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Harnessing fear of predators and competitors as deterrents for an invasive predator

Ecosphere
Manipulation of animal behavior is a powerful tool for nonlethal wildlife management where lethal control is not possible. Animal behavior is driven by motivations to acquire food and mates and to avoid predation, and animals utilize their sensory ...
Sze Wing Yiu, Justin P. Suraci, Grant Norbury, Patrick M. Garvey   +3 more
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Acoustic Metadata Design on Object-Based Audio Using Estimated 3D-Position from Visual Image Toward Depth-Directional Sound Image Localization

Acoustics
Multichannel audio is a sound field reproduction technology that uses multiple loudspeakers. Object-based audio is a playback method for multichannel audio that enables the construction of sound images at specified positions using coordinates within the ...
Subaru Kato, Masato Nakayama, Takanobu Nishiura, Yoshiharu Soeta   +3 more
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Multistage, Self‐Sensing Artificial Muscles With Coordination From Liquid Crystal Elastomer‐Graphene Composite Fibers

Advanced Functional Materials, Volume 36, Issue 83, 15 October 2026.
Inspired by skeletal muscles’ precision and endurance, CoilLCE integrates a self‐sensing liquid crystal elastomer/graphene artificial muscle with an embedded Joule‐heating copper coil, enabling closed‐loop multistage actuation with programmable intermediate states (strain accuracy of 2%), and antagonistic coordination (32% total strain). These features
Ziyun Zhang, Xuelin Wu, Yinding Chi, Qingya Huang, Yaoye Hong, Antonio Proctor Martinez, Jingxian Wu, Bingzhi He, Cynthia Sung, Shu Yang   +9 more
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Conspecific cues and breeding territory selection in Whinchat on abandoned fields

Avian Research
Many bird species use social information to guide territory selection. Different species in different habitats may use both pre-breeding and post-breeding conspecific cues.
Dmitry Shitikov, Tatiana Vaytina, Polina Lebedyanskaya   +2 more
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Utterance evolution: the road to generative, combinatorial communicators

Biological Reviews, Volume 101, Issue 5, Page 2427-2447, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Language has long been considered uniquely complex in the animal kingdom; however, animal research over the last decade has begun to challenge some long‐standing premises about exactly which language capacities are uniquely human. The task of resolving why and how complex communication systems evolve, particularly human language, has ...
Catherine Crockford, Roman Martin Wittig, Cedric Girard‐Buttoz   +2 more
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Microclimate mediates the strength and direction of avian biotic interactions

Ecography, Volume 2026, Issue 10, October 2026.
Theory predicts that the strength and direction of species interactions can shift from being competitive in benign environments toward being facilitative in stressful environments. However, the environmental context dependency of species interactions has rarely been tested in animal communities.
Sarah J. K. Frey, Brian D. Gerber, Adam S. Hadley, Hankyu Kim, Madison Sutton, Nina C. Ferrari, Matthew G. Betts   +6 more
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Learning from Playbacks: Testing the Communicative Function of Snort and Pant Calls in the Southern White Rhinoceros

Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
In southern white rhinoceroses (Ceratotherium simum simum), pant calls are well-studied contact vocalisations, whereas the function of frequently emitted snorts remains unclear.
Julia Jenikejew, Mascha Huelsewig, Damaris Riedner, Mathilde Stomp, Alban Lemasson, Martine Hausberger, Idu Azogu-Sepe, Martin Böye, Marina Scheumann   +8 more
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The influence of acoustic characteristics and anthropogenic noise on restorative perceptions of natural soundscapes

People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 10, Page 3466-3480, October 2026.
Abstract Natural soundscapes are an important cultural ecosystem service that can promote mental health and well‐being. However, the role of specific acoustic characteristics in delivering these benefits and the constraining effects of anthropogenic noise are currently unclear.
Konrad Uebel, Melissa Marselle, Claire Buchan, Simon J. Butler, Nicholas Hanley, Anthony Higney, Eleanor Ratcliffe   +6 more
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QuickProcess2: an integrated package for crystallography data visualization, processing and management at the GM/CA Structural Biology Facility

Journal of Applied Crystallography, Volume 59, Issue 5, Page 1746-1756, October 2026.
QuickProcess2 (QP2) unifies real‐time image visualization, automated multi‐pipeline data processing and experiment management into a single open‐source platform for synchrotron macromolecular crystallography beamlines, enabling live quality assessment and concurrent data reduction for both standard rotation and serial crystallography experiments.The ...
Qingping Xu, Mark C. Hilgart, Nagarajan Venugopalan, David Kissick, Michael Becker, Shenglan Xu, Oleg Makarov, Sergey Stepanov, Janet L. Smith, Robert F. Fischetti   +9 more
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Electronic Playback Devices to Reduce Ungulates’ Attendance in an Olive Grove Farm in the Province of Florence (Italy)

AgriEngineering
(1) Background: Human–wildlife conflict can lead to adverse consequences for both parties, particularly in areas with a high concentration of wild ungulates.
Leonardo Conti, Giulia Angeloni, Piernicola Masella, Caterina Sottili, Ferdinando Corti, Stefano Camiciottoli, Veronica Racanelli, Agnese Spadi, Francesco Garbati Pegna, Alessandro Parenti   +9 more
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