Mechanical injury is a prevalent challenge in the lives of animals with myriad potential
consequences for organisms, including reduced fitness and death. Research on animal …

What makes a model organism? Identifying the qualities of a model organism has been
given a great deal of attention in the biomolecular sciences, but less so in the fields of …

Pollution and predation are two omnipresent stressors in aquatic systems that can interact in
multiple ways, thereby challenging accurate assessment of the effects of pollutants in natural …

Jumping performance can have important implications for an animal's fitness by expanding
its ability to evade predators and move between microhabitats. Jumping in terrestrial …

Small vertebrates, such as geckos, often use their tails to regulate their posture after take-off
and suppress abnormal rotations in mid-air (such as sliding and falling). However, research …

Deflection occurs in predator–prey interactions where prey possess traits that influence the
position of the predator's initial contact with the prey's body in a way that enhances the prey's …

Following the retreat of glaciers in North America, a wide diversity of organisms rapidly
migrated into previously uninhabited regions, including animals with limited dispersal …

The threat that mechanical injury poses to homeostasis and survival has spurred the
evolution of diverse processes to mitigate these effects. The most dramatic of these is …