🚨New study by #SPEmembers 🚨
#AnimalBehaviour #Ethology

"Intersections Among Attachment, Empathy and Emotion Regulation in Middle Childhood"
Pires et al. with SPE member António Santos @ International Journal of Psychology

Relevant information will be updated in our website: etologia.pt/congress-2026

We look forward to welcoming you in Vairão!

#SPE2026 #behaviour #evolution #ecology #biology #ethology

🐾 The effect of heat waves on pill bug Armadillidium vulgare risk-taking strategies.
📎 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-026-05968-5

🇬🇧 This study investigates how heat waves and prior thermal experience alter risk-taking strategies in pil...

#AnimalCognition #Ethology #AnimalBehavior

Hello, #AcademicSky! We are a highly collaborative philosophy group interested in the life sciences—esp. #evobio, #cellbio, #devbio, #PaleoSky, #ethology, #cogsci & #AI. Follow us for research updates & the work catching our eye across #philosophy & science!

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#philsci #HPbio 🧪

🐾 From the "sticker" to the "seed" slide: Challenges testing concurrent tooling in Goffin's cockatoos
📎 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.107787

🇬🇧 This study investigates the capacity of Goffin's cockatoos to use tools concurrently...

#AnimalCognition #Ethology #AnimalBehavior

Watched an agglomeration of Ivy Bee Colletes hederae yesterday at the Devil's Dyke, on an steeply inclined unofficial path at the Devil's Dyke. Fascinating - got me thinking? #Hymenoptera #MiningBees #IvyBees @buglife.bsky.social #behaviour #ethology

🐾 Multimodal fertility cues in chimpanzees: how body odours complement sexual swellings.
📎 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-70687-z

🇬🇧 Study analyzing how chimpanzees use a combination of visual swellings and subtle changes in body od...

#AnimalCognition #Ethology #AnimalBehavior

🚨 New study by #SPEmembers 🚨
#AnimalBehaviour #Ethology

"Acoustic profiling of Atlantic seamounts: Insights towards cost-effective monitoring of remote marine ecosystems"
Carriço et al. with SPE members Rita Carriço, Manuel Vieira, Paulo Fonseca, and M Clara Amorim @ Continental Shelf Research

If you are working on fish behaviour, cognition, or welfare, and how this is affected by any aspect of anthropogenic change, then we encourage you to submit to a special issue of #Ethology. Submission deadline 31 May 27. Details here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Best apps for #birdwatching #ethology
eBird (Cornell Lab).Extensive catalog of species, and it allows you to manage observation records.
BirdNET You can record while it identifies the species you hear. It doesn't have a great sound range but allows you to stay alert in case you haven't noticed.

#ethology

For years, orcas have rammed boats off the coast of Spain and Portugal, as if "exacting revenge for injuries inflicted by humans."

But nearly all of them were "juveniles —“teenagers who do reckless things”—and never adult males", & were probably "just trying to play".

🚨 New study by #SPEmembers 🚨
#AnimalBehaviour #Ethology

"A new southern limit for the distribution of African great apes: sympatric western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) and central chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) confirmed in Mayombe National Park, Angola"

🚨 New study by #SPEmembers 🚨
#AnimalBehaviour #Ethology

"Influence of environmental conditions on the abundance of juvenile endangered Atlantic weasel shark (Paragaleus pectoralis) in an African nursery area"
Varela et al. with SPE member Melanie Court @ Marine Biodiversity