Details about the previous study led by Myriam Amari and Emmanuelle Pouydebat and with other #MECADEV and
@mnhn.fr members, which could help to improve the welfare of naked mole rats in captivity.
Sur 4 plongées sur le même site, les plongeurs ont côtoyé 2 fois le même cœlacanthe (Latimeria menadoensis), reconnaissable à la disposition unique de ses taches blanches sur le corps. Province Nord des Moluques, Indonésie orientale, 2024. © Alexis Chappuis
Observation in situ du premier cœlacanthe de l’archipel des Moluques, en Indonésie, fin 2024. Les cœlacanthes peuvent atteindre 2 mètres de long et sont reconnaissables à leurs nageoires charnues et leur queue se terminant par 3 lobes. © Alexis Chappuis
🔎🐟 Un #cœlacanthe observé pour la première fois en Indonésie, dans la Province Nord des Moluques !
Cette observation fait suite à plusieurs années de collaboration internationale, impliquant une équipe du Muséum, et aux données scientifiques rassemblées depuis + 40 ans 👉 www.mnhn.fr/fr/actualite...
Evidence for socially influenced and potentially actively coordinated cooperation by bumblebees: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #ProcB #cognition #ethology
"Positive Animal Welfare" can be defined as the animal flourishing through the experience of predominantly positive mental states and the development of competence and resilience.
Read more at 👉 doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
#animal #emotion #goodlife #welfare #flourishing #happiness #pleasure
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
Needlefish yawning like a crocodile 🪡🐟🐊🥱 #houndfish #needlefish #tylosuruscrocodilus #sergeantmajor #fishyawn #yawn #bigyawn #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #miamibeach #biscaynebay #coralcity #civicpridethroughbiodiversity #glennnevis #coralcityfoundation #ccf
📸 A young red-billed oxpecker enjoys the view from atop a giraffe's head, captured by researcher Bing Xie in Pilanesberg National Park.
🌿 Explore more stunning moments in our gallery: behavioural-ecology-group.com/gallery/
#naturephotography #wildlife #photooftheday #photography #photographer
Screen shot of new paper: Assessing the impact of a human behaviour change intervention to reduce owner-related barriers to interactive cat play by:Mikel Delgado , Ellen Marcinkiewicz , Paul Rhodes , Sarah LH Ellis with highlights: • We surveyed individuals before and after a campaign encouraging daily play with a cat • 35.3% of participants reported playing with their cats more after the campaign • Participants reported fewer Capability and Motivational barriers after the campaign
New paper is up!! Assessing the impact of a human behaviour change intervention to reduce owner-related barriers to interactive cat play
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Vue de la Grande Galerie de l'Évolution, au Jardin des plantes, avec une rambarde métallique au premier plan portant trois corneilles : Alice, Bob et le jeune Charlie
👋 Bonjour aux nouveaux arrivés ! Je m'intéresse depuis 2017 aux corneilles parisiennes, en particulier celles baguées au Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. J'ai trois amies corneilles en particulier : Alice, son conjoint Bob et leur petit de l'année, Charlie
The Anatomy of a Borb.
By fluffing up their feathers, they trap tiny pockets of air close to their bodies, which acts as insulation. Helping them regulate their temperature.
If you don’t already know it, I highly recommend checking out this great daily game about species classification and evolution 🐳🦉🦎🐞: metazooa.com
#DailyGame
#Zoology
#Evolution
Triste nouvelle pour la #biodiversité 🔴
Introuvable depuis près de 30 ans, le courlis à bec grêle est désormais considéré comme éteint. Il s’agirait de la toute première extinction d'#oiseau d’Europe continentale connue à ce jour 👉 www.mnhn.fr/fr/actualite...
Naked mole rat
Abstract for Braude et al. (2021) "Inter-colony invasion between wild naked mole-rat colonies."
A field study found that naked mole-rats invade rival colonies to expand their territories and kidnap rivals' offspring, similar to slave-making ants. Eusociality could be an adaptation to mitigate and deter territory and offspring losses. 🧪
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Wisdom the Laysan Albatross is the oldest known wild bird and she recently laid a new egg at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in Hawaii.
The announcement came via the United States Fish & Wildlife Service's social media on 3 December.
#Seabirds
www.forbes.com/sites/amanda...
When you're little but you've got ✨style✨
Classified by the IUCN Red list as Critically Endangered the Cotton Top Tamarin is one of the smaller species of monkeys weighing on average one pound (0.5kg)
📸: ©️Aaron Crowe
#SupportingConservation #WelshMountainZoo #NorthWales
Pleased to have @mvonschantz.bsky.social as guest speaker at our group’s research day. Some wise advice here:
L'odyssée des fourmis en version Coréenne 🥰
Pencil drawings of naked mole-rats
Sketches of naked mole-rat. This will be a long and complex project. More news soon :)
The video provided in Supplementary Information from the very interesting paper by Lai and co-authors in Ecology, showing potential pollination by Ethiopian wolves of Kniphofia foliosa! 🐺
Read it here: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@pollinet.bsky.social
a) Ethiopian wolf lapping nectar from a Kniphofia foliosa inflorescence; (b) nectar foraging in a large K. foliosa field of the Web Valley, Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia; (c) deposition of a relatively large pollen load on the wolf's muzzle; (d) female adult (left) and female subadult (right) Ethiopian wolves foraging together for K. foliosa nectar. Picture credits: Adrien Lesaffre.
Super cool research from @wildcru.bsky.social - Ethiopian wolves doing pollination work. Wolfination work.
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
🧪 🦊 🐝 🌸
A l’occasion des 50 ans de la découverte, le 24 novembre 1974, de #Lucy squelette partiel d’australopithèque daté de 3,2 millions d’années, Sonia Harmand, archéologue préhistorienne au CNRS, dévoile trois faits méconnus sur cette ancêtre de l’humanité.
www.cnrs.fr/fr/actualite...
Moving from "Twatter" over to here now, it will take time to build up followers again. I haven't posted for ages there as it just got so awful! In an attempt to kickstart things again, here is not a newly emerged alien, but a recently new born naked mole-rat (with another in the background)!😃
Hello, thank you for this great starter pack :) I can't DM either, is it possible to add me too ?
Hello :) I am a soon-to-be PhD student in behavioural ecology. Can I join too ?
Thrilled to share this paper to which I contributed as a 2nd author! 🎉
We found that providing a diggable substrate positively affects the behavior of naked mole-rats (Heterocephalus glaber) in captivity 🐀
Read in Scientific Reports:
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📄
#AnimalBehavior #AnimalWelfare
