Olfaction is an essential sensory modality for insects and their olfactory environment is
mostly made up of plant-emitted volatiles. The terrestrial vegetation produces an amazing …

The important role that mate choice plays in the lives of animals is matched by the large and
active research field dedicated to studying it. Researchers work on a wide range of species …

A thought-provoking argument that consciousness—more widespread than previously
assumed—is the feeling of being alive, not a type of computation or a clever hack In The …

Organisms have evolved to trade priorities across various needs, such as growth, survival,
and reproduction. In naturally complex environments this incurs high computational costs …

Coordinated group displays featuring precise entrainment of rhythmic behavior between
neighbors occur not only in human music, dance and drill, but in the acoustic or optical …

Collectively moving groups of animals rely on the decision-making of locally interacting
individuals in order to maintain swarm cohesion. However, the complex and noisy visual …

For successful adaptive behavior, exogenous environmental events must be sensed and
reacted to as efficiently as possible. In the lab, the mechanisms underlying such efficiency …

Organisms face the cognitive challenge of making decisions based on imperfect information.
Predators and prey, in particular, are confronted with ambiguous stimuli when foraging and …

The study of human language is progressively moving toward comparative and interactive
frameworks, extending the concept of turn‐taking to animal communication. While such an …

The culture of global society commonly associates the word animal with vertebrates.
Paradoxically, most of animal diversity is composed of small organisms that remain invisible …