The increasing interest in the study of spontaneous(SY)and contagious yawning(CY)was so far focused on several taxa,especially primates.Here,we focused on SY and CY in horses,a suitable species due to their complex so...
funded by the Australian Research Council(DP180101801 awarded to K.M.)and The University of Queensland.
Locomotion is thermally sensitive in ectotherms and therefore it is typically expressed differently among thermally heterogenous environments.Locomotion is a complex function,and whereas physiological and behavioral t...
supported by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifco e Tecnologico(CNPq),Fundacaode Amparoa Pesquisa do Rio de Janeiro(FAPERJ),Fundacaode Amparoa Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo(FAPESPGrant nº2014/16/320-7);Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamentode Pessoal de Nível Superior(CAPES)-Finance Code 001;by grants to LGHM and APCN from the Visiting Research Program of the FAPESP(nº2017-17607-6);supported by the PASPA-DGAPA program of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico(nº814-2018).
Developmental instability(DI)is a phenomenon whereby organisms are unable to buffer developmental disturbances,resulting in asymmetricvariation of paired traits.Previous research has demonstrated a negative relationsh...
partially funded through projects PID2019-109685GB-I00,CGL2007-61395,CGL2010-15726,and CGL2013-42451-P,of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
Natal dispersal is a critical trait for individual ftness and the viability,structure,and genetic identity of populations.However,there is a pronounced information gap for large and long-lived species due to the diffc...
supported fnancially by the Nanseishoto Project of WWFJ,Pro Natura Foundation Japan’s 31st Pro Natura Fund;the Project for Biodiversity Conservation Promotion of the Japan Ministry of the Environment.
There are many short-lived animals,but those displaying a lifecycle with more than one generation per year(multivoltine lifecycle)are rare amongterrestrial vertebrates.The multivoltine lifecycle requires rapid growth ...
funded through a grant from the NationalScience Foundation(IOS-1914646);the SmithsonianInstitute Postdoctoral Fellowship program.
Acoustic communication signals are important for species recognition and mate attraction across numerous taxa.For instance,most of thethousands of species of frogs have a species-specifc advertisement call that female...
supported by Concordia University and funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada(Discovery Grant to G.E.B.,and an E.W.R.SteacieMemorial Fellowship to M.C.O.F.).
Many prey species rely on publicly available personal and social information regarding local predation threats to assess risks and make contextappropriate behavioral decisions.However,in sexually dimorphic species,mal...
Powered fight in birds is reliant on feathers forming an aerodynamic surface that resists air pressures.Many basic aspects of feather functionality are unknown,which hampers our understanding of wing function in birds...
supported by the National NaturalScience Foundation of China(32101240);the NaturalScience Foundation of Hainan Province(2019RC175);the Postdoctoral Research Program in Hainan Province(RC2100004064);the Academician working platform project in Hainan Province.
Noise pollution has been shown to affect wild animals in various ways,but little is known about its consequences at the community level.Investigating animals’overall vocal responses to noise across multiple sympatric...
Financial support was provided by Secretaría de Cienciay Técnica-Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto(SECyTUNRC,Grant PPI 18/C416);Fondo para la Investigación Científca y Tecnológica(FONCyT,Grant PICT BIDPICT 0981-2018;2530-2019).
Wetlands are unique ecological environments capable of harboring high biodiversity.However,urbanization can degrade,eliminate,or transformthese habitats.Although amphibians utilize habitats created by humans in urban ...