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A Reproductive Dictatorship: Naked Mole-rats
The eusocial naked mole-rat is the mammalian equivalent of a social insect. This article discusses how and why the dominant queen and the infertile workers cooperate for the benefit of the whole colony.
http://webspace.qmul.ac.uk/cgfaulkes/CGFNMR.htm
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World on the Move: Great Animal Migrations
BBC's Natural History Unit gathers information from correspondents, scientists and amateur naturalists to monitor migrating mammals, birds and insects as they travel.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/worldonthemove/
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Variation in Lekking Costs in Blackbuck
Researchers at the Wildlife Institute of India examine the hypothesis that among lekking males of the species Antilope cervicapra, variations in lekking costs are related to differences in mating benefits. [PDF]
http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/kavita/Isvaran_Jhala_2000.pdf
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Trade-offs Between Extraterritorial Prospecting and Helping in a Cooperative Mammal
Researchers at Cambridge University investigated whether male meerkats trade off their cooperative contributions to pup feeding against searching for mating and dispersal opportunities.
http://rom.ex.ac.uk/documents/Bios/ajy204/Young%20et%20al%202005%20-%20Trade-offs%20between%20prospecting%20and%20helping%20in%20meerkats.pdf
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Unfaithful Songbirds Increase Offspring Fitness
Article from the Max Planck Society on research showing that female promiscuity can reduce the negative consequences of inbreeding in socially monogamous birds.
http://www.orn.mpg.de/aktuelles/presse/blaumeisen_en.pdf
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Stress and the City: Urban Birds Keep Cool
Ornithologists at the Max Planck Society demonstrate that urban birds are more resistant to acute stress than forest dwelling birds.
http://www.orn.mpg.de/aktuelles/presse/stress_en.pdf
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Too Mellow for our Predatory World
Article from the Max Planck Society on research examining flexibility in flight behavior in marine iguanas on the Galapagos Islands.
http://www.orn.mpg.de/aktuelles/presse/echsen_en.pdf
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Personality Gene Makes Songbirds Curious
Max Planck scientists find evidence for an association between gene variants and exploratory behavior in great tits.
http://www.orn.mpg.de/aktuelles/presse/meisen_en.pdf
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Wanted: A Reason to Divorce
Max Planck scientists find evidence that marriage crises in blue tits are probably caused by other females.
http://www.orn.mpg.de/aktuelles/presse/scheidung_en.pdf
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Fongoli Chimps
Article from the National Geographic Magazine on how the chimpanzees on the savannas of Senegal are hunting bush babies with spearlike sticks.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/04/chimps-with-spears/mary-roach-text.html
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