Our new paper is out in Animal Behaviour. The paper was led by Claire Teitelbaum, now of University of Georgia, and with Thomas Mueller from Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre and the Goethe University, Germany. We discovered that Whooping Cranes (Grus americana) form breeding pairs up to years before they begin breeding, which suggests that there are significant benefits to being a member of a pair beyond breeding outcomes themselves. Its completely fascinating getting to understand the social lives of these endangered birds. Read more here.