What do we mean by calling an animal "wild"? A zoo tiger? A city fox? A feral cat? Nobody agrees 😅
We asked 358 wildlife experts, and "wild" isn't just one thing 🐾 It isn't just the opposite of "domestic," but exists along a spectrum with multiple dimensions.
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Almost synchronously with our new @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper on “Levelling: behaviours that constrain inequality in animal societies”, I'm also excited to advertise the first PhD student position in my Emmy Noether project @humboldtuni.bsky.social
Congrats to @gblackburn.bsky.social for this study showing that’s it’s not just anthropogenic noise, but the level (amplitude) of anthropogenic noise that is important, in terms of impact on behaviour.