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2 weeks ago | 
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Michael Chimento |Lucy Aplin |Fumihiro Kano
1 INTRODUCTION Automated, large-scale data collection methods to measure animals' behaviour in their natural habitat are of growing importance for understanding social systems (Farine et al., 2014, 2015), migration and dispersal (Flack et al., 2018, 2022; Klarevas-Irby et al., 2021), disease and information transmission (Aplin et al., 2015; Fang et al., 2020; Farine, Aplin, et al., 2015) responses to climate and weather events (Hawkes et al., 2009; Nourani et al., 2023), and conservation...
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1 month ago | 
biorxiv.org | Julia Penndorf |Damien R. Farine |JOHN MARTIN |Lucy Aplin
AbstractDominance hierarchies are a common feature of stable groups, allowing animals to limit the costs of fighting over access to resources. However, while the emergence of dominance is relatively well known from species that form stable groups, less is known about whether hierarchies are maintained in societies with open group membership.
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1 month ago | 
self-build.co.uk | Lucy Aplin
Garden rooms are a great way for you add charm, useful space and an extra appeal to your home’s plot.
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2 months ago | 
self-build.co.uk | Lucy Aplin
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Feb 19, 2025 | 
galwaybeo.ie | Lucy Aplin
Condensation is the grim reality for many homeowners and renters across Ireland - especially during the cold winter, as dampness can cause mould damage. Not only are draughty rooms and black mould bad for inhabitants' health but they can also impact house value. There are various viral "hacks" floating around social media that attempt to tackle the problem, but not all are successful, leave rooms freezing cold and might simply waste time and money.
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Feb 18, 2025 | 
corkbeo.ie | Lucy Aplin
Condensation is the grim reality for many homeowners and renters across Ireland - especially during the cold winter, as dampness can cause mould damage. Not only are draughty rooms and black mould bad for inhabitants' health but they can also impact house value. There are various viral "hacks" floating around social media that attempt to tackle the problem, but not all are successful, leave rooms freezing cold and might simply waste time and money.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
biorxiv.org | Michael Chimento |Edwin S. Dalmaijer |Barbara C. Klump |Lucy Aplin
AbstractHuman-modified environments offer novel resources, but their exploitation can be a source of human-wildlife conflict. Residents of Sydney have reported increasing cases of bin-opening behavior by sulphur-crested cockatoos (Cacatua galerita), with evidence this behavior is socially learned between birds. Households protected their bins, yet cockatoos have learned to defeat these defences. In response, residents increase their defence-level, setting the stage for a behavioral "arms race".
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
biorxiv.org | Yixuan Zhang |Xinyi Jiang |Lucy Aplin |Daiping Wang
AbstractSocial network structure plays a key role in shaping processes in animal populations. These networks often show distinct patterns in humans and other large mammals, with relationship strengths organized into different tiers. Here, we used continuous fine-scale tracking of four large captive colonies of zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata), revealing that zebra finches consistently have 1-2 closest contacts, 6-7 close contacts, and 22-24 strong contacts.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
journals.plos.org | Michael Chimento |Gustavo Alarcón-Nieto |Lucy Aplin
Citation: Chimento M, Alarcón-Nieto G, Aplin LM (2024) Immigrant birds learn from socially observed differences in payoffs when their environment changes. PLoS Biol 22(11): e3002699. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002699Academic Editor: Lars Chittka, Queen Mary University of London, UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELANDReceived: May 23, 2024; Accepted: September 24, 2024; Published: November 14, 2024Copyright: © 2024 Chimento et al.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
biorxiv.org | Simeon Q Smeele |Juan Carlos Senar |Mary Brooke McElreath |Lucy Aplin
AbstractThe social complexity hypothesis argues that communicative complexity arises as a result of social complexity, with this occurring through several potential mechanisms including plasticity and selection. Most research to date has focused on ultimate drivers of repertoire size, for example finding that cooperative breeding species exhibit larger repertoires. Until this date no study has focused on individual-level drivers of vocal diversity.
