Sebastien Moro
@cervelleoiseau.bsky.social
Vulgarisation scientifique orientée sur le comportement et la cognition animale.
SciComm on animal cognition and behavior.
Specialized in large reviews oO
http://cervelledoiseau.fr
https://youtube.com/cervelledoiseau
#Fish #Rats #Pigeons #FarmAnimals #Bee
SciComm on animal cognition and behavior.
Specialized in large reviews oO
http://cervelledoiseau.fr
https://youtube.com/cervelledoiseau
#Fish #Rats #Pigeons #FarmAnimals #Bee
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Des intelligences extraterrestres ... bien terrestres - Sébastien Moro-TEDx Arts Et Metiers Bordeaux
YouTube video by Cervelle d'oiseau
youtu.be
For a fresh new start here, here is a TEDx Talk I gave a few months ago on animal intelligence.
It's in French but there are English subtitles :)
youtu.be/Eqm4ZF07xG0
#Ethology #AnimalBehavior #AnimalBehaviour
It's in French but there are English subtitles :)
youtu.be/Eqm4ZF07xG0
#Ethology #AnimalBehavior #AnimalBehaviour
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The yellowfin mojarra keeps its head perfectly steady in the chaotic Coral City traffic #yellowfinmojarra #staredown #staringcontest #photobomb #mojarra #spatialawareness #gyroscopic #coral #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
January 26, 2026 at 4:20 PM
The yellowfin mojarra keeps its head perfectly steady in the chaotic Coral City traffic #yellowfinmojarra #staredown #staringcontest #photobomb #mojarra #spatialawareness #gyroscopic #coral #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
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2024. Cattle have intricate social lives that aren't readily apparent: www.earth.com/news/cattle-...
Cattle have intricate social lives that aren't readily apparent
A study has shed light on the intricate social lives of feral cattle, offering unprecedented insights into their behaviors and welfare.
www.earth.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:46 AM
2024. Cattle have intricate social lives that aren't readily apparent: www.earth.com/news/cattle-...
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Références de la recommandation à la fin :
• Les cerveaux de la ferme, de @cervelleoiseau.bsky.social et Layla Benabid, éd. La Plage
• BD 176 p., 2021
• Les cerveaux de la ferme, de @cervelleoiseau.bsky.social et Layla Benabid, éd. La Plage
• BD 176 p., 2021
January 23, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Références de la recommandation à la fin :
• Les cerveaux de la ferme, de @cervelleoiseau.bsky.social et Layla Benabid, éd. La Plage
• BD 176 p., 2021
• Les cerveaux de la ferme, de @cervelleoiseau.bsky.social et Layla Benabid, éd. La Plage
• BD 176 p., 2021
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New paper!🚨 Social dynamics of group bubble net feeding in humpbacks. Congratulations Éadin for such an awesome first PhD paper!! 🐳🧪🦑
New paper on the social learning of bubble net feeding by humpbacks in British Columbia, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B 🐋
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
#marmam @bcwhales.bsky.social @seamammalresearch.bsky.social @lrendell.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social [1/5]
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
#marmam @bcwhales.bsky.social @seamammalresearch.bsky.social @lrendell.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social [1/5]
The diffusion of cooperative and solo bubble net feeding in Canadian Pacific humpback whales
Abstract. Animal culture, information and behaviours acquired and shared by social learning are a form of biodiversity with intrinsic and practical value.
royalsocietypublishing.org
January 22, 2026 at 3:50 PM
New paper!🚨 Social dynamics of group bubble net feeding in humpbacks. Congratulations Éadin for such an awesome first PhD paper!! 🐳🧪🦑
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Cover girl Veronika is making headlines across the globe🐂
(animal cleverness trumps human stupidity)
Notably, she is a 'companion cow' not used for meat or dairy.
Maybe if we saw other creatures less as a means to an end, we could appreciate their richness better...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
(animal cleverness trumps human stupidity)
Notably, she is a 'companion cow' not used for meat or dairy.
Maybe if we saw other creatures less as a means to an end, we could appreciate their richness better...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
January 22, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Cover girl Veronika is making headlines across the globe🐂
(animal cleverness trumps human stupidity)
Notably, she is a 'companion cow' not used for meat or dairy.
