Nesting behavior was found to differ for animals of five different inbred strains of Mus musculus reared in the same environment, indicating heritable differences in level of nesting by Mus. For two separate crosses, hybrid animals built larger nests than did animals of the inbred parental strains. In addition, .from data of one of the crosses and derived generations, a very low heritability of...

Marine turtle reproductive success is correlated with the stability and quality of the nesting environment. Female marine turtles show fidelity to nesting beaches, making artificial beach nourishment practices directly relevant to their recovery. We evaluated the impacts of artificial beach nourishment on Loggerhead (Caretta caretta) and Green turtles (Chelonia mydas) between artificially nouri...

The majority of American Oystercatchers (Haematopus palliatus) in South Carolina make their nests on narrow, elevated mounds of oyster shells deposited naturally along the edges of bays by storms or formed artificially by boat wakes along the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (AICW). I compared reproductive success of American Oystercatchers nesting along the AICW with those nesting on naturally f...

Nesting algorithms deal with placing two-dimensional shapes on the given canvas. In this paper binary way of solving nesting problem is proposed. Geometric shapes are quantized into binary form, which is used to operate on them. After finishing nesting they are converted back into original geometrical form. Investigations showed, that there is a big influence of quantization accuracy for the ne...

background: the different features of scorpions can be successfully described by their nesting and burrowing behaviors. there is little information about burrowing activity of iranian scorpions. methods: the current study was performed to compare the burrowing behavior between two burrowing iranian scorpions, scorpio maurus and odonthubutus bidentatus by describing 30 nests of each species rega...

– Surveys of hawksbill turtles in the Atlantic Ocean have been undertaken to examine mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) diversity and to test hypotheses concerning female reproductive migratory behavior and the composition of foraging ground populations. Studies of nesting females indicate that a natal homing mechanism predominates and that nesting populations should be considered separate stocks. Analy...

In this paper an application of constraint logic programming (CLP) to the resolution of nesting problems is presented. Nesting problems are a special case of the cutting and packing problems, in which the pieces generally have non-convex shapes. Due to their combinatorial optimization nature, nesting problems have traditionally been tackled by heuristics and in the recent past by meta-heuristic...

Using natural nests of eight bird species, we provide one of the first multispecies tests for edge effects on reproductive success in a forested landscape. Our primary objective was to assess whether distance to the edge of recent clearcuts was related to nesting success in intact northern hardwood forests. Estimated nest success was generally lower for the two ground-nesting species than for t...

Species vulnerability is increased when individuals congregate in restricted areas for breeding; yet, breeding habitats are not well defined for many marine species. Identification and quantification of these breeding habitats are essential to effective conservation. Satellite telemetry and switching state-space modeling (SSM) were used to define inter-nesting habitat of endangered Kemp's ridle...

In laboratories, mice are housed at 20-24°C, which is below their lower critical temperature (≈30°C). This increased thermal stress has the potential to alter scientific outcomes. Nesting material should allow for improved behavioral thermoregulation and thus alleviate this thermal stress. Nesting behavior should change with temperature and material, and the choice between nesting or thermotaxi...