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Behavioural indicators of post-release survival in a deep-sea skate. 深海鳐放生后生存的行为指标。

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Proceedings. Biological sciences Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-13 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2025.1345

Colette Appert, Barrett Wolfe, Sean Tracey, Cara Masere, Simon J Wotherspoon, Jaimie Cleeland

{"title":"Behavioural indicators of post-release survival in a deep-sea skate.","authors":"Colette Appert, Barrett Wolfe, Sean Tracey, Cara Masere, Simon J Wotherspoon, Jaimie Cleeland","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2025.1345","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rspb.2025.1345","url":null,"abstract":"Deep-sea skates are among the most frequently bycaught species in Southern Ocean demersal fisheries. They face heightened susceptibility to fishing pressure due to their life-history characteristics. In longline fisheries targeting Patagonian toothfish, skates caught in good condition are released; however, their post-release survival remains uncertain but is expected to be low, given the extreme capture depths (>1000 m). Post-release survival rates are essential to determine an acceptable fishery mortality for sustainable management. During a 2023 Kerguelen Plateau fishing voyage, 24 satellite tags were deployed on Bathyraja irrasa >1056 mm in total length caught at 1200-1600 m depth, for 30 day investigations into post-release survival. Vertical migrations within depth time series indicated that at least six skates survived. Hidden Markov models applied to tag mobility data and summary values of other activity metrics, in the context of topography and currents, were used to determine the fate of skates with no detectable vertical movements, revealing a 26% (95% CI 13-46%) survival rate. The probability of survival decreased with capture depth. Surviving skates underwent extensive non-diel vertical movements. The survival rate is lower than that of other deep-sea skate species with estimated survival rates; which prompts a review of skate bycatch management strategies in deep-set demersal fisheries with high release rates.","PeriodicalId":520757,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. Biological sciences","volume":"292 2052","pages":"20251345"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12343123/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144839854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Size-dependent variation in thermal tolerance among tropical bee species. 热带蜜蜂物种间热耐受性的大小依赖性变异。

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Proceedings. Biological sciences Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-06 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2025.1733

Brenda Ratoni, Roger Guevara, Carlos Pinilla Cruz, Daniel Gonzalez Tokman, Ricardo Ayala, Wesley Dáttilo

{"title":"Size-dependent variation in thermal tolerance among tropical bee species.","authors":"Brenda Ratoni, Roger Guevara, Carlos Pinilla Cruz, Daniel Gonzalez Tokman, Ricardo Ayala, Wesley Dáttilo","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2025.1733","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rspb.2025.1733","url":null,"abstract":"Thermal tolerance is a key determinant of an organism's ability to survive and adapt to environmental changes, particularly in ectothermic insects, which rely on ambient temperature for physiological regulation. While recent research has advanced our understanding of thermal tolerance in insects, particularly in temperate environments, the roles of sociality and morphological traits in shaping this tolerance remain poorly understood in tropical bee species. In this sense, bees exhibit diverse social structures and morphological variations, offering a valuable opportunity to explore how these factors affect thermal tolerance. Here, we examined whether sociality and body size explain variations in thermal tolerance across 43 bee species (five social species and 38 solitary species) inhabiting a coastal environment in Mexico. Our findings revealed that smaller bees tend to have broader thermal tolerance ranges, characterized by the differences between critical thermal maximum (CTmax) and critical thermal minimum (CTmin). Although none of the thermal tolerance metrics differed between social and solitary species, our results highlight size-dependent thermal tolerance differences among bee species, suggesting that small-bodied species are more resilient to environmental fluctuations. Integrating these insights could help predict how variation in thermal tolerance among bees may affect their pollination services under future climate change scenarios.","PeriodicalId":520757,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. Biological sciences","volume":"292 2052","pages":"20251733"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12324890/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144791747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Sexually dimorphic and clock gene-specific effects of artificial light at night on Drosophila behavioural rhythms. 夜间人造光对果蝇行为节律的两性二态和时钟基因特异性影响。

