A new Science study shows that bumble bees can position a ball underneath a fake “flower” to reach a reward, suggesting they can exhibit spontaneous problem-solving and challenging the notion that such advanced cognitive abilities are exclusive to large-brained vertebrates. https://scim.ag/4vs08dC
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Science Magazine
Mingzi Xu & Lata Kalra explore two @plosbiology.org studies that identify a hotspot of animal #communication signal tempos between 0.5-4 Hz, hypothesizing that delta waves in the receivers’ #brains may drive its #evolution 🧪 Paper #1: plos.io/4ccWuhh Paper #2: plos.io/4ejLRcl Primer: plos.io/4egZ71l
First direct quantification of floral handling costs in bees: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... #ProcB #ecology
PLOS Biology
🚨Very happy to share our new paper out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! 🦉
We show that barn owl colour morphs do not simply experience moonlight differently — they hunt differently under it.
White morphs appear to turn bright moonlight into a hunting advantage.
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#movementecology #barnowl #moon
Royal Society Publishing
1/ We work hard to factor "noise" out of behavior. But the brain doesn't.
Strip away noise and you may miss what the brain evolved to do
I wanted to share this pre-Bluesky paper where we found premotor (M2) corticostriatal circuits encode a broad history of behavior, beyond just action + reward 👇
We are offering a PhD position with the WildBotics project @uni-konstanz.de!
Want to join an interdisciplinary research network and use drones and computer vision to study animal behavior, ecology and conservation in Kenya? 🇰🇪🐘 Please apply! Deadline June 21
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Excited to share that our paper on mirror use in octopuses is published today in @currentbiology.bsky.social! This is the first time mirror-mediated spatial navigation has been demonstrated in an invertebrate. 🐙
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Barn owl color morphs hunt differently in moonlight"
Learn more in Current Biology: www.cell.com/current-biol...
Kim Schalcher, @pbecciu.bsky.social, @owlsforpeace.bsky.social & colleagues
@currentbiology.bsky.social
Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees.
Amazing work by the bees who were put in these puzzling situations by @akshayebhambore.bsky.social in the lab of @olliloukola.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Now published - the #BANC! A full central nervous system (CNS) connectome of a limbed animal at single-synapse resolution, enabling us to follow sensory-motor arcs and understand how the CNS controls the body. rdcu.be/fncjS. #neuroscience. Video by @quorumetrix.bsky.social 1/18
In a new study published in @currentbiology.bsky.social, researchers uncover how a dietary shift may have set the stage for one of nature’s most spectacular phenomena: the elaborate courtship displays of manakins.
🔗 Press release: www.bi.mpg.de/news/2026-06...
Paolo Becciu
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www.nature.com
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Prior experience is used by the brain to guide adaptive behaviour during decision making. Here, the authors show that mice also selectively use information learned through recent and longer-term exper...
Mirror-mediated localization of hidden objects is well documented in vertebrates1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 but has never been demonstrated in inverteb…
