jointly funded by Accelerating Higher Education Expansion and Development Project(AHEAD)launched by the Sri Lankan Government under the funds of the World Bank;Massey University,New Zealand.
Selection of a suitable habitat by animals before settlement is critical for their survival and reproduction.In silk-spinning arthropods like spider mites,denser webs offer protection from predation and serve as a dis...
supported by grants PICT 2015-1628 from Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica and UBACYT 20020170100521BA from Universidad de Buenos Aires to J.C.R.
Juveniles of interspecific avian brood parasites need to locate and recognize conspecifics to continue their life cycle after being reared by individuals of another species.However,little is known about the recognitio...
Female cichlid fish living in African great lakes are known to have sensory systems that are adapted to ambient light environments.These sen-sory system adaptations are hypothesized to have influenced the evolution of...
supported by the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.32170504,31970422,and 31672305)to Guangzhan Fang;the grant from the Biodiversity Survey,Monitoring and Assessment Project of Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China(No.2019HB2096001006)to Baowei Zhang.
Environmental noise has a significant negative impact on acoustic communication in most situations,as it influences the production,transmis-sion,and reception of acoustic signals.However,how animals respond to conspec...
Our study was supported by the grants of the National Science Centre,Poland No.2016/21/B/NZ8/00418 and 2020/39/D/NZ8/01226.
Assessment of individual costs of the anti-predator defence translating into changes in population parameters is meagre.This is because prey responses are likely to be modulated by additional factors,commonly present ...
Financial support was provided by the Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(320CXTD437 and 2019RC189 to C.Y.);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31672303 to C.Y.).
Distress calls,as a type of alarm call,play important roles in expressing bodily condition and conveying information concerning predation threats.In this study,we examined the communication via distress calls in paren...
Financial support was provided by the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China(Grant 32071491,31772465,31572271,and 31370417)。
Conspecific animals in the wild use limited resources—such as food,nest site,and mating opportunities—very differently(Shuster and Wade 2003),which has been widely considered a consequence of phenotypic diversity(Sh...
Many territorial animals exhibit reduced aggression towards neighbours. Known as "the dear enemy effect", this phenomenon has been documented among conspecific animals across a wide range of animal taxa. In theory, ...