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Shoubhik Banerjee
@knaticat.bsky.social
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PhD student @Kao Lab in UMass Boston. Studying collective animal behavior in 🐟🐦 Website: https://knaticat.github.io
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Shoubhik Banerjee @knaticat.bsky.social · 5d
Our work on navigation mechanisms in homing pigeons is out now! Do check out 🐦
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Fritz Francisco @fritzfrancisco.bsky.social · 9d
To be a pigeon, one must think like a pigeon! 🕊️ 🧐 Check out our recent work from the www.thekaolab.com, led by the flocking amazing @knaticat.bsky.social in @elife.bsky.social: A tale of two birds: cognitive simplicity drives collective route improvements in homing pigeons doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
A tale of two birds: cognitive simplicity drives collective route improvements in homing pigeons
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Shoubhik Banerjee @knaticat.bsky.social · 5d
Huge thanks to @eslr.bsky.social for the travel grant supporting my attendance!
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Shoubhik Banerjee @knaticat.bsky.social · 5d
Had a great time meeting and learning from researchers in the fields of cultural evolution, collective intelligence and psychology in the COSMOS summer school held in the beautiful city of Tokyo. Thanks a lot to the amazing duo @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social & @thecharleywu.bsky.social for organizing!
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Shoubhik Banerjee @knaticat.bsky.social · May 22
We tested plausible strategies and found that simple strategies with low cognitive demands are sufficient to explain the improvement trend. Get in touch if you have any feedback or questions! 😊
Special thanks to flock members: Albert Kao and @fritzfrancisco.bsky.social
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Shoubhik Banerjee @knaticat.bsky.social · May 22
We revisited a 2017 study by Sasaki and Biro that showed pairs of pigeons flying home, similar to a game of telephone 📞 found shorter homing routes, and yet, mechanisms explaining this improvements were unexplored. 🤔
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Shoubhik Banerjee @knaticat.bsky.social · May 22
🚨Pre-print alert!🚨
Excited to share our recent study that explores the navigation mechanism(s) pigeons 🐦 use to improve homing efficiency and if these fit the criteria of cummulative cultural evolution. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A tale of two birds: cognitive simplicity drives collective route improvements in homing pigeons
Cognitive abilities are central to how animals navigate complex environments. Beyond individual cognition, group living can also enhance navigation by pooling individually acquired information. One wa...
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Shoubhik Banerjee @knaticat.bsky.social · Feb 7
These are so nicely done!👏
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