Congrats to Ellen Jacobs and coauthors for getting their work featured in the Royal Society's top 10 papers of 2025!

Royal Society Publishing@royalsocietypublishing.org · 8mo ago

Happy New Year! 🎉 From gulls eavesdropping on human conversations, to the first ever recordings of shark noises, take a look at the most popular articles published in our journals over 2025: royalsociety.org/blog/2025/12...

The Shark Bay dolphins are featured in another great collaborative paper on density-dependent features of societies across the animal kingdom!

Greg Albery@gfalbery.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Celebrating the publication of our big collaborative spatial-social meta-analysis of density-dependent transmission effects, out now in Nature Eco Evo! doi.org/10.1038/s415... (or rdcu.be/eD6eB)

New paper led by recent graduate Dr. Ellen Jacobs showing new insights into the potential cognitive demands of tool use in dolphins

Royal Society Publishing@royalsocietypublishing.org · last yr.

#RSOS in @thetimes.com | Cultural transmission of animal tool use driven by trade-offs: insights from sponge-using dolphins: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

New paper! Synchronized breathing data and network models show that age and sex shape infection risk in bottlenose dolphins—critical insight for protecting marine wildlife from future outbreaks. Collab w/ @bansallab.bsky.social rdcu.be/epHE8

Breathing synchrony shapes respiratory disease risk in bottlenose dolphins

Communications Biology - Social network modeling of wild dolphins reveals how age- and sex-structured contact patterns shape infection risk, offering insight into disease vulnerability and...

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The 2025 field season has officially begun!

New paper: Network indicators of cultural resilience to anthropogenic removals in animal societies comparative analysis with data from @amboselibaboonrp.bsky.social, @sb-dolphins.bsky.social and the Samburu Elephant Project doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0144

Network indicators of cultural resilience to anthropogenic removals in animal societies | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Social learning, information transmission and culture play vital roles in the lives of social animals, influencing their survival, reproduction and ability to adapt to changing environments. However, the effect of anthropogenic disturbances on these ...

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