📖The number of strong social bonds is linked to survival in a cooperative bird Sociable weavers differ consistently in their relative number of strong social bonds and these differences are associated with survival 🕊️ 🌍 🐦⬛ 🔎 buff.ly/cQG5lun
Mylène Dutour
@dutourmylene.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher, Behavioural ecologist, animal communication and cognition, mom of 2 amazing kids
The latest pied babbler paper, headed by the amazing Shannon Conradie, looks at how the accuracy of biophysical models, increasingly used to predict climate change response, can be improved with even a modest amount of behavioural observations besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Targeted behavioural and microclimate data collection substantially improves biophysical model predictions of energy expenditure in wild birds
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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Ça il y est, les aperçus IA de Google débarquent en France pour chacune de vos requêtes ! Cela va consommer encore plus d'énergie et invisibiliser encore plus le contenu original. Heureusement, il y a la possibilité d'utiliser des moteurs de recherche alternatifs ! En voici une présentation.
Interested in animal urbanization and human wildlife co-existence, join our team this fall 👇🏼
Urban Vervet Project@urbanvervetproject.bsky.social · 2w ago🚨🐒Join the Urban Vervet Project! We are currently looking for a research assistant to strengthen our on-site team at the beautiful Simbithi Eco Estate in South Africa. More info below 👇 @sofiaforss.bsky.social
La carte des sites qui vont accueillir les JO d'hiver 2030 est enfin connue. Abattage d'arbres, constructions de villages olympiques, de télécabines : Reporterre fait le point avec une carte exclusive. Lire l'article ➡️ https://l.reporterre.net/EuI Redif. du 18/07/26
1/ The world's songbirds sing in just 8 basic sounds. And where a bird lives decides which ones it uses. My first PhD paper is out now in @science.org (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee6239) Here is what we found:
Great apes reassure one another to maintain the peace Our new study shows that friendly touch before stressful events, like embracing, patting and even kissing, promotes tolerance and peace in chimpanzees and bonobos. Some BBC coverage 🙂 open-access paper below! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Great Apes kiss and cuddle to keep the peace, says study
Hugging before stressful events may be an ancient way of building trust, say scientists studying apes.
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👏Congratulations @josharbon.bsky.social on a fantastic new #TREE review from #NERC funded postdoc. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... #OpenAccess; please share. 💬If you're at #ISBE2026 & interested in #pre-emptive behaviour and/or intergroup #conflict, seek Josh out for a chat. @isbe2026.bsky.social
Le CNRS a des pratiques de boys club ! Deux chercheurs ont été mis en cause par plusieurs femmes pour des comportements inappropriés, sans que cela émeuve ni la direction du temple de la recherche française, ni le ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur.
Harcèlement, misogynie : Un labo du CNRS aux pratiques de boys club | Le Canard enchaîné
En mars, deux chercheurs du CNRS ont été mis en cause par plusieurs jeunes femmes, collègues ou étudiantes, sans émouvoir ni leur employeur ni le ministre de……
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Do animals use names? Conceptual and empirical criteria: Trends in Cognitive Sciences www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
Do animals use names? Conceptual and empirical criteria
In recent years, several claims have been put forth suggesting that animals of different species address each other using receiver-specific calls that function as individual names. If accurate, this w...
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Our recent paper led by @oddjacobson.bsky.social recently covered by @mongabay.com
Mongabay@mongabay.com · 2w agoA 33-year study on Costa Rica’s white-faced capuchin monkeys reveals that extreme climate events force the primates to abandon their social norms. Severe droughts cause food scarcity, driving intense competition, territorial sensitivity and shifting group dynamics. Adam Litchkofski reports.
🤗Delighted our review on pre-emptive behaviour in a landscape of intergroup conflict is out now in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social 🎓Resulting from endless fascinating chats with @josharbon.bsky.social #warfare #NERC #conflict #mammals #birds @bristolbiosci.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
#Communiqué 🗞️ Le cerveau doit en permanence réviser ses attentes pour s'adapter aux changements, sans pour autant prendre chaque événement inattendu pour un bouleversement durable. Une étude met en évidence un circuit cérébral impliqué dans cette capacité d'adaptation. 👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/co...
Encore 3 semaines pour s'inscrire au prochain colloque SFECA, à un tarif préférentiel ! (Augmentation des frais d'inscriptions à partir du 1er août) Pour rappel, le colloque aura lieu du 4 au 6 novembre 2026 sur le @campuscondorcet.bsky.social.
