Speciation by sexual selection is generally modeled as the coevolution of female preferences and elaborate male ornaments leading to behavioral (sexual) reproductive isolation. One prediction of these ...

Common noctules -- one of the largest bat species native to Germany -- are searching for their fellows during their hunt for insects above farmland. Scientists show that bats forage on their own in ...

In Evaluating the Influence of Conspecifics on a Male Giant Anteater’s (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) Pacing Behavior Advanced Inquiry Program student Adrienne Eyer examines the effect of conspecifics who ...

Despite the conceptual appeal of how morphological mimics visually distinguish between conspecifics and their models, scant attention has been given to this topic. Accurate discrimination between ants ...

University of California, Los Angeles, researchers have identified neural mechanisms behind prosocial behaviors in mice ...

How does an animal's brain recognize other animals of its own kind? Scientists studying this process in young zebrafish have now discovered a neuronal circuit that mediates social attraction. This ...

Common noctules - one of the largest bat species native to Germany - are searching for their fellows during their hunt for insects above farmland. Scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and ...