Yitzchak Ben Mocha

Yitzchak Ben Mocha

@benmocha.bsky.social

Ethologist. Postdoc at ‪CASCB @cbehav.bsky.social‬. Animal and human rights advocate. Curator of the Cooperative Breeding Database: @co-breed.bsky.social

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Vesta Eleuteri
@vestaeleuteri.bsky.social

8 years ago I started monitoring the Marakele wild elephants and dreaming of one day studying their communication. Today my first wild elephant paper exploring intentional gestural communication in the Marakele and Addo populations is out, marking a key personal moment 🐘❤️. rdcu.be/87qLLG6DSs7a 1/4

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Josh Arbon
@josharbon.bsky.social

Great use of the tens of thousands of dwarf mongoose body mass measurements collected over the years. Animals vary substantially in mass across days and seasons - when determining if a tag is too heavy we need to think about how light an animal might become, not just its mass right now.

Andy Radford@andyradford.bsky.social

📢NEW paper out today in @royalsocietypublishing.org #RSOS. 📖Practical implications of temporal body mass variation for biologging and comparative studies. 🌟Showcasing the value of #long-term studies - 1000s of body-mass measures analysed. 👥Led by @benmocha.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Yitzchak Ben Mocha
@benmocha.bsky.social

Young Israeli #jews attaking eldery Arab in #Jerusalem (29.9.26). As a jew living and raising a family in Germany, I would be terrified to stay here if that were the norm toward jews. But this violence is the norm towards Arabs in #Israel. Israel MUST be stopped! www.facebook.com/watch/?v=926...

facebook.com126K views · 729 reactions | תיעוד מחריד מירושלים: צעירים חרדים תועדו במהומות אחרי הילולת הרבי נחמן מברסלב באזור שער שכם. שוטרת מג”ב נפצעה בראשה מבקבוק והמתפרעים גנבו רכב עירייה. 11 מפירי סדר נעצרו - המשטרה: “לא נשלים עם התפרעויות של פורעי חוק”. תיעודים מהאירועים בשער שכם מראים עשרות צעירים בלבוש חרדי רודפים אחרי גבר ערבי מבוגר. במהלך המנוסה נפל האיש על הקרקע, ומספר צעירים נראו בועטים בו בעודו שוכב. “מזיינים שם איזה ערבי, אני לא מאמין”, נשמע אחד הדוברים בסרטון המתעד את התקיפה. האיש הצליח לבסוף להימלט מהמקום, ופונה בהמשך לקבלת טיפול רפואי כשמצבו קל | החדשות - N12תיעוד מחריד מירושלים: צעירים חרדים תועדו במהומות אחרי הילולת הרבי נחמן מברסלב באזור שער שכם. שוטרת מג”ב נפצעה בראשה מבקבוק והמתפרעים גנבו רכב עירייה. 11 מפירי סדר נעצרו - המשטרה: “לא נשלים עם...
Yitzchak Ben Mocha
@benmocha.bsky.social

3/4 Using data from 101 wild cooperatively breeding populations of #birds and #mammals, our study highlights the need to (i) uncover the conditions that favour the formation of multi-female groups, and only then (ii) to identify those conditions that support the realisation of female cooperation.

Yitzchak Ben Mocha
@benmocha.bsky.social

NEW #ProcB paper! Scholars sought to understand why, in #cooperative_breeding species, females care for the offspring of others while a dominant female monopolises reproduction Yet, we show that females more often share, rather than monopolise reproduction! royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

royalsocietypublishing.orgFemales cooperate, rather than monopolize reproduction, in multi-female groups of cooperatively breeding birds and mammalsAbstract. Scholars have long sought to understand why, in some cooperatively breeding species, females care for the offspring of other group members while
Yitzchak Ben Mocha
@benmocha.bsky.social

2/4 In contrast to the view that breeding monopolisation is common among #cooperative_breeding, we show that when multiple adult females co-reside in the same group, they often alloparent each other’s offspring and share reproduction, rather than monopolise it.

