Article
Ecology
Rachel N. Levin, Stephanie M. Correa, Kate A. Freund, Matthew J. Fuxjager
Summary: Comparisons of different bird species have shown that clutch size decreases and parental attentiveness increases as latitude decreases or elevation increases. However, studies comparing populations of the same species are rare. In this study, populations of house wrens at high and low elevations in California and Costa Rica were examined, and our results supported previous findings but also revealed unexpected differences in low elevation temperate zone house wrens in the southwest.
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2023)
Review
Biology
Heather Williams, Robert F. Lachlan
Summary: This article discusses the role of bird songs in cumulative cultural evolution, revealing the evolution pattern of acoustic structures through comparing bird songs of different species, suggesting that the evolution of bird songs stems from vocal imitation, categorization in memory, and learning biases.
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
P. Thomas Schoenemann
Summary: Studies on ape language acquisition have shown that apes can learn to use symbols to represent concepts, although their understanding and production of grammar is more limited compared to humans. Some apes have been observed to combine symbols in non-random patterns, but this ability is still not as extensive as human language production. However, apes have shown greater comprehension abilities, with examples like Kanzi, a bonobo, who has responded correctly to novel commands. However, his understanding of grammar has been questioned based on his performance with reversible sentences. A randomization study has supported the contention that Kanzi does understand word order grammatical rules in English.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Mason Youngblood, David C. Lahti
Summary: This study investigates how individual level cultural transmission mechanisms drive population level changes in birdsong using three years of house finch song recordings spanning four decades. The researchers developed an agent-based model and used approximate Bayesian computation and machine learning to estimate parameter values. The study found that syllable complexity plays a central role in the cultural evolution of house finch song.
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Guilherme Sementili-Cardoso, Reginaldo Jose Donatelli
Summary: Urban environmental structures have a direct impact on the vocal behavior of Southern House Wrens, leading to an increase in song amplitude with elevated background noise levels.
Article
Ornithology
Roselvy Juarez, Yimen G. Araya-Ajoy, Gilbert Barrantes, Luis Sandoval
Summary: Anthropogenic noise can reduce the number of song elements in House Wren repertoire and affect the proportion of high-frequency elements. The frequency and duration of shared elements between males change with different levels of anthropogenic noise. Individuals in noisier territories tended to have smaller repertoires, and those in the noisiest location included more high-frequency elements in their songs.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Cara A. Krieg, Juli Wade
Summary: This study focuses on house wrens and their song circuit, revealing the relationship between brain morphology and behavior. It shows varying degrees of sex differences in song complexity and provides evidence of a correlation between acoustic complexity and neural structure in females. This research offers a new model for understanding the relationship between brain structure and function.
BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION
(2023)
Article
Zoology
Silvan Spiess, Helen K. Mylne, Sabrina Engesser, Joseph G. Mine, Louis G. O'Neill, Andrew F. Russell, Simon W. Townsend
Summary: This study provides rare empirical evidence for syntactic-like structuring in a nonhuman animal, as it shows that chestnut-crowned babblers can modify the form and function of maternal contact calls by combining different call elements. These findings offer insights into the evolutionary progression of syntax in human language.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Dan C. Mann, W. Tecumseh Fitch, Hsiao-Wei Tu, Marisa Hoeschele
Summary: Despite the diversity of human languages, there are universal patterns in the inventory and organization of segments. Research on budgerigars has shown that their acoustic output displays patterns that match universal phonological patterns seen in humans, suggesting similarities in language-like abilities across species.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Petar Gabric
Summary: Recent discoveries suggest that semantic compositionality and phenomena resembling paratactic combinations of two clauses may have been present in the communication of the last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans. A reanalysis of data on drumming sequences by an alpha male chimpanzee in Cote d'Ivoire revealed semantically compositional combined messages, showing relative resemblance to blending and fusion in human languages. Unlike Japanese tits, the elements of the compositional expression in chimpanzees did not have a fixed order, indicating a potential evolution of communication strategies between apes and humans.
Article
Education & Educational Research
Maxim Valerevich Voronin, Nataliia Vladimirovna Kozlova, Arina Sergeevna Vorozhevich
Summary: This study investigated the differences in word processing level in noun and verb games in the second language among undergraduate students of English language and literature using the image naming test. The results showed that processing of nouns in the second language is higher than the level of perception, while processing of verbs is affected by the level of regulation.
