#Conservation - #Biodiversity #Ethology #AnimalCulture #AnimalSociology

Preserving some species means preserving thier culture too.

The Ape Culture Wars Are Not Really About Apes How a decades-long fight between primatologists says as much about scientific culture as it does about chimpanzee culture

The “ape culture wars” have raged for 50+ years — not over whether chimps have culture (they do), but what kind and how it spreads. A new paper maps the battle and argues both sides are missing hidden common ground. #Primatology #HumanEvolution #AnimalCulture www.primatology.net/p/the-ape-cu...

How to Bring a Bird’s Song Back From the Edge of Extinction

Very cool, about critically endangered Australian honeyeaters, a songbird- 'scientists are restoring the song by deploying a few skilled honeyeaters to act as vocal tutors.' From the 'Difficult Bird Research Group'. Scicomm by @emilyanthes.bsky.social #birds #birding #animalculture #nature 🧪🪶

Grass in the Ear, Grass in the Rectum: What Chimpanzee Fads Reveal About the Origins of Culture A sanctuary in Zambia accidentally documented something strange about why animals — and maybe humans — copy each other.

A chimp named Juma stuck grass in his ear. Within a week, his whole group was doing it. Then he put grass in his rectum. They copied that too. What this tells us about the origins of culture is genuinely unsettling. #Primatology #HumanEvolution #AnimalCulture www.primatology.net/p/grass-in-t...

INVITED IDEA:
Integrating space, time, and culture in animal conservation practice
#AnimalBehavior #AnimalCulture #ConservationInterventions

doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Orcas filmed paralysing and eating great white sharks in the Gulf of California | Discover Wildlife Warmer waters might be bringing more juvenile white sharks to the Gulf of California, where they are easy prey for killer whales.

Well, this counts as an intriguing foraging technique: When the orcas have paralyzed a juvenile great white shark, "they rip out and feast on its energy-rich liver, which is full of nutrients." #orcas #killerwhales #cetaceans #sharks #ocean #animalculture #animalcognition

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#Ethics #EthicsEducation #MoralEducation #SpiritualEvolution #Philosophy #ContemporaryPhilosophy

#ValueOfLife #LoveAndHope #HumanPotential #SeedOfThought #Equality

#AnimalCulture #CoexistWithAnimals #LearningFromLife

#BreakBoundariesInAcademia #ForFutureEarth

#Essay #Paper

It appears that grass-in-ear has become vintage #chimp fashion. Welcome grass-in-rectum!🍑

Such a shame this didn't come in on time for Grant Ramsey's and mine latest paper on behavioural innovativeness... 🙃

#animalculture #animalbehaviour #innovation #philsky #hpbio 🧪

How AI is Unlocking the Rich World of Animal Communication and Culture AI-powered research reveals the complex world of animal culture. Discover how elephants use names, whales have dialects, and what it means for conservation.

Elephants Have Names, Whales Have Dialects: Science Reveals the Rich Social Lives of Animals

#AnimalCommunication #AnimalCulture #Bioacoustics #AI #Science #Nature #Whales #Elephants #FactRage #FactRageNews

tglm.us/KSYmb

The Grass-Fashioned Chimpanzees of Zambia What a Blade of Grass Can Teach Us About Primate Culture

Chimpanzees in Zambia have started a new trend: sticking blades of grass in their ears and butts. It’s not grooming. It’s fashion. And it's spreading. #Primates #AnimalCulture #Chimpanzee #SocialLearning #Primatology #PrimateCulture #AnimalBehavior

They are definitely related to us

#Science #Biology #Animals #Chimps #AnimalCulture #Culture #Fashion #ButtGrass

www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/chimpa...

Chimps are sticking grass and sticks in their butts, seemingly as a fashion trend | CBC Radio A group of chimpanzees in Zambia have resurrected an old fashion trend with a surprising new twist.

They are definitely related to us

#Science #Biology #Animals #Chimps #AnimalCulture #Culture #Fashion #ButtGrass

Scientists capture first evidence of orcas using seaweed to make tools For the first time, researchers say they have captured footage of killer whales making tools out of seaweed to seemingly groom each other.

My latest: orcas out here casually making tools
www.abc.net.au/news/science...

#orca #kelping #animalculture

Why birds don’t buy Bentleys and we humans will never fly | Aeon Essays They have big brains, long childhoods and sociable, curious minds. So why haven’t birds developed complex culture?

