Kristen S. Hobbs

New AOS editorial assistance program for non-native English speakers - American Ornithological Society The American Ornithological Society (AOS) journals, Ornithology and Ornithological Applications, are excited to announce a new Peer Editing Program that provides English-language editing assistance fo...

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Hola hola,
Hace un ~año colegas y yo abrimos una comunidad de WhatsApp para compartir recursos y entusiasmo por el comportamiento animal. El objetivo es aumentar la comunicación entre los investigadores de todo el continente americano, especialmente de América Latina. ¡Únase a nosotros!

Screenshot of the first page of the PDF of the Commentary, How can we best measure the energetic trade-offs faced by animals?, by Neil Metcalfe. The publishing information states: © 2025. Published by The Company of Biologists | Journal of Experimental Biology (2025) 228, jeb250303. doi:10.1242/jeb.250303. The first sentence of the Abstract reads: 'Energy is commonly presumed to be a limiting resource for most animals, forcing them to trade off the benefits of allocating energy to competing activities or processes'.

In his Commentary, Neil Metcalfe examines why it can be hard to detect trade-offs between two activities or processes competing for energy, despite energy supposedly being a limiting resource

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Ironically swallowed whole while missing the point - in the same vein of some of the great Nirvana songs!

Mitochondrial origins of the pressure to sleep - Nature Research on Drosophila neurons shows links between the need to sleep and aerobic metabolism, indicating that the pressure to sleep may have a mitochondrial origin.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Graphic abstract for easy visualization of the insect abundance and diversity found in the stomach of a Chordeiles nacunda. Pictured: stomach contents before preservation in ethanol 70%. A dashed pink circle highlights one of the 40 adult giant water bugs (Belostoma sp., Belostomatidae). Individuals of a giant water bug (Belostomatidae), a grasshopper (acrididae), and one Coleoptera accessioned in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo entomological collection are also pictured (lower right).

Latest articles at the WJO: Insect richness in the stomach of a Nacunda Nighthawk. #ornithology www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A fossilized ventral ganglion reveals a chaetognath affinity for Cambrian nectocaridids Fossil material from Sirius Passet suggests that the Cambrian nectocaridids were relatives of living arrow worms.

This is fun: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

omg. Logan mentioned this. staggering

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