Maybe if we saw other creatures less as a means to an end, we could appreciate their richness better...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
(animal cleverness trumps human stupidity)
Notably, she is a 'companion cow' not used for meat or dairy.
Maybe if we saw other creatures less as a means to an end, we could appreciate their richness better...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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En visio en direct avec nous, @cervelleoiseau.bsky.social
January 22, 2026 at 10:12 AM
En visio en direct avec nous, @cervelleoiseau.bsky.social
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Colour preference and constancy in the giant Asian honey bee Apis dorsata https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.21.700526v1
January 21, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Colour preference and constancy in the giant Asian honey bee Apis dorsata https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.21.700526v1
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2026. Distress calls as social stressors affecting chicken welfare. "Distress calls are consequently an important consideration in farms, where young are raised at high density and one individual is heard by many." url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article... via @royalsocietypublishing.org
Distress calls as social stressors affecting chicken welfare
Abstract. Social signals about current environmental risks can shape development in young animals. Distress calls made by young chickens (Gallus gallus dom
royalsocietypublishing.org
January 22, 2026 at 12:11 AM
2026. Distress calls as social stressors affecting chicken welfare. "Distress calls are consequently an important consideration in farms, where young are raised at high density and one individual is heard by many." url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article... via @royalsocietypublishing.org
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If you feel bad for not having published all the papers from your PhD yet... This paper is the discussion of my thesis, and it took me about 6 years to publish it!
Thank you to my lovely collaborators @geoffreymesbahi.bsky.social and @maelmleroux.bsky.social for the (much-needed) final push!
Thank you to my lovely collaborators @geoffreymesbahi.bsky.social and @maelmleroux.bsky.social for the (much-needed) final push!
🚨New animal linguistics paper🚨
Together with @geoffreymesbahi.bsky.social and @maelmleroux.bsky.social, we tried to finally answer this question: Do titi monkeys have complex syntactic skills?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Together with @geoffreymesbahi.bsky.social and @maelmleroux.bsky.social, we tried to finally answer this question: Do titi monkeys have complex syntactic skills?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The As and Bs of titi monkey linguistics: why emotional communication is not the enemy
The alarm call sequences of titi monkeys (genera Plecturocebus, Callicebus and Cheracebus) have sparked important debates over whether they exhibit parallels with human language. Some researchers con...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 21, 2026 at 12:38 PM
If you feel bad for not having published all the papers from your PhD yet... This paper is the discussion of my thesis, and it took me about 6 years to publish it!
Thank you to my lovely collaborators @geoffreymesbahi.bsky.social and @maelmleroux.bsky.social for the (much-needed) final push!
Thank you to my lovely collaborators @geoffreymesbahi.bsky.social and @maelmleroux.bsky.social for the (much-needed) final push!
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Cow Tools!
We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them
It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS
Here I describe our study
(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social
We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them
It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS
Here I describe our study
(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social
January 19, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Cow Tools!
We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them
It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS
Here I describe our study
(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social
We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them
It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS
Here I describe our study
(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social
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Une vache utilisant un balai pour se gratter conduit des chercheurs à réévaluer les capacités cognitives des bovins.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow
Osuna-Mascaró and Auersperg report flexible, multipurpose tool use in a cow, expanding
the known range of mammalian tool users and underscoring overlooked cognitive capacities
in livestock.
www.cell.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Une vache utilisant un balai pour se gratter conduit des chercheurs à réévaluer les capacités cognitives des bovins.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Three more #kakapo matings last night:
Whenua Hou:
- Nora 💚 Tutoko
- Pura 💚 Gulliver
Anchor:
- Toitiiti 💚 Deans
Great to see genetically important Gulliver mating, and matriarch Nora starting - her first known nest was in 1981! Here she is on her 2019 nest. #conservation #parrots
Whenua Hou:
- Nora 💚 Tutoko
- Pura 💚 Gulliver
Anchor:
- Toitiiti 💚 Deans
Great to see genetically important Gulliver mating, and matriarch Nora starting - her first known nest was in 1981! Here she is on her 2019 nest. #conservation #parrots
January 18, 2026 at 8:43 AM
Three more #kakapo matings last night:
Whenua Hou:
- Nora 💚 Tutoko
- Pura 💚 Gulliver
Anchor:
- Toitiiti 💚 Deans
Great to see genetically important Gulliver mating, and matriarch Nora starting - her first known nest was in 1981! Here she is on her 2019 nest. #conservation #parrots
Whenua Hou:
- Nora 💚 Tutoko
- Pura 💚 Gulliver
Anchor:
- Toitiiti 💚 Deans
Great to see genetically important Gulliver mating, and matriarch Nora starting - her first known nest was in 1981! Here she is on her 2019 nest. #conservation #parrots
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1/4 Horses can smell human fear
In this experiment, mares that smelled the scent of humans exposed to the movie Sinister (2012) became more fearful.
