New preprint from us - 🐃 - led by @debottam1991.bsky.social 🔻

bioRxiv Zoology@biorxiv-zoology.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Drivers of space use in a large semi-urban feral ungulate under seasonally fluctuating resource conditions https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.03.729827v1

Cooperation is primarily associated with tolerant societies. By studying six macaque species, this study demonstrates how despotic societies can have higher, yet more partner-specific, cooperation driven by strong interdependencies between pairs of individuals. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Despotism promotes dyadic cooperation through enhanced interdependencies in non-human primate societies - Nature Communications

Cooperation is primarily associated with tolerant societies. By studying six macaque species, this study demonstrates how despotic societies can have higher, yet more partner-specific, cooperation dri...

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Happy to share our recent publication on 🐒 macaque self-directed behaviours w/ Eva van Dijk Roos de Vries Charlotte Kluiver Mia Valomy Adam Zeeman & Jorg Massen Link to the @royalsocietypublishing.org paper - doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Many facets of self-directed behaviours in macaques

Abstract. Emotional states like anxiety are adaptive, assisting individuals during social uncertainty and threats. Humans can self-report anxiety, whereas

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I’m advertising two position options (PhD/postdoc) within my lab - take a look below if you’re interested or send me a message ☺️ @uni-konstanz.de

IMPRS-QBEE@imprs-qbee.bsky.social · 5mo ago

One of our IMPRS Faculty Members, @heesenr.bsky.social , is currently looking for applications. Please follow this link for more information: imprs-qbee.mpg.de/125923/docto...

New publication, and first one as a first author for me! 🥳 Have you heard of the brutal chimpanzee and "hippie" bonobo dichotomy? ☠️🕊️ Today, we report similar aggression magnitudes in 22 captive chimpanzees and bonobos groups - be it all aggression or restricted to contact.

3-year Independent Post-doc in Animal Behavior based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama! Three positions, each including salary & a research budget. Applications due April, 15th. DM if you are interesting in developing a project with us! stri.si.edu/academic-pro...

Fully funded PhD position on primate parochialism! Study how cooperation within groups and conflict between groups evolve in red-fronted lemurs at our long-term field site in Kirindy Forest, Madagascar. @kirindy.bsky.social & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Apply here: www.dpz.eu

New paper showing that the direction and expressivity of faces impacts social attention in macaques - the context of the face matters! @jamiewhitehouse.bsky.social @kerensarees.bsky.social and Olivia O'Callaghan. @erc.europa.eu www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Direction and expressivity of faces impact third-party social attention in rhesus macaques

Facial expressions play a central role in primate social communication, but in cognitive experiments, they are typically presented out of context and …

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New Publication Alert 🚨 "Reliability and precision of thermal imaging measurements to study animal behaviour and welfare" 🐐 w/ Marianne Mason & @amcell.bsky.social Check out @peerj.bsky.social - peerj.com/articles/208... #AnimalBehaviour #AnimalWelfare #NoninvasivePhysiology

If anyone wants to learn a bit about our work on vocal expression of emotions, here is a recording of the talk I gave at @oredev.org conference last month in Malmö: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDPS...

Elodie Mandel-Briefer - Deciphering animal emotions using machine learning and vocalisations

YouTube video by Øredev Conference

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New from us. 2025. Adaptive behavioural strategies to seasonal challenges by a semiurban feral ungulate. (Water buffalo) Led by @debottam1991.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 New Publication on Feral Water Buffalo 🐃 🐃 in Animal Behaviour [Also my 1st publication in AB 😊] @asab.org @asabeducation.bsky.social Adaptive behavioural strategies to seasonal challenges by a semiurban feral ungulate W/ @amcell.bsky.social Kate Flay & Hannah Mumby doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

Affenberg Research Station is looking for motivated students ready for their master internship! Want to work with Japanese macaques in Austria? Write to us at affenberg.lewi@univie.ac.at and apply! affenberg.univie.ac.at

and finally, we offer a field assistant opportunity at our Assamese Macaque Project at Phu Khieo WS in Thailand 👉 tinyurl.com/5n77797r ⏰ deadline 18 Dec 2025

second PhD position is on social and ecological cognition in wild Assamese macaques at our long-term field site in the beautiful Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary, Thailand 👉 tinyurl.com/ypefnbxp ⏰ deadline 20 Dec 2025

First PhD position is on the evolutionary basis of empathy using infrared thermography in Barbary macaques at Affenberg Salem, southern Germany 👉 tinyurl.com/2e8wzkfz ⏰ deadline 20 Dec 2025

Come and join our lab! We have TWO fully funded PhD positions AND a paid field assistant opportunity in our Behavioral Ecology group @uni-goettingen.de & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Projects will be part of @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social & @sfb1528.bsky.social!! Details in thread. Please re-post!

