3/3 "He did not agree to tell what he did. Either he was ashamed of shooting, or he was ashamed of feeling sorry for them and not shooting. Which is worse?"

2/3 "... that he saw a father and a girl walking on a road they weren't supposed to be on. He got on the phone. They told him: Shoot the Dad. Immediately after, another officer called him over the red, classified line, and ordered: Take down the girl too..."

Thanks to co-authors @odedkeynan.bsky.social , and @gso-forresearchers.bsky.social and @cbehav.bsky.social for funding!

5/ Or maybe are there some secret advantages in those specific roosting trees? One sure thing is that conserving these “ordinally looking” trees is important!
More sleep research in Arabian babblers is here (royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...) & more to come…

4/ Do social traditions play a role in the usage of specific roosting sites?
Demographic changes in ELU group. Although group membership had undergone 3 complete changeovers over the last 15 years, the group continues to roost (mostly) on their very favourite tree…

3/ Among the various criteria we tested, dense canopy was found to be a necessary criterion for a roosting site, yet, as there are many dense trees within territories, the question remains: Why stick to a very few specific trees?

2/ Arabian babblers are cooperatively breeding birds living in the Arabian Peninsula deserts. They live in territorial groups year-round. We show that each territory includes many trees seem suitable for roosting, but, for some reason, groups roost in ~3 of them only (non-roosting trees in green)

Hi, the @co-breed.bsky.social project will be there (with a talk and an accompanying poster) and will be happy to discuss data contribution about parental care.

Bik had reported the Oncogene papers to the journal in 2019. In February 2024, Bik sought an update and Springer Nature told her the investigation was still ongoing.