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“We have video footage of male great bowerbirds at their bowers during the breeding season in Australia. Males spend large amounts of time maintaining the bower and displaying to females."
A new study by researchers at the Centre for Ecology and Conservation has indicated that jackdaw chicks learn about predators from other jackdaws!
"Tasks will include watching videos to categorise behaviour and recording timings of behaviour, recording objects used in displays, and recording number of copulations at the bower."
Details and application can be found on the Employability and Placements ELE page!
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The study is part of the Cornish Jackdaw Project, and has been published in Biology Letters at royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...
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A study played recordings of either ‘danger’ or ‘neutral’ calls to jackdaw nestlings, finding that chicks only learned to fear predator-associated noises when paired with an alarm call from another jackdaw.
A recent paper with ESI academic @ilyamaclean.bsky.social and colleagues made the front cover of @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social.
👉 www.cell.com/ecology-evol...
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Scientists from @uniexecec.bsky.social and Lund University reviewed global evidence and found 100 dragonfly and damselfly species that migrate, and a further 85 possible migratory species. The migrations can include millions of individuals, some travelling thousands of kilometres.
Migration flights by dragonflies and damselflies criss-cross much of our planet, new research reveals. Scientists from the universities of Exeter and Lund reviewed global evidence and found 100 dragon...
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University of Exeter CEC
University of Exeter CEC
University of Exeter CEC
University of Exeter's Environment and Sustainability Institute
University of Exeter, Cornwall
April issue out online now! www.cell.com/ecology-evol...
Cover article by David Klinges et al
