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The ecology of exercise: mechanisms underlying Individual variation in behavior, activity, and performance: an introduction to symposium [PDF]

, 2017
Wild animals often engage in intense physical activity while performing tasks vital for their survival and reproduction associated with foraging, avoiding predators, fighting, providing parental care, and migrating.
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A Holocene paleoenvironmental record based on ungulate stable isotopes from Lukenya Hill, Kenya [PDF]

, 2019
Investigating the development of Holocene behavioral adaptations requires knowing how and why different human groups are distributed on the landscape. An expanded dataset of site-specific environmental and habitat reconstructions from eastern Africa are ...
Robinson, Joshua R.
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The Evolutionary Explanation of What?

Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 2018
The paper examines evolutionary explanations of risk preferences. First, the paper argues that evolutionary psychology is ill-suited for explaining prospect theory risk preferences since the empirical evidence does not support the universality of the ...
Bengt Autzen
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New Data on Armadillos (Xenarthra: Dasypodidae) for Central Patagonia, Argentina [PDF]

, 2010
Armadillos represent the most diverse family of xenarthrans. Although many studies have been done on these mammals, several topics, such as their local distribution, natural history, behavioral ecology and conservation, remain poorly known ...
Abba, Agustin Manuel, Nabte, Marcela Janina, Udrizar Sauthier, Daniel Edgardo   +2 more
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Sex Role Reversal and High Frequency of Social Polyandry in the Pheasant-Tailed Jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus)

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
In a few species, males invest more than females in parental care while the females invest in mating competition and producing multiple broods for several mates. Species in the family Jacanidae are commonly used for studying this type of breeding system (
Nolwenn Fresneau, Nolwenn Fresneau, Ya-Fu Lee, Wen-Chen Lee, András Kosztolányi, Tamás Székely, Tamás Székely, András Liker, András Liker   +8 more
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Shifting Deer Hunting Strategies as a Result of Environmental Changes along the Little and Great Miami Rivers of Southwest Ohio and Southeast Indiana [PDF]

, 2020
This study analyzes white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) remains from five Fort Ancient archaeological sites along the Little and Great Miami Rivers of southwest Ohio and southeast Indiana to compare how the combination of varying ecologies ...
Baker, Sydney
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Gaze Following in Ungulates: Domesticated and Non-domesticated Species Follow the Gaze of Both Humans and Conspecifics in an Experimental Context

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
Gaze following is the ability to use others’ gaze to obtain information about the environment (e.g., food location, predators, and social interactions). As such, it may be highly adaptive in a variety of socio-ecological contexts, and thus be widespread ...
Alina Schaffer, Alvaro L. Caicoya, Alvaro L. Caicoya, Montserrat Colell, Montserrat Colell, Ruben Holland, Conrad Ensenyat, Federica Amici, Federica Amici   +8 more
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Overview of Current Research on Wolves in Russia

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
This paper provides an overview of wolf research in Russia at the beginning of the 21st century. Wolf research covered various directions, including population density estimation, management methods and minimization of human-wildlife conflicts, general ...
Andrey D. Poyarkov, Miroslav P. Korablev, Eugenia Bragina, Jose Antonio Hernandez-Blanco   +3 more
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The Position of Body Mass in a Network of Human Life History Indicators

Psychological Topics, 2022
Body mass is widely recognized as a morphological trait which is important for fitness optimization both in humans and other animals. Here, we propose that body mass is a part of fast life history trajectory – the fitness optimization pattern which ...
Janko Međedović
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Can Mindfulness-Based Training Improve Positive Emotion and Cognitive Ability in Chinese Non-clinical Population? A Pilot Study

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
ObjectiveBased on eastern philosophy, mindfulness is becoming popular for human being’s mental health and well-being in western countries. In this study, we proposed to explore the effectiveness and potential pathway of mindfulness-based training (MBT ...
Tingfei Zhu, Jiang Xue, Astrid Montuclard, Yuxing Jiang, Wenqi Weng, Shulin Chen   +5 more
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