Early learning of discrete call variants in red crossbills: implications for reliable signaling [0.03%]
红十字军中的离散呼叫变体的早期学习及其对可靠信号的影响
Kendra B Sewall
Kendra B Sewall
The identification of appropriate companions and mates is essential to both speciation and the maintenance of species through prezygotic isolation. In many birds, social assortment is mediated by vocalizations learned through imitation. Whe...
Social network dynamics: the importance of distinguishing between heterogeneous and homogeneous changes [0.03%]
社会网络动力学：区分异质性和同质性变化的重要性
Mathias Franz,Susan C Alberts
Mathias Franz
Social network analysis is increasingly applied to understand the evolution of animal sociality. Identifying ecological and evolutionary drivers of complex social structures requires inferring how social networks change over time. In most o...
Sex differences in life history, behavior, and physiology along a slow-fast continuum: a meta-analysis [0.03%]
从快慢连续体视角探讨生活史、行为和生理的性别差异：元分析研究
Maja Tarka,Anja Guenther,Petri T Niemelä et al.
Maja Tarka et al.
The pace-of-life syndrome (POLS) hypothesis predicts that behavior and physiology covary with life history. Evidence for such covariation is contradictory, possibly because systematic sources of variation (e.g. sex) have been neglected. Sex...
Circular data in biology: advice for effectively implementing statistical procedures [0.03%]
生物学中的循环数据：有效实施统计程序的建议
Lukas Landler,Graeme D Ruxton,E Pascal Malkemper
Lukas Landler
Circular data are common in biological studies. The most fundamental question that can be asked of a sample of circular data is whether it suggests that the underlying population is uniformly distributed around the circle, or whether it is ...
Alice A Dore,Laurin McDowall,James Rouse et al.
Alice A Dore et al.
Phenotypic plasticity can be a key determinant of fitness. The degree to which the expression of plasticity is adaptive relies upon the accuracy with which information about the state of the environment is integrated. This step might be par...
Emil Isaksson,A Utku Urhan,Anders Brodin
Emil Isaksson
Abstract: Cognitively advanced animals are usually assumed to possess better self-control, or ability to decline immediate rewards in favour of delayed ones, than less cognitively advanced animals. It has been claimed tha...
Kristin R Duffield,E Keith Bowers,Scott K Sakaluk et al.
Kristin R Duffield et al.
Although reproductive strategies can be influenced by a variety of intrinsic and extrinsic factors, life history theory provides a rigorous framework for explaining variation in reproductive effort. The terminal investment hypothesis propos...
Distinguishing between apparent and actual randomness: a preliminary examination with Australian ants [0.03%]
辨别表象随机性和实际随机性——以澳大利亚蚂蚁为例的初步研究
Mst Jannatul Ferdous,Andy M Reynolds,Ken Cheng
Mst Jannatul Ferdous
Abstract: The correlated random walk paradigm is the dominant conceptual framework for modeling animal movement patterns. Nonetheless, we do not know whether the randomness is apparent or actual. Apparent randomness could...
Predictors of nest growth: diminishing returns for subordinates in the paper wasp Polistes dominula [0.03%]
与巢增长有关的预测因素：欧洲纸胡蜂Polistes dominulaso从属者的收益递减现象
Lena Grinsted,Jeremy Field
Lena Grinsted
Abstract: In cooperative breeders, subordinates that have alternative reproductive options are expected to stay and help dominant breeders only as long as they contribute to group productivity, if their fitness is linked ...
Andrew Whiten,Erica van de Waal
Andrew Whiten
In recent decades, an accelerating research effort has exploited a substantial diversity of methodologies to garner mounting evidence for social learning and culture in many species of primate. As in humans, the evidence suggests that the j...