Want to know why it’s important to publish in, and support, society journals, such as Behavioral Ecology?

Reminder that abstract submissions close this week!

We're looking forward to hosting the Animal Behaviour and Behavioural Ecology research communities this year. Don't miss out!

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Our new OA article is out in Behavioral Ecology ! Tracking juvenile great tits across their first year of life, we document the dynamic changes in social strategies during transition to independence in a species with limited parental care. (1/2)

doi.org/10.1093/beheco…

Please spread the word about ECBB2024

We're excited to host our wonderful community in Zurich this July. Send us your abstract, link👇

⭐️Research Highlights by Damien R. Farine in Journal of Animal Ecology - STRAND R package enhances animal social network analysis: offers generative networks models and a Bayesian framework enabling the propagation of uncertainty besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Please report Cockatoo bin-opening, including if you haven’t seen this behaviour. The survey takes 1-3 minutes. Your reports help us map this behaviour - thanks!
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Registration for the European Conference on Behavioural Biology (July 16th – 19th 2024, Zurich, Switzerland) is now open - deadline for submission of abstracts is 15 March. For more information, see: ecbb.uzh.ch

Super excited to have this paper with Mina Ogino accepted:

Collective intelligence facilitates emergent resource partitioning through frequency dependent learning

This is a really rich model with applications across a range of fields. Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Thinking of attending ECBB?

Here's a reminder that our valued societies Ethological Society and ASAB provide their members with generous travel grants.

See our website ecbb.uzh.ch for links to the application pages.

Super excited to be continuing our work on dolphin-fisher interactions—now scaling up to taking a global perspective!

Congrats to Mauricio Cantor for being awarded a National Geographic Society Wildlife Intelligence Project grant to fund this research:
nationalgeographic.org/society/our-pr…

A reminder that the abstract deadline for ecbb2024 'Long Term Studies in Animal Behaviour' conference is coming up on March 15!

More info here: ecbb.uzh.ch

An interesting insight is that the dynamics of the network are important when individuals have non-uniform learning strategies.

This has implications on our we study social learning—we have to quantify learning and the network simultaneously.

We also discuss why this happens.

New model who dis? With Damien R. Farine we compare simple and complex transmission across different representations of movement rules to show that spreading dynamics depend on combo of trans. and mov. rule, and if using static rep. of spatial network doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Early-life conditions + experimental manipulation + large-scale GPS tracking = super study by benedetta_catitti exploring the social-spatial interface in foraging areas by red kites.

🚨 ECBB 2024 Abstract submissions are NOW OPEN!

We have great plenary speakers and an exciting theme: long-term studies in animal behaviour

(we welcome abstracts from all topics and studies in the field, not just from long-term studies)

More info: ecbb.uzh.ch

It’s time for our annual cockatoo bin-opening census! If you live in Australia (whether you've seen it or not), please fill in our survey at clevercockies.com/annual-bin-ope…
Your reports help us to continue tracking this fascinating urban innovation
Dr John Martin @BigCityBirds

Follow ecbb2024 for news and updates on the 2024 European Conference on Behavioural Biology. The conference will be hosted this summer by UZH Science.

Plenaries will be announced and abstract submission will open in the next few days!

ASAB ASAB Conferences 2024 Ethological Society

'The relative contribution of acoustic signals versus movement cues in group coordination and collective decision-making'

preprint: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/vie…

Lots of thoughts on biases and limitations that shape what modes of communication are used in collective animal behaviour.

It's a full house in the lab at Ecology&EvolutionANU and UZH Science ! After having a very stable group membership for the past 5 or so years, we have lots of new people starting, and lots of exciting new projects kicking off!

sites.google.com/site/drfarine/…