@MegCrofoot
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Humans have many unusual traditions. But did you know animals’ strange behaviors can become culture too? Out now in Current Biology (doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.0…) we document a bizarre tradition: interspecies infant abduction. Interactive timeline (ab.mpg.de/671374) 🧵(1/12)
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Download dataset: edmond.mpg.de/dataset.xhtml?…

BuckTales : A multi-UAV dataset for multi-object tracking and re-identification of wild antelopes

The dataset contains UAV footage of wild antelopes (blackbucks) in grassland habitats. It can be mainly used for two tasks: Multi-object tracking (...

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Introducing, BuckTales: The largest UAV dataset to solve the problem of identifying and tracking hundreds of animals from aerial images. #NeurIPS2024 #AI #Wildlife Presenting Poster in Session 1, #5310 West Wing. (Details in thread) @MPI_animalbehav @livingingroups
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IMPRS-QBEE@imprs_qbee24 Nov 2024
🏁 Last chance to apply to our PhD positions for 2025 - our call is closing today at midnight 🌛
IMPRS-QBEE@imprs_qbee29 Oct 2024
📢 JOB ALERT ‼️ Interested in animal behaviour and ecology?🔎🦗🐛🐒🐝 👉Then check out our webpage imprs-qbee.mpg.de/66685/curr… 👀for exciting PhD positions 👨‍🎓 Application deadline is Nov 24th, 2024 📨
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Vitória@VITORIAetal5 Nov 2024
Are you a Latin American primatologist or either have worked with or are currently working with primatology in a Latin American country? Take our survey on decision-making about becoming a parent or share it with your colleagues! 🐵forms.gle/jLY4AjQEoJpPqVLv6
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Final rendering of the climbing #orangutans illustration for @MPI_animalbehav @SuaqOrangutans #SciArt
Javier Lazaro@lazaroillustrat3 Oct 2024
After a few modifications requested by the client #mpiab I've got the definitive line sketch (plus forest background) for this #orangutans illustration. Still work in progress. Art commissioned by @MPI_animalbehav Based on the fantastic work by @SuaqOrangutans #siart #wip #wipart
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What triggers social learning in wild animals? An experiment on birds has pinpointed a single factor—immigration—that can cause animals to quickly learn useful behaviors from locals. Study by @evogom @LucyMAplin @AlarconNietoG @CBehav @UniKonstanz journals.plos.org/plosbiolog…

Immigrant birds learn from socially observed differences in payoffs when their environment changes

Theory predicts that strategic flexibility in using social information can help individuals make adaptive decisions. A large-scale cultural diffusion experiment reveals that great tits (Parus major)...

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Inside the battle to contain infectious diseases in Madagascar rainforests and cities. Featuring my brother Dr Fidisoa Rasambainarivo @Fidydvm and his lab @Mahaliana_labs youtu.be/71ELD0MGS0c?si=I6q1…
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Rachel Page, a staff scientist @stri_panama, has been studying Panama’s bats for more than two decades. Here's what she's learned. bit.ly/40hhkq8

'Scientists for Scientists' Wartime Grant Brings Ukrainian Bat Biologists to Panama

Over the last two years, staff at the Ukrainian Bat Rehabilitation Center have worked to save bats from the dangers of the Russian full-scale invasion. Now, they join researchers at the Smithsonian...

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#Postdoc opp with me @BRFConsortium, @LamontEarth, and @AMNH on #wildlife #ecology and #conservation. Please share widely! Details here but also highly encouraged to contact me: blackrockforest.org/black-ro… #TWS2024
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Another Phd opportunity from @livingingroups, this time to study charismatic lemur from Madagascar. Take a look👇 deadline Nov 24
Ecology of Animal Societies@livingingroups22 Oct 2024
‼️#PhD ‼️How do group-living sifaka make movement and foraging decisions under extreme energetic constraints? Work with an expansive bio-logging & remote sensing dataset at a hub of animal behavior research! ⏰Deadline Nov 24th. imprs-qbee.mpg.de/84198/soci… @MegCrofoot @tracymont10

Social Foraging and Life at the Metabolic Edge

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‼️#PhD ‼️How do group-living sifaka make movement and foraging decisions under extreme energetic constraints? Work with an expansive bio-logging & remote sensing dataset at a hub of animal behavior research! ⏰Deadline Nov 24th. imprs-qbee.mpg.de/84198/soci… @MegCrofoot @tracymont10

Social Foraging and Life at the Metabolic Edge

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📢Pls RT Looking for a #PhD in #quantitative #biology #evolution or #ecology? Or know someone who is? Applications are open for PhDs starting 2025 @UniKonstanz @imprs_qbee #locusts #moths #meerkats #lemurs #hyenas #nematodes #baboons Need we say more? ➡️imprs-qbee.mpg.de/66685/curr…
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Archie Lab@ArchieLab10 Oct 2024
We're searching for a postdoc! Join our team to study stress responses in wild baboons using real-time measurements of heart rate 🐵💓 docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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Kenyan ecologists! Karua Forest is seeking a Biodiversity coordinator to lead implementing forest regeneration, biodiversity data management, student and researcher management, and outreach programs.  DM for specs
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Lauren Brent@ljnbrent3 Oct 2024
Postdoc position available! Come to @CrabExeter to work with @Samellisq , me, @kchiou & @SMack_Lab on comparative life-history evolution, as part of a new NIH grant on the social modifiers of lifespan. Apply by Oct 29 here: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webre…
Sam Ellis@Samellisq2 Oct 2024
Post Doc available We are looking for someone to come and work here at @UniofExeter on an NIH funded project awarded to me, @ljnbrent , @SMack_Lab and @kchiou . The aim of the post is to help us investigate comparative primate life history. Details here: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webre…
View from our building. It's always sunny here.

ALT View from our building. It's always sunny here.

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@NYTScience18 Sep 2024
By outfitting blackbirds with heart-rate monitors, scientists debunked a long-held assumption about the benefits of spending the winter in warm climates. nyti.ms/3MRdoVc

Study Reveals Bird-Migration Mystery (Published 2024)

By outfitting blackbirds with heart-rate monitors, scientists debunked a long-held assumption about the benefits of spending the winter in warm climates.

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Calling all emerging scientists - it’s time to send us an application! 😉😎 Lead your own #MaxPlanck Research Group w/ €2.7M in funding over 6 yrs, full independence & resources to hire staff. State-of-the-art infrastructure awaits you!🌟 Apply today➡️mpg.de/career/max-planck-res…

Max Planck Research Groups - Applications have closed

The central announcement 2024 for Max Planck Research Group Leader positions has closed.

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Excited to share that our paper on white-nosed coati subgrouping dynamics is out in Animal Behaviour! Using high-resolution GPS collars to track entire groups, we found that coatis consistently split with their close relatives. 🐾 doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.20…
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🚨Fresh #sleep paper out in @Trends_Ecol_Evo with a #social twist!🚨 The sociality of sleep in animal groups A beautiful team effort of researchers studying #sleep @MPI_animalbehav & @UniKonstanz led by the fantastic @prit_chak and @MegCrofoot 👏 cell.com/trends/ecology-evol…
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