PBrakes
@pbrakes.bsky.social
Culture: humans & non-humans, conservation, theory & practice. Chair Bonn Convention Expert Group Animal Culture, Research Fellow WDC, #ExeterMarine, CERG Massey University, Co-Chair IUCN CESSP-SSC Conservation of Animal Cultures Task Force
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PBrakes
@pbrakes.bsky.social
· May 2
Animal culture recognized as key factor in new conservation strategies
Exeter scientists are among those who have discovered many animals learn and pass on behaviors through social learning or culture, which could have important implications for conservation.
phys.org
phys.org/news/2025-05...
Unravelling some of the complexity of animal cultures & conservation with @lucymaplin.bsky.social,
@emma-carroll.bsky.social, Alison L Greggor, Andrew Whiten, @ellengarland.bsky.social & contributors to our theme issue
doi.org/10.1098/rstb... @royalsocietypublishing.org
Unravelling some of the complexity of animal cultures & conservation with @lucymaplin.bsky.social,
@emma-carroll.bsky.social, Alison L Greggor, Andrew Whiten, @ellengarland.bsky.social & contributors to our theme issue
doi.org/10.1098/rstb... @royalsocietypublishing.org
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EF member Dr Katharina Peters has co-authored an interesting publication examining the rising number of marine mammals who in recent years have been found beyond their natural habitat 🐳
Read more via the below UOW media release.
kjpeters.bsky.social
www.uow.edu.au/the-stand/20...
Read more via the below UOW media release.
kjpeters.bsky.social
www.uow.edu.au/the-stand/20...
2025: Adrift in a warming world - University of Wollongong – UOW
How disappearing habitats are sending marine mammals into uncharted waters
www.uow.edu.au
July 2, 2025 at 3:39 AM
EF member Dr Katharina Peters has co-authored an interesting publication examining the rising number of marine mammals who in recent years have been found beyond their natural habitat 🐳
Read more via the below UOW media release.
kjpeters.bsky.social
www.uow.edu.au/the-stand/20...
Read more via the below UOW media release.
kjpeters.bsky.social
www.uow.edu.au/the-stand/20...
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🌍 Dream of adventure in the heart of Africa? Boost your career in conservation or research as a field researcher on wild bonobos in the DRC! Paid, full training, project management skills & epic experience await.
Apply ASAP & RT to share! 👉 bit.ly/bondiv2025 #conservationjobs #research
Apply ASAP & RT to share! 👉 bit.ly/bondiv2025 #conservationjobs #research
June 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
🌍 Dream of adventure in the heart of Africa? Boost your career in conservation or research as a field researcher on wild bonobos in the DRC! Paid, full training, project management skills & epic experience await.
Apply ASAP & RT to share! 👉 bit.ly/bondiv2025 #conservationjobs #research
Apply ASAP & RT to share! 👉 bit.ly/bondiv2025 #conservationjobs #research
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Cooling, such as refrigeration and AC, is currently responsible for 7% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
UNEP’s new guide outlines a framework to unlock the cooling sector’s potential to reduce emissions as part of national climate plans: www.unep.org/resources/re...
UNEP’s new guide outlines a framework to unlock the cooling sector’s potential to reduce emissions as part of national climate plans: www.unep.org/resources/re...
June 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Cooling, such as refrigeration and AC, is currently responsible for 7% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
UNEP’s new guide outlines a framework to unlock the cooling sector’s potential to reduce emissions as part of national climate plans: www.unep.org/resources/re...
UNEP’s new guide outlines a framework to unlock the cooling sector’s potential to reduce emissions as part of national climate plans: www.unep.org/resources/re...
Now this is cool #womeninSTEM
To mark the 360th anniversary of #PhilosophicalTransactions, we're spotlighting 20 landmark papers from the journal. Caroline Herschel's 1787 paper 'An Account of a New Comet' was the first scientific work by a woman to be fully credited in any scientific journal throughout the world buff.ly/RRsaLZ2
May 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Now this is cool #womeninSTEM
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Hot off the press 📣: one of the most surprising and unsettling findings of my PhD. A novel social tradition emerged in the tool-using white-faced capuchins of Jicarón island… abducting and carrying the infants of another species. Thread with gifs, videos, and all the bizarre details 👇
Humans have many unusual traditions. But did you know animals’ strange behaviors can become culture too? Out now in Current Biology (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...) we show the rise and spread of a surprising tradition: interspecies infant abduction. Interactive timeline (www.ab.mpg.de/671374) 🧵 (1/12)
May 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Hot off the press 📣: one of the most surprising and unsettling findings of my PhD. A novel social tradition emerged in the tool-using white-faced capuchins of Jicarón island… abducting and carrying the infants of another species. Thread with gifs, videos, and all the bizarre details 👇
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I will forever be haunted by this footage.
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
May 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I will forever be haunted by this footage.
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
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Nature research paper: Herring spawned poleward following fishery-induced collective memory loss
https://go.nature.com/4jLJ2C4
https://go.nature.com/4jLJ2C4
Herring spawned poleward following fishery-induced collective memory loss - Nature
A critically low abundance of older herring due to age-selective fisheries resulted in an approximately 800-km poleward shift in main spawning.
go.nature.com
May 9, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Nature research paper: Herring spawned poleward following fishery-induced collective memory loss
https://go.nature.com/4jLJ2C4
https://go.nature.com/4jLJ2C4
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Wonderful cover, and amazing research by Zhang et al. - they used classic Chinese poetry that mentions the Yangtze finless porpoise (724 poems in total!) to estimate the range contraction of the species over the last 1400 years. Such a creative approach to generate truly novel data!
