supported by the research grant of the National Science Centre in Poland(2016/23/B/NZ8/02374).
Most behavioral traits are known to be weakly heritable,possibly due to their extreme complexity and flexibility.Despite this general pattern,within-species variation in avian colony size choice has been reported to h...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32171487);State Forestry and Grassland Administration Bureau of China;Postdoctoral Research Grants at the Central South University of Forestry and Technology(45220003).
The Himalayan marmot Marmota himalayana is widely distributed across the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and lives in social groups,yet the mating system of this highly social marmot species is unknown.In this study,the genet...
supported by the National Science Foundation of China,grant 31770424;a Special Talents Recruitment Grant from Guangxi University.
In mutualistic interactions,all parties are usually considered to benefit;yet there may be asymmetries in mutualisms where some partners/individuals benefit more than others.Such is thought to be the case in mixedspec...
Revenge permeates most of Shakespeare’s plays,and scholars understand the themes in historical context.Some believe that the plays involved revenge are evidence that the public was morally opposed to it.For others,ho...
China’s wenxianxue(bibliographic study of classical works)is an instrumental discipline centered on the methods and techniques of"working on documents."It provides reliable texts and materials for other disciplines,b...
The Grant Agency of Charles University(Grant GAUK 764119/2019);the Specific University Research Project Integrative An-imal Biology(Grant SVV 260434/2018)supported this research.
Parental care directed to adult offspring is uncommon in animals.Such parental care has been documented in Xylocopinae bees(Hymenoptera:Apidae).Moreover,some Ceratina bees(Xylocopinae)are known to feed mature siblings...
This work was funded by NRH(South Africa)and UNISA awards(S.P.H.),NSERC(Canada)Discovery grants(L.B.,S.P.H.);the NSERC Canada Research Chair program(L.B.);C.Y.is the recipient of a University of Pretoria Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship;T.B.has been funded by an FQNRT Post-Doctoral Fellowship;T.B.and C.V.are currently funded by NSERC Canada Research Chair and Discovery Grants held by L.B.
The development of multilayer network techniques is a boon for researchers who wish to understand how different interaction layers might influence each other,and how these in turn might influence group dynamics.Here,w...
The formalization of multilayer networks allows for new ways to measure sociality in complex social systems,including groups of animals.The same mathematical representation and methods are widely applicable across fie...
the Economic and Social Research Council,UK,and National Science Centre,Poland,Grant Number:UMO-2018/31/D/NZ8/01144(‘Understanding origins of social brains and communication in wild primates’).
Increasing our understanding of primate gestural communication can provide new insights into language evolution.A key question in primate communication is the association between the social relationships of primates a...