April 14th 2026, Stotra Chakrabarti, Natalia Borrego & Genevieve Finerty Title: Beyond Model Systems: Addressing ecological and systemic biases in behavioural research Drawing on research across multiple lion populations. Zoom urosario.zoom.us/j/83474018920

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FINE April 7th 2026, Vidya T.N.C., Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India Title: Group size and social relationships in female Asian elephants Zoom urosario.zoom.us/j/85656186465

Todays FINE March 31st 2026, Hope Klug, University of Tennessee Chattanooga, USA Title: The operation of sexual selection revisited Summary: Sexual selection influences patterns of biodiversity at micro- and macro-evolutionary scales. YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...

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Striped mice survive harsh drought by slowing down and not getting stressed

What if harsh environments don’t stress animals at all? Research on South Africa’s striped mice shows survival can depend on conserving energy, not fighting back.

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FINE SEMINAR March 16th, 2026 Patrick Tkaczynski Research Centre for Evolutionary Anthropology and Palaeoecology, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK

FINE presentation February 24th 2026 Erin Vogel, Rutgers University, USA Title: Slow Life History in Wild Orangutans: Adaptations and Evolution

Tomorrow FINE Spring 2026 will start. The 12th season of this free online seminar on social evolution.

The 12th season of FINE starts the 24th of February with an exciting program. To register for weekly reminders and the video link email social.evolution.seminar@gmail.com

Here @linde-makuya.bsky.social shows that in the central place foragers bush Karoo rat, daily ranges are a very good estimate for home ranges. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Sex-specific differences in daily ranges and home ranges as determined by GPS data loggers in a small central place forager - Mammalian Biology

Animals use home ranges for daily activities such as foraging, mating, and caring for young. Home ranges are often smaller than daily ranges — the areas used within a single day — though the two can b...

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Adaptation to harshness is fundamentally different from the adaptive stress response: Results from a 20 years long case study in African striped mice zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Adaptation to harshness is fundamentally different from the adaptive stress response: Results from a 20‐year‐long case study in African striped mice

Animals in harsh environments rely on specialised adaptations. Two decades of field research on African striped mice (Rhabdomys pumilio) in the Succulent Karoo semi-desert reveal a distinct ‘harshnes...

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Unfortunately the last FINE for this season had to be cancelled. But here you get a first glimpse to the FINE program in spring 2026, which will start end of February. The full program will be sent around in time.

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Co-BreeD (Cooperative Breeding Database)@co-breed.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Check out the story behind our work on Co-BreeD, written by fabulous @maikewoith.bsky.social and published as a blog in @animalecology.bsky.social animalecologyinfocus.com/2025/11/11/h...

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Concentrated blood reveals when striped mice are dehydrated

It doesn't take much imagination to realise that surviving in a desert requires a special kind of toughness. Each year, African striped mice (Rhabdomys pumilio) living in the Succulent Karoo, South Af...

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Here we show - using long-term data of 12 years - that serum osmolality increases in striped mice in the dry season, and the harsher the dry season, the stronger the increase, indicating dehydration. @antoinestier.bsky.social @iphc-strasbourg.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...

Seasonal increase in blood serum osmolality reflects environmental harshness in the striped mouse: a decade-long field study

Highlighted Article: Osmolality is a biomarker for dehydration in mammals: data from 12 years show that striped mice have increased blood osmolality during the dry season, especially when food availab...

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Watch here the great talk by Cyril Grüter last night about multi-level societies in primates. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1SE...

Cyril Grüter: Inter-group social dynamics, multilevel organization in primates (2 Dec. 2025)

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Todays FINE 2nd December, Cyril Grüter, University of Oxford, UK Title: Evolution of Inter-Group Social Dynamics and Multilevel Organization in Primates   Zoom link opens at 16 :45 /10:45 urosario.zoom.us/j/87594920134   YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...

An integrative, peer‐reviewed and open‐source cooperative‐breeding database (Co‐BreeD) - Ben Mocha - Journal of Animal Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

An integrative, peer‐reviewed and open‐source cooperative‐breeding database (Co‐BreeD)

Co-BreeD is the first updatable and open-source database dedicated to cooperative breeding. It enables continuous, non-binary measurement of cooperative breeding, transforming how we study breeding s....

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rdcu.be/eMwfX Overall, our findings indicate mutual tolerance between neighbours of this solitary species in relation to shared foraging grounds. This mutual tolerance may facilitate spatial overlap among kin and could represent a precursor to more complex cooperative behaviour.

An integrative, peer‐reviewed and open‐source cooperative‐breeding database (Co‐BreeD) - Ben Mocha - Journal of Animal Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

FINE SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT 21 October, 11:00 New York / 17:00 Paris Ally Harari, Department of Entomology, ARO Volcani Center, Israel Title: Decision making in relation to sex in a moth YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...

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Note that there will be no FINE the 7th Oct and 14th Oct. FINE will be back 21st Oct with a talk by Alli Harari.

Special FINE 30th September 2025 17:00 Paris / 11:00 New York 60min panel talks followed by 60min general discussion Zoom link opens at 16 :45 /10:45 urosario.zoom.us/j/83337249371 Meeting ID: 833 3724 9371 YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...

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Songs of the striped mouse show who’s friend and who’s foe

Ultrasonic calls, too high for the human ear to detect, convey a wealth of information across the rodent’s territory.

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Ultrasonic signals support a large-scale communication landscape in wild mice: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Ultrasonic signals support a large-scale communication landscape in wild mice

Perrier et al. show that wild African striped mice (R. pumilio) use short-range ultrasonic signals for large-scale communication. By vocalizing at key territorial locations, they extend the functional...

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DONT miss todays FINE 23rd September, James Tumulty, Rhodes College, USA Title: Evidence of a selective link between cooperation and individual recognition in a paper wasp. Live on YoutTube 11:00 New York / 17:00 Paris www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...

Today FINE 9th September, Adam Reddon, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom 17:00 Paris / 11:00 New York Title: Conflict management in social fishes Zoom link opens at 16 :45 /10:45 urosario.zoom.us/j/82256099694

Join us tomorrow for the first FINE of the Fall 2025: 2nd September, Andrew Bass, Cornell University (USA) Title: Crystal Clear Brains: Benefits & Tradeoffs of Miniaturization in Danionella Fishes When: 2nd September, presentation starts at 11:00 NYC / 17:00 Paris.