We’re delighted to current the winners of the 2023 Journal of Zoology ‘Paper of the 12 months’ award with their paper entitled ‘Do honey badgers and better honeyguide birds cooperate to entry bees’ nests? Ecological proof and honey-hunter accounts‘:
The Editors of Journal of Zoology have launched this award to acknowledge one paper every year that exemplifies excellence in zoological analysis, and this progressive paper showcasing use of indigenous zoological information was a transparent favorite amongst our Editors and Affiliate Editors for 2023. Listed here are a few of their feedback:
- “It has a really neat method of being pushed by a number of hypotheses which might be answered through various types of proof focused at teasing the hypotheses aside. Furthermore, past the final topic curiosity of interspecific cooperation and the enchantment of honey badgers to a normal viewers, I feel it emphasises an essential level that information residing in native human communities could make essential contributions to science, such that we needs to be participating with individuals at our discipline websites extra, to the good thing about all.”
- “I particularly appreciated the mixture of various varieties of knowledge (literature, observational, interviews). Very ingenious method, that has required numerous work!”
- “I’ll vote for the Honey Badger paper (van der Wall) as not solely it addresses a long-held thought inside mammalogy and behavior research, but in addition it entails an amazing number of authors and communities.”
To search out out extra about this fascinating examine, learn the paper totally free and watch this video abstract: