Yitzchak Ben Mocha
@benmocha.bsky.social
Ethologist.
Postdoc at CASCB @cbehav.bsky.social.
Animal and human rights advocate.
Curator of the Cooperative Breeding Database: @co-breed.bsky.social
Postdoc at CASCB @cbehav.bsky.social.
Animal and human rights advocate.
Curator of the Cooperative Breeding Database: @co-breed.bsky.social
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Yitzchak Ben Mocha
@benmocha.bsky.social
· Nov 26
1/ Social groups of a bird species use the same roosting trees for ≥15 years & ≥4 generations! To the best of our knowledge, this is the longest documented roosting site fidelity among cooperatively breeding birds & mammals.
Check out our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Check out our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
How many cooperatively breeding bird & mammal species are there??? an ongoing research... follow @co-breed.bsky.social for updates!
1/4 To celebrate our 120th follower, we introduce the “cooperative breeding gauge”: measuring the % of cooperatively breeding species in Co-BreeD. It now presents the very initial % of cooperatively from our 1st published Co-BreeD dataset besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
January 12, 2026 at 7:43 AM
How many cooperatively breeding bird & mammal species are there??? an ongoing research... follow @co-breed.bsky.social for updates!
A nice graphical abstract of our recent #ProcB paper (royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...)
How global warming affects #sleep and activity patterns of even desert specialist birds #Arabian_babbler 👇
How global warming affects #sleep and activity patterns of even desert specialist birds #Arabian_babbler 👇
January 11, 2026 at 12:47 PM
A nice graphical abstract of our recent #ProcB paper (royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...)
How global warming affects #sleep and activity patterns of even desert specialist birds #Arabian_babbler 👇
How global warming affects #sleep and activity patterns of even desert specialist birds #Arabian_babbler 👇
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If you work on corvid ecology, behaviour, cognition, or conservation, this might be useful for you 👇
I’ve just published CORVIDATA in Scientific Data 🐦
doi.org/10.1038/s415... (1/4)
I’ve just published CORVIDATA in Scientific Data 🐦
doi.org/10.1038/s415... (1/4)
CORVIDATA: A global dataset of morphology, ecology, sociality, and life-history in Corvidae - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - CORVIDATA: A global dataset of morphology, ecology, sociality, and life-history in Corvidae
doi.org
January 6, 2026 at 10:40 AM
If you work on corvid ecology, behaviour, cognition, or conservation, this might be useful for you 👇
I’ve just published CORVIDATA in Scientific Data 🐦
doi.org/10.1038/s415... (1/4)
I’ve just published CORVIDATA in Scientific Data 🐦
doi.org/10.1038/s415... (1/4)
Nature Climate Change @natclimate.nature.com nicely covered our recent #ProcB paper (royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...).
Read if interested in how global warming affects the #sleep of desert birds #Arabian_babbler 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Read if interested in how global warming affects the #sleep of desert birds #Arabian_babbler 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Trapped between darkness and heat: desert birds (Argya squamiceps) initiate daily activity earlier (and terminate it later) in response to heat
Abstract. Diurnal desert endotherms must adjust the timing of their daily activity to mitigate physiological stress from ambient heat. Understanding the li
royalsocietypublishing.org
January 3, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Nature Climate Change @natclimate.nature.com nicely covered our recent #ProcB paper (royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...).
Read if interested in how global warming affects the #sleep of desert birds #Arabian_babbler 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Read if interested in how global warming affects the #sleep of desert birds #Arabian_babbler 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation.
I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.
I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.
January 3, 2026 at 7:41 AM
Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation.
I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.
I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.
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May your year be blessed with accepts subject to minor corrections.
January 1, 2026 at 7:30 AM
May your year be blessed with accepts subject to minor corrections.
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🐧🧊 Incredible underwater footage of penguin life, shot from the first person of one of them.
🇺🇦 This beauty was captured thanks to Ukrainian scientists from the Vernadsky Station in Antarctica, who put a GPS tracker and a tiny camera on the bird.
🇺🇦 This beauty was captured thanks to Ukrainian scientists from the Vernadsky Station in Antarctica, who put a GPS tracker and a tiny camera on the bird.
