A small river separates two good friends,and they can't see each other;what should they do?This book tells such a story.Two little squirrels,Dongdong and Xixi,live on the east and west banks of the river,respectively....
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.31472013 and 31772453 to W.L.).
Hole-nesting tits belonging to the family Paridae produce a hissing display that resembles the exhalatory hiss of a snake.When a predatory animal enters the nest hole of a tit,tits often hiss vigorously,while lunging ...
The Fred M.Van Eck Forest Foundation for Purdue University and the McIntire-Stennis program provided funding.
Seeds of many hardwood trees are dispersed by scatter-hoarding rodents,and this process is often mediated by the traits of seeds.Although numerous studies have linked seed traits to seed preference by rodents,little i...
Seed dispersal by exotic mammals exemplifies mutualistic interactions that can modify the habitat by facilitating the establishment of certain species. We examined the potential for endozoochoric dispersal of exotic p...
The prenatal hormonal environment plays an important role in organizing sex differences in the morphology, physiology and behavior of humans as well as other vertebrates. Currently, all related research on rodents has...
Urbanization of animal habitats has the potential to affect the natural communication systems of any species able to survive in the changed environment. Urban animals such as squirrels use multiple signal channels to ...
Rodents were sampled using the capture-mark-recapture technique along transects in disturbed and undisturbed tropical forest in Cat Tien National Park in south Vietnam.The transects comprised two strata:traps were pla...