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Tania Perroux

@tania-perroux.bsky.social
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Recently graduated PhD researcher from City University of Hong Kong. My work focused on feral cattle ecology, from phenotypes to parasites.

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Int. Congress for Conservation Biology | ICCB 2027 @iccb2027.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We're excited to announce that the Call for Proposals & Call for Abstracts are both now open! Get your proposals in by December 3rd, and get your abstracts in by February 11th! We can't wait to see you all in Puebla! #conservation #ICCB2027
The ICCB logo, illustrated to look like Talavera tile. Written is: ICCB 2027, Call for Proposals & Abstracts Open Now! International Congress for Conservation Biology, 27 June - 1 July in Puebla, Mexico.
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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
PhyloPic is having an October fundraiser. The goal is to raise enough money to cover web hosting for the past six months. Please share the link, and chip in a bit if you can! www.phylopic.org
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PhyloPic
PhyloPic is an open database of free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms, available for reuse under Creative Commons licenses. Download silhouettes for use in educational materi...
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Bob Wong @bbmwong.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Monash University is offering a fully-funded PhD scholarship to an outstanding student in animal behaviour/evolutionary ecology. Choose from eight project areas. For information about what project I'm offering, please DM me or see application form: forms.gle/ia9t4KPD3FKT.... Deadline: 15 Nov.
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Journal of Thermal Biology @thermal-biology.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🚨 The Journal of Thermal Biology is now on Linkedin! 🚨 Follow us for info on special issues and events, as well as deep dives into some of the exciting research published in @thermal-biology.bsky.social You can find us at: 🔗 www.linkedin.com/company/jour...
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Elodie Mandel-Briefer @ebriefer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
More 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
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The socioecological correlates of collective movements in giraffes
Giraffes often travel together to find food and water. We found that adult giraffes, especially females, were most likely to initiate group movements. Youn
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Animal Behaviour Collective @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Our latest microgrant funding round is open now! 📢 Below is a reminder of what we do and don't fund. This round closes October 30th! Want to help us support students? Please spread the word, and donate if you can! For more informaition and to apply: opencollective.com/animal-behaviour-collective
We do fund students' personal costs. For example: transport to uni, living costs and personal equipment. We don't fund research costs, for example: lab equipment and services, research permits and conference fees.
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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Reminder that the deadline for the tenure track position in my division in MCB is one month away (October 19), as you’ll see it is a wide open search in terms of area within and across fields of genetics, genomics, evolution, and development. Please circulate.
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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 15/09/2026
To help recognise the vital contribution our reviewers make to the publishing process and to lower barriers to #OpenAccess publication, we offer our reviewers a discount on APCs: royalsociety.org/journals/rev... #PRW2026
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Capn Borscht @capnborscht.bsky.social · 22/03/2024
The best thing about this planet is that every few days I'll learn about an animal I've literally never seen or heard of before, like the Nilgai which is just a stupidly massive antelope
A nilgai standing loud and proud
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Andy Gardner @andygardner.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
New paper: "Sexual conflict and sexual pleiotropy" (#OpenAccess), with Thomas Hitchcock (@imprintedgene.bsky.social), Tracey Chapman & Jennifer Perry (@jennyperry.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1098/rspb... @royalsocietypublishing.org @standrewsopenres.bsky.social #OA
Illustration of the distinction between sexual conflict and sexual pleiotropy. (A) Sexual conflict: a male and female disagree over a jointly produced phenotype, for example whether a female releases more eggs after mating or withholds resources for future reproduction. Releasing more eggs now costs the female but benefits the male, who will not sire her future offspring. Sexual conflict occurs when selection favours female withholding and male-induced release. (B) Sexual pleiotropy: males and females are favoured to express different values of a trait encoded by genes expressed in both sexes. An allele associated with larger body size may benefit male carriers while harming female carriers or vice versa. Antagonistic sexual pleiotropy occurs when selection favours opposite alleles in each sex.
