🐾 Unexpected post-release behaviours of reintroduced kakapo
📎 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.24.753978v1?rss=1

🇬🇧 Study analyzing the post-release spatial behavior and habitat selection of reintroduced Kakapo birds in...

#AnimalCognition #Ethology #AnimalBehavior

🐾 Schrodinger's mouse: human observation erases a drug-induced behavioral phenotype
📎 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.25.754328v1?rss=1

🇬🇧 Study examining how human observation perturbs drug-induced behavioral phenotyp...

#AnimalCognition #Ethology #AnimalBehavior

🐾 Bottlenose whales are more socially connected when in poor body condition
📎 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.25.754507v1?rss=1

🇬🇧 Study examining the relationship between body condition and social connectivity in nort...

#AnimalCognition #Ethology #AnimalBehavior

🐾 Validation of behavioural tests for personality assessment in tie-stall dairy cows
📎 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.25.754475v1?rss=1

🇬🇧 This study evaluates the consistency and validity of five behavioral tests use...

#AnimalCognition #Ethology #AnimalBehavior

🐾 Sociality shapes context-dependent stress responses to anthropogenic disturbance in African elephants
📎 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.30.755628v1?rss=1

🇬🇧 Study examining how social relationships and rank modulate ...

#AnimalCognition #Ethology #AnimalBehavior

🐾 Spontaneous behavior predicts colony membership, individual identity, and rank in naked mole-rat societies
📎 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.27.754730v1?rss=1

🇬🇧 Study demonstrating that fine-scale spontaneous behavi...

#AnimalCognition #Ethology #AnimalBehavior

🐾 Socio-cognitive models in a patch foraging setting: a case study for model selection and parameter identifiability m...
📎 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.28.755106v1?rss=1

🇬🇧 Study investigating how animal groups use socia...

#AnimalCognition #Ethology #AnimalBehavior

🐾 Developing an accessible judgement bias task for non-human primates
📎 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.28.754938v1?rss=1

🇬🇧 Study testing the feasibility of Judgment Bias Tasks to infer affective states and decision-m...

#AnimalCognition #Ethology #AnimalBehavior

🐾 Light-independent and pulsing-sensitive magnetic compass responses in planarians
📎 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.27.754318v1?rss=1

🇬🇧 This study investigates the perception and navigation capabilities of planarians...

#AnimalCognition #Ethology #AnimalBehavior

🐾 Context and Identity Cues Mediate Individual Recognition in a Highly Social Cichlid Fish
📎 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.27.754830v1?rss=1

🇬🇧 Study demonstrating that African cichlid fish integrate identity cues an...

#AnimalCognition #Ethology #AnimalBehavior

🐾 Search party flock formations in migrating birds
📎 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.28.755100v1?rss=1

🇬🇧 The article reports on field observations and radar measurements of migrating terns forming unique 'search party...

#AnimalCognition #Ethology #AnimalBehavior

🐾 Categorical rhythmic patterns do not predict song preference in zebra finches
📎 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.05.756641v1?rss=1

🇬🇧 Study investigating whether zebra finches exhibit categorical rhythmic preferences ...

#AnimalCognition #Ethology #AnimalBehavior

🐾 "Mine" or "yours"? Acoustic structure of food calls predicts sharing decisions in marmosets
📎 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.05.756650v1?rss=1

🇬🇧 Study investigating the link between acoustic structure of food calls...

#AnimalCognition #Ethology #AnimalBehavior

Vasotocin influences mother–offspring associations in a facultatively family-living lizard
#BehavioralEcology #AnimalBehavior #ParentalCare #SocialBehavior #ReptileBehavior

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These Wild Lemurs Sing Just Like Opera Stars, Widening Their Mouths as They Hit the High Notes, Study Suggests: Scientists suspect this musical trait arose independently in humans and indris, which split from a common ancestor… @SmithsonianMag #Lemurs #Madagascar #Wildlife #Nature #AnimalBehavior

Admiring the peaceful nature of a happy little lamb resting safely by a rustic wooden fence in the gorgeous green valleys of Switzerland. Pure mountain tranquility. 🐑🏔️✨ #SwissAlps #NatureLovers #PeacefulVibes #AnimalBehavior #SwitzerlandTrave💚🩵❤️💜💛🏵️🌹🌺💖🌸🌼🪷💮l💙💕 🫶🌿

Which breed is the most difficult to train?
 
Drew surprises us with the breed that's most difficult to train.
 
V: https://youtu.be/l0IxH12tMqM
A: https://mitzithinkinc.podbean.com/e/lta-animal-behavior-wsg-drew-brashier
 
#DrewBrashier #AnimalBehavior #podcastinterview

Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen (@uni-goettingen.de) is hiring:
Research Associate in Animal Husbandry

#researcher #biology #animalbehavior

Wild elephants tracked in Botswana slept about two hours a night and lay down only every third or fourth day. An elephant flat on its side is a rare thing to catch.

#Elephants #AnimalBehavior #ILoveAnimals

#NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #Birds #WildlifePhotography #Wildlife #Nature #BirdWatching #NatureLovers #BirdLife #AnimalBehavior #NaturePhoto #WildlifePhoto #Conservation #NatureCommunity #OutdoorPhotography