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Fish alter locomotor and feeding kinematics to capture aerial prey #ProcB #OpenAccess #Biomechanics royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
November 26, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Fish alter locomotor and feeding kinematics to capture aerial prey #ProcB #OpenAccess #Biomechanics royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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How do #ants find their way in the dark? Many insects use patterns of polarised light in the sky as a built-in compass. This new #RSOS paper studied two Australian bull ant species: the nocturnal Myrmecia midas and the daytime Myrmecia tarsata: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
November 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
How do #ants find their way in the dark? Many insects use patterns of polarised light in the sky as a built-in compass. This new #RSOS paper studied two Australian bull ant species: the nocturnal Myrmecia midas and the daytime Myrmecia tarsata: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Housing non-kin vampire bats evokes vocal convergence, i.e., calls become more similar than before housing the same individuals together. Food-sharing is linked to vocal convergence. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Vocal convergence during formation of social relationships in vampire bats | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
In many group-living birds and mammals, the formation of affiliative relationships
is hypothesized to cause vocal convergence (an increase in call similarity between
individuals). However, testing thi...
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November 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Housing non-kin vampire bats evokes vocal convergence, i.e., calls become more similar than before housing the same individuals together. Food-sharing is linked to vocal convergence. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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In social animals, the choose of foraging sites can be biased by social cues of conspecifics. This preprint shows that the presence of hornets on food sources attracts conspecifics or other closely related hornets.
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Social attraction mediates collective foraging decisions in invasive hornets
Group-living animals commonly use social information to better locate and exploit resources. In many insects, birds, fish and mammals, this can lead to collective foraging decisions by which animals s...
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November 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
In social animals, the choose of foraging sites can be biased by social cues of conspecifics. This preprint shows that the presence of hornets on food sources attracts conspecifics or other closely related hornets.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Most insects are attracted to light (positive phototaxis). A study @jexpbiol.bsky.social shows that phototaxis in nocturnal bees (Megalopta aegis) is wavelength dependent, i.e., show more directed paths to UV🟣 than 🔵, 🟢 light.
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Light wavelength and intensity modulate phototaxis in the nocturnal bee Megalopta aegis
Positive phototaxis in diurnal bees is modulated by wavelength and intensity of light. Unlike diurnal bees, nocturnal bees like Megalopta aegis forage exclusively during twilight, when light intensity...
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November 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Most insects are attracted to light (positive phototaxis). A study @jexpbiol.bsky.social shows that phototaxis in nocturnal bees (Megalopta aegis) is wavelength dependent, i.e., show more directed paths to UV🟣 than 🔵, 🟢 light.
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...
Many insects use celestial cues for navigation. A new study characterizes neurons of the cockroach that are sensitive to simulated skylight cues, such as polarized light and solar azimuth.
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Neurons sensitive to sky compass signals in the brain of the Madeira cockroach Rhyparobia maderae - Journal of Comparative Physiology A
Many insects are formidable navigators illustrated by homing behavior in bees and ants or regular seasonal migrations in butterflies, moths, and others. For spatial orientation, many insects rely on c...
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November 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Many insects use celestial cues for navigation. A new study characterizes neurons of the cockroach that are sensitive to simulated skylight cues, such as polarized light and solar azimuth.
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Mystery of how turtles read their magnetic map solved. Alayna Mackiewicz & co reveal that hatchling loggerhead turtles feel the magnetism 🔁
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November 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Mystery of how turtles read their magnetic map solved. Alayna Mackiewicz & co reveal that hatchling loggerhead turtles feel the magnetism 🔁
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Read the full research at journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
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Read the full research at journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
Weakly electric fish aim to stay inside moving refuges. Tracking the refuge motion is based on multimodal cues (vision, electro-, mechanosensation). A new behavioral study @jexpbiol.bsky.social tested how ambient currents affect this refuge tracking.
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journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
Flow impairs multisensory tracking and increases active sensing in weakly electric fish
Weakly electric fish rely on electrosensory, visual, and mechanosensory (lateral-line) cues to guide behavior in flowing water, yet the effects of ambient currents on multisensory tracking and active ...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Weakly electric fish aim to stay inside moving refuges. Tracking the refuge motion is based on multimodal cues (vision, electro-, mechanosensation). A new behavioral study @jexpbiol.bsky.social tested how ambient currents affect this refuge tracking.
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
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How do insects use vision to interact with flowers? IMPRS-QBEE student @lochlanw.bsky.social, working with @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social tells us more about his work on hummingbird hawkmoths and how they interact with flower patterns
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Lochlan Walsh | Insect sensory biology
YouTube video by Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
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November 24, 2025 at 8:12 AM
How do insects use vision to interact with flowers? IMPRS-QBEE student @lochlanw.bsky.social, working with @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social tells us more about his work on hummingbird hawkmoths and how they interact with flower patterns
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
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@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
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Come and work with us in our new home @bristolbiosci.bsky.social ! This fully funded PhD opportunity is open to anyone interested in spiders/eyes/light pollution/evolution/development! 🕷️👀
⏰Deadline 15th December, online info event TODAY @2pm! Link in the PhD advert👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
⏰Deadline 15th December, online info event TODAY @2pm! Link in the PhD advert👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
November 24, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Come and work with us in our new home @bristolbiosci.bsky.social ! This fully funded PhD opportunity is open to anyone interested in spiders/eyes/light pollution/evolution/development! 🕷️👀
⏰Deadline 15th December, online info event TODAY @2pm! Link in the PhD advert👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
⏰Deadline 15th December, online info event TODAY @2pm! Link in the PhD advert👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Bats are highly social animals showing a huge vocal repetoire. A new study of the Simmons lab monitored vocalizations between pairs of 🦇 that were competing for food in the lab. Six social call types, e.g., frequency-modulated bouts (FMBs), were common.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...
