Despite decades of independent progress in population ecology and movement ecology, researchers have lacked a theoretical ...

A perspective in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface argues that advances in AI, sensing technologies and modeling are ...

Recent advances in accelerometry have transformed the field of animal ecology by enabling the continuous monitoring of fine-scale movement and behaviour in free-ranging species. Accelerometers, often ...

Crows are no match for a larger predator like a hawk. So why is their mobbing behavior not met with an attack?

Strong methods do exist for measuring animal movement in the context of energy expenditure, but these are limited by the physical size of the equipment used. Now, in a paper published in the Journal ...

A tiger walks the same worn groove along the edge of its exhibit, like a broken record. A parrot methodically plucks out its own feathers until bare skin shows through. To a casual visitor, these can ...

Source: Colorado Parks and Wildlife, public domain. I've long been interested in how individual differences in personality among members of the same species (conspecifics) can influence their behavior ...

University of California, Santa Cruz, faculty members Rita Mehta and Colleen Reichmuth have been named California Academy of Sciences Fellows, joining a governing group of more than 500 distinguished ...

Based on a symposium held as part of the 16th International Botanical Gongress held in St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 1999. Contents The effect of variation among floral traits on the flower constancy of ...