Jako další vám představíme našeho člena, díky kterému se Zeptej se vědce stále více objevuje ve veřejném prostoru. 👇 🦅Ondřej Fišer, Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Italy @laniusondrej.bsky.social  @cimecunitrento.bsky.social

Yahooo 🎉 We got the cover! Meet our cute cover girl 🥰: the naked mole-rat Queen! 👑 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thrilled to see our paper @nathumbehav.nature.com, led by the brilliant (Bsky-less) PhD student Ziliang Xiong from @erc.europa.eu project #TicklishHuman! We asked: -Is human ticklishness shared across cultures? -Can we explain where on the body we are ticklish? 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Human ticklishness is a widespread, culturally shared and bodily organized sensory experience - Nature Human Behaviour

Ticklishness is a familiar but poorly understood experience. Xiong and Kilteni show that ticklishness is culturally shared and follows a distinct bodily topography. They evaluate different theories on...

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🗓️ SAVE THE DATE! Join us for our 16th meeting in Brno, Czech Republic! #EOU2027 | 23 - 27 August 2027 | www.eou27.cz Stay tuned for more updates! #ornithology 🦅

Forget the solar eclipse, there's a far more important thing happening today: Happy #WorldElephantDay everyone! There are 3 species of elephant: Asian, African Savanna and African Forest. All are endangered, Forest critically, due to lost habitat, human-wildlife interactions and the ivory trade 🐘

New paper: ravens use wild boars as “first tasters” to check if a foraging site is safe. They reduce risk by watching others eat first, foraging in groups, or stealing instead of taking chances. These tactics may help scavengers adapt to changing environments 🌍. doi.org/10.1093/behe... 📸 Daniel Koch

The result of 10+ years of fieldwork & analysis of 1000s of data points is out now in @natecoevo.nature.com... and on the cover! Mongoose pre-emptive behaviour & intergroup conflict Congratulations @josharbon.bsky.social @juliekern.bsky.social #AmyMorris-Drake doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Our new paper is out! The naive brain detects face-to-face biological motion. @mirckuz.bsky.social @gvallortigara.bsky.social www.cell.com/iscience/ful... #biological_motion #innate #social_behaviour_network #face_to_face #NCL #chicks

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/...

Join us in Vienna! We are looking for a PhD student and a Postdoc to investigate innovation in corvids within the “Comparative ecological innovation styles” project funded by @fwf-at.bsky.social. More info: barbaraklump.com Application deadline July 24th. Please share widely!

We have an exciting new position in our group for a PhD on parrot innovation !!! The position will be part of our new @fwf-at.bsky.social Emerging Fields project with @barbaraklump.bsky.social , @mohara.bsky.social , @christophvoelter.bsky.social and Justus Piater. Apply & share!!

🦞 Our new paper on the role of environmental complexity in cognitive development of juvenile lobsters finally swam into the light! Interested in individual variation in cognition, and its implications for conservation and welfare? Have a look here doi.org/10.1007/s100... 🦞

🚨We're hiring again, this time for a research assistant position 🚨 The position is to help with a project looking at learning and social behaviour in birds along an urban gradient Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social 📆28th June deadline More info: shorturl.at/vBxiW #ringing #fieldwork

extreme extractive foraging - fieldwork with @theroesa.bsky.social

Our new study with @justinedelautre.bsky.social @ankitha-jayanth.bsky.social @ckecz.bsky.social on forest impact on predation and behaviour of lapwing available in J. Animal Ecology: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #lapwing #ornithology #PhDstudy #ethology #ecology

Predator‐guild‐specific parental responses mitigate higher predation risk on ground nests close to forest patches in a mosaic landscape

Predation increases close to habitat edges, but how animals cope with local predation variations remained poorly studied. In a mosaic landscape, lapwings were compensating for increased nest predatio...

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Now online in Journal of #Ornithology From rivals to neighbours: how time reduces aggression in two woodpecker species link.springer.com/article/10.1...

From rivals to neighbours: how time reduces aggression in two woodpecker species - Journal of Ornithology

The Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major, MAJ) and the Middle Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocoptes medius, MED) are ecologically similar species that co-occur in Central Europe and may compete for ...

