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2 weeks ago

Screenshot of article Animal Behaviour Volume 232, February 2026, 123426 Chronic fungal infection accelerates age polyethism in ants without altering immune response Michał Kochanowski, Anna Dubiec, Aleksander Juszczak, Igor Siedlecki, Piotr Ślipiński, Marta Wrzosek, Enikő Csata, Magdalena Witek

🐜Ants! 🍄Fungal infections! 🦠Immune responses! 💼Task allocation!

Our #EditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal:
“Chronic fungal infection accelerates age polyethism in ants without altering immune response”

Read here:

doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123426

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1 month ago

Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 👩‍🔬

Last year, our winter meeting had the theme of "Addressing Biases in Animal Behaviour," and we also had an associated special issue in the #AnimalBehaviourJournal that is well worth checking out ⬇️

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1 month ago

Melissa posing with two books of “Measuring Behaviour: An introductory guide” by Melissa Bateson and Paul Martin

In fact, her 1st published paper was in #AnimalBehaviourJournal! During her postdoc, she also benefited from ASAB to do butterfly research 🦋

Now, she is a professor of Ethology at Newcastle, where she studies European starlings. Starlings are social, robust, fast learners, and long-lived... 2/6

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1 month ago

Screenshot of article Animal Behaviour Volume 231, January 2026, 123423 Sex Specific nutritional requirements of mating in insects with contrasting mating systems C. Ruth Archer, Matthew R. Carey , Charles E. Grant , Clarissa House, Amy Molotoks , Enrique del Castillo, Zeya Wagner, John Hunt

🦗Insects! 🥗Nutrient ratios! ♀️Sex differences! 🥚Reproductive investment!

Our #EditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal:
“Sex-specific nutritional requirements of mating in insects with contrasting mating systems”

Read here:

doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123423

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3 months ago

Screenshot of article: Animal Behaviour Volume 230, December 2025, 123353 Temperature-driven plasticity in boldness, its predictability and learning in the beadlet anemone, Actinia equina Samantha Simpson, Dunia Gonzales, Mark Briff

🌸Anemones! 📈Plasticity! 😨Startle responses! 🌡️Temperature fluctuations!

Our December #ASABEditorsChoice for #AnimalBehaviourJournal: "Temperature-driven plasticity in boldness, its predictability and learning in the beadlet anemone, Actinia equina"

Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123353

Vedrana Šlipogor

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3 months ago

📢 Our new article entitled “With or without you: common marmoset, Callithrix jacchus, personality expression is mediated by social setting” has just come out *open access* in #AnimalBehaviourJournal! ✨ 🥰🥳🐒 @asab.org

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A thread. 😊

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3 months ago

Screenshot of article: Animal Behaviour Volume 229, November 2025, 123352 Effects of natural temperature variation on male perception of female scents in Drosophila melanogaster Roberto García-Roa, Almudena Castro, Enrique Font, Pau Carazo

🪰 Fruit flies! 🌡️ Temperature changes! 💋Mate attraction! 👃Pheromones!

Our November #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal:

"Effects of natural temperature variation on male perception of female scents in Drosophila melanogaster"

Read here:
doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123352

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4 months ago

Screenshot of an article: Animal Behaviour Volume 228, October 2025, 123329 Huisheng Wang, Guo Zhong, Longwu Wang, Canchao Yang, Wei Liang

🐦‍⬛Oriental magpie-robins!🪺Brood parasites!🥚Egg rejection!🗺️Geographic variation!

October #ASABEditorsChoice for #AnimalBehaviourJournal: 'Egg management strategies of a common cuckoo host in response to variable egg phenotypes across 3 geographical pop.’

