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Meg Crofoot @meg-crofoot.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Ever feel like our culture has gone wrong? If so, we're maybe not alone. Check out this mind-bending story of the emergence of a behavioral tradition where capuchin monkeys abduct infant howler monkeys led by @zoegoldsborough.bsky.social and @bjjbarrett.bsky.social of @livingingroups.bsky.social !

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Ecology of Animal Societies @livingingroups.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Humans have many unusual traditions. But did you know animals’ strange behaviors can become culture too? Out now in Current Biology (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...) we show the rise and spread of a surprising tradition: interspecies infant abduction. Interactive timeline (www.ab.mpg.de/671374) 🧵 (1/12)

An illustration of a white-faced capuchin monkey carrying a howler infant on their back while cracking nuts with a stone

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Meg Crofoot @meg-crofoot.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

End your work week with decreasing hazard functions and truncated power laws; start your weekend with surprising similarities between meerkat, coati and hyaena behavior! Cool new research by @pminasandra.bsky.social and collaborators below & here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Behavioral sequences across multiple animal species in the wild share common structural features | PNAS

Animal behavior can be decomposed into a sequence of discrete activity bouts over time. Analyzing the statistical structure of such behavioral sequ...

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Meg Crofoot @meg-crofoot.bsky.social · 02/06/2024

Heads up animal behavior researchers! Amazing opportunity: 3 3-year independent postdoctoral fellowships based in Panama at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Deadline July 15. Come collaborate with @livingingroups @MPI_animalbehav...

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Meg Crofoot @meg-crofoot.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

Zzzzzzzzzzzz! Don't sleep through the November 20 deadline! Fully funded PhD to explore how sleep shapes societies, and societies shape sleep! imprs-qbee.mpg.de/69052/doctoral-po… @livingingroups...

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The Social Side of Sleep - doctoral position

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Meg Crofoot @meg-crofoot.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

4 days left to apply! Fully funded PhD within an ERC-funded project on the collective dynamics of sleeping in (baboon) groups. Come join us @imprs_qbee @MPI_animalbehav @CBehav @UniKonstanz...

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Meg Crofoot @meg-crofoot.bsky.social · 09/12/2021

For decades, women at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute @stri_panama have had to shoulder the burden of protecting themselves and each other from discrimination, harassment and sexual assault....

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Meg Crofoot @meg-crofoot.bsky.social · 25/06/2021

Congratulations, (almost) Dr. Clatterbuck @Cocotross! Thanks for the fantastic exit seminar! and thanks for my first ever experience sitting on an all-women dissertation committee!

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Meg Crofoot @meg-crofoot.bsky.social · 15/10/2020

I am unreasonably proud of our cat-o-lantern!

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Meg Crofoot @meg-crofoot.bsky.social · 07/07/2020

Excited to see @ClaudioMonteza and @pedroluis_ho expanding what we know about the birds of Coiba NP! Congratulations, guys! Aves de islas Jicarón y Jicarita www.thepanamanews.com/2020/07/aves-… via @The Panama News

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Meg Crofoot @meg-crofoot.bsky.social · 27/06/2020

Perfect sunny afternoon during naptime... @MerlinSheldrake describes, better than I ever could, what I love about the kind of science I do 1/n

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Meg Crofoot @meg-crofoot.bsky.social · 04/02/2020

@livingingroups is searching for a scientist with international field-work experience to coordinate and support field- and lab-based research on animal behavior in the Dept. for the Ecology of Animal Societies @unikonstanz @maxplanckpress @CBehav....

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Meg Crofoot @meg-crofoot.bsky.social · 20/01/2020

How does information about the location of fossa spread through a sifaka population? Help us find out! Post-doc in the Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies @livingingroups in the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior: www.ab.mpg.de/209814/job_full_offer…

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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

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Meg Crofoot @meg-crofoot.bsky.social · 16/12/2019

Join us! Funded @IMPRS_OrgBio PhD positions in our new department for the Ecology of Animal Societies @livingingroups working with @RoiHarel , @MegCrofoot , @ariSPeshkin , @bjjbarrett and Susan Perry @capuchinfound. Applications due Jan 15. www.orn.mpg.de/projects

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Max-Planck-Institut für biologische Intelligenz

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Meg Crofoot @meg-crofoot.bsky.social · 21/10/2019

How do monkeys decide? Smithsonian Magazine just published a great story about the research @GraceHDavis and Lucia Torrez are doing on BCI in Panama, investigating how capuchin monkeys and spider monkeys reach (or fail to reach)...

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