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Sushant Potdar @sushantpotdar.bsky.social · Aug 30

Day 6 of #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social and I am finally presenting, on my last PhD chapter, and my current postdoctoral work at 11:45 AM in Hall 2. If anyone is interested in butterflies, flies, ejaculate, brain, and behaviour, do come to my talk 😁🦋🪰🧠
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Sushant Potdar @sushantpotdar.bsky.social · Aug 29

Kanika Rawat talks about whether stress experienced in one stage is carried over to the next stage in metamorphosis using mosquito larvae! A case for cellular epigenetic inheritance as defined by Eva Jablonka?
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Sushant Potdar @sushantpotdar.bsky.social · Aug 29

@josharbon.bsky.social spoke on intergroup interactions in African mongooses
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Sushant Potdar @sushantpotdar.bsky.social · Aug 29

Gokul Valiya Parambil gave an amazing talk on weapons use and aggression behaviours in Rock Agamas!
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Sushant Potdar @sushantpotdar.bsky.social · Aug 29

Gokul Bhaskaran gave a brilliant talk on the similarities and differences in predatory aggression and conspecific aggression (both intermale and maternal aggression) in bank voles
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Sushant Potdar @sushantpotdar.bsky.social · Aug 29

Dinesh Rao spoke about how insects avoid their "not so" conspicuous (conspicuous to us) predators (obviously by considering their umwelt)
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Sushant Potdar @sushantpotdar.bsky.social · Aug 29

Dheeraj C. L tells us how sexual signalling is affected by predation risk in Agamas, by using incredibly funny cartoons 😂
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Sushant Potdar @sushantpotdar.bsky.social · Aug 29

Anoushka Datta spoke about the correlative effects of predation (active vs ambush predators) and competition in anti-predatory behaviours of mosquito larvae
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Sushant Potdar @sushantpotdar.bsky.social · Aug 29

Andrew Spires talks about kinship and aggression in fruitflies
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MothProf @mothprof.bsky.social · Aug 29

Lizards as pest control, Jugaad (and extortion) in Macaques, seed dispersing tortoises on the hunt for mango jelly, aggressive potential queens, and the power of press releases. A great selection of talks in the Animal Congition and its implications symposium at #Behaviour2025

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Sushant Potdar @sushantpotdar.bsky.social · Aug 29

@harishprakashhp.bsky.social talks about movement of mesocarnivores in a mosiac and human shaped landscapes! And students, go check out his new lab at GITAM in Vizag!
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Sushant Potdar @sushantpotdar.bsky.social · Aug 29

Shruti Unnikrishnan spoke about contrasting dominance structures in two primitively eusocial paper wasp species.
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Sushant Potdar @sushantpotdar.bsky.social · Aug 29

@coldbloodedcog.bsky.social talks about cognition in Red-footed tortoise in the context of seed dispersal. And these tortoise love mango jelly!
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Sushant Potdar @sushantpotdar.bsky.social · Aug 29

Anindya "Rana" Sinha gave an excellent historical account and used vernacular ethology in his talk on Macaques in India!

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Anupama Manel @manel-a-pama.bsky.social · Aug 29

Moths with an eye for symmetry? 🌸
Join me this Saturday, the 30th, at #Behaviour2025 @behaviour2025.bsky.social to hear all about it

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Sushant Potdar @sushantpotdar.bsky.social · Aug 29

Day 5 of #Behaviour2025 kicks off with a plenary by @samellisq.bsky.social on a question that I have thought about many times. Why does menopause evolve in some species but not in others? And how do social structures and conflict contribute to their evolution?
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Sushant Potdar @sushantpotdar.bsky.social · Aug 28

Balamurali GS talks about stressors' effects on cognitive biases in Bumblebees, and the transmission of such a stress to other bees!
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Sushant Potdar @sushantpotdar.bsky.social · Aug 28

@ba-whittaker.bsky.social gave an incredible talk on information bias in neat-building related cognition in zebra finches
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Sushant Potdar @sushantpotdar.bsky.social · Aug 28

Jennifer Colbourne presented on tool use emergence and selection acting on such emerged behaviour for it to become inherited and specialized!
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Sushant Potdar @sushantpotdar.bsky.social · Aug 28

@augustpaula.bsky.social showed how ants make spatiotemporal decisions using ants tethered to a virtual reality rig! That is freaking awesome!!
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Sushant Potdar @sushantpotdar.bsky.social · Aug 28

Annika Boussard looked at heatwaves and brain size linked cognition in guppies
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Sushant Potdar @sushantpotdar.bsky.social · Aug 28

@laurenguillette.bsky.social presents string pulling, nest building, and sex specific cognitive differences in learning in Zebrafinches! I knew only about bumblebees pulling strings, but this is insanely cool too!
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Sushant Potdar @sushantpotdar.bsky.social · Aug 28

Dr. Molly Cummings talks about social experience driving cognitive capacities in swordtail fish!
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Sushant Potdar @sushantpotdar.bsky.social · Aug 28

Prof Mewa Singh gave an incredible talk on the lives of monkeys in India's urban ecosystems, and how they have adapted to living in urban environments for over centuries, the conservation efforts, and policies needed in saving monkey habitats!
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Sushant Potdar @sushantpotdar.bsky.social · Aug 27

@thebeesearcher.bsky.social, Rui Oliveira, @viveknityananda.bsky.social, @coldbloodedcog.bsky.social, and Pragya Singh discuss the importance of failure and reporting failed experiments, and animal failure in cognition research!
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