Sentences with phrase «says behavioral ecologist»
«This is a quirky, funny natural history,» says behavioral ecologist Rebeca Rosengaus of Northeastern University in Boston, who was not involved in the study.
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In addition to primates, birds and bats are the major animal groups that are responsible for seed dispersal,» says behavioral ecologist Heymann.
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.
«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.
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.
«It's very intriguing,» says behavioral ecologist Monica Raveret - Richter of Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York.
«The queen of beasts is a democrat,» says behavioral ecologist and main author Craig Packer of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
«It's a really cool paper,» says behavioral ecologist David Westneat of the University of Kentucky, Lexington.
«The «periodical cicada» problem is one that's been kicking around for nearly 350 years at this point,» says behavioral ecologist Walter Koenig at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
says behavioral ecologist Bridget Stutchbury of York University in Toronto; DNA fingerprinting has shown that 20 % of the young in fragments are sired by intruding males.
Yet for Matabele ants (Megaponera analis) in sub-Saharan Africa — with a mere 1,000 to 2,000 nest mates — treating the wounded can be worth it, says behavioral ecologist Erik Frank at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.
Our highly visual social interactions are almost certainly the driver of this evolutionary trend, said behavioral ecologist Michael J. Sheehan, a postdoctoral fellow in UC Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology.
Not exact matches
«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.
A few years back I was describing my ideas to a well - informed behavioral ecologist in this field, and when he got my core idea, he said, «But that's nihilism.»
And Ashleigh Griffin, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Edinburgh, U.K., says that the report is «deeply satisfying» because it «clears up a mystery» about cooperative breeding.
«On the surface, they look like they're now getting on okay,» says Karen McComb, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom and a co-author of the study.
«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.
The results challenge dogma among behavioral ecologists that «if you're being lazy and stealing, you must not be a very good feeder,» says ecologist Paul Brunkow of Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville.
«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.
«The flexibility of the jays» reactions in different social situations, and the use of these tactics across different sensory domains [sight and sound] supports the notion that the jays have something like a theory of mind — an understanding of others» points of view,» says Lisa Leaver, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom who was not involved in the study.
«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.
«It's primarily done by females,» says Janet Mann, a behavioral ecologist also at Georgetown University and Patterson's dissertation adviser.
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.
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.
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.
«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.
«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.
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.
«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.
Snakes were «the first and most persistent predators» of early mammals, says Lynne Isbell, a behavioral ecologist the University of California, Davis.
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.
«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.
«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.
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.
«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.
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.
«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.
«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.
«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.
«We know relatively little about the behavioral or ecological mechanisms that allow these induced defenses to be effective,» says Richard Karban, an ecologist at the University of California, Davis, who was not involved in the work.
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.