In our last session of this year's graduate meeting, Luna Dudine showcased the behavioural consequences of heat waves - how high temperatures affect cognition in fish - and presented a multi-stressor framework to guide future research. #gradbehav26

A big shout-out to our award winners! 🎉 Lotte Schroth for Best Poster and @saskiasp.bsky.social for Best Talk! 🏆 We had so many fantastic scientific presentations, but according to the popular vote, these two stood out just a little more. Congratulations! 👏 #gradbehav26

We’re excited to welcome our second keynote speaker, Helene Richter! She shares key insights on reproducibility in animal research, along with practical tools and approaches to help improve it. #gradbehav26

Our next session takes a deeper look into captive animal behaviour - we explored differences in individuality between wild and lab gerbils, and how cat vocalisations can be used as an indicator of pain and stress. Great talks by @saskiasp.bsky.social and Laura Lucille Kühne! #gradbehav26

A busy poster session! 🐝 Buzzing discussions, great exchanges, and a fantastic atmosphere! #gradbehav26

Our first session today is all about migration. Fantastic talks on migratory behaviour of common terms and social dispersal in burying beetles, delivered by Sofia Ventura and @sciencepaulh.bsky.social! #gradbehav26

We’re delighted to welcome @valmazza.bsky.social as our first keynote speaker! She shared insights from her work on cognitive ecology at the human–wildlife interface - are city dwellers more flexible than their rural counterparts? #gradbehav26

An annual highlight! 🎉 It’s always a pleasure to work with such a brilliant team (@ahanaaurora.bsky.social and Sabine Kraus) to organise this event every year and discover a new place together with a fantastic group of participants! #gradbehav26

DZG section Behavioural Biology@dzg-behaviour.bsky.social · last wk.

And we’re on! 🎉 This year’s Graduate Meeting “Animal Behaviour” has officially kicked off at the University of Münster! We’re looking forward to an amazing meeting in an amazing venue. #gradbehav26 @ethoges.bsky.social @dzg-gerzoolsociety.bsky.social

And we’re on! 🎉 This year’s Graduate Meeting “Animal Behaviour” has officially kicked off at the University of Münster! We’re looking forward to an amazing meeting in an amazing venue. #gradbehav26 @ethoges.bsky.social @dzg-gerzoolsociety.bsky.social

Our first session focuses on communication across various animal taxa: adaptation of vocal signatures in lemurs, comprehension of alarm calls in monkeys, and social behaviour and vocalisations in bats. A strong start to the meeting by Saskia Müller, Christian Luff, and Wiebke Berns. #GradBehav26

💥👋 Animal Behaviour researchers currently at #DZG2026 - join us for the behavioural biology section meeting on Thursday, 1pm 10.09.2026, room F1🤗🤗🤗 See very old-fashioned paper post with info 😅 @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social @goatswhostare.bsky.social

Our last session today covers bats' ability to (echo)locate in large groups, and offspring cooperation in burying beetles. Great talks delivered by @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social and @paulhuber.bsky.social! #DZG2026

Lots of exciting topics in our first afternoon session of the second day of #DZG2026, ranging from cuttlefish camouflage strategies and spider silk use to trade-offs between self-interest vs prosocial motivation. Talks by @christiandrerup.com, @maitryjani.bsky.social, and Sasha Engelhardt.

Our second session also deals with environmental influences - how does heat affect coping in small mammals? How does UV-A lighting affect laying hen behaviour? Great talks by Marion Varga and Alfie Prettyman! #DZG2026

Session #1 was all about change - novel diets in wild house mice, the impact of heatwaves on behav differences in woodlice, & how cities are changing the social lives of animals! Top presentations by our speakers Ekaterina Gorshkova, @urban-squirrel.bsky.social and @averymaune.bsky.social! #DZG2026

#DZG2026 has taken off - and we are looking forward to 16 amazing talks and 23 posters focusing on behavioural biology! Don't forget to join us for our section meeting on Thursday at 1 pm!

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!

This week there were lots of cool talks on urban wildlife, anthropogenic noise and other fun things at #ISBE2026 We are still looking for submissions for our special issue so maybe your work fits. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Ethology Call for Papers Wildlife in Urban Spaces – Adaptations and Human Perceptions

Ethology is a top international behavioral biology journal, covering physiological mechanisms, function, and evolution across all species.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

At this year's DZG meeting in Münster @ahanaaurora.bsky.social @dzg-behaviour.bsky.social, me and others are organizing a symposium titled: Non-invasive Methods in Behavioural Ecology: Use of Thermography. We have some free spots. You can register here: dzg-meeting.de/en/satellite...

I compiled a list of 350 #funding opportunities for #postdoctoral research #fellowships: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J2M_tQgoqV4ivpfEClh9qs9f2KQN2O1G3Jpda2aoHfQ/edit?usp=sharing I realized I should share this again after mentioning it to some folks at the #EFP2026

Using the STRANGE framework to improve replicability in animal behaviour research and allied fields www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Tracking claim changes from preprint to publication across 72,644 biomedical studies using large language models www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Tracking claim changes from preprint to publication across 72,644 biomedical studies using large language models

Preprints now disseminate a large share of biomedical research before peer review. Because they have not yet passed peer review, some scientists regard preprint claims as unverified or potentially unr...

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Our postdoc @roald-arboel.com made a thing! #Croppy is #free and awesome for fast and effective #video #editing and it has a #GUI! Need to crop a part of a video? Need to trim a video? Need to combine videos? Need to compress a video? roald-arboel.com/croppy/

This new #RSOS study tested whether #goats can follow the direction of human voices as cues in an object-choice task: doi.org/10.1098/rsos... @chimpsahoi.bsky.social @goatswhostare.bsky.social @amcell.bsky.social

Call for collaborators! Join a global study on reversal learning across animal species ManyManys - manymanys.github.io Invite - calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0... Registration - forms.fillout.com/t/n4fxVFpHQWus Questions - email both nicolas.alessandroni@concordia.ca and lpretot@pittstate.edu.

Goats picked the hidden-food bucket about 60% of the time when a human voice was directed toward it. When the person stayed silent or faced away, success dropped to roughly chance. doi.org/hb72rr

Goats listen to human voices to find hidden food treats

Goats appear to have a rare ability not shared by many in the animal kingdom, and that is being able to follow the direction of a human voice to locate hidden objects.

phys.org

The deadline for the abstract submission got extented to July 1st.

Rebecca Rimbach@urban-squirrel.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Join us for the next DZG meeting in Münster (September 7-11 2026). The line up is amazing! Looking forward to seeing many people here. 🐭🐸🐖🐟🕷🦇🧪🧬🦴

Paper here, published open access: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

Domestic goats can follow the direction of human voices to solve a hidden-object task

Abstract. An underexplored dimension of vocal referentiality is the ability to process the direction in which a vocalization is emitted as a cue towards it

royalsocietypublishing.org

Coverage in the Guardian of our latest publication in Royal Society Open Science, with fantastic collaborators Alan McElligott (@amcell.bsky.social), Christian Nawroth (@goatswhostare.bsky.social), Federico Rossano and Simon Townsend. Paper threaded below! www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Goats can find food by following a human voice, study finds

Experiments show 29 animals moved towards a treat-filled bucket 60% of the time when guided by a researcher

theguardian.com

New paper out with the Buttercups goats!

Alan McElligott@amcell.bsky.social · 4mo ago

2026. Domestic goats can follow the direction of human voices to solve a hidden-object task. new from us, led by @chimpsahoi.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...