December 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
🐧🧊 Incredible underwater footage of penguin life, shot from the first person of one of them.
🇺🇦 This beauty was captured thanks to Ukrainian scientists from the Vernadsky Station in Antarctica, who put a GPS tracker and a tiny camera on the bird.
🇺🇦 This beauty was captured thanks to Ukrainian scientists from the Vernadsky Station in Antarctica, who put a GPS tracker and a tiny camera on the bird.
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Fabulous @anticac.bsky.social wrote a beautiful highlight on our first #Co-BreeD dataset. She was also worried about how often Co-BreeD would be updated. Well, time will tell, but meanwhile, the second dataset about #allonursing (& update) is already under review ;)
🌟 New research highlight for a paper that introduces a Cooperative-Breeding Database (Co-BreeD), which is an open, peer-reviewed resource that collects data on cooperative breeding across birds and mammals, including humans.
📖 Read the full paper ➡️ buff.ly/DAE9htT
📖 Read the full paper ➡️ buff.ly/DAE9htT
December 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Fabulous @anticac.bsky.social wrote a beautiful highlight on our first #Co-BreeD dataset. She was also worried about how often Co-BreeD would be updated. Well, time will tell, but meanwhile, the second dataset about #allonursing (& update) is already under review ;)
Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
🚨BREAKING: GRETA THUNBERG ARRESTED UNDER TERRORISM ACT FOR SUPPORTING 'PALESTINE ACTION PRISONERS'
December 23, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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🌟 New research highlight for a paper that introduces a Cooperative-Breeding Database (Co-BreeD), which is an open, peer-reviewed resource that collects data on cooperative breeding across birds and mammals, including humans.
📖 Read the full paper ➡️ buff.ly/DAE9htT
📖 Read the full paper ➡️ buff.ly/DAE9htT
December 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🌟 New research highlight for a paper that introduces a Cooperative-Breeding Database (Co-BreeD), which is an open, peer-reviewed resource that collects data on cooperative breeding across birds and mammals, including humans.
📖 Read the full paper ➡️ buff.ly/DAE9htT
📖 Read the full paper ➡️ buff.ly/DAE9htT
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"Behavioural scientists are increasingly calling for context as a key to addressing pressing problems caused by human behaviour. However, despite its powerful ability to generate contextual hypotheses on the basis of relatively simple rules, ecological thinking is rarely applied to human behaviour"
Behavioural sciences need behavioural ecology - Nature Human Behaviour
Behavioural scientists want to see more consideration of context — so why are they not using tools derived from ecology, the science of all life in context? We invite behavioural scientists to align t...
www.nature.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:34 AM
"Behavioural scientists are increasingly calling for context as a key to addressing pressing problems caused by human behaviour. However, despite its powerful ability to generate contextual hypotheses on the basis of relatively simple rules, ecological thinking is rarely applied to human behaviour"
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same ⬇️👏
No paper from me or my lab will ever be submitted to an MDPI journal - including any of their superfluous "special issues". I will very rarely (if ever) cite MDPI papers. And I will never review for them. deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/08/gues...
The same goes for FrontiersIn journals, among others.
The same goes for FrontiersIn journals, among others.
December 18, 2025 at 6:16 AM
same ⬇️👏
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🚨 New study by #SPEmembers 🚨
#AnimalBehaviour #Ethology
"Multi-generational fidelity, ecological and social determinants of roosting in a cooperatively breeding bird (Argya squamiceps)"
Ben Mocha et al. with SPE members Yitzchak Ben Mocha @benmocha.bsky.social @ Royal Society Open Science
#AnimalBehaviour #Ethology
"Multi-generational fidelity, ecological and social determinants of roosting in a cooperatively breeding bird (Argya squamiceps)"
Ben Mocha et al. with SPE members Yitzchak Ben Mocha @benmocha.bsky.social @ Royal Society Open Science
December 16, 2025 at 8:19 AM
🚨 New study by #SPEmembers 🚨
#AnimalBehaviour #Ethology
"Multi-generational fidelity, ecological and social determinants of roosting in a cooperatively breeding bird (Argya squamiceps)"
Ben Mocha et al. with SPE members Yitzchak Ben Mocha @benmocha.bsky.social @ Royal Society Open Science
#AnimalBehaviour #Ethology
"Multi-generational fidelity, ecological and social determinants of roosting in a cooperatively breeding bird (Argya squamiceps)"
Ben Mocha et al. with SPE members Yitzchak Ben Mocha @benmocha.bsky.social @ Royal Society Open Science
Our second Co-BreeD manuscript was submitted. Follow @co-breed.bsky.social for updates!
