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Dijkstra, Thomas, Peter Korsten, and Jan Komdeur. "Is UV signalling involved in male-male territorial conflict in the blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus)? A new experimental approach." Behaviour 144, no. 4 (2007): 447–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853907780756030.

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Structurally-based ultraviolet (UV) coloration of plumage can signal male quality and plays a role in female mate choice in many bird species. UV-reflecting badges could also be important signals in male-male competition. We tested if territorial blue tit ( Cyanistes caeruleus ) males discriminate between conspecific male intruders which differ in the UV reflectance of their crown feathers. To this aim, we used a new experimental approach in which we simultaneously (instead of sequentially) introduced two male blue tit taxidermic mounts in the territories of resident males during the female fe

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Hof, David, and Jeffrey Podos. "Escalation of aggressive vocal signals: a sequential playback study." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280, no. 1768 (2013): 20131553. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.1553.

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Rival conspecifics often produce stereotyped sequences of signals as agonistic interactions escalate. Successive signals in sequence are thought to convey increasingly pronounced levels of aggressive motivation. Here, we propose and test a model of aggressive escalation in black-throated blue warblers, presenting subjects with two sequential and increasingly elevated levels of threat. From a speaker outside the territorial boundary, we initiated an interaction (low-threat level), and from a second speaker inside the territory, accompanied by a taxidermic mount, we subsequently simulated a terr

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Akçay, Çağlar, S. Elizabeth Campbell, and Michael D. Beecher. "Individual differences affect honest signalling in a songbird." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281, no. 1775 (2014): 20132496. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.2496.

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Research in the past decade has established the existence of consistent individual differences or ‘personality’ in animals and their important role in many aspects of animal behaviour. At the same time, research on honest signalling of aggression has revealed that while some of the putative aggression signals are reliable, they are only imperfectly so. This study asks whether a significant portion of the variance in the aggression-signal regression may be explained by individual differences in signalling strategies. Using the well-studied aggressive signalling system of song sparrows ( Melospi

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Akçay, Çağlar, and Michael D. Beecher. "Multi-modal communication: song sparrows increase signal redundancy in noise." Biology Letters 15, no. 10 (2019): 20190513. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0513.

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Although the effects of anthropogenic noise on animal communication have been studied widely, most research on the effect of noise in communication has focused on signals in a single modality. Consequently, how multi-modal communication is affected by anthropogenic noise is relatively poorly understood. Here, we ask whether song sparrows ( Melospiza melodia ) show evidence of plasticity in response to noise in two aggressive signals in acoustic and visual modalities. We test two hypotheses: (i) that song sparrows will shift signalling effort to the visual modality (the multi-modal shift hypoth

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Cartar, Ralph V., and R. I. Guy Morrison. "Estimating metabolic costs for homeotherms from weather data and morphology: an example using calidridine sandpipers." Canadian Journal of Zoology 75, no. 1 (1997): 94–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z97-012.

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It is often desirable to estimate the metabolic costs incurred by homeothermic organisms of differing morphology living in different real or hypothetical environmental conditions. To address this problem, we describe a method, based on previously published empirical allometric and heat-transfer equations, that allows a rough estimate to be made of the daily maintenance metabolic costs (i.e., basal and thermoregulatory costs) incurred by a bird in a simple cold two-dimensional environment. The model uses widely available weather variables (temperature, wind speed, and global solar radiation), m

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Casado, Santos, and Santiago Aragón. "Vignettes of Spanish Nature." Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 44, no. 3 (2012): 197–233. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2014.44.3.197.

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Taxidermy played a pivotal role in the renewal of the Spanish Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid during the first few decades of the twentieth century. This essay examines the work of the brothers José María Benedito (1873–1951) and Luis Benedito (1884–1955) and their part in the making of a remarkable series of biological groups and habitat dioramas, mainly devoted to the most characteristic species of Spanish fauna. The Benedito brothers’ taxidermy mounts can be viewed as an attempt to construct a new image of a national fauna. From this point of view, taxidermic practices appear

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Kuprewicz, Erin. "Exploring Size Bias of Natural History Museum Specimens: Comparing Historic Taxidermy Mammals to Contemporary Populations." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 8 (October 4, 2024): e138510. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.8.138510.

