Arianna Ferretti
@ariferretho.bsky.social
MSc in Ecobiology 🐒
Main research interests:
• musicality in primates and its role in shaping sociality and communication;
• decision-making under risk in foraging contexts (in primates and birds);
• ... ready to find new ones!!
Main research interests:
• musicality in primates and its role in shaping sociality and communication;
• decision-making under risk in foraging contexts (in primates and birds);
• ... ready to find new ones!!
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Arianna Ferretti
@ariferretho.bsky.social
· Apr 26
Very grateful to @asab.org for giving me the opportunity to present my Master thesis project with a Flash Talk 🐒!! Seeing many excellent pieces of research was amazing and inspiring. Can't wait for the next one! #ASABSpring2025
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Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs. Would be interesting to do a double blind experiment with humans.
Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs
The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...
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October 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs. Would be interesting to do a double blind experiment with humans.
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New paper with @masonyoungblood.bsky.social: crows follow Menzerath’s law showing vocal efficiency in their communication. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Vocal efficiency in crows - Animal Cognition
Many communicative systems have been selected for efficiency, shaped by the trade-off between information transmission and energetic or temporal constraints. Linguistic laws such as Menzerath’s law—pr...
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July 31, 2025 at 10:36 AM
New paper with @masonyoungblood.bsky.social: crows follow Menzerath’s law showing vocal efficiency in their communication. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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#BiologyLetters A new framework is proposed that can be used to test hypotheses about how animals solve problems. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #behaviour #cognition
October 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
#BiologyLetters A new framework is proposed that can be used to test hypotheses about how animals solve problems. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #behaviour #cognition
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1/3 Reading minds through facial expressions
The cognitive processes involved in decision-making in mice can be understood by observing their facial expressions. This would allow non-invasive access to their decision-making processes.
(paper) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The cognitive processes involved in decision-making in mice can be understood by observing their facial expressions. This would allow non-invasive access to their decision-making processes.
(paper) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
1/3 Reading minds through facial expressions
The cognitive processes involved in decision-making in mice can be understood by observing their facial expressions. This would allow non-invasive access to their decision-making processes.
(paper) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The cognitive processes involved in decision-making in mice can be understood by observing their facial expressions. This would allow non-invasive access to their decision-making processes.
(paper) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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An ethogram of facial behaviour in domestic horses: evolutionary perspectives on form and function
peerj.com/articles/193...
@peerj.bsky.social
peerj.com/articles/193...
@peerj.bsky.social
An ethogram of facial behaviour in domestic horses: evolutionary perspectives on form and function
Understanding cause and function of animal facial behaviour can provide key insights into the animal’s cognitive and emotional state. The Equine Facial Action Coding System (EquiFACS) has characterise...
peerj.com
June 2, 2025 at 7:05 AM
An ethogram of facial behaviour in domestic horses: evolutionary perspectives on form and function
peerj.com/articles/193...
@peerj.bsky.social
peerj.com/articles/193...
@peerj.bsky.social
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🐦🗣️ It's today! Join us in just a few hours for our seminar "The Costs of Collective Behaviour" with @damienfarine.bsky.social on YouTube! 🎥🌍 Discover the hidden challenges of group living 👥
📅 Time: Today, 2pm GMT
📺 Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc9z...
#AnimalBehaviour #OnlineSeminar
📅 Time: Today, 2pm GMT
📺 Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc9z...
#AnimalBehaviour #OnlineSeminar
Seminar Series 2025: 1. Dr. Damien Farine
YouTube video by Animal Behaviour Live
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April 29, 2025 at 7:14 AM
🐦🗣️ It's today! Join us in just a few hours for our seminar "The Costs of Collective Behaviour" with @damienfarine.bsky.social on YouTube! 🎥🌍 Discover the hidden challenges of group living 👥
📅 Time: Today, 2pm GMT
📺 Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc9z...
#AnimalBehaviour #OnlineSeminar
📅 Time: Today, 2pm GMT
📺 Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc9z...
