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BOU @bou.org.uk · 17d

Numerical cognition in birds | www.nature.com/artic... | Nature Reviews Psychology | #ornithology 🪶

Nature Reviews Psychology - Birds demonstrate complex numerical abilities at levels similar to primates. In this Review, Regolin and colleagues describe the contribution of laboratory, field and...

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BOU @bou.org.uk · 23d

The evolution of extreme sound frequencies in bird songs | doi.org/10.1093/evol... | Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

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Mylène Dutour @dutourmylene.bsky.social · 23d

Thrilled to see our magpie research featured in "Why Do Birds Sing?" now out and recently highlighted in The Canberra Times!
Amazing to see how our work on female song and social complexity in magpies is resonating ❤️
@mandyridley.bsky.social @gblackburn.bsky.social

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Gregory Kohn @kohngregory.bsky.social · 29d

Really interesting study showing learning of tool use in carrion crows! www.cell.com/current-biol...

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ManyBirds Project @themanybirds.bsky.social · Sep 9

Stay tuned for a very exciting update coming shortly from the ManyBirds Project! Eeek!

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Mandy Ridley @mandyridley.bsky.social · Aug 21

Our new cognition paper is out, headed by @gblackburn.bsky.social, and one of the last chapters from her exceptional PhD thesis!

Grace Blackburn @gblackburn.bsky.social · Aug 20

New paper alert 🚨 We test quantity discrimination in #magpies using both a cognitive task and playback experiment and find that birds can discriminate between quantities in both! Interestingly, performance in the two task was negatively correlated! 🐦
@mandyridley.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Response to intruder number is related to spontaneous quantity discrimination performance in a wild bird

The ability to discriminate between quantities is important for animal species. We show that wild magpies can discriminate both between different quantitie

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CNRS @cnrs.fr · Sep 8

#Communiqué 🗞️ Dès l’école maternelle, les enseignants répondent moins favorablement aux prises de parole des enfants de milieux populaires, comparés à leurs camarades de classes moyennes et supérieures, et ce à compétences linguistiques égales. 🧒📚

👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/le...

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Juliette Aychet @julietteaychet.bsky.social · Aug 27

Our new chapter is out! 📢 Co-first-authored with @mawadafreville.bsky.social with attentive supervision of @chacanteloup.bsky.social🤗

How has intentionality been theorised in developmental psychology and primatology, and how is it studied in animal signals?🐒🦜👶 Take a look 👇 doi.org/10.1016/B978...

Intentional Communication in Animals

The evolutionary origins of human language are deeply intertwined with the ability to communicate intentionally. Grounded in frameworks from developme…

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Stephanie L King @stephanielking.bsky.social · Jul 31

Excited to share that we have just been awarded a NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant to work on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins. We will soon advertise a 3 year post-doc to join the team - drop me an email if you might be interested! Pls share widely 🙏🏻

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Vladimir Pravosudov @cognitiveecol.bsky.social · Jul 23

New paper from the lab by @jwelklin.bsky.social
In mountain chickadees, there is positive assortment by age in pairing, but such assortment appears due to pair longevity rather than active mate choice based on age.
academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

Social pairing in the absence of reproductive senescence in a socially monogamous songbird

Older, more experienced individuals may make better mates than young, inexperienced individuals, but reproductive ability often declines in old ages. Mount

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Alex Chan @alexhhchan.bsky.social · Jul 9

New paper out in the lab on collective gaze following in pigeons in iScience!

Coolest experimental design ever🤭

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NCCR Evolving Language @nccrlanguage.bsky.social · Jun 26

📰 Humans from different cultures talk to their children using “child-directed speech”, or “baby talk”. But according to new research, this characteristic is however far from prevalent in our closest relatives, the non-human great apes...

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Baby-talk - a human superpower? - NCCR Evolving Language

Humans from different cultures speak to their children using a form of speech known as "child-directed speech", or “baby talk”. Though to us, it may seem natural to communicate directly with our littl...

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Martin Clavey @mart1oeil.eu · Jun 24

« ChatGPT rend con » ? Des chercheurs du MIT trollent les utilisateurs d’IA générative

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Avec le regard de Martial Mermillod, enseignant-chercheur en sciences cognitives à l'Université de Grenoble

« ChatGPT rend con » ? Des chercheurs du MIT trollent les utilisateurs d'IA générative - Next

Une étude (non relue par les pairs) analysant l’activité du cerveau lorsqu’on utilise l’IA générative est beaucoup citée actuellement sur les réseaux sociaux et dans les médias. Mais celle-ci a été mi...

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BOU @bou.org.uk · Jun 23

🔊 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS OPEN

#BOU2026 | Birds and people | 31 March - 2 April 2026 | University of Nottingham & Zoom & Bluesky

Check out the keynote lineup and submit your abstract now!

bou.org.uk/event/bir...