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🤩 My cousin has published her first paper—congratulations! 🙏🥳

Czech Centre of Cognitive Ethology@ckecz.bsky.social · 5mo ago

From rivals ⚡️ to neighbours 🤝 🤔 How has the #competition between the two #woodpecker species changed over the last 20 years? 👩🏻‍🔬 Alena & team found that while D. major has adapted to coexist, D. medius still behaves aggressively. 💪 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #rivals #newpaper 🥳

❗️New PhD position in our lab ❗️ Nest defence in passerines: parental quality, investment and fitness 🐦 ➡️ 4 years, fully funded position 🗓️ Start: July 2026 ⏳ Application deadline: May 10, 2026 ✉️ veselp03@jcu.cz, krausl07@jcu.cz #PhD #PhDjobs #ornithology #ethology #cognition

🐦 New PhD position! @prfju.bsky.social @ckecz.bsky.social Nest defence in passerine birds Interested in animal behaviour, fieldwork and evolutionary ecology? 📅 Start July 2026 | ⏳ 4 years | 💰 Fully funded Apply by May 10 → veselp03@jcu.cz / krausl07@jcu.cz #PhDjobs #PhDchat #PhD #ornithology

For decades biologists assumed ravens follow wolves to their kills. Our paper @science.org shows something different: ravens rarely follow wolves far. Instead they remember areas where wolf kills are common and return to them—sometimes from >150 km away. doi.org/10.1126/science.adz9467 📷Dan Stahler

1/7 When counting, carrion crows follow certain laws of language more faithfully than humans do Researchers studied the sounds of carrion crows trained to count and compared them with humans who were asked to perform the same task (paper) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🔴🦤⚫ Hlupáci mají ptačí mozek. Pták dodo jako blboun nejapný. Jsou takové narážky správné? Spíš ne. Jejich mozek je efektivnější než si myslíme! 🔴O ptačích schopnostech nám v novém Hlasu Vesmíru pověděl etolog @laniusondrej.bsky.social hrdý nositel grantu Marie Skłodowska-Curie! 👇

Our new emerging field within the excellence initiative of the @fwf-at.bsky.social will look into the process of innovation across apes, parrots, corvids and embodied artificial agents with @mohara.bsky.social @barbaraklump.bsky.social @christophvoelter.bsky.social

Honoured to be among such great colleagues @barbaraklump.bsky.social @christophvoelter.bsky.social @auersperga.bsky.social and Justus Piater, to study fundamental drivers of innovation. And hugely grateful to the @fwf-at.bsky.social to be able to continue the fieldwork on the Tanimbar Islands 🌴🕊️🤠

1/9 The Bouba and Kiki effect is confirmed in newborn chicks Chicks just one day old already associate the rounded shape with the sound “Bouba” and the pointed shape with “Kiki,” and the implications are profound. (paper) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🥳 I’m incredibly happy (and still a bit in disbelief 🤯) to share that I’ve been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship! #MSCA 🥳 I will join @cimecunitrento.bsky.social to work with Uwe Mayer on #NeuroBirds, exploring the neural mechanisms of behaviour across bird species.🪶 🦉

Cows itch, just like us. But Veronika the cow takes things into her own hands. Or rather: into her mouth. Scientists say it’s the first experimentally verified instance of cattle using a tool. https://wapo.st/3NzJ84A

📱Is the origin of animals comparable to the origin of the smartphones? Yes! See our new review in @embojournal.org where we show how important it was the new "Operating System" (animalOS)for animals to evolve! with @ricardsole.bsky.social, Nick and Elena @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @csic.es @prbb.org

Cow Tools! We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years. We breed them and exploit them It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS Here I describe our study (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social with @auersperga.bsky.social

Our new paper (with @biotay.bsky.social) is out and on the cover story of @currentbiology.bsky.social !!!! Veronika, a Carinthian mountain cow flexibly uses a “multi-purpose tool” to scratch herself. A video and more information will follow in the comments. www.cell.com/current-biol...