#AnimalBehaviour #OnlineSeminar
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*** Academic BFD alert ***
We just published a new global bird phylogeny. It synthesizes the work of thousands of researchers before us, and it will grow and improve over time. @snacktavish.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We just published a new global bird phylogeny. It synthesizes the work of thousands of researchers before us, and it will grow and improve over time. @snacktavish.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
April 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
*** Academic BFD alert ***
We just published a new global bird phylogeny. It synthesizes the work of thousands of researchers before us, and it will grow and improve over time. @snacktavish.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We just published a new global bird phylogeny. It synthesizes the work of thousands of researchers before us, and it will grow and improve over time. @snacktavish.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Now published!!!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
April 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Now published!!!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Very grateful to @asab.org for giving me the opportunity to present my Master thesis project with a Flash Talk 🐒!! Seeing many excellent pieces of research was amazing and inspiring. Can't wait for the next one! #ASABSpring2025
April 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Very grateful to @asab.org for giving me the opportunity to present my Master thesis project with a Flash Talk 🐒!! Seeing many excellent pieces of research was amazing and inspiring. Can't wait for the next one! #ASABSpring2025
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Want to keep up with the research you just learned about over the past few days? Follow the speakers and organizers of #ASABSpring2025 with our starter pack!
go.bsky.app/GMCU6Sg
(If you were a speaker and we missed you or you just started an account, let us know in the comments and we’ll add you)
go.bsky.app/GMCU6Sg
(If you were a speaker and we missed you or you just started an account, let us know in the comments and we’ll add you)
April 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Want to keep up with the research you just learned about over the past few days? Follow the speakers and organizers of #ASABSpring2025 with our starter pack!
go.bsky.app/GMCU6Sg
(If you were a speaker and we missed you or you just started an account, let us know in the comments and we’ll add you)
go.bsky.app/GMCU6Sg
(If you were a speaker and we missed you or you just started an account, let us know in the comments and we’ll add you)
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Had a blast at #ASABSpring2025, presenting movement and meeting many enthusiastic early career researchers.
If you're into tracking animal movements in videos, do apply for the "Animals in Motion" workshop I'm organising in London this August: neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...
If you're into tracking animal movements in videos, do apply for the "Animals in Motion" workshop I'm organising in London this August: neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...
April 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Had a blast at #ASABSpring2025, presenting movement and meeting many enthusiastic early career researchers.
If you're into tracking animal movements in videos, do apply for the "Animals in Motion" workshop I'm organising in London this August: neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...
If you're into tracking animal movements in videos, do apply for the "Animals in Motion" workshop I'm organising in London this August: neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...
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April 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Can stress help monkeys survive? New research shows that on wild capuchin monkeys with stronger stress responses during previous droughts were more likely to survive an extreme drought. Study by Leakey grantees @sccarrera.bsky.social @irene-godoy.bsky.social @jbeehner.bsky.social & colleagues.
Stress responsiveness in a wild primate predicts survival across an extreme El Niño drought
White-faced capuchins with a stronger stress response to previous droughts were more likely to survive a severe El Niño drought.
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February 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Can stress help monkeys survive? New research shows that on wild capuchin monkeys with stronger stress responses during previous droughts were more likely to survive an extreme drought. Study by Leakey grantees @sccarrera.bsky.social @irene-godoy.bsky.social @jbeehner.bsky.social & colleagues.
Reposted by Arianna Ferretti
Evaluating the light environment as a contributor to colour differences among related bird species | doi.org/10.1093/biol... | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | #ornithology 🪶
Evaluating the light environment as a contributor to colour differences among related bird species
Abstract. Understanding the diversity of colour in nature has been one of the more elusive evolutionary problems. In the terrestrial environment, comparati
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February 13, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Evaluating the light environment as a contributor to colour differences among related bird species | doi.org/10.1093/biol... | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | #ornithology 🪶
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Crossing the Sahara by small jumps: the complete migration of the Western Orphean Warbler Curruca hortensis | link.springer.com/ar... | Journal of Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶
Crossing the Sahara by small jumps: the complete migration of the Western Orphean Warbler Curruca hortensis
Journal of Ornithology - We analyzed data retrieved from six multi-sensor loggers deployed on adult Western Orphean Warblers Curruca hortensis in France, to unravel the migration strategy of the...
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February 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Crossing the Sahara by small jumps: the complete migration of the Western Orphean Warbler Curruca hortensis | link.springer.com/ar... | Journal of Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶
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Do whales optimize their vocalizations for efficiency, just like human language? 🐋🎶 My latest study in
Science Advances (@science.org) suggests they do—following linguistic laws seen in human speech. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Science Advances (@science.org) suggests they do—following linguistic laws seen in human speech. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Language-like efficiency in whale communication
Whale vocalizations follow efficiency rules seen in human language, revealing striking similarities in communication systems.
