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Marianne Freeman (she/her)

@msfreeman.bsky.social

Animal Researcher and Lecturer | Welfare | Behaviour | Conservation | Education | Management | Zoo

214 Followers  |  416 Following  |  6 Posts  |  Joined: 20.11.2024  |  1.5264

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A white and gray dog touches a yellow dot hanging on the wall with his nose. Text says ManyDogs 2 - Join the Team!

A white and gray dog touches a yellow dot hanging on the wall with his nose. Text says ManyDogs 2 - Join the Team!

🚨 Calling all dog behavior & cognition researchers - ManyDogs Project is launching ManyDogs 2!

🔍🐕‍🦺We're studying overimitation: Do dogs copy irrelevant actions just b/c their favorite human does them?

Email manydogsproject2@gmail.com to collaborate globally and contribute to reproducible science!

22.07.2025 02:19 — 👍 55    🔁 41    💬 0    📌 6

📢📰What is #ManyZoos? Our founders just published a concept paper! 🥳 V. grateful to MZ committee members, mentors, & reviewers & excited for what the future holds! #ZooBiology #AZA #EAZA #WAZA #BIAZA @drelliephants.bsky.social @msfreeman.bsky.social @fayclark.bsky.social @lisapbarrett.bsky.social

29.07.2025 16:41 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Challenges and promises of big team comparative cognition Nature Human Behaviour - Big team science has the potential to reshape comparative cognition research, but its implementation — especially in making fair comparisons between species, handling...

Have you heard about Big Team Comparative Cognition? Read more here: rdcu.be/d30KP. DOI here: doi.org/10.1038/s41562…. @SpringerNature, #BigTeamScience, #BTS, #OpenScience.

18.12.2024 21:35 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

@manygoatsproject.bsky.social is on blue sky. Give us a follow if you are interested in goats or general livestock welfare research

13.12.2024 10:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A great talk #ASABWinter2024 to promote open science practices

12.12.2024 15:15 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Looking forward to this, check out our poster on whether there is analysis bias in zoo research

10.12.2024 23:16 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The diet of free-ranging cats varies between continents.
Cats prey most frequently on birds in Europe and North America, while predation on mammals is greatest in Australia. Paper in @ecography.bsky.social: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #bioinvasion #InvasiveSpecies

24.11.2024 09:44 — 👍 19    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
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We are removing the largest and longest-lived animals, which can be detrimental to those species dependent on migration, sociality, and cultural transmission to survive. Paper in Science by @kellerfish.bsky.social et al.: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

22.11.2024 19:43 — 👍 74    🔁 23    💬 0    📌 1

Ha yes, of course, it goes both ways. I was just glad I remembered and managed to stay up. Too often I sign up to talks and forget about them when they are at night. Great job organising this one.

22.11.2024 14:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m a little sleepy 😴 this morning after staying up last night (UK time) to watch the Animal Welfare Science Centre Research Showcase 2024. It was worth it to catch @drmiacobb.bsky.social talk on canine “stress” indicators.

22.11.2024 07:06 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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