Carsten Schradin
@carsten-schradin.bsky.social
Behavioral ecologist studying social evolution in comparative studies and long-term field studies in South Africa. Studying the solitary bush Karoo rat and the socially flexible striped mouse. Animal behavior. Succulent Karoo Research Station. CNRS, IPHC.
Research monopolization in the biological sciences: Charismatic species are partly to blame - Tensen - People and Nature - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Research monopolization in the biological sciences: Charismatic species are partly to blame
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October 31, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Research monopolization in the biological sciences: Charismatic species are partly to blame - Tensen - People and Nature - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Overall, our findings indicate mutual tolerance between neighbours of this solitary species in relation to shared foraging grounds. This mutual tolerance may facilitate spatial overlap among kin and could represent a precursor to more complex cooperative behaviour.
Overall, our findings indicate mutual tolerance between neighbours of this solitary species in relation to shared foraging grounds. This mutual tolerance may facilitate spatial overlap among kin and could represent a precursor to more complex cooperative behaviour.
Shared foraging grounds in a solitary rodent: evidence for mutual tolerance and kin-based spatial overlap?
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October 24, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Overall, our findings indicate mutual tolerance between neighbours of this solitary species in relation to shared foraging grounds. This mutual tolerance may facilitate spatial overlap among kin and could represent a precursor to more complex cooperative behaviour.
Overall, our findings indicate mutual tolerance between neighbours of this solitary species in relation to shared foraging grounds. This mutual tolerance may facilitate spatial overlap among kin and could represent a precursor to more complex cooperative behaviour.
An integrative, peer‐reviewed and open‐source cooperative‐breeding database (Co‐BreeD) - Ben Mocha - Journal of Animal Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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....
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October 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
An integrative, peer‐reviewed and open‐source cooperative‐breeding database (Co‐BreeD) - Ben Mocha - Journal of Animal Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Evolutionary influences on multiple paternity in mammals
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October 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Evolutionary influences on multiple paternity in mammals
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Special FINE 30th September 2025
17:00 Paris / 11:00 New York
60min panel talks followed by 60min general discussion
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17:00 Paris / 11:00 New York
60min panel talks followed by 60min general discussion
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September 29, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Special FINE 30th September 2025
17:00 Paris / 11:00 New York
60min panel talks followed by 60min general discussion
Zoom link opens at 16 :45 /10:45
urosario.zoom.us/j/83337249371
Meeting ID: 833 3724 9371
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
17:00 Paris / 11:00 New York
60min panel talks followed by 60min general discussion
Zoom link opens at 16 :45 /10:45
urosario.zoom.us/j/83337249371
Meeting ID: 833 3724 9371
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
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DONT miss todays FINE
23rd September, James Tumulty, Rhodes College, USA
Title: Evidence of a selective link between cooperation and individual recognition in a paper wasp.
Live on YoutTube 11:00 New York / 17:00 Paris
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23rd September, James Tumulty, Rhodes College, USA
Title: Evidence of a selective link between cooperation and individual recognition in a paper wasp.
Live on YoutTube 11:00 New York / 17:00 Paris
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September 23, 2025 at 8:19 AM
DONT miss todays FINE
23rd September, James Tumulty, Rhodes College, USA
Title: Evidence of a selective link between cooperation and individual recognition in a paper wasp.
Live on YoutTube 11:00 New York / 17:00 Paris
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23rd September, James Tumulty, Rhodes College, USA
Title: Evidence of a selective link between cooperation and individual recognition in a paper wasp.
Live on YoutTube 11:00 New York / 17:00 Paris
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Ultrasonic signals support a large-scale communication landscape in wild mice: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Ultrasonic signals support a large-scale communication landscape in wild mice
Perrier et al. show that wild African striped mice (R. pumilio) use short-range ultrasonic
signals for large-scale communication. By vocalizing at key territorial locations,
they extend the functional...
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September 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Ultrasonic signals support a large-scale communication landscape in wild mice: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Comparative life-cycle analyses reveal interacting climatic and biotic drivers of population responses to climate change url: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Comparative life-cycle analyses reveal interacting climatic and biotic drivers of population responses to climate change
Abstract. Responses of natural populations to climate change are driven by how multiple climatic and biotic factors affect survival and reproduction, and u
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September 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Comparative life-cycle analyses reveal interacting climatic and biotic drivers of population responses to climate change url: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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Today FINE
9th September, Adam Reddon, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
17:00 Paris / 11:00 New York
Title: Conflict management in social fishes
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9th September, Adam Reddon, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
17:00 Paris / 11:00 New York
Title: Conflict management in social fishes
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September 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Today FINE
9th September, Adam Reddon, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
17:00 Paris / 11:00 New York
Title: Conflict management in social fishes
Zoom link opens at 16 :45 /10:45 urosario.zoom.us/j/82256099694
9th September, Adam Reddon, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
17:00 Paris / 11:00 New York
Title: Conflict management in social fishes
Zoom link opens at 16 :45 /10:45 urosario.zoom.us/j/82256099694
Reposted by Carsten Schradin
Join us tomorrow for the first FINE of the Fall 2025:
2nd September, Andrew Bass, Cornell University (USA)
Title: Crystal Clear Brains: Benefits & Tradeoffs of Miniaturization in Danionella Fishes
When: 2nd September, presentation starts at 11:00 NYC / 17:00 Paris.
