Nao Ota

Cordon-bleus, the tap-dancing bird

絶海の孤島！伊豆諸島鳥島・アホウドリの楽園ライブ配信　～第1弾クロアシアホウドリ編～ youtube.com/live/dJYfvbrYB… via @YouTube

#鳥島 調査が始まりました。 #鳥島調査隊 八丈島出港の様子です。八丈島で2日間も波待ちをしていました。 この日は超晴天です、このまま天気がもつといいな！ #山階鳥研 #鳥島アホウドリ #あなたの寄附でアホウドリを復活へ #伊豆諸島鳥島 #アホウドリ

@SAvosani I haven’t seen twitter for a while and just noticed that you are now working in Japan! Congratulations!!

I went to Helgoland Düne to watch grey seals and the newborns. It was a fantastic view! ヘルゴラント島の野生アザラシ、すごい光景だった、面白かった

Observing many researchers using the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Would you forgive subordinate males for sneaking copulations at your bower?😤💫 Read more about male-male associations in spotted bowerbirds (and their issues) in our new paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… @fusanilab @KLIVVWien

Happy International Jumping Spider Day! 🕷️ To celebrate, we have another great citizen science discovery. Donna Juanita photographed this undiscovered species on her property and kindly invited us over to sample it. We later found that it also lives in a nearby nature reserve!

新しく論文が出ました。

It was an unexpected finding outside of my main study focus, but this is one of the best parts of fieldwork :)

My new fieldwork study is published in @Ecol_Evol (OPEN ACCESS)! I reported an overlooked species difference in nesting strategy (preference for nesting near wasp nests) among closely-related African finches. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Biennale in Venice

Reality and illusion: the assessment of angular separation of multi-modal signallers in a duetting bird | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Increased signal complexity is associated with increased mating success | Biology Letters royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Parasite defensive limb movements enhance acoustic signal attraction in male little torrent frogs doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

New in Science: A genetic study involving more than 2,000 dogs suggests that, contrary to popular belief, breed alone is a poor predictor of behavior. Read that research and more in this week's issue. ➡ fcld.ly/85l8lon

Non‐visual cues and indirect strategies that enable discrimination of asymmetric mates onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Star finches Neochmia ruficauda have a visual preference for white dot patterns: a possible case of trypophilia rdcu.be/cJRFn

【研究成果】 水玉柄の鳥は水玉模様が好き～コモンチョウの特性理解で，動物にみられるさまざまな模様の進化解明に新展開～（理学研究院　准教授　相馬雅代） 詳細はこちら hokudai.ac.jp/news/2022/03/p…

Male Superb Lyrebirds (Menura novaehollandiae) perform an ornate multimodal display immediately following copulation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…