#animbehav2023 — Public Fediverse posts

@elduvelle @hugospiers
Unfortunately the planning for #AnimBehav2023 happened before the mass migration to Mastodon - and we weren't able to ask all presenters to move across. However, you can view the tweets on the conference website if you don't use Twitter anymore

Thanks for joining us for the #HealthAndWelfare II session, and thanks to our presenters!

Next up in #AnimBehav2023
We have a 40min break, returning at 17:00 GMT to our plenary speaker @[email protected], chaired by @[email protected]

And finally for the #HealthAndWelfare II session we have Christine @[email protected] discussing whether the behavioural traits of beavers predict translocation success
#AnimBehav2023

Next in #HealthAndWelfare II -
Looking beyond the animal welfare and into the human welfare in zoos, Krischanda @[email protected] will be discussing:
"Record, recall, reflect: A qualitative examination of compassion fatigue in Toronto Zoo staff"
#AnimBehav2023

Our next tweeter in the #HealthAndWelfare II session is @[email protected]
Their presentation will be taking us through an initiative to promote open and reproducible research on goat behaviour and welfare
#AnimBehav2023

Now for a methodological approach to domestic animal monitoring, we have Kate Lewis @[email protected] tweeting how:
"Biologging reveals behavioural differences between lame and non-lame sheep"
#AnimBehav2023 #HealthAndWelfare II

Keeping with the zoo animal management theme for #HealthAndWelfare II: The next presentation is by @[email protected] with a presentation on activity budgets and and enclosure use in a mixed species mammal exhibit.
#AnimBehav2023

Starting off with the Health and Welfare II session is Aamer Sohel Khan @[email protected]
With: "Re-wilding experience: Stimulating foraging competency in captive red pandas (Ailurus fulgens fulgens) selected for augmentation programme at Darjeeling Zoo, India" #AnimBehav2023

Hello all! It's now time for the second #HealthAndWelfare session of the #AnimBehav2023 conference
We will be hearing from @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] and @[email protected]

Is #AnimBehav2023 circulating on Mastodon? I don't see it when I search. :(

Is #AnimBehav2023 circulating on Mastodon? I don't see it when I search. :(

Great to see celebrations of animal behaviour with #AnimBehav2023

Here's my love for #rat behaviour with our study of flexible navigation round unexpected barriers in our study:

Predictive maps in rats and humans for spatial navigation
@CurrentBiology
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982222010958#mmc2

Great to see celebrations of animal behaviour with #AnimBehav2023

Here's my love for #rat behaviour with our study of flexible navigation round unexpected barriers in our study:

Predictive maps in rats and humans for spatial navigation
@CurrentBiology
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982222010958#mmc2

Under specific conditions,😡aggression may be important for finding food, etc. Selection may thus favor😡& counteract the complete loss of😡in this 🐜ant. However, 😡 is unlikely the baseline in this species. Work in prep, stay tuned 🥳. @Mol_Ecol @uniinnsbruck #AnimBehav2023 6/6

However, 😡aggression may also provide advantages: Aggressive colonies can more easily monopolize a food source also promoting fitness. This🐜species has not completely abandoned😡aggression, which possibly indicates that aggression has an adaptive value. #AnimBehav2023 5/6

The results corroborate our hypothesis (⚔️= bolder & active). Repeatable colony-level behaviors indicate the presence of behavioral syndromes.
Peace may be beneficial & increase colonies' fitness in this ant. For example, without fights, more ants can forage. #AnimBehav2023 4/6

More workers from the aggressive population⚔️ crossed the junction or were feeding in the arena than the peaceful️population☮.
Boldness repeatability was high: 0.6 for ⚔ & 0.16 for☮️.
More workers from ⚔ were longer in the heated arena than workers from ☮. #AnimBehav2023 3/6

More workers from the aggressive population⚔️ crossed the junction or were feeding in the arena than the peaceful️population☮.
Boldness repeatability was high: 0.6 for ⚔ & 0.16 for☮️.
More workers from ⚔ were longer in the heated arena than workers from ☮. #AnimBehav2023 3/6

We collected 🐜colony fragments each week for 3 weeks & conducted 4 experiments. Today, we focus on boldness & risk-taking (on a heating plate).
We recorded the time⏲️& number of ants🔢that either crossed the junction or were in the arena with increasing 🌡️🥵. #AnimBehav2023 2/6

We collected 🐜colony fragments each week for 3 weeks & conducted 4 experiments. Today, we focus on boldness & risk-taking (on a heating plate).
We recorded the time⏲️& number of ants🔢that either crossed the junction or were in the arena with increasing 🌡️🥵. #AnimBehav2023 2/6

😡Aggression is important for animals to gain high-quality resources🥘or mates💘which promotes their fitness. We used the high-elevation ant 🐜Tetramorium alpestre to test if an aggressive population⚔️is bolder & takes more risks than a peaceful population☮️. #AnimBehav2023 1/6

😡Aggression is important for animals to gain high-quality resources🥘or mates💘which promotes their fitness. We used the high-elevation ant 🐜Tetramorium alpestre to test if an aggressive population⚔️is bolder & takes more risks than a peaceful population☮️. #AnimBehav2023 1/6

Around this population-level stability individual dolphins were very variable in their responses. This variation could boost population resilience, hints at genetic variation in plasticity that could respond to selection, & should be included in future models #AnimBehav2023

However, at the population level other social traits did not respond to salmon abundance, & social traits were not affected by climate & did not respond to either climate or food availability at the yearly scale. Dolphin social networks are pretty stable! #AnimBehav2023

Dolphins are better connected to their local social environment in months of more salmon but did not change their overall gregariousness. Denser local networks could help access salmon or may be for another reason but facilitated by weaker food competition #AnimBehav2023

We used a 30-year dataset on bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) to build monthly & yearly social networks based on co-occurring in the same pod & tested whether these networks varied with climate or salmon abundance #AnimBehav2023

We often assume all individuals respond in the same way, however they may instead show variation in plasticity, which makes it much harder to predict population-level responses to environmental change #AnimBehav2023