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Vitor H. B. Ferreira

@vitorhbf.bsky.social
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PhD in Animal Behavior and Cognition. 🇧🇷 Researcher at INRAE 🇫🇷 and CEB team (Cognition, Ethology and Animal Welfare) 🐣🐥🐓🐤🐔

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Vitor H. B. Ferreira @vitorhbf.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Great few days at #ECBB2026 in Cambridge: great talks, great people, and plenty of ideas to bring home 🧠🐔 And, of course, I kept spreading the chicken agenda: they’re not just farm animals, but fascinating models for understanding behavior and cognition.
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Vitor H. B. Ferreira @vitorhbf.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Already in Cambridge for #ECBB2026! 🐔 Excited to explore the city before the conference kicks off and looking forward to giving the very last talk of the conference on Friday. Hope there’ll still be some people left 😂
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Vitor H. B. Ferreira @vitorhbf.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
🐣🐔 This week marks the start of CADO, an #ANR project I’ve been developing since joining INRAE in 2022. With my team, we collected eggs from chicken breeds selected for production, ornamentation, resilience, plus red junglefowl, the chicken’s wild ancestor. Now we wait for healthy chicks to hatch!
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Vitor H. B. Ferreira @vitorhbf.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
🚨 New paper in my very intentional “How” series! 🐔 How do chickens perceive humans—and why does it matter? Chickens watch us as much as we watch them, and it might help improve their welfare. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/7VJKJ...
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How do domestic chickens perceive humans—and why does it matter?
Despite their ubiquity in agricultural systems, domestic chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus) remain widely misunderstood in terms of their cognitive and emotional capacities, particularly regarding...
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Vitor H. B. Ferreira @vitorhbf.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
So happy to be part of this! Probably the most complete review so far on free-range chicken behavior and welfare 🐓. A must-read if you want to see how the field started, where we are now, and what’s next!
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Vitor H. B. Ferreira @vitorhbf.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Leaving Utrecht after my first #ISAE — what a great experience! Amazing people, science, and even karaoke in front of a passionate crowd of animal behaviour & welfare researchers. And to top it off, my PhD student won Best Poster out of 300! 10/10, would recommend! ☺️ #ISAE2025
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cetholine.bsky.social @cetholine.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
@vitorhbf.bsky.social talk at the #isae congress. How do chickens perceive humans ?
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Vitor H. B. Ferreira @vitorhbf.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
🎉 First paper as last author & PhD supervisor! Congrats to Jeanne Seressia and the team 👏 🐤Do more sociable quail sync better? ✅ Yes — those selected for high social motivation often rested together. Social cohesion or social buffering? More studies to come! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Effects of selection for divergent levels of social motivation on behavioral repertoire and synchronization in Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica)
Behavioral synchronization occurs when individuals perform the same behavior simultaneously and in close proximity. It is widely recognized as a key m…
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Vitor H. B. Ferreira @vitorhbf.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Our most recent paper is being featured on our institute’s website — in French only! 🐔 www.inrae.fr/actualites/p...
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Les poules peuvent-elles percevoir les humains de manière positive ?
Et si les poules pouvaient, elles aussi, trouver du réconfort auprès des humains, comme les chiens ou les moutons ? Une étude récente montre que certaines interactions avec les humains apaisent les poules et améliorent leur bien-être. Cependant, des différences marquées sont observées selon la race et les modalités de ces interactions.
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Vitor H. B. Ferreira @vitorhbf.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
🚨🎉🥳 I’m very happy to announce that after 2 failed attempts (with not-so-great projects 😅), my #ANR JCJC project CADO is funded! More chicken science 🐔 coming. CADO (like gift 🎁 in French) will explore how domestication & selective breeding shaped chicken minds. So excited for what’s coming next.
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Alexis Verger 🧬🧫🧪 @alexis-verger.cpesr.fr · 27/06/2025
Les résultats définitifs de l' #ANR 2025 sont censés être annoncés en Juin. #ESR Donc soit aujourd'hui pour bien te pourrir ta fin de semaine soit lundi prochain pour bien te pourrir ton début de semaine 🫣
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PEC Exeter @pec-exeter.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
What are we talking about when we're talking about "cognition"? Terminology in this field has become confused and confusing. While writing our recent review, we tried to structure terms for our own sanity, and provide a template in a Glossary royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Vitor H. B. Ferreira @vitorhbf.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
What if chickens are actually paying attention to us? 👀🐔 They recognize individual humans, react to our gaze, voice & gestures, learn by watching us & may even be reassured by our presence 💛. Why does it matter? Find out in our new (preprint) review 👉 www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) How do domestic chickens perceive humans - and why does it matter?