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Frontiers | Social calls of big brown bats in a competitive feeding context
Big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) have a diverse vocal repertoire. We tested the hypothesis that frequency-modulated bouts (FMBs) are male-specific calls pro...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Bats are highly social animals showing a huge vocal repetoire. A new study of the Simmons lab monitored vocalizations between pairs of 🦇 that were competing for food in the lab. Six social call types, e.g., frequency-modulated bouts (FMBs), were common.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...
Praying mantises demontrate remarkable camouflage although they had been thought to be colorblind. A new ERG study reveals that 2 of 3 tested mantises species are trichromatic highlighting a physiological capacity for color vision.
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Praying mantises possess multiple spectral photoreceptor classes - Journal of Comparative Physiology A
Praying mantises often display elaborate camouflage, disappearing into the shapes, textures, and colors around them. But they have largely been thought to be monochromats, unable to perceive the color...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Praying mantises demontrate remarkable camouflage although they had been thought to be colorblind. A new ERG study reveals that 2 of 3 tested mantises species are trichromatic highlighting a physiological capacity for color vision.
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Preserved #reptile scales retain microscopic features, revealing a new instance of convergent evolution. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @jenniferrieser.bsky.social #JRSocInterface
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Preserved #reptile scales retain microscopic features, revealing a new instance of convergent evolution. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @jenniferrieser.bsky.social #JRSocInterface
The magentic sense is undoubtedly one of the greatest secrets in sensory biology. Whole brain activity mapping in response to 🧲 stimulation revealed a light-independent activity in the medial vestibular nuclei & the caudal mesopallium in the pigeon 🧠
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A global screen for magnetically induced neuronal activity in the pigeon brain
How animals detect the Earth’s magnetic field remains a mystery in sensory biology. Despite extensive behavioral evidence, the neural circuitry and molecular mechanisms responsible for magnetic sensin...
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November 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The magentic sense is undoubtedly one of the greatest secrets in sensory biology. Whole brain activity mapping in response to 🧲 stimulation revealed a light-independent activity in the medial vestibular nuclei & the caudal mesopallium in the pigeon 🧠
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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#SfN25 Monday morning we present FERAL: a video-understanding tool for animal behavior detection without the need for tracking or pose estimation! FERAL detects single animal, social and collective behavior in the lab and the wild! Visit our poster at board ZZ5 and check more here: www.getferal.ai
November 17, 2025 at 8:11 AM
#SfN25 Monday morning we present FERAL: a video-understanding tool for animal behavior detection without the need for tracking or pose estimation! FERAL detects single animal, social and collective behavior in the lab and the wild! Visit our poster at board ZZ5 and check more here: www.getferal.ai
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New research from #BiologyLetters: Herring gulls respond to the acoustic properties of men's voices royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... | #AnimalBehaviour #Cognition
November 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
New research from #BiologyLetters: Herring gulls respond to the acoustic properties of men's voices royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... | #AnimalBehaviour #Cognition
🚨 The appearance of plastic debris impairs the visual hunting behavior of reef fish 🐟 in the lab
Check it out!
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The appearance of plastic debris results in impaired visually-mediated behavior in a reef fish: Evidence of visual sensory pollution
Macro-plastic debris (MPD) have become ubiquitous pollutants that can negatively impact marine fauna. MPD occur in a wide range of sizes, colors and s…
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November 14, 2025 at 4:36 AM
🚨 The appearance of plastic debris impairs the visual hunting behavior of reef fish 🐟 in the lab
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Do you work (/want to work) with caterpillars? Or sensory systems? Or BOTH?! Well good golly do we have the paper for you! We explain the senses that caterpillars have, what they use them for, and how anthropogenic sensory pollution might be messing it all up 🐛 doi.org/10.1007/s003...
The sensory ecology of caterpillars - Journal of Comparative Physiology A
Caterpillars (larval Lepidoptera) are one of the most ecologically and evolutionarily significant taxa on Earth. As both feeders and food, they shape the dynamics of enumerate ecosystems on land. Key ...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Do you work (/want to work) with caterpillars? Or sensory systems? Or BOTH?! Well good golly do we have the paper for you! We explain the senses that caterpillars have, what they use them for, and how anthropogenic sensory pollution might be messing it all up 🐛 doi.org/10.1007/s003...
