Solitary bees display a remarkable diversity of pollen foraging strategies that balance the nutritional requirements of larvae with the morphological and chemical defences of pollen sources.
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Mixed-species foraging assemblages occur when two or more bird species join forces to exploit food resources more efficiently and reduce predation risk. Such flocks often consist of a central “nuclear ...
Based on papers presented at the seventy-seventh annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. New perspectives on hunter-gatherer socioecology / Eric Alden Smith and Bruce Winterhalder ...
A new study demonstrates for the first time that dolphins can learn foraging techniques outside the mother-calf bond - showing that they have a similar cultural nature to great apes. The dolphins of ...
Variation in the PRKG1 gene is associated with differences in foraging behavior in humans, a study suggests. Searching for and securing food is a fundamental and ubiquitous goal in the animal kingdom.
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