supported by institutional funding from the Universitàdegli Studi di Milano(to D.R.),Universitàdegli Studi di Padova(to C.S.),and the Istituto Nazionale per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale(ISPRA)(to J.G.C.).Nest-boxes were installed with support from the European Commission through the LIFE Project“Rapaci Lucani”(LIFE05NAT/IT/00009)and were designed by G.Ceccolini.
Costs and benefits of brain lateralization may depend on environmental conditions.Growing evidence indicates that the development of brain functional asymmetries is adaptively shaped by the environmental conditions ex...
supported by the Russian Science Foundation(grant no.19-14-00119);The complex expeditions on Kolguev Island for wildfowl population monitoring were supported by Vogelschutz-Komitee and Conservation Bundesamt fur Naturschutz,BfN,(MEERESENTEN grant 3516821500).
Behavioural lateralization,which reflects the functional specializations of the two brain hemispheres,is assumed to play an important role in cooperative intraspecific interactions.However,there are few studies focuse...
Lateralization of cognitive functions influences a large number of fitness-related behaviors and shows,in most species,substantial variation in strength and direction.Laboratory works and field data have suggested tha...
This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft,Grant Number TO914/2-1 to J.T-D.
Asymmetries in bilateral organisms attract a lot of curiosity given that they are conspicuous departures from the norm.They allow the investigation of the integration at different levels of biological organization.Her...
Animal individuality is challenging to explain because individual differences are regulated by multiple selective forces that lead to unique combinations of characteristics.For instance,the study of personality,a core...
Functional asymmetries, for example, the preferential involvement of 1 brain hemisphere to process stimuli, may increase brain efficiency and the capacity to carry out tasks simultaneously. We investigated which hemis...
D.T.B.was supported by the National Science Foundation (grant 1557130). A.D.was an NSF REU fellow supported by DBI 1226713(to the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory).L.Y.was supported by China Scholarship Counsel and Peking University.
In many vertebrates,the brain's right hemisphere which is connected to the left visual field specializes in the processing of information about threats while the left hemisphere which is connected to the right visual ...
Synchronized movements (schooling) emit complex and overlapping sound and pressure curves that might confuse the inner ear and lateral line organ (LLO) of a predator. Moreover, prey-fish moving close to each other...