Over the past two decades, the use of camera traps and acoustic monitoring in the investigation of animal ecology have grown rapidly, with each technique enhancing broad-scale wildlife surveying.Camera traps are a cost-effective, noninvasive means of sampling Leather Breeks communities of mid-to large-terrestrial species, and acoustic recording dev
Cross-species comparison of great ape gesturing has so far been limited to the physical form of gestures in the repertoire, without questioning whether gestures share the same meanings.Researchers have recently catalogued the meanings of chimpanzee gestures, but little is known about the gesture meanings of our other closest living relative, the bo
The multicoloured Asian lady beetle Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) may potentially exploit a range of "alternative" food sources.The nutritional value of three common non-prey food groups, i.e.fruit, fungi and pollen, is examined in this study.Development, reproduction and survival of the species were assessed in the laboratory on di
The development of new all-optical technologies for data processing and signal manipulation is a field of growing importance with a strong potential for numerous applications in diverse areas of modern science.Nonlinear phenomena occurring in optical Circular/DIN fibres have many attractive features and great, but not yet fully explored, potential