Colour change and assortment in the western rainbowfish [PDF]
, 2010 Grouping behaviour is widespread across the animal kingdom, and is known to reduce an individual's risk of predation, for example through predator confusion.
Kelley, Jennifer L. +2 more
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Resistance is futile: the borg, the hive, and corporate hegemony
Revista Teknokultura, 2016 The Borg, a collective of humanoid cyborgs linked together in a hive-mind and modeled on the earthly superorganisms of ant colonies and beehives, has been the most feared alien race in the Star Trek universe.
Steve Coulter
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Changing Feeding Levels Reveal Plasticity in Elasmobranch Life History Strategies
Ecology Letters, Volume 28, Issue 9, September 2025.We analysed life history traits of 151 elasmobranch species for two contrasting feeding levels in a principal components analysis. Two axes, reproductive output and generation turnover, structure elasmobranch life history strategies. Wefound that species' positions in this life history space are dynamic, shifting towards higher reproductive output as ...
Sol Lucas +3 more
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Olfactory cue use by three-spined sticklebacks foraging in turbid water: prey detection or prey location? [PDF]
, 2012 Foraging, when senses are limited to olfaction, is composed of two distinct stages: the detection of prey and the location of prey. While specialist olfactory foragers are able to locate prey using olfactory cues alone, this may not be the case for ...
Dunn, Alison M. +2 more
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The fourth‐dimensional ontology of sankofa epistemology
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue S1, Page S82-S91, September 2025.Abstract Debates about the metaphysical and ontological status of the principles of noncontradiction, excluded middle, identity, sufficient reason, and the identity of indiscernibles raise logical and substantive issues of interest in Western philosophy.
Nkiru Nzegwu
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SINGER, SOCIOBIOLOGY, AND VALUES: PURE REASON VERSUS EMPIRICAL REASON
Zygon, 1984 . E. O. Wilson argues that we must use scientifically based reason to solve the values dilemma created by the loss of a transcendent foundation for values.
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The Bacterium Pantoea ananatis Modifies Behavioral Responses to Sugar Solutions in Honeybees
Insects, 2020 1. Honeybees, which are among the most important pollinators globally, do not only collect pollen and nectar during foraging but may also disperse diverse microbes.
Ricarda Scheiner +4 more
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Genomic Landscape of High‐Altitude Adaptation in East African Mountain Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 8, August 2025.Highland and lowland honey bees in East Africa exhibit distinct phenotypes despite low overall genetic differentiation. To investigate this further, we sampled honey bees from a mountain system in Uganda (red circle) and compared them with samples from Kenya.
Marco Mazzoni +8 more
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SOCIOBIOLOGY, ETHICS, AND THEOLOGY
Zygon, 1984 . The topic of sociobiology and ethics opens up a range of questions that have to do with important relationships: between the history of nature and human being, between biological evolution and psychosocial evolution, between is and ought, between ...
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Between-Year Survival and Rank Transitions in Male Black-Capped Chickadees (\u3cem\u3ePoecile Atricapillus\u3c/em\u3e): A Multistate Modeling Approach [PDF]
, 2008 In dominance-structured animal societies, variation in individual fitness is often related to social status. Like many passerine birds, Black-capped Chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) have a short average adult life-expectancy (Ø2 years); however, the ...
Kraus, Cornelia +5 more
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