Michael Griesser

The paper introduces Co-BreeD, a peer-reviewed and updatable database for cooperative breeding research, showing cooperative breeding is more prevalent than previously estimated.

YOLOv8 detection with SORT event grouping and grid-search tuning quantifies visually distinct behaviours from video across 5 case studies, reaching f1-scores of 0.62 to 0.94.

The study shows female budgerigars prefer males with foraging skills different from their own, supporting the skill-pool hypothesis in mate choice.

This study shows that morphological traits, not socio-cognitive demands, are key predictors of brain size evolution in birds.