Aww thank you!! I really like this response format, it made me think about starting to blog more again
hivemind help please: I remember a kind of alignment chart of evolutionary biologists (Gould & Lewontin were on it, maybe Dawkins) - did anyone save it and could you please share it? 😅
Such great news! And the next regular microgrant funding round is processed in October, so please contribute if you can and apply if you need ✊ opencollective.com/animal-behav...
This was a fun little article to write, I love their 'Outlook' format 😍 Got to write about two cool new animal communication papers, so obviously I had to assess them according to Townsend et al 2017 intentionality criteria 😇 link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Researchers have recently described the wing-fluttering signal of Japanese tits and eyeblink signal of concave-eared torrent frogs as bodily communication that elicits specific responses. I assess the...
hahahaha sad to be missing this 😂
In his Origins column in the New York Times this week, @carlzimmer.bsky.socialwww.nytimes.com/2024/09/06/s...
Chimps and other apes have been observed making more than 80 meaningful gestures. Three theories have tried to explain why.
Sy Montgomery just reviewed my book Playing Possum omg omg omg "This riveting book—often surprisingly uplifting, sometimes even funny—will enhance and expand our understanding of how other minds may apprehend one of life’s greatest mysteries."
We aren’t alone in facing the inevitable
My new flatmate has put a box of baklava on the counter in what I can only assume is a marshmallow test
Finally watching Scavengers Reign and it’s sooo good!! The ecology of it 😭
I’m going to have to make up another reason to hang out with Richard & Federico, because wow this paper is finally out!!! We propose that apes recruit features of existing behavioural repertoire for communicative purposes 🐵🫴🍎 TL;DR similar bodies, similar behaviours, similar communicative solutions