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Specimen sex biases in museum collections of vertebrates have been well-documented (Cooper et al. 2019). This known sex bias equates to body size bias for mammal groups that exhibit high rates of sexual-size dimorphism, such as members of the orders Artiodactyla (e.g., pigs, antelopes, camels, llamas, giraffes), Perissodactyla (horses, rhinoceroses, tapirs), and Carnivora (cat- and dog-like mammals) (Weckerly 1998). Past work on specimen sex bias has focused on research-grade specimens with body size data taken prior to skinning (Meineke and Daru 2021). However little attention has been paid t

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Bakken, George S., Kevin P. Kenow, Carl E. Korschgen, and Andrew F. Boysen. "Statistical and procedural issues in the use of heated taxidermic mounts." Journal of Thermal Biology 25, no. 4 (2000): 317–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0306-4565(99)00094-7.

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Greek, Thomas J., Kyaw Tha Paw U, and Wesley W. Weathers. "A comparison of operative temperature estimated by taxidermic mounts and meteorological data." Journal of Thermal Biology 14, no. 1 (1989): 19–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0306-4565(89)90025-9.

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Zagorodniuk, Igor. "Yuriy Volnenko, a zoologist and taxidermist of zoological museums of Kyiv." Novitates Theriologicae 2025, no. 17 (2025): 156–59. https://doi.org/10.53452/nt1725.

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An essay about successful museum worker, taxidermist, and experienced field zoologist. He participated in expeditions to Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, the Amur, the Kuril Islands, and the Danube region, as well as in numerous short trips to the Kyiv region, including hunting practices. He worked at zoological museums of the Kyiv University (1959?–1963) and the Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine (1964–1967), the Institute of Hydrobiology NAS of Ukraine (1969–1977), and the Zoological Museum of the National Medical Institute (1978–2018). As an experienced taxidermist, he specialised in dissecting a

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Zagorodniuk, Igor. "Yevhen Zabludovsky, a zoologist and taxidermist." Novitates Theriologicae 2023, no. 16 (2023): 203–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.53452/nt1640.

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An essay about an inspirational taxidermist, a graduate of Kyiv University and one of the founders of the academic zoological museum in Kyiv, which is now part of NMNH, NAS of Ukraine. The researcher was formed and worked in collaboration with such well-known taxidermists as V. Antonovych, H. Selezhynskyi, V. Bondarenko, Y. Volnenko, and animal artist H. Glikman. He took an active part in numerous expeditions of the museum to the Far East, the Far North, mountains and deserts of Central Asia, where he collected and preserved materials for further production of skin-mounts and dioramas. Specime

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Eliason, Stephen L. "Reconstructing Dead Nonhuman Animals: Motivations for Becoming a Taxidermist." Society & Animals 20, no. 1 (2012): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853012x614332.

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Abstract Displays of dead nonhuman animals are a common sight on the walls of many American homes and commercial establishments. Taxidermists are the individuals who preserve and attempt to re-create dead animals, birds, and fish so they can be displayed. Little is known about those employed in the profession, including characteristics of individuals who enter this line of work. Using a qualitative approach to data collection, this exploratory research examined motivations for becoming a taxidermist in Montana. Findings suggest that Montana taxidermists entered the profession for one of five m

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Larochelle, Jacques. "Comments on a Negative Appraisal of Taxidermic Mounts as Tools for Studies of Ecological Energetics." Physiological Zoology 71, no. 5 (1998): 596–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/515951.

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Sullivan, Steven M., Wesley Skidmore, and George Dante. "Authenticity in an Uncertain World: Ensuring Accuracy in both the Explicit and Implicit Messages of Exhibits." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 2 (June 13, 2018): e25785. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.25785.

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Do you know what a kiwi looks like - all the way down to the orientation of the nostrils? While small details won’t make or break the aesthetics of an exhibit, they can have important impacts on visitor learning and future behavior. Museums are a traditional bastion of authenticity. From the objects we exhibit to the information we share, audiences know that museums are a trustworthy source of real objects and vetted facts. We strive to ensure accurate label copy, but the traditional constraints of preservation and exhibition of natural history specimens can still convey confusing or implicitl

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Sullivan, Steven M., Wesley Skidmore, and George Dante. "Authenticity in an Uncertain World: Ensuring Accuracy in both the Explicit and Implicit Messages of Exhibits." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 2 (June 13, 2018): e25785. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.25785.

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Do you know what a kiwi looks like - all the way down to the orientation of the nostrils? While small details won't make or break the aesthetics of an exhibit, they can have important impacts on visitor learning and future behavior. Museums are a traditional bastion of authenticity. From the objects we exhibit to the information we share, audiences know that museums are a trustworthy source of real objects and vetted facts. We strive to ensure accurate label copy, but the traditional constraints of preservation and exhibition of natural history specimens can still convey confusing or implicitl

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Lindholm, Anna, and Robert Thomas. "BETWEEN POPULATIONS OF REED WARBLERS IN DEFENCES AGAINST BROOD PARASITISM." Behaviour 137, no. 1 (2000): 25–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853900501854.

