Why do some male birds dance better than others, and does it mean they’re smarter? This study on zebra finches explored whether male dance displays reflect intelligence, health, and attractiveness royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article... | #BiologyLetters #AnimalBehaviour #Cognition

Intensive field work by Corey Liu and Frederic Angelier on snow petrels (telomeres and GPS tracking) in Adelie Land, Antarctica !
@cnrs.bsky.social @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social

Last August, we organized the Ecology & Behaviour meeting at @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social with an incredible team🤩 Here’s a recap of what went down: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMNl...
The next edition will be in Montpellier this summer!🦩Join @ecobhvr2025.bsky.social and submit your abstract by March 28!

Le CEBC à l'honneur dans un nouveau format de France3!
Notre unité a beaucoup évolué en 57 ans ! france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/nouvelle-aqu...

📃New paper
We looked at incubating common eiders 🦆 responses to repeated human approaches (mirroring a predation attempt 🦅).
Individuals differed in their response and this was linked to variation in reproductive investment and perceived threat level
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
@ecophycebc.bsky.social

☣️Présence confirmée de la pandémie aviaire H5N1 sur l’île de la Possession (archipel Crozet) et la côte Est de l’archipel Kerguelen.
Pour en savoir plus ➡️
www.cebc.cnrs.fr/pandemie-avi...
@univ-larochelle.fr @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @cnrs.bsky.social

Want to do a Marie Curie project on seabirds with us? We work on stressors, contaminants, physiology, aging, demography. Great fieldwork in Svalbard, Antarctica, French Guyana, France. Lab facilities (hormones, telomeres), biologging, long-term CMR program.
CEBC, France
@ecophycebc.bsky.social

Siffler n’est pas jouer : coûts physiologiques des avertissements sonores chez les serpents 🐍
www.inee.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...
Résultats ANR Aquatherm, Olivier Lourdais, Equipe @ecophycebc.bsky.social