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PBrakes

@pbrakes.bsky.social

Culture: humans & non-humans, conservation, theory & practice. Chair Bonn Convention Expert Group Animal Culture, #WDC, #ExeterMarine, CERG Massey University, Co-Chair IUCN CESSP-SSC Conservation of Animal Cultures Task Force, Mana Tūāpapa Fellow, RSNZ.

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Rochelle Constantine@rconstantine.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🩵 Current obsession is checking the swim4theocean @LiveOcean site to see Jono Ridler’s progress. Swimming the east coast North Is - Aotearoa New Zealand to get people thinking & talking about bottom trawl fisheries. Epic human 👊🏻🩵 🏊‍♂️ liveocean.org/swim4theocea...

Swim4TheOcean

One man attempting to swim 1,000 miles of treacherous coastline. To ignite New Zealanders around the race for a healthy ocean.

liveocean.org

Luke Rendell@lrendell.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New paper!🚨 Social dynamics of group bubble net feeding in humpbacks. Congratulations Éadin for such an awesome first PhD paper!! 🐳🧪🦑

Éadin O'Mahony, PhD@eadinomahony.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New paper on the social learning of bubble net feeding by humpbacks in British Columbia, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B 🐋 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... #marmam @bcwhales.bsky.social @seamammalresearch.bsky.social @lrendell.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social [1/5]

Convention on Migratory Species (CMS)@cms.int · 7mo ago

Just like humans, many animal species have distinct cultures. From communication and social learning, animal culture shapes how they live and adapt. 🦍🐒🐳 Join an #IUCN introductory webinar and learn what animal culture is and how it can support biodiversity conservation and recovery. Links below!

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IUCN SSC CEC Behaviour Change Task Force@iucn-bctf.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📢 “At its core, conservation is about behaviour change.” New @ssir.org article highlights why behavioural science must be central to conservation - from project design to evaluation and systems change. Read more 👉 ssir.org/articles/ent... #Conservation #BehaviouralScience #BehaviourChange

Making Behavioral Science Work for Conservation (SSIR)

At its core, conservation is about behavior change. Yet few organizations have put in place the structure, standards, and accountability needed to apply behavioral science effectively.

ssir.org

Rebecca Sear@rebeccasear.bsky.social · 8mo ago

“Reclaiming academic publishing as a public good requires a return to not-for-profit models & sustainable open-access systems. Quality, accessibility & integrity need to be put ahead of profit. Change is needed to protect the purpose of academic research: to advance knowledge in the public interest”

The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing

Academic publishing now shows the same decline that has hit social media and online marketplaces.

theconversation.com

Zoë Goldsborough@zoegoldsborough.bsky.social · last yr.

Hot off the press 📣: one of the most surprising and unsettling findings of my PhD. A novel social tradition emerged in the tool-using white-faced capuchins of Jicarón island… abducting and carrying the infants of another species. Thread with gifs, videos, and all the bizarre details 👇

Ecology of Animal Societies@livingingroups.bsky.social · last yr.

Humans have many unusual traditions. But did you know animals’ strange behaviors can become culture too? Out now in Current Biology (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...) we show the rise and spread of a surprising tradition: interspecies infant abduction. Interactive timeline (www.ab.mpg.de/671374) 🧵 (1/12)

An illustration of a white-faced capuchin monkey carrying a howler infant on their back while cracking nuts with a stone
spencer roberts 🦈@unpopularscience.bsky.social · last yr.

I will forever be haunted by this footage. Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity. What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives. 🌎🦑🧪

Julie Talbot@julietalbot.bsky.social · last yr.

Wonderful cover, and amazing research by Zhang et al. - they used classic Chinese poetry that mentions the Yangtze finless porpoise (724 poems in total!) to estimate the range contraction of the species over the last 1400 years. Such a creative approach to generate truly novel data!

Current Biology@currentbiology.bsky.social · last yr.

Dive into our latest issue!🌊 www.cell.com/issue/S0960-... On the cover:Yangtze porpoises in troubled waters🐬 by Yaoyao Zhang and colleagues www.cell.com/current-biol...

Ben Sheldon@sheldonbirds.bsky.social · last yr.

New paper on the demographic drivers of cultural evolution in Great Tit song published today - epic work led by @nilomr.bsky.social with help from @andreaestandia.bsky.social Ella Cole & Sara Keen. Why did we do this, and what did we find? 🧵 follows: 1/n www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The demographic drivers of cultural evolution in bird song

Social learning can give rise to shared behavioral patterns that persist as culture within animal communities,1,2 such as bird and whale songs and cet…

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PBrakes@pbrakes.bsky.social · last yr.

phys.org/news/2025-05... Unravelling some of the complexity of animal cultures & conservation with @lucymaplin.bsky.social, @emma-carroll.bsky.social, Alison L Greggor, Andrew Whiten, @ellengarland.bsky.social & contributors to our theme issue doi.org/10.1098/rstb... @royalsocietypublishing.org

Animal culture recognized as key factor in new conservation strategies

Exeter scientists are among those who have discovered many animals learn and pass on behaviors through social learning or culture, which could have important implications for conservation.

phys.org