📣 New paper in #AnimalBehaviour! 🦅 Young #goldeneagles that soar more and feed more often leave their parental territory earlier, highlighting how flight and food shape the path to independence.
10.1016/j.anbehav.2026.123712
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📸T. Thusholt

Suburban Apex Predator

(Ashton-in-Makerfield, Wigan, July 2018)

#photography #streetphotography #animalpotography #animalbehaviour #domesticcat #housecat #cats #AshtonInMakerfield #Wigan

Dogs link sharp sounds with angular shapes, study finds #animalbehaviour #dogs #research

Mrazova et al. (2025) Feathered noses: methodological insights into understanding avian olfaction and foraging

This review of 80 experiments on olfactory foraging in birds reveals gaps in species and geographical coverage 🐦 #chemicalcommunication #animalbehaviour @elinamantyla.bsky.social

Côté & Binning (2025) Importance of visual and chemical cues in infection detection and avoidance in freshwater fish

Parasite-naïve pumpkinseed sunfish avoid infected conspecifics using chemical, but not visual, cues 🐟 #chemicalcommunication #animalbehaviour

Deng et al. (2025) Hainan frilled treefrogs adjust spectral traits to increase competitiveness when perceiving conspecific disturbance odours

Disturbance odours shift male treefrogs’ call frequencies towards the average 🐸 #chemicalcommunication #animalbehaviour

Nichols et al. (2025) Volatile odours reflect breeding status but not social group membership in captive Damaraland mole-rats

Mole-rat odour varies with sex and breeding status 🐀
#chemicalcommunication #animalbehaviour @phylophile.bsky.social @behavecobie.bsky.social @thehoffmanlab.bsky.social

Beyer & Tuni (2026) Silk of females performing maternal care elicits reduced courtship responses in male spiders

Males courted less in response to silk from females carrying fertilized eggs 🕷️ #chemicalcommunication #animalbehaviour @michellebeyer.bsky.social @cristinatuni.bsky.social

Rizzi et al. (2025) The smell of familiarity: conspecific faeces influence roost exploration and occupation in wild Bechstein's bats

Females prefer roosts with their own colony’s faeces, especially when fresh 🦇 #chemicalcommunication #animalbehaviour @sofiarizzi.bsky.social

Van Huynh & Rice (2025) Olfaction and reproductive isolation in birds

This review explores how odour-based mate choice can contribute to reproductive isolation and speciation in birds 🐦 #chemicalcommunication #animalbehaviour @amberricelab.bsky.social

Luhring et al. (2025) Predation risk creates unexpected migration decisions in a nonhoming semelparous fish

Alarm cues cancel out temperature preferences in upstream migrating sea lampreys 🐟 #chemicalcommunication #animalbehaviour

Fissette et al. (2025) Nest location and pheromone concentrations interact to influence female nest choice in sea lamprey

Field experiment reveals that female sea lamprey nest choice depends on both pheromone concentration and nest location 🐟 #chemicalcommunication #animalbehaviour

Lipkowski et al. (2025) Alarm cue properties and euthanasia impact on tadpole antipredator behaviour in Rana temporaria and Bufo bufo

Tadpole responses to alarm cues differ between species, and tricaine interferes with responses rather than cues themselves 🐸 #chemicalcommunication #animalbehaviour

Honda et al. (2025) How do male danaine butterflies locate pyrrolizidine alkaloids? The foreleg as an olfactory alkaloid-sensing organ

Males use specialized structures on their forelegs to smell and taste plant alkaloids used for pheromones and defence 🦋 #chemicalcommunication #animalbehaviour

Van Huynh & Rice (2025) Olfaction and reproductive isolation in birds

This review explores how odour-based mate choice can contribute to reproductive isolation and speciation in birds #chemicalcommunication #animalbehaviour @amberricelab.bsky.social

Mrazova et al. (2025) Feathered noses: methodological insights into understanding avian olfaction and foraging

This review of 80 experiments on olfactory foraging in birds reveals gaps in species and geographical coverage #chemicalcommunication #animalbehaviour @elinamantyla.bsky.social

Côté & Binning (2025) Importance of visual and chemical cues in infection detection and avoidance in freshwater fish

Parasite-naïve pumpkinseed sunfish avoid infected conspecifics using chemical, but not visual, cues #chemicalcommunication #animalbehaviour

Honda et al. (2025) How do male danaine butterflies locate pyrrolizidine alkaloids? The foreleg as an olfactory alkaloid-sensing organ

Male danaine butterflies use sensory structures on their forelegs to smell plant alkaloids used for pheromones and defence #chemicalcommunication #animalbehaviour

Deng et al. (2025) Hainan frilled treefrogs adjust spectral traits to increase competitiveness when perceiving conspecific disturbance odours

Disturbance odours shift male treefrogs’ call frequencies towards the average 🐸 #chemicalcommunication #animalbehaviour

Nichols et al. (2025) Volatile odours reflect breeding status but not social group membership in captive Damaraland mole-rats

Mole-rat odour varies with sex and breeding status 🐀
#chemicalcommunication #animalbehaviour @phylophile.bsky.social @behavecobie.bsky.social @thehoffmanlab.bsky.social