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Sebastien Moro

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Vulgarisation scientifique orientée sur le comportement et la cognition animale. SciComm on animal cognition and behavior. Specialized in large reviews oO http://cervelledoiseau.fr https://youtube.com/cervelledoiseau #Fish #Rats #Pigeons #FarmAnimals #Bee

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Sebastien Moro @cervelleoiseau.bsky.social · Dec 2

For a fresh new start here, here is a TEDx Talk I gave a few months ago on animal intelligence.
It's in French but there are English subtitles :)
youtu.be/Eqm4ZF07xG0
#Ethology #AnimalBehavior #AnimalBehaviour

Des intelligences extraterrestres ... bien terrestres - Sébastien Moro-TEDx Arts Et Metiers Bordeaux

YouTube video by Cervelle d'oiseau

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 21h

Social and Spatial Affinity Drive Wound Care by Ants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.08.681151v1

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Sebastien Moro @cervelleoiseau.bsky.social · 9d

Les semaines qui arrivent vont être sportives ! :D

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 17d

2025. Activity and behavior patterns of cattle, horses and sheep grazing in mountainous areas using geolocation collars url: academic.oup.com/jas/article/...

Activity and behavior patterns of cattle, horses and sheep grazing in mountainous areas using geolocation collars

Abstract. The sustainability of livestock extensive systems is compromised. It is necessary to enhance our understanding of the activity and grazing behavi

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Journal of Avian Biology @avianbiology.bsky.social · 17d

NEW PAPER: Wild rock pigeons more than double grooming during peak molt, showing that the intensity of grooming parallels the intensity of molt throughout the molt cycle. Molt may be costlier than thought, as birds invest extra energy in feather care.

➡️ vist.ly/47pgr

#ornithology #birds 🪶

Photo of a rock pigeon. Source: Wikimedia commons (author: https://www.flickr.com/people/68466173@N02)

Fig. 2 from the article: Timing of molt in relation to the grooming behavior of rock pigeons. (a) Mean date that each of the 10 primary feathers had dropped or had begun emerging, (b) number of body regions molting (‘molt intensity'), (c) time spent grooming during each four-week observation period.

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 17d

Comprehensive healthspan assessments and influence of sex as a biological variable in aging rats https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.22.677661v1

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Andres Bendesky @bendeskylab.com · 20d

Nice article featuring how we and others use robotic animals to study animal behavior 🤖🐟🧪

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 20d

Faux fish and birds are helping researchers decipher some of the rules that govern schooling and squawking, among other social behaviors.

By @callimcflurry.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/social-behav...

Robots marry natural neuroscience, experimental control to probe animal interactions

Faux fish and birds are helping researchers decipher some of the rules that govern schooling and squawking, among other social behaviors.

www.thetransmitter.org

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 22d

Flexible Self-Protection as Evidence of Pain-Like States in House Crickets https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.12.675781v1

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 22d

First direct quantification of floral handling costs in bees https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.15.675838v1

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Alice Auersperg @auersperga.bsky.social · 28d

Goffins like challenges...feeding upside down. Enjoying fieldwork in Singapore with @theroesa.bsky.social

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Millie Johnston @milliejohnston.bsky.social · 28d

I'm delighted to share that, together with @crowbrain.bsky.social our paper on time estimation in crows is now published in @natcomms.nature.com

We found that crows not only keep track of time, but individual neurons prefer different time durations 🐦⏱️🧠

Check it out:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A neuronal correlate for time interval estimation in the crow’s telencephalon - Nature Communications

It is unknown how birds estimate time using brains organized differently from mammals. Here, the authors show that neurons in the crow NCL encode duration categories, supporting abstract, cue-independ...

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 28d

Conditioned orienting predicts preference for, and affective response to, amphetamine after multiple exposures in male rats. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.06.674656v1

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 28d

Flexibility in task performance and division of labour in a cooperatively breeding cichlid https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.08.674851v1

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 27d

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George Hodgson @ghodgson.bsky.social · May 29

Our new feral cattle behaviour paper “Fighting and friendship: sociodemographic factors and provisioning affect feral cattle behaviour” is now available open access online at #AnimalBehaviourJournal @asab.org
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Photograph of a group of feral cattle lying in a field in Hong Kong, with one black bull standing in the middle, and one brown animal lying in the background with its head on another animal's back.

