Temperature rules the lives of ectotherms. To perform basic biological functions, ectotherms
must make behavioral adjustments to keep their body temperatures near a preferred …

Colour polymorphic species often exhibit variation in morphology, physiology, and
behaviour among morphs. In particular, dominance status may be signalled by the …

Animal personality can be defined as behavioral individual consistency across contexts and
time, and sociability may facilitate it. Boldness and exploration can be considered as social …

When captured, many prey respond by biting the predator or struggling to get free. However,
one indirect escape option is death feigning (DF), in which complete immobility supposedly …

Animal personality refers to consistent individual differences across contexts, ecological
situations, and/or time. To understand the evolution of animal personality, it is crucial that …

Long‐term maintenance of colour polymorphisms often depends on the interplay of multiple
selective forces. In the common wall lizard (Podarcis muralis), up to three pure and two …

Colour polymorphism may be accompanied by alternative expressions of phenotypic traits
that are directly or indirectly related to fitness, and selection forces may act on the traits …

Color polymorphisms are common across reptile species and are frequently correlated with
variation in behavior and other functional traits. Here, we tested whether the ventral color …

The pace-of-life syndrome (POLS) describes covariation between behavioral, physiological,
and in some instances thermal traits. The POLS predicts that bolder, more exploratory …

Ještěrky rodu Podarcis Wagler, 1830 patří do čeledi Lacertidae. V poslední době prochází
jejich taxonomie dynamickými změnami, a lze předpokládat, že taxonomické revize budou …