sunfish explode One orca firmly holds the carcass of a sunfish (whose viscera have already been removed) while an adult male crashes into it at high speed, making it explode into countless pieces. (paper) www.frontiersin.org/journals/eth...

Bouba and Kiki might be reversed in tortoises In this study involving 10 tortoises (T. marginata and a mix with T. graeca), they explored the opposite of what the effect predicts. Perhaps this is because they were exploring the unexpected alternative (paper) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Adelaida, a subadult female chimpanzee, is seen wearing a leafy branch around her neck. This seems to be part of a cultural tradition in the Nouabale-Ndoki National Park (Republic of Congo) seen on: wcs_congo (Instagram) www.instagram.com/p/DaxFAnfDkri/ photo: G. Gaudin/WCS

1/7 Like us, bumblebees “lick their lips” when they drink something they enjoy After drinking a sugar solution, they repeatedly protrude their glossa, but they do not do so after tasting water. What is particularly interesting is that this response is flexible. (paper) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

1/3 Cat allogrooming may conceal aggressive intentions It seems that grooming between cats is not always positive. In this study, the authors examine how cats may sometimes groom another individual in order to displace it from a preferred location. (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

1/11 The dimensions of animal empathy In this study, the authors attempt to understand the different forms that empathy may take in other species. (paper) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

1/7 The evolution of sperm whale dialects Although Mediterranean sperm whales were thought to belong to a single vocal clan, it now appears that they have two dialects—one eastern and one western—that reflect their history. (paper) royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

1/10 What if the autonomous entities encountered on DMT were actually conscious? This is one of the wildest proposals I’ve come across in a long time. As outrageous as it is serious, and as unlikely as it is interesting. (preprint) osf.io/preprints/ps...

I was interviewed by The Indian Express about recent interesting discoveries regarding communication in zebra finches, as well as our hopes of having a future conversation with another species. indianexpress.com/article/expl...

El análisis de las 'carcajadas' indica que la risa de humanos y grandes simios tuvo un origen común hace 15 millones de años www.eldiario.es/1_cb6739?utm...

Opportunity to pursue a doctoral thesis in the Goffin Lab and the Kea Lab The research will focus on play, exploration, and problem-solving abilities in cockatoos and kea. If exploring the minds of other species fascinates you, I highly recommend this opportunity.

1/10 Each species lives in a different temporal world. Just as each species lives in its own “Umwelt”, this Umwelt includes a “timescape”. The authors of this study (@singhal.bsky.social, J. Birch, and A. Seth) propose five “windows” to study it. (paper) linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii...

The enthusiasm with which Bernardo Kastrup (@bernardokastrup.bsky.social) talks about dreaming in Spiders is inspiring. Regardless of whether one subscribes to analytical idealism, I think it’s worth listening to him. (video) www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnDG...

Why even spiders dream

Next week's Q&A with Bernardo focuses on what we can learn from dreams, and what we learn in them. https://www.withrealityinmind.com/dreams/

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1/16 Do other species understand death? In this study with cockatoos, we approach this question from its foundation, by studying one of its central components: sensitivity to the permanent loss of a function. I will explain it in this thread (with videos) (paper) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1/8 Dreams and mind wandering are much more similar than they might seem This is a study I read several months ago and never shared, but I have found myself thinking about it many times since then. Let me explain why (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

1/8 Attention and consciousness in bees They combined reversal learning, trace conditioning, and distractors, something that had not been tested in any animal until now. One of the strongest pieces of evidence for consciousness in insects. (paper) royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

1/4 The enormous complexity of algae fishing Researchers have studied in detail how chimpanzees in Guinea fish for algae. They prepare their tools (up to 4 m long) in advance, and use 22 different techniques. (paper) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

1/4 Dolphins understand pointing as a communicative intention This has been shown in dolphins trained in “do as I do”. They observed two other dolphins doing something and had to decide which one to imitate. (paper) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Imitate that one: dolphins spontaneously interpret human pointing gesture in a novel context - Animal Cognition

Understanding whether non-human animals interpret human pointing as cooperative communication remains a central question in comparative cognition. Pointing is a foundational aspect of human…

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1/5 Goats and sheep pass the marshmallow test (with flying colors) In this study, goats were able to resist temptation for 63 seconds on average in order to obtain a better reward. Sheep waited 54 seconds. (paper) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Butterflies sacrifice speed in favor of randomness This has been studied in Morpho menelaus butterflies. When they flee, they fly upward, turn erratically, and escape more slowly than they would if they flew in a straight line. (preprint) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

1/8 Psilocybin and Alzheimer’s A clinical case of a woman in her 80s with advanced Alzheimer’s disease who was given 5 g (a so-called “heroic dose”) of Psilocybe cubensis mushrooms, Enigma strain, and surprisingly recovered many of her functions. (paper) www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...

1/4 Bumblebees can solve a task inspired by Köhler’s famous test with chimpanzees. They had to reach an artificial “flower”, and to do so they had to integrate prior information about a ball that could be used to reach it. (paper) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... by @olliloukola.bsky.social