Dive into our latest issue!🌊
www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...
On the cover:Yangtze porpoises in troubled waters🐬 by Yaoyao Zhang and colleagues www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...
On the cover:Yangtze porpoises in troubled waters🐬 by Yaoyao Zhang and colleagues www.cell.com/current-biol...
May 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Wonderful cover, and amazing research by Zhang et al. - they used classic Chinese poetry that mentions the Yangtze finless porpoise (724 poems in total!) to estimate the range contraction of the species over the last 1400 years. Such a creative approach to generate truly novel data!
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New paper on the demographic drivers of cultural evolution in Great Tit song published today - epic work led by @nilomr.bsky.social with help from @andreaestandia.bsky.social Ella Cole & Sara Keen. Why did we do this, and what did we find? 🧵 follows: 1/n
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The demographic drivers of cultural evolution in bird song
Social learning can give rise to shared behavioral patterns that persist as culture within animal communities,1,2 such as bird and whale songs and cet…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
New paper on the demographic drivers of cultural evolution in Great Tit song published today - epic work led by @nilomr.bsky.social with help from @andreaestandia.bsky.social Ella Cole & Sara Keen. Why did we do this, and what did we find? 🧵 follows: 1/n
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
phys.org/news/2025-05...
Unravelling some of the complexity of animal cultures & conservation with @lucymaplin.bsky.social,
@emma-carroll.bsky.social, Alison L Greggor, Andrew Whiten, @ellengarland.bsky.social & contributors to our theme issue
doi.org/10.1098/rstb... @royalsocietypublishing.org
Unravelling some of the complexity of animal cultures & conservation with @lucymaplin.bsky.social,
@emma-carroll.bsky.social, Alison L Greggor, Andrew Whiten, @ellengarland.bsky.social & contributors to our theme issue
doi.org/10.1098/rstb... @royalsocietypublishing.org
Animal culture recognized as key factor in new conservation strategies
Exeter scientists are among those who have discovered many animals learn and pass on behaviors through social learning or culture, which could have important implications for conservation.
phys.org
May 2, 2025 at 3:49 AM
phys.org/news/2025-05...
Unravelling some of the complexity of animal cultures & conservation with @lucymaplin.bsky.social,
@emma-carroll.bsky.social, Alison L Greggor, Andrew Whiten, @ellengarland.bsky.social & contributors to our theme issue
doi.org/10.1098/rstb... @royalsocietypublishing.org
Unravelling some of the complexity of animal cultures & conservation with @lucymaplin.bsky.social,
@emma-carroll.bsky.social, Alison L Greggor, Andrew Whiten, @ellengarland.bsky.social & contributors to our theme issue
doi.org/10.1098/rstb... @royalsocietypublishing.org
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New theme issue in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B @royalsocietypublishing.org:
Animal culture: conservation in a changing world
Edited by @pbrakes.bsky.social, @lucymaplin.bsky.social, @emma-carroll.bsky.social, Alison L Greggor, Andrew Whiten and @ellengarland.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
Animal culture: conservation in a changing world
Edited by @pbrakes.bsky.social, @lucymaplin.bsky.social, @emma-carroll.bsky.social, Alison L Greggor, Andrew Whiten and @ellengarland.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1925
doi.org
May 1, 2025 at 8:37 AM
New theme issue in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B @royalsocietypublishing.org:
Animal culture: conservation in a changing world
Edited by @pbrakes.bsky.social, @lucymaplin.bsky.social, @emma-carroll.bsky.social, Alison L Greggor, Andrew Whiten and @ellengarland.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
Animal culture: conservation in a changing world
Edited by @pbrakes.bsky.social, @lucymaplin.bsky.social, @emma-carroll.bsky.social, Alison L Greggor, Andrew Whiten and @ellengarland.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
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🐳 UPCOMING BOOK ALERT 🐬
The Evolution of Cetacean Societies
Edited by @darrencroft.bsky.social @andrewfoote.bsky.social @stephanielking.bsky.social and myself
Preorder available now
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
#whale #dolphin #animalbehaviour
The Evolution of Cetacean Societies
Edited by @darrencroft.bsky.social @andrewfoote.bsky.social @stephanielking.bsky.social and myself
Preorder available now
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
#whale #dolphin #animalbehaviour
March 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
🐳 UPCOMING BOOK ALERT 🐬
The Evolution of Cetacean Societies
Edited by @darrencroft.bsky.social @andrewfoote.bsky.social @stephanielking.bsky.social and myself
Preorder available now
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
#whale #dolphin #animalbehaviour
The Evolution of Cetacean Societies
Edited by @darrencroft.bsky.social @andrewfoote.bsky.social @stephanielking.bsky.social and myself
Preorder available now
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
#whale #dolphin #animalbehaviour
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Why whale urine is so important to life in the sea - new article in @uk.theconversation.com by @exeter.ac.uk researchers Kirsten Freja Young & Marion Rossi
@exetermarine.bsky.social 🐳
@exetermarine.bsky.social 🐳
Why whale urine is so important to life in the sea
Their carcasses and faeces are also important to the ocean.
theconversation.com
April 30, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Why whale urine is so important to life in the sea - new article in @uk.theconversation.com by @exeter.ac.uk researchers Kirsten Freja Young & Marion Rossi
@exetermarine.bsky.social 🐳
@exetermarine.bsky.social 🐳