🎂 To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Interface, @promanczuk and I wrote a perspective on the future of interdisciplinary research in collective animal behaviour.

Anticipating two decades of research was slightly intimidating... but we gave it a go!

👉 (open access) https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2025.0582

#CollectiveBehaviour #AnimalBehaviour #Ecology #Modelling #Physics

🎂 To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Interface, @promanczuk and I wrote a perspective on the future of interdisciplinary research in collective animal behaviour.

Anticipating two decades of research was slightly intimidating... but we gave it a go!

👉 (open access) https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2025.0582

#CollectiveBehaviour #AnimalBehaviour #Ecology #Modelling #Physics

Do Cows Use Tools? This One Does.

A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her own back with a broom — the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows, researchers say.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/science/animals-cows-intelligence-tools.html?unlocked_article_code=1.F1A.Dti9.sE-lbir-N_l_&utm_source=globalmuseum #cows #animals #animalbehaviour #globalmuseum

I'm always mildly surprised when scientists are suddenly suprised that animals other than humans and great apes could be intelligent. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jan/19/back-scratching-cow-veronika-bovine-intelligence

The scientific article in @CurrentBiology https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)01597-0

I recommend Frans de Waals book "Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?" His lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O4kpSGRm7E

#anthropocentrism #moreThanHuman #animalBehaviour #intelligence #NatureMatchCuts #animals #cow #cattle

I'm always mildly surprised when scientists are suddenly suprised that animals other than humans and great apes could be intelligent. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jan/19/back-scratching-cow-veronika-bovine-intelligence

The scientific article in @CurrentBiology https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)01597-0

I recommend Frans de Waals book "Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?" His lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O4kpSGRm7E

#anthropocentrism #moreThanHuman #animalBehaviour #intelligence #NatureMatchCuts #animals #cow #cattle

Tool use discovered in cows, Gary Larson vindicated
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jan/19/back-scratching-cow-veronika-bovine-intelligence

#AnimalBehaviour #AnimalIntelligence

Tool use discovered in cows, Gary Larson vindicated
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jan/19/back-scratching-cow-veronika-bovine-intelligence

#AnimalBehaviour #AnimalIntelligence

Does anyone here use or have used EthoVision XT, and could possibly share some sample data with me? I'm making functions for importing movement data into R, and EthoVision XT is one tool that I have yet to cover, but I need some data to help me on! #animalbehaviour

Does anyone here use or have used EthoVision XT, and could possibly share some sample data with me? I'm making functions for importing movement data into R, and EthoVision XT is one tool that I have yet to cover, but I need some data to help me on! #animalbehaviour

Can humans and animals really use internal maps to navigate and take shortcuts?

Tolman famously argued "yes" - based largely on his Sunburst maze experiment.

However, our new review & meta-analysis suggests the evidence is far weaker than you might think.
🧵👇 https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.70365
1/

#neuroESC #navigation #neuroscience #neuroethology #SpatialCognition #AnimalBehaviour #shortcutting #cognitivemap #tolman

Can humans and animals really use internal maps to navigate and take shortcuts?

Tolman famously argued "yes" - based largely on his Sunburst maze experiment.

However, our new review & meta-analysis suggests the evidence is far weaker than you might think.
🧵👇 https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.70365
1/

#neuroESC #navigation #neuroscience #neuroethology #SpatialCognition #AnimalBehaviour #shortcutting #cognitivemap #tolman

@DoomsdaysCW Until her death, #SimonaKossak had a daily (!) radio series named Dlaczego w trawie piszczy ? (Why this sound in the grass?)
I found an original for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yySku1qmMkc

She explained nature in TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loZYWmXgFXQ

And killing the romantics above: here you see her with her computer ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4ITurlKBiM

#WomenInStem #ecology #animalBehaviour

Loved this encounter with a cuttlefish near Sydney (from Peter Godfrey-Smith, author of Other Minds)
https://metazoan.net/124-bower-cuttlefish/

#cuttlefish#MarineBiology #biology #zoology #animals #nature#AnimalBehaviour #mollusks #photography#NaturePhotography#UnderwaterPhotography#PeterGodfreySmith

Lizards wearing tiny backpacks live fast and die young
By Jacinta Bowler

Ecologist Kristoffer Wild spent a year in the Australian outback fitting bearded dragons with hand-sewn jackets with GPS trackers to track every second of the lizards' lives.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-07-17/bearded-dragons-backpacks-research/105532670

#Reptiles#AnimalBehaviour#ScienceandTechnology#Biology#Zoology#EndangeredandProtectedSpecies#Nature#Animals#JacintaBowler

Lizards wearing tiny backpacks live fast and die young
By Jacinta Bowler

Ecologist Kristoffer Wild spent a year in the Australian outback fitting bearded dragons with hand-sewn jackets with GPS trackers to track every second of the lizards' lives.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-07-17/bearded-dragons-backpacks-research/105532670

#Reptiles#AnimalBehaviour#ScienceandTechnology#Biology#Zoology#EndangeredandProtectedSpecies#Nature#Animals#JacintaBowler

I will never not click on cuttlefish. This episode of Many Minds with Dr Tessa Montague taught me so much about these amazing animals:
https://manyminds.libsyn.com/the-cuttlefish-and-its-coat-of-many-colors

#podcast #science #cuttlefish#MarineBiology #biology #zoology #animals #nature #neuroscience#AnimalBehaviour #mollusks