Addressing important questions in animal ecology, physiology, and environmental science
often requires in situ information from wild animals. This difficulty is being overcome by …

Recent technologies have allowed researchers to observe animal behaviour and monitor
their surrounding environments by deploying electronic sensors onto the animals. So-called …

Instruments attached to animals ('biologgers') have facilitated extensive discoveries about
the patterns, causes, and consequences of animal behavior. Here, we present examples of …

The aquatic habitat of marine “air-breathing” vertebrates provides a significant
thermoregulatory challenge due to the high thermal conductivity of water. In addition to …

Breath-hold diving involves highly integrative physiology and extreme responses to both
exercise and asphyxia during progressive elevations in hydrostatic pressure. With …

Although gigantic body size and obligate filter feeding mechanisms have evolved in multiple
vertebrate lineages (mammals and fishes), intermittent ram (lunge) filter feeding is unique to …

Introduction: In addition to gap junction conduction, recent reports implicate possible
ephaptic coupling contributions to action potential (AP) propagation between successive …

Following rapid environmental change, why do some animals thrive, while others struggle?
We present an expanded, cue–response framework for predicting variation in behavioral …

Plasticity in the cardiac function of a marine mammal facilitates rapid adjustments to the
contrasting metabolic demands of breathing at the surface and diving during an extended …

Wild animals are under selective pressure to optimise energy budgets; therefore, quantifying
energy expenditure, intake and allocation to specific activities is important if we are to …