With @andyradford.bsky.social @maikewoith.bsky.social @michael-griesser.bsky.social @nataliekes.bsky.social @luciabruscagnin.bsky.social and more..
With @andyradford.bsky.social @maikewoith.bsky.social @michael-griesser.bsky.social @nataliekes.bsky.social @luciabruscagnin.bsky.social and more..
The Co-BreeD dataset on AlloNursing was just submitted! It provides complementary data about allonursing for all 324 species previously included in Co-BreeD (besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) & adds >45 new species! 🐒 🐳🐐 Follow for updates…
December 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Our second Co-BreeD manuscript was submitted. Follow @co-breed.bsky.social for updates!
With @andyradford.bsky.social @maikewoith.bsky.social @michael-griesser.bsky.social @nataliekes.bsky.social @luciabruscagnin.bsky.social and more..
With @andyradford.bsky.social @maikewoith.bsky.social @michael-griesser.bsky.social @nataliekes.bsky.social @luciabruscagnin.bsky.social and more..
WANTED! body mass data of wild #Arabian_babbler from any part of the world. Contribute data and join our study as co-authors.
Contact: yitzchakbm@gmail.com
Contact: yitzchakbm@gmail.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
WANTED! body mass data of wild #Arabian_babbler from any part of the world. Contribute data and join our study as co-authors.
Contact: yitzchakbm@gmail.com
Contact: yitzchakbm@gmail.com
Follow Co-BreeD (@co-breed.bsky.social) to get updated estimates about how many cooperatively breeding birds and mammals there are!
How many cooperatively breeding bird & mammal species are there?
Co-BreeD constantly works to get a more accurate estimation for this question. We will now start sharing updated estimations in return for new followers!
So help us get the 120th follower (= share!) & we will post our first estimation!
Co-BreeD constantly works to get a more accurate estimation for this question. We will now start sharing updated estimations in return for new followers!
So help us get the 120th follower (= share!) & we will post our first estimation!
December 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Follow Co-BreeD (@co-breed.bsky.social) to get updated estimates about how many cooperatively breeding birds and mammals there are!
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Marwan Barghouti's lawyer Ben Marmarelli: there are reports that Barghouti was badly assaulted in prison, they "broke his ribs, teeth, fingers and cut part of his ear". Israeli Prison Service refused to comment or let the lawyer meet with him.
December 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Marwan Barghouti's lawyer Ben Marmarelli: there are reports that Barghouti was badly assaulted in prison, they "broke his ribs, teeth, fingers and cut part of his ear". Israeli Prison Service refused to comment or let the lawyer meet with him.
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❗️New paper co-authored by MIZ PAS researchers ❗️
ℹ️Roman Gula & Jörn Theuerkauf contributed to a new cooperative breeding database for birds and mammals, Co-BreeD, published recently in animalecology.bsky.social. 👇
ℹ️Roman Gula & Jörn Theuerkauf contributed to a new cooperative breeding database for birds and mammals, Co-BreeD, published recently in animalecology.bsky.social. 👇
1/6 The Cooperative-Breeding Database (Co-BreeD) is alive! Co-BreeD covers key biological parameters relevant to cooperative breeding research in birds and mammals. Get your copy of this updateable & open-access database: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@animalecology.bsky.social
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An integrative, peer‐reviewed and open‐source cooperative‐breeding database (Co‐BreeD)
Co-BreeD is the first updatable and open-source database dedicated to cooperative breeding. It enables continuous, non-binary measurement of cooperative breeding, transforming how we study breeding s....
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:20 AM
❗️New paper co-authored by MIZ PAS researchers ❗️
ℹ️Roman Gula & Jörn Theuerkauf contributed to a new cooperative breeding database for birds and mammals, Co-BreeD, published recently in animalecology.bsky.social. 👇
ℹ️Roman Gula & Jörn Theuerkauf contributed to a new cooperative breeding database for birds and mammals, Co-BreeD, published recently in animalecology.bsky.social. 👇
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📢Out in the NEW issue of @animalecology.bsky.social is our hugely #collaborative paper:
An integrative, peer-reviewed and open-source cooperative-breeding database (Co-BreeD)
#mammals #birds #cooperation #openscience #datasets #alloparents
Led by @benmocha.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
An integrative, peer-reviewed and open-source cooperative-breeding database (Co-BreeD)
#mammals #birds #cooperation #openscience #datasets #alloparents
Led by @benmocha.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
An integrative, peer‐reviewed and open‐source cooperative‐breeding database (Co‐BreeD)
Co-BreeD is the first updatable and open-source database dedicated to cooperative breeding. It enables continuous, non-binary measurement of cooperative breeding, transforming how we study breeding s...
doi.org
December 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
📢Out in the NEW issue of @animalecology.bsky.social is our hugely #collaborative paper:
An integrative, peer-reviewed and open-source cooperative-breeding database (Co-BreeD)
#mammals #birds #cooperation #openscience #datasets #alloparents
Led by @benmocha.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
An integrative, peer-reviewed and open-source cooperative-breeding database (Co-BreeD)
#mammals #birds #cooperation #openscience #datasets #alloparents
Led by @benmocha.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
1/3 Testimonies from the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the West Bank (www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/202...):
"I recalled my previous tour in the military reserves, eight months ago. We were sitting over a cigarette, and one of the friends said..
"I recalled my previous tour in the military reserves, eight months ago. We were sitting over a cigarette, and one of the friends said..
הם גדלו בלב הימין המתנחלי. היום הם נחושים להחיות את השמאל הישראלי
אנשי השמאל האמוני ראו מקרוב איך קבוצה קטנה משנה אט־אט את פני החברה הישראלית. כעת הם מתכננים לעשות אותו הדבר — מהצד הנגדי
www.haaretz.co.il
November 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM
1/3 Testimonies from the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the West Bank (www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/202...):
"I recalled my previous tour in the military reserves, eight months ago. We were sitting over a cigarette, and one of the friends said..
"I recalled my previous tour in the military reserves, eight months ago. We were sitting over a cigarette, and one of the friends said..
Trapped between darkness and heat: desert birds (Argya squamiceps) initiate daily activity earlier (and terminate it later) in response to heat | royalsocietypublishi... | Proceedings of the Royal Society B | #ornithology 🪶
November 26, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Trapped between darkness and heat: desert birds (Argya squamiceps) initiate daily activity earlier in response to heat #ProcB #OpenAccess #Ecology #Behaviour royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
November 20, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Trapped between darkness and heat: desert birds (Argya squamiceps) initiate daily activity earlier in response to heat #ProcB #OpenAccess #Ecology #Behaviour royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
1/ Social groups of a bird species use the same roosting trees for ≥15 years & ≥4 generations! To the best of our knowledge, this is the longest documented roosting site fidelity among cooperatively breeding birds & mammals.
Check out our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Check out our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
November 26, 2025 at 8:21 AM
1/ Social groups of a bird species use the same roosting trees for ≥15 years & ≥4 generations! To the best of our knowledge, this is the longest documented roosting site fidelity among cooperatively breeding birds & mammals.
Check out our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Check out our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Check out the story behind our work on Co-BreeD, written by fabulous @maikewoith.bsky.social and published as a blog in @animalecology.bsky.social
animalecologyinfocus.com/2025/11/11/h...
animalecologyinfocus.com/2025/11/11/h...
How Co-BreeD can change how we see cooperation in animals
This blog post is provided by Maike Woith and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “An integrative, peer-reviewed and open-source cooperative-breeding database (Co-BreeD)”, wh…
animalecologyinfocus.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:02 AM