Yitzchak Ben Mocha
@benmocha.bsky.social

Israel is an apartheid state! ישראל היא מדינת אפרטהייד, מש"ל www.haaretz.co.il/news/law/202...

haaretz.co.ilשופט העליון שטיין: למי שקורא לישראל מדינת אפרטהייד אין מקום לדרוך בההדברים נאמרו בדיון בעתירות של ארגונים הומניטריים שנאסר עליהם לפעול בעזה ובגדה. אתמול דרשו שופטי העליון להסיר חוות דעת רפואית מעתירה אחרת על המצב ההומניטרי בעזה בנימוק שהיא "כוללת האשמות נגד צה"ל והמדי...
Yitzchak Ben Mocha
@benmocha.bsky.social

Join our session in this great conference at a great location! Please DM me for questions! (also yitzchakbm@gmail.com)

Co-BreeD (Cooperative Breeding Database)@co-breed.bsky.social

Join Co-BreeD at the "Avian Breeding Strategies: Patterns and Mechanisms" session at the upcoming Asian Ornithological Conference 2026 (14-17 Nov, Singapore). Submit an abstract to this session (www.aoc2026.sg/index.php) organised by Jianqiang Li and @benmocha.bsky.social

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Vlad Demartsev
@animal-sounds.bsky.social

🚨REPOST PLEASE! 🙏🏻 Calling all South African 🇿🇦 zoology students! You have ONE more week to apply to our Collective Behaviour Field Course 📍Two weeks at the Kalahari Research Centre 🗓️ June 2026 💸 Fully funded Application details are at www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/cbfc DM for any questions

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Retraction Watch
@retractionwatch.com

We're thrilled to announce the Ctrl-Z Award, a US$2,500 prize for researchers “who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record." Covered by @nature.com today; read more here: centerforscientificintegrity.org/2026/03/10/a...

nature.comKeep calm and be transparent: advice from scientists who retracted their papersRetractions correct the scientific record, but they have stigma attached to them. Some in the research community want that to change.
Yitzchak Ben Mocha
@benmocha.bsky.social

Field encounters when studying the #Arabian_babbler www.instagram.com/p/DTz13vaABlQ/

instagram.comUniversität Konstanz on Instagram: "[#UniKonstanz in the field] 🎧🔊 Sound on at the beginning of this video to hear the alarm calls of Arabian babblers. 🐦🎶 #Fieldwork often includes moments you cannot ...64 likes, 0 comments - unikonstanz on January 22, 2026: "[#UniKonstanz in the field] 🎧🔊 Sound on at the beginning of this video to hear the alarm calls of Arabian babblers. 🐦🎶 #Fieldwork often include...
Yitzchak Ben Mocha
@benmocha.bsky.social

How many cooperatively breeding bird & mammal species are there??? an ongoing research... follow @co-breed.bsky.social for updates!

Co-BreeD (Cooperative Breeding Database)@co-breed.bsky.social

1/4 To celebrate our 120th follower, we introduce the “cooperative breeding gauge”: measuring the % of cooperatively breeding species in Co-BreeD. It now presents the very initial % of cooperatively from our 1st published Co-BreeD dataset besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Yitzchak Ben Mocha
@benmocha.bsky.social

Nature Climate Change @natclimate.nature.com nicely covered our recent #ProcB paper (royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...). Read if interested in how global warming affects the #sleep of desert birds #Arabian_babbler 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

royalsocietypublishing.orgTrapped between darkness and heat: desert birds (Argya squamiceps) initiate daily activity earlier (and terminate it later) in response to heatAbstract. Diurnal desert endotherms must adjust the timing of their daily activity to mitigate physiological stress from ambient heat. Understanding the li

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Kat Abughazaleh
@katmabu.bsky.social

Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation. I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦
@maks23.bsky.social

🐧🧊 Incredible underwater footage of penguin life, shot from the first person of one of them. 🇺🇦 This beauty was captured thanks to Ukrainian scientists from the Vernadsky Station in Antarctica, who put a GPS tracker and a tiny camera on the bird.