Here is the news story (with my opinion in Spanish) at @eldiario.es
www.eldiario.es/sociedad/cab...
In this experiment, mares that smelled the scent of humans exposed to the movie Sinister (2012) became more fearful.
Here is the news story (with my opinion in Spanish) at @eldiario.es
www.eldiario.es/sociedad/cab...
January 16, 2026 at 9:22 AM
1/4 Horses can smell human fear
In this experiment, mares that smelled the scent of humans exposed to the movie Sinister (2012) became more fearful.
Here is the news story (with my opinion in Spanish) at @eldiario.es
www.eldiario.es/sociedad/cab...
In this experiment, mares that smelled the scent of humans exposed to the movie Sinister (2012) became more fearful.
Here is the news story (with my opinion in Spanish) at @eldiario.es
www.eldiario.es/sociedad/cab...
Je n'ai pas la maturité suffisante pour lire ça sans éclater de rire à chaque phrase :D
We've got ISSUES. Literally.
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
January 15, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Je n'ai pas la maturité suffisante pour lire ça sans éclater de rire à chaque phrase :D
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2026. Smart Ungulates: What Sheep and Goats' Performances in a Reversed‐Reward Contingency Task Tell Us About the Evolution of Cognitive Flexibility. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Smart Ungulates: What Sheep and Goats' Performances in a Reversed‐Reward Contingency Task Tell Us About the Evolution of Cognitive Flexibility
This study shows that young goats outperform sheep in the reversed-reward contingency task, which is a cognitive test requiring both inhibitory control and cognitive flexibility. The results highligh...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:42 AM
2026. Smart Ungulates: What Sheep and Goats' Performances in a Reversed‐Reward Contingency Task Tell Us About the Evolution of Cognitive Flexibility. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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1/3 Jellyfish and anemones also sleep, despite not having a brain
Not only do they sleep, but their behavior is affected if they lack sleep; they become clumsier and need to catch up on lost sleep. Interestingly, they sleep 8 hours a day, just like us.
(paper) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Not only do they sleep, but their behavior is affected if they lack sleep; they become clumsier and need to catch up on lost sleep. Interestingly, they sleep 8 hours a day, just like us.
(paper) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 14, 2026 at 11:32 AM
1/3 Jellyfish and anemones also sleep, despite not having a brain
Not only do they sleep, but their behavior is affected if they lack sleep; they become clumsier and need to catch up on lost sleep. Interestingly, they sleep 8 hours a day, just like us.
(paper) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Not only do they sleep, but their behavior is affected if they lack sleep; they become clumsier and need to catch up on lost sleep. Interestingly, they sleep 8 hours a day, just like us.
(paper) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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NEW PAPER: Insights into how top predators shape communities: buzzards show similarly strong nest defence against owl and goshawk models, suggesting different intraguild predators may be perceived as equivalent threats.
➡️ vist.ly/4ms6r
#ornithology @kpg13.bsky.social #birds #RaptorResearch
➡️ vist.ly/4ms6r
#ornithology @kpg13.bsky.social #birds #RaptorResearch
January 14, 2026 at 4:22 PM
NEW PAPER: Insights into how top predators shape communities: buzzards show similarly strong nest defence against owl and goshawk models, suggesting different intraguild predators may be perceived as equivalent threats.
