Ben Hirsch

Very pleased to see Matt's first dissertation chapter published.

🚨 Out this week in @pnas.org 🚨
The flagship paper from my PhD @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social - We show surprising statistical similarities in animal behaviour across states, individuals, and even species.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Behavioral sequences across multiple animal species in the wild share common structural features | PNAS Animal behavior can be decomposed into a sequence of discrete activity bouts over time. Analyzing the statistical structure of such behavioral sequ...

Behavioral sequences across multiple animal species in the wild share common structural features | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

MORNING MAGIC

Silhouetted kangaroos splash through coastal waters at daybreak. Kangaroos are excellent swimmers, using their tails as rudders.

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(PDF) Large-scale and long-term wildlife research and monitoring using camera traps: a continental synthesis PDF | Camera traps are widely used in wildlife research and monitoring, so it is imperative to understand their strengths, limitations, and potential... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...

New research! Authors examine camera trapping trends in Australia, finding strong taxonomic, geographic, and analytical biases, but also new ways to meet big conservation objectives. Great stuff! Glad to play a very small part. Congrats Tom and WildObs! ⚡️

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

For a headliner, <1 hour is too short. Exceptions: 1) The Ramones (or any other band with short songs), who normally played 25 songs in <1hr, 2) a new band with <1hr of material, and 3) music festival with tight set-times.

Very cool. Finally someone is working on urracas! I was amazed by their intelligence when I worked in Iguazu 20 years ago, and have always said someone has got to start working with them.

Looks a lot like one of the bowers on JCU's campus. The second thing I noticed were the garden veggies in the photo.

Thanks for posting the starter pack. Can I be added?
Thanks

Why did primates evolve such big brains? First study of its kind says it wasn’t for finding food The bigger the brain, the better we are at finding fruit. But is that true? A new study on wild primates refutes this idea.

And a lay article summarizing our research. theconversation.com/why-did-prim...

Twitter migration post #2: Why do primates have bigger brains? Study shows that it’s not for efficient foraging. In the Panamanian rainforest, Ben Hirsch et al. compared how capuchins, spider monkeys, coatis, and kinkajous solve the same foraging puzzle. kops.uni-konstanz.de/server/api/c...

Tardy shift from Twitter post #1: Excited to share that our paper on white-nosed coati subgrouping dynamics is out in Animal Behaviour! Using high-resolution GPS collars to track entire groups, we found that coatis consistently split with their close relatives. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...