When published in 1980, Benjamin B. Beck's Animal Tool Behavior was the first volume to
catalog and analyze the complete literature on tool use and manufacture in non-human …

There is confusion in the animal behaviour literature over the use of the terms 'toxicity'and
'unpalatability', which are commonly used interchangeably when describing the function of …

Deals with all aspects of adaptive resemblance Full colour Covers everything from classic
examples of Batesian, Mullerian, aggressive and sexual mimicries through to human …

Most of the preys are well aware of sensing predation risk. Consequently, to escape from
predators they usually adopt several defense mechanisms, specially refuge themselves to …

Deceptive antipredator defense mechanisms fall into three categories: depriving predators
of knowledge of prey's presence, providing cues that deceive predators about prey handling …

Otospermophilus beecheyi, the California ground squirrel (formerly, Beechey ground
squirrel), is dorsally brown with silver spotting. This facultatively social and ecologically …

Although course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) are gaining
popularity in biology, most are designed for benchwork-based laboratory courses while few …

Conspecifics can provide social cues about the presence of key features of the surrounding
environment, such as food or predators. Attending to social cues may therefore potentially …

Highlights•The Pacific leaping blenny, Alticus arnoldorum, is a land fish.•We studied five
populations around the island of Guam.•Body colour of fish matched the rocks on which the …

The wisdom of the crowd breaks down in small groups. While large flocks exhibit swarm
intelligence to evade predators, small groups display erratic behavior, oscillating between …