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Tania Perroux @tania-perroux.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Our latest feral cattle paper “Are individual differences in social behaviour a cause or a consequence of endoparasite infection in feral cattle?” is out today in open access in Animal Behaviour doi.org/10.1016/j.an... @ghodgson.bsky.social @amcell.bsky.social Details below:
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Science Magazine @science.org · 03/09/2026
Researchers have pinned the emergence of sheeppox to about 5000 years ago. The peek into the pathogen’s past came from an unusual source: dozens of medieval books and legal documents written on parchment, which is made from specially treated animal skins. Learn more: scim.ag/4iaLx30
Ancient sheep virus found hiding in medieval parchment
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Bob Wong @bbmwong.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Excited to be starting today as an Executive Editor of Animal Behaviour. I look forward to working with the rest of the editorial and production team and, of course, authors to deliver a great experience and top quality science for a wonderful society journal. @asab.org @animbehsociety.bsky.social
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ManyDogs Project @manydogsproject.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
What does the dog community want to know? 🐶 Take our survey on canine science interests, which will help shape the direction of future ManyDogs studies. Open to all dog enthusiasts over 19! Survey: ssp.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cGhF6eGPOGJYHSS Please share! 🐾 #Dogs #DogScience #CanineScience
Flyer: ManyDogs Logo and QR code at top. Banner text: What does the dog community want to know? Take our survey on canine science interests and help shape the direction of future ManyDogs studies! Who can participate? Anyone over 19 (people who just like dogs, guardians, professionals and researchers). How long will it take? Approximately 10 min. Learn more about ManyDogs at https://manydogsproject.github.io/
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Elodie Mandel-Briefer @ebriefer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Important read for animal welfare researchers: new paper by Roi Mandel and colleagues on what they term ‘pragmatism bias’, i.e. tendencies to focus on intensive production systems, short-term gains, and symptoms rather than root causes. It is time for a change if we want to widen our knowledge!
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Frontiers | Pragmatism bias in farm animal welfare science
A fundamental role of farm animal welfare science is to generate evidence-based knowledge on animals’ needs and well-being to inform decision-makers, and ult...
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Samuele Ramellini @sramellini.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
@isbe2026.bsky.social, our new preprint is out! If you're interested in seasonal biases in ecology, check it out! Or, come and talk to us! @damienfarine.bsky.social will present this tomorrow morning at 11.30 (room Rome)! doi.org/10.32942/X2K...
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Seasonal biases in data collection cause conceptual gaps in animal ecology
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Leonid Schneider @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Oh nothing, just a peer reviewed paper my colleagues found... doi.org/10.1016/j.ma... "1 mL of the mass killing of an ethnic group was opposed to 20 mL of the skin sample and unprotected to light for 7 min." Even AI knows what's wrong here, but @elsevierconnect.bsky.social doesn't.
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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
🌟 Have you come across a project making science more open, reproducible, or accessible in ecology & evolutionary biology? Nominating it for a 2026 SORTEE Commendation Award is a great way to recognise the people behind it! Submit a nomination here: sortee.org/awards/ #openscience
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Tania Perroux @tania-perroux.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Many thanks to the Nutrition Advisory Group of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums for featuring our feral cattle body condition scale in the NAG Body Condition Scoring Resource Center (nagonline.net/body-conditi...) More information is available in open access at: doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...
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George Hodgson @ghodgson.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
New paper alert!! Excited to announce our latest feral cattle paper ‘Sex and spatial proximity affect ungulate behavioral synchrony’ is out today open-access in PeerJ @peerj.bsky.social by myself, Kate Flay, @tania-perroux.bsky.social and @amcell.bsky.social (1/6) peerj.com/articles/213... #zoology
Photograph of two brown feral cattle in Hong Kong standing next to a path and staring at the camera
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
new, in press: Are individual differences in social behaviour a cause or a consequence of endoparasite infection in feral cattle? www.researchgate.net/publication/... led by @tania-perroux.bsky.social #AnimalBehaviour via @asab.org
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Jan Wieringa @janwieringa.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
This paper on what is native, or not, puts the finger right at the spot: it is no black or white but many categories in between. Especially with #climatechange species are on the move and nothing is set in stone.
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Mean and maximum temperatures of the eye and nose tip were highly repeatable and precise, but minimum temperatures were too variable to be useful. 🔽🐐 #AnimalWelfare #AnimalEmotions
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Elodie Mandel-Briefer @ebriefer.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I am reposting this with a working link: www.survey-xact.dk/LinkCollecto...
