Nursery areas are critical to the survival of many marine species, and it is widely accepted
that elasmobranch species use nursery areas where they improve species fitness. A 2007 …

Marine recreational fishing (MRF) is a popular activity that involves millions of people
worldwide. While the impacts of recreational fishing on freshwater ecosystems received …

In the songs and bubble feeding of humpback whales; in young killer whales learning to
knock a seal from an ice floe in the same way their mother does; and in the use of sea …

The dramatic evolutionary expansion of the neocortex, together with a proliferation of
specialized cortical areas, is believed to underlie the emergence of human cognitive …

Determining the small-scale movement patterns of marine vertebrates usually requires
invasive active acoustic tagging or in-water monitoring, with the inherent behavioural …

Abstract 450 million years of evolution have given chondrichthyans (sharks, rays and allies)
ample time to adapt perfectly to their respective everyday life challenges and cognitive …

Understanding how individual behavior shapes the structure and ecology of populations is
key to species conservation and management. Like many elasmobranchs, manta rays are …

It is increasingly recognized that plants are highly sensitive organisms that perceive, assess,
learn, remember, resolve problems, make decisions and communicate with each other by …

Animals across vertebrate taxa form social communities and often exist as fission–fusion
groups. Central place foragers (CPF) may form groups from which they will predictably …

Sharks are a highly diverse predatory taxon and are regularly found in large, potentially
competitive, assemblages. However, the mechanisms that enable long-term coexistence …