Sentences with phrase «led behavioral ecologist»

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«This kind of deception is common in our society, but it is so difficult to prove that any other animal does it,» said lead researcher Aliza le Roux, a behavioral ecologist at the University of the Free State in South Africa.

Rather than trying to catch females in the act, a team led by behavioral ecologist Ben Sheldon of the University of Oxford, U.K., let the eggs tell the story.

«Some of these elephants ended up in Pilanesberg National Park,» in South Africa's North West Province where part of the new study was carried out, says Graeme Shannon, a behavioral ecologist at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, and the lead author of the new study.

And that means that auditory information is a big part of their cognitive repertoire,» says Rachael Shaw, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, who led the new study while a graduate student in comparative psychologist Nicola Clayton's lab at Cambridge.

«A lot of studies show personality in other invertebrates,» says Isaac Planas - Sitjà, a behavioral ecologist at the Free University of Brussels and the lead author of the study.

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.

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

«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.

«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.