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Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
Yuxin Jiang, Jingru Han, Canchao Yang
Summary: Birds can adjust their behavior based on sound cues, and parent-offspring communication through acoustics can enhance survival. Chicks are capable of eavesdropping on both conspecific and heterospecific mobbing alarm calls, and the similarity in alarm call acoustics and eavesdropping behavior contributes to the reduction of predation risk.
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Behavioral Sciences
Gustavo J. Fernandez, Mylene Dutour, Mariana E. Carro
Summary: Many bird species adjust their alarm calls based on the level of risk they face, and this information is used by other birds to respond to potential threats. Recent studies have shown that the number of birds calling can influence whether or not additional individuals join in mobbing behavior. In this study, researchers conducted a playback experiment with house wrens to determine how differences in calling rate and number of callers affect their behavioral response. The results revealed that higher calling rates elicited more frequent responses from the house wrens, but lower calling rates caused focal individuals to move closer to the speaker. The number of callers did not impact the response. This suggests that call rates, rather than caller number, are important for communicating danger in house wrens.
BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY
(2023)
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Ornithology
Fatima R. James, Chioma I. Okafor, Samuel T. Osinubi, Shiiwua A. Manu, Samuel Ivande, Taiwo C. Omotoriogun
Summary: This study investigated the antipredatory signals and responses of two lapwing species in tropical Africa. The results showed that African Wattled Lapwings emitted both alarm and mobbing calls to dogs and humans, while Spur-winged Lapwings only emitted mobbing calls to intruders. Additionally, alert distance and start distance were associated with time and flock size.
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Ornithology
Ambre Salis, Thierry Lengagne, Jean-Paul Lena, Mylene Dutour
Summary: The sensitivity of Great Tits to syntax reversal was found to be influenced by the season, with birds being more vigilant but less likely to approach reversed calls in winter, and the opposite occurring in spring where they scanned less but still approached. This study highlights the impact of season on the perception of combinatorial calls in Great Tits, emphasizing the importance of context in investigations of complex cognitive processes in animals.
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Ornithology
Mylene Dutour, Marion Cordonnier
Summary: Many species mob predators to drive them away. The number of heterospecifics responding to mobbing calls of Great Tits was influenced by the number of callers. However, it is uncertain whether birds use individual vocal discrimination to assess the number of heterospecific callers.
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Behavioral Sciences
Mylene Dutour, Jasmine Kasper, Amanda R. Ridley
Summary: The mobbing calls given by Western Australian magpies can recruit heterospecifics, leading them to approach and engage in mobbing behavior when a predator threat is present. Larger magpie groups produce more alarm calls, but the occurrence of magpie alarm calls rather than the number of individuals giving alarm calls seems to be the primary predictor of heterospecific recruitment. Additionally, heterospecifics respond more to single-magpie mobbing alarm calls than to those given by a non-social species, suggesting that Australian magpies may play a central role as information sources during predator detection and mobbing events.
BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY
(2021)
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Biology
Angela S. Stoeger, Anton Baotic
Summary: Elephants exhibit vocal plasticity and can learn vocal production, but little is known about contextual learning in elephant communication. Research shows that African elephants can vocalize in response to verbal cues, producing social calls. Different forms of social learning increase the complexity of a communication system.
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2021)
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Ecology
Maxime Cauchoix, Gladys Barragan Jason, Arnauld Biganzoli, Jerome Briot, Vincent Guiraud, Nory El Ksabi, David Lieure, Julie Morand-Ferron, Alexis S. Chaine
Summary: Understanding the ecology and evolution of personality and cognition requires the development of new tools to measure individual and species differences in behavioural and cognitive performances in wild populations. This study presents an RFID-based feeder (OpenFeeder) designed to run visual cognitive tasks in wild animals, demonstrating its flexibility and repeatability in assessing associative learning in three passerine species. The open-source design, firmware, and software of the OpenFeeder facilitate its use in a wide range of species, encouraging collaboration among cognitive ecologists and comparative psychologists.
METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2022)
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Behavioral Sciences
Jakub Szymkowiak
Summary: The study investigated the alarm call eavesdropping networks of wood warblers in temperate European forests, finding that individual birds are interconnected across territory borders into population-wide information webs, allowing risk-related information to spread across large spatial scales.
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Behavioral Sciences
Christopher Crowder, Jessica Ward
Summary: This study investigated the ability of fathead minnow embryos to detect and respond to predation risk cues, and the impact of the embryonic environment on behavior after hatching. The results revealed that embryos developed under high-risk conditions exhibited reduced activity and showed enhanced antipredator behavior after hatching. These findings provide new insights into the learning capabilities and antipredator behaviors of aquatic vertebrate embryos.
BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY
(2022)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Filipe C. R. Cunha, Michael Griesser
Summary: Research on Siberian jays shows that these territorial birds respond more appropriately to warning calls from previous cooperation partners than neighbors or unknown individuals, highlighting the vulnerability of this communication method to deceptive signals. This finding can also be applied to human language, which is cooperative in nature and similarly susceptible to deception.
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Behavioral Sciences
Jakub Szymkowiak
Summary: Experimental evidence shows that wild birds can learn to recognize novel heterospecific mobbing calls through interspecific social learning, and retain the learned recognition for at least 2 weeks. This mechanism is common among bird species, facilitating the rapid cultural transmission of novel antipredator signal recognition within avian communities.
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Behavioral Sciences
Julian Leon, Fredy Quintero, Klaus Zuberbuhler
Summary: This study examines how primates learn to communicate and finds that they go through a process of overgeneralization and subsequent refinement via social learning during the juvenile phase. Young primates perceive all snakes as dangerous and alarm call indiscriminately, while adults show faster antipredator behaviors towards dangerous predators. Juveniles engage in social referencing by observing others' reactions to external events.
