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Pierre Legagneux, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Quebec in Rimouski, found the birds «associate road sections with speed limits as a way to assess collision risk.

One logical next step, says Arnon Lotem, a behavioral ecologist at Tel Aviv University, is to create an experiment that assesses whether animals that receive antibiotics show higher or lower levels of helping behaviors.

Geoff Hill, an avian behavioral ecologist at Auburn University in Alabama noted that only 30 percent of the finches were sick in 1995, down from 60 percent the year before.

Alyssa Crittenden is the Lincy Foundation Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UNLV, and a behavioral ecologist and nutritional anthropologist who works among the Hadza hunter - gatherers of Tanzania, East Africa.

Robert Raguso, a behavioral ecologist from Cornell University, uninvolved in this study, is excited about the unique and creative approach taken by the authors in «interviewing» hoverflies.

The new work came about when Darren Croft, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, and his colleagues looked back on their 2015 killer whale menopause study.

«What an interesting paper,» says Phyllis Lee, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Stirling in the United Kingdom, who was not involved in the study.

«It's a cool study, and both the authors and the bees deserve credit for their innovativeness,» says Dhruba Naug, a behavioral ecologist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

«This is a great, robust study that takes the study of animal temperament — which is kind of narrow — and puts it into a broad evolutionary framework,» says James Traniello, a behavioral ecologist at Boston University.

James Traniello, a behavioral ecologist at Boston University in Massachusetts, describes the work as «wonderful» and a «greatly advanced» study in molecular immunology.

Marlene Zuk, a behavioral ecologist at the University of California, Riverside, agrees.

«This is a quirky, funny natural history,» says behavioral ecologist Rebeca Rosengaus of Northeastern University in Boston, who was not involved in the study.

Most importantly for the study's researchers, «It puts the final nail in the coffin of the idea that small brains constrain insects»» cognitive abilities, says co-author Lars Chittka, a behavioral ecologist also at Queen Mary University of London.

«These bees solved the problem more effectively,» and showed that they could «generalize the solution to new situations,» says Anne Leonard, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Nevada in Reno, who was not involved in the study.

However, behavioral ecologist Jeffrey Podos of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, says he is skeptical that both species like the noisy and quiet sites equally.

To eavesdrop on dolphins in the wild, behavioral ecologist Vincent Janik of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts analyzed recordings from an array of underwater microphones in Scotland's Moray Firth.

«It shows on a grand scale that the replacement of foraging by farming has a huge impact on who we are and what the world was like,» says human behavioral ecologist Eric Smith of the University of Washington, Seattle.

N. Douglas Lees recalls a midcareer colleague, a behavioral ecologist, who was pursuing a complex and ambitious research agenda in the face of tremendous competition.

Anne Pusey, a behavioral ecologist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who also worked in Gombe, notes that the infants» grunts are also «quite soft, so it's difficult to get within range and record them.»

In addition to primates, birds and bats are the major animal groups that are responsible for seed dispersal,» says behavioral ecologist Heymann.

«Although the idea is nice, I am not totally convinced yet,» says Marcel Eens, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Antwerp in Belgium who has also studied health effects of heavy metals in birds.

This is the result of a cooperation project of behavioral ecologist Eckhard W. Heymann from the German Primate Center (DPZ) with plant geneticists Birgit Ziegenhagen and Ronald Bialozyt from the Philipps - University Marburg.

Within a year, behavioral ecologist Jonathan Wright of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology discovered this very behavior in the field.

Hiring at Indian institutions tends to work differently than it does elsewhere, says Maria Thaker, who is a behavioral ecologist and an assistant professor at the IISc Centre for Ecological Sciences in Bangalore.

To try to tease out the relationship between social rank, stress, and health, Altmann teamed up with Elizabeth Archie, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, and Susan Alberts, a behavioral ecologist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, to analyze data collected from 1982 through 2009 in the Amboseli region of Kenya, home to a large population of wild baboons.

The premature hatchlings literally «hit the ground running — they hatch and launch into a sprint at the same time,» says behavioral ecologist J. Sean Doody, who is now at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Snakes were «the first and most persistent predators» of early mammals, says Lynne Isbell, a behavioral ecologist the University of California, Davis.

«It's nice to see a complete story of egg shape,» says Mark Hauber, a behavioral ecologist at Hunter College in New York City who was not involved in the work.

And although Darryl Gwynne, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Toronto, Mississauga, in Canada, praises the study, he says postinsemination sexual selection could still be taking place in fruit flies.

Behavioral ecologist Bart Kempenaers works most of the year at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen, Germany, where the sun sets every night like it's supposed to.

«People thought they knew what Asian elephants were doing [socially] based on what they saw them doing in captivity,» says Shermin de Silva, a behavioral ecologist with the Elephant, Forest and Environment Conservation Trust in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and the lead author of the new study.

«That suggested that the story was not as simple as everybody assumed and volatile pheromones were not responsible,» says behavioral ecologist Jane Hurst, one of the authors of the study.

«It's the first really convincing evidence to come in the 120 years since people started to debate this issue,» says Tim Caro, a behavioral ecologist and conservation biologist at the University of California, Davis, who was not involved in the study.

Two years ago, Juan Carranza, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Extremadura in Cáceres, Spain, and colleagues showed that molars in male red deer were relatively smaller than those in the more petite females, and that this difference was correlated with a shorter life.

The findings are «the best demonstration yet that such a nonvocal signal functions as an alarm,» says behavioral ecologist William Searcy of the University of Miami in Florida.

With as many as 25 shrimp in a station, however, competition for business is fierce, and University of Queensland behavioral ecologist Justine Becker wondered how the shrimp attracted their customers.

The study «is the first to investigate responses to distress by Asian elephants,» which «is inherently difficult to assess because one has to wait for opportunities to arise spontaneously,» says Shermin de Silva, a behavioral ecologist at the Uda Walawe Elephant Research Project in Sri Lanka.

The findings imply that differences in advertisement rate may drive shrimp evolution, as better advertisers would have more access to food, says Lee Alan Dugatkin, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Louisville in Kentucky and expert on the evolution of cooperation.

In contrast, the hares «provide a really compelling visual effect of climate change,» says Daniel Blumstein, a behavioral ecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was not involved with the work.

And not only do females prefer long snoods, but, according to Northeast Louisiana University behavioral ecologist Richard Buchholz, males assess the snood lengths of other males before engaging in battle.

«It's very intriguing,» says behavioral ecologist Monica Raveret - Richter of Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York.

He teamed up with behavioral ecologist Amanda Adams to capture some 30 scorpions and map out their homes.

That study comes from behavioral ecologist Christophe Boesch of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, who spent years observing wild chimpanzees in the Taï National Park in Côte d'Ivoire.

He is a behavioral ecologist and historian of science and his main area of research interest is the evolution of social behavior.

Tim Clutton - Brock, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Cambridge, and his colleagues tracked reproductive cooperation and conflict among more than 400 meerkats belonging to some 20 groups over a seven year period.

«It's primarily done by females,» says Janet Mann, a behavioral ecologist also at Georgetown University and Patterson's dissertation adviser.

«The queen of beasts is a democrat,» says behavioral ecologist and main author Craig Packer of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

«What we've found is so amazing, even I have a hard time believing it is true,» says Walt Koenig, a behavioral ecologist at Cornell University and the lead author of the paper.

In September a team led by Jason Buchan, a molecular behavioral ecologist at Duke University, produced genetic evidence that male baboons are caring dads.

So a team of researchers led by Romina Scardamaglia, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Buenos Aires, decided to use new radio - tracking technology to snoop on two kinds of devious cowbirds in Argentina.