• Body size and canine size do not confer a competitive advantage in male rhesus macaques 

  Kimock, CM; Brent, LJN; Dubuc, C; et al. (Elsevier, 2021)

  Male armaments are hypothesized to have evolved under intra-sexual selection. Such traits may function as signals, weapons, or both, in male-male mating competition. Primate sexually dimorphic canine teeth and body size ...

• Location as a feature in pigeons’ recognition of visual objects 

  Lea, SEG; De Filippo, G; Meier, C (American Psychological Association, 2021)

  A number of different phenomena in pigeon visual cognition suggest that pigeons do not immediately recognize two identical objects in different locations as being “the same”. To examine this question directly, pigeons ...

• Dietary behaviour as a form of collective action: A social identity model of vegan activism 

  Judge, M; Fernando, JW; Begeny, CT (Elsevier, 4 October 2021)

  Adopting plant-based, or vegan, diets can have a number of benefits, including mitigating climate change, promoting animal welfare, or improving public health. In the current research, we use social psychological theory ...

• Reflecting on the use of Google Docs for online interviews: Innovation in qualitative data collection 

  Opara, V; Spangsdorf, S; Ryan, MK (SAGE Publications, 19 September 2021)

  Google Docs is a widely used online word processing software. Despite its broad popularity in business and education, Google Docs is under-utilised as a tool to facilitate qualitative interviews within research. In this ...

• Pollination: influencing bee behaviour with caffeine 

  Hempel De Ibarra, N; Rands, SA (Elsevier, 27 September 2021)

  Plant secondary metabolites found in floral nectar can affect the behaviour of pollinating insects, but how these changes benefit plants directly is little understood. An experimental study with bumblebees shows that ...

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