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Contrasting coloration in terrestrial mammals

Authors: Tim Caro

Publication/Journal: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Keywords: aposematism, black and white pelage, communication, crypsis, sexual dichromatism

Year: 2009

Agonistic Behavior in Freshwater Crayfish The Influence of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors on Aggressive Encounters and Dominance

Authors: Paul A. Moore

Publication/Journal: Evolutionary Ecology of Social and Sexual Systems: Crustaceans as Model Organisms

Keywords: aggression, body size, chela size, dominance, extrinsic factors, fighting, intrinsic factors

Year: 2007

True colours

Authors: Rex Dalton

Publication/Journal: Nature

Keywords: behavior, behaviour, birds, ultraviolet, uv vision

Year: 2004

Variability in sensory ecology: expanding the bridge between physiology and evolutionary biology

Authors: Olivier Dangles, Duncan Irschick, Lars Chittka, Jerome Casas

Publication/Journal: The Quarterly Review of Biology

Keywords: adaptation, environmental changes, field experiments, invertebrates, ontogeny, phylogeny, populations, sensory ecology, vertebrates

Year: 2009

The Sensory Ecology of Primate Food Perception

Authors: Nathaniel J. Dominy, Peter W. Lucas, Daniel Osorio, Nayuta Yamashita

Publication/Journal: Evolutionary Anthropology

Keywords: feeding behavior, feeding behaviour, primate, sensory ecology, sensory information

Year: 2001

Significance of color, calories, and climate to the visual ecology of catarrhines

Authors: Nathaniel J. Dominy, Peter W. Lucas

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: carbohydrates, nutrition, opsin, rainfall, seasonality, trichromatic vision

Year: 2004

Comparing entire colour patterns as birds see them

Authors: John A. Endler, Jr Paul W. Mielke

Publication/Journal: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Keywords: animal signals, animal vision, antipredator defence, antipredator defense, aposematism, color, crypsis, predation, sexual selection, visual contrast

Year: 2005

Social spacing of crayfish in natural habitats: what role does dominance play?

Authors: K. Fero, P. A. Moore

Publication/Journal: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Keywords: crayfish, dominance, hierarchy, nearest neighbor, shelter

Year: 2008

Ecological dominance, social competition, and coalitionary arms races: Why humans evolved extraordinary intelligence

Authors: M. Flinn, D. Geary, C. Ward

Publication/Journal: Evolution and Human Behavior

Keywords: cognitive abilities, ecological dominance, evolution, review, social competition

Year: 2005

Sensory ecology of predator–prey interactions: responses of the AN2 interneuron in the field cricket, Teleogryllus oceanicus to the echolocation calls of sympatric bats

Authors: J.H. Fullard, J.M. Ratcliffe, C. Guignion

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Keywords: cricket · bat · echolocation · auditory ecology

Year: 2005