Showing Findings in Behavioural ecology. Select an article to learn more:
Damage to females during copulation is a side-effect of male adaptations to increase fertilizations not an adaptive strategy in its own right
Posted by: gentbt Posted Tue Apr 17 2018
Gut instinct makes animals appear clever
Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Mon Apr 16 2018
Parents should negotiate over how much effort to put into raising their shared offspring
Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Mon Apr 16 2018
Great tits distinguish between foods of different quality depending on the frequency of the better type but not on the frequency of the worse type.
Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Wed Dec 20 2017
Football playing bumblebees show how complex insect learning can be
Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Fri Nov 10 2017
To better understand the behaviour of animals we need to combine two approaches: understanding why they make decisions and how they make decisions
Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Fri Oct 27 2017
Understanding the interactions between individual animals requires appreciating that they have flexible responses to each other, rather than have fixed behaviour
Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Fri Oct 27 2017
Conflicts between animals may be decided by which is bigger, but also by some ‘convention’, such as who found a resource first, that enables animals to avoid fighting too much
Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Fri Oct 27 2017
Conflicts between animals are usually settled without injury, but such ritualised harmless fighting has evolved because it is good for individuals, not for the “survival of the species”
Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Fri Oct 27 2017
Better understanding of food gathering behaviour from appreciating that collecting food involves a greater risk of being killed than travelling
Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Fri Oct 27 2017