Animal vocalizations convey multiple pieces of information about the sender. Some of them
are stable, such as identity or sex, but others are labile like the emotional or motivational state…

Bi-parental care may involve both cooperation and conflict between parents. Parents adjust
their workload to that of their partner and this ability is likely to affect reproductive success. …

In many species, vocal communication is essential for coordinating social behaviors
including courtship, mating, parenting, rivalry, and alarm signaling. Effective communication …

Physiological resonance – where the physiological state of a subject generates the same
state in a perceiver – has been proposed as a proximate mechanism facilitating pro-social …

Animal social interactions usually revolve around several sensory modalities. For birds,
these are primarily visual and acoustic. However, some habitat specificities or long distances …

Nestlings beg to parents to communicate their need. Nevertheless, the specific signal driving
parental care remains only partially understood. No study to date has been able to link a …

Social stimuli can have rewarding properties and promote learning. In birds, conspecific
vocalizations like song can act as a reinforcer, and specific song variants can acquire particular …

Avoidance of novelty, termed neophobia, protects animals from potential dangers but can
also impair their adaptation to novel environments or food resources. This behaviour is …

Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is an important grain legume domesticated independently
in Mexico and Andean South America approximately 8000 years ago. Wild forms are …

Given the status of the African clawed frog Xenopus laevis as a global amphibian invader,
and the potential spread of its invasive populations in Europe and other continents, it is …