You are invited to the buffalo project meeting (online) on November 26th at 4 PM Hong Kong Find out about social science and behavioural ecology research on Hong Kong feral water buffalo. www.hkbuffaloresearch.org/research-hig... for free registration. Or use the QR code on the attached flyers.

Fixed-term Research Assistant post in primate behaviour, likely desk based but good experience before applying for PhD funding. Join us at NTU! @ntupsychology.bsky.social vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Research Assistant in Primate Behaviour:City Campus

Join us as a Research Assistant in Primate Behaviour! Gain excellent experience and skills working with a range of primatologists across NTU. A great stepping stone before embarking on a PhD!

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Join us (November 26th 4 PM Hong Kong Time) for our final project meeting (online) about the Hong Kong feral water buffalo 🐃 project. Check out www.hkbuffaloresearch.org/research-hig... for free registration or scan QR code on the poster. We welcome everyone!! @amcell.bsky.social

The conference is next week!✨ Join us on 13–14 November for a rich two-day schedule of fascinating talks on animal behaviour 🦋🐟🐆 💻 Free, online & open to all worldwide 👉 Explore the program and register 🔗 ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...

Very timely special issue! If you’re working on how human altered environments impact social cognition (social learning, decisions in a context, communication…) or how social cognition can help deal with the challenges and opportunities of human altered environnements, consider submitting!

Alizée Vernouillet@vernouilleta.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Excited to announce that Eli Garcia-Pelegrin and I are co-editing a special collection for Animal Cognition on "Social Cognition in a Human World". Do you study how urbanization, pollution, heat stress, fragmentation, ... affects cognition? We want to hear from you! link.springer.com/collections/...

🐃🐦 Interested in how feral buffalo & cattle affect bird communities in Hong Kong? Join our research team (@amcell.bsky.social, Prof. Kate Flay & me) at CityU HK through the DAAD RISE Paid Internship for German students. Apply: shorturl.at/LvDe3 | Ref: HK_BI_0704| |📧: cgthadeus2-c@my.cityu.edu.hk

Social relationships are powerful predictors of fitness across social animals. But *why*? In our new @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper, we outline testable predictions for why relationship quality and quantity adaptively vary across socio-ecological contexts. tinyurl.com/55dnkeh7

Happening in 1 week: October 23rd, from 4 to 5.30pm Hong Kong time (UTC+8) or 10 to 11.30 Central European time (UTC+2)! Still time to register using the QR code on the poster below 😄 Looking forward to sharing the outcome of my four years of PhD research on the Hong Kong feral cattle 🐂

Tania Perroux@tania-perroux.bsky.social · 11mo ago

@ghodgson.bsky.social and I will present our PhD research on October 23rd, 4 to 5.30pm HK time Zoom is open for all and in-person attendance is available for staff and students of City University of Hong Kong. Scan the QR code or use the following link to register docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📣 Are you interested in applied animal ethology and perceptual abilities of animals? Do you want to help us disentangle how animal emotions are modulated by their sensory environment? Then, you might be the postdoc we are looking for🌠 More info: www.slu.se/en/about-slu... #appliedethology #postcoc

Postdoctoral position in Applied animal ethology and animal perception | slu.se

SLU - Science and Education for Sustainable Life

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🐦 Exciting news! Our new paper is out in PLOS Biology: “A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia.” Led by the #ManyBirds Project - 129 researchers, 82 institutions, 24 countries 🌍 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @themanybirds.bsky.social

A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia

Neophobia (the aversive response to novelty) varies considerably across species and individuals, and can impact adaptability and survival. This study assesses neophobia in 1400 subjects from 136 bird ...

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Does playfulness support a cooperative and tolerant society? A new study links play, tolerance, and empathy in elephants.

Play Encourages Cooperation and Tolerance in Elephants

Signals used by elephants to manage competitive play sessions provide hints to the roots of empathy in social mammals.

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🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...