Ethologist exploring how dogs see, think, and communicate 👁️🐕 | Postdoc @VetmeduniVienna | Cognitive & welfare science 🐈🐹 | Occasional baker 🧁
Andrea Sommese
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The work grew out of a multidisciplinary workshop we hosted at the SLU Umeå 🇸🇪 and VetMedUni Vienna 🇦🇹.
Led by Laura Saggiomo. With: Bruno Esattore, @janirecas.bsky.social, Michaela Másílková, @valmazza.bsky.social, Sarah Gore, and Pizza K. Y. Chow
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...
Andrea Sommese
Andrea Sommese
Andrea Sommese
When applied to non-human animals,'wild' is a poorly defined concept despite its central role in conservation, wildlife management, and environmental policy. Numerous attempts have been made to define...
1/4 Dolphins understand pointing as a communicative intention
This has been shown in dolphins trained in “do as I do”. They observed two other dolphins doing something and had to decide which one to imitate.
(paper) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🦞 Our new paper on the role of environmental complexity in cognitive development of juvenile lobsters finally swam into the light! Interested in individual variation in cognition, and its implications for conservation and welfare? Have a look here doi.org/10.1007/s100... 🦞
Wir stellen ein: Wissenschaftliche Projektbetreuung für Naturwissenschaften und Technik zur Betreuung von Förderanträgen und Begleitung des Begutachtungsverfahrens. Wir bieten eine unbefristete Vollzeitstelle mit vielen attraktiven Benefits. #Job 📑
www.fwf.ac.at/aktuelles/jo...
Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró)
This is wild. “Our ethogram, did not allow room for sexual behavior not between a male and a female….The result is a self-reinforcing loop: there is little or no published data on same-sex behavior, so we assume it is rare, so we do not study it, so there continues to be little or no published data”
Valeria Mazza
2026. Review: The roles of individuality and social life in shaping positive animal welfare in livestock species www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
⚠️ Students looking for experience, opportunities, Masters, PhDs etc in Animal Behaviour: the @asab.org mailing list is an invaluable source with exciting posts every few days. Sign up here: www.asab.org/mailing-list 📩
Finally out! I'm happy to share our latest review led by fantastic @siqiyangfu.bsky.social. Amazing team effort with —not on Bluesky— Chris Menne, Chiara Canori, Dániel Rivas-Blanco, Oli Green and Friederike Range.
links.springernature.com/f/a/HlqnsUag...
#CompCog #AnimalBehavior #AnimalCognition
