Migration is the regular seasonal movement of animals from one place to another, often from
a breeding site to a nonbreeding site and back. Because the act of migration makes it …

Protandry, the earlier arrival of males to breeding areas than females, is a common pattern
of sex‐biased timing in many animal taxa (eg some insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds …

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

Recovery from infection is not always complete, and mild chronic infection may persist.
Although the direct costs of such infections are apparently small, the potential for any long …

It is widely accepted that the arrival order of migratory birds is correlated with the condition of
the birds, which leads to high quality individuals occupying prime sites. However, the …

Identifying the factors that control population dynamics in migratory animals has been
constrained by our inability to track individuals throughout the annual cycle. Using stable …

Recently, several polymerase chain reaction (PCR)–based methods for detection and
genetic identification of haemosporidian parasites in avian blood have been developed …

The date when a landbird migrant arrives on its breeding grounds may have reproductive
consequences. Generally, early arriving individuals begin breeding earlier and …

The nutritional stress hypothesis explains how learned features of song, such as complexity
and local dialect structure, can serve as indicators of male quality of interest to females in …

Research conducted in the last fifteen years has placed in question many of the traditional
conclusions scholars have formed about human female sexuality. Though conventional …