Postdoctoral researcher, Behavioural ecologist, animal communication and cognition, mom of 2 amazing kids
Mylène Dutour
New paper in @pnas.org - using playback experiments we provide further evidence that bottlenose dolphins can use individual identity signals + social memory to guide decision-making.
Female dolphins use individual vocal labels to track coercive males | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Do howler monkeys rest because they're lazy…or because they're smart? 10 years of data reveal a surprisingly strategic approach to energy management, and a worrying thermal threshold. Read the story behind the paper below 🐒
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📣NEW paper📣
To date, only humans demonstrate meaning-based, generative communication. However, recent discoveries of combinatorial versatility in chimpanzee + bonobo vocal sequences open the possibility of generative communication in other species. Read here 👇
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Stephanie L King
Huge congrats, Ed Galluccio, on your fantastic PhD!
I'm happy and proud to have been part of your supervisory team and to have witnessed the remarkable work you've accomplished. Wishing you all the best for the adventures ahead!
Such an amazing day last Friday with the Rhône-Alpes members of the Femmes & Sciences association
So many inspiring women, meaningful discussions, and positive energy
The kind of day that gives you a real boost and reminds you why building strong communities matters
#FemmesEtSciences #WomenInScience
Today I gave my first outreach talk at the middle school of Saint-Genis-Laval, with Béatrice Ricard and Célia Nuovo for the association #FemmesetSciences ❤️
We hope we sparked curiosity and inspired girls to see themselves in science and know they belong in STEM.
#WomenInScience #STEM #GirlsInSTEM
New paper from @julia-penndorf.bsky.social and the clever cockie research team! A wild experiment shows that cockies adopt novel foods via social learning, with info. transmitted across social networks & over space
This works gives insight into how social learning enables niche expansion in cities
New paper alert!
Heat stress impacts the relationship between cognition and anti-predator behaviour in wild magpies. Congrats to Ed Galluccio! With collaborators Ben Ashton, Alex Thornton, and @mandyridley.bsky.social
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Mylène Dutour
Journal of Animal Ecology
Super happy to share some work from my masters project with @cogwild.bsky.social 🪺
Using six years of data from blue tits, we show that wild birds make decisions about their nest design based on their reproductive success in the previous year.
📄 doi.org/10.1093/behe...
Taï Chimpanzee Project
Mylène Dutour
Mylène Dutour
We found that heat stress amplified the behavioural consequences of individual differences in cognitive performance in wild Western Australian magpies. Ind
Congratulations 🎓 to Ed Galluccio for delivering a fantastic overview of his PhD project covering how ontogenetic and environmental impact shapes cognition in wild magpies 🥂
@mandyridley.bsky.social @dutourmylene.bsky.social
What is the role of social learning in adopting novel food? Study of urban #cockatoos by @julia-penndorf.bsky.social @clevercockierp.bsky.social &co shows that they rapidly adopt novel food via #SocialLearning, with juveniles showing conformist preferences @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4uq6NVq
PLOS Biology
Centre for Evolutionary Biology at UWA
Happy to see my PhD work on birdsong complexity published today! doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 🐦⬛ 🎶 ⬇️
Why are some birdsongs simple and some extremely complex? The answer is long thought to be ‘sexual selection favouring complex signals’. But - really?
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Abstract. Acoustic signal complexity varies widely in animals, from single notes to highly sophisticated vocal displays. In birds, vocal complexity can evo