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2/n This 🐝 work has been a great collaboration between
@alexdqm.bsky.social ,
@ishaninanda.bsky.social
# AnitaOngLayMun @larschittka.bsky.social and me from
@preparedmindslab.bsky.social
see below for a videoclip of the bees
@queenmarycbb.bsky.social
@alexdqm.bsky.social ,
@ishaninanda.bsky.social
# AnitaOngLayMun @larschittka.bsky.social and me from
@preparedmindslab.bsky.social
see below for a videoclip of the bees
@queenmarycbb.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
2/n This 🐝 work has been a great collaboration between
@alexdqm.bsky.social ,
@ishaninanda.bsky.social
# AnitaOngLayMun @larschittka.bsky.social and me from
@preparedmindslab.bsky.social
see below for a videoclip of the bees
@queenmarycbb.bsky.social
@alexdqm.bsky.social ,
@ishaninanda.bsky.social
# AnitaOngLayMun @larschittka.bsky.social and me from
@preparedmindslab.bsky.social
see below for a videoclip of the bees
@queenmarycbb.bsky.social
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Here: a bee trained to discriminate between long and short duration by @alexdqm.bsky.social @ishaninanda.bsky.social
#AnitaOng for "Duration discrimination in the bumblebee..."
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cc @larschittka.bsky.social sky.social
#AnitaOng for "Duration discrimination in the bumblebee..."
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November 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Here: a bee trained to discriminate between long and short duration by @alexdqm.bsky.social @ishaninanda.bsky.social
#AnitaOng for "Duration discrimination in the bumblebee..."
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....
@royalsocietypublishing.org
cc @larschittka.bsky.social sky.social
#AnitaOng for "Duration discrimination in the bumblebee..."
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cc @larschittka.bsky.social sky.social
For those of you at the SfN conference...
Stop by the Neuroethology Social & Networking event on Sunday, 7-9 at the Grand Ballroom 1/2, Marriot Marquis!
Stop by the Neuroethology Social & Networking event on Sunday, 7-9 at the Grand Ballroom 1/2, Marriot Marquis!
November 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
For those of you at the SfN conference...
Stop by the Neuroethology Social & Networking event on Sunday, 7-9 at the Grand Ballroom 1/2, Marriot Marquis!
Stop by the Neuroethology Social & Networking event on Sunday, 7-9 at the Grand Ballroom 1/2, Marriot Marquis!
🚨 Using polarization vision to stabilize gaze 👀 would theoretically be helpful for animals living in visually noisy environments, but it seems two decapod crustaceans use achromatic cues instead. 🚨
From @maddy-janakis.bsky.social
Check it out! 🦀
academic.oup.com/iob/article/...
From @maddy-janakis.bsky.social
Check it out! 🦀
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Two Decapod Crustaceans, Panopeus herbstii and Petrolisthes armatus, Stabilize Their Gaze Using Achromatic Visual Cues, but Not the Angle of Linearly Polarized Light
Synopsis. Gaze stabilization is important to animals because it allows them to visually differentiate between their own motion relative to their environmen
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November 10, 2025 at 5:51 AM
🚨 Using polarization vision to stabilize gaze 👀 would theoretically be helpful for animals living in visually noisy environments, but it seems two decapod crustaceans use achromatic cues instead. 🚨
From @maddy-janakis.bsky.social
Check it out! 🦀
academic.oup.com/iob/article/...
From @maddy-janakis.bsky.social
Check it out! 🦀
academic.oup.com/iob/article/...
How do animals recognise incoming stimuli as predators? In this paper from the Casas' lab, they tested aerodynamical looming, and they show that size and velocity of the incoming object activated wind-sensitive neurons in 🦗. These responses are similar to visual looming! www.cell.com/current-biol...
Perception of aerodynamical looming stimuli
Clémençon et al. show that predator size and velocity are two key parameters for the
perception of the aerodynamical signature of approaching predators (aerodynamical
looming stimuli). They report tha...
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November 6, 2025 at 1:14 PM
How do animals recognise incoming stimuli as predators? In this paper from the Casas' lab, they tested aerodynamical looming, and they show that size and velocity of the incoming object activated wind-sensitive neurons in 🦗. These responses are similar to visual looming! www.cell.com/current-biol...
Humans are able to revise their beliefs, but can other animals do it? Authors showed that 🐵s looking for a reward remained committed to their initial belief when the evidence supporting the alternative was weaker, but they reconsidered when the new info was stronger! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs
The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...
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November 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Humans are able to revise their beliefs, but can other animals do it? Authors showed that 🐵s looking for a reward remained committed to their initial belief when the evidence supporting the alternative was weaker, but they reconsidered when the new info was stronger! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Are vertebrates the only animals capable of emotional contagion? What about invertebrates? In this new paper from the Feng lab, they show that 🐝s tested in a cognitive bias task were influenced if they were in contact with a conspecific in a positive affective state! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Positive affective contagion in bumble bees
Affective contagion, a core component of empathy, has been widely characterized in social vertebrates but its existence in any invertebrate is unknown. Using a cognitive bias paradigm we demonstrate p...
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November 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Are vertebrates the only animals capable of emotional contagion? What about invertebrates? In this new paper from the Feng lab, they show that 🐝s tested in a cognitive bias task were influenced if they were in contact with a conspecific in a positive affective state! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...