Migratory bats remain poorly understood despite their ecological importance and increasing exposure to anthropogenic threats. We present twelve years of monitoring of Pipistrellus nathusii at Bedfont ...

Biodiversity assessment using passive acoustic monitoring has historically been challenging due to the limited availability of multi-species acoustic detectors. In this context, acoustic indices w...

Understanding species interactions is critical for ecology and conservation, yet conventional network construction methods often lack spatiotemporal resolution and important contextual information...

Global biodiversity is increasingly threatened, but still poorly known. Preserving higher taxa (e.g., genera, families, orders) is especially impor...

Long distance communication is important for life history processes in many species. Long-standing debate exists about the type of evolutionary history and environmental drivers which have shaped the ...

We use topological data analysis to reveal a persistent morphological gap in a major group of songbirds (superfamily Passeroidea). The gap remained unoccupied for millions of years, even though nearb...

We use topological data analysis to reveal a persistent morphological gap in a major group of songbirds (superfamily Passeroidea). The gap remained unoccupied for millions of years, even though nearb...

Nature Ecology & Evolution - This Review discusses recent advances in the molecular evolution of vertebrate organs, including rates of evolution of organs and cell types, molecular mechanisms...

An audiomoth passive audio detector was set to record most nights from 12th March to 12th November 2025 in a damp mixed deciduous woodland in North East England (Woodland Trust’s Hedley Hall Wood, NZ218559). A paper has been sent to the Editors of British Island Bats for consideration of publication in Volume 6. During the year both Pipistrelle species recorded also emitted type D social calls -antagonism/ resource protection/ advertisement (Middleton et al., 2022).

Female weaponry remains underexplored across animal taxa. We analyzed socio-ecological predictors of female horn presence and size within the mammalian fam

Aguilar-Gómez et al. use exome sequencing of 347 strawberry poison frogs to uncover the genetic basis of color variation. They identify that kit, ttc39b, and bco1 underlie blue-red, yellow-red, and gr...

Abstract. In many group-living birds and mammals, the formation of affiliative relationships is hypothesized to cause vocal convergence (an increase in cal

Modern mammals have unique hearing abilities, able to sense a broad range of volumes and frequencies using middle-ear features, including our eardrums and a few small bones.

Post provided by Julian Schäfer-Zimmermann An introduction for people lacking a machine-learning background We provide a non-technical explanation of the animal2vec framework, including its capabil…

Animals and humans rely on their navigation skills to survive. However, spatial neurons in the brain’s “navigation circuit” had not previously been studied under real-world conditions. We conducted an...

Abstract. The allopatric model of speciation has dominated our understanding of speciation biology and biogeography since the Modern Synthesis. It is uncon

Veronika the cow is the first documented example of flexible, multipurpose tool use in cattle – and she’s also a very good girl.

Staff at the Panguana biological research station have received death threats

Summary: The degree to which calling male túngara frogs defend themselves from eavesdropping frog-biting midges alters their attractiveness to females and predatory bats, though the sensory mechanisms...

Druckman et al. document gaps in trust in scientists in the USA. People from groups less represented among scientists (for example, women and those with lower economic status) are less trusting. Incre...

Scientific Reports - Meows encode less individual information than purrs and show greater variability in domestic than in wild cats

Abstract. Using the voice to produce sound is a widespread form of communication and plays an important role across diverse species and contexts. Variation

Artificial light at night (ALAN) disrupts the activity patterns of a wide range of organisms. Nocturnal animals are particularly vulnerable to this di…

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

Bats could form a bridge between marine and terrestrial mammals, scientists say

Bats could form a bridge between marine and terrestrial mammals, scientists say

Caiafa et al. explore the role of Patagonian birds in the dispersal of mycorrhizal fungi. Metagenomic analyses of fecal samples show that birds consume a wide diversity of truffles and other mycorrhiz...