William O'Hearn

New paper out in iScience. We found the pattern of Guinea baboon meat transfers follows the shape of their nested multi-level society. Transfers are more tolerant at the society's lower level and are more likely to occur along stronger social relationships cell.com/iscience/fullt…

🚨New paper alert! 🐵 We compared yawning in geladas vs hamadryas baboons and guess what? Differences in the sociobiology of the two species seem to be reflected in the expression of the behaviour :) OA on @AmJournalPrimat doi.org/10.1002/ajp.70…

A terrific thanks to all co-authors, funding sources @dfg_public, @DAAD_Germany and , collaborators like Tiergarten Nurnberg #bestbaboons @royalsociety (8/8)

Overall, our study highlights that information about the foraging skills of group members can be used flexibly to inform social strategies using simple cognitive processes (7/8)

We found that females in the one-male-units of the lever-pulling-males groomed him 10 times more often and started 4 times more fights with one another, competing with one another over access to the male and the food that a close relationship with him granted (4/8)

We measured how much each individual ate from the reward as well as all social interactions directed at our lever-pulling-males in the weeks before, during, and after daily box presentations in order to detect any changes in their treatment (3/8)

BEHOLD THE FLAGSHIP PAPER OF MY PHD! 🚢 I trained wild and zoo housed Guinea baboons to pull a lever for peanuts to test whether they monitored the foraging skills of others and used the information to inform their social choices 🧵 (1/9) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

To ask our question we manipulated the foraging skills of one male per group by giving them, and them alone, the ability to create a shareable pile of peanuts by pulling the lever on our food box (2/8)

Congratulations to all our student prize winners and runners up! #EFP2024

Heads up animal behavior researchers! Amazing opportunity: 3 3-year independent postdoctoral fellowships based in Panama at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Deadline July 15. Come collaborate with @livingingroups @MPI_animalbehav stri.si.edu/academic-progr……

Want to do an MSc? Exeter is a world leader in animal behaviour research and our MSc in Animal Behaviour alumni go on to exciting careers. Join us *Thurs June 6 at 4pm BST* for a Teams info session on the course Meeting ID: 344 656 149 587 Passcode: GuDKD7 #a2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">exeter.ac.uk/research/group…

🤩I am so excited to share our newly published article "Review of the global research on Hyaenidae and implications for conservation and management", out today in @Mammal_Society Mammal Review. The result of TONS of work by some of us in @HyaenaSG. (1/n) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

Zzzzzzzzzzzz! Don't sleep through the November 20 deadline! Fully funded PhD to explore how sleep shapes societies, and societies shape sleep! imprs-qbee.mpg.de/69052/doctoral… @livingingroups @MPI_animalbehav @UniKonstanz @CBehav #PhDpositions #Academic

POSTDOC application deadline *THIS SUNDAY Nov 26th*. Work on social dynamics in the face of aging and natural disasters with me @CrabExeter Apply: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecrui… FAQs: docs.google.com/document/d/1xw…

2 weeks left to apply! Looking for a POSTDOC to work on social and environmental aging with me at @CrabExeter, and with @nyuprimatology + @SMack_Lab. DEADLINE Nov 26th. Details from @UoE_Jobs here: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecrui… Extra info: docs.google.com/document/d/1xw

PhD studentship opportunity with @AndyDHigginson, me & @C_C_Ioannou. Work on social networks, game theory, and the evolution of relationships using theoretical models, field and lab-based animals. APPLY BY Jan 9th 2024. Info here: exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/…

Currently recruiting a new Postdoc and a PhD student to work in @CRABexeter on social networks – posts on the two opportunities in the 🧵

New PhD position on individual differences in stress reactivity in baboons with field work in South Africa @TrentUni @PsychologyNTU @evo_NTU with me, @rich_mcfarland and @StefanoKaburu Competitive, fully funded studentship. Details: tinyurl.com/36y4ce8b