Bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay, Australia, live in a large, unbounded society with a fission–
fusion grou** pattern. Potential cognitive demands include the need to develop social …

Baleen whales are gigantic obligate filter feeders that exploit aggregations of small-bodied
prey in littoral, epipelagic, and mesopelagic ecosystems. At the extreme of maximum body …

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 …

Animals have evolved remarkable biomechanical and physiological systems that enable
their rich repertoire of motion. Animal Locomotion offers a fundamental understanding of …

A comprehensive, systematic, analytically unified, and interdisciplinary treatment of energy
in nature and society, from solar radiation and photosynthesis to our fossil fuelled civilization …

Famed in story as" the great leviathans," sperm whales are truly creatures of extremes.
Giants among all whales, they also have the largest brains of any creature on Earth. Males …

Aim Mammalian home range patterns provide information on spatial behaviour and
ecological patterns, such as resource use, that is often used by conservation managers in a …

Lunge feeding by rorqual whales (Balaenopteridae) is associated with a high energetic cost
that decreases diving capacity, thereby limiting access to dense prey patches at depth …

Locomotor activity by diving marine mammals is accomplished while breath-holding and
often exceeds predicted aerobic capacities. Video sequences of freely diving seals and …

Flight is a key adaptive trait. Despite its advantages, flight has been lost in several groups of
birds, notably among seabirds, where flightlessness has evolved independently in at least …