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Tie them up tight: wrapping by Philoponella vicinaspiders breaks, compresses and sometimes kills their prey
(2006)
We show that uloborid spiders, which lack the poison glands typical of nearly all other spiders, employ thousands of wrapping movements with their hind legs and up to hundreds of meters of silk line to make a shroud that ...
Vestiges of an orb-weaving ancestor? The “biogenetic law” and ontogenetic changes in the webs and building behavior of the black widow spider Latrodectus geometricus (Araneae Theridiidae)
(2008)
Young juveniles of L. geometricus fit the strong trend for “ontogeny to repeat phylogeny” previously documented in other web-building spiders; younger spiders were less likely to build the derived silk retreats that occur ...
Song plasticity over time and vocal learning in clay-colored thrushes
(2015)
Songbirds have been traditionally classified into close-ended or open-ended learning species according to the length of the sensitive period during which birds are able to memorize new vocalizations. Closed-ended learners ...
Sexual size dimorphism and acoustical features of the pre-advertisement and advertisement calls of Rhinophrynus dorsalis Duméril & Bibron, 1841 (Anura: Rhinophrynidae)
(2015)
Las interacciones entre selección natural, selección sexual, y los requerimientos ecológicos específicos de las especies son responsables de la evolución de comportamientos complejos de cortejo y estrategias reproductivas. ...
Conceptual and statistical problems with the use of the Shannon-Weiner entropy index in bioacoustic analyses
(2018-04-03)
Information theory and its indices were developed for human communication to predict the amount of information transferred in a message. One such index, the Shannon-Weiner index (SWI), has often been used to analyse ...
Courtship behavior and copulation in Tengella radiata (Araneae, Tengellidae)
(2008)
The first description of the courtship behavior and copulation is provided for Tengella radiata (Kulczynski 1909). The male courts the female by rocking his body and vibrating his abdomen. These behaviors seem to induce ...
The evolution of prey‐wrapping behaviour in spiders
(2007)
We traced the evolution of silk use by spiders in attacks on prey by combining previous publications with new observations of 31 species in 16 families. Two new prey‐wrapping techniques are described. One, in which the ...
Construction and function of the web of Tidarren sisyphoides (Araneae: Theridiidae)
(2009)
In this paper, we describe the construction and function of the double sheet and tangle web of Tidarren sisyphoides (Walckenaer 1842). Web construction includes several stages: construction of the scaffolding that serves ...
Feeding by Philoponella vicina (Araneae, Uloboridae) and how uloborid spiders lost their venom glands
(2006)
Feeding by uloborid spiders is unusual in several respects: cheliceral venom glands are absent; prey wrapping is extensive (up to several hundred metres of silk line) and severely compresses the prey; the spider’s mouthparts ...
Historia natural y repertorio acústico del Sancuinclas (Pezopetes capitalis), ave endémica de Costa Rica y el oeste de Panamá
NATURAL HISTORY AND ACOUSTIC REPERTOIRE OF THELARGE-FOOTED FINCH (PEZOPETES CAPITALIS), AN ENDEMIC, HIGHLAND BIRD OF COSTA RICA AND WESTERN PANAMA
(2014)
El Sancuinclas es una especie endémica y un habi- tante común del sotobosque de bosques montanos y páramo en las tierras altas de Costa Rica y el oeste de Panamá. A pesar de ser una especie común, existía poca información ...