Successful reproduction for most birds requires them to have built 'good'nests. The
remarkable diversity of nests across approximately 10 000 species of living birds suggests …

Animal camouflage represents one of the most important ways of preventing (or facilitating)
predation. It attracted the attention of the earliest evolutionary biologists, and today remains …

" A supremely enjoyable, intoxicating work."—Nature How did we come to have minds? For
centuries, poets, philosophers, psychologists, and physicists have wondered how the …

Avoiding Attack discusses the diversity of mechanisms by which prey avoid predator attacks
and explores how such defensive mechanisms have evolved through natural selection. It …

Incubating new ideas about avian reproduction/SJ Reynolds & DC Deeming--The fossil
record and evolution of avian egg nesting and incubation/DC Deeming--Nest construction …

There is increasing concern about the burgeoning effects of discarded plastic on the earth's
biodiversity. Quantifying the presence of plastic and other anthropogenic waste in the …

Bird nests represent an extended phenotype of individuals expressed during reproduction
and so exhibit variability in composition, structure and function. Descriptions of nests based …

Nests, including the enormous structures housing colonies of eusocial insects and the
elaborately built nests of some fishes, have long fascinated scientists, yet our understanding …

Avian nests are crucial to reproduction as they are the site for incubation of the clutch of
eggs and, in many cases, it is the location for the rearing of chicks hatched. Despite many …

It is becoming apparent that birds learn from their own experiences of nest building. What is
not clear is whether birds can learn from watching conspecifics build. As social learning …