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AbstractTwo potential defences against brood parasitism by the cuckoo Cuculus canorus were compared experimentally between British populations of reed warblers Acrocephalus scirpaceus that are parasitised at different rates. (1) Rates of rejection of model cuckoo eggs were lower at two unparasitised populations which did not have resident cuckoos, than at a rarely parasitised population which had cuckoos nearby, and at a regularly parasitised population. (2) Reed warblers from an unparasitised population showed a slightly weaker response to taxidermic mounts of cuckoos and, unlike a parasitise

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Fedotova, Anastasia, and Ekaterina Zharova. "Of Bison and Taxidermy: Biography of a Practical Zoologist Augustus Szusterus." Antropologicheskij forum 20, no. 62 (2024): 312–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.31250/1815-8870-2024-20-62-312-346.

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The article is devoted to the biography of Augustus Szusterus (circa 1805 — not earlier than 1871), the keeper of the zoological cabinet at the Vilna Medical and SurgicalAcademy (1835–1841), and then the University of St Vladimir in Kiеv (1842–1870). By using his life as a case-study, we analyse the career of an “invisible technician” in Russian higher education of the 19th century. Szusterus was one of the best taxidermists who worked for the academic community in the Russian Empire in the second third of the 19th century. He was a student of Ludwig Bojanus, a preeminent comparative anatomist

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Kabat, Alan R. "Richard Frederick Deckert (1878–1971), Florida naturalist and natural history artist." Archives of Natural History 39, no. 2 (2012): 321–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2012.0098.

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Richard Deckert (born in Germany in 1878, immigrated to New York in 1887, died in Florida in 1971) was a polymath with great enthusiasm and wide ranging interests in natural history. His collections and publications did much to document the reptiles, amphibians, and land snails of Florida. His contributions to natural history illustration were equally important, as his carefully detailed line drawings and water colour paintings delineated the intricate details of snails, fishes, amphibians, and reptiles (particularly snakes and turtles), as well as fossil vertebrates, and were used in a wide r

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Fortin, Daniel, and Gilles Gauthier. "The effect of postural adjustment on the thermal environment of greater snow goose goslings." Canadian Journal of Zoology 78, no. 5 (2000): 817–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z00-002.

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This study examines how changing from a standing to a sitting posture influences the thermal environment of greater snow goose goslings (Chen caerulescens atlantica). This was investigated by estimating the standard operative temperature of four heated taxidermic mounts (3, 10, 20, and 30 d old) exposed to various wind velocities (0-5 m/s) and ground (16-23°C) and air (0-15°C) temperatures, in three orientations (head, flank, or tail toward the wind) and two postures (sitting and standing). Changes in posture influenced both conductive and convective heat exchanges. At low wind speeds, sitting

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Gill, Sharon A., and Spencer G. Sealy. "Nest Defence By Yellow Warblers: Recognition of a Brood Parasite and an Avian Nest Predator." Behaviour 133, no. 3-4 (1996): 263–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853996x00143.

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AbstractYellow warblers (Dendroica petechia) were exposed to taxidermic mounts of a brood parasite (brown-headed cowbird, Molothrus ater), avian nest predator (common grackle, Quiscalus quiscula) and control (fox sparrow, Passerella iliaca) during their laying and nestling stages to determine whether nest owners distinguish between the threats of brood parasitism and predation. Yellow warblers responded more intensely to the cowbird at the laying stage, performing two unique behaviours (seet calling and nest-protection behaviour) in response to this threat. By contrast, yellow warbler response

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Boiten, Gust, Robin van Iersel, Rianne Pinxten, and Marcel Eens. "Females Are More Aggressive Than Males towards Same- and Opposite-Sex Intruders in the Blue Tit (Cyanistes caeruleus)." Animals 13, no. 4 (2023): 585. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani13040585.

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During the breeding season, aggression is expressed to gain access to resources such as territories and mates and protect offspring. Female aggressiveness has received much less attention than male aggressiveness, and few studies have examined female and male aggressiveness towards intruders of both sexes in the same species. We compared female and male aggressiveness towards same- and opposite-sex intruders during the egg-laying period in blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) using simulated territorial intrusions. For each sex, we examined the occurrence of different behavioural responses during a

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O’Connell, Matthew, Dirk Spennemann, Jennifer Bond, R. Keller Kopf, Nicole McCasker, and Paul Humphries. "Fishing on Facebook: Using Social Media and Citizen Science to Crowd-Source Trophy Murray Cod." Citizen Science: Theory and Practice 10, no. 1 (2025): 5. https://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.718.

