Host-associated microbiomes play an increasingly appreciated role in animal metabolism,
immunity and health. The microbes in turn depend on their host for resources and can be …

One of the striking features of human social complexity is that we provide care to sick and
contagious individuals, rather than avoiding them. Care-giving is a powerful strategy of …

Feces deposited by the breeding alpha pair on exposed substrates and/or zones may act as
visual and olfactory marks associated with social dominance in wolves. The aim of this study …

In much of the United States and elsewhere, urbanization continues to transform
landscapes. In central Texas, anthropogenic conversion of land is due in part to a rapidly …

Abstract The Active Territorial Defense Hypothesis (ATDH) and Passive Range Exclusion
Hypothesis (PREH) are contrasted as possible explanations for patterns of latrine use in a …

Translocation programs for endangered mammalian carnivores face numerous challenges,
including the potential for lethal interactions between releasees and resident conspecifics …

Latrines are accumulations of two to several hundred faeces resulting from the repeated use
of the same defecation sites by the same or several individuals. Many carnivores deposit …

Indirect wildlife population surveying largely depends upon counts of artifacts of behavior
(eg, nests or dung). Likelihood to encounter these artifacts is derived from both artifact …

Latrine behaviour is the repeated use of specific sites for defecation/urination, and is
common among most mammals, including carnivores, herbivores, marsupials and rodents …

In nature, animals are exposed to a broad range of threats imposed by predators, which may
strongly influence the ecology of prey species directly or indirectly by affecting their behavior …