REVISTA ENTRELINGUAS
(2021)
Article
Entomology
Rogerio Bertani, Adriano Oliveira Maciel
Summary: Reports of tarantulas feeding on birds are rare, with only a few reliable events published in the scientific literature. This paper presents a case of predation by an arboreal tarantula in Brazil. The study also updates and discusses the identification of theraphosids involved in previous predation events.
JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Linguistics
Ronald J. Planer, Peter Godfrey-Smith
Summary: In recent years, modeling work by Brian Skyrms and others has redefined the theoretical role of David Lewis's 1969 model of signaling, now seen as a minimal model of communication in all its forms. This study explores how the Lewis model and its variants contribute to ongoing debates in several areas, specifically examining the connections with common interest in communication, signaling within the organism, meaning, and the evolution of human communication and language.
Article
Entomology
Luiz R. R. Faria, Fernando C. V. Zanella
REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE ENTOMOLOGIA
(2015)
Article
Biology
Luiz R. R. Faria, Elaine Della Giustina Soares, Eduardo do Carmo, Paulo Murilo Castro de Oliveira
THEORY IN BIOSCIENCES
(2016)
Article
Entomology
J. A. Coswosk, R. A. Ferreira, E. D. G. Soares, L. R. R. Faria
NEOTROPICAL ENTOMOLOGY
(2018)
Article
Entomology
Judson Albino Coswosk, Elaine Della Giustina Soares, Luiz R. R. Faria
REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE ENTOMOLOGIA
(2019)
Article
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Eder Winkert, Paulo M. C. de Oliveira, Luiz R. R. Faria
PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS
(2019)
Article
Zoology
Marcos Fianco, Hemanueli Preis, Neucir Szinwelski, Holger Braun, Luiz R. R. Faria
Article
Zoology
Marcos Fianco, Oscar J. Cadena-Castaneda, Neucir Szinwelski, Luiz R. R. Faria
Article
Zoology
Gabriel A. R. Melo, Luiz R. R. Faria, Leandro M. Santos
Article
Zoology
Marcos Fianco, Phillip Watzke Engelking, Luiz R. R. Faria
Editorial Material
Biodiversity Conservation
Luiz R. R. Faria
CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Evolutionary Biology
Luiz R. R. Faria, Marcio R. Pie, Frederico Falcao Salles, Elaine Della Giustina Soares
Summary: When studying biodiversity, researchers must address various knowledge gaps, including the Haeckelian shortfall, which focuses on the relative scarcity of knowledge about the ontogeny of different semaphoronts. Understanding distinct semaphoronts is crucial for advancing relevant nomothetic knowledge in the field of biodiversity research.
JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Zoology
Marcos Fianco, Oscar J. Cadena-Castaneda, Neucir Szinwelski, Luiz R. R. Faria
Summary: Three new species of Anaulacomera are described, two belonging to the Inermis species group and one to the Lanceolata species group, with distribution maps provided for these groups. The individuals were collected in the Iguacu National Park in Brazil and adjacent fragments of Atlantic Forest.
Article
Zoology
Marcos Fianco, Neucir Szinwelski, Luiz R. R. Faria
Summary: Katydids were surveyed in the largest preserve of the Interior Atlantic Forest in Brazil, and a total of almost a thousand katydids belonging to 89 species and five subfamilies were collected. Several species were recorded for the first time in the area and their calling songs were described for the first time. The data highlights the importance of the preserve for maintaining biodiversity and the potential negative effects of continuous pressures and threats on the outstanding biodiversity in the area.
Article
Ecology
Maria N. Clerici Hirschfeld, Luiz R. R. Faria, Carlos Roberto Fonseca
Summary: Calls for decolonization in the scientific community exist, with ecology only making superficial progress. To truly decolonize, two gaps need to be addressed: recognition of decolonial theories from the Global South and a deeper analysis of the historical and socioeconomic factors shaping knowledge production and validation in ecology.
NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Luiz R. R. Faria, Bettinia Cristina Neves, Araceli Judith Arce, Maria Noel Clerici Hirschfeld, Fernando Cesar Vieira Zanella