Territoriality

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Brain gene regulation by territorial singing behavior in freely ranging songbirds. 
  • Contests with deadly weapons: telson sparring in mantis shrimp (Stomatopoda). 
  • Context-dependent scaling of kinematics and energetics during contests and feeding in mantis shrimp. 
  • Correlates of individual participation in boundary patrols by male chimpanzees. 
  • Development of cooperative territoriality in juvenile lions. 
  • Dragonflies use underdamped pursuit to chase conspecifics. 
  • Effects of the distribution of female primates on the number of males. 
  • Egalitarianism in female African lions. 
  • Mutual assessment during ritualized fighting in mantis shrimp (Stomatopoda). 
  • Neural correlates of categorical perception in learned vocal communication. 
  • Sexual fidelity trade-offs promote regulatory variation in the prairie vole brain. 
  • Social facilitation, affiliation, and dominance in the social life of spotted hyenas. 
  • Social structure among vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops). 
  • Song function and the evolution of female preferences: why birds sing, why brains matter. 
  • The timing and causes of a unique chimpanzee community fission preceding Gombe's "Four-Year War". 
  • Warlike chimpanzees and peacemaking bonobos. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Nowicki, Stephen, Professor of Biology, Duke Science & Society