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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 19, 2018

A new southern Laramidian ankylosaurid, Akainacephalus johnsoni gen. et sp. nov., from the upper Campanian Kaiparowits Formation of southern Utah, USA

9 citations

2,308 downloads

18,759 views

Jelle P. Wiersma, Randall B. Irmis

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5016 PubMed 30065856

July 24, 2018

The real Bigfoot: a pes from Wyoming, USA is the largest sauropod pes ever reported and the northern-most occurrence of brachiosaurids in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation

3 citations

1,377 downloads

12,627 views

Anthony Maltese, Emanuel Tschopp, Femke Holwerda, David Burnham

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5250 PubMed 30065867

July 5, 2018

The largest European theropod dinosaurs: remains of a gigantic megalosaurid and giant theropod tracks from the Kimmeridgian of Asturias, Spain

7 citations

1,338 downloads

6,061 views

Oliver W.M. Rauhut, Laura Piñuela, Diego Castanera, José-Carlos García-Ramos, Irene Sánchez Cela

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4963 PubMed 30002951

July 26, 2018

‘Rolling’ stoneflies (Insecta: Plecoptera) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber

10 citations

509 downloads

5,968 views

Pavel Sroka, Arnold H. Staniczek, Boris C. Kondratieff

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5354 PubMed 30065894

July 20, 2018

Shark and ray diversity in the Tropical America (Neotropics)—an examination of environmental and historical factors affecting diversity

16 citations

1,243 downloads

5,354 views

Jorge Domingo Carrillo-Briceño, Juan D. Carrillo, Orangel Antonio Aguilera, Marcelo R. Sanchez-Villagra

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5313 PubMed 30042900

July 3, 2018

New insights into chasmosaurine (Dinosauria: Ceratopsidae) skulls from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) of Alberta, and an update on the distribution of accessory frill fenestrae in Chasmosaurinae

1,464 downloads

4,853 views

James A. Campbell, Michael J. Ryan, Claudia J. Schröder-Adams, David C. Evans, Robert B. Holmes

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5194 PubMed 30002987

July 6, 2018

Fossil eggshell cuticle elucidates dinosaur nesting ecology

7 citations

727 downloads

4,570 views

Tzu-Ruei Yang, Ying-Hsuan Chen, Jasmina Wiemann, Beate Spiering, P. Martin Sander

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5144 PubMed 30002976

July 6, 2018

Xenoposeidon is the earliest known rebbachisaurid sauropod dinosaur

6 citations

1,537 downloads

3,607 views

Michael P. Taylor

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5212 PubMed 30002991

July 19, 2018

A novel approach to study the morphology and chemistry of pollen in a phylogenetic context, applied to the halophytic taxon Nitraria L.(Nitrariaceae)

9 citations

847 downloads

3,082 views

Amber Woutersen, Phillip E. Jardine, Raul Giovanni Bogotá-Angel, Hong-Xiang Zhang, Daniele Silvestro, Alexandre Antonelli, Elena Gogna, Roy H.J. Erkens, William D. Gosling, Guillaume Dupont-Nivet, Carina Hoorn

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5055 PubMed 30038851

July 6, 2018

The cranial endocast of the Upper Devonian dipnoan ‘Chirodipterus’ australis

2 citations

432 downloads

3,012 views

Struan A.C. Henderson, Tom J. Challands

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5148 PubMed 30002977

July 27, 2018

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

3 citations

542 downloads