From burger wrappers to masks, bird nests tell story of throwaway culture https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/04/from-burger-wrappers-masks-bird-nests-story-throwaway-culture #Animalbehaviour #Environment #Netherlands #Pollution #Worldnews #Plastics #Wildlife #Animals #Biology #Science #Europe #Birds #Waste
Mercredi soir prochain je parlerai de l’imagination et de l’invention animales à IHPST avec Florian Moullard !!!! Plus d’infos ici 
https://ihpst.pantheonsorbonne.fr/evenements/soirees-philosophie-sciences-et-societe-sorbonne
#animal #philosophieanimale #animalcognition #animalbehaviour #philbio
Long live introverts! 
Not the bravest mice 
, but the shy ones turn out to be the most persistent problem-solvers, according to a new study by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology.
I am very happy to share this more personal piece with you, exploring the link between inventiveness and play in our fellow nonhuman animals. It was written with care and a sincere desire to convey what science and philosophy can teach us about this fascinating topic.
I hope you enjoy reading it!
#animalplay #animalinvention #invention #animalbehaviour #evolution #aeon #philbio
https://aeon.co/essays/how-evolution-favoured-costly-and-frivolous-animal-play
That convenient, unconvincing #boilingfrog analogy raising its head again, but: #animalbehaviour =(not)politicalbehaviour @wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
From profiteroles to moles: project uncovers gulls’ surprising diet https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/15/from-profiteroles-to-moles-project-uncovers-gulls-surprising-diet #UniversityofSalford #Animalbehaviour #Environment #Photography #Worldnews #Education #Wildlife #Animals #Science #Birds
Next session of our online seminar on Agency between Biology and Philosophy is today (5pm UK time).
We will talk about the link between organism and agency + biosemiotics !!
Feel free to join us 
More info here:
Cool paper with stimulating insights on the potential link between play and religion:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21594937.2025.2464320
(Unfortunately there is a pay wall / it requires academic access 
which I am happy to provide for those interested)
Good science doesn't always require elaborate protocols. Maëlan Tomasek, a PhD student in Alex Jordan's group in Konstanz, published a simple but elegant study of the cognitive abilities of wild fish. The sample size is modest, but it's a proof of concept: some fish simply learn the gear of the diver feeding them.
Tomasek et al (2025) Biology Letters 21:20240558 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0558
Video abstract: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycr48YILPx8
I'm very excited about COST action Affect-Evo on animal affect, and equal parts excited and dauted to have taken on leadership of WG2, "Societal impacts of understanding animals’ affective states". Looking forward to working with social scientists, law scholars, and animal behaviour peeps.
We're still working on the website but have a logo. That means the project is official, right?
We often think of the stone age as being uniquely human, but we're not the only animal to use stone tools. In fact, mounting evidence of ancient stone tool use in animals is even calling some archaeological finds into question. My latest for @sciencefocus:
https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/are-we-the-only-species-to-go-through-the-stone-age #Archaeology #AnimalBehaviour #ToolUse
17th Ecology and Behaviour annual meeting
11-15 August 2025, Montpellier France
Abstract submission deadline - March 28th
Registration is free
"Ecology & Behaviour (E&B) is a scientific symposium focused on the themes of ecology, evolutionary biology, and animal behaviour, organised by doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers."
#PhD position opened in #Marseille, topic at the interface between #AnimalBehaviour, #NetworkScience, #Sociophysics and #Neuroscience. More details available there: https://centuri-livingsystems.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PHD2025_14_GENOIS_KOENIG_PUB.pdf
Application through the Centuri PhD program: https://centuri-livingsystems.org/recruitment/
Deadline January 27.
Do not hesitate to reach out if you are interested!
I just created a #StarterPack for #AnimalBehavior
If you can think of people to add, let me know!
If you want to be removed, also let me know!
Wild drunk: evolution of #alcohol consumption in animal species in natural population. High concentration of sugar in fruits favours fermentative yeasts and natural ethanol production.
#Science #Biology #Ecology #Evolution #AnimalBehaviour #Foraging
Bowland et al. (2025) The evolutionary ecology of ethanol. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 40:67–79 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2024.09.005
"Despite the “prodigious ethanol consumption” of pen-tailed treeshrews, the scientists found no evidence that the animals became intoxicated, but concede it was “unclear how an inebriated treeshrew would behave”."
#Introduction
So here I am, someone who tried and failed Twitter numerous times, now attempting to get a handle on this 
I don't know if I'm on the right server, I guess time will tell!
I'm a #PhDStudent at #NewcastleUniversity using #animalBehaviour, #neuroscience, #physiology and #socialScience to improve #laboratory #animalWelfare (jeez that's a lotta hashtags!). 
In my spare time I enjoy hunting, identifying, and sometimes even eating #fungi. I also like #photography and #baking vegan goodies 
Just in time for #ScienceWeek, I published "Do Cats Mourn?: Understanding Feline Emotions Beyond Human Comparisons"
#FelineGrief #AnimalEmotions
#UnderstandingBias #CaturdayEve #Cats #PetLoss #Education #HumanAnimalBond #Science #SciComm #AnimalBehaviour #PhilosophicalWorldViews
#AnimalResearch #ResearchInsights #EmotionalWellbeing
"The research is an extension of their observations from 2017’s most recent total eclipse in the US, when usually sedentary tortoises started rutting, frantic giraffes ran around aimlessly, and siamang gibbons embarked on an abrupt and tumultuous chorus of screams and barks."
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/07/eclipse-animal-behavior
