The size of an individual organism is a key trait to characterize its physiology and feeding
ecology. Size-based scaling laws may have a limited size range of validity or undergo a …

Although the whale shark Rhincodon typus is the largest extant fish, it was not described
until 1828 and by 1986 there were only 320 records of this species. Since then, growth in …

When published in 1980, Benjamin B. Beck's Animal Tool Behavior was the first volume to
catalog and analyze the complete literature on tool use and manufacture in non-human …

The skin is a barrier between the internal and external environment of an organism.
Depending on the species, it participates in multiple functions. The skin is the organ that …

Recent studies show that ocean acidification impairs sensory functions and alters the
behavior of teleost fishes. If sharks and other elasmobranchs are similarly affected, this …

Sharks play a key role in the structure of marine food webs, but are facing major threats due
to overfishing and habitat degradation. Although sharks are also assumed to be at relatively …

A primary determinant of movement strategies is travel speed, which modulates both power
consumption and distance travelled and thus varies according to ecological circumstance …

Olfaction is a universal modality by which all animals sample chemical stimuli from their
environment. In cartilaginous fishes, olfaction is critical for various survival tasks including …

Tropical rivers and estuaries are highly dynamic environments, where environmental
conditions change dramatically over spatial and temporal scales. This creates both …

Finding effective ways to direct native fish away from anthropogenic hazards and limit the
spread of invasive species, without physical intervention, harming non-target fishes or …