🐱Meerkats! 🪏Burrows! 🛒Foraging! 🏜️Space use!

Our #EditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal: “The bind of the burrow: trade-offs between refuge and foraging shape space use in Kalahari meerkats”

Read at doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2026.123696

In addition to his ASAB work, Andy is a passionate and excellent teacher/supervisor (for which he’s won awards!). Most recently, he was invited to give a great plenary at #ECBB2026 – a perfect ending to his tenure as exec editor of #AnimalBehaviourJournal. @andyradford.bsky.social you'll be missed!

In 2021 @andyradford.bsky.social became the ASAB executive editor of the #AnimalBehaviourJournal, a joint venture with our sister society @animbehsociety.bsky.social With their exec editor & a great support team, Andy has worked hard to bring out an issue every month - a real undertaking! #MeetASAB

🪶Dunlin shorebirds! 🗺️Migration strategy! 🪺Nest survival! ⚥Sex-specific carryover effects!

Our #EditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal: “Sex-specific carryover effects of long-distance migration strategies in a sub-Arctic nesting shorebird”

Read at doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2026.123637

🦎Wall lizards! 💆Enrichment! 😨Corticosterone! ☺️Welfare!

Our #EditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal: "Ethologically informed enrichment improves behavioural and physiological indicators of welfare in a captive lizard"

Read at doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2026.123692

Thanks so much @andyradford.bsky.social for all of your hard work! You've really played a transformative role at #AnimalBehaviourJournal this past half decade.

Don't forget, our journal is how we fund so many cool initiatives at ASAB, including the FREE winter meeting 🤗