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Proceedings. Biological sciences Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-27 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2025.1170

Ausra Pranevicius, Grace Biondi, Aishwarya Ramakrishnan Iyer, Araceli Seiffe, Amaicha Mara Depino, Maria de la Paz Fernandez

{"title":"Sexually dimorphic and clock gene-specific effects of artificial light at night on Drosophila behavioural rhythms.","authors":"Ausra Pranevicius, Grace Biondi, Aishwarya Ramakrishnan Iyer, Araceli Seiffe, Amaicha Mara Depino, Maria de la Paz Fernandez","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2025.1170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.1170","url":null,"abstract":"Light pollution is a major anthropogenic environmental change and a significant threat to ecosystems. Among other detrimental effects on physiology, artificial light at night (ALAN) disrupts circadian rhythms in a wide range of species. However, the underlying neuronal and genetic mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here, we show in Drosophila that the loss of the circadian clock gene period exacerbates the ALAN-induced shift towards nocturnal behaviour, with a more pronounced effect on males. In contrast, the loss of cycle has no such effect on males or females; cyc null mutants are nocturnal under standard light‒dark cycles, and their activity and sleep profiles are minimally or not affected by ALAN exposure. CRISPR-Cas9 knockout of period in most clock neurons resembles the null mutant phenotype. Our results show that mutations in components of the positive and negative limbs of the circadian clock result in distinct responses to nocturnal light and highlight the role of genetic factors in modulating behavioural plasticity in response to environmental perturbations.","PeriodicalId":520757,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. Biological sciences","volume":"292 2053","pages":"20251170"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12380498/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144986924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Illuminating the mystery of thylacine extinction: a role for relaxed selection and gene loss. 阐明袋狼灭绝之谜：宽松选择和基因丢失的作用。

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Proceedings. Biological sciences Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-27 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2025.1339

Buddhabhushan Girish Salve, Nagarjun Vijay

{"title":"Illuminating the mystery of thylacine extinction: a role for relaxed selection and gene loss.","authors":"Buddhabhushan Girish Salve, Nagarjun Vijay","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2025.1339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.1339","url":null,"abstract":"Gene loss shapes lineage-specific traits but is often overlooked in species survival. In this study, we investigate the role of ancestral gene loss using the extinction icon-thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus). While studies of neutral genetic variation indicate a population decline before extinction, the impact of thylacine-specific ancestral gene losses remains unexplored. The availability of a chromosomal-level genome of the extinct thylacine offers a unique opportunity for such comparative studies. Here, we leverage palaeogenomic data to compare gene presence/absence patterns between the Tasmanian devil and thylacine. We discovered ancestral (between 13-1 Ma) loss of SAMD9L, HSD17B13, CUZD1 and VWA7 due to multiple gene-inactivating mutations, corroborated by short-read sequencing. The timing of gene loss mirrors the thylacine's shift towards hypercarnivory and increased body size. Notably, the loss of SAMD9 correlates with a carnivorous diet. Our genome-wide analysis reveals olfactory receptor loss and relaxed selection, aligning with reduced olfactory lobes in the thylacine, indicating olfaction is not its primary hunting sense. By integrating palaeogenomic data with comparative genomics, our study reveals ancestral gene losses and their impact on species survival and resilience to environmental changes. Our approach can be extended to other extinct and endangered species, helping to identify genetic factors for conservation efforts.","PeriodicalId":520757,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. Biological sciences","volume":"292 2053","pages":"20251339"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12380493/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144986968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Vocal performance in birdsong is an aggressive signal in both females and males: experimental evidence from a field study in European robins. 鸟类鸣叫时的声音表现对雌性和雄性来说都是一种侵略性的信号：来自欧洲知更鸟实地研究的实验证据。

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Proceedings. Biological sciences Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-27 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2025.1042

Julie Bosca, Guy Jacquin, Chloris Maury, Antje Bakker, Manfred Gahr, Thierry Aubin, Fanny Rybak, Laurent Nagle, Nicole Geberzahn