2nd September, Andrew Bass, Cornell University (USA)
Title: Crystal Clear Brains: Benefits & Tradeoffs of Miniaturization in Danionella Fishes
When: 2nd September, presentation starts at 11:00 NYC / 17:00 Paris.
September 1, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Join us tomorrow for the first FINE of the Fall 2025:
2nd September, Andrew Bass, Cornell University (USA)
Title: Crystal Clear Brains: Benefits & Tradeoffs of Miniaturization in Danionella Fishes
When: 2nd September, presentation starts at 11:00 NYC / 17:00 Paris.
2nd September, Andrew Bass, Cornell University (USA)
Title: Crystal Clear Brains: Benefits & Tradeoffs of Miniaturization in Danionella Fishes
When: 2nd September, presentation starts at 11:00 NYC / 17:00 Paris.
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Kotz, Amano & Watson show that exposure to heat extremes is associated with declines in bird populations, especially in tropical regions
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Large reductions in tropical bird abundance attributable to heat extreme intensification - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Climate change poses a growing threat to biodiversity, but disentangling its overall impact from other anthropogenic stressors is challenging. Here the authors use a data-driven climate attribution fr...
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August 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Kotz, Amano & Watson show that exposure to heat extremes is associated with declines in bird populations, especially in tropical regions
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Our results revise prevailing theories of mammalian social evolution, revealing that pair-living emerged early, shifting the focus of mammalian social evolution from the origins of pair-living to the origins of group-living.
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Pair-Living Emerged Early in Placental Mammals
It is widely assumed that the first placental mammals were solitary. This assumption has been used as the default in previous comparative studies, but has never been tested independently. Here, we com...
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July 31, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Our results revise prevailing theories of mammalian social evolution, revealing that pair-living emerged early, shifting the focus of mammalian social evolution from the origins of pair-living to the origins of group-living.
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Here we first quantified and described bush Karoo rat lodges as an example of animal architecture, then compared conditions inside versus outside the architecture, before experimentally testing for its function.
Here we first quantified and described bush Karoo rat lodges as an example of animal architecture, then compared conditions inside versus outside the architecture, before experimentally testing for its function.
Thermal Refuges as Extended Phenotypes: Lodge Construction by Bush Karoo Rats
Animal architecture has received considerable attention as an extended phenotype that buffers organisms against environmental harshness. However, few studies have described animal architecture in a re...
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July 31, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Here we first quantified and described bush Karoo rat lodges as an example of animal architecture, then compared conditions inside versus outside the architecture, before experimentally testing for its function.
Here we first quantified and described bush Karoo rat lodges as an example of animal architecture, then compared conditions inside versus outside the architecture, before experimentally testing for its function.
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Close encounters of the friendly kind: pacific between‐group interactions in primates - Grueter - Biological Reviews - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Close encounters of the friendly kind: pacific between‐group interactions in primates
While intergroup conflict features prominently in the behavioural ecology literature, its antonym, intergroup peace, has been a rather neglected phenomenon until recently. Neighbourly relations and a....
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June 17, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Close encounters of the friendly kind: pacific between‐group interactions in primates - Grueter - Biological Reviews - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Front page of the New York Post.
June 6, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Front page of the New York Post.
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Last week season 10 of Fine finished.
You can watch each of the exciting talks we had in this and all previous seasons on our YouTube channel
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You can watch each of the exciting talks we had in this and all previous seasons on our YouTube channel
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Seminar on Frontiers in Social Evolution
International Remote Seminar on Frontiers in Social Evolution (FINE)
• Meet weekly with people worldwide who are fascinated by social evolution.
• Hear talks about sociality of naturally occurring p...
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May 27, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Last week season 10 of Fine finished.
You can watch each of the exciting talks we had in this and all previous seasons on our YouTube channel
www.youtube.com/@seminaronfr...
You can watch each of the exciting talks we had in this and all previous seasons on our YouTube channel
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