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Masturbation among birds is ‘natural’ and should not be punished, say experts
How do birds respond to active fire?
This has been studied in various fire-prone regions (brief review included), but less elsewhere. Here, I observed Swedish birds mainly ignoring fire, and some even continued singing.
Out now in @ecol-evol.bsky.social 🧪🌍
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The King in the Crosshairs: Evidence of a Predation Attempt on European #Bison by #Wolves: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Our new paper just published today, and one that has been in the works for ~12 years now! Although the evolution of masturbation is a topic that immediately generates a slew of innuendos and puns, it's both an important and biologically interesting subject. 1/3
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Looking for some weird science to brighten your Monday? Check out our new paper on remora cloacal diving behavior in manta rays published today in Ecology and Evolution!
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I am absolutely thrilled—my first PhD article is published and making headlines internationally! 🥳🔬 We found that everyday streetlights trigger Armadillo isopods into bizarre, continuous "death spirals."
Read the paper in @ecol-evol.bsky.social here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧵👇
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I’m excited to share that we’ve successfully assembled the genome of the Formosan long-armed beetle (Cheirotonus formosanus) to chromosome level with both high contiguity and completeness.
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We have launched a new article type! Data Notes: a way to preserve & share biodiversity data: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
🚨 Fifty years of research on "badges of status" in animals, and we still don't know if the hypothesis holds. In our new reply, we argue that the evidence is shakier than recently claimed. A thread 🧵📄 (w/ @ornitho-pie.bsky.social)
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