{"title":"Vocal performance in birdsong is an aggressive signal in both females and males: experimental evidence from a field study in European robins.","authors":"Julie Bosca, Guy Jacquin, Chloris Maury, Antje Bakker, Manfred Gahr, Thierry Aubin, Fanny Rybak, Laurent Nagle, Nicole Geberzahn","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2025.1042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.1042","url":null,"abstract":"Birdsong often serves as a territorial signal, and vocal performance (the degree of vocalizing close to vocal production or respiratory limits) can play a role in expressing a sender's aggressiveness. However, this is rarely studied in females, in which song has historically been considered non-functional. Here, we investigate male and female European robins, Erithacus rubecula, in which both sexes sing to defend their individual exclusive winter territory. We compared spontaneous song to song experimentally provoked by playbacks simulating territorial intrusions. Our study is the first to show that both sexes similarly increased vocal performance when territorially challenged, regardless of the simulated intruder's sex. This provides evidence for female song to be perceived as equally territorially challenging as male song and to similarly express aggressiveness. Additionally, females sang shorter songs than males, and in both sexes vocal performance was lower when singing longer songs, an effect that was stronger in females in one of our metrics. We propose that females might sing shorter songs to maintain a high level of vocal performance. This might be a strategy to cope with sex-specific effects of sustained singing on vocal performance.","PeriodicalId":520757,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. Biological sciences","volume":"292 2053","pages":"20251042"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12381662/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144987029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The role of parental religiosity in shaping paternal investment: evidence from Bangladesh and India. 父母的宗教信仰在塑造父亲投资中的作用：来自孟加拉国和印度的证据。

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Proceedings. Biological sciences Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-20 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2025.1352

Radim Chvaja, John H Shaver, Laure Spake, Anushe Hassan, Nurul Alam, Rajesh Kumar Rai, Rebecca Sear, Richard Sosis, Mary Katherine Shenk

{"title":"The role of parental religiosity in shaping paternal investment: evidence from Bangladesh and India.","authors":"Radim Chvaja, John H Shaver, Laure Spake, Anushe Hassan, Nurul Alam, Rajesh Kumar Rai, Rebecca Sear, Richard Sosis, Mary Katherine Shenk","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2025.1352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.1352","url":null,"abstract":"Among humans, paternal investment has been shown to enhance both fertility and offspring survival. While psychological and ecological influences on human paternal investment are relatively well documented, cultural influences remain less well understood. It has been proposed that religion can be an important socio-cultural factor shaping paternal investment. First, religions often instill pro-family values in fathers, potentially increasing their investment. Second, if religions promote pro-family values in mothers, these values may be communicated through religious behaviours, encouraging greater paternal investment. Alternatively, fathers may use maternal religiosity as a strategic cue of maternal pro-family commitment to reduce their own investment, shifting responsibility to mothers. To evaluate these hypotheses, we analyse data from 1238 children under 17 years old across 822 households in India and Bangladesh. Our findings suggest that in India, paternal religiosity is positively associated with fathers' housework assistance and emotional support to mothers. In Bangladesh, maternal religiosity is positively associated with paternal emotional support to mothers and child provisioning. In both countries, maternal religiosity positively associates with paternal investment among the most religious fathers. These findings indicate that religion plays a complex role in paternal investment, shaped by the interplay of parental religiosity and socio-ecological context.","PeriodicalId":520757,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. Biological sciences","volume":"292 2053","pages":"20251352"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12365927/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144987060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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TBH1: 12 000-year-old human skeleton and projectile point shed light on demographics and mortality in Terminal Pleistocene Southeast Asia. TBH1: 12000年前的人类骨架和抛射点揭示了东南亚更新世晚期的人口统计学和死亡率。

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Proceedings. Biological sciences Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-27 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2025.1819

