Across five experiments, Eurasian jays’ caching behaviour provides little evidence of the ability to integrate cues about a potential pilferer’s visual perspective and desire and, challenging previous findings, to respond to either of the two social cues independently.

Eurasian jays fail to take into account the point of view and desire of other jays when hiding food they can eat later.

Gene flow analysis reveals that the genomes of most sub-Saharan populations are the result of recent historical admixture events.

During hibernation, animals remodel the structure of their relaxed muscle via a protein called myosin and this enables vast temperature changes.

Swine populations worldwide are sporadically infected by influenza viruses from humans and birds leading to geographically heterogeneous swine influenza virus populations that pose epizootic and pandemic threats.

A new method for inferring the spatiotemporal dynamics governing the spread of an advantageous mutation using ancient DNA.

A systematic experimental comparison of prosocial behavior in eight corvid species reveals sex-specific effects of cooperative breeding and colonial nesting, thereby adding important new insights regarding the evolution of prosociality.

The first comprehensive reconstruction of the evolutionary history of freshwater animals, on example of family Nemacheilidae, across Eurasia with the identification of the main tectonic, geological, and climatic factors influencing it has been described.

Spatial segregation is identified as the primary mechanism facilitating the coexistence of apex and mesocarnivores in the Qilian Mountain National Park, China.

Genome sequence data from 58 Mexican swine influenza A viruses resolves the spatial origin of the virus that originated the influenza pandemic of 2009.