When exploiting the environment, animals have to discriminate, track, and integrate salient
spatial cues to navigate and identify goal sites. Actually, they have to know what can be …

Avian gut microbial communities are complex and play a fundamental role in regulating
biological functions within an individual. Although it is well established that diet can …

Animal foraging movements are shaped by sensory-motor abilities, availability and
distribution of resources and cognitive skills (memory of where, and possibly what and …

Lethal intergroup encounters occur in many species because of sexual selection. While
documented in mountain gorillas, they are absent in western gorillas as, instead, it is …

Tropical forests show high spatiotemporal seasonal variation in food availability, especially
for fruits. To forage efficiently, frugivorous primates are expected to have higher …

Foraging in seasonal environments can be cognitively challenging. Comparative studies
have associated brain size with a frugivorous diet. We investigated how fruit distribution …

Nutritional coprophagy has been under-recognized in many vertebrates despite its potential
impact on social behaviours, health outcomes and ecological relationships. We reviewed …

The digestive tract of animals, and the patterns how passage markers are excreted from
them, have been fruitfully compared to chemical reactor models from engineering science …

It is still unclear to what extent animals possess knowledge of death. Primates display a
large variety and often contradictory behaviors toward conspecific corpses, particularly those …

Food calls are widespread across many mammal and bird species, but the reasons of this
adaptive success are not yet fully understood. Using data from four habituated groups of …