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Echolocating toothed whales can detect and react to sudden prey movements during close approaches with speeds similar to ultra-fast tracking responses in human vision.

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.

Resident members of natural bacterial communities limit the growth of non-resident bacteria primarily by increasing overall community growth.

The fungus Aspergillus nidulans produces secondary metabolites during sexual development to protect itself from predators.

Xanthones produced by the filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans protect its sexual structures from predation by arthropods.

An insect digestive enzyme metabolizes a plant defense compound and thereby modulates herbivore performance and host plant choice, which in turn may alter plant defense evolution in nature.

A new tracking method revealed the social-like interactions in the Mexican blind cavefish, which was thought to be evolutionarily lost, and also demonstrated its mammal-like antagonistic association between the social-like interaction and repetitive behavior.

A trait-based model of dryland vegetation uncovers the roles of spatial self-organization in maintaining biodiversity in a changing climate and offers novel ways of managing ecosystems at risk.

The role host and vector species play in pathogen transmission cycles is best quantified by integrating species' physiological and ecological competence.