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Sebastien Moro
@cervelleoiseau.bsky.social
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Vulgarisation scientifique orientée sur le comportement et la cognition animale. SciComm on animal cognition and behavior. Specialized in large reviews oO http://cervelledoiseau.fr https://youtube.com/cervelledoiseau #Fish #Rats #Pigeons #FarmAnimals #Bee
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Sebastien Moro @cervelleoiseau.bsky.social · Dec 2
For a fresh new start here, here is a TEDx Talk I gave a few months ago on animal intelligence.
It's in French but there are English subtitles :)
youtu.be/Eqm4ZF07xG0
#Ethology #AnimalBehavior #AnimalBehaviour
Des intelligences extraterrestres ... bien terrestres - Sébastien Moro-TEDx Arts Et Metiers Bordeaux
YouTube video by Cervelle d'oiseau
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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 12h
Investigating the potential for mirror self-recognition in honeybees (Apis mellifera): a preliminary study using the mark test https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.14.682345v1
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amcell.bsky.social
Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 10h
2025. From nociception in aneural animals to human suffering: toward a comparative biology of pain url: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...
From nociception in aneural animals to human suffering: toward a comparative biology of pain
Summary: The biology of widely shared and unusual features of human pain is informed by functional and mechanistic comparisons of nociception and pain-like aversive states across vertebrate and invert...
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avianbiology.bsky.social
Journal of Avian Biology @avianbiology.bsky.social · 1d
NEW PAPER: do common ravens show consistent boldness–shyness responses to risk? Reactions of individually marked ravens vary by age but not over time. Ravens fear bird-of-prey calls more than gunshots, suggesting flexible, not fixed, personalities.

➡️ vist.ly/4adpy

#ornithology #birds 🪶
Common raven. Photo by daniel Koch. Fig. 1 from the article: Experimental setup of the playback experiment. Fig. 3 from the article: Differences in (a) latency to resume feeding after stimulus between age groups and (b) frequency of anti-predator events between different audio stimuli. Fig. 4 from the article: Gardner–Altman estimation plot that shows the Hedges' g between (a) juveniles, and subadults and adults, and (b) bird of prey calls and gunshots.
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amcell.bsky.social
Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 1d
2025. Why some birds fear novelty phys.org/news/2025-10...
Chickening out: Why some birds fear novelty
The largest-ever study on neophobia, or fear of novelty, has discovered the key reasons why some bird species are more fearful of new things than others.
phys.org
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cervelleoiseau.bsky.social
Sebastien Moro @cervelleoiseau.bsky.social · 13h
Il est temps de changer notre vision sur ces adorables rongeurs.
Alors, on vous attend à partir de vendredi sur fr.ulule.com/scelerats-mo...
Merci à l'inénarrable Mathilde Morel pour l'extraordinaire travail de montage !
SCÉLÉRATS
LANCEMENT LE 17/10 - La BD qui va vous faire aimer les rats !
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Sebastien Moro @cervelleoiseau.bsky.social · 13h
La campagne débute vendredi 17 octobre à 18 h !
On en est actuellement à presque 200 pages où une quantité astronomique de découvertes scientifiques sont racontées avec humour ! Jeu, communication, altruisme, conscience, émotions, utilisation d'outils, organisation sociale, tout y est !
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Sebastien Moro @cervelleoiseau.bsky.social · 13h
Le grand moment est enfin arrivé !
Après des mois de travail acharné, la nouvelle BD sur les rats est enfin sur les starting blocks !
Contrairement aux deux précédentes, ce projet-ci passe par un financement participatif pour voir le jour youtu.be/eXPxfGWZHno
SCELERATS Lancement !
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biorxiv-behav.bsky.social
bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 7d
Social and Spatial Affinity Drive Wound Care by Ants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.08.681151v1
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cervelleoiseau.bsky.social
Sebastien Moro @cervelleoiseau.bsky.social · 15d
Les semaines qui arrivent vont être sportives ! :D
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amcell.bsky.social
Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 24d
2025. Activity and behavior patterns of cattle, horses and sheep grazing in mountainous areas using geolocation collars url: academic.oup.com/jas/article/...
Activity and behavior patterns of cattle, horses and sheep grazing in mountainous areas using geolocation collars
Abstract. The sustainability of livestock extensive systems is compromised. It is necessary to enhance our understanding of the activity and grazing behavi
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avianbiology.bsky.social
Journal of Avian Biology @avianbiology.bsky.social · 23d
NEW PAPER: Wild rock pigeons more than double grooming during peak molt, showing that the intensity of grooming parallels the intensity of molt throughout the molt cycle. Molt may be costlier than thought, as birds invest extra energy in feather care.

