Join Co-BreeD at the "Avian Breeding Strategies: Patterns and Mechanisms" session at the upcoming Asian Ornithological Conference 2026 (14-17 Nov, Singapore). Submit an abstract to this session (www.aoc2026.sg/index.php) organised by Jianqiang Li and @benmocha.bsky.social

1/4 To celebrate our 120th follower, we introduce the “cooperative breeding gauge”: measuring the % of cooperatively breeding species in Co-BreeD. It now presents the very initial % of cooperatively from our 1st published Co-BreeD dataset besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Fabulous @anticac.bsky.social wrote a beautiful highlight on our first #Co-BreeD dataset. She was also worried about how often Co-BreeD would be updated. Well, time will tell, but meanwhile, the second dataset about #allonursing (& update) is already under review ;)

Journal of Animal Ecology@animalecology.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🌟 New research highlight for a paper that introduces a Cooperative-Breeding Database (Co-BreeD), which is an open, peer-reviewed resource that collects data on cooperative breeding across birds and mammals, including humans. 📖 Read the full paper ➡️ buff.ly/DAE9htT

The Co-BreeD dataset on AlloNursing was just submitted! It provides complementary data about allonursing for all 324 species previously included in Co-BreeD (besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) & adds >45 new species! 🐒 🐳🐐 Follow for updates…

How many cooperatively breeding bird & mammal species are there? Co-BreeD constantly works to get a more accurate estimation for this question. We will now start sharing updated estimations in return for new followers! So help us get the 120th follower (= share!) & we will post our first estimation!

Check out the story behind our work on Co-BreeD, written by fabulous @maikewoith.bsky.social and published as a blog in @animalecology.bsky.social animalecologyinfocus.com/2025/11/11/h...

How Co-BreeD can change how we see cooperation in animals

This blog post is provided by Maike Woith and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “An integrative, peer-reviewed and open-source cooperative-breeding database (Co-BreeD)”, wh…

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1/6 The Cooperative-Breeding Database (Co-BreeD) is alive! Co-BreeD covers key biological parameters relevant to cooperative breeding research in birds and mammals. Get your copy of this updateable & open-access database: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @animalecology.bsky.social

An integrative, peer‐reviewed and open‐source cooperative‐breeding database (Co‐BreeD)

Co-BreeD is the first updatable and open-source database dedicated to cooperative breeding. It enables continuous, non-binary measurement of cooperative breeding, transforming how we study breeding s....

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The Cooperative Breeding Database has a logo! Hopefully, the first dataset on the prevalence of breeding events with alloparents across bird and mammal populations will be made public soon! Made by nataliekes.bsky.social

Collaboration 📣🐘🐦 @co-breed.bsky.social seeks expert/s in phylogenetically controlled comparative analyses The deal: we provide state-of-the-art data on alloparental care (>350 populations of bird & mammal sp.) You do the stat All write the (many) manuscripts Yitzchak Ben Mocha: yitzchakbm@gmail.com

1/8 First Co-BreeD publication: Think you know what is cooperative breeding in mammals and birds? Think again... Our Biological Reviews paper demonstrates only moderate agreement between different datasets classifing same species as cooperative breeders or not onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

What is cooperative breeding in mammals and birds? Removing definitional barriers for comparative research

Cooperative breeding (i.e. when alloparents care for the offspring of other group members) has been studied for nearly a century. Yet, inconsistent definitions of this breeding system still hamper co...

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