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Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · 28d

1/3 Rooks that understand us when we speak!

Leo, a 21-year-old rook, began following verbal instructions spontaneously during comparative cognition experiments. He has been tested for this ability, and did great.

(paper) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 27d

2025. Sex‐specific plasticity in Alpine ibex migration timing. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Sex‐specific plasticity in Alpine ibex migration timing

This paper highlights a recent study by Chauveau et al. (2025), which examined sex-specific flexibility in migration timing in Alpine ibex (Capra ibex). Using long-term data, the authors show that ma...

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Lars Chittka @larschittka.bsky.social · 27d

New paper on male bumblebee spatial movement strategies: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Male bumblebees adapt foraging to environmental conditions to sustain mate-seeking efforts

Male bees navigate complex trade-offs between energy acquisition and reproductive signalling, yet their movement strategies remain understudied. Unlike workers that optimise foraging to support the co...

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Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · 26d

1/5 Encyclopedia of octopus movements

A study of the movements of 25 octopuses of three different species from Spain and various locations in the Caribbean (O. vulgaris, O. americanus, and O. insularis), and, unsurprisingly, they have surprised us once again!

(paper) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · 25d

Crows can learn to use tools

The flexibility of corvid cognition is once again demonstrated to be sufficient for tool use, even in the absence of previous related adaptations.

(paper) www.cell.com/current-biol...
(blog) phys.org/news/2025-09...

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Sebastien Moro @cervelleoiseau.bsky.social · 29d

Bees.

Lars Chittka @larschittka.bsky.social · Sep 9

It was a pleasure handing this exciting study as editor for PLOS Biology: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Honeybees adapt to a range of comb cell sizes by merging, tilting, and layering their construction

Honeybees often need to build their comb under conditions that prevent a regular hexagonal lattice. This study uses 3D printed panels and X-ray microscopy to explore their adaptive process when differ...

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 29d

2023. Welcome to the Republic of Cows. When habitat loss is one of the biggest issues facing wild animals, why has Alaska given an uninhabited, remote island to feral cattle? #FeralCattle www.wired.com/story/welcom...

Welcome to the Republic of Cows

When habitat loss is one of the biggest issues facing wild animals, why has Alaska given an uninhabited, remote island to feral cattle?

www.wired.com

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · Sep 6

2025 - "Identification and Characterization of Clusters of Potentially New Vocalizations in Broiler Chickens Using Advanced Acoustic Analysis" www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Identification and Characterization of Clusters of Potentially New Vocalizations in Broiler Chickens Using Advanced Acoustic Analysis

Download Citation | On Sep 1, 2025, Tomasz Grzywalski and others published Identification and Characterization of Clusters of Potentially New Vocalizations in Broiler Chickens Using Advanced Acoustic ...

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Lars Chittka @larschittka.bsky.social · Aug 23

The French version of The Mind of a Bee is now available- 13 translations already! 😊

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · Aug 24

In shining a light on how people routinely torment fishes, Animal Equality UK is doing great work. Clear enforceable slaughter regulations are long overdue. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Trout farm in Cotswolds tourist hotspot accused of welfare abuses

Exclusive: Charity says footage shows fish being struck repeatedly and at least one child taking part in killing fish

www.theguardian.com

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Michael Haslam @twigtechnology.bsky.social · Aug 26

New study led by Joanna Baker shows bigger brains and relatively longer thumbs coevolved in primates. Humans have huge thumbs, but only what our brain size (esp. neocortex) would predict. It’s NOT driven by tool use.

A fantastic paper with a huge amount of work, and superb data presentation 🧪🏺👍🧠💀🐒🦧

Human dexterity and brains evolved hand in hand - Communications Biology

Thumbs and brains coevolved in primates. Across living and extinct species, longer thumbs predict bigger brains, highlighting the neural cost of dexterity.

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Oceane Liehrmann @oliehrmann.bsky.social · Aug 26

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New paper out! Validation of the human-horse attachment styles survey.

Glad to be co last author on this piece with @millasalonen.bsky.social. Congrats to our respective students Alisa and Aada for the amazing work they put in this study.

Psychometric Validation of the Adapted Pet Attachment Questionnaire in Measuring Human–Horse Attachment

Attachment between humans and conventional pets like dogs and cats has been previously characterized by two dimensions: attachment-related anxiety and avoidance. This study used attachment theory a...

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