Christopher M Stimpson, Alex Wilshaw, Benjamin Utting, Nguyen Thi Mai Huong, Nguyen Thi Hao, D L Vu, Tharsika Vimala, Hugh McColl, Emily M Breslin, Eppie R Jones, Ruairidh Macleod, Rachael Holmes, Shawn O'Donnell, Thorsten Kahlert, Sinh Pham Khanh, Bui Van Manh, Eske Willerslev, Ryan J Rabett

{"title":"TBH1: 12 000-year-old human skeleton and projectile point shed light on demographics and mortality in Terminal Pleistocene Southeast Asia.","authors":"Christopher M Stimpson, Alex Wilshaw, Benjamin Utting, Nguyen Thi Mai Huong, Nguyen Thi Hao, D L Vu, Tharsika Vimala, Hugh McColl, Emily M Breslin, Eppie R Jones, Ruairidh Macleod, Rachael Holmes, Shawn O'Donnell, Thorsten Kahlert, Sinh Pham Khanh, Bui Van Manh, Eske Willerslev, Ryan J Rabett","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2025.1819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.1819","url":null,"abstract":"The paucity of well-preserved and dated Pleistocene human remains impedes investigation of demographics and interactions in Late Pleistocene populations in Southeast Asia. Here, we report TBH1, an exceptionally well-preserved approximately 35-year-old male skeleton dated 12 500-12 000 years before present that provides rare insights into these debates. Superior preservation permitted detailed testing of different models of biological affinity and recovery of the earliest mitochondrial DNA evidence from Vietnam. Morphometric analyses indicated an affiliation with extant Southeast Asian Island populations, but with closest overall affiliation with regional Late Pleistocene data. Mitochondrial DNA sequencing showed unambiguous clustering within the M macrohaplogroup and a relationship with the early hunter-gatherer populations of South and Southeast Asia. While osteological analysis indicated good health during life, localized trauma to an accessory cervical rib was detected together with a small quartz flake with characteristics of a micropoint-an exotic technology within existing paradigms-in the immediate superio-posterior thoracic region. A case for a premortem timing for this injury, inflicted by the artefact, is presented. The trauma and subsequent infection are the likely cause of death and, to our knowledge, the earliest indication of interpersonal conflict from mainland Southeast Asia.","PeriodicalId":520757,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. Biological sciences","volume":"292 2053","pages":"20251819"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12380486/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144987068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Are caiman nests microhabitats? Assessing their ecological role across different levels of anthropogenic disturbance. 凯门鳄巢穴是微型栖息地吗？评估它们在不同程度人为干扰下的生态作用。

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Proceedings. Biological sciences Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-06 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2025.0108

Sofia E Pierini, Melina S Simoncini, Alejandro Larriera, Antonio E Frutos, Carlos I Piña

{"title":"Are caiman nests microhabitats? Assessing their ecological role across different levels of anthropogenic disturbance.","authors":"Sofia E Pierini, Melina S Simoncini, Alejandro Larriera, Antonio E Frutos, Carlos I Piña","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2025.0108","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rspb.2025.0108","url":null,"abstract":"Wild vertebrates face increasing threats from human activities, particularly land-use changes, which disrupt ecological interactions and ecosystem structure. Animal-built structures, such as nests, can provide resources for diverse species, especially under conditions of environmental stress. Here, we evaluate whether broad-snouted caiman nests function as microhabitats for other vertebrates across varying levels of anthropogenic disturbance in Santa Fe, Argentina. Over four nesting seasons we monitored 64 nests in forests, savannahs and floating vegetation using camera traps, examining vertebrate species richness, interactions and visitation frequency. A total of 100 species were recorded, including 74 birds, 23 mammals and 3 reptiles. Amphibians and some reptiles could not be identified, as most photographs were nocturnal or because of their small size. Species richness was highest in the driest nesting season and in forest nests, but unrelated to anthropization. Of the species observed, 62% interacted with the nests through commensalism, predation or indirectly. The Interaction Strength Index (ISI) proved to be a reliable indicator of use of caiman nests. Caiman nests are structurally and ecologically relevant elements, as they provide resources for a wide variety of species. Including such structures in conservation strategies could contribute to more comprehensive approaches that go beyond a species-level focus.","PeriodicalId":520757,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. Biological sciences","volume":"292 2052","pages":"20250108"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12324877/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144791742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Dispersed female networks: female gorillas' inter-group relationships influence dispersal decisions. 分散的雌性网络：雌性大猩猩的群体间关系影响分散决策。