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February 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Do whales optimize their vocalizations for efficiency, just like human language? 🐋🎶 My latest study in
Science Advances (@science.org) suggests they do—following linguistic laws seen in human speech. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Science Advances (@science.org) suggests they do—following linguistic laws seen in human speech. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Apidium from oligocene of Fayum, Egypt
January 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Apidium from oligocene of Fayum, Egypt
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🧪 Check out our new paper in Sciences Advances! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🐒 When a severe drought hit a population of wild monkeys in Costa Rica, individuals with a stronger stress response were more likely to survive
@jbeehner.bsky.social @irene-godoy.bsky.social
🐒 When a severe drought hit a population of wild monkeys in Costa Rica, individuals with a stronger stress response were more likely to survive
@jbeehner.bsky.social @irene-godoy.bsky.social
Stress responsiveness in a wild primate predicts survival across an extreme El Niño drought
White-faced capuchins with a stronger stress response to previous droughts were more likely to survive a severe El Niño drought.
www.science.org
January 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
🧪 Check out our new paper in Sciences Advances! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🐒 When a severe drought hit a population of wild monkeys in Costa Rica, individuals with a stronger stress response were more likely to survive
@jbeehner.bsky.social @irene-godoy.bsky.social
🐒 When a severe drought hit a population of wild monkeys in Costa Rica, individuals with a stronger stress response were more likely to survive
@jbeehner.bsky.social @irene-godoy.bsky.social
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We are delighted to announce that ManyBirds Study 1 “Evolutionary drivers of neophobia across the avian clade” is now available in pre-print: doi.org/10.31219/osf... and been submitted for peer-review publication. 1/
November 25, 2024 at 12:34 PM
We are delighted to announce that ManyBirds Study 1 “Evolutionary drivers of neophobia across the avian clade” is now available in pre-print: doi.org/10.31219/osf... and been submitted for peer-review publication. 1/
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Vocal communication in corvids: a systematic review. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... In our new paper we review 130 papers and summarise empirical evidence for socioecological factors affecting vocal communication, as well as evidence for vocal learning in different corvid species.
Vocal communication in corvids: a systematic review
Vocal communication is broadly distributed in a wide range of nonhuman animal species and is hypothesized to play an important role in mate attraction…
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January 22, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Vocal communication in corvids: a systematic review. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... In our new paper we review 130 papers and summarise empirical evidence for socioecological factors affecting vocal communication, as well as evidence for vocal learning in different corvid species.
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ETHOLOGY: Female song is traditionally understudied! In Puerto Rican Orioles, both sexes sing. How do their songs differ? 🐦🎶
Moyer et al. found distinct acoustic features-possibly relating to different functions-but no sex-specific syllable usage: doi.org/10.1111/eth....
Moyer et al. found distinct acoustic features-possibly relating to different functions-but no sex-specific syllable usage: doi.org/10.1111/eth....
Acoustic Features, Syllable Usage, and Song Rates of Male and Female Songs in a Tropical Island Songbird, the Puerto Rican Oriole
Seven of the eight acoustic measurements for Puerto Rican Oriole songs differed significantly between males and females (indicated by *, all except percent pause), Though male means differed signific...
doi.org
January 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
ETHOLOGY: Female song is traditionally understudied! In Puerto Rican Orioles, both sexes sing. How do their songs differ? 🐦🎶
Moyer et al. found distinct acoustic features-possibly relating to different functions-but no sex-specific syllable usage: doi.org/10.1111/eth....
Moyer et al. found distinct acoustic features-possibly relating to different functions-but no sex-specific syllable usage: doi.org/10.1111/eth....
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Nocturnal flight call recordings have revealed how different songbird species cooperate during migration. Cool #ornithology research led by WOS member Benjamin Van Doren!
Migrating Birds Sing to Team Up with Other Species
Songbirds may socialize across species during nighttime migrations
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January 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Nocturnal flight call recordings have revealed how different songbird species cooperate during migration. Cool #ornithology research led by WOS member Benjamin Van Doren!