Avery Maune

Origins of the kiss - DISI Exploring our world's diverse forms of mind—human, animal, machine—from diverse perspectives.

My interview with @manymindspod.bsky.social! Come for a deep dive into the evolution of kissing 💋, stay for the earth-shattering insights 🤯

"fish don't run" 🐠🏃

"monkeys tend to loll around quite a lot" 🙈

"chimps have moved on to grass-in-bumhole behaviour" 🍑🌱

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The significance of disentangling shared mating traits: A review of empirical approaches - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Sexual conflict has been shown to be widespread between males and females. In most cases, shared mating traits like copulation duration or sperm transfer speed are at the heart of such conflicts as th...

Happy 2026! I am glad to have ended 2025 one step closer to finishing my PhD.

Published the first chapter of my thesis where we talk about the importance and ways of studying sex-specific effects while investigating shared mating traits.

Read here: doi.org/10.1007/s002...

The impact of urbanisation on social behaviour: a comprehensive review Urbanisation is a key driver of global environmental change and presents animals with novel stressors and challenges. It can fundamentally influence social behaviour and has the potential to reshape ...

2025. The impact of urbanisation on social behaviour: a comprehensive review. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The impact of urbanisation on social behaviour: a comprehensive review Urbanisation is a key driver of global environmental change and presents animals with novel stressors and challenges. It can fundamentally influence social behaviour and has the potential to reshape ...

🎉 Very excited to share that our review on the impact of urbanization on animal social behaviour is out now in Biological Reviews!

We synthesize evidence across taxa to understand how city life reshapes social systems 🏙️🐦🐒🦎🦝🐟

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@lizabeldm.bsky.social

City lizards are more social Abstract. Cities are expanding globally, exposing animals to novel ecological conditions that can alter the frequency and nature of their social interactio

1/9 I came across this paper published in #BiologyLetters @royalsociety.org by @averymaune.bsky.social and her collaborators, while working on a university project. It is about social structure in urban lizards and how cities seem to shape interaction amongst individuals.

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Thanks for sharing! I’m really glad you enjoyed our paper 😊 Very cool you’re observing something similar with the water monitors!

Diagram showing experimental design of an overwintering temperature assay in lizards. We implemented a cool winter, a warm winter, and a treatment where the temp fluctuated between these two.

New paper out now in @jexpbiol.bsky.social! Led by star PhD student @miaryras.bsky.social, we tested the effects of winter warming (a constant increase as well as fluctuating temps - see pic) on common wall lizard behaviour and physiology.
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Jolie, an adult female chimpanzee of the Ngogo community in Kibale National Park, Uganda, with sleeping infant son, Zawinul. CREDIT: Kevin Langergraber

After the Ngogo chimpanzee group killed 21 members of neighboring groups and expanded their territory by 22%, female birth rates more than doubled and infant survival increased sharply—showing clear fitness benefits from intergroup killing. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/TKmf50XuPjY

How can we make scientific events such as #conferences more #inclusive? Read about the study we conducted during #Behaviour2023 as a nice and concise summary in the press-release here 👉 aktuell.uni-bielefeld.de/2025/10/06/r...

Watch #BiologyLetters author Avery Maune talk about new research revealing that urbanization can reshape social behaviour in the common wall lizard (Podarcis muralis): cassyni.com/events/3Hp2U... #AnimalBehaviour #ethology

City lizards are more social. In a new paper in #BiologyLetters, social network analysis revealed that urban lizards have more social connections and stronger bonds than their non-urban counterparts. buff.ly/kqf2YfZ | #Behaviour #UrbanEcology

New paper! 🦎
Urbanization reshapes the social behaviour of wall lizards

Now out in #BiologyLetters @royalsocietypublishing.org
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Three common wall lizards basking next to each other on a stone wall in an urban habitat in Croatia.

📢 City lizards are more social !
Thrilled to share the first paper from my PhD, out now in #BiologyLetters @royalsocietypublishing.org !

We show that urban lizards are more social than their non-urban counterparts 🦎🏙️🌳🧪

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Would love to be added! I study how urbanization affects social behavior in lizards 😊

I would love to be added! I’m a PhD student studying how urbanization affects social behavior in lizards 😊🦎

Hi Timothée! I am a PhD student studying behavioral ecology and would love to be added 😊

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Familiarity mediated by body size predicts intraspecific aggression in farming damselfishes - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Abstract Aggressive territoriality can have significant benefits for resource acquisition yet is a costly behaviour. Selection should therefore favour mechanisms that allow individuals to modify their...

PAPER: Territorial damselfish are more aggressive to neighbours if their neighbour is larger, but this weakens If they don't know each other link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Led by my awesome former PhD student @sheppardcat.bsky.social @lec-reefs.bsky.social @envisiondtp.bsky.social #FishInBottles