Papers on sexual selection often highlight the incredible diversity of sexually selected traits
across animals. Yet, few studies have tried to explain why this diversity evolved. Animals use …

Crocodilians and birds are the modern representatives of Phylum Archosauria. Although
there have been recent advances in our understanding of the phylogeny and ecology of …

The Turtles of Mexico is the first comprehensive guide to the biology, ecology, evolution, and
distribution of more than fifty freshwater and terrestrial turtle taxa found in Mexico. Legler and …

Humans spontaneously match information coming from different senses, in what we call
crossmodal associations. For instance, high-pitched sounds are preferentially associated …

Among amniote vertebrates, nonavian reptiles (chelonians, crocodilians, and lepidosaurs)
are regarded as using vocal signals rarely (compared to birds and mammals). In all three …

Animals employ an array of signals (ie visual, acoustic, olfactory) for communication. Natural
selection favours signals, receptors, and signalling behaviour that optimise the received …

Behaviour is shaped by the perception of the surrounding world, which is created by the
senses. Reptilian sensory systems are shaped by the varied ecologies and complex …

Chelodina oblonga is a long-necked, freshwater turtle found predominantly in the wetlands
on the Swan Coastal Plain of Western Australia. Turtles from three populations were …

Most birds vocalize with an open beak, but vocalization with a closed beak into an inflating
cavity occurs in territorial or courtship displays in disparate species throughout birds. Closed …

The evolution of communication through intrasexual selection is expected to lead signalers
to transmit honest information on their fighting ability. Here we studied the information …