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Plant Behavioral Ecology [PDF]

open access: yesPlants
The beginning of plant behavioral ecology cannot be easily defined because plant behavioral research has been separated from animals for a long time [...]
Pavol Prokop
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Recent Advances in the Behavioral Ecology of European Plethodontid Salamanders [PDF]

open access: yesAnimals, 2023
There is a recent growing interest in the study of evolutionary and behavioral ecology of amphibians. Among salamanders, Plethodontidae is the most speciose family, with more than 500 species, while in Europe, there are only 8 species, all belonging to ...
Andrea Costa   +3 more
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Toward a Behavioral Ecology of Rescue Behavior [PDF]

open access: yesEvolutionary Psychology, 2013
Although the study of helping behavior has revolutionized the field of behavioral ecology, scientific examination of rescue behavior remains extremely rare, except perhaps in ants, having been described as early as 1874. Nonetheless, recent work in our laboratories has revealed several new patterns of rescue behavior that appear to be much more complex
Karen L. Hollis, Elise Nowbahari
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The evolution of the concept of sensory ecology and the influence of behavioral ecology [PDF]

open access: yesAnais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2023
The science of sensory ecology formally emerged in the book of Ali (1978), when behavioral ecology was gaining popularity. Until 2020, three main books were written on the subject, in 1992 (Dusenbery 1992), 2001 (Barth & Schmid 2001) and 2013 (Stevens ...
RODRIGO H. WILLEMART
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Plumage color degradation indicates reproductive effort: an experiment

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
Plumage color has traditionally been regarded as a static ornamental trait, but evidence is accumulating for significant color changes without molt that typically reduce the conspicuousness of ornamentation.
Gergely Hegyi   +4 more
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Behavioral Ethics Ecologies of Human-Artificial Intelligence Systems

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences, 2022
Historically, evolution of behaviors often took place in environments that changed little over millennia. By contrast, today, rapid changes to behaviors and environments come from the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) and the infrastructures ...
Stephen Fox
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The lemur baseline: how lemurs compare to monkeys and apes in the Primate Cognition Test Battery [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ, 2020
Primates have relatively larger brains than other mammals even though brain tissue is energetically costly. Comparative studies of variation in cognitive skills allow testing of evolutionary hypotheses addressing socioecological factors driving the ...
Claudia Fichtel   +2 more
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Olfactory Inspection of Female Reproductive States in Chimpanzees

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
In mammalian species, olfactory cues are important for within and between species communication. These cues can be part of multimodal signals indicating, for example, female fertility potentially perceived by male conspecifics.
Susann Jänig   +11 more
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