#HotOffThePress 🔥🖊️ “Vocal identity and information content in the flight initiation calls of greylag geese (Anseranser)” 🪿🔊
Sept 2026. Bioacoustics. D.A A. Mostafa & @ebriefer.bsky.social
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Elodie Mandel-Briefer
@ebriefer.bsky.social
Associate Professor in vertebrate social behaviour, University of Copenhagen. Research: animal behaviour, bioacoustics, emotions, cognition, welfare. Mom of 2
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@asa-news.bsky.socialReposted by @ebriefer.bsky.socialSound is a very important component of the lives of animals in air and in water. They show amazing diversity in their hearing capabilities, sound receiving structures, and how they use sound. https://acousticstoday.org/at-collections-animal-bioacoustics/
@ebriefer.bsky.socialNew paper on sheep vocal expression of emotions & sociability with A. Villain. Using a genetic line selected for reaction to social separation, we found that vocal expression of sociability prevails over emotions. Thanks to A. Boissy for the collaboration and @carlsbergfondet.dk for funding!
@science.orgReposted by @ebriefer.bsky.socialLearning over an extended childhood has been fundamental to survival during human evolutionary history.
Researchers show how Sumatran orangutans use their 8 years of dependency to master a broad diet, necessary for independent survival.
Read more in this week’s issue: https://scim.ag/4xDjOfh
@ebriefer.bsky.socialMore on collective movements, but this time in giraffes 🦒🦒🦒 We found that female are often the ones initiating group movements, and that large groups tend to split following these events. Thanks to Herbert Kasozi for involving me in this interesting work! @behaveco.bsky.social
@erinsiracusa.bsky.socialReposted by @ebriefer.bsky.socialAnimals are known to prefer kin as social partners. But non-kin bonds are surprisingly common too. So, who forms them, how stable are they & what drives them?
In our new @animbehsociety.bsky.social paper we tackle these overlooked questions in free-living rhesus macaques:
tinyurl.com/mwsbkjve (1/5)
