Animal Behavior and Cognition

MoveFormer: a Transformer-based model for step-selection animal movement modelling

1. Ondřej Cífka
2. Simon Chamaillé-Jammes
3. Antoine Liutkus

Reviewed by Peer Community in Ecology

Finding Drug Repurposing Candidates for Neurodegenerative Diseases using Zebrafish Behavioral Profiles

1. Thaís Del Rosario Hernández
2. Sayali V Gore
3. Jill A Kreiling
4. Robbert Creton

Reviewed by Arcadia Science

Mechanical vibration patterns elicit behavioral transitions and habituation in crawling Drosophila larvae

1. Alexander Berne
2. Tom Zhang
3. Joseph Shomar
4. Anggie J Ferrer
5. Aaron Valdes
6. Tomoko Ohyama
7. Mason Klein

• Curated by eLife

  Evaluation Summary:

  This is a strong manuscript due to its sophisticated behavioral analysis and modeling of behavioral output. The system and results provide a framework for future genetic analysis examining the biological basis of sensory behaviors.

  (This preprint has been reviewed by eLife. We include the public reviews from the reviewers here; the authors also receive private feedback with suggested changes to the manuscript. Reviewer #2 agreed to share their name with the authors.)

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Validation of a Radio frequency identification system for tracking location of laying hens in a quasi-commercial aviary system

1. Sabine G. Gebhardt-Henrich
2. Alexander Kashev
3. Matthew B. Petelle
4. Michael J. Toscano

Reviewed by Peer Community in Animal Science

Higher social tolerance is associated with more complex facial behavior in macaques

1. Alan V Rincon
2. Bridget M Waller
3. Julie Duboscq
4. Alexander Mielke
5. Claire Pérez
6. Peter R Clark
7. Jérôme Micheletta

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  eLife assessment

  This study shows important evidence of the correlation between social tolerance and communicative complexity in a comparison of three macaque species. Notably, the authors use an innovative, detailed methodology for quantifying facial expressions during social interactions. The results are convincing regarding a positive association between social complexity and facial behaviour, which should stimulate further comparative research in this field.

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Urban birds’ tolerance towards humans was largely unaffected by increased variation in human levels due to COVID-19 shutdowns

1. Peter Mikula
2. Martin Bulla
3. Daniel T. Blumstein
4. Yanina Benedetti
5. Kristina Floigl
6. Jukka Jokimäki
7. Marja-Liisa Kaisanlahti-Jokimäki
8. Gábor Markó
9. Federico Morelli
10. Anders Pape Møller
11. Anastasiia Siretckaia
12. Sára Szakony
13. Michael A. Weston
14. Farah Abou Zeid
15. Piotr Tryjanowski
16. Tomáš Albrecht

• Curated by eLife

  eLife assessment

  This useful paper examines changes (or lack thereof) in birds' fear response to humans as a result of COVID-19 lockdowns. The evidence supporting the primary conclusion is currently inadequate, because the model used does not properly account for many potentially confounding factors that could influence the study's outcomes. If the analytic approach were improved, the findings would be of interest to urban ecologists, behavioral biologists and ecologists, and researchers interested in understanding the effects of COVID-19 lockdowns on animals.

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iMOUSE - Reforming the Strategy of Refinement and Reduction for indispensable laboratory animal-based studies in translational research

1. Maciej Łaz
2. Mirko Lampe
3. Isaac Connor
4. Dmytro Shestachuk
5. Marcel Ludwig
6. Ursula Müller
7. Oliver F. Strauch
8. Nadine Suendermann
9. Stefan Lüth
10. Janine Kah

Reviewed by Arcadia Science

Emergent periodicity in the collective synchronous flashing of fireflies

1. Raphael Sarfati
2. Kunaal Joshi
3. Owen Martin
4. Julie C Hayes
5. Srividya Iyer-Biswas
6. Orit Peleg

• Curated by eLife

  eLife assessment

  This important study provides a quantitative characterization and understanding of firing collective patterns in P. Carolinus fireflies. The work significantly contributes to fill the gap between observations and mechanistic models, with convincing experimental evidence and solid theoretical modeling. This work will be of interest to readers curious about collective behavior, biological rhythms, and models of synchronized oscillations.

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Wandering albatrosses exert high take-off effort only when both wind and waves are gentle

1. Leo Uesaka
2. Yusuke Goto
3. Masaru Naruoka
4. Henri Weimerskirch
5. Katsufumi Sato
6. Kentaro Q Sakamoto

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  eLife assessment

  This fundamental study advances our understanding of seabird responses to environmental conditions, with implications for movement ecology, flight biomechanics, animal foraging, and bio-energetics. Animal-borne data-loggers are used to generate a compelling high quality dataset on animal movement and environmental conditions. The study will interest ornithologists, comparative bio-mechanists, ocean ecologists and those interested in technological advances in animal sensors.

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Separate attentional processes in the two visual systems of jumping spiders

1. Federico Ferrante
2. Maria Loconsole
3. Davide Giacomazzi
4. Massimo De Agrò

Reviewed by Arcadia Science