Groups of animals inhabit vastly different sensory worlds, or umwelten, which shape
fundamental aspects of their behaviour. Yet the sensory ecology of species is rarely …

Twenty years ago, Dominy and colleagues published “The sensory ecology of primate food
perception,” an impactful review that brought new perspectives to understanding primate …

Orienting a food item held in the hand to withdraw and optimally place it in the mouth for
eating (withdraw-to-eat) is mediated by vision in catarrhine anthropoids and by nonvisual …

Turbinals are bony or cartilaginous structures that are present in the nasal cavity of most
tetrapods. They are involved in key functions such as olfaction, heat, and moisture …

Turbinals are bony or cartilaginous structures that are present in the nasal cavity of most
tetrapods. They are involved in key functions such as olfaction, heat, and moisture …

There appears to be no attempt to categorize the specific classes of behavior that the tactile
system underpins. Awareness of how an organism uses touch in their environment informs …

Highlights•Dichromatic and trichromatic capuchins exhibited modest dietary differences.•
Dichromatic and trichromatic capuchins did not differ in nutritional niches.•Food and nutrient …

The human hand is one of our most remarkable features. We have long, opposable thumbs
and a suite of other features argued to be adaptations for interacting with and manipulating …

The length of the snout in mammals has important evolutionary consequences for the
functional systems housed within the rostrum. However, whether increased snout lengths …

Turbinals are key bony elements of the mammalian nasal cavity, involved in heat and
moisture conservation as well as olfaction. While turbinals are well known in some groups …