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#ornithology #birds 🪶
Photo of a rock pigeon. Source: Wikimedia commons (author: https://www.flickr.com/people/68466173@N02) Fig. 2 from the article: Timing of molt in relation to the grooming behavior of rock pigeons. (a) Mean date that each of the 10 primary feathers had dropped or had begun emerging, (b) number of body regions molting (‘molt intensity'), (c) time spent grooming during each four-week observation period.
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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 23d
Comprehensive healthspan assessments and influence of sex as a biological variable in aging rats https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.22.677661v1
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bendeskylab.com
Andres Bendesky @bendeskylab.com · 26d
Nice article featuring how we and others use robotic animals to study animal behavior 🤖🐟🧪
thetransmitter.bsky.social
The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 26d
Faux fish and birds are helping researchers decipher some of the rules that govern schooling and squawking, among other social behaviors.

By @callimcflurry.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

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Robots marry natural neuroscience, experimental control to probe animal interactions
Faux fish and birds are helping researchers decipher some of the rules that govern schooling and squawking, among other social behaviors.
www.thetransmitter.org
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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 28d
Flexible Self-Protection as Evidence of Pain-Like States in House Crickets https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.12.675781v1
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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 28d
First direct quantification of floral handling costs in bees https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.15.675838v1
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auersperga.bsky.social
Alice Auersperg @auersperga.bsky.social · Sep 11
Goffins like challenges...feeding upside down. Enjoying fieldwork in Singapore with @theroesa.bsky.social
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Millie Johnston @milliejohnston.bsky.social · Sep 11
I'm delighted to share that, together with @crowbrain.bsky.social our paper on time estimation in crows is now published in @natcomms.nature.com

We found that crows not only keep track of time, but individual neurons prefer different time durations 🐦⏱️🧠

Check it out:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A neuronal correlate for time interval estimation in the crow’s telencephalon - Nature Communications
It is unknown how birds estimate time using brains organized differently from mammals. Here, the authors show that neurons in the crow NCL encode duration categories, supporting abstract, cue-independ...
www.nature.com
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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · Sep 11
Conditioned orienting predicts preference for, and affective response to, amphetamine after multiple exposures in male rats. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.06.674656v1
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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · Sep 11
Flexibility in task performance and division of labour in a cooperatively breeding cichlid https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.08.674851v1
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amcell.bsky.social
Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · Sep 12
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George Hodgson @ghodgson.bsky.social · May 29
Our new feral cattle behaviour paper “Fighting and friendship: sociodemographic factors and provisioning affect feral cattle behaviour” is now available open access online at #AnimalBehaviourJournal @asab.org
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Photograph of a group of feral cattle lying in a field in Hong Kong, with one black bull standing in the middle, and one brown animal lying in the background with its head on another animal's back.
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biotay.bsky.social
Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · Sep 11
1/3 Rooks that understand us when we speak!

Leo, a 21-year-old rook, began following verbal instructions spontaneously during comparative cognition experiments. He has been tested for this ability, and did great.

(paper) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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amcell.bsky.social
Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · Sep 12
2025. Sex‐specific plasticity in Alpine ibex migration timing. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Sex‐specific plasticity in Alpine ibex migration timing
This paper highlights a recent study by Chauveau et al. (2025), which examined sex-specific flexibility in migration timing in Alpine ibex (Capra ibex). Using long-term data, the authors show that ma...
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Lars Chittka @larschittka.bsky.social · Sep 12
New paper on male bumblebee spatial movement strategies: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Male bumblebees adapt foraging to environmental conditions to sustain mate-seeking efforts
Male bees navigate complex trade-offs between energy acquisition and reproductive signalling, yet their movement strategies remain understudied. Unlike workers that optimise foraging to support the co...
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biotay.bsky.social
Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · Sep 13
1/5 Encyclopedia of octopus movements

A study of the movements of 25 octopuses of three different species from Spain and various locations in the Caribbean (O. vulgaris, O. americanus, and O. insularis), and, unsurprisingly, they have surprised us once again!

(paper) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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biotay.bsky.social
Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · Sep 14
Crows can learn to use tools

The flexibility of corvid cognition is once again demonstrated to be sufficient for tool use, even in the absence of previous related adaptations.

(paper) www.cell.com/current-biol...
(blog) phys.org/news/2025-09...
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