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July 2018

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Investigating parental care behaviour in same-sex pairing of zoo greater flamingo

Greater flamingos at Kutch

July 18, 2018

Investigating parental care behaviour in same-sex pairing of zoo greater flamingo

Same-sex pair bonding is an understudied area of research interest. In an early, small sample study, researchers have observed similar behavior in female-female parenting as with heterosexual pairs in the zoo greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus). These early results could be illuminating with regard to the evolution of flamingo social behavior, same-sex pair bonds, and why pair bonds form in general. Image credit: Dhaval Vargiya, CC SA 4.0.

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July 18, 2018

Habitat use, preference, and utilization distribution of two crane species (Genus: Grus) in Huize National Nature Reserve, Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau, China

Dejun Kong, Weixiong Luo, Qiang Liu, Zhuoqing Li, Guoyue Huan, Jianjun Zhang, Xiaojun Yang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5105 PubMed 30042879

July 9, 2018

A Pan-Amazonian species delimitation: high species diversity within the genus Amazophrynella (Anura: Bufonidae)

Rommel R. Rojas, Antoine Fouquet, Santiago R. Ron, Emil José Hernández-Ruz, Paulo R. Melo-Sampaio, Juan C. Chaparro, Richard C. Vogt, Vinicius Tadeu de Carvalho, Leandra Cardoso Pinheiro, Robson W. Avila, Izeni Pires Farias, Marcelo Gordo, Tomas Hrbek

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4941 PubMed 30013824

July 19, 2018

Conspicuously concealed: revision of the arid clade of the Gehyra variegata (Gekkonidae) group in Western Australia using an integrative molecular and morphological approach, with the description of five cryptic species

Luke Kealley, Paul Doughty, Mitzy Pepper, J. Scott Keogh, Mia Hillyer, Joel Huey

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5334 PubMed 30038877

July 18, 2018

Investigating parental care behaviour in same-sex pairing of zoo greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus)

Barbara Regaiolli, Camillo Sandri, Paul E. Rose, Vittoria Vallarin, Caterina Spiezio

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5227 PubMed 30042888

July 11, 2018

Digging the compromise: investigating the link between limb bone histology and fossoriality in the aardvark (Orycteropus afer)

Lucas J. Legendre, Jennifer Botha-Brink

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5216 PubMed 30018860

July 26, 2018

Shape and size of the arenas affect amphipod behaviours: implications for ecotoxicology

Shanelle A. Kohler, Matthew O. Parker, Alex T. Ford

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5271 PubMed 30065877

July 11, 2018

Progress in the discovery of amphipod crustaceans

Tri Arfianti, Simon Wilson, Mark John Costello

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5187 PubMed 30018857

July 3, 2018

Beetles in bamboo forests: community structure in a heterogeneous landscape of southwestern Amazonia

Jennifer M. Jacobs, Rudolf von May, David H. Kavanaugh, Edward F. Connor

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5153 PubMed 30002980

July 20, 2018

Advertisement call of Brachycephalus albolineatus (Anura: Brachycephalidae)

Marcos R. Bornschein, Luiz Fernando Ribeiro, Mario M. Rollo, André E. Confetti, Marcio R. Pie

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5273 PubMed 30042895

July 24, 2018

How much can we trust GPS wildlife tracking? An assessment in semi-free-ranging Crested Ibis Nipponia nippon

Dongping Liu, Lixia Chen, Yihua Wang, Jun Lu, Songlin Huang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5320 PubMed 30065886

July 31, 2018

The periodical cicada four-year acceleration hypothesis revisited and the polyphyletic nature of Brood V, including an updated crowd-source enhanced map (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Magicicada)

John R. Cooley, Nidia Arguedas, Elias Bonaros, Gerry Bunker, Stephen M. Chiswell, Annette DeGiovine, Marten Edwards, Diane Hassanieh, Diler Haji, John Knox, Gene Kritsky, Carolyn Mills, Dan Mozgai, Roy Troutman, John Zyla, Hiroki Hasegawa, Teiji Sota, Jin Yoshimura, Chris Simon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5282 PubMed 30083444

July 24, 2018

Absence of heterosis in hybrid crested newts

Jan W. Arntzen, Nazan Üzüm, Maja D. Ajduković, Ana Ivanović, Ben Wielstra

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5317 PubMed 30065885

July 31, 2018

Touch-screen-guided task reveals a prosocial choice tendency by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Renata S. Mendonça, Christoph D. Dahl, Susana Carvalho, Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Ikuma Adachi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5315 PubMed 30083456

July 27, 2018

Hyperphalangy in a new sinemydid turtle from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota

Shuai Shao, Lan Li, Yang Yang, Chang-Fu Zhou