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Proceedings. Biological sciences Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-06 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2025.0223

Victoire Martignac, Winnie Eckardt, Jean Pierre S Mucyo, Felix Ndagijimana, Tara S Stoinski, Veronica Vecellio, Robin E Morrison

{"title":"Dispersed female networks: female gorillas' inter-group relationships influence dispersal decisions.","authors":"Victoire Martignac, Winnie Eckardt, Jean Pierre S Mucyo, Felix Ndagijimana, Tara S Stoinski, Veronica Vecellio, Robin E Morrison","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2025.0223","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rspb.2025.0223","url":null,"abstract":"Dispersal is a fundamental aspect of many animal societies, impacting gene flow, knowledge transmission, culture and individual fitness. However, little is known about the information individuals use when dispersing. Mountain gorillas exhibit a flexible dispersal pattern with 50% of both sexes dispersing, and females often dispersing multiple times. Using two decades of data including 152 dispersals from 56 females, we examined how familiarity with individuals in other groups influenced dispersal. We found that females avoided groups containing males from their natal group, but preferred groups containing females they had previously resided with, particularly those from their natal group. This suggests that females prioritize the maintenance of female relationships in their dispersal decisions, while reducing inbreeding risks. Joining a new group can be costly and these pre-existing relationships may reduce dispersal costs. These findings highlight the capacity for wider-scale societies to both shape and be shaped by dispersal decisions, with long-term inter-group relationships representing potential sources of information and support in the dispersal process. This contributes to a better understanding of not only population dynamics in this endangered ape, but also of the foundation of our own flexible society, characterized by individuals moving between social groups throughout their lifetimes.","PeriodicalId":520757,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. Biological sciences","volume":"292 2052","pages":"20250223"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12324879/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144791745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Ground warming boosts cooperative transport in a temperate ant species. 地面变暖促进了温带蚂蚁的合作运输。

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Proceedings. Biological sciences Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-13 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2025.1344

Andrés Matías Devegili, Nataly Forero-Chavez, Andrea Marina Alma, Alejandro Gustavo Farji-Brener

{"title":"Ground warming boosts cooperative transport in a temperate ant species.","authors":"Andrés Matías Devegili, Nataly Forero-Chavez, Andrea Marina Alma, Alejandro Gustavo Farji-Brener","doi":"10.1098/rspb.2025.1344","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rspb.2025.1344","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding how global warming affects collective behaviours is crucial, as these behaviours are widespread among social animals with key ecological roles. One direct yet underexplored consequence of global warming is rising ground temperatures, which can affect animals' collective behaviour by altering coordination, physiology and communication. As eusocial ectotherms, ants provide an ideal model for studying the impacts of ground warming on collective behaviours such as cooperative transport-the coordinated movement of large objects by multiple individuals. To test cooperative transport performance under warming conditions, we experimentally increased ground temperature and offered artificial baits to Dorymyrmex tener, a temperate ant species native to the Patagonian steppe (Argentina). Warming enhanced all cooperative transport metrics: bait removal success, transport accuracy and velocity. Notably, cooperative transport metrics remained at peak levels even under extreme ground temperatures (40-50°C), deviating from typical unimodal thermal performance curves and suggesting that cooperative behaviours may be highly tolerant to warming. These improvements were primarily driven by increased velocities, indicating a physiological mechanism for the effects of warming on cooperative transport behaviour. Our findings provide new insights into how social animals may respond to climate change and highlight the need to consider collective behaviours within ecological predictions under future warming scenarios.","PeriodicalId":520757,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. Biological sciences","volume":"292 2052","pages":"20251344"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12343141/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144839875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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