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Culture: humans & non-humans, conservation, theory & practice. Chair Bonn Convention Expert Group Animal Culture, Research Fellow Whale and Dolphin Conservation, #ExeterMarine, Cetacean Ecology Research Group Massey University, IUCN CEESP Oceania

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PBrakes @pbrakes.bsky.social · May 2

phys.org/news/2025-05...
Unravelling some of the complexity of animal cultures & conservation with @lucymaplin.bsky.social,
@emma-carroll.bsky.social, Alison L Greggor, Andrew Whiten, @ellengarland.bsky.social & contributors to our theme issue
doi.org/10.1098/rstb... @royalsocietypublishing.org

Animal culture recognized as key factor in new conservation strategies

Exeter scientists are among those who have discovered many animals learn and pass on behaviors through social learning or culture, which could have important implications for conservation.

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Environmental Futures @uowenvirofutures.bsky.social · Jul 2

EF member Dr Katharina Peters has co-authored an interesting publication examining the rising number of marine mammals who in recent years have been found beyond their natural habitat 🐳

Read more via the below UOW media release.

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www.uow.edu.au/the-stand/20...

2025: Adrift in a warming world - University of Wollongong – UOW

How disappearing habitats are sending marine mammals into uncharted waters

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Erin Wessling @northernlimitpt.bsky.social · Jun 24

🌍 Dream of adventure in the heart of Africa? Boost your career in conservation or research as a field researcher on wild bonobos in the DRC! Paid, full training, project management skills & epic experience await.

Apply ASAP & RT to share! 👉 bit.ly/bondiv2025 #conservationjobs #research

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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · Jun 24

Cooling, such as refrigeration and AC, is currently responsible for 7% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

UNEP’s new guide outlines a framework to unlock the cooling sector’s potential to reduce emissions as part of national climate plans: www.unep.org/resources/re...

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PBrakes @pbrakes.bsky.social · May 26

Now this is cool #womeninSTEM

Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · May 26

To mark the 360th anniversary of #PhilosophicalTransactions, we're spotlighting 20 landmark papers from the journal. Caroline Herschel's 1787 paper 'An Account of a New Comet' was the first scientific work by a woman to be fully credited in any scientific journal throughout the world buff.ly/RRsaLZ2

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Zoë Goldsborough @zoegoldsborough.bsky.social · May 19

Hot off the press 📣: one of the most surprising and unsettling findings of my PhD. A novel social tradition emerged in the tool-using white-faced capuchins of Jicarón island… abducting and carrying the infants of another species. Thread with gifs, videos, and all the bizarre details 👇

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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spencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · May 9

I will forever be haunted by this footage.

Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.

What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
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Nature @nature.com · May 9

Nature research paper: Herring spawned poleward following fishery-induced collective memory loss

https://go.nature.com/4jLJ2C4

Herring spawned poleward following fishery-induced collective memory loss - Nature

A critically low abundance of older herring due to age-selective fisheries resulted in an approximately 800-km poleward shift in main spawning.

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Julie Talbot @julietalbot.bsky.social · May 9

Wonderful cover, and amazing research by Zhang et al. - they used classic Chinese poetry that mentions the Yangtze finless porpoise (724 poems in total!) to estimate the range contraction of the species over the last 1400 years. Such a creative approach to generate truly novel data!

Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · May 5

Dive into our latest issue!🌊
www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...

On the cover:Yangtze porpoises in troubled waters🐬 by Yaoyao Zhang and colleagues www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · Mar 7

New paper on the demographic drivers of cultural evolution in Great Tit song published today - epic work led by @nilomr.bsky.social with help from @andreaestandia.bsky.social Ella Cole & Sara Keen. Why did we do this, and what did we find? 🧵 follows: 1/n
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The demographic drivers of cultural evolution in bird song

Social learning can give rise to shared behavioral patterns that persist as culture within animal communities,1,2 such as bird and whale songs and cet…

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PBrakes @pbrakes.bsky.social · May 2

Animal culture recognized as key factor in new conservation strategies

Exeter scientists are among those who have discovered many animals learn and pass on behaviors through social learning or culture, which could have important implications for conservation.

phys.org

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Ellen Garland @ellengarland.bsky.social · May 1

New theme issue in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B @royalsocietypublishing.org:

Animal culture: conservation in a changing world

Edited by @pbrakes.bsky.social, @lucymaplin.bsky.social, @emma-carroll.bsky.social, Alison L Greggor, Andrew Whiten and @ellengarland.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1925

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Ellen Garland @ellengarland.bsky.social · Mar 26

🐳 UPCOMING BOOK ALERT 🐬
The Evolution of Cetacean Societies

Edited by @darrencroft.bsky.social @andrewfoote.bsky.social @stephanielking.bsky.social and myself

Preorder available now
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

#whale #dolphin #animalbehaviour

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David Lusseau @lusseau.bsky.social · Apr 9

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Demographic interactions between the last hunter-gatherers and the first farmers | PNAS

Demographic interaction processes play a pivotal role during episodes of cultural diffusion between different populations, particularly when these ...

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University of Exeter News @uniofexeternews.bsky.social · Apr 30

Why whale urine is so important to life in the sea - new article in @uk.theconversation.com by @exeter.ac.uk researchers Kirsten Freja Young & Marion Rossi

@exetermarine.bsky.social 🐳

Why whale urine is so important to life in the sea

Their carcasses and faeces are also important to the ocean.

theconversation.com

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