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Don't mess with my precious hooked stick tool!😉 New resarch indicates that New Caledonian #crows, just like humans, are particularly careful when handling their most valuable tools & keep them extra safe! mpg.de/18061418/1217-… @mpi_animalbehav University of St Andrews Max Planck Society

Crows keep special tools extra safe New research led by School of Biology and MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social in eLife - the journal reveals that, just like humans, New Caledonian crows are particularly careful when handling their most valuable tools ow.ly/TOlZ50Hglwo #EverToExcel

We've temporarily marked cockies in central/north Sydney with unique paint dots to study their social interactions at home & away. You can help us build a picture of each roost's home-range by taking a pic of any marked birds you see and reporting to @BigCityBirds - Thank you!!!

Archerfish are not the only fish that shoot down prey with water: dwarf gouramis do it too! New paper with Dr Barbara Klump, Luke Rendell @lrendell.bsky.social, Sophie Harrower, Teresa Abaurrea, Clare Marr, Louise Scott, and Mike Webster #fishsci #openaccess #teamfish tinyurl.com/3m36u662

**🚨Open PhD position🚨** Want to use a variety of cool methods to understand cognitive evolution in wild parrots? Come join us! The fully funded PhD will be a joint award at Science & Medicine at ANU (OZ) and MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social (DE), and is open to all nationalities: ab.mpg.de/445655/Aplin

New paper: "Short-range hunters: exploring the function and constraints of water shooting in dwarf gouramis" great work by Nick with Dr Barbara Klump Sophie Harrower Mike Webster

Have you seen our colour-marked birds? Please report using the Big City Birds app; we’re marking in the City of Sydney, Mosman, & Blacktown. Thanks @tomasseytw for reporting! Lucy Aplin Dieter Hochuli William Tanner Sydney Science Sydney Travel City of Sydney Dr John Martin

Super excited to be joining Universität Wien next year! In my @wwtf Vienna Research Group for Young Investigators we will investigate the cognition and ecology of extractive foraging in crows & cockatoos. Stay tuned, I'll be hiring PhD students and a Postdoc next spring.

Last night, audiences in Germany were treated to a sneak peak of new research by Dr Barbara Klump looking at walnut opening by crows. If you missed it, check it out (in 🇩🇪) from 10 mins in on ZDF zdf.de/dokumentation/…

Our OZ-wide cockie bin-opening survey is on again! Please report whether or not you have seen cockies opening wheelie bins here: rebrand.ly/cockatoos Please share across Australia and stay tuned for exciting results from the past surveys coming out in a few weeks!

Help us learn about Bin-Opening across Oz, including reporting where - you “have” AND “have not” - seen this behaviour rebrand.ly/cockatoos @BigCityBirds Dr Barbara Klump Lucy Aplin Please share BirdLife Australia Birds in Backyards Australian Citizen Science Association Sydney Science Australian Museum @NSWDPE

Andrew McNeice Possum TV @BigCityBirds Dr Barbara Klump Lucy Aplin BirdLife Australia Birds in Backyards Australian Citizen Science Association Sydney Science Australian Museum @NSWDPE Opening bin lids? Please report using our online survey docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

With your help we’ve mapped the spread of this behaviour. And described social learning & cultural differences between flocks: Thanks! The survey takes 1-5min: rebrand.ly/cockatoos 👏👍 Please report across Oz if you “have” & “have not” seen bin-opening Dr Barbara Klump

Always wanted to know how the story about the bin-opening cockies continued? In our new paper in Current Biology we report on an innovation arms race between cockies and humans. Open Access for the next 50 days here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1fklA3QW8R~e…

Let the battle of bins commence!😉In #Australia, people come up w/ ever new techniques to keep crafty #cockatoos out of their *from the #parrots' point of view irresistible tasty!😋* - trash, but the crafty cockies appear to adapt🗑️🦜❤️🥪 mpg.de/19174958/0906-… MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

Join us! We have two fully funded PhD positions available in my @WWTF VRG Group Universität Wien investigating the ontogeny and individual variation in extractive foraging. All info here: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Scientific… and jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Scientific… Please RT!

There is still time to apply! Join us in beautiful Vienna and work on these amazing birds. Both PhD positions are fully funded. Deadline: September 28th