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Co-BreeD (Cooperative Breeding Database)
@co-breed.bsky.social

Fabulous @anticac.bsky.social wrote a beautiful highlight on our first #Co-BreeD dataset. She was also worried about how often Co-BreeD would be updated. Well, time will tell, but meanwhile, the second dataset about #allonursing (& update) is already under review ;)

Journal of Animal Ecology@animalecology.bsky.social

🌟 New research highlight for a paper that introduces a Cooperative-Breeding Database (Co-BreeD), which is an open, peer-reviewed resource that collects data on cooperative breeding across birds and mammals, including humans. 📖 Read the full paper ➡️ buff.ly/DAE9htT

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Rebecca Sear
@rebeccasear.bsky.social

"Behavioural scientists are increasingly calling for context as a key to addressing pressing problems caused by human behaviour. However, despite its powerful ability to generate contextual hypotheses on the basis of relatively simple rules, ecological thinking is rarely applied to human behaviour"

nature.comBehavioural sciences need behavioural ecology - Nature Human BehaviourBehavioural scientists want to see more consideration of context — so why are they not using tools derived from ecology, the science of all life in context? We invite behavioural scientists to align t...

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Alan McElligott
@amcell.bsky.social

same ⬇️👏

Anthony Ricciardi@ecoinvasions.bsky.social

No paper from me or my lab will ever be submitted to an MDPI journal - including any of their superfluous "special issues". I will very rarely (if ever) cite MDPI papers. And I will never review for them. deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/08/gues... The same goes for FrontiersIn journals, among others.

deevybee.blogspot.comMy experience as a reviewer for MDPIGuest post by  René Aquarius, PhD Department of Neurosurgery Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Ne...
Yitzchak Ben Mocha
@benmocha.bsky.social

Our second Co-BreeD manuscript was submitted. Follow @co-breed.bsky.social for updates! With @andyradford.bsky.social @maikewoith.bsky.social @michael-griesser.bsky.social @nataliekes.bsky.social @luciabruscagnin.bsky.social and more..

Co-BreeD (Cooperative Breeding Database)@co-breed.bsky.social

The Co-BreeD dataset on AlloNursing was just submitted! It provides complementary data about allonursing for all 324 species previously included in Co-BreeD (besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) & adds >45 new species! 🐒 🐳🐐 Follow for updates…

Yitzchak Ben Mocha
@benmocha.bsky.social

Follow Co-BreeD (@co-breed.bsky.social) to get updated estimates about how many cooperatively breeding birds and mammals there are!

Co-BreeD (Cooperative Breeding Database)@co-breed.bsky.social

How many cooperatively breeding bird & mammal species are there? Co-BreeD constantly works to get a more accurate estimation for this question. We will now start sharing updated estimations in return for new followers! So help us get the 120th follower (= share!) & we will post our first estimation!

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Yair Wallach
@yairwallach.bsky.social

Marwan Barghouti's lawyer Ben Marmarelli: there are reports that Barghouti was badly assaulted in prison, they "broke his ribs, teeth, fingers and cut part of his ear". Israeli Prison Service refused to comment or let the lawyer meet with him.

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Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS
@mizpas.bsky.social

❗️New paper co-authored by MIZ PAS researchers ❗️ ℹ️Roman Gula & Jörn Theuerkauf contributed to a new cooperative breeding database for birds and mammals, Co-BreeD, published recently in animalecology.bsky.social. 👇

Co-BreeD (Cooperative Breeding Database)@co-breed.bsky.social

1/6 The Cooperative-Breeding Database (Co-BreeD) is alive! Co-BreeD covers key biological parameters relevant to cooperative breeding research in birds and mammals. Get your copy of this updateable & open-access database: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @animalecology.bsky.social

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.comAn integrative, peer‐reviewed and open‐source cooperative‐breeding database (Co‐BreeD)Co-BreeD is the first updatable and open-source database dedicated to cooperative breeding. It enables continuous, non-binary measurement of cooperative breeding, transforming how we study breeding s....

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Andy Radford
@andyradford.bsky.social

📢Out in the NEW issue of @animalecology.bsky.social is our hugely #collaborative paper: An integrative, peer-reviewed and open-source cooperative-breeding database (Co-BreeD) #mammals #birds #cooperation #openscience #datasets #alloparents Led by @benmocha.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/1365...

doi.orgAn integrative, peer‐reviewed and open‐source cooperative‐breeding database (Co‐BreeD)Co-BreeD is the first updatable and open-source database dedicated to cooperative breeding. It enables continuous, non-binary measurement of cooperative breeding, transforming how we study breeding s...
Yitzchak Ben Mocha
@benmocha.bsky.social

2/3 "... that he saw a father and a girl walking on a road they weren't supposed to be on. He got on the phone. They told him: Shoot the Dad. Immediately after, another officer called him over the red, classified line, and ordered: Take down the girl too..."