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Fecundity selection on ornamental plumage colour differs between ages and sexes and varies over small spatial scales [PDF]

, 2011
Timothy Parker, Teddy A. Wilkin, Iain Barr, Ben C. Sheldon, LE Rowe, Simon C. Griffith   +5 more
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
wiley   +1 more source

Phenotypic and morphometric characterization of local muscovy ducks raised in West Africa, Benin. [PDF]

PLoS One
Libanio D, Kinkpe L, Bouassi T, Behingan MB, Goswami N, Kadurumba OE, Pokoo-Aikins A, Houndonougbo FM, Chrysostome CAA.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Microarthropods from birds’ plumage: lifetime collecting method

, 2009
Н. В. Лебедева, Ju.G. Bojarinova, V. D. Lebedev, K. V. Kavokin   +3 more
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The Ties That Rhyme: Duality in Symbolic and Structural Networks of Grime Music

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Do birds of a feather really sing together? Musicians face two competing pressures in the pursuit of success: conforming to genre norms to meet audience expectations and distinguishing themselves to attract the attention of listeners. These opposing logics may shape how artists choose their collaborators.
Tom R. Leppard, Andrew P. Davis
wiley   +1 more source

A Sexual Difference in Plumage of Brown Shrike Subspecies, Lanius cristatus superciliosus.

, 1996
Masaoki Takagi
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Individual fitness correlates in consecutive years of pair bond in Upland Geese [PDF]

, 2011
Gladbach, Anja
core  

The predatory behavior of ants: an impressive panoply of morphological adaptations

Insect Science, EarlyView.
This review focuses on predation in ants, showing the wide diversity of cases from solitary foraging to group hunting tactics, as well as the evolution of mandible shape frequently adapted to capture specific prey. Although most ants are generalist feeders, finding their sugary substances directly on plants or indirectly via sap‐sucking insects, some ...
Alain Dejean, Xim Cerdá, Jérôme Orivel, Frédéric Azémar, Alexander L. Wild, Bruno Corbara, Axel Touchard   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chinese Pangolin Changes Local Vertebrate Assemblages and Contributes to Their Interspecific Interactions by Burrowing and Revisitation

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
In this study, we systematically analyzed the utilization patterns of Chinese pangolin burrows by sympatric species in Guangdong Province, China, including differences in species composition using burrow mounds and burrow tunnels. We found that repeated visits to burrows by Chinese pangolin promoted the use of burrows by sympatric species, suggesting ...
Song Sun, Ruirui Mao, Hongliang Dou, Haiyang Gao, Ying Wang, Yaqian Zhang, Fei Wu, Yuanwen Kuang, Zhishu Xiao, Yan Hua   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transcriptomic insights into the effects of tyrosine on sub-Columbian plumage in H line chickens. [PDF]

Front Vet Sci
Wang X, Zhang L, Yang L, Yang P, Qiao Y, Han Z, Fan J, Li Q, Zhang D, Li Z, Kang X, Du J, Li R.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source