Sensory integration theory predicts natural selection should favour adaptive responses of
animals to multiple forms of information, yet empirical tests of this prediction are rare …

Human presence and activities have profoundly altered animals' habitats, exposing them to
greater risks but also providing new opportunities and resources. The animals' capacity to …

Highlights•We examined ecological drivers of stability of degu social foraging groups.•Food
availability, predation risk, opposite-sex ratio and season influenced stability.•Foraging …

Otospermophilus douglasii, the Douglas ground squirrel, was first described as a species
and then relegated to a subspecies of the California ground squirrel, O. beecheyi. However …

Behavioral ecologists have something going on with sex. Anyone having anything to do with
this field concerned with the study of animal behavior in its ecological and evolutionary …

Recent range shifts are occurring as species respond to a rapidly changing world. Animals
in the process of shifting their range offer unique opportunities to investigate the ecological …