Debottam Bhattacharjee
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Debottam Bhattacharjee
@debottam1991.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Fellow @CityUHongKong, Previously Marie Curie Fellow @UniUtrecht, PhD in animal behaviour from @iiserkol. 🐾🐒 🐃

Associate Editor: iScience-Cell Press

Animal behaviour, Comparative psychology, Behavioural ecology

https://www.dbcognition.co.in
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November 6, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Reposted by Debottam Bhattacharjee
You can find out more about HK feral cattle phenotypes in our paper royalsocietypublishing-org/doi/10.1098/..., and learn more about this unique populations on our website hkcattleresearch.org
And let us know your thought about our findings 😀
Hong Kong Feral Cattle Research
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hkcattleresearch.org
September 17, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Reposted by Debottam Bhattacharjee
We present the first evidence of seasonal coat colour changes in cattle, with paler individuals in the wet season and darker ones in the dry season, suggesting plastic phenotypes. The main driver of seasonal coat colour appears to be thermoregulation, supporting the thermal melanism hypothesis.
September 17, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Reposted by Debottam Bhattacharjee
We found that feral cattle were more likely to intervene in allogrooming interactions if they had a strong social bond with one animal but not the other, dominant animals were more likely to be successful interveners, and that allogrooming duration increased when more cattle were nearby.
July 9, 2025 at 1:43 AM