PDF | Despite their ubiquity in agricultural systems, domestic chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus) remain widely misunderstood in terms of their... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on R...
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Vitor H. B. Ferreira @vitorhbf.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Quail paper? Resubmitted. Literature review of the chicken-human relationship? Submitted. Anxiety? Increasing rapidly as I await news on whether or not my project will be funded. 😱😱😱😱
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Vitor H. B. Ferreira @vitorhbf.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Three exciting days ahead, with the very best of French research in animal behavior! #SFECA2025
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Vitor H. B. Ferreira @vitorhbf.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Had a scientific blast in Sweden! First, the PhD defense of now Dr Johanna Gjøen 🎓 Then the Animal Welfare Symposium, where I presented our work on human–chicken interactions 🐔 👨🏻👩🏻 So many great people and conversations. Now taking a few days to enjoy the holidays in beautiful Stockholm 🇸🇪✨
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Vitor H. B. Ferreira @vitorhbf.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Thanks to the @ecobird.bsky.social team for the warm welcome these past two days! I really enjoyed sharing ideas, learning about their work on chickens and quail, and having great conversations. Hoping for fruitful collaborations in the future! @katywillcox.bsky.social @birgitszabo.bsky.social
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Vitor H. B. Ferreira @vitorhbf.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Just out! 🐣 Our recent study suggests chickens can see humans as a safe haven. Birds that received gentle handling stayed calmer in stressful situations when a familiar person was present. 💛 #animalbehavior #humananimalrelationship #chickencognition www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Chickens perceive humans as social buffers and may follow human-given cues: A pilot study
Positive perception of humans, extensively documented in domestic mammals, remains comparatively underexplored in domestic birds like chickens, with e…
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Vitor H. B. Ferreira @vitorhbf.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Our human-chicken relationship paper has just been accepted! 🥳🐓🐥🐣 More to come in the next months ! 🤞🏽
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Vitor H. B. Ferreira @vitorhbf.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Just submitted a new manuscript on the chicken-human relationship! 🐓Spoiler: Investigating whether humans can act as social buffers for chickens in stressful situations. It’s been a while since my last submission—missed this feeling! Hopefully, more to come on this topic in the future.
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Christian Nawroth @goatswhostare.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Expanding perspectives and understanding relational potential: Are mutually beneficial human-animal relationships compatible with current animal agricultural practices? www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Expanding perspectives and understanding relational potential: Are mutually beneficial human-animal relationships compatible with current animal agricultural practices? | Animal Welfare | Cambridge Co...
Expanding perspectives and understanding relational potential: Are mutually beneficial human-animal relationships compatible with current animal agricultural practices? - Volume 33
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Vitor H. B. Ferreira @vitorhbf.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Had a great time at #ASABwinter2024! Bonus points for spending the weekend soaking in the Christmas charm of beautiful Edinburgh 🎄✨ Now back to France to tackle the final week before the holidays. Almost there!
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Vitor H. B. Ferreira @vitorhbf.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Edinburgh, we are coming! #ASABwinter2024
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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
Want to make beautiful scientific figures? Easy! The NIH released a library of 2000+ free scientific illustrations called *BioArt*. Check it out! bioart.niaid.nih.gov #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky 🧠🟦 🧪
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Dr Maria Vilain Rørvang @drmariarorvang.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Still finding it hard to reconnect with everyone from Twitter (X) so here’s an attempt at finding all animal behaviourists, ethologists, behavioural ecologists etc, working with animal behaviour. Just pop a comment and I’ll add you to the list - let’s reconnect 😃 #appliedethology go.bsky.app/8oJ3A8E
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Dustin Marshall @djmmeeg.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
I wrote (ranted) on experimental design as I was frustrated as an editor at how little guidance students were getting. I underestimated the interest in the issue: it has been downloaded 10,000+ times! Clearly it’s something we need to be talking about more. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Principles of experimental design for ecology and evolution
Here I argue that we do not discuss experimental design, often until it is too late. This editorial seeks to begin a conversation about how and where to replicate appropriately.
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