Arianna Ferretti

Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...

Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs. Would be interesting to do a double blind experiment with humans.

Vocal efficiency in crows - Animal Cognition Many communicative systems have been selected for efficiency, shaped by the trade-off between information transmission and energetic or temporal constraints. Linguistic laws such as Menzerath’s law—pr...

New paper with @masonyoungblood.bsky.social: crows follow Menzerath’s law showing vocal efficiency in their communication. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#BiologyLetters A new framework is proposed that can be used to test hypotheses about how animals solve problems. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #behaviour #cognition

1/3 Reading minds through facial expressions

The cognitive processes involved in decision-making in mice can be understood by observing their facial expressions. This would allow non-invasive access to their decision-making processes.

(paper) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An ethogram of facial behaviour in domestic horses: evolutionary perspectives on form and function

peerj.com/articles/193...

@peerj.bsky.social

Seminar Series 2025: 1. Dr. Damien Farine YouTube video by Animal Behaviour Live

🐦🗣️ It's today! Join us in just a few hours for our seminar "The Costs of Collective Behaviour" with @damienfarine.bsky.social on YouTube! 🎥🌍 Discover the hidden challenges of group living 👥

📅 Time: Today, 2pm GMT
📺 Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc9z...

#AnimalBehaviour #OnlineSeminar

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We just published a new global bird phylogeny. It synthesizes the work of thousands of researchers before us, and it will grow and improve over time. @snacktavish.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Now published!!!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very grateful to @asab.org for giving me the opportunity to present my Master thesis project with a Flash Talk 🐒!! Seeing many excellent pieces of research was amazing and inspiring. Can't wait for the next one! #ASABSpring2025

Want to keep up with the research you just learned about over the past few days? Follow the speakers and organizers of #ASABSpring2025 with our starter pack!

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A schematic representation of "Movement: a Python Toolbox for Analysing Motion Tracking Data".

Had a blast at #ASABSpring2025, presenting movement and meeting many enthusiastic early career researchers.

If you're into tracking animal movements in videos, do apply for the "Animals in Motion" workshop I'm organising in London this August: neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...

#conferencegoals #ASABSpring2025

What an amazing bunch 🦤

Stress responsiveness in a wild primate predicts survival across an extreme El Niño drought White-faced capuchins with a stronger stress response to previous droughts were more likely to survive a severe El Niño drought.

Can stress help monkeys survive? New research shows that on wild capuchin monkeys with stronger stress responses during previous droughts were more likely to survive an extreme drought. Study by Leakey grantees @sccarrera.bsky.social @irene-godoy.bsky.social @jbeehner.bsky.social & colleagues.

Evaluating the light environment as a contributor to colour differences among related bird species Abstract. Understanding the diversity of colour in nature has been one of the more elusive evolutionary problems. In the terrestrial environment, comparati

Evaluating the light environment as a contributor to colour differences among related bird species | doi.org/10.1093/biol... | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | #ornithology 🪶

Crossing the Sahara by small jumps: the complete migration of the Western Orphean Warbler Curruca hortensis Journal of Ornithology - We analyzed data retrieved from six multi-sensor loggers deployed on adult Western Orphean Warblers Curruca hortensis in France, to unravel the migration strategy of the...

Crossing the Sahara by small jumps: the complete migration of the Western Orphean Warbler Curruca hortensis | link.springer.com/ar... | Journal of Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶

Language-like efficiency in whale communication Whale vocalizations follow efficiency rules seen in human language, revealing striking similarities in communication systems.

Do whales optimize their vocalizations for efficiency, just like human language? 🐋🎶 My latest study in
Science Advances (@science.org) suggests they do—following linguistic laws seen in human speech. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Apidium from oligocene of Fayum, Egypt

Hi! Very interesting project!🤩 I'm curious, how was the experiment structured?

Hi! May I be added? Thank you!

Stress responsiveness in a wild primate predicts survival across an extreme El Niño drought White-faced capuchins with a stronger stress response to previous droughts were more likely to survive a severe El Niño drought.

🧪 Check out our new paper in Sciences Advances! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🐒 When a severe drought hit a population of wild monkeys in Costa Rica, individuals with a stronger stress response were more likely to survive

@jbeehner.bsky.social @irene-godoy.bsky.social

We are delighted to announce that ManyBirds Study 1 “Evolutionary drivers of neophobia across the avian clade” is now available in pre-print: doi.org/10.31219/osf... and been submitted for peer-review publication. 1/

Vocal communication in corvids: a systematic review Vocal communication is broadly distributed in a wide range of nonhuman animal species and is hypothesized to play an important role in mate attraction…

Vocal communication in corvids: a systematic review. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... In our new paper we review 130 papers and summarise empirical evidence for socioecological factors affecting vocal communication, as well as evidence for vocal learning in different corvid species.

Thank you very much!!😊

Acoustic Features, Syllable Usage, and Song Rates of Male and Female Songs in a Tropical Island Songbird, the Puerto Rican Oriole Seven of the eight acoustic measurements for Puerto Rican Oriole songs differed significantly between males and females (indicated by *, all except percent pause), Though male means differed signific...

ETHOLOGY: Female song is traditionally understudied! In Puerto Rican Orioles, both sexes sing. How do their songs differ? 🐦🎶
Moyer et al. found distinct acoustic features-possibly relating to different functions-but no sex-specific syllable usage: doi.org/10.1111/eth....

Migrating Birds Sing to Team Up with Other Species Songbirds may socialize across species during nighttime migrations

Nocturnal flight call recordings have revealed how different songbird species cooperate during migration. Cool #ornithology research led by WOS member Benjamin Van Doren!

Hi! I'm looking for PhDs and other research opportunities in animal behaviour. Could you add me? It would be very helpful!