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Courtship, egg sac construction, and maternal care in Kukulcania hibernalis, with information on the courtship of Misionella mendensis (Araneae, Filistatidae)
(2013)
Morphological and behavioural traits place Filistatidae basally within Araneomorphae, although some features, such as their continuing to moult after reaching adulthood, are reminiscent of mygalomorph spiders. This paper ...
Repertoire Size and Syllable Sharing in the Song of the Clay-Colored Thrush (Turdus grayi)
(2012)
Song repertoire size and extent of song sharing provide information about social interactions that occur in songbird species. We recorded the songs of eight male Clay-colored Thrushes (Turdus grayi) in San José, Costa Rica ...
Functional aspects of genital differences in Leucauge argyra and L. mariana (Araneae: Tetragnathidae)
(2013)
Morphological studies have documented the tendency for male genitalia to diverge rapidly compared to other body parts in many animal groups, including spiders. But documentation of how differences in genital structures of ...
Environmental rugosity, body size and access to food: a test of the size-grain hypothesis in tropical litter ants
(2004)
In terrestrial walking organisms, long legs help to decrease the cost of running, allowing animals to step over environmental interstices rather than walking through them. However, long legs can complicate the infiltration ...
Reproducción, uso de habitat e historia natural del Capulinero negro y amarillo (Phainoptila melanoxantha), una especie endémica de las tierras altas de Costa Rica y oeste de Panamá.
REPRODUCTION, HABITAT USE, AND NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BLACK-AND-YELLOW SILKY-FLYCATCHER (PHAINOPTILA MELANOXANTHA), AN ENDEMIC BIRD OF THE WESTERN PANAMA-COSTA RICAN HIGHLANDS
(2002)
Estudiamos la abundancia relativa, distribución geográfica, dieta y reproducción del Capulinero negro y amarillo (Phainoptila melanoxantha), una especie endémica a las tierras altas de Costa Rica y oeste de Panamá. A lo ...
Viscid globules in webs of the spider achaearanea tesselata (araneae: theridiidae)
(2006)
We describe the presence and dimensions of viscid globules in both the sheet and tangle portions of the webs of Achaearanea tesselata (Keyserling 1884). We found viscid globules in all sheets and tangles of the webs examined. ...
Tie them up tight: wrapping by Philoponella vicinaspiders breaks, compresses and sometimes kills their prey
(2006)
We show that uloborid spiders, which lack the poison glands typical of nearly all other spiders, employ thousands of wrapping movements with their hind legs and up to hundreds of meters of silk line to make a shroud that ...
Feeding by Philoponella vicina (Araneae, Uloboridae) and how uloborid spiders lost their venom glands
(2006)
Feeding by uloborid spiders is unusual in several respects: cheliceral venom glands are absent; prey wrapping is extensive (up to several hundred metres of silk line) and severely compresses the prey; the spider’s mouthparts ...
Distribución, ecología y conservacion de la avifauna de la cuenca del río Savergre, Costa Rica
(2004)
Presentamos en este trabajo información sobre la riqueza, distribución y patrones de endemismo de la cuenca del río Savegre. Adicionalmente, incluimos información general sobre la dieta, condición (ej., residente o migratoria) ...
Conceptual and statistical problems with the use of the Shannon-Weiner entropy index in bioacoustic analyses
(2018-04-03)
Information theory and its indices were developed for human communication to predict the amount of information transferred in a message. One such index, the Shannon-Weiner index (SWI), has often been used to analyse ...