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Shifting baselines, whereby people’s perceptions of what was the “natural” state of the environment changes with each generation, hinders conservation, restoration, and management. Formal and informal historical animal records can be used to inform past biological, ecological, and environmental patterns and processes. Trophy specimens are cultural and social objects but also are examples of informal historical records that may supply biological tissue and supplement formal natural history collections. The use of social media to gather information from citizen scientists has great potential for

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Groenewoud, Frank, Sjouke A. Kingma, Kat Bebbington, David S. Richardson, and Jan Komdeur. "Experimentally induced antipredator responses are mediated by social and environmental factors." Behavioral Ecology 30, no. 4 (2019): 986–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arz039.

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AbstractNest predation is a common cause of reproductive failure for many bird species, and various antipredator defense behaviors have evolved to reduce the risk of nest predation. However, trade-offs between current reproductive duties and future reproduction often limit the parent’s ability to respond to nest predation risk. Individual responses to experimentally increased nest predation risk can give insights into these trade-offs. Here, we investigate whether social and ecological factors affect individual responses to predation risk by experimentally manipulating the risk of nest predati

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Sealy, Spencer G., and Diane L. Neudorf. "Reactions of Four Passerine Species To Threats of Predation and Cowbird Parasitism: Enemy Recognition or Generalized Responses?" Behaviour 123, no. 1-2 (1992): 84–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853992x00138.

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AbstractFour host species of the parasitic brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater) were exposed to taxidermic mounts of a female cowbird, fox sparrow (Passerella iliaca), and common grackle (Quiscalus quiscula) at their nests during their egg-laying or nestling stage. Red-winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus), a species that accepts cowbird eggs laid in their nests, responded more aggressively to cowbird models early in their nesting cycle, indicating that they recognized the unique threat the cowbird posed. Gray catbirds (Dumetella carolinensis), northern orioles (Icterus galbula), and cedar

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Allen, Maximilian L., Nathan M. Roberts, and Timothy R. Van Deelen. "Hunter selection for larger and older male bobcats affects annual harvest demography." Royal Society Open Science 5, no. 10 (2018): 180668. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.180668.

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Wildlife researchers often rely on demographic data collected from harvested animals to estimate population dynamics. But demographic data from harvested animals may be non-representative if hunters/trappers have the ability and motivation to preferentially select for certain physical traits. Hunter preference is well demonstrated for ungulates, but less so for other wildlife species such as furbearers. We used data from bobcats harvested in Wisconsin (1983–2014) to determine if harvest method and demographics (mass, male:female sex ratio and age) have changed over time, and if bobcat hunters/

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Kalb, Nadine, Fabian Anger, and Christoph Randler. "Great tits encode contextual information in their food and mobbing calls." Royal Society Open Science 6, no. 11 (2019): 191210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191210.

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The calling behaviour of Paridae species (i.e. titmice, tits and chickadees) in a predator-related context is well-studied. Parid species are known to alter call types, note composition or call duration according to predation risk. However, how these species encode information about a non-threatening context, such as food sources, has been subject to only few studies. Studies in Carolina chickadees ( Poecile carolinensis ) have shown that this species alters the ratio of C and D notes to encode information about the presence of food and/or the flight behaviour of the signaller. This suggests t

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Carter, Julian. "Workshop: Care & Conservation of Zoological Collections." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 2 (July 25, 2018): e28621. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.28621.

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Zoological collections house a huge range of biological diversity preserved in a wide variety of ways ranging from microscope mounts to whole animals preserved in fluids. The result is that these collections consist of a wide range of differing materials which can make the long term care and conservation of such collections a considerable challenge. This workshop is designed for museum professionals with the aim of giving an introductory overview on museum conservation approaches towards the care of zoological collections. This will be achieved through identifying the key risks and looking at

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Elliot, Richard D. "The Effects of Predation Risk and Group Size On the Anti-Predator Responses of Nesting Lapwings Vanellusvanellus." Behaviour 92, no. 1-2 (1985): 168–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853985x00433.

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The anti-predator responses of nesting lapwings were studied near Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, using taxidermy mounts of a carrion crow, great black-backed gull, and red fox pulled towards their nests. Lapwings appeared to respond to these dummies and to a control woodpigeon as they would to the live animals. Responses to nest predators that are relatively harmless to adult lapwings, represented by the crow, included initial investigative flights. These quickly changed to diving attacks, over 60% of which actually struck the dummy predator. In response to the fox, which is a threat to bo

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Beccardi, Matteo, Mireia Plaza, Juan Moreno, and Alejandro Cantarero. "Male aggressiveness during the female fertile phase in relation to extra-pair paternity, plumage ornaments and female traits." Journal of Ornithology, November 16, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10336-022-02033-9.

