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Cover: Northern gannet (Morus bassanus) from Rouzic Island, France. During a trip at sea, northern gannets alternate between periods of foraging with active food searching and periods of travelling. Amélineau and colleagues (pp. 876−885) validated a long-lasting optimal foraging theory, predicting that a tortuous trajectory is more costly than a linear one due to additional mechanical costs. Northern gannets had higher energy expenditure per minute during tortuous foraging flight than during more linear travelling flight. Wind speed and direction also influenced energy expenditure, yet birds did not take full advantage of wind conditions during foraging trips, due to prey distribution and wind predictability. Photo credit: D. Grémillet. - PDF Icon PDF LinkTable of contents
New funding schemes for junior faculty staff
In celebration of our 100th anniversary, JEB has launched two new grants to support junior faculty staff working in animal comparative physiology and biomechanics who are within five years of setting up their first lab/research group. Check out our ECR Visiting Fellowships and Research Partnership Kickstart Travel Grants.
JEB@100: an interview with Monitoring Editor Stuart Egginton
Stuart Egginton reveals how he overcame the challenges of being a comparative physiologist in a medical school and how he would tell his younger self to trust his instincts when pursuing new ideas.
Travelling Fellowships from JEB
Our Travelling Fellowships offer up to £3,000 to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers wishing to make collaborative visits to other laboratories. Next deadline to apply is 27 October 2023
Feedforward and feedback control in the neuromechanics of vertebrate locomotion
Auke J. Ijspeert and Monica A. Daley provide an overview of key knowledge on feedback and feedforward control gained from comparative vertebrate experiments obtained from neuromechanical simulations and robotic approaches. Read the full Centenary Review Article here.
Light fine-tunes electric fish pulses to keep them in the shade
Weakly electric fish perceive their surroundings through electric chirrups and now Ana Camargo & colleagues have revealed that light fine-tunes the fish's electric pulses to ensure that they remain scheduled beneath the mats of vegetation they use for shelter, avoiding penetrating beams of light that could give them away.
