#ethology — Public Fediverse posts

⏮️ Missed our cephalopods journey?🐙

The recording of Dr. Sam Reiter's talk, "Cephalopods as Biological Image Generators", is now available on YouTube! 🐙
Learn how cephalopods use visual information to produce stunning camouflage displays and discover the science behind one of nature's most remarkable adaptive abilities.

🎥 Watch the replay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxArMeQDo5k

#scienceseminar #ethology #animalbehaviour #cephalopods

Elaborate courtship dances in male zebra #finches function primarily as indicators of superior physical health and motor skills rather than serving as markers of general intelligence.
#EvolutionaryBiology #Ethology #CognitiveScience #Ornithology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/04/ebio04172601.html

"Ethology" referring to the study of animal behaviour is about a century old and was (somewhat) popularized through the work of Niko Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz, which is where I first saw it.

But it never quite caught on. Even now, as de Waal writes, spell-checkers "regularly change it to ethnology, etiology, or even theology".

#ethology #terminology #spelling #AnimalBehavior #research

Via Jonathan C. Slaght (@jonathanslaght.com on Bluesky):
"super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old."

https://www.popsci.com/environment/bearded-vulture-nest-archaeology/

Study:
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.70191

#BeardedVulture #Archaeology #Ethology #Ecology #Spain #ClimateChange