#Animbehav2021

ASAB

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Welcome to everyone joining us & @AnimBehSociety today for #AnimBehav2021 Twitter Conference! There are so many excellent tweets coming up, and you can find them all here: https://www.animbehav2021.org/schedule The conference code

Laura Kroesen

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#AnimBehav2021 Mountain goats (Oreamnos americanus) are elusive high alpine ungulates that live in steep and mountainous environments where it is difficult to directly observe and record behaviour. 1/6 @DavidHik

Christian Nawroth

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1 #AnimBehav2021Research on the understanding of relationships between objects focused mainly on a few model species, while other taxa received less attention. Goats, e.g., often find creative solutions when faced

Doli Borah

DoliBorah

1/6 Being the only member of the Felidae family to live in a distinct fission-fusion social group the lion social system has some exciting information hidden among themselves!Follow this thread

Chloe Shergold

ShergoldChloe

#AnimBehav2021 (1/6) If there is one thing to be learnt from the last 12 months is that our social environment is important for our well-being. Each of us have coped

Alizée Vernouillet

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1. Corvids (e.g. jays, crows, ravens) store food ( = caching). Pinyon jays (PJ; blue) and Clark’s nutcrackers (NC; grey) hide thousands of pine seeds to survive during winter/spring. Cachers

Niaomi VanAlstine

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1 #AnimBehav2021 Why look like an ant? Our goal was to assess the success of Batesian mimicry by the ant-mimicking spider Myrmarachne formicaria (Salticidae) in avoiding predation in staged encounters

Maeve McCreary

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(1/5)#AnimBehav2021 @Comp_Cog Research on canine cognition is growing at a seemingly exponential rate, with most papers appearing post-2000. With notable exceptions (e.g. using cognition tasks to determine good working dogs),

Annemarie van der Marel

AnnemarieMarel

1/6 As behavioral ecologists, we face a tricky question: We collect data on multiple behaviors that may occur within the same social context, but do the animals also perceive these

alexakoch

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1.#AnimBehav2021Behavioural flexibility is crucial for adapting to changes. Enhanced flexibility has been related to relatively large brained animals like parrots. We tested two Ara species’ behavioural flexibility, and explore possible

RohanSarkar

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The lynchpin of dog domestication theory is food acquisition. Free-ranging dogs (FRD) living on their own & unsupervised by humans are a great system to study food preferences, acquisition strategies

Mihir Joshi

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1 Hello #AnimBehav2021! Chemical signaling is the most primitive modality of animal communication. Such signals used in social interactions are often complex mixtures of multiple compounds. What function does complexity

Brianna

Brianna09225822

Salt has been known to affect the healing rate of wounds in some organisms, but the effects of salinity have not been widely studied in bottlenose dolphins. #AnimBehav2021 #dolphins We

Karyn Anderson

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Hello #AnimBehav2021! I will be sharing some results from my masters research on infant care by adult males in the Rwenzori Angolan colobus. While infant care by individuals other than

Katrina Rosenberger

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1 #AnimBehav2021 Contrafreeloading (CFL) describes a phenomenon where animals work for a resource, even if the same resource is available for free and has been investigated in several captive animal

Sarah Huskisson

ScienceIsWild

1. As zoo-based cognitive research programs become more common, @LydiaMHopper, @chimpfreq, and I wanted to test if animals’ task accuracy is influenced by visitors watching them, suggestive of attentional bias

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