High-speed displays encoding motor skill trigger elevated territorial aggression in downy woodpeckers

Biogeography predicts macro-evolutionary patterning of gestural display complexity in a passerine family

(2017) Meredith C. Miles et al.   EVOLUTION

Optimal running speeds when there is a trade-off between speed and the probability of mistakes

(2017) Ami Fadhillah Amir Abdul Nasir et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Multimodal communication in courting fiddler crabs reveals male performance capacities

(2017) Sophie L. Mowles et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Vigor and skill in the acrobatic mating displays of a Neotropical songbird

(2016) Lilian T. Manica et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

The social context of a territorial dispute differentially influences the way individuals in breeding pairs coordinate their aggressive tactics

(2016) Eric R. Schuppe et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Polygamous mating system and protogynous sex change in the gobiid fish Fusigobius neophytus

(2016) Miyuki Tsuboi et al.   JOURNAL OF ETHOLOGY

Select forelimb muscles have evolved superfast contractile speed to support acrobatic social displays

(2016) Matthew J Fuxjager et al.   eLife

Western and Clark's grebes use novel strategies for running on water

(2015) G. T. Clifton et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Tap dancing birds: the multimodal mutual courtship display of males and females in a socially monogamous songbird

(2015) Nao Ota et al.   Scientific Reports

Timing isn't everything: responses of tropical wrens to coordinated duets, uncoordinated duets and alternating solos

(2014) Kristin A. Kovach et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Being angry, singing fast? Signalling of aggressive motivation by syllable rate in a songbird with slow song

(2013) Pavel Linhart et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Sexual Signals as Advertisers of Resistance to Mistakes

(2013) Gonçalo C. Cardoso   ETHOLOGY

Responses to song playback vary with the vocal performance of both signal senders and receivers

(2013) D. L. Moseley et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Trade-Offs and Upper Limits to Signal Performance during Close-Range Vocal Competition in Gray Tree Frogs Hyla versicolor

(2012) Michael S. Reichert et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Repetitive signals and mate choice: insights from contest theory

(2012) Sophie L. Mowles et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Multimodal Communication in a Noisy Environment: A Case Study of the Bornean Rock Frog Staurois parvus

(2012) T. Ulmar Grafe et al.   PLoS One

Aggressive responses to playback of solos and duets in a Neotropical antbird

(2011) Julianne Koloff et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Female choice for male motor skills

(2011) J. Barske et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Female mate choice based upon male motor performance

(2010) John Byers et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Testing the developmental stress hypothesis in canaries: consequences of nutritional stress on adult song phenotype and mate attractiveness

(2010) Wendt Müller et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Duration of courtship displays corresponds to social status in male greater sac-winged bats (Saccopteryx bilineata)

(2010) M. Knörnschild et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Phylogenetic Analysis of the Evolution of Display Behavior in the Neotropical Manakins (Aves: Pipridae)

(2010) Richard O. Prum   ETHOLOGY

Training augments resistance exercise induced elevation of circulating brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF)

(2010) Joshua F. Yarrow et al.   NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS

Song as an aggressive signal in songbirds

(2009) William A. Searcy et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Swamp sparrows modulate vocal performance in an aggressive context

(2009) A. L DuBois et al.   Biology Letters

Neural activation in cognitive motor processes: comparing motor imagery and observation of gymnastic movements

(2008) Jörn Munzert et al.   EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH