Do animals contribute equally to group cohesion? And what can that mean for collective movement decisions? At #ISBE2026 Turin, I’ll present how high-resolution GPS data and movement dynamics can reveal the social organization in vulturine guineafowl. Room Berlino, 13:15, or let’s chat over lunch!

The rhythmic patterns of laughter found in apes and humans reveal that complex primate vocal control might have started evolving 15 million years ago go.nature.com/4eO0lkT

Oo oo, ha ha: why humans and great apes giggle alike when tickled

The rhythmic patterns of laughter found in apes and humans reveal that complex primate vocal control might have started evolving 15 million years ago.

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Conference participants: don’t forget to fill out the form for ISBE SOCIAL EVENTS! Check your mailbox, you’ll find the link to the form in our latest email!

Can penguins link what they hear with what they see? Our new study shows that African penguins associate low-pitched sounds with large objects, and high-pitched sounds with small ones. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1111/nyas... 🧵👇🐧

Meet our Plenary Speaker Daniela Rößler Fueled by curiosity and a deep love of natural history Daniela discovered a REM-like sleep state in spiders and uses integrative field, lab and comparative approaches to investigate the function, ecology, and evolution of sleep across the spider tree of life.

Meet our plenary speaker Eva Ringler! Professor at the University of Bern, Eva Ringler and her research group are interested in understanding variation in animal behaviour from an ecological and evolutionary perspective focusing on Neotropical poison frogs and glassfrogs.

Visit our website and learn more about the @behavecol.bsky.social conference venue, host city and schedule! www.isbe2026.com

ISBE26-the 20th International Society for Behavioral Ecology Conference will take place in Turin, Italy, from 20-24th of July 2026. We invite you to join us to enjoy a 5-day meeting rich in top-notch science and ample networking opportunities, in our beautiful city. Website out soon! #ISBE26

Torino the place To be - short 1'

YouTube video by Turismo Torino e Provincia

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Hey Bluesky ppl! Me in a nutshell: From Sicily 🌋 to the University of Turin doing a PhD. My research is about using Passive Acoustic Monitoring to study the critically endangered African penguin (in South Africa -not Madagascar!). Passionate about bioacoustics, ethology, ML, photography & more!