🐾 Photostimulus intensity, rather than colour or polarization, is the key driver for stable fly visual attraction in l...
📎 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.02.756341v1?rss=1

🇬🇧 This study investigates how stable flies percei...

#AnimalCognition #Ethology #AnimalBehavior

🐾 Overwinter roost activity patterns in response to environmental conditions along a rural-urban gradient
📎 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.03.756417v1?rss=1

🇬🇧 Study examining how dark-eyed juncos adjust their nocturn...

#AnimalCognition #Ethology #AnimalBehavior

🐾 DiverScan: attention-guided exploratory analysis of animal behaviour across diverse comparative experiments
📎 https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.10.01.755818

🇬🇧 DiverScan is a deep-learning framework designed to extract biological insights...

#AnimalCognition #Ethology #AnimalBehavior

Golden Retrievers Alert Mother to Crying Infant in Viral Display of Canine Empathy
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https://nile1.com/golden-retrievers-alert-mother-to-crying-infant-in-viral-display-of-canine-empathy/
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#animalBehavior #canineEmpathy #dogBabyIntroduction #dogsAndNewborns #gamjaAn

Viral Bernese Mountain Dog Sparks Expert Discussion on Canine 'Relaxed Observation' Benefits
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https://nile1.com/viral-bernese-mountain-dog-sparks-expert-discussion-on-canine-relaxed-observation-benefits/
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#animalBehavior #berneseMountainDog #canineCognition #canin

Dominant mice naturally defend territory, while subordinates show avoidance and anxiety. But what drives that aggression in the brain?

Watch the full seminar here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Uf...

#Neuroscience #AnimalBehavior #BrainCircuits #MentalHealthResearch #ScienceCommunication

This bird redecorates its nest with a fresh flower every single day—and discards the old one the moment it wilts. 🌺

#bowerbird #naturefacts #wildlife #animalbehavior #newguinea #facts #didyouknow #interestingfacts #todayilearned #curiosity

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🐾 DigiFish: A flexible open-source tool for animating realistic virtual fish and reconstructing visual fields from tra...
📎 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.02.755892v1?rss=1

🇬🇧 This tool enables researchers to reconstruct an...

#AnimalCognition #Ethology #AnimalBehavior

🐾 BettaAI: a machine-learning object detection model for the quantification of aggressive displays in the Siamese figh...
📎 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.30.755682v1?rss=1

🇬🇧 Study developing a machine-learning model to au...

#AnimalCognition #Ethology #AnimalBehavior

salt hands’s rust-ridden fire engine
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The traitorous ambassador and his murderous gardener stopping tanks in Virginia streets
subspacewagon.systems/the-traitoro...

#Poetry #WritingCommunity #community #literature #sociology #Law #AnimalBehavior #BlueSkyPoets

Admiring the beautiful patterns of a Great Tit bird singing on a spring branch. Learning how modern AI tools study and decode complex animal sounds and communication. 🐦🌳✨ #GreatTit #BirdWatching #WildlifePhotography #AIInNature #AnimalBehavior🩵💙💚💜❤️🩷💖🌸🌺💐💮🪷🌼🏵️🌿🩵💙💚🪷🌼🌹💕 🫶🌿💚

Lots of cool questions here, and I note especially the ones about #animals #animalbehavior or in #anthropology #archaeology. A favorite: 84. Can we learn what emotions animals are experiencing? #science

🐦 Thousands of hidden snacks. Tiny brain. Somehow the chickadee keeps enough locations straight to make caching work.

Researchers looked inside the memory system and found something even stranger.

sciencescandal.com/scandals/chi...

#StayCurious #Chickadees #AnimalBehavior #Neuroscience

🐾 Oro-manual assessment of food preservability in a wild rodent
📎 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.23.752726v1?rss=1

🇬🇧 Wild agoutis assess the preservability of natural food items using oro-manual sensory exploration t...

#AnimalCognition #Ethology #AnimalBehavior

🐾 Temporal dynamics of grooming reciprocity in crested macaques: do social bonds affect exchange?
📎 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.21.753130v1?rss=1

🇬🇧 This study investigates the temporal dynamics of grooming recipro...

#AnimalCognition #Ethology #AnimalBehavior

🐾 Modelling pairwise and coalitional contests with reinforcement learning
📎 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.23.753778v1?rss=1

🇬🇧 This study models animal contests using reinforcement learning to explore how individuals...

#AnimalCognition #Ethology #AnimalBehavior

🐾 A comparison of female competitive traits: Female aggression peaks at nest building but female song spans multiple c...
📎 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.25.754226v1?rss=1

🇬🇧 Study comparing how female songbirds use aggres...

#AnimalCognition #Ethology #AnimalBehavior

🐾 Brinkmanship and the sensory-motor limits of pursuit predation
📎 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.25.754358v1?rss=1

🇬🇧 This study investigates how reef fish prey exploit the sensory-motor delays of their predators to ...

#AnimalCognition #Ethology #AnimalBehavior

🐾 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