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Cover: Characterised by colourful claws and close-set eyestalks, a female fiddler crab (Uca vomeris) is feeding outside her burrow. These crabs live on intertidal mudflats, where they are vulnerable to predation. Despite carrying their eyes on high 'observation towers' that provide a 360 deg panoramic view, poor resolution and limited depth perception make it difficult to distinguish friends from foes at a safe distance. Fiddler crabs learn, though, to ignore approaching objects they have experienced to be harmless. This process, called habituation, is shown by Raderschall and colleagues (pp. 4209−4216) to be accomplished by associative learning, which is in contrast to the traditional notion of habituation. Photo credit: J. M. Hemmi. - PDF Icon PDF LinkTable of contents
The Integrative Biology of the Heart
We are pleased to welcome submissions to be considered for our upcoming special issue: The Integrative Biology of the Heart, guest edited by William Joyce and Holly Shiels. This issue will consider the biology of the heart at all levels of organisation, across animal groups and scientific fields.
JEB@100: an interview with Monitoring Editor John Terblanche
John Terblanche reveals how he narrowly avoided becoming a sports scientist and why he thinks phenotypic plasticity is the big question currently facing comparative physiologists. Find out more about the series on our Interviews page.
Vision 2024: Building Bridges in Visual Ecology
Early-career researchers can apply for funded places at our Vision 2024: Building Bridges in Visual Ecology. The event is organised by Eleanor Caves, Sonke Johnsen and Lorain Schweikert and being held at Buxted park 10-13 June 2023. Deadline 1 December 2023.
Reconciling the variability in the biological response of marine invertebrates to climate change
Drawing on work in reef-building corals, Zoe Dellaert and Hollie Putnam provide historical context to some of the long-standing challenges in global change biology that constrain our capacity for eco-evolutionary forecasting, as well as considering unresolved questions and future research approaches. Read the full Centenary Review Article here.
Sipping takes no effort for hovering hawkmoths
Hovering takes the most effort so how much energy does sipping require when hawkmoths hover? Next to nothing, apparently. Alexandre Palaoro & colleagues have discovered that the insects’ proboscises are incredibly wettable, drawing nectar along the length with no effort, giving them a free drink on the wing.
