scholarly journals Evolution of whale sensory ecology: Frontiers in nondestructive anatomical investigations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Racicot
Keyword(s):  
Sensory Ecology

Sensory Ecology: Lamplight Behavior Simulations

2008 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Carper
Keyword(s):  
Sensory Ecology

The Sensory Ecology of Birds

The Auk ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina Fialko ◽  
Jarome R Ali ◽  
Laura Céspedes Arias ◽  
Jacob Drucker ◽  
Klara K Nordén ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sensory Ecology

Sensory ecology of scyphomedusae

1995 ◽  
Vol 26 (2-4) ◽  
pp. 101-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
William M. Hamner
Keyword(s):  
Sensory Ecology

Why Is It Important to Continue Studying the Anatomy, Physiology, Sensory Ecology, and Evolution of Howler Monkeys?

2014 ◽  
pp. 3-17
Author(s):  
Martín M. Kowalewski ◽  
Paul A. Garber ◽  
Liliana Cortés-Ortiz ◽  
Bernardo Urbani ◽  
Dionisios Youlatos
Keyword(s):  
Sensory Ecology ◽  
Howler Monkeys

scholarly journals Noise matters: elephants show risk-avoidance behaviour in response to human-generated seismic cues

2021 ◽  
Vol 288 (1953) ◽  
pp. 20210774
Author(s):  
Beth Mortimer ◽  
James A. Walker ◽  
David S. Lolchuragi ◽  
Michael Reinwald ◽  
David Daballen
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Noise ◽  
Information Transfer ◽  
Conservation Management ◽  
Sensory Ecology ◽  
Loxodonta Africana ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
African Elephants ◽  
Risk Avoidance ◽  
Biologically Relevant ◽  
Seismic Vibrations

African elephants ( Loxodonta africana ) use many sensory modes to gather information about their environment, including the detection of seismic, or ground-based, vibrations. Seismic information is known to include elephant-generated signals, but also potentially encompasses biotic cues that are commonly referred to as ‘noise’. To investigate seismic information transfer in elephants beyond communication, here we tested the hypothesis that wild elephants detect and discriminate between seismic vibrations that differ in their noise types, whether elephant- or human-generated. We played three types of seismic vibrations to elephants: seismic recordings of elephants (elephant-generated), white noise (human-generated) and a combined track (elephant- and human-generated). We found evidence of both detection of seismic noise and discrimination between the two treatments containing human-generated noise. In particular, we found evidence of retreat behaviour, where seismic tracks with human-generated noise caused elephants to move further away from the trial location. We conclude that seismic noise are cues that contain biologically relevant information for elephants that they can associate with risk. This expands our understanding of how elephants use seismic information, with implications for elephant sensory ecology and conservation management.

scholarly journals Hematological convergence between Mesozoic marine reptiles (Sauropterygia) and extant aquatic amniotes elucidates diving adaptations in plesiosaurs

PeerJ ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. e8022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corinna V. Fleischle ◽  
P. Martin Sander ◽  
Tanja Wintrich ◽  
Kai R. Caspar
Keyword(s):  
Cell Size ◽  
Marine Mammals ◽  
Middle Triassic ◽  
Sensory Ecology ◽  
Cellular Level ◽  
Thin Sections ◽  
Marine Reptiles ◽  
Canal Diameter ◽  
Physiological Adaptations ◽  
Pelagic Habitat

Plesiosaurs are a prominent group of Mesozoic marine reptiles, belonging to the more inclusive clades Pistosauroidea and Sauropterygia. In the Middle Triassic, the early pistosauroid ancestors of plesiosaurs left their ancestral coastal habitats and increasingly adapted to a life in the open ocean. This ecological shift was accompanied by profound changes in locomotion, sensory ecology and metabolism. However, investigations of physiological adaptations on the cellular level related to the pelagic lifestyle are lacking so far. Using vascular canal diameter, derived from osteohistological thin-sections, we show that inferred red blood cell size significantly increases in pistosauroids compared to more basal sauropterygians. This change appears to have occurred in conjunction with the dispersal to open marine environments, with cell size remaining consistently large in plesiosaurs. Enlarged red blood cells likely represent an adaptation of plesiosaurs repeated deep dives in the pelagic habitat and mirror conditions found in extant marine mammals and birds. Our results emphasize physiological aspects of adaptive convergence among fossil and extant marine amniotes and add to our current understanding of plesiosaur evolution.

The Sensory Ecology of Nonconsumptive Predator Effects

2014 ◽  
Vol 184 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Weissburg ◽  
Delbert L. Smee ◽  
Matthew C. Ferner
Keyword(s):  
Sensory Ecology ◽  
Predator Effects

scholarly journals Courtship and Mate Choice in Fishes: Integrating Behavioral and Sensory Ecology

1998 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERT CRAIG SARGENT ◽  
VICTOR N. RUSH ◽  
BRIAN D. WISENDEN ◽  
HONG Y. YAN
Keyword(s):  
Mate Choice ◽  
Sensory Ecology

scholarly journals Author Correction: The endocast of the Night Parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis) reveals insights into its sensory ecology and the evolution of nocturnality in birds

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew N. Iwaniuk ◽  
Aubrey R. Keirnan ◽  
Heather Janetzki ◽  
Karine Mardon ◽  
Stephen Murphy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sensory Ecology

scholarly journals Exquisitely Preserved Fossil Snakes of Messel: Insight into the Evolution, Biogeography, Habitat Preferences and Sensory Ecology of Early Boas

Diversity ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agustín Scanferla ◽  
Krister T. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
New World ◽  
Middle Eocene ◽  
Habitat Preferences ◽  
Sensory Ecology ◽  
Morphological Diversity ◽  
Predator Prey ◽  
Upper Jaw ◽  
Spectrum Evaluation ◽  
Insight Into

Our knowledge of early evolution of snakes is improving, but all that we can infer about the evolution of modern clades of snakes such as boas (Booidea) is still based on isolated bones. Here, we resolve the phylogenetic relationships of Eoconstrictor fischeri comb. nov. and other booids from the early-middle Eocene of Messel (Germany), the best-known fossil snake assemblage yet discovered. Our combined analyses demonstrate an affinity of Eoconstrictor with Neotropical boas, thus entailing a South America-to-Europe dispersal event. Other booid species from Messel are related to different New World clades, reinforcing the cosmopolitan nature of the Messel booid fauna. Our analyses indicate that Eoconstrictor was a terrestrial, medium- to large-bodied snake that bore labial pit organs in the upper jaw, the earliest evidence that the visual system in snakes incorporated the infrared spectrum. Evaluation of the known palaeobiology of Eoconstrictor provides no evidence that pit organs played a role in the predator–prey relations of this stem boid. At the same time, the morphological diversity of Messel booids reflects the occupation of several terrestrial macrohabitats, and even in the earliest booid community the relation between pit organs and body size is similar to that seen in booids today.

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