Read: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123329

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4 months ago

Preferences for coloured bower decorations can be explained in a nonsexual context The sensory bias model of sexual selection suggests that elaborate male secondary sexual traits evolved to exploit biases in the female's sensory syst…

Over 25 yrs ago, Jo first joined ASAB during his PhD and received an ASAB grant during his postdoc (work published in #AnimalBehaviourJournal) He's known some attendees longer than his wife! In 2018, Jo became Meetings Secretary, about to head into one of the greatest challenges ASAB has faced… /3

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5 months ago

Screenshot of an article: Animal Behaviour Volume 227, September 2025, 123288 Watchful of strangers: waxbills redirect aggression from unfamiliar to familiar individuals João R. Pacheco, Patrícia Beltrão, Sandra Trigo, Gonçalo C. Cardoso

🐦Waxbills! 🥡Food competition! 🕵️Strangers! 🤬Social aggression!

Our September #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal:

“Watchful of strangers: Waxbills redirect aggression from unfamiliar to familiar individuals”

Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123288

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5 months ago

Animal Behaviour Journal Awards — ASAB

Congratulations to this year’s ASAB paper prize winners for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal 🏆 📝 1/4

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Zoe Turner

@zoejturn.bsky.social

6 months ago

🚨 New paper! 🚨
In exploring the ontogeny of foraging in cooperatively breeding meerkats:
🐛 Foraging skill development doesn't align with the delayed onset of breeding
🪲 Foraging performance likely constrained by physical traits

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Erika Kupyrova

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6 months ago

Reduced male pheromone production and an increased female sex ratio promote same-sex sexual behaviour in male Indian meal moths Same-sex sexual behaviours (SSSBs) are often deemed detrimental to fitness because they carry the same costs as sexual interactions with the opposite …

Absolutely delighted to share that I have published my first first-author manuscript in #AnimalBehaviourJournal with
@zen-of-science.bsky.social, @liamdougherty.bsky.social and Tabitha Beesley, where we looked at why male moths attempt same-sex mating!

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7 months ago

Screenshot of an article: Animal Behaviour Volume 226, August 2025, 123260 Javed Riaz, Ana Laura Machado-Gaye, Marianna Chimienti, Akiko Kato, Yan Ropert-Coudert, Nicolás Alegría, Andrés Barbosa, Alvaro Soutullo

🐧 Penguins! 🦐 Krill foraging! 🎧 Acoustic data! 🤿 Diving bouts!

Our August #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal: “Bout time for krill: contrasting Adélie penguin foraging behaviour during years of high and low krill availability”

Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123260

Portuguese Ethological Society (SPE)

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7 months ago

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#SPEetologia

This work was the July #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal 👏👏👏

#DeepLearning #SexualDimorphism #AIinBiology #BirdResearch #SociableWeaver #Ornithology #GradCAM #WildlifeAI #CrypticDimorphism #MachineLearning #SexRecognition #AnimalAI

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7 months ago

Check out July’s Editor’s Choice for #AnimalBehaviourJournal ⬇️

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7 months ago

Screenshot of an article: Animal Behaviour Volume 225, July 2025, 123223 Deep learning approach to detect and visualize sexual dimorphism in monomorphic species Nicolas J. Silva, André C. Ferreira, Liliana R. Silva, Samuel Perret, Sonia Tieo, Julien P. Renoult, Rita Covas, Claire Doutrelant

🐦Sociable weavers! 🤖Deep learning! 👥Sexual monomorphism! 🕵️Cryptic differences!

Our July #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal:
“Deep learning approach to detect and visualize sexual dimorphism in monomorphic species”

Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123223

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8 months ago

Screen shot of an article: Animal Behaviour Volume 224, June 2025, 123189 Predicting success of conservation translocations: prerelease screening tools for a threatened marsupial K.A. Cornelsen, A. Elphinstone , N.R. Jordan

🐰Bilbies! 😰Neophobia! 🏃Post-release success! 💻Screening tools!

