Early growth conditions, phenotypic development and environmental change

P Monaghan - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2008 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Phenotypic development is the result of a complex interplay involving the organism's own
genetic make-up and the environment it experiences during development. The latter …

Studying the evolutionary ecology of cognition in the wild: a review of practical and conceptual challenges

J Morand‐Ferron, EF Cole, JL Quinn - Biological Reviews, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Cognition is defined as the processes by which animals collect, retain and use information
from their environment to guide their behaviour. Thus cognition is essential in a wide range …

Cognitive performance is linked to group size and affects fitness in Australian magpies

BJ Ashton, AR Ridley, EK Edwards, A Thornton - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The social intelligence hypothesis states that the demands of social life drive cognitive
evolution,,. This idea receives support from comparative studies that link variation in group …

[图书][B] Principles of animal communication

JW Bradbury, SL Vehrencamp - 1998 - learninglink.oup.com
Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Precaution systems and ritualized behavior

P Boyer, P Linard - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2006 - cambridge.org
In reply to commentary on our target article, we supply further evidence and hypotheses in
the description of ritualized behaviors in humans. Reactions to indirect fitness threats …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change shifts the timing of nutritional flux from aquatic insects

JR Shipley, CW Twining, M Mathieu-Resuge… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Climate change can decouple resource supply from consumer demand, with the potential to
create phenological mismatches driving negative consequences on fitness. However, the …

[图书][B] Nature's music: the science of birdsong

PR Marler, H Slabbekoorn - 2004 - books.google.com
The voices of birds have always been a source of fascination. Nature's Music brings together
some of the world's experts on birdsong, to review the advances that have taken place in our …

Female mate choice based upon male motor performance

J Byers, E Hebets, J Podos - Animal Behaviour, 2010 - Elsevier
Our goal in this essay is to review the hypothesis that females choose mates by the
evaluation of male motor performance. We define motor performance as vigour, the ability to …

Song repertoire size in male song sparrows correlates with detour reaching, but not with other cognitive measures

NJ Boogert, RC Anderson, S Peters, WA Searcy… - Animal Behaviour, 2011 - Elsevier
Song learning is a cognitive task in which juvenile birds acquire, store and use information
about adult song to shape their own song production. Comparative studies show that across …

Food availability limits avian reproduction in the city: An experimental study on great tits Parus major

G Seress, K Sándor, KL Evans… - Journal of Animal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The altered ecological and environmental conditions in towns and cities strongly affect
demographic traits of urban animal populations, for example avian reproductive success is …