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COMMUNICATION

Von Frisch, K. (1956). The "Language" and Orientation of the Bees. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 100(5), 515-519. Retrieved January 8, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/3143684

Wyatt, T. D. (2003). Pheromones and Animal Behaviour : Communication by Smell and Taste. Cambridge University Press.

William A. Searcy, & Stephen Nowicki. (2005). The Evolution of Animal Communication : Reliability and Deception in Signaling Systems. Princeton University Press. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e000xna&AN=313422&site=eds-live&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_Cover

LANGUAGE

FEDUREK, P., & SLOCOMBE, K. (2011). Primate Vocal Communication: A Useful Tool for Understanding Human Speech and Language Evolution? Human Biology, 83(2), 153-173. Retrieved January 8, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/41466730

Arbib, Michael A., et al. “Primate Vocalization, Gesture, and the Evolution of Human Language.” Current Anthropology, vol. 49, no. 6, 2008, pp. 1053–1076. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/593015. Accessed 8 Jan. 2021.

FEEDING BEHAVIOR

Pyke, G., Pulliam, H., & Charnov, E. (1977). Optimal Foraging: A Selective Review of Theory and Tests. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 52(2), 137-154. Retrieved January 12, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/2824020

Brivio, F., Grignolio, S., Brambilla, A., & Apollonio, M. (2014). Intra-sexual variability in feeding behaviour of a mountain ungulate: Size matters. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 68(10), 1649-1660. Retrieved January 8, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/43599401

Angela A. Nowell, & Alison W. Fletcher. (2008). The Development of Feeding Behaviour in Wild Western Lowland Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla). Behaviour, 145(2), 171–193. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsjsr&AN=edsjsr.4536549&site=eds-live

New, J., & Kang, P. (2000). Multimodal Sensory Integration in the Strike-Feeding Behaviour of Predatory Fishes. Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, 355(1401), 1321-1324. Retrieved January 8, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/3066670

Goss-Custard, J., Caldow, R., Clarke, R., S. E. A. le V. dit Durell, & Sutherland, W. (1995). Deriving Population Parameters from Individual Variations in Foraging Behaviour. I. Empirical Game Theory Distribution Model of Oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus Feeding on Mussels Mytilus edulis. Journal of Animal Ecology, 64(2), 265-276. doi:10.2307/5761

REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR

Douglas, K. (2009). Homosexual selection. New Scientist, 2737, 48. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsgao&AN=edsgcl.217020186&site=eds-live

Ian Mayer, Bertil Borg, & Miklos Páll. (2004). Hormonal Control of Male Reproductive Behaviour in Fishes: A Stickleback Perspective. Behaviour, 141(11/12), 1499–1510. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsjsr&AN=edsjsr.4536218&site=eds-live

Poiani, A., & Dixson, A. F. (2010). Animal Homosexuality : A Biosocial Perspective. Cambridge University Press. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e000xna&AN=329386&site=eds-live&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_Cover

D. P. Crandall. (2002). Himba Animal Classification and the Strange Case of the Hyena. Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, 72(2), 293–311. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsjsr&AN=edsjsr.3556992&site=eds-live

Fitzgerald, S., & Cardona, C. (1993). True Hermaphrodites in a Flock of Cochin Bantams. Avian Diseases, 37(3), 912-916. doi:10.2307/1592054 https://www.jstor.org/stable/1592054

Dias, R., Webster, M., Goedert, D., & Macedo, R. (2013). Cooperative Breeding in the Campo Flicker I - Cría Cooperativa en Colaptes campestris campestris I: Breeding Ecology and Social Behavior. The Condor, 115(4), 847-854. doi:10.1525/cond.2013.120142 https://academic.oup.com/condor/article/115/4/847/5152857

DelBarco-Trillo, J., García-Álvarez, O., Josefa Soler, A., Tourmente, M., Garde, J., & Roldan, E. (2016). A cost for high levels of sperm competition in rodents: Increased sperm DNA fragmentation. Proceedings: Biological Sciences, 283(1826), 1-9. Retrieved January 12, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/24762447

Buzatto, B., Roberts, J., & Simmons, L. (2015). Sperm competition and the evolution of precopulatory weapons: Increasing male density promotes sperm competition and reduces selection on arm strength in a chorusing frog. Evolution, 69(10), 2613-2624. Retrieved January 12, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/24704775

Bocedi, G., & Reid, J. (2017). Feed-backs among inbreeding, inbreeding depression in sperm traits, and sperm competition can drive evolution of costly polyandry. Evolution, 71(12), 2786-2802. doi:10.2307/48575232 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/evo.13363

Mahoney, P. C., Tatarnic, N. J., O’Hanlon, J. C., & Umbers, K. D. L. (2017). Mate guarding and male mate choice in the chameleon grasshopper Kosciuscola tristis (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Journal of Ethology, 2, 197. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsgao&AN=edsgcl.490552893&site=eds-live

PARENTAL CARE

Mathias Kölliker, Nick J. Royle, & Per T. Smiseth. (2012). The Evolution of Parental Care: Vol. 1st ed. OUP Oxford. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e000xna&AN=477075&site=eds-live&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_Cover

Tučková, V., Šumbera, R., & Čížková, B. (2016). Alloparental behaviour in Sinai spiny mice Acomys dimidiatus: A case of misdirected parental care? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 70(3), 437-447. Retrieved January 8, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/44856989

SOCIAL BEHAVIOR

Franks, N., Worley, A., Grant, K., Gorman, A., Vizard, V., Plackett, H., . . . Sendova-Franks, A. (2016). Social behaviour and collective motion in plant-animal worms. Proceedings: Biological Sciences, 283(1825), 1-9. Retrieved January 12, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/2476239

Klibaite, U., & Shaevitz, J. W. (2020). Paired fruit flies synchronize behavior: Uncovering social interactions in Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS Computational Biology, 10. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsgsc&AN=edsgcl.645331608&site=eds-live

Wal, E., Festa-Bianchet, M., Réale, D., Coltman, D., & Pelletier, F. (2015). Sex-based differences in the adaptive value of social behavior contrasted against morphology and environment. Ecology, 96(3), 631-641. Retrieved January 12, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/43494680

Aplin, L., Farine, D., Mann, R., & Sheldon, B. (2014). Individual-level personality influences social foraging and collective behaviour in wild birds. Proceedings: Biological Sciences, 281(1789), 1-9. Retrieved January 12, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/43601594

Ferrara Camila Rudge, Vogt Richard C., Sousa-Lima Renata S., Tardio Bruno M.R., & Bernardes Virginia Campos Diniz. (2014). Sound Communication and Social Behavior in an Amazonian River Turtle (Podocnemis Expansa). Herpetologica, 70(2), 149–156. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsjsr&AN=edsjsr.24634309&site=eds-live

Moore, P., & Bergman, D. (2005). The Smell of Success and Failure: The Role of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Chemical Signals on the Social Behavior of Crayfish. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 45(4), 650-657. Retrieved January 12, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/4485842