There is increasing interest in documenting and explaining the existence of marked
intraspecific variation in metabolic rate in animals, with fishes providing some of the best …

Hypothesis: Natural and sexual selection should be stronger on whole-organism functional
performance traits (sprinting, biting) than on correlated morphological variables. Organisms …

Trade-offs and constraints are inherent to life, and studies of these phenomena play a
central role in both organismal and evolutionary biology. Trade-offs can be defined …

In this work we describe an autonomous soft-bodied robot that is both self-contained and
capable of rapid, continuum-body motion. We detail the design, modeling, fabrication, and …

Residing within the immense diversity of fishes on earth is an equally impressive array of
locomotor abilities. Some fish continuously swim virtually their entire lives; some move …

Escape responses are used by many animal species as their main defence against predator
attacks. Escape success is determined by a number of variables; important are the …

Differences in predation intensity experienced by organisms can lead to divergent natural
selection, driving evolutionary change. Western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) exhibit …

Although theory indicates that natural selection can facilitate speciation as a by-product,
demonstrating ongoing speciation via this by-product mechanism in nature has proven …

The ability of fish to evade predators is central to the ecology and evolution of a diversity of
species. However, it is largely unclear how prey fish detect predators in order to initiate their …

Conflict between humans and large carnivores hinders carnivore conservation worldwide.
Livestock depredations by large carnivores is the main cause of conflict, triggering poaching …