Frontiers in Social Evolution Seminar FINE

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....

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/...

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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.

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/...

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...

FINE SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT

21 October, 11:00 New York / 17:00 Paris

Ally Harari, Department of Entomology, ARO Volcani Center, Israel

Title: Decision making in relation to sex in a moth

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Note that there will be no FINE the 7th Oct and 14th Oct.
FINE will be back 21st Oct with a talk by Alli Harari.

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

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Songs of the striped mouse show who’s friend and who’s foe Ultrasonic calls, too high for the human ear to detect, convey a wealth of information across the rodent’s territory.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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...

Ultrasonic signals support a large-scale communication landscape in wild mice: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

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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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

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.

FINE Fall 2025 will start in just 4 weeks.
Here is the preliminary program.
Stay tuned!

Here is a first glimpse of our program in fall, FINE season 11. The full program will be available in August.

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...

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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TODAYS FINE 11:00 New York / 17:00 Paeris

Geoff While, University of Tasmania, Australia

The Evolutionary Ecology of Family Living in Lizards

Australian lizards exhibit remarkable diversity in social organization based around family life.

YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...

TODAYS FINE, May 13th 2025, 11 AM NYC / 5 PM Paris
Erin Siracussa, University of Exeter, United Kingdom

Title: Social ageing: Toward a deeper understanding of the intersection between sociality and senescence

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Tuesday, May 6th 2025, 11 AM NYC / 5 PM Paris
Eli Strauss, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany

Title: Exploring nepotistic societies with spotted hyenas

Live on zoom for subscribers.
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YouTube video by Seminar on Frontiers in Social Evolution 29 April 2025, Isabella Capelini, Parental Care in Amphibians

In case you missed the live FINE on Tuesday, you can watch here the amazing talk by Isabella Capelini about the evolution of parental care in amphibians.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEun...

Researchers Here you can introduce yourself. Please send us to  solitary.living.evolution@gmail.com  profiles of yourself, your students, your colleagues, following the same format as in the examples you find...

The homepage on solitary living has just been updated. Let me know if you have any publications, commentaries, as well as descriptions of your solitary study species and yourself to be included into our next Newsletter and the homepage.

solitaryliving.weebly.com/researchers....

TODAYS FINE

April 29th 2025, Isabella Capelini, Queens University, Belfast, Ireland
Title: Drivers and consequences of the evolution of parental care diversity in amphibians.

How to attend:
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The function of plants collected by bush Karoo rats (Otomys unisulcatus): Do dried up food plants represent stored food? Food storing to cope with food reduction during winter has been observed in many rodents in the northern hemisphere. Food storing could also be adapti…

Bush Karoo rats sometimes eat left overs, but do not actively store food. Thus, their dried plant material -plantong - is similar to South African biltong with regards to heat conserving food, but less so in function.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

YouTube video by Seminar on Frontiers in Social Evolution 15th April 2025, Mike Webster: Sexual signals & divergence in Australian fairywrens

Watch here last weeks FINE by Mike Webster about

Sexual signals & divergence in Australian fairywrens: From genes to behavior to speciation

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNMD...

Todays FINE
FINE SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT

April 22nd, Martín Kowaleski

Title: Life history traits and social dynamics in black and gold howler monkeys (Alouatta caraya) in northern Argentina

April 22nd, presentation starts at 11:00 NYC / 17:00 Paris.

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April 15th, Mike Webster, Cornell University, USA
Starts at 11:00 NYC / 17:00 Paris.

Title: Sexual signals & divergence in Australian fairywrens: From fenes to behavior to speciation

Theory suggests that social interactions play a critical role in the process of speciation.

What the surprising lives of solitary animals reveals about us A new understanding of why some animals evolved to be loners, and the benefits that brings, shows that a social lifestyle isn’t necessarily superior

www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

Home range sizes correlate positively with resting metabolic rate in bush Karoo rats (Otomys unisulcatus) - Mammal Research Home range size limits the amount of resources an individual can access; hence, it often increases with energy demands. However, maintaining a large home range also requires more energy expenditure, a...

In this paper, Qiu and Makuya study the relationship between resting metabolic rate and range size of bush Karoo rats. They show that larger range sizes provides sufficient energy to support increased RMR in female bush Karoo rats.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

African striped mice control the production and temporal dynamics of their vocalisations, addressing targeted
information to specific receivers via the acoustic channel.

doi.org/10.1016/j.bb...

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