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...

Goal-directed bodily signals in birds and frogs - Learning & Behavior

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...

In his Origins column in the New York Times this week, @carlzimmer.bsky.socialwww.nytimes.com/2024/09/06/s...

Why Do Apes Make Gestures?

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."

Mortal Coils - The American Scholar

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

New York friends, I am accepting book and plant contributions to help fill the shelves in my new office (this isn’t the half of them!) 😇 also accepting decorating advice for new faculty 😂

Here's the video recording of our 2017 paper where we describe the repertoire of gestures that are used and understood by wild bonobos at Wamba, DRCongo 👋🐵 Paper: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...youtu.be/KbfjTpcGe84?...

The gestural repertoire of the wild bonobo: a mutually understood communication system

YouTube video by Kirsty Graham