Ilany Lab

News

New papers, new people and other things worth telling.

  1. Nimrod Mazal Tov and Ayana Rosenthal joined the lab as MSc students. Nimrod is studying wolves and other predators around Ein Gedi, and Ayana is looking for the species hidden in DNA caught in spider webs.

  2. With Mor Taub, Yoav Ram, Yossi Yovel and colleagues, we wrote in Current Biology about the challenge of decoding animal communication using AI.

  3. Camille Bordes's field experiments are out in the Journal of Animal Ecology: how hyrax social networks respond to changes in predation risk and food.

  4. New tools for scoring rock hyrax behaviour in the field, with PhD student Prameek Kannan, published in PLOS ONE.

  5. We took part in a comparison of social networks across many wild animal systems, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution.

  6. Shirel Lax joined the lab as an MSc student, to follow how the hyrax gut microbiome changes over time.

  7. The lab moved to Tel Aviv University, to the School of Zoology and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History.

  8. Amiyaal wrote for young readers in Frontiers for Young Minds: what can the animals teach us about social relationships?

  9. Our study of social inheritance in spotted hyenas, with Kay Holekamp and Erol Akçay, was published in Science and made the journal's cover.