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miriamkuspiel.bsky.social
@miriamkuspiel.bsky.social
Researcher in animal behaviour, acoustic communication, and social behaviours
And Olomouc gave us great good-bye party in the end! Thank you, everyone!
September 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Great people, great talks, great excursion, and amazing organisation!
September 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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September 4, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Thanks! I have never tried that, but I heard from some others that it is very difficult.
July 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
More about corvids can (soon) be found in the special collection #VocalCommunicationInCorvids in #AnimalCognition, thanks to @wascherclaudia.bsky.social and Valérie Dufour
July 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Want to know even more about magpie alarm calls? Then check out our previous publication on pair-coordinated calling in magpies: doi.org/10.1111/eth....
Pair‐Coordinated Calling: Eurasian Magpies Respond Differently to Simulated Intruder Pairs That Overlap or Alternate Their Calls
Visualisation of the two playback treatments, overlapping or alternating magpie chatter calls simulating a rival magpie pair intruding a territory. Magpies responded differently to these two treatmen...
doi.org
July 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Magpies chatter faster in response to long chatters, though total number of chatters, duration of the first response chatter, and the closest approach distance do not differ.
Are intruders that chatter longer thus more threatening? May short calls indicate a warning about a predator? Read📜
July 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Together with Arnout Lindeman, @marcnaguib.bsky.social and Sjouke Kingma, we conducted experiments on territorial magpies with playbacks of long chatter calls, short chatter calls at the same rate, and short chatter calls at a high rate.
July 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM