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Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2015 Pollination of plants by non-flying mammals, such as mice (Rodentia), is a rarely observed phenomenon. Previously, elephant-shrews (Macroscelidea), small African mammals looking similar to mice, but not being related to them, were believed to be purely ...
Petra Wester
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Unusual echolocation behaviour of the common sword-nosed bat Lonchorhina aurita: an adaptation to aerial insectivory in a phyllostomid bat? [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 Most insectivorous bat species in the Neotropical family Phyllostomidae glean insects from ground, water or vegetation surfaces. They use similar and stereotypical echolocation calls that are generally very short (less than 1–3 ms), multi-harmonic and ...
Gloria Gessinger +4 more
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Sensory Ecology of Ostariophysan Alarm Substances
Journal of Fish Biology, 2018 Chemical communication of predation risk has evolved multiple times in fish species, with the conspecific alarm substance (CAS) contemporaneously being the most well understood mechanism. CAS is released after epithelial damage, usually when prey fish is captured by a predator, and elicits neurobehavioral adjustments in conspecifics which increase the ...
Caio Maximino +15 more
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The American Biology Teacher, 2016 As visual creatures, humans sometimes have difficulty understanding how other organisms encounter their environments through nonvisual means. Many organisms rely predominantly or exclusively on senses other than sight, including olfaction, chemoreception, and thermoreception.
Megan Mayo, Jan Ng
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Anthropogenic noise events perturb acoustic communication networks
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Anthropogenic noise sources impact ecological processes by altering wildlife behavior and interactions with cascading impacts on community structure.
Nathan J. Kleist +7 more
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Chemosensory Exploitation and Predator-Prey Arms Races
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Thousands of armed predatory species, distributed widely across the metazoan tree-of-life, consume only hard-shell or exoskeleton-bearing organisms (called “durophagy”).
Richard K. Zimmer +4 more
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Sensory ecology of disease vectors
, 2022 How do arthropods that transmit human pathogens perceive their world? The answer is essential for controlling the spread of vector-borne diseases in a rational way, and can help solve a major problem in current times. This state-of-the-art compendium, written for students and researchers in the Life Sciences, shows how these organisms use their sensory
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 The study of butterfly coloration has helped to identify the ecological pressures involved in the evolution of animal coloration. However, almost all studies that addressed this issue have focused on species that inhabit more temperate environments ...
Sofia Coradini Schirmer +4 more
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Frontiers in Marine ScienceCommon bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) are among non-human mammals that possess the ability for vocal production learning, which strongly depends on learning from conspecifics. The hearing sensitivity and acoustic signals of a 4-year-old captive-
Evgeniya Sysueva +6 more
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Functional differences in echolocation call design in an adaptive radiation of bats
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 All organisms have specialized systems to sense their environment. Most bat species use echolocation for navigation and foraging, but which and how ecological factors shaped echolocation call diversity remains unclear for the most diverse clades ...
Leith B. Leiser‐Miller +1 more
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