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Avian Reproduction: Nests and Nest Sites
With few exceptions, birds lay their eggs in nests and the young of many species spend variable amounts of time in nests before fledging. After...
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Tiny but socially valuable: eggs as sources of communication in the social wasp Mischocyttarus cerberus
AbstractChemical compounds play a major role in the recognition processes in social insects, and one class of compounds namely hydrocarbons cover the...
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Nesting Ecology of Malabar Grey Hornbill Ocyceros griseus in a Mosaic Landscape in the Southern Western Ghats, India
Malabar Grey Hornbill ( Ocyceros griseus ) is endemic to the Western Ghats and occupies a wide range of habitats in modified and natural landscapes....
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Biology of bamboo nesting stingless bees of southwest China
More than 550 stingless bee species have been found in the tropical and subtropical areas across the world. Different stingless bee species inhabit...
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The availability of male mates affects the social mating strategies of a predominantly socially monogamous passerine
We evaluated whether the availability of male mates affected mating strategies in a predominantly socially monogamous passerine, the grass wren Cistoth...
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Competition through ritualized aggressive interactions between sympatric colonies in solitary foraging neotropical ants
Understanding the structure of food competition between conspecifics in their natural settings is paramount to addressing more complex questions in...
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Eusociality is not a major evolutionary transition, and why that matters
Major evolutionary transitions (METs) across Earth’s biological history describe fusions of lower-level entities into higher-level individuals...
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Song structure of male Northern House Wrens and patterns of song production and delivery across the nesting cycle
Studies of the role of bird song in avian communication have revealed numerous functions across many species, including its critical importance in...
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Biotremology of Social Wasps: The Next Step to Understand Wasps’ Social Life
Vibrational communication, the use of the surface-borne component of mechanical waves, is widespread in arthropods, but its role is almost unknown...
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Vespula wasps show consistent differences in colony-level aggression over time and across contexts
Social wasps are well-known for aggressively defending their nests when these are approached, threatened, or directly attacked. However, the...
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Avian Reproduction: Clutch Sizes, Incubation, and Hatching
The number of eggs laid per clutch by female birds varies from 1 to 18 or more. In this chapter, the evolution of clutch sizes and the effect of...
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Revisiting ecological dominance in arboreal ants: how dominant usage of nesting resources shapes community assembly
Ecologically dominant species can shape the assembly of ecological communities via altering competitive outcomes. Moreover, these effects may be...
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Testing four hypotheses to explain partial migration: balancing reproductive benefits with limits to fasting endurance
AbstractSeasonal migration is ubiquitous in animals, and yet its underlying cause(s) remain poorly known. Species exhibiting short-distance...
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Troglodytes troglodytes – probable destructor of eggs of Cinclus cinclus
Interspecific or intraspecific destruction of eggs by other small bird species (Passeriformes) is a relatively rare behaviour. It is known from...
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Enemies, Dangers and Colony Defence
Stingless bee nests contain valuable resources, such as honey, pollen, cerumen, batumen, resin, larval food and finally, the cavity and the bees...