Behavioural Ecology Bielefeld
@behavecobie.bsky.social
We study animal behaviour in the field and in the lab, with a focus on chemical communication, urbanisation and host-microbe interactions.
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New preprint out: What kind of husbandry conditions do wild fire salamanders prefer? A question of high relevance given the spread of the deadly fungus Bsal and the need for ex-situ breeding programs.
doi.org/10.32942/X2H...
doi.org/10.32942/X2H...
January 20, 2026 at 9:56 AM
New preprint out: What kind of husbandry conditions do wild fire salamanders prefer? A question of high relevance given the spread of the deadly fungus Bsal and the need for ex-situ breeding programs.
doi.org/10.32942/X2H...
doi.org/10.32942/X2H...
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Interested in how urban habitats affect social behaviour? Look no further! Our review is out today! Hope you enjoy the reading. 🎉🎉🎉🎄🚨
@behavecobie.bsky.social
@behavecobie.bsky.social
🎉 Very excited to share that our review on the impact of urbanization on animal social behaviour is out now in Biological Reviews!
We synthesize evidence across taxa to understand how city life reshapes social systems 🏙️🐦🐒🦎🦝🐟
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@lizabeldm.bsky.social
We synthesize evidence across taxa to understand how city life reshapes social systems 🏙️🐦🐒🦎🦝🐟
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@lizabeldm.bsky.social
The impact of urbanisation on social behaviour: a comprehensive review
Urbanisation is a key driver of global environmental change and presents animals with novel stressors and challenges. It can fundamentally influence social behaviour and has the potential to reshape ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 29, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Interested in how urban habitats affect social behaviour? Look no further! Our review is out today! Hope you enjoy the reading. 🎉🎉🎉🎄🚨
@behavecobie.bsky.social
@behavecobie.bsky.social
It was truly a great pleasure to be part of this wonderful conference.
Last plenary of #ASABWinter2025 by Barbara Caspers! Great talk, especially as so little is known about odour perception in birds - and it appears there’s still a lot to learn 🐦👃
December 17, 2025 at 6:12 AM
It was truly a great pleasure to be part of this wonderful conference.
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Barbara Caspers #ASABWinter2025 - lab consumables of choice: black socks and muffin cups to be used with adult and baby zebra finches! @asab.org @asab-meetings.bsky.social. Great talk for @amyleedale.bsky.social @vixfranks.bsky.social @alice-risely.bsky.social...
December 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Barbara Caspers #ASABWinter2025 - lab consumables of choice: black socks and muffin cups to be used with adult and baby zebra finches! @asab.org @asab-meetings.bsky.social. Great talk for @amyleedale.bsky.social @vixfranks.bsky.social @alice-risely.bsky.social...
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Cutting edge sock science at #ASABWinter2025! 🧦 🧦 🧦
December 16, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Cutting edge sock science at #ASABWinter2025! 🧦 🧦 🧦
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Back from a fantastic fieldwork course! 🦆🪱🦭
During one week at the Wadden sea, MSc students got to learn about birds, mudflats and stats, and collected data to answer their own research question.
During one week at the Wadden sea, MSc students got to learn about birds, mudflats and stats, and collected data to answer their own research question.
November 13, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Back from a fantastic fieldwork course! 🦆🪱🦭
During one week at the Wadden sea, MSc students got to learn about birds, mudflats and stats, and collected data to answer their own research question.
During one week at the Wadden sea, MSc students got to learn about birds, mudflats and stats, and collected data to answer their own research question.
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Our plenary on Dec 16 of #ASABWinter2025 will be by Barbara Caspers. She’ll be presenting data on how individuals respond to chemical cues of family members, and how being related to the scent donour might change their response.
She’ll be sharing with us insights from both the lab and the wild!🥼 🏕️
She’ll be sharing with us insights from both the lab and the wild!🥼 🏕️
December 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Our plenary on Dec 16 of #ASABWinter2025 will be by Barbara Caspers. She’ll be presenting data on how individuals respond to chemical cues of family members, and how being related to the scent donour might change their response.
She’ll be sharing with us insights from both the lab and the wild!🥼 🏕️
She’ll be sharing with us insights from both the lab and the wild!🥼 🏕️
Male fire salamander are more yellow! New research from our group. Congratulations Max!!
New study out: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
We studied Fire Salamander colouration using data gatehred by citizen scientists. Males have a higher proportion of yellow than females: is this due to mate chaoice or differential predation threat?
We studied Fire Salamander colouration using data gatehred by citizen scientists. Males have a higher proportion of yellow than females: is this due to mate chaoice or differential predation threat?
Citizen science data reveals widespread sexual dichromatism in the European fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra) - BMC Ecology and Evolution
Background Conspicuous color patterns are traditionally believed to advertise the toxicity of prey to potential predators. However, many aposematic species show drastic variation in coloration, indica...
link.springer.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Male fire salamander are more yellow! New research from our group. Congratulations Max!!
