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NL Institute of Ecology NIOO-KNAW @niooknaw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New publication: #Cognition in the #Paridae, by @utkurhan.bsky.social and others. doi.org/10.1086/742510

Utku Urhan @utkurhan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New review is out and about! What has been done, where are we now and what should come next? Our new review looks back on decades of cognition research in parids. doi.org/10.1086/742510 If you don’t have access and would like a copy, get in touch!

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Cognition in the Paridae | The Quarterly Review of Biology: Vol 101, No 3

Abstract In this review, we present an overview of studies on cognition in the family Paridae (tits, titmice, and chickadees). Parids are especially interesting for cognition studies for several reaso...

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Utku Urhan @utkurhan.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Here comes a new paper! and a great summary by @keesvanoers.bsky.social

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Dr Fay Clark @drfayclark.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

My new paper is a contemporary review of animal games (i.e., rule-, role- and reward-based play), and how games can be leveraged in animal behaviour, cognition and welfare research following a recent proposal in humans (Allen et al 2024, Nat Hum Behav) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Levelling up the study of animal gameplay

Play in humans and other animals is widespread and intuitive to recognise. Creative, unstructured play is difficult to quantify, but games direct play…

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Kai Caspar @nomascus.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

The first @themanybirds.bsky.social study on neophobia has finally been released as a preprint! Together with 120+ collaborators, we studied avoidance behavior in 136 bird species, revealing both phylogenetic and ecological signatures. Very proud to be involved! 🧪🪶 doi.org/10.31219/osf...

Phylogenetic tree of the 136 studied avian species with neophobia scores mapped onto it.

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ManyBirds Project @themanybirds.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

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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