Left: Examples of novel objects used. Each black/white bar is 5 cm long. The objects ranged in size from a third to half the size of the subjects: (a) Southern cassowary, Casuarius casuarius, (b) Moluccan eclectus, Eclectus roratus, (c) Rüppell’s vulture, Gyps rueppelli, (d) gray-winged trumpeter, Psophia crepitans, (e) common waxbill, Estrilda astrild. Right: Secretary bird (Sagittarius serpentarius) at Adlerwarte Berlebeck, Germany, interacting with a novel object. Image credit Kai Caspar.
Fear of novelty varies across species & individuals, impacting adaptability & survival. @themanybirds.bsky.social @drrmiller.bsky.social &co assess #neophobia in 1400 subjects from 136 #bird species, identifying phylogenetic influences & broad ecological drivers @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4haLEsN
15.10.2025 08:13
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Attending my first international conference, Behaviour 2025, was an amazing experience😊 I got to meet so many people interested in the same field and received a lot of valuable feedback. Excited to turn this work into a publication!
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13.09.2025 15:59
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Presented my research at our IMHAI (Interdisciplinary MSc in human-animal interactions) symposium 😊 Our class organised this mini conference as the final event of our master's programme :)
All that's left is to finish writing my thesis and get ready for an exciting project in Australia 😊
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18.06.2025 22:47
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Poster presentation of my first experiment on scent preferences in kea 😊
Kea exhibited a strong inter-individual variability in their olfactory interest, preferences and tendency to sniff, with one individual being a clear outlier!
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02.04.2025 15:26
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We are delighted to announce that ManyBirds Study 1 “Evolutionary drivers of neophobia across the avian clade” is now available in pre-print: doi.org/10.31219/osf... and been submitted for peer-review publication. 1/
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