The consequences of human influence can arise in vertebrates as primary, secondary, or
even tertiary stressors and may be especially detrimental for slow growing species with long …

Abstract 450 million years of evolution have given chondrichthyans (sharks, rays and allies)
ample time to adapt perfectly to their respective everyday life challenges and cognitive …

Understanding how individual behavior shapes the structure and ecology of populations is
key to species conservation and management. Like many elasmobranchs, manta rays are …

A thorough understanding of movement patterns of a species is critical for designing
effective conservation and management initiatives. However, generating such information …

Background Acoustic telemetry has been used with great success to quantify the movements
of marine fishes in open habitats, however research has begun to focus on patterns of …

Many species with broad distributions are exposed to different thermal regimes which often
select for varied phenotypes. This intraspecific variation is often overlooked but may be …

Highlights•Nonsocial, juvenile Port Jackson sharks learnt faster with trained demonstrators.•
Acquisition occurred between training bouts.•Social living is not a prerequisite for social …

Tourism-related feeding of wildlife can result in detrimental, human-induced changes to the
spatial distribution, social behaviour and health of target species. The feeding of sharks as …

Oceanic islands play a central role in the study of evolution and island biogeography. The
Galapagos Islands are one of the most studied oceanic archipelagos but research has …

Ocean warming can induce physiological and behavioural effects in marine predators that
can cascade through ecosystems. A lack of understanding of the effects of elevated …