Floral scent constitutes an ancient and important channel of communication between
flowering plants, their pollinators, and enemies. Fragrance is a highly complex component of …

The Centre for Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition (ABC) has hypothesised that much human
decision-making can be described by simple algorithmic process models (heuristics). This …

All moving animals, including flies [1–3], sharks [4], and humans [5], experience a dynamic
sensory landscape that is a function of both their trajectory through space and the …

Gerd Gigerenzer's influential work examines the rationality of individuals not from the
perspective of logic or probability, but from the point of view of adaptation to the real world of …

The evolution of flowering plants has undoubtedly been influenced by a pollinator's ability to
learn to associate floral signals with food. Here, we address the question of 'why'flowers …

Animal-mediated pollination is essential in plant reproductive biology and is often
associated with pollination syndromes, sets of floral traits, such as color, scent, shape, or …

Animals travelling through the world receive input from multiple sensory modalities that
could be important for the guidance of their journeys. Given the availability of a rich array of …

Background For a fruit fly, locating fermenting fruit where it can feed, find mates, and lay
eggs is an essential and difficult task requiring the integration of olfactory and visual cues …

Flowers produce a plethora of secondary metabolites but only nectar sugars, floral pigments
and headspace volatiles have been examined in the context of pollinator behavior. We …

GC–MS analyses of nocturnal and diurnal floral volatiles from nine tobacco species
(Nicotiana; Solanaceae) resulted in the identification of 125 volatiles, including mono-and …