Frequencies of social grooming recorded from 44 species of free-living primates correlate
with group size but not body size. This is interpreted as evidence for the social function of …

The ever present threat of viral, bacterial, protozoan and metazoan parasites in the
environment of wild animals is viewed as responsible for the natural selection of a variety of …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Despite the depiction of nature" red in tooth and claw", cooperation is actually widespread in
the animal kingdom. Various types of cooperative behaviors have been documented in …

Common vampire bats often regurgitate food to roost-mates that fail to feed. The original
explanation for this costly helping behaviour invoked both direct and indirect fitness benefits …

Em decorrência de sua visão adaptada apenas à luz do dia, os humanos primitivos
desenvolveram um temor e um respeito atávicos pelas trevas noturnas, extensivos aos …

Approaches to sociality have, in the past, focused either on group typologies or on the
functional aspects of relationships (mate choice, parental investment decisions). In contrast …

Bats are among the most diverse and most gregarious of all mammals. This makes them
highly interesting for research on the causes and consequences of sociality in animals …

There is a long history of the involvement of animals for tourism purposes in circuses, zoos,
fairs, ecotourism and wildlife tourism, using animals as the prime focus of their experience …

Extensive surveillance in bat populations in response to recent emerging diseases has
revealed that this group of mammals acts as a reservoir for a large range of viruses …