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Feral cattle in subtropical Hong Kong grow paler coats in the wet season and much darker coats in the dry season, the first documented seasonal coat colour change in cattle. 🐂🔽
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ASSAB @animbehav.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
🚨New PhD opportunity🚨 Understanding sheep foraging decisions under heat stress conditions Location: Adelaide University Contact: stephan.leu@adelaide.edu.au Details: stephanleu-ecology.com/phd-opportun... Application deadline: 17 May 2026
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Jess Rose @jesslynnrose.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This is the most specific job I have ever seen sharing it on the off chance one of you know someone who: - Is UK based - Looking for flexible, part time work - Has an academic/research background - Wants to build a research grants program - Loves hedgehogs 🦔🦔🦔
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Research Manager | British Hedgehog Preservation Society (BHPS) | Ecology Jobs
Location: Hybrid – Shropshire office, mostly remoteSalary: £30,000 – £40,000 pro rata (depending on experience)Contract: Permanent, 2–3 days per weekClosing date: 13 July 2026 Make a difference for one of the UK’s most loved species The British Hedgehog Preservation Society (BHPS) is a UK charity dedicated to protecting and conserving native hedgehogs. Through research, advocacy,
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
new from us: "Impact of meteorological variations and provisioning on the body condition of feral cattle in a subtropical climate" led by @tania-perroux.bsky.social - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Lynxes that soak food for their cubs First time documented in predators. females Lynxes (Toledo, Spain) submerge their prey for up to 60 seconds. They do this in the summer; it helps them transport water, and seems to be a cultural practice (paper) bigcatrescue.org/conservation...
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Tania Perroux @tania-perroux.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
For 2+ years I have monitored the body condition of 262 feral cattle across 12 herds in Hong Kong.... and the results are now accepted for publication in the @thermal-biology.bsky.social sky.social 😊 Our study is accessible in Open Access: doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...
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Redirecting
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Leanne C. Powner @leannecpowner.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I NEED HELP! Please take this quick, meaningless 19 question survey so I can get data for my students to learn stats! I did a similar version a few months ago but missed an important question type. Even if you did the old one, please do it again! Please circulate widely!
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Quick and Meaningless Data Collection
Help me collect some data to use for student examples! The questions on geographic region and gender will only be used for subsetting the data, not for student analysis. No questions are required -…
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Wild Animal Initiative @wildanimals.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
With funding from WAI, Maristela Martins de Camargo of @uspoficial.bsky.social is developing a non-invasive saliva sample collector that can be used to study a range of species in the wild. Learn more 👇️
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A non-invasive saliva sampling method — Wild Animal Initiative
July 11, 2025 As streets around the world emptied during the COVID-19 lockdowns, wild animals ventured into the silence. From her home in São Paulo, Brazil, Maristela Martins de Camargo came…
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Emily R. Trunnell, Ph.D. @ertrunnell.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Love this new piece from @bittelmethis.bsky.social honoring rats. They deserve much more respect and care than they're allotted. Featuring @beebrookshire.bsky.social and rodentologist Bobby Corrigan More from the article & my thoughts in this 🧵 #RatsHaveRights 🐀 🩶
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Zoë Goldsborough @zoegoldsborough.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Why do we see sex-biases in tool use in some primate groups but not in others? Read my 2nd PhD chapter, #openaccess in American Journal of Primatology (doi.org/10.1002/ajp....) for an exploration of this question in an unique island system where white-faced capuchins use stone tools. A 🧵 (1/8)
Map of study site showing the islands of Coiba and Jicarón in Coiba National Park, Panama. On Coiba, both sexes of adult white-faced capuchins use stone tools, while on Jicarón only males have been observed to use tools.
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Journal of Thermal Biology @thermal-biology.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
🦎Check out this new study by Ioanna Gavriilidi of @uafunmorph.bsky.social. 🦎 Taking personality into account, the team showed how lizards with higher spatial cognition scores exploit the thermal heterogeneity of their environment but with less accurate thermoregulation. 📖 doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...
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Ecology of Animal Societies @livingingroups.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
3-year Independent Post-doc in Animal Behavior based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama! Three positions, each including salary & a research budget. Applications due April, 15th. DM if you are interesting in developing a project with us! stri.si.edu/academic-pro...
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3 Year Postdoctoral Fellowships in Animal Behavior
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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 30/03/2026
Culture was assumed to be unique to humans, but recent scientific discoveries have revealed that it's in fact widespread in the animal kingdom. This #PhilTransB issue is the first to present a comprehensive picture of the science & implications of this: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...
