Royal Society Publishing

royalsocietypublishing.org

30 Oktober 2026 13:09

Why do some male birds dance better than others, and does it mean they’re smarter? This study on zebra finches explored whether male dance displays reflect intelligence, health, and attractiveness royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article... | #BiologyLetters #AnimalBehaviour #Cognition

Logan James

loganjames.bsky.social

30 Oktober 2026 13:07

Excited our new paper is out in Science! We compared the songs of many birds to both speech and song in humans, finding that many fundamental sequence patterns are broadly shared. Check out the data explorer here: wavelengthscience.org/birdsong and the paper here: doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Megan Thompson

meganjthompson.bsky.social

15 August 2025 14:56

Thanks to my fab co-authors and to @nikaudet.bsky.social for organizing the Genetics of Animal Cognition special issue: link.springer.com/collections/...

Andrew Iwaniuk

evoneuro.bsky.social

01 April 2025 12:24

#neuroskyence meets #ornithology today. This is a sagittal section through the brain of a hummingbird (Glaucis hirsutus) from our collection. The cauliflower-looking bit is its enlarged cerebellum, which is important for motor coordination (and other things).

Vertebrate Genomes Project

vertebrategenomes.bsky.social

19 März 2025 01:47

The Zonotrichia albicollis (white-throated sparrow), bZonAlb1 genome assembly has been released on NCBI: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/genome/GCA_047830755.1/. (1/3)