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July 7, 2025

Inter-colony and inter-annual behavioural plasticity in the foraging strategies of a fjord-dwelling penguin—good news in the face of environmental change?

Myrene Otis, Thomas Mattern, Ursula Ellenberg, Robin Long, Pablo Garcia Borboroglu, Philip J. Seddon, Yolanda van Heezik

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19650 PubMed 40642328

July 31, 2025

New evidence for the co-occurrence of two genera of Paleoparadoxiidae (Mammalia, Desmostylia) from the Middle Miocene of Japan: insights into taxonomic status and paleodiversity in Desmostylia

Yuma Asai, Tatsuro Ando, Hiroshi Sawamura, Shoji Hayashi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19578 PubMed 40755809

July 30, 2025

New and known free-living nematode species (Nematoda: Chromadorea) from offshore tsunami monitoring buoys in the Southwest Pacific Ocean

Daniel Leduc

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19789 PubMed 40755792

July 29, 2025

Review of the genus Microlaimus de Man, 1880 with an illustrated guide for species identification

Andre M. Esteves, Alex Manoel, Patricia F. Neres

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19611 PubMed 40755810

July 28, 2025

Cross-tolerance evolution is driven by selection on heat tolerance in Drosophila subobscura

Luis E. Castañeda

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19743 PubMed 40746616

July 23, 2025

New Andean plump toad of the genus Osornophryne (Anura: Bufonidae) from Cerro Candelaria, Ecuador

Juan P. Reyes-Puig, Miguel A. Urgiles-Merchán, H. Mauricio Ortega-Andrade, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, Julio C. Carrión-Olmedo, Mario H. Yáñez-Muñoz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19760 PubMed 40718770

July 21, 2025

New approaches for capturing and estimating variation in complex animal color patterns from digital photographs: application to the Eastern Box Turtle (Terrapene carolina)

Erik Maki, Tilmann Glimm, Paramahansa Pramanik, Ylenia Chiari, Maria Kiskowski

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19690 PubMed 40708826

July 18, 2025

Cavy lifespan: survival analysis and lifetables for the pet guinea pig (Cavia porcellus, L.) in Britain

Fernando Mata

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19702 PubMed 40692850

July 17, 2025

Electrical characteristics of the extracellular fluid in the body segments of Apis mellifera bees

Juan Hernandez, Fredy Mesa, Anderson Dussan, Andre Riveros

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19691 PubMed 40687759

July 15, 2025

Fernando Araujo Perini, Fernando L. Sicuro

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19730 PubMed 40687758

July 14, 2025

Revisiting Drymaeus germaini (Ancey, 1892) (Gastropoda, Bulimulidae): ecological niche and first anatomical description of a poorly known land snail species from Brazil

Maria Isabel Pinto Ferreira Macedo, Ximena Maria Constanza Ovando, Sthefane D’ávila

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19641 PubMed 40677751

July 10, 2025

Vocal constraints on song amplitude in star finches Bathilda ruficauda

Hana Goto, Masayo Soma, Ayumi Mizuno, Henrik Brumm

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19705 PubMed 40656944

July 10, 2025

A Jack of All Trades—Tawaki/Fiordland penguins are able to utilise diverse marine habitats during winter migration

Thomas Mattern, Klemens Pütz, Pablo Garcia Borboroglu, Ursula Ellenberg, David M. Houston, Bernhard Lüthi, Philip J. Seddon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19695 PubMed 40656952

July 10, 2025

Cryptic diversity on the genus Caenolestes (Caenolestidae: Paucituberculata) in the Ecuadorian Andes

Julio C. Carrión-Olmedo, Jorge Brito

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19648 PubMed 40656956

July 4, 2025

Was Hupehsuchus a baleen whale-style filter feeder in the Early Triassic? A re-examination of the evidence

Ryosuke Motani, Nicholas D. Pyenson, Da-yong Jiang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19666 PubMed 40625919

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