Mastodawn

Dwarf mongooses anticipate future encounters with rival groups and proactively adjust their movement, communication, and resource defense strategies, even in the absence of an immediate threat.
#BehavioralEcology #Ethology #EvolutionaryBiology #Zoology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/06/bs06162601.html

Preemptive Conflict Behavior in Mongooses

Dwarf mongooses anticipate rival encounters, proactively altering movement and communication based on threat size to survive conflicts.

The Inquisitive Biologist 5d ago

This week's #NewBooks at the library: Three more books from the NHBS January clearance sale
- 18 Miles: The Epic Drama of Our #Atmosphere and Its #Weather by Christopher Dewdney, published by Bloomsbury Sigma.
- Landscapes of #Collectivity in the Life Sciences, a more heady edited volume in the Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology from @themitpress.
- Animal Languages: The Secret Conversations of the Living World by Eva Meijer, here in the English translation published by John Murray.

#Books #Bookstodon #Scicomm #AtmosphericSciences #Climatology #Meteorology #Biology #Philosophy #Ethology #AnimalBehavior @bookstodon

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Estelle Platini Jun 7

_Ethical responsibility_ 🧶

Incest is settled by a perverse disconnect between words and deeds.
According to Cécile Cée, ‘the situation does not depend on what the victim has to say about it, but on what society should say about it’ (p. 181). The act of naming is not:
* the result of interpersonal negotiation (to what extent may I call incest what the victim does not designate as such?),
* but rather a collective statement (‘It is up to society, to third parties, to you, to enunciate,’ p. 182), which alone can ‘put the world back the right way up’ (p. 227),
* then we move away from individual conscience and into the realm of social and political ethical responsibility.

Thread in French: https://kolektiva.social/@estelle/112030416564684884

#community #relationships #ethology #anthropology #family #domesticViolence #parenthood #denial #incest #incestCulture #patriarchy #publicHealth #mentalHealth #acquaintance #taboo #attachment #invisibility #kinship #incest #ethics #responsiblity #involvement #CélineCée #book

Scientific Frontline Jun 6

Japanese macaques proactively utilize "semi-shade" as a distinct thermoregulatory microhabitat to mitigate thermal stress under hot and dry ambient conditions.
#Primatology #Ethology #BehavioralEcology #Biometeorology #Zoology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/06/zoo06062601.html

Macaque Thermoregulation and Semi-Shade

Learn how Japanese macaques utilize semi-shade as a critical thermoregulatory microhabitat to manage heat and humidity in changing environments.

Scientific Frontline Jun 3

The development of a queen honeybee relies not solely on a specialized diet of royal jelly, but on an actively engineered environment created by a dedicated class of worker bees.
#Entomology #Ethology #IntegrativeBiology #MaterialsScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/06/ent06032601.html

How Honeybees Crown Queens: Beyond Royal Jelly

Discover how specialized honeybee workers engineer custom wax cells and alter hive temperatures to raise new queens, proving diet isn't everything.

Christopher Harrison May 30

TIL that field mice (aka wood mice) — if they weren’t adorable enough already — create waypoints with twigs, feathers, leaves, etc. so they don’t get lost. They’re the only mammal, besides humans, known to do this. #ethology

TKSST • seethis.tv 🌈🪐✨May 27

🐋🪞 In a new study, two #beluga #whales at a #NewYork #aquarium showed possible self-recognition in a mirror – one even pressing a mark behind her ear against the reflective surface.

The results place belugas alongside #chimpanzees, #dolphins, #elephants, and maybe #magpies on a short list of species that pass. But scientists disagree on what the test actually proves, and the debate itself raises deeper questions about animal #consciousness.

👉 https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/belugas-may-pass-the-mirror-test-but-does-the-mirror-test-still-pass/

#science #marinebiology #biology #animals #zoology #ocean #psychology #neurobiology #ethology

Whatever the mirror test tells us, beluga whales pass it

The white whales join the short, contested list of animals that see themselves.

Ars Technica

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toiida May 26

@Chia На схожую птичью zoo queer studies тему есть история из Приморского края — не статья, устный, на 4 минуты, рассказ орнитолога Павла Квартальнова: https://library.love/@toiida/116203432862796980 ⦾ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQmQaAlo8IA&t=36m33s #zooqueerstudies #queerstudies #birds #ethology #scipop #PavelKvartalnov

toiida🌻 (@[email protected])

Павел Квартальнов рассказывает про квир-семью у короткохвосток (камышовок) в Приморском крае: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQmQaAlo8IA&t=36m33s (фрагмент с 36 мин 33 с, история длится 4 мин) #PavelKvartalnov #Urosphenasquameiceps #Cettiidae #warblers #queerstudies #birds #ethology #scipop

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Fabrizio Musacchio May 11

🦧 New study on #bonobo #SocialBehavior: Arias-Vélez et al. show that #bonobos actively intervene in #SocialInteractions to enforce group norms and reduce conflict. Rather than reacting only to direct threats, bystanders often stepped in during socially disruptive situations, suggesting a form of third-party social regulation resembling proto-norm enforcement.

📝 https://critica.filosoficas.unam.mx/index.php/critica/article/view/1788 (https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ads4414)

#Behavior #Ethology #NaturalisticNeuroscience #Primatology