The extant diversity and rich fossil record of cetaceans provides an extraordinary
evolutionary context for investigating the relationship between form, function and ecology …

Attentional bottlenecks force animals to deeply process only a selected fraction of sensory
inputs. This motivates a unifying central-peripheral dichotomy (CPD), which separates …

Animals are biological transformers of dietary matter and energy to produce high-quality
foods and wools for human consumption and use. Mammals, birds, fish, and shrimp require …

Assessments of anthropogenic impacts on marine wildlife often concentrate on large-scale
displacement. However, changes in the activity patterns of animals that do not flee could …

As human activities impact virtually every animal habitat on the planet, identifying species at-
risk from disturbance is a priority. Cetaceans are an example taxon where responsiveness to …

Many animals produce louder, longer or more repetitious vocalizations to compensate for
increases in environmental noise. Biological costs of increased vocal effort in response to …

Animals exposed to anthropogenic disturbance make trade-offs between perceived risk and
the cost of leaving disturbed areas. Impact assessments tend to focus on overt behavioural …

Acoustic cues are crucial to communication, navigation, and foraging in many animals,
which hence face the problem of detecting and discriminating these cues in fluctuating noise …

Bioacoustics is one of the most popular methods in bat research. Bat species are identifiable
through their echolocation call features (eg peak frequency, duration, bandwidth) but the …

Researchers have a natural tendency to classify biological systems into categories. For
example, organisms can be classified based on biome, ecosystem, taxon, phylogeny, niche …