#ornithology

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Grace Blackburn @gblackburn.bsky.social · Jun 9

Another #PhD chapter out in the world! We investigate the impact of anthropogenic #noise on the territorial song of WA magpies 🔊🐦🔊
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Western Australian Magpies alter the rate, but not the amplitude, of their territorial song in anthropogenic noise

Anthropogenic noise is considered one of the most serious forms of pollution globally and has been shown to have negative effects on the distribution, behaviour, cognition and reproductive success of...

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Mandy Ridley @mandyridley.bsky.social · Jun 9

Our new paper, led by @gblackburn.bsky.social, finds a very sharp decline in the rate of carol calls (the main territorial call) given by magpies during anthropogenic noise, but no change in the amplitude. @dutourmylene.bsky.social

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Western Australian Magpies alter the rate, but not the amplitude, of their territorial song in anthropogenic noise

Anthropogenic noise is considered one of the most serious forms of pollution globally and has been shown to have negative effects on the distribution, behaviour, cognition and reproductive success of...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Lucy Aplin @lucymaplin.bsky.social · Jun 4

Two paper just out from the #clevercockieproject!

@julia-penndorf.bsky.social reveals how cockies play politics when deciding who to aggress: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
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@barbaraklump.bsky.social describes a new 'drinking innovation':
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Revue Espèces @especes.bsky.social · Jun 3

And thanks to all our wonderful authors for their selfless contribution to our revue! We’re here to help researchers disseminate their knowledge and research to the widest audience possible.

Mylène Dutour @dutourmylene.bsky.social · Jun 3

A popular science article titled "Espéranto aviaire" based on one of my research papers is now published in the French natural history magazine Espèces. Huge thanks to @especes.bsky.social for this great opportunity!
Science communication is essential, and I'm grateful to contribute.

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Mylène Dutour @dutourmylene.bsky.social · Jun 3

A popular science article titled "Espéranto aviaire" based on one of my research papers is now published in the French natural history magazine Espèces. Huge thanks to @especes.bsky.social for this great opportunity!
Science communication is essential, and I'm grateful to contribute.

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Mylène Dutour @dutourmylene.bsky.social · Jun 3

New paper out in Leisure Studies!
Higher recreation specialisation is related to higher media engagement but not to reduced outdoor activity in birders.
With Christoph Randler (Univ. of Tuebingen).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#ornithology #recreation #media #outdoorresearch #LeisureStudies

Higher recreation specialisation is related to higher media engagement but not to reduced outdoor activity in birders

The significant role of social media in our daily lives is undeniable. Here, we study the relationship between outcomes from the uses and gratifications theory of social media in relation to a grow...

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Jennifer Morinay @jennifer-morinay.bsky.social · May 21

🚨New review on cooperation 🚨 in Long-tailed tits🕊️

We review over 30 years of research on the drivers of helping in this facultative cooperative breeder:
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🥳Check out our new post about it here: theconversation.com/for-long-tai...

For long-tailed tits, it really does take a village

The evolutionary reason so many birds help raise other parents’ chicks.

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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · May 19

Cross-species teamwork from @livingingroups.bsky.social reveals unexpected similarities in three social mammals 🤔

By lead author @pminasandra.bsky.social with Emily Grout, Katrina Brock, Meg Crofoot, Vlad Demartsev, Amlan Nayak, Eli
Strauss, Ari Strandburg-Peshkin🧵1/2

www.ab.mpg.de/679000/news_...

Very different mammals follow the same rules of behavior

Research hints at an underlying architecture that orders the movements of animals

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Ecology of Animal Societies @livingingroups.bsky.social · May 19

Humans have many unusual traditions. But did you know animals’ strange behaviors can become culture too? Out now in Current Biology (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...) we show the rise and spread of a surprising tradition: interspecies infant abduction. Interactive timeline (www.ab.mpg.de/671374) 🧵 (1/12)

An illustration of a white-faced capuchin monkey carrying a howler infant on their back while cracking nuts with a stone

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Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social · May 11

If you want to see a Taï Chimpanzee drumming, go and check out our YouTube channel of the @taichimpproject.bsky.social and chose:
youtu.be/Mz4ptkqyXBA?...
Willy will show you...

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Chimps’ rhythmic drumming could shed light on music’s evolutionary roots

Research found chimpanzees drum with non-random rhythms that suggest building blocks of music may predate humans by millions of years

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Animal Behaviour Live @animalbehaviour.live · Apr 15

📣SEMINAR SERIES 2025📣
We are kicking off 2025 with our first seminar.

📆Tuesday 29th April 2025 at 2pm GMT on our Youtube channel: @damienfarine.bsky.social will talk about “The costs of collective behaviour” 🐦

🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc9z...

This event is free, no registration required. 🤗

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