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Biology
Katharina Wenig, Richard Bach, Tomer J. Czaczkes
Summary: Learning in animals can modify innate responses to changing environments, but there may be hard limits to this flexibility, as seen in ants' inability to learn to avoid pheromone trails even with cognitive flexibility. This study demonstrates rapid learning flexibility towards innate social signals, but also reveals a rarely seen hard limit to this flexibility.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY
(2021)
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Behavioral Sciences
Anastasia H. Dalziell, Justin A. Welbergen, Robert D. Magrath
Summary: The research reveals that male superb lyrebirds mimic functionally distinct heterospecific vocalizations during different modes of courtship, suggesting that the evolution and maintenance of avian vocal displays are more complex than previously thought.
Review
Entomology
Emmanuel Desouhant, Elisa Gomes, Nathalie Mondy, Isabelle Amat
ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA
(2019)
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Biodiversity Conservation
Morgane Touzot, Loic Teulier, Thierry Lengagne, Jean Secondi, Marc Thery, Paul-Antoine Libourel, Ludovic Guillard, Nathalie Mondy
CONSERVATION PHYSIOLOGY
(2019)
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Ecology
Jean Secondi, Aurelie Davranche, Marc Thery, Nathalie Mondy, Thierry Lengagne
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
(2020)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Morgane Touzot, Thierry Lengagne, Jean Secondi, Emmanuel Desouhant, Marc Thery, Adeline Dumet, Claude Duchamp, Nathalie Mondy
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
(2020)
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Behavioral Sciences
Anthony G. E. Mathiron, Charly Dixneuf, Nathalie Mondy, Charlotte Lecureuil, Ryan L. Earley, Marlene Goubault
HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR
(2020)
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Entomology
Marion Cordonnier, Bernard Kaufmann, Laurent Simon, Gilles Escarguel, Nathalie Mondy
Summary: Species and nestmate recognition in social insects mainly relies on cuticular hydrocarbons, which generate colony-specific odor profiles and regulate aggression. Hybrid zones between ant species show well-differentiated hydrocarbon profiles and high interspecific aggression, with hybrids displaying a mixture of parental and unique patterns. Interactions between heterospecific workers vary based on whether they come from sympatric or allopatric areas, emphasizing the complexity of recognition mechanisms and discrimination in hybrids.
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Behavioral Sciences
Jean Secondi, Nathalie Mondy, Jerome Marcel Walter Gippet, Morgane Touzot, Vanessa Gardette, Ludovic Guillard, Thierry Lengagne
Summary: The study found that a species of tropical anuran at low latitudes were affected in behavior and physiology under artificial light, with individuals exposed to low intensity artificial light showing reduced activity and shifting activity pattern from crepuscular to nocturnal, while those exposed to high intensity artificial light did not gain weight and had reduced cortisol levels. The results suggest a strong reliance on photic cues to regulate circadian rhythms and control homeostasis in this intertropical anuran species.
BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Jerome M. W. Gippet, Theotime Colin, Julien Grangier, Fiona Winkler, Marjorie Haond, Adeline Dumet, Simon Tragust, Nathalie Mondy, Bernard Kaufmann
Summary: Understanding the distribution of parasites is crucial for biodiversity conservation. This study found that the ectoparasitic fungus Laboulbenia formicarum infected 58% of invasive ant colonies, with prevalence linked to climatic conditions and urbanization. Within infected colonies, fungal prevalence varied and was negatively correlated with impervious ground cover.
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Plant Sciences
Nathalie Mondy, Christelle Boisselet, Sophie Poussineau, Felix Vallier, Thierry Lengagne, Jean Secondi, Caroline Romestaing, Maxime Geay, Sara Puijalon
Summary: Artificial light at night (ALAN) can increase the palatability of aquatic plant leaves, leading to increased herbivory behavior and potentially impacting the structure of aquatic plant communities.
Article
Ecology
Jules Segrestin, Nathalie Mondy, Christelle Boisselet, Ludivine Guigard, Thierry Lengagne, Sophie Poussineau, Jean Secondi, Sara Puijalon
Summary: The increasing use of artificial light at night has led to ecosystem exposure to light pollution worldwide. This study demonstrates significant effects of dim light at night on leaf physiology and chemistry of submerged aquatic plants, suggesting potential underestimation of the effects of artificial light on plants in previous studies.
FRESHWATER BIOLOGY
(2021)
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Biodiversity Conservation
Jerome M. W. Gippet, Charles Rocabert, Theotime Colin, Julien Grangier, Hugo Tauru, Adeline Dumet, Nathalie Mondy, Bernard Kaufmann
Summary: The type of data used to assess the link between urbanization and invasion can greatly affect the conclusion of a study. Invasion studies often use presence-only data that may be biased towards cities. Future urban invasion studies must be carefully designed to avoid this issue.
DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS
(2022)
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Biodiversity Conservation
Mathieu Troianowski, Nathalie Mondy, Adeline Dumet, Caroline Arcanjo, Thierry Lengagne
CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
(2017)
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Behavioral Sciences
Hugo Cayuela, Jean-Paul Lena, Thierry Lengagne, Bernard Kaufmann, Nathalie Mondy, Lara Konecny, Adeline Dumet, Antonin Vienney, Pierre Joly
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Julia L. Desprat, Loic Teulier, Sara Puijalon, Adeline Dumet, Caroline Romestaing, Glenn J. Tattersall, Thierry Lengagne, Nathalie Mondy
COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY
(2017)