216 Sexual display complexity varies non-linearly with age and predicts breeding status in greater flamingos.
http://www.nature.com/articles/srep36242
215 Radiocarbon dating of seized ivory confirms rapid decline in African elephant populations and provides insight into illegal trade.
http://www.pnas.org/content/113/47/13330
214 Annual 10-Month Aerial Life Phase in the Common Swift Apus apus.
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(16)31063-6
213 Mood and personality interact to determine cognitive biases in pigs.
http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/12/11/20160402
212 How the sandfish lizard, Scincus scincus, prevents sand particles from entering its lungs.
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/219/22/3597.abstract
211 The Odour of Sex: Sex-Related Differences in Volatile Compound Composition among Barn Swallow Eggs Carrying Embryos of Either Sex.
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0165055
210 Marine plastic debris emits a keystone infochemical for olfactory foraging seabirds.
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/11/e1600395
209 Wild monkeys flake stone tools.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v539/n7627/full/nature20112.html
208 How seabirds plunge-dive without injuries.
http://www.pnas.org/content/113/43/12006
207 Ceropegia sandersonii Mimics Attacked Honeybees to Attract Kleptoparasitic Flies for Pollination.
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(16)30879-X
206 Orthographic processing in pigeons (Columba livia).
http://www.pnas.org/content/113/40/11272.abstract
205 Great apes anticipate that other individuals will act according to false beliefs.
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6308/110
204 Associative Mechanisms Allow for Social Learning and Cultural Transmission of String Pulling in an Insect.
http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002564
203 Tropical bat as mammalian model for skin carotenoid metabolism.
http://www.pnas.org/content/113/39/10932
202 Bats perceptually weight prey cues across sensory systems when hunting in noise.
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6305/1277
201 Metagenomic sequencing of dung beetle intestinal contents directly detects and identifies mammalian fauna.
http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/09/12/074849.full.pdf+html
200 Discovery of species-wide tool use in the Hawaiian crow.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v537/n7620/full/nature19103.html
199 Captivity humanizes the primate microbiome.
http://www.pnas.org/content/113/37/10376
198 Experience drives innovation of new migration patterns of whooping cranes in response to global change.
http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12793
197 Supersuppression: Reservoir Competency and Timing of Mosquito Host Shifts Combine to Reduce Spillover of West Nile Virus.
http://www.ajtmh.org/content/early/2016/08/03/ajtmh.15-0809.abstract
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