ABSTRACT A growing body of work suggests that breeding birds have a significant capacity
to assess and respond, over ecological time, to changes in the risk of predation to both …

The function of bird song is closely linked to sexual selection. A fundamental question
regarding the evolution of sexually selected male signals is how their honesty is maintained …

Ever since Darwin, animal behavior has intrigued and perplexed human observers. The
elaborate mating rituals, lavish decorative displays, complex songs, calls, dances and many …

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 …

Biology presents many wonders, but one of the most remarkable is how a complex
multicellular organism grows from a single cell. Until recently, the processes involved …

The voices of birds have always been a source of fascination. Nature's Music brings together
some of the world's experts on birdsong, to review the advances that have taken place in our …

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Predators can affect individual fitness and population and community processes through
lethal effects (direct consumption or 'density'effects), where prey is consumed, or through …

It has been suggested that increased predation rates may rival habitat alteration as a causal
agent in farmland bird population declines. Such a view may be over‐simplistic, however, as …

Any animal whose form or behavior facilitates the avoidance of predators or escape when
attacked by predators will have a greater probability of surviving to breed and therefore …