The increasing interest in the study of spontaneous(SY)and contagious yawning(CY)was so far focused on several taxa,especially primates.Here,we focused on SY and CY in horses,a suitable species due to their complex so...
supported by the Hamilton College Jeffery Fund Science Internship and the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory;supported by the University of California Los Angeles,American Society of Mammalogists,the Animal Behavior Society,and Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory;supported by the National Geographic Society,the University of California Los Angeles(Faculty Senate and Division of Life Sciences),an RMBL research fellowship;U.S.National Science Foundation(NSF IDBR-0754247 and DEB-1119660 and 1557130 to D.T.B.,as well as DBI 0242960,07211346,1226713,and 1755522 to RMBL).
Dispersal is an important individual decision which may influence individual fitness as well as population viability.The social cohesion hypothesis posits more social individuals remain at home,which is supported by p...
supported by grants PICT 2015-1628 from Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica and UBACYT 20020170100521BA from Universidad de Buenos Aires to J.C.R.
Juveniles of interspecific avian brood parasites need to locate and recognize conspecifics to continue their life cycle after being reared by individuals of another species.However,little is known about the recognitio...
Visual cues are important in both interspecific and intraspecific communication.The species confidence hypothesis proposes that animals are more attracted to conspecific colors and repelled by colors,not on their bodi...
The study is part of the project PID2019-109303GB-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033.
Carotenoid-based ornaments are often considered reliable(honest)individual condition signals because their expression implies physiological costs unaffordable for low-quality animals(handicap signals).Recently,it has ...
Maximum and minimum metabolic rates in birds are flexible traits and such flexibility can be advantageous in variable climates.The climatic variability hypothesis(CVH)posits that more variable climates should result i...
K.U.was supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Overseas Research Fellowship.J.E.S.was supported by the American Association of University Women,Institute for Society and Genetics at the University of California Los Angeles,and American Philosophical Society for fellowships.D.T.B.was supported by the National Geographic Society,UCLA(Faculty Senate and the Division of Life Sciences),a Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory research fellowship,and by the National Science Foundation(I.D.B.R.-0754247,and D.E.B.-1119660 and 1557130 to D.T.B.,as well as D.B.I.0242960,0731346,and 1226713 RMBL).
The benefits of dominance may not come without costs,particularly for males.For example,the“immunocompetence handicap hypothesis”states that males with enhanced mating success allocate resources to enhance reproduct...
supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDA19050202];the National Natural Science Foundation of China[31630069];the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research(STEP)programme[2019QZKK05010112 and 2019QZKK0304];other programs[KGFZD-135-19-05].
Strong correlations between species diversity and climate have been widely observed,but the mechanism underlying this relationship is unclear.Here,we explored the causes of the richness-climate relationships among pas...
This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness research projects[grant CGL2015-64650P];Junta de Extremadura[grant IB16121];S.M.and A.M.were supported by a Ph.D.grant from the Ministry of Economy and Competition of Spain and a mobility grant of Junta de Extremadura(129/2015),respectively.L.G.-L.was supported by the Junta de Extremadura[PO17024,Post-Doc grant].
Parasites are globally widespread pathogenic organisms,which impose im portant selective forces upon their hosts.Thus,in accordance with the A djustm ent to parasite pressure hypothesis,it is expected that defenses am...
B.H.A.and L.M.V.P.did not receive any grant funding for this project.R.M.was supported by CAPES and CNPq(grant 406497/2018-4).
The"resource availability hypothesis"predicts occurrence of larger rodents in more productive habitats.This prediction was tested in a dataset of 1,301 rodent species.We used adult body mass as a measure of body size ...