supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(no.31800320 and no.32360250 to XR);Natural Science Foundation of Hainan Province(no.320RC506 to XR);funded by the project supported by the Scientific Research start-up Fund of Hainan University[no.KYQD(ZR)20057];the Teaching Research of Hainan University(no.Hdsz20-9);supported by Hainan Tropical Rainforest Conservation Research Project,ZDYF2023RDYL01(supported by the Hainan Institute of National Park,HINP,KY-24ZK02);supported by the specific research fund of The Innovation Platform for Academicians of Hainan Province.
Bite force is an important performance indicator of individual fitness that is closely related to food acquisition,male competition,and mating selection.It is also affected by a variety of factors and different mechan...
funded by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB31020302);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31730104,31770425,32071495,32170515,32070453,and 32000317);Derek W.Dunn was supported by a Shaanxi Province Talents 100 Fellowships.
Small and isolated populations face several intrinsic risks,such as genetic drift,inbreeding depression,and reduced gene fow.Thus,patterns of genetic diversity and differentiation have become an important focus of con...
The present review provides a compilation of the published data on the ecology and social behavior of tamarisk gerbils. Both field studies anddirect observations under semi-natural conditions provide evidence that the...
This study was supported by the Slovenian Research Agency(programme group P1-0386);RESBIOS European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program(No.872146);the Croatian Science Foundation,project IP-2019-04-4096,“The role of hunting related activities in the range expansion of recently established wild ungulate populations in the Mediterranean."。
Hybridization between wild animals and feral individuals from closely related domestic species can occur when they share the same habitat.Such events are generally regarded as a threat to the genetic integrity and sur...
supported by Tibet Major Science and Technology Project(XZ201901-GA-06);National Natural Science Foundation of China(32101237&41871294);National key research and development program(2022YFC3202104).
Group living animals form striking aggregation patterns and display synchronization,polarization,and collective intelligence.Though many col-lective behavioral studies have been conducted on small animals like insects...
supported by a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada(NSERC)Discovery grant provided to SB(RGPIN-2016-05772);the National Science Foundation under grant No.1557836 provided to IMH.
Many animals use color to signal their quality and/or behavioral motivations.Colorful signals have been well studied in the contexts of competi-tion and mate choice;however,the role of these signals in nonsexual,affil...
support by the"Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa e ao Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico do MaranhaoFAPEMA";the“Fundacion Barcelona Zoo”for funding part of the study.
Drones are increasingly used for fauna monitoring and wildlife tracking;however,their application for wildlife tracking is restricted by developing such systems.Here we explore the potential of drones for wildlife tra...
Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology(Italy)via Compagnia di San Paolo(Torino,Italy)(grant 879660);Erasmus KA1 mobility funds(Ethiopia_2019);the EAZA via the University of Pisa,Natural History Museum(No.Protocol 0000384/2018).
Female primates can emit vocalizations associated with mating that can function as honest signals of fertility.Here,we investigated the role of mating calls and visual signals in female geladas(Theropithecus gelada).B...
Communication relies on signals that can be produced via different sensory modalities to modify receivers’behavior.During social interactions,the possibility to perceive subtle visual cues enhances the use of facial ...
This research was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft(BA 2885/1-5).
Ultraviolet(UV)A signals(320-400 nm)are important in mate choice in numerous species.The sensitivity for UV signals is not only assumed to be costly,but also expected to be a function of the prevailing ecological cond...