55ème Colloque de la Société Française pour l'Etude du Comportement Animal (SFECA) - Sciencesconf.org
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Congrats first author Kyu Min Huh on our paper out in @royalsocietypublishing.org Journal of the RS Interface. Titled "Natural take-off flight performance is repeatable and scalable in mixed flock tit species". Link: doi.org/10.1098/rsif...
We started @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social to make a small but real change to barriers students face. Since then, we disbursed >£26,000 in microgrants & matched >120 mentees w. mentors! In our new paper, in #AnimalBehaviourJournal's SI on Biases in Animal Behaviour, we share what we did, why, and how 🐝
Animal Behaviour Collective@abcmicrogrants.bsky.social · 4w agoOur paper is out now! 🎉📝 We describe how we work to address barriers faced by students and early-career researchs in the animal behaviour field, through our mentorships and microgrants. We hope that this can inspire and provide practical resources for others hoping to do the same!
link.springer.com/article/10.1... Just out - complicated integrative perspective with a bunch of great marine mammal folks, including @stephanielking.bsky.social and @andrearavignani.bsky.social. We take an expansive trip through the peripheral effector, CNS, and social domains of vocal rhythm.
How do animals cooperate when they aren't even the same species? Our recent review paper dug deep into the literature... 1/ Read the full paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
High temperatures inhibit quantity discrimination of conspecifics in a wild bird #Cognition #AntiPredatorBehavior #Bird doi.org/10.1093/behe...
📚Meta-analyses!⚠️Key pitfalls! 🔬Improved methodology! 🖥️Reliable syntheses! Our #EditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal: “Biological and methodological pitfalls of meta-analyses in ecology and evolution: Lessons from eyespot function studies” Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123448
Amazing talk and workshop by Gabriel Colorado Z and Eben Goodale! So excited to continue this big international project with such an inspiring group of people. So many exciting global questions to explore and discuss around mixed-species flocks & mobbing behavior! #ATBC2026
A study of 140 laughter sequences found the same rhythmic timing pattern in humans, chimps, gorillas, bonobos and orangutans.
Scientists Tickled Gorillas And Found A 15-Million-Year-Old Clue To How Humans Learned Speech
A study of 140 laughter sequences found the same rhythmic timing pattern in humans, chimps, gorillas, bonobos and orangutans.
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A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution shows that wild dwarf mongooses pre-emptively alter their behaviours, including space use and sentinel calling, in relation to the level of threat posed by the size of rival groups. go.nature.com/4w9P0Tf 🧪
Great morning with high school students! Always a wonderful experience to share our world of research, exchange ideas with them, and share some of the passion that drives us.
This @noemamag.com article by Ryan Huling, author of Hidden Nations, beautifully covers our Nature Sustainability paper with @merikatariina.bsky.social and @birchlse.bsky.social! If you can’t access it, let me know 😉 doi.org/10.1038/s418...
Protecting animal cultures as World Heritage - Nature Sustainability
It is becoming increasingly clear that animal cultures have intrinsic, irreplaceable value, and yet they are not adequately protected by preserving habitat. The time has come for UNESCO to explicitly ...
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Noema Magazine@noemamag.com · 2mo agoFrom architectural traditions to ancient courtship rituals, evidence of animal cultures is overwhelming but underacknowledged, Ryan Huling writes. #animals #biology #unesco
Such an amazing day last Friday with the Rhône-Alpes members of the Femmes & Sciences association So many inspiring women, meaningful discussions, and positive energy The kind of day that gives you a real boost and reminds you why building strong communities matters #FemmesEtSciences #WomenInScience
Huge congrats, Ed Galluccio, on your fantastic PhD! I'm happy and proud to have been part of your supervisory team and to have witnessed the remarkable work you've accomplished. Wishing you all the best for the adventures ahead!
Centre for Evolutionary Biology at UWA@ceb-uwa.bsky.social · 2mo agoCongratulations 🎓 to Ed Galluccio for delivering a fantastic overview of his PhD project covering how ontogenetic and environmental impact shapes cognition in wild magpies 🥂 @mandyridley.bsky.social @dutourmylene.bsky.social
New paper in @pnas.org - using playback experiments we provide further evidence that bottlenose dolphins can use individual identity signals + social memory to guide decision-making. Female dolphins use individual vocal labels to track coercive males | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
