Cognition in the Wild, Twitter account of the Healy Lab, School of Biology, University of St Andrews
St Andrews, UK
Joined August 2015
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The book is finally out!
"Provides a comprehensive overview of the work that has sought to explain which natural selection pressures impact vertebrate brain size"
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Attention animal behaviour researchers! Sally Street (Durham University) is running a study of perceptions of other species and would love to hear from you. See link for more info or to take part: durhamuniversity.qualtrics.c…
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Nest design in birds has been assumed to be an innate ability, but they can use their experience to be more flexible than previously thought. 🪺 Usually, these studies occur in the lab, but this work is being done in the field by @libby_chaps! #ASABSpring2024
ALT Libby standing by an illustration showing a hypothesis with first breeding season in blue tits either being successful or unsuccessful and incorporating more insulation if they were unsuccessful.
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They couldn’t appear to be more different, but bees and hummingbirds have more in common than you think: They both need to visit hundreds of flowers using efficient routes 🌸 🌺 🌹 @MariaTelloRamos asks HOW 🪶#ASABwinter2023
ALT A slide of a drawn route around flowers with the word how?
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Another fully funded PhD opportunity in my lab (open to both UK and international students)!
"The role of behaviour in facilitating or hindering adaptation to climate change" findaphd.com/phds/project/th…
Apply by 20/12. Informal enquiries welcome. Please RT!
Great final talk by Natalie Pilakouta! #Behaviour2023
Beautiful talk about the songs of whales. Packed theater!! #Beaviour2023
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Sitting on the stairs to hear Sue Healy talk about nest building @cog_wild #Behaviour2023
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At #behaviour2023 and want to know more about the society here for you? Come to our ASAB stand in the main hall
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(and huge thanks to the @2023Behaviour team for sorting us with a spot at zero notice)
The cognition in wild lab is present and represented!
We will give three talks. Come and hear us talk about birds building, foraging, and more building!
@MarieHbert6 (Mon- Hormones)
@MariaTelloRamos (Wed-Foraging)
Prof Sue Healy (Thur-Selection shapes animal cognition)
As part of the new special issue dedicated to the evolution of building behaviour (royalsocietypublishing.org/t…), we discuss the future of bird building research.
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However, many interviewees in Tanzania reported having seen honey badgers and honeyguides interact, and think that they do cooperate. The most likely scenario is that badger-honeyguide cooperation does occur but is highly localised or extremely difficult to observe, or both (4/7)
ALT The six key steps of the hypothetical badger-honeyguide cooperation. Beneath each step, we summarize the likelihood that a given step ever occurs in the wild based on available evidence and feasibility. For citations and interview responses that support these summaries, see the corresponding sections 1–6 of the main text. Illustration by Emma Wood.
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Interested in animal cognition?🧬🧠💭🦅
NEW REVIEW PAPER by Sue Healy @cog_wild @CentreBioDiv "Adding the neuro to cognition: from food storing to nest building" in @SpringerANCO
Check it out: ow.ly/Ashf50M8fRi
🚨PhD opportunity🚨 "Evolution of pendant nests: do birds build to reduce predation risk?” Involves fieldwork, museum collections and phylogenetic analyses. Supervised by Prof Sue Healy (University of St Andrews) and Dr Sally Street (Durham University)
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Bird nests come in all shapes and sizes, but how do birds build these intricate structures?
New paper out on Nests and nest building in birds.
Birds special issue in Current Biology.
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📢Please retweet: Great CV development opportunity. A fixed term of 8 moths Lecturer (Education Focused) position in Animal Cognition and Behaviour. A full-time position, within the School of Biology, at the University of St Andrews.
vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/V…