Back from a fantastic fieldwork course! 🦆🪱🦭
During one week at the Wadden sea, MSc students got to learn about birds, mudflats and stats, and collected data to answer their own research question.
During one week at the Wadden sea, MSc students got to learn about birds, mudflats and stats, and collected data to answer their own research question.
November 13, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Back from a fantastic fieldwork course! 🦆🪱🦭
During one week at the Wadden sea, MSc students got to learn about birds, mudflats and stats, and collected data to answer their own research question.
During one week at the Wadden sea, MSc students got to learn about birds, mudflats and stats, and collected data to answer their own research question.
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3 year postdoc funded by @ukri.org NERC on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins is now live - please share widely 🙏 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
3 year postdoc funded by @ukri.org NERC on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins is now live - please share widely 🙏 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Congratulations Valeria!!
Really proud of this one. Our first study on innovative problem-solving in free-ranging small mammals is fresh off the press of Animal Cognition rdcu.be/eOHl3. We looked at what happens with human disturbance in a protected area...without disturbing our most precious collaborators!
November 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Congratulations Valeria!!
Ever wondered if the habitat also influences the way individuals smell? In our latest paper we found that fire salamander larvae show habitat specific chemical fingerprints.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Fire salamander larvae show habitat type-specific surface chemical fingerprints - Chemoecology
In a fire salamander population near Bonn, Germany, fire salamander females use two different habitats for larval deposition, i.e. ponds or streams. As it is known that females can discriminate betwee...
link.springer.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Ever wondered if the habitat also influences the way individuals smell? In our latest paper we found that fire salamander larvae show habitat specific chemical fingerprints.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Still a few days to apply!
MSc internship / Field Assistant position available in our group!
Impact of urbanisation on avian reproduction 🐦🏙️ 🌳
Deadline: 7 Nov 2025
All details 👉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...
Please share it around!
Impact of urbanisation on avian reproduction 🐦🏙️ 🌳
Deadline: 7 Nov 2025
All details 👉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...
Please share it around!
November 2, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Still a few days to apply!
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📢 CALL FOR PAPERS!
Special Issue ‘Towards an integration of personality research across psychology and biology’ in Personality Science
Editors: Mitja Back, Barbara Caspers, @mdammhahn.bsky.social & @niclaskuper.bsky.social
Submit your proposal before November 30!
More info tinyurl.com/y9demmtt
Special Issue ‘Towards an integration of personality research across psychology and biology’ in Personality Science
Editors: Mitja Back, Barbara Caspers, @mdammhahn.bsky.social & @niclaskuper.bsky.social
Submit your proposal before November 30!
More info tinyurl.com/y9demmtt
October 20, 2025 at 10:11 AM
📢 CALL FOR PAPERS!
Special Issue ‘Towards an integration of personality research across psychology and biology’ in Personality Science
Editors: Mitja Back, Barbara Caspers, @mdammhahn.bsky.social & @niclaskuper.bsky.social
Submit your proposal before November 30!
More info tinyurl.com/y9demmtt
Special Issue ‘Towards an integration of personality research across psychology and biology’ in Personality Science
Editors: Mitja Back, Barbara Caspers, @mdammhahn.bsky.social & @niclaskuper.bsky.social
Submit your proposal before November 30!
More info tinyurl.com/y9demmtt
📢 CALL FOR PAPERS!
Special Issue ‘Towards an integration of personality research across psychology and biology’ in Personality Science
Editors: Mitja Back, Barbara Caspers, @mdammhahn.bsky.social & @niclaskuper.bsky.social
Submit your proposal before November 30!
More info tinyurl.com/y9demmtt
Special Issue ‘Towards an integration of personality research across psychology and biology’ in Personality Science
Editors: Mitja Back, Barbara Caspers, @mdammhahn.bsky.social & @niclaskuper.bsky.social
Submit your proposal before November 30!
More info tinyurl.com/y9demmtt
October 20, 2025 at 10:11 AM
📢 CALL FOR PAPERS!
Special Issue ‘Towards an integration of personality research across psychology and biology’ in Personality Science
Editors: Mitja Back, Barbara Caspers, @mdammhahn.bsky.social & @niclaskuper.bsky.social
Submit your proposal before November 30!
More info tinyurl.com/y9demmtt
Special Issue ‘Towards an integration of personality research across psychology and biology’ in Personality Science
Editors: Mitja Back, Barbara Caspers, @mdammhahn.bsky.social & @niclaskuper.bsky.social
Submit your proposal before November 30!
More info tinyurl.com/y9demmtt
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Want to know everything about bird smell?
I wrote an "Ornithological masterclass" on Avian Olfaction for BTO News @btobirds.bsky.social #ornithology
Link to the article 👉 www.researchgate.net/publication/...
I wrote an "Ornithological masterclass" on Avian Olfaction for BTO News @btobirds.bsky.social #ornithology
Link to the article 👉 www.researchgate.net/publication/...
October 8, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Want to know everything about bird smell?