➡️ vist.ly/4ms6r
#ornithology @kpg13.bsky.social #birds #RaptorResearch
➡️ vist.ly/4ms6r
#ornithology @kpg13.bsky.social #birds #RaptorResearch
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Peaceful Queen Succession in the Naked Mole Rat https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.09.698689v1
January 12, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Peaceful Queen Succession in the Naked Mole Rat https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.09.698689v1
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I've been working for ages on a comprehensive revamp of the Stanford Encyclopedia Entry on "Animal Consciousness", with new sections on non-Western perspectives, methodological challenges and evolutionary big pictures, and it's out today: plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons.... Hope you find it useful!
January 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
I've been working for ages on a comprehensive revamp of the Stanford Encyclopedia Entry on "Animal Consciousness", with new sections on non-Western perspectives, methodological challenges and evolutionary big pictures, and it's out today: plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons.... Hope you find it useful!
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Now with final page numbers - our exploration of whether bee vision might be like the non-conscious visual processing found in blindsighted humans: Tamietto, M., Orsenigo, D., Chittka, L. (2026) Bees, blindsight and consciousness. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 30 (1): 6-9; doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
January 8, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Now with final page numbers - our exploration of whether bee vision might be like the non-conscious visual processing found in blindsighted humans: Tamietto, M., Orsenigo, D., Chittka, L. (2026) Bees, blindsight and consciousness. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 30 (1): 6-9; doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
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As Gibson said, you cannot disentangle the environment from the animal - "animal and environment make an inseparable pair.“
Change the environment, change the animal (and your results)
Change the environment, change the animal (and your results)
Of course a strange maze would terrify a mouse that has only ever known a shoebox. But what of a mouse that has explored a vast field, ran from the spatter of raindrops, felt the warmth of the sun and the chill of night, and dug into the living soil of the Earth? defector.com/what-a-week-...
What A Week Of Freedom Can Do For A Lab Mouse | Defector
Each time Matthew Zipple, a behavioral ecologist at Cornell University, releases a mouse that was born and raised in a laboratory into the green expanse of a field, he is amazed. He transports the…
defector.com
January 9, 2026 at 9:31 AM
As Gibson said, you cannot disentangle the environment from the animal - "animal and environment make an inseparable pair.“
Change the environment, change the animal (and your results)
Change the environment, change the animal (and your results)
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AI’s Innate Bias Against Animals nautil.us/ais-innate-b...
AI’s Innate Bias Against Animals
AI’s Innate Bias Against Animals: Chatbots and robots are a setback to animal welfare—but have the potential to be a step forward.
nautil.us
January 8, 2026 at 3:45 AM
AI’s Innate Bias Against Animals nautil.us/ais-innate-b...
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🪲 Insect parental care in the spotlight!
Join our dedicated symposium at #ECE2026 in Tours, France.
🗓️ Abstracts due 31 Jan – don’t miss out!
www.ece2026.org
Join our dedicated symposium at #ECE2026 in Tours, France.
🗓️ Abstracts due 31 Jan – don’t miss out!
www.ece2026.org
ECE 2026 - XIII European Congress of Entomology
It is our great pleasure to welcome you to Tours, France, in the heart of the Loire Valley, from June 29 to July 3, 2026.
www.ece2026.org
January 6, 2026 at 12:26 PM
🪲 Insect parental care in the spotlight!
Join our dedicated symposium at #ECE2026 in Tours, France.
🗓️ Abstracts due 31 Jan – don’t miss out!
www.ece2026.org
Join our dedicated symposium at #ECE2026 in Tours, France.
🗓️ Abstracts due 31 Jan – don’t miss out!
www.ece2026.org
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New paper: habituation to threatening stimuli in bumblebees is far from simple! psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
January 6, 2026 at 2:47 PM
New paper: habituation to threatening stimuli in bumblebees is far from simple! psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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And finally, a penguin paper. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Absence of a dear enemy effect and limited evidence of neighbour-stranger vocal discrimination in Ecstatic Display Songs of nesting African penguins - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Abstract African penguins (Spheniscus demersus), a critically endangered seabird, form dense breeding colonies where nesting individuals maintain territories advertised through a loud vocalisation, th...
link.springer.com
January 3, 2026 at 1:15 PM
And finally, a penguin paper. link.springer.com/article/10.1...