Behavioral tests of hearing in fish are relatively rare and are generally based upon aversive
conditioning, with little data available for the positive reinforcement methods common in …

Individuals show consistent differences in their approach to novel tasks (ie,“cognitive
syndromes”), whereby “fast” individuals are bold and solve new problems quickly compared …

Highlights•Properties of prey and state-dependent gains of predators may affect
learning.•We tested whether bats' nutritional state during learning affects food …

Playback experiments have been a useful tool for studying the function of sounds and the
relevance of different sound characteristics in signal recognition in many different species of …

The stomatopod crustaceans, or mantis shrimps, are marine predators that stalk or ambush
prey and that have complex intraspecific communication behavior. Their active lifestyles …

A general northward shift in marine species distributions has been observed in the western
North Atlantic Ocean, which may have significant ecological consequences. Large coastal …

Despite substantial research interest in understanding individual-level consistency in
behavioral attributes, significant knowledge gaps remain across traits and taxa. For …

The long term goal of this effort is to develop meaningful auditory weighting functions for
marine mammals. These weighting functions would improve assessments of the effects of …

The Crown‐of‐thorns starfish Acanthaster planci, shows selection for the species of coral on
which it feeds. On contacting a coral, the starfish may settle on it, or it may show an …

Chemical communication governs a diversity of life processes in aquatic organisms.
Crayfish use chemoreception during reproduction, social hierarchy formation, predation …