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Em Sundby
@emsundby.bsky.social
🐾 Comparative Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠

🐶 MSc student studying dog object ownership
🇨🇦 Queen's University
🐱 Cat parent
🏳️‍🌈 They/them

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1/7 First evidence of tool making and tool use in wild blue jays.

This is a single observation of an adult tearing off a piece of bark and inserting it into a branch in close proximity to a spider.

(paper) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
via @explanimals.bsky.social
March 29, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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🦮 Attention dog owners! One of my trainees is examining the relationship between dogs and toys, and their owner’s thoughts about that relationship. Want to help?
 
If you have a few minutes, you can complete the survey here: queensu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
February 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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A major conservation win! I won't try to conceal my excitement. This Hawaiian crow was BROUGHT BACK FROM EXTINCTION. Well done to everyone involved.

Hawaiian crow that went extinct in the wild decades ago released on Maui www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024... #crow #crows #corvids #conservation 🌎
Hawaiian crow that went extinct in the wild decades ago released on Maui
Two female and three male alala released after years of preparation in ongoing effort to return species to its home
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2024 at 3:05 AM
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New bowerbird paper! Male great bowerbirds build display courts that are linked to mating success, and we found that object availability 🧱 rather than male building ability 👷 explains variation in court quality rb.gy/vznmm7
February 5, 2024 at 1:54 PM
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📢Starter pack for canine science: go.bsky.app/TPPUQyb Please share & all suggestions for more folks to include are extremely welcome and appreciated! 🐶🙌
November 12, 2024 at 8:36 PM
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I hope all my academic folk have an orderly and stress-free conclusion to your semesters. I know that won't happen, but I wish it for you anyway!
December 9, 2024 at 3:49 PM
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I'm now obsessed

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Is my blue your blue?
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September 3, 2024 at 10:11 AM
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There are now some wonderful books for young people about queerness in nature - *perfect* for Christmas stockings! 🌈📚🎅🦌🎁

#books #queer #LGBTQ+ #PrideInSTEM #Christmas
December 9, 2024 at 1:38 PM