For more than 200 years, the metabolic response that accompanies meal digestion has
been characterized, theorized, and experimentally studied. Historically labeled “specific …

▪ Abstract The ability of animals to survive food deprivation is clearly of considerable survival
value. Unsurprisingly, therefore, all animals exhibit adaptive biochemical and physiological …

Current hypotheses that use visually guided reaching and gras** to explain orbital
convergence, visual specialization, and brain expansion in primates are open to question …

▪ Abstract Two consequences of terrestrial ectothermy (low energy needs and behavioral
control of body temperatures) have had major consequences for the evolution of reptile life …

Man the Hunted argues that primates, including the earliest members of the human family,
have evolved as the prey of any number of predators, including wild cats and dogs, hyenas …

How foragers balance risks during foraging is a central focus of optimal foraging studies.
While diverse theoretical and empirical work has revealed how foragers should and do …

The largest extant snakes live in the tropics of South America and southeast Asia,, where
high temperatures facilitate the evolution of large body sizes among air-breathing animals …

Individual feeding specialisation in shorebirds is reviewed, and the possible mechanisms
involved in such specialisations. Any specialisation can be seen as an individual strategy …

Body size and body shape are tightly related to an animal's physiology, ecology and life
history, and, as such, play a major role in understanding ecological and evolutionary …

Earth's tropical ecosystems have witnessed several extinctions and a dramatic reduction of
the range and abundance of large reptile species, which is directly related to the rise of early …