Oh my. "Why don’t birds have complex culture like we do? Why do they not write technical manuals and make art and argue over economic policy? Why do they not have a market economy?.... Why don’t birds drive Bentleys?" By
A. Martinho-Truswell #birds #animalculture #anthropology #evolutionarybiology

🚨 New paper out in Biologs letters @royalsocietypublishing.org: "Ermergence of a novel drinking #innovation in an urban population of sulphur-crested cockatoos, Cacatua galerita" by @barbaraklump.bsky.social et al. @lucymaplin.bsky.social #SocialLearning #AnimalCulture ↘️ doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

Stone, Sound, and Signal: Chimpanzees and the Drums of the Forest What stone-throwing chimpanzees in West Africa reveal about the roots of culture, communication, and noise-making among our primate cousins.

Chimpanzees in West Africa strike stones against trees in rhythmic displays. Is it dominance? Culture? Long-distance calls? A new study hints at the roots of communication. #Chimpanzees #AnimalCulture #Primatology #Evolution #Sound

Monkey Mayhem on Jicarón Island On a remote island in Panama, young male capuchins have begun a disturbing new trend: abducting baby howler monkeys. What drives this strange and deadly fad?

Capuchins are abducting baby monkeys—for no reason we can understand. Animal culture just took a strange, dark turn. #primatebehavior #animalculture #wildlife

This Was Odd: These Monkeys Kidnapped Babies From Another Species.

Animal culture, equal parts fascinating and disturbing: Young male capuchins on an island off Panama "on a variety of occasions have abducted howler monkey infants and carried them around for days. The infants often died from dehydration or starvation." #primates #anthropology #nature #animalculture

Jungle Beats and Primate Minds What chimpanzee drumming can tell us about rhythm, identity, and the roots of human musicality

Chimpanzees don’t just drum—they groove with subspecies-specific rhythms that echo the earliest roots of music. New research uncovers how beat, identity, and social coordination emerged in our closest relatives. #Primates #Chimpanzees #HumanEvolution #MusicOrigins #AnimalCulture

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1925

We’re far from being the only species with culture.

Science shows whales or bumblebees pass on knowledge of migration routes, tool use, social customs.

The Convention on
@migratoryspecies.bsky.social has a pioneering role is factoring #animalCulture into conservation strategies.

Saving the cultural legacy of wild animals Animals use tools and pass knowledge through culture, aiding survival and adaptation. Human impact is destroying these traditions.

Saving the cultural legacy of wild animals: Animals use tools and pass knowledge through culture, aiding survival and adaptation. Human impact is destroying these traditions.

#AnimalCulture #WildlifeConservation #DigitalPreservation #ToolUse #PrimateBehavior #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth

Dolphins and humans team up to catch fish in Brazil In Brazil, where humans and dolphins fish in tandem, cooperation both within and between species is essential for the longstanding tradition.

A multispecies fishing co-op in Brazil
#dolphins #animalculture
www.sciencenews.org/article/dolp...

Here @drlynnchiu.bsky.social interviews me about my new 'Evolution Evolving' book.

I dicuss some of the data suggesting that developmental plasticity, learning and animal culture can affect evolution.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih_C...

#behavior #culture #animalculture

There's a reason whale song strikes a chord with humans Most of us are familiar with whale song, but new research suggests that the structure of the song - the individual parts that make up the whole - has similarities to human language.

RNZ let me warble on about our study on human language-like structure in humpback #whale song

@royalsocietynz.bsky.social @aucklanduni.bsky.social
@ellengarland.bsky.social

#animalculture

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

In an article in this week's New Scientist I describe how extra-genetic (a.k.a. nongenetic) inheritance can affect a species capacity to evolve, as well as some other developmental constributions to evolvability.

#evolution #evodevo #philsci #animalculture

Image from Kevin Lala's New Scientist article

You can get a taste of some the ideas in my new 'Evolution Evolving' book by reading an article of mine in this week's @newscientist.bsky.social

It describes how organisms can enhance their own evolvability.

See shorturl.at/PRpGN

#evolution #philsci #philbio #nongeneticinheritance #animalculture

Hi there. I am Professor of Behavioural and Evolutionary Biology at the University of St Andrews, UK. My interests include #evobio #humanevolution #animalculture #evolutionofmind #nicheconstruction #philsci #philbio. I am active in #antiracism and #edi.

New NIOO publication: #Translocation of #shorebird siblings shows intraspecific variation in #migration routines to arise after #fledging. #godwit #learning #seasonalmigration #animalculture #navigation #orientation
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.05.014