Social selection influences the evolution of weapons, ornaments and behaviour in both
males and females. Thus, social interactions in both sexual and non-sexual contexts can …

There is burgeoning interest in the idea that conspicuous begging displays, when parents
are provisioning dependent young, advertise offspring need honestly to parents. Many …

Parental care is a trait that shows tremendous diversity both within and across different
animal taxa, and is an important topic in evolutionary biology and behavioural ecology …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Many vertebrates grow up in the company of same or different-age siblings, and relations
among them can be expected to significantly influence individual life histories and the …

The evolution of biological signalling in the face of evolutionary conflicts of interest is an
active area of evolutionary ecology, and one to which Maynard Smith has made important …

Birds raise their young under constant risk of predation, which shapes how parents and
young communicate acoustically. Nestling begging calls extract care from parents but …

Background Understanding the ecological consequences of roads and develo** ways to
mitigate their negative effects has become an important goal for many conservation …

Lateralisation of conspecific vocalisation has been observed in several vertebrate species.
In the present article we review the results of behavioural and neuroanatomical studies …

Until the 1960s and 1970s, evolutionary biologists envisioned family interactions as
harmonious, with parents maximizing the number of surviving offspring (Lack 1947) …