I wrote an "Ornithological masterclass" on Avian Olfaction for BTO News @btobirds.bsky.social #ornithology
Link to the article 👉 www.researchgate.net/publication/...
I wrote an "Ornithological masterclass" on Avian Olfaction for BTO News @btobirds.bsky.social #ornithology
Link to the article 👉 www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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MSc internship / Field Assistant position available in our group!
Impact of urbanisation on avian reproduction 🐦🏙️ 🌳
Deadline: 7 Nov 2025
All details 👉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...
Please share it around!
Impact of urbanisation on avian reproduction 🐦🏙️ 🌳
Deadline: 7 Nov 2025
All details 👉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...
Please share it around!
October 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
MSc internship / Field Assistant position available in our group!
Impact of urbanisation on avian reproduction 🐦🏙️ 🌳
Deadline: 7 Nov 2025
All details 👉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...
Please share it around!
Impact of urbanisation on avian reproduction 🐦🏙️ 🌳
Deadline: 7 Nov 2025
All details 👉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...
Please share it around!
MSc internship / Field Assistant position available in our group!
Impact of urbanisation on avian reproduction 🐦🏙️ 🌳
Deadline: 7 Nov 2025
All details 👉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...
Please share it around!
Impact of urbanisation on avian reproduction 🐦🏙️ 🌳
Deadline: 7 Nov 2025
All details 👉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...
Please share it around!
October 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
MSc internship / Field Assistant position available in our group!
Impact of urbanisation on avian reproduction 🐦🏙️ 🌳
Deadline: 7 Nov 2025
All details 👉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...
Please share it around!
Impact of urbanisation on avian reproduction 🐦🏙️ 🌳
Deadline: 7 Nov 2025
All details 👉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...
Please share it around!
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New paper! 🦎
Urbanization reshapes the social behaviour of wall lizards
Now out in #BiologyLetters @royalsocietypublishing.org
🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @averymaune.bsky.social
Urbanization reshapes the social behaviour of wall lizards
Now out in #BiologyLetters @royalsocietypublishing.org
🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @averymaune.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
New paper! 🦎
Urbanization reshapes the social behaviour of wall lizards
Now out in #BiologyLetters @royalsocietypublishing.org
🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @averymaune.bsky.social
Urbanization reshapes the social behaviour of wall lizards
Now out in #BiologyLetters @royalsocietypublishing.org
🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @averymaune.bsky.social
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📢 City lizards are more social !
Thrilled to share the first paper from my PhD, out now in #BiologyLetters @royalsocietypublishing.org !
We show that urban lizards are more social than their non-urban counterparts 🦎🏙️🌳🧪
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
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Thrilled to share the first paper from my PhD, out now in #BiologyLetters @royalsocietypublishing.org !
We show that urban lizards are more social than their non-urban counterparts 🦎🏙️🌳🧪
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
@behavecobie.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
📢 City lizards are more social !
Thrilled to share the first paper from my PhD, out now in #BiologyLetters @royalsocietypublishing.org !
We show that urban lizards are more social than their non-urban counterparts 🦎🏙️🌳🧪
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
@behavecobie.bsky.social
Thrilled to share the first paper from my PhD, out now in #BiologyLetters @royalsocietypublishing.org !
We show that urban lizards are more social than their non-urban counterparts 🦎🏙️🌳🧪
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
@behavecobie.bsky.social
New paper! 🦎
Urbanization reshapes the social behaviour of wall lizards
Now out in #BiologyLetters @royalsocietypublishing.org
🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @averymaune.bsky.social
Urbanization reshapes the social behaviour of wall lizards
Now out in #BiologyLetters @royalsocietypublishing.org
🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @averymaune.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
New paper! 🦎
Urbanization reshapes the social behaviour of wall lizards
Now out in #BiologyLetters @royalsocietypublishing.org
🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @averymaune.bsky.social
Urbanization reshapes the social behaviour of wall lizards
Now out in #BiologyLetters @royalsocietypublishing.org
🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @averymaune.bsky.social
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Our new paper is out!🐦
We replicated a paper by Gilles et al. 2024, and (surprise) replication studies are indeed very much needed!!
To discover what info is encoded in the preen oil of Pied Flycatchers, and why are replication studies key for robust science, follow the link😁
doi.org/10.1111/jav....
We replicated a paper by Gilles et al. 2024, and (surprise) replication studies are indeed very much needed!!
To discover what info is encoded in the preen oil of Pied Flycatchers, and why are replication studies key for robust science, follow the link😁
doi.org/10.1111/jav....
March 12, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Our new paper is out!🐦
We replicated a paper by Gilles et al. 2024, and (surprise) replication studies are indeed very much needed!!
To discover what info is encoded in the preen oil of Pied Flycatchers, and why are replication studies key for robust science, follow the link😁
doi.org/10.1111/jav....
We replicated a paper by Gilles et al. 2024, and (surprise) replication studies are indeed very much needed!!
To discover what info is encoded in the preen oil of Pied Flycatchers, and why are replication studies key for robust science, follow the link😁
doi.org/10.1111/jav....