Our June #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal:

“Predicting success of conservation translocations: prerelease screening tools for a threatened marsupial”

Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123189

Sociable Weaver Project

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9 months ago

Congratulations to @nicolasjsilva.bsky.social for publishing another chapter from his PhD! 🎉🪶

We show how deep learning can reveal differences across sexes in a seemingly monomorphic species 🐦🐦

Check it out here:
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

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Nicolas Silva

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9 months ago

It is finally out! The second paper of my PhD with
@sociableweaver.bsky.social!

You want to test if the species you're working on is really monomorphic? You want to see what are the dimorphic parts of it? Have a look to our work at #AnimalBehaviourJournal 😉

See more at => doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

10th Hole-nesting Birds Conference

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9 months ago

A new paper on fledging, based on data collected using RFID readers at Velký Kosíř, is now out: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l82j_4tl1...
We’d be happy to discuss experiences with anyone implementing or interested in this technology at the conference. #AnimalBehaviourJournal

George Hodgson

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9 months ago

Photograph of a group of feral cattle lying in a field in Hong Kong, with one black bull standing in the middle, and one brown animal lying in the background with its head on another animal's back.

Our new feral cattle behaviour paper “Fighting and friendship: sociodemographic factors and provisioning affect feral cattle behaviour” is now available open access online at #AnimalBehaviourJournal @asab.org
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9 months ago

Newsletters — ASAB

🗞️Our Summer 2025 newsletter is OUT! 🗞️ Check out our latest election results, upcoming council positions, a recap of #ASABSpring2025, a call out for comments on ethical guidelines, editor opportunities at #AnimalBehaviourJournal, and more!

www.asab.org/newsletters

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9 months ago

Screen shot of an article: Animal Behaviour Volume 223, May 2025, 123122 Personality composition affects group cohesion of homing pigeons in response to novelty and predation threat Giulia Cerritelli, Dimitri Giunchi, Robert Musters, Irene Vertua, Lorenzo Vanni, Diego Rubolini, Anna Gagliardo, Claudio Carere

🐦Pigeons! 🙀Personality! 👥Flock cohesion! 🦅Predation threat!

Our May #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal: “Personality composition affects group cohesion of homing pigeons in response to novelty and predation threat”

Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123122

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10 months ago

Screen shot of an article: Animal Behaviour Volume 222, April 2025, 123125 Visual learning, route formation and the choreography of looking back in desert ants, Melophorus bagoti Cody A. Freas, Ken Cheng

🐜Desert ants! 👀Lookbacks!📍Route formation! 👁️Visual learning!

Our April #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal:

“Visual learning, route formation and the choreography of looking back in desert ants, Melophorus bagoti”

Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123125

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11 months ago

Great first post AND great paper! 👏🏻 🦋 📄 #AnimalBehaviourJournal

Derek Murphy

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11 months ago

A Barbary macaque walks on all fours through an outdoor wire mesh tunnel towards the camera

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First post AND first new paper on the butterfly app! authors.elsevier.com/a/1kv83mjMA3iZ

'Estimating social network metrics from single-file movements in Barbary macaques, Macaca sylvanus'
with @julxf.bsky.social @primatenzentrum.bsky.social out now in #AnimalBehaviourJournal
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11 months ago

Check out this great OA article from the Biohybrid Systems Special Issue in the #AnimalBehaviourJournal

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1 year ago

Screenshot of an article: Animal Behaviour Volume 221, March 2025, 123080 Syntactically aberrant vocalization in cuckoos disrupts communication but triggers host responses Piotr Tryjanowski, Łukasz Jankowiak, Peter Mikula, Tomasz S. Osiejuk

🐦Cuckoos! 📻 Playback experiment! 🔊Aberrant vocalizations! 🪺Brood parasitism!

Our March #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal:

“Syntactically aberrant vocalization in cuckoos disrupts communication but triggers host responses”

Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123080

Mylène Dutour

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1 year ago

A big thank you to the French weekly newspaper #LePays for their article highlighting our recent paper "Mobbing sequences of American wrens elicit mobbing responses in European tits," published in #AnimalBehaviourJournal!