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What does it take to collar an entire #hyena clan? Check out our latest blog post to find out: movecall.group/post/collar-an…

New video from DLR - English shows how we use space-based technology to better understand animal societies here on earth 🌍 Featuring Meg Crofoot Ecology of Animal Societies and Vivek Hari Sridhar with some lovely footage by Rob Nelson 📽️

Whole group tracking reveals that relatedness drives consistent subgrouping patterns in white-nosed coatis dlvr.it/T090cw

My first PhD chapter is out as a preprint!🎉 Investigating white-nosed coatis, we collared entire groups and uncovered a fascinating pattern: consistent subgrouping with close relatives!📚

Join us at the Kalahari desert 🔥 this June for the Collective Behaviour Field Course. The program is fully funded for South African 🇿🇦students. Application is open until the end of March 🗓️Check out our website for more details 👇🏻.

So immensely proud to see my PhD work out today in nature! Combining neuroscience and ethology to an unprecedented degree in primates, we uncover neural signatures of social support and grooming reciprocity—building blocks of relationships. shorturl.at/jvHSY 🧵👇

Find the poster here: pminasandra.github.io/misc/2024gfppo… And the preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🚨🚨Help us spread the word!!!! Fully funded field course for South African students. Apply by March 31. Come to learn how to study animal communication and collective behaviour in the wild. Plan and run your own project on the amazing Kalahari fauna. For details click 👇 or DM

🚨NEW paper🚨 and the FIRST first-authored one for brilliant #PhD student Isla Keesje Davidson. 🎉HURRAH 🍾 Context-dependent multimodal behaviour in a coral reef fish. 🐠 doi.org/10.1098/rsos.2… Ben Williams John Stratford @sharkslikejazz Prof. Steve Simpson University of Bristol Biological Sciences Royal Society Publishing

New Postdoc Research Scientist position available to work on #shark movements & distributions under #ClimateChange w/ biologging data Please apply here: mymba.mba.ac.uk/job/postdoctor…

GPS is relatively new. So how can we study long-term animal movements? Our approach in Ecology Letters transforms historic location records (pre-GPS) into valuable data, revealing capuchins' responses to #climate and demographic change. #openaccess (doi.org/10.1111/ELE.14…) 1/8

Our new paper tests the diet hypothesis for brain expansion. We found no evidence that larger-brained primates had more efficient foraging paths than smaller brained procyonids.

1/9) Very excited to share that we have a new OA paper on rhythm in cetacean vocalizations in PNASNews! This was one of my favorite PhD thesis chapters. It continued to grow at MaxPlanck-Psycholinguistics with @AndreaRavignani, and I'm happy it's finally out in the world. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

How the geographical range of a species does collapse? In our latest paper in PNASNews, we were able to reconstruct the extinction pattern of the woolly rhino using process-based model validated with the fossil and the aDNA record. #Lessonsfromthepast pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

New preprint out (finally) !!!! We present YOLO-Behaviour, a flexible, easy to implement, robust framework for automated behavioural annotation from videos. Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share that our paper on white-nosed coati subgrouping dynamics is out in Animal Behaviour! Using high-resolution GPS collars to track entire groups, we found that coatis consistently split with their close relatives. 🐾 doi.org/10.1016/j.anbe…

🎉Congratulations to Emily Grout 🎓who successfully defended her thesis "Communication and fission-fusion dynamics in white-nosed coatis" , under the supervision of Meg Crofoot and Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin

🎉 Congratulations to Odd Jacobson 🎓who successfully defended his thesis "Social and environmental drivers of capuchin movement ecology: a long-term perspective" , under the supervision of Meg Crofoot and Susan Perry.

<Posting here for backwards compatibility> 🚨 Out this week in PNASNews 🚨 The flagship paper from my PhD! We show surprising statistical similarities in animal behaviour across states, individuals, and even species. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Hot off the press 📢: one of the most surprising and unsettling findings of my PhD. A novel social tradition emerged in the tool-using capuchins of Jicarón island… abducting and carrying the infants of another species. Thread with gifs, videos, and all the bizarre details 👇