The behavior of individuals determines the strength and outcome of ecological interactions,
which drive population, community, and ecosystem organization. Bio-logging, such as …

Avoiding predators is an essential behavior in which animals must quickly transform sensory
cues into evasive actions. Sensory reflexes are particularly fast in flying insects such as flies …

Background For a fruit fly, locating fermenting fruit where it can feed, find mates, and lay
eggs is an essential and difficult task requiring the integration of olfactory and visual cues …

An approaching predator and self-motion toward an object can generate similar looming
patterns on the retina, but these situations demand different rapid responses. How central …

A firm understanding of how fruit flies hover has emerged over the past two decades, and
recent work has focused on the aerodynamic, biomechanical and neurobiological …

Long-lasting insecticidal bed nets (LLINs) protect humans from malaria transmission and are
fundamental to malaria control worldwide, but little is known of how mosquitoes interact with …

Animals use diverse solutions to land on vertical surfaces. Here we show the unique landing
of the gliding gecko, Hemidactylus platyurus. Our high-speed video footage in the Southeast …

Understanding how the brain controls behaviour is undisputedly one of the grand goals of
neuroscience research, and the pursuit of this goal has a long tradition in insect …

Landing is a challenging aspect of flight because, to land safely, speed must be decreased
to a value close to zero at touchdown. The mechanisms by which animals achieve this …

Studying the intertwined roles of sensation, experience, and directed action in navigation
has been facilitated by the development of virtual reality (VR) environments for head-fixed …