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Balboni I, Rampinini A, Kepinska O, Berthele R, Golestani N. Brain activation for language and its relationship to cognitive and linguistic measures. Cerebral Cortex. 2025 Aug 1;35(8):bhaf231. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhaf231

Kölzsch A, Safi K, Armfield MM, Beaupre C, Bennitt E, Böck M et al. Citizen scientists for MoveApps: Innovations and insights from volunteer coders in wildlife conservation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 2025 Aug;16(8):1550-1563. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.70101

Shaw AK, Fouda L, Mezzini S, Kim D, Chatterjee N, Wolfson D et al. Perceived and observed biases within scientific communities: a case study in movement ecology. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2025 Jul 23;292(2051):20250679. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2025.0679

Boucherie PH, Murari G, Svitil EA, Bugnyar T. Rearing group size in young ravens: stress load or social opportunity? Royal Society Open Science. 2025 Jul 23;12(7):250479. Epub 2025 Jul 23. doi: 10.1098/rsos.250479

Common L, Albán Morales K, Katsis A, Kleindorfer S. Personality in the parasitic avian vampire fly (Philornis downsi). Behaviour: an international journal of behaviourial biology. 2025 Jul 14;162(6-8):545 - 568. Epub 2025. doi: 10.1163/1568539X-bja10317

Eleuteri V, Bates L, Nyaradzo Masarira Y, Plotnik JM, Hobaiter C, Stoeger A. Investigating intentionality in elephant gestural communication. The Royal Society Open Science. 2025 Jul 9;12(7):242203. doi: 10.1098/rsos.242203

Santacà M, Wilkinson A, Stancher G, Sovrano VA, Bisazza A. Lizards and tortoises show evidence of low inhibitory control. Scientific Reports. 2025 Jul 2;15(1):23446. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-08373-9

de Jong ME, Slettenhaar AJ, Fokkema RW, Leh M, Verhoeven MA, Griffin LR et al. Diel rhythmicity of activity and corticosterone metabolites in Arctic barnacle geese during breeding. Behavioral Ecology. 2025 Jul 1;36(4):araf071. doi: 10.1093/beheco/araf071

Halloway AH, Rust N, Deimel C, Quigley C, Anon. Disability in ecology and evolution. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 2025 Jul;40(7):613-618. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2025.05.005

Popescu T, Fitch WT. Music and animal song follow a mode of extra-genomic evolution similar to that of language. Physics of Life Reviews. 2025 Jul;53:141-143. Epub 2025 Feb 28. doi: 10.1016/j.plrev.2025.02.009

Calabretta E, Canoine V, Cardinale M, Maggini I, Fusani L. Passerine stopover physiology: weather variability does not alter corticosterone dynamics after sea crossing. Journal of Avian Biology. 2025 Jul;2025(4):e03474. doi: 10.1002/jav.03474

Dehove M, Mikuni J, Podolin N, Leder H, Oberzaucher E. The Impact of Urban art on Wellbeing: A Laboratory Study. Empirical Studies of the Arts. 2025 Jul;43(2):1240-1268. doi: 10.1177/02762374241298878

Scheiber IBR, Slettenhaar A, Loonen M, de Jong ME. Dads on Duty: First account of nest sitting in Barnacle ganders. Ardea. 2025 Jun 13;113(1):1-11.

Klump BC, Walter D, Martin JM, Aplin LM. Emergence of a novel drinking innovation in an urban population of sulphur-crested cockatoos, Cacatua galerita. Biology Letters. 2025 Jun 4;21(6):20250010. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2025.0010

Carrard T, Nourani E, Jansing L, Zimmermann T, Sumasgutner P, Tschumi M et al. Golden eagles regularly use gravity waves to soar: new insights from high-resolution weather data. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 2025 Jun;22(227):20240891. Epub 2025 Jun 4. doi: 10.1101/2024.10.29.620992, 10.1098/rsif.2024.0891, 10.1098/rsif.2024.0891

Todorova B, Steininger MO, Lamm C, Doell KC. Neuroscience and climate action: intersecting pathways for brain and planetary health. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 2025 Jun;63:101522. doi: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2025.101522

Turker S, Fumagalli B, Hartwigsen G, Kuhnke P. The 'reading' brain: Meta-analytic insight into functional activation during reading in adults. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews . 2025 Jun;173:106166. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106166

Eleuteri V, van der Werff J, Wilhelm W, Soldati A, Crockford C, Desai N et al. Chimpanzee drumming shows rhythmicity and subspecies variation. Current Biology. 2025 May 19;35(10):2448-2456.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.04.019

Nguyen TH, Schausberger P. Parental and personal experience drive personality formation and individual niche diversification in group-living mites. iScience. 2025 May 16;28(5):112424. Epub 2025 Apr 14. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.112424

Rodseth E, Amar A, Sumasgutner P, Ingle R. Plumage polymorphism in the black sparrowhawk (Accipiter melanoleucus) is strongly associated with the expression level of agouti signaling protein. Journal of Heredity. 2025 May 1;116(3):193-207. esae068. doi: 10.1093/jhered/esae068

Brosche K, McGetrick J, Rault JL. Step Aside! Assessing Body Awareness In Pigs Using A Body-As-An-Obstacle Task. Animal Behavior and Cognition. 2025 May 1;12(2):172-234. doi: 10.26451/abc.12.02.02.2025

Pahl A, Rault JL, McGetrick J, Eggert A, Nawroth C, Langbein J. Do goats exhibit prosocial motivation? Insights from a novel food-giving paradigm. Royal Society Open Science. 2025 May;12(5):250556. doi: 10.1098/rsos.250556

Katsis A, Common L, Lesigang J, Bold A, Fröhlich M, Schmincke JM et al. Flight initiation distance is repeatable and geographically flexible in greylag geese Anser anser. Journal of Avian Biology. 2025 May;2025(3):e03288. doi: 10.1111/jav.03288