financed by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31971402 to H.Wang,32001094 to J.Yu,31870368 to K.Zhang);the High-level Startup Talents Introduced Scientific Research Fund Project of Baotou Teacher's College,China(No.BTTCRCQD2024-C34)。
Individuals may gather information about environmental conditions when deciding where to breed in order to maximize their lifetime fitness.They can obtain social information by observing conspecifics and heterospecifi...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.31770419 and 31971402 to HW,32001094 and 31870368 to JY)
The reproductive behaviors of birds are mainly controlled by the hypothalamus-pituitary-gonad axis.Many studies have shown that reproductive hormones are tightly linked to the breeding sub-stages.However,only a few st...
supported by the Double First-Class Joint Program of Yunnan Science and Technology Department and Yunnan University (2018FY001-005);the China-Myanmar Joint Laboratory for Ecological and Environmental Conservation;the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Science RAE Improvement Fund;supported by the CNRS Program INSU INTERRVIE;the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41688103)。
Recent studies demonstrate that many avialan features evolved incrementally prior to the origin of the group,but the presence of some of these features,such as bird-like brooding behaviours,remains contentious in non-...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.31772453 and 31970427 to WL,and 31472012 to Y-HS)。
Background:Nestling discrimination and feeding habits during brooding are important factors affecting host selec-tion of parasitic birds.Some host birds can avoid being parasitized by discriminating their nestlings or...
The key techniques of artificial incubation and brooding of Bonasa bonasia during breeding technology promotion was summed up in the paper.Electric incubation and dielectric incubation,electric brooding and dielectric...
Foundation item: This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31472011)ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We are grateful to Peng ZHANG, Zheng CHEN, Jia-Hui WANG, and Hui-Jia YUAN of Beijing Normal University for field assistance, and staff from Henan Dongzhai National Nature Reserve for help during field work. We also thank editor for revising the English, and the two reviewers for their constructive comments, which have helped to improve the manuscript.
Brooding is a major breeding investment of parental birds during the early nestling stage, and has important effects on the development and survival of nestlings. Investigating brooding behavior can help to understand...
The essay expounds the philosophy of Thoreau's "simplify" in aspect of meaning and reason.Closely connected with the relationship between human and nature,it enables us to see the point of a brooding,simple and sensib...
We used a field survey and a laboratory rearing experiment to (a) examine response (size and survival) to life-long hypoxia in offspring of the African maternal mouth-brooding cichlid Pseudocrenilabrus multicolor ...