PhD candidate at the University of Vienna working on wild ravens interactions with heterospecifics and personality
Silvia Damini
The raven in hand died of natural causes.
#AntiPredator #Raven #AnimalBehaviour #SciCom #Development #Plasticity
The first paper of my PhD is out!
Looking at the plasticity of antipredator behaviour in ravens using a slightly... unorthodox predator.
"When to mob? Plasticity of antipredator behavior in common ravens’ families (Corvus corax) across offspring development"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Presenting at the #ASABWinter2024
📣 Annual Meeting of the @ethoges.bsky.social 2026
🗓️ 18–21 Feb 2026 | 📍 Almtal, Austria
Join us in beautiful Grünau im Almtal for inspiring talks and lively discussions!
⚠️ Registration closes this week!
👉 univie.eventsair.com/etho26-dkcog...
@univie.ac.at
The tortoises are back! 🐢 New study in collaboration with @elisabettaversace.bsky.social and Gionata Stancher now available: "Sex, not familiarity, shapes social interactions in adult captive tortoises (Testudo hermanni)" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Silvia Damini
Silvia Damini
Silvia Damini
Social cohesion varies across species. Solitary animals minimise social contact to reduce costs such as resource competition, aggression, and disease transmission. Solitary Testudo hatchlings can rely...
Despite making a promise many years ago to revise the EU's #AnimalWelfare legislation, the European Commission has delayed starting this work time and time again. 🇪🇺👎
In the meantime, millions of animals have continued to suffer.
TWO DAYS LEFT.
Make your voice heard now:
🔈 bit.ly/3XG8bop
#Wolves kill—and #ravens remember where: In #Yellowstone National Park, birds primarily search for food in areas where wolves frequently hunt prey www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpqZ... [YouTube] www.mpg.de/26220626/030... [News] @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
Konrad Lorenz Research Center
Silvia Damini
Eurogroup for Animals
Great to see our new paper on increasing experimental approaches in movement ecology out today in
@camphilsoc.bsky.social!
Conceived at a Gordon Research Conference and brilliantly led by Whitney Hansen 🐟🦌📡
@jack-brand.bsky.social
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Michael Bertram
YouTube video by Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
