Chestnut-crowned babbler calls are composed of meaningless shared building blocks

Experimental evidence for fully additive care among male carers in the cooperatively breeding chestnut-crowned babbler

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.02.024 0003-3472/© 2016 The Authors. Published on behalf license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Although theory developed to understand carer response rules in cooperative breeders typically predicts partial compensation, where additional investment by one carer is optimally met by incomplete reductions by the other, fully additive care is...

Determinants of Health Are the Building Blocks.

Evaluation of Updating Methods in Building Blocks Dataset

With the increasing use of spatial data in daily life, the production of this data from diverse information sources with different precision and scales has grown widely. Generating new data requires a great deal of time and money. Therefore, one solution is to reduce costs is to update the old data at different scales using new data (produced on a similar scale). One approach to updating data i...

Experimental Evidence for Phonemic Contrasts in a Nonhuman Vocal System

The ability to generate new meaning by rearranging combinations of meaningless sounds is a fundamental component of language. Although animal vocalizations often comprise combinations of meaningless acoustic elements, evidence that rearranging such combinations generates functionally distinct meaning is lacking. Here, we provide evidence for this basic ability in calls of the chestnut-crowned b...

Demographic Effects of Habitat Restoration for the Grey-Crowned Babbler Pomatostomus temporalis, in Victoria, Australia

BACKGROUND Considerable resources are spent on habitat restoration across the globe to counter the impacts of habitat loss and degradation on wildlife populations. But, because of time and resourcing constraints on many conservation programs, the effectiveness of these habitat restoration programs in achieving their long-term goals of improving the population viability of particular wildlife sp...