the IACUC of the National Wildlife Research Center.This research was supported through cooperative agreements 14-7412-1061-CA,15-7412-1155-CA,and 16-7412-1269-CA between James Madison University and the U.S.Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service(APHIS).
Animals communicate with potential mates using species-specific signals,and pheromones are powerful sexual signals that modify conspecific behavior to facilitate mate location.Among the vertebrates,snakes are especi...
funded by the Talent Introduction Fund of Tianjin Normal University(5RL115);the Natural Science Foundation of China(31130061,31200293);the Cosmo Oil Eco Card Fund of Japan(2005–2011);supported by JSPS Research Fellowships for Foreign Researchers(P10311).
Inter-group conflicts are common among many group-living animals and involve potentially complex motivations and interactions.Mammals living in multilevel societies offer a good opportunity to study inter-group confli...