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Chiroptera Personality—A Guide for Assessing Personality Variation in Bats: Ecological, Methodological and Statistical Considerations

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 8, August 2026.
This paper addresses the underrepresentation of bats in animal personality research despite their ecological importance, offering a structured guide for studying consistent individual behavioural differences in this taxon. We outline key experimental, fieldwork and annotation considerations specific to bats' unique life histories, alongside a five‐step
Theresa Schabacker, Mirjam Knörnschild
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative endocranial anatomy in the crocodylians Leidyosuchus canadensis and Stangerochampsa mccabei from the upper Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada

Journal of Anatomy, Volume 249, Issue 2, Page 264-291, August 2026.
Leidyosuchus canadensis and Stangerochampsa mccabei share endocranial features such as posterior projection of a neurovascular canal in the maxilla and a paratympanic sinus system most similar to those of small‐bodied and young extant crocodylians, suggesting that these pedomorphic features may reflect the ancestral crocodylian condition.
G. Donzé, G. Perrichon, P. Vincent, F. Therrien, J. E. Martin   +4 more
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Sound quality impacts dogs’ ability to recognize and respond to playback words

Scientific Reports
Humans show a remarkable ability to recognize degraded speech, but they struggle as degradation becomes more severe. Research on dogs, a species naturally exposed to human language, has suggested that also in this species, the level of degradation may ...
Fumi Higaki, Tamás Faragó, Ákos Pogány, Ádám Miklósi, Claudia Fugazza   +4 more
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Relationship Value, Emotion, and Uncertainty Shape Conflict−Resolution Communication in a Wild Primate

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1562, Issue 1, August 2026.
Geladas combine vocal−visual signals and tactile patterns to resolve conflicts. Reconciliation is rapid, mainly aggressor‐initiated, and shaped by relationship value, risk, emotion, and audience context. Post‐conflict sequences increase in complexity with stronger bonds, greater distress, dominance asymmetries, and genetic unrelatedness. These patterns
Luca Pedruzzi, Alice Galotti, Martina Francesconi, Alberto Quartesan, Sheleme Abiyou Gamessa, Hailu Tilahun Argaw, Arianna Meletiadis, Pier Luigi Acutis, Maria Vittoria Riina, Valentina Serra, Giulio Petroni, Bezawork Afework Bogale, Alban Lemasson, Elisabetta Palagi   +13 more
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Ethology

, 2017
Ethology calls on a wide range of disciplines including genetics, physiology, ecology, developmental biology, and evolution to converge in an integrated view of the organism, its function, and its interactions with its physical system. Among the vertebrates, bird and mammal behaviour have been the subject of much investigation, whereas fish behaviour ...
Fermon, Y., Bigorne, Rémy
openaire   +3 more sources

Valuing Behavioral By‐Products: Evolutionary Significance of Neutrally Drifting and Exaptive Cultures in Primates

American Journal of Primatology, Volume 88, Issue 7, July 2026.
Structural, functional, and evolutionary links between two behavioral by‐products (i.e., stone play and female‐to‐female mounting—FFM) and their putative corresponding behavioral adaptations (i.e., stone tool use and female‐to‐male mounting—FMM) in Balinese long‐tailed macaques and Japanese macaques.
Jean‐Baptiste Leca, Noëlle Gunst, Paul L. Vasey, Michael A. Huffman   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hunting Guild Mediates the Effects of Fecundity and Mortality on Sexual Size Dimorphism in Spiders

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 7, July 2026.
Female red‐legged golden orb‐weaver (Trichonephila inaurata madagascarensis) with a much smaller male visible near the tip of the female abdomen, southwest Madagascar. Orb‐web weavers are characterised by relatively sedentary females occupying aerial orb webs and highly mobile mate‐searching males.
Mona Hosseini, Balázs Vági, Hunor Takács‐Vágó, Tamás Szűts, Tamás Székely, Oscar G. Miranda   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Displaying jealous behavior versus experiencing jealousy

Animal Sentience, 2018
Jealous behavior is the manifestation of complex behavioral interactions initiated by an individual who aims to maintain an important social relationship that is threatened by a rival.
Judit Abdai, Ádám Miklósi
doaj   +1 more source

Dogs’ olfactory resting-state functional connectivity is modulated by age and brain shape

Scientific Reports
Humans have long applied canine olfaction in various contexts. Dog olfactory brain networks have recently been mapped by anatomical measures, but functional connections remain unexplored.
Asami Nakaimuki, Bernadett Paska, Laura V. Cuaya, Raúl Hernández-Pérez, Kalman Czeibert, Dóra Szabó, Eniko Kubinyi, Attila Andics   +7 more
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Wildlife conservation and adaptation to humans

Animal Sentience
For many animal species, the ability to adapt to coexistence with the human species and to the environmental changes that humans cause is a biological imperative. This adaptive capacity varies not only between species, but within species.
Valeria Mazza, Claudio Carere
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