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AbstractIn many bird species, physical aggression between males become more frequent during the female’s fertile period, as female encounters with extra-pair males are more frequent and can entail paternity losses. Male aggressiveness during this stage has been proposed as crucial for ensuring male reproductive success. Thus, plumage ornaments could represent honest signals of individual quality that could reflect the aggressiveness of paired territorial males. Furthermore, male aggressiveness could be related to mate quality or defensive capacity. We quantified extra-pair paternity in the bro

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O’Connell, Matthew, Paul Humphries, R. Keller Kopf, Jennifer Bond, Dirk H. R. Spennemann, and Nicole McCasker. "Trophy fish heads are a source of body size information for historical and contemporary ecology." Hydrobiologia, January 15, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-024-05782-1.

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Abstract This study investigated whether trophy taxidermy specimens of Australia’s largest freshwater fish, Murray cod (Maccullochella peelii), can provide accurate records of historical body size. Taxidermy mounts came mostly from informal collections in hotels from across the Murray–Darling Basin, south-eastern Australia, comprising 20% whole-body and 80% head forms. We compared the morphology of mounts to live Murray cod, collected from the mid–Murray River in 2018, and identified the head morphometrics that most accurately described length and weight of whole mounts and live fish. Eight mo

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FORTIN, D. "The use heated taxidermic mounts in studies of ecological energetics." Mammalia 65, no. 2 (2001). http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/mamm.2001.65.2.195.

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Kuprewicz, Erin. "Exploring Size Bias of Natural History Museum Specimens: Comparing Historic Taxidermy Mammals to Contemporary Populations." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 8 (October 4, 2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/biss.8.138510.

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Specimen sex biases in museum collections of vertebrates have been well-documented (Cooper et al. 2019). This known sex bias equates to body size bias for mammal groups that exhibit high rates of sexual-size dimorphism, such as members of the orders Artiodactyla (e.g., pigs, antelopes, camels, llamas, giraffes), Perissodactyla (horses, rhinoceroses, tapirs), and Carnivora (cat- and dog-like mammals) (Weckerly 1998). Past work on specimen sex bias has focused on research-grade specimens with body size data taken prior to skinning (Meineke and Daru 2021). However little attention has been paid t

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Burke, Verity. "Facing Extinction." Humanimalia 13, no. 1 (2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.10933.

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When we consider the preservation of the animal body in natural history displays, we primarily think of techniques such as taxidermy or the mounting of a skeletal anatomy. Animal death masks are, by contrast, almost completely unstudied. Although casting has been predominantly understood as a technique for preserving the human face, non-humans have also had their faces captured by the casting of a death mask, and the resultant plaster used for a variety of purposes, from the creation of an accurate taxidermy mount, to featuring as a display object in its own right. ‘Animal Death Masks’ examine

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Dixon-MacCallum, Graham P., Johnathan L. Rich, Natasha Lloyd, Daniel T. Blumstein, and Axel Moehrenschlager. "Loss of Predator Discrimination by Critically Endangered Vancouver Island Marmots Within Five Generations of Breeding for Release." Frontiers in Conservation Science 2 (December 3, 2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcosc.2021.718562.

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Conservation translocations, which involve the intentional movement and release of organisms for conservation benefit, are increasingly required to recover species of conservation concern. In order to maximize post-release survival, and to accomplish conservation translocation objectives, animals must exhibit behaviors that facilitate survival in the wild. The Vancouver Island marmot (Marmota vancouverensis) is a critically endangered endemic in Canada which has been captive-bred for 24 years for reintroductions and reinforcements that have increased the wild population from ~30 to more than 2

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Tkaczyk, Simon P., D. P. Chivers, and Karen Wiebe. "Nest defense by Mountain Bluebirds (Sialia currucoides) is related to their sex and brood characteristics but not morphological attributes." Canadian Journal of Zoology, August 18, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2022-0064.

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Within species, bird parents defend their nests with different levels of intensity. Previous studies have examined several hypotheses for this variation by looking at factors such as morphological characteristics of the parents and the characteristics of the brood, but few have controlled for multiple factors simultaneously. Here we examined a broad range of factors that may influence the nest defense behaviour of Mountain Bluebirds (Sialia currucoides Bechstein, 1798), including the adult’s morphology (sex, age, plumage colour, body size, and body condition) and characteristics of their brood

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