williamohearn.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher in Center for Animal Research, Uni Exeter | Studying social cognition and partner choice in baboons and macaques Personal website: https://williamohearn.weebly.com/
👤 Joined on 04 March 2025
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@williamohearn.bsky.socialPrimate Profile #84: Schneider's Marmoset In primates, colour vision genes are carried on the X chromosome, so red-green dichromatism ("colour blindness") is more common in males. In marmosets, almost all males are dichromatic, while females are trichromatic. Image: J Kempler & A Goldby (iNat.org)
Show Post🍖 Female Guinea baboons don't need males for meat access and don't prefer skillful hunters as partners. Instead, they can catch their own prey: @williamohearn.bsky.social and his team now report the first ever observation of this behavior in the wild. Full press release: tinyurl.com/5wkd7u9w
Show PostPrimate Profiles #20: Homo sapiens My fact of today is that 100 years ago one of the greatest of this primate species was born, and if we all tried to be a bit more Attenborough, the world would be a better, happier and healthier place 🌍 Happy Birthday Sir David: you're a hero ❤️ Image: BBC Bristol
Show PostOne month of amazing fieldwork with some of my favourite people - 33 playbacks done for our next whistle study and some lovely observations of dolphin behaviour. Always such a privilege to be here and we are lucky enough to have another month of fieldwork ahead of us 🙏🏻 #sharkbay #gathaagudu
Show PostJob Alert 🚨 - please share! My brilliant friend and collaborator, Fumihiro Kano, is launching a new Ecological & Collective Cognition lab at Kyushu University, and has postdoc, grad, and tech openings! Lab video: youtu.be/rXT-yjQzJxU More details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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