Escape is one of the most studied animal behaviors, and there is a rich normative theory that
links threat properties to evasive actions and their timing. The behavioral principles of …

Interval timing, which operates on timescales of seconds to minutes, is distributed across
multiple brain regions and may use distinct circuit mechanisms as compared to millisecond …

The scientific study of networks-computer, social, and biological-has received an enormous
amount of interest in recent years. However, the network approach has been applied to the …

Abstract The Green Wave Hypothesis posits that herbivore migration manifests in response
to waves of spring green‐up (ie green‐wave surfing). Nonetheless, empirical support for the …

Personalities are general properties of humans and other animals. Different personality traits
are phenotypically correlated, and heritabilities of personality traits have been reported in …

In recent years, ecologists have stepped up to address the challenges imposed by rapidly
changing climates. Some researchers have developed niche-based methods to predict how …

Individuals of many species differ consistently in their behavioral reaction to mild novel
challenges. Suites of these behaviors are referred to as behavioral syndromes or …

Individual animals from the same population, sex, age and reproductive status often respond
differently and consistently to predators. One important dimension of this behavioural …

Small mammals are key scatter hoarders in forest ecosystems, acting as both seed
predators and dispersers. The outcome of their interactions (ie, predation vs. dispersal) is …

Previous studies have suggested that most small Australian elapid snakes are nocturnal and
rarely bask in the open because of the risk of predation by diurnal predatory birds. Because …