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Journal of Zoology @jzoology.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
New research finds #AI paired with expert #validation enhances monitoring of the Eurasian #lynx zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #wildlifemonitoring #cameratraps @conservresearch.bsky.social @amcell.bsky.social @elissazcameron.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social
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Journal of Zoology @jzoology.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Intraspecific dietary variation in #raccoondogs related to genetic variation, sex, and environmental differences zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #mesocarnivores #fecalDNA #dietanalysis @conservresearch.bsky.social @elissazcameron.bsky.social @amcell.bsky.social
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Stefano Mammola @stefanomammola.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Who is making jokes at scientific conferences? Which type of joke land? To find out, we collected quantitative data on jokes at 14 scientific conferences – now published OA in @royalsociety.org ProcB: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... w/ @rcorreia.bsky.social @andreasantangeli.bsky.social and more
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Inès Khazar @ines-khazar.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
🌍 Global Translocation Study – call for contributors 🐾 We’re compiling post-release movement data from translocated, reintroduced, relocated & rehabilitated vertebrates worldwide. Interested in taking part? Quick survey below 👇 tinyurl.com/global-trans... Feel free to pass it on to colleagues 😊
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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰 This month's highlight: "Vocalisations in farm animals: A step towards positive welfare assessment" by Karin Laurijs, Elodie Briefer, Inonge Reimert, and Laura E. Webb. 📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...
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Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
‼️Published @royalsociety.org Open Science‼️ "From rugged isles to managed pastures: morphological changes in Soay sheep (Ovis aries) metacarpal bones following anthropogenic translocation" @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social 🐑🐏 doi.org/10.1098/rsos... @soaysheep.bsky.social
Photograph of a Soay Sheep lamb with tags in its ears facing the camera, standing on grass. Source - A New Twist on an Animal Model Reveals Environmental Constraints on Selection. Gross L, PLoS Biology, Vol. 4/7/2006, e236. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0040236, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1479004
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Ecology & Behaviour 2025 @ecobhvr2025.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
The Ecology & Behaviour conference is still looking for a new French organizing team for a future edition. An inclusive, international & free conference run by early-career researchers, let’s keep it alive! 👉 Get in touch with us and check the website: ecobhvr2025.sciencesconf.org
Welcoming cocktail Poster sessionAna Rodrigues talkNature excursion
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Alice Auersperg @auersperga.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Our new paper (with @biotay.bsky.social) is out and on the cover story of @currentbiology.bsky.social !!!! Veronika, a Carinthian mountain cow flexibly uses a “multi-purpose tool” to scratch herself. A video and more information will follow in the comments. www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Alice Auersperg @auersperga.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
She uses the bristled end of a deck brush on her back and hindquarters, using repeated place-and-pull motions. For more sensitive areas such as the belly flap, udder, and anal region, she switches to the stick end, using careful, repeated poke-and-lift movements. See video link: youtu.be/bAk4PFEuWKQ
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Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow
YouTube video by Antonio Jose Osuna Mascaró
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Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
It seems that cats vocalize more when greeting men than women (4.3 meows compared to 1.8 in the first 100 seconds). This could be because women tend to pay more attention to them. (blog) phys.org/news/2025-12... (paper) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Dominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Canids seem to be the routine lovers, reusing their travel routes more than felids. This shapes hunting, encounters, and even disease spread. Insights from 1,239 GPS-tracked carnivores, including the Arctic foxes we track on Bylot Island 🧪🌿🌎🌐🦊. Read in the latest PNAS at bitly.cx/TxI2
Pictured is a male jaguar (Panthera onca) equipped with a tracking collar. William F. Fagan et al. tracked the movements of 1,239 mammalian carnivores, including 16 canid species and 18 felid species, on six continents. On average, compared with felids, canids displayed a greater density of trackways within their range and were more likely to reuse established trackways. According to the authors, the evolutionary differences in carnivore movement patterns could aid efforts to model encounters among carnivores, prey, and humans. See the article by Fagan et al. e2401042122. Image credit: Sebastian Kennerknecht (photographer).
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Journal of Thermal Biology @thermal-biology.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
From nocturnal swimmers to blind cavefish, a hidden circadian rhythm guides when they seek warm or cool waters—revealing a surprising universality in how fish tell time 🐟🕰️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Debottam Bhattacharjee @debottam1991.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
🚨 New Publication on Feral Water Buffalo 🐃 🐃 in Animal Behaviour [Also my 1st publication in AB 😊] @asab.org @asabeducation.bsky.social Adaptive behavioural strategies to seasonal challenges by a semiurban feral ungulate W/ @amcell.bsky.social Kate Flay & Hannah Mumby doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
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