Science news articles about 'animal communities'

  • Female jumping spiders find ultraviolet B rays 'sexy'

    ... . Indeed, UVA vision is known to function in animal communication, particularly in the assessment of potential mates ... UVB vision and UVB-reflective markings in animal communication. Our study is just the first to explore ...
  • Mechanical Creatures Try to Mingle

    ... learn more about how animals communicate, researchers are developing robotic copies capable of signaling real-world creatures, then ...
  • Using "Robo" Critters To Study Real Ones

    ... critters worldwide helping researchers observe animals in their natural environments rather than in labs. The research could let scientists better understand how animals communicate ...
  • Honeybee dance breaks down cultural barrier

    ... of honeybees is among the best studied communication systems in the animal kingdom. Nevertheless, surprises are still ... said. "This work has potentially major implications for our understanding of animal communication. Next we plan to study exactly ...
  • Birds communicate reproductive success in song

    ... would have avoided. This suggests that songbirds have more complex communication abilities than had previously been understood, researchers say, and that these "social ... as well. Much is not yet understood about the nature and importance of animal communication, but studies such as this make it clear ...
  • Database shows effects of acid rain on microorganisms in Adirondack Lakes

    ... rain can severely decrease the diversity of plant and animal communities in fresh water lakes and ponds ... we have had little understanding of the changing biodiversity of microbial communities within the impacted lakes as they recover," Nierzwicki ...
  • Great Ape Trust to provide home for entertainment orangutans

    ... strengths is being able to build bridges with different animal communities, where everyone has a different perspective, by looking at issues passionately and finding common bonds ...
  • Iceberg scour affects biodiversity

    ... as a driving force in the structure of the Antarctic seabed animal communities. Iceberg scouring damages areas of the seabed creating space for a high diversity of animals to use. However, an increase in iceberg scour with the seabed ...
  • Singing For Sex: Even Ugly Fish Do It

    ... animals communicate vocally - birds chirp, frogs thrum, whales whistle - and comparing the nerve networks ...
  • Animals adapt their vocal signals to social situations

    ... , presents a host of studies that investigate the way that animals adapt their calls, chirps, barks and whistles ... and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. "Animal communication has been a major emphasis in animal behavior and comparative psychology ...
  • Quiet bison sire more calves than louder rivals

    ... in the field with the overarching goal of understanding how bison communicate vocally. Yet the results clearly indicate that loudness as a factor of animal communication should receive more attention, Wyman ...
  • Study: Can nature's leading indicators presage environmental disaster?

    ... water quality will decline to the point that plant and animal communities in the lake are at risk. "The behavior of the system becomes extremely variable in the run up to change. You ...
  • Biofuels could hasten climate change

    ... also results in significant impoverishment of both plant and animal communities. Other tropical crops suitable for biofuel use, like soybean, sugar cane and jatropha, are all likely ...
  • Ocean carbon: A dent in the iron hypothesis

    ... to meet the energy demands of the whole plant and animal community. The latitudes where the Explorers operated ... to be the case with diatom phytoplankton and zooplankton. It's the zooplankton community that determines carbon sedimentation." The new study ...
  • Mockingbirds in fickle climates sing fancier tunes

    ... whether this pattern holds true for other animals. By studying animal communication, Botero ultimately hopes ... is it about humans that made our vocal communication so incredibly complicated compared to other animals," Botero said. "It has long ...

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