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Extreme Behavioral Adjustments by an Orb‐Web Spider to Restricted Spaces
(2012)
Adaptive flexibility in response to environmental variation is often advantageous and occurs in many types of traits in many species. Although the basic designs of the orb webs of a given species are relatively uniform, ...
Nest Usurping Occurrence Of The Piratic Flycatcher (Legatus Leucophaius) In Southwestern Costa Rica
(2009)
El Mosquerito Pirata (Legatus leucophaius) roba nidos colgantes o en forma de domo hechos principalmente por tiranidos o icteridos, sin embargo la frecuencia con la cual este mosquero se roba los nidos de otras especies ...
Natural history, courtship, feeding behaviour and parasites of Theridion evexum (Araneae: Theridiidae)
(2007)
Theridion evexum constructs webs in the understory of wet middle-elevation forests in Costa Rica. The spiders construct retreats by curling a leaf and produce a mesh in front of the opening. Long, more or less vertical ...
Relationship between species richness of excavator birds and cavity–adopters in seven tropical forests in costa rica
(2009)
The abundance of wood cavities is thought to be a limiting factor for bird species that depend on these cavities for nesting. Thus, it is expected that number of cavity adopters correlates with number of cavity excavators ...
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 ...
Human waste used as nesting material affects nest cooling in the clay-colored thrush
(2021-09-01)
The internal temperature of nests largely depends on the materials used in their construction because the characteristics of each material affect the isolation of nest walls. In urban environments, the availability of
natural ...
Vestiges of an orb-weaving ancestor? The “biogenetic law” and ontogenetic changes in the webs and building behavior of the black widow spider Latrodectus geometricus (Araneae Theridiidae)
(2008)
Young juveniles of L. geometricus fit the strong trend for “ontogeny to repeat phylogeny” previously documented in other web-building spiders; younger spiders were less likely to build the derived silk retreats that occur ...
First description of the nest and eggs of the Sooty-faced Finch
(1994)
Sooty-faced Finches (Lysurus crassirostris) occur in dense undergrowth of wet forests that border streams along the Caribbean slope of Costa Rica between 600 to 1500 m in altitude. Its distribution is from Cordillera de ...
Effect of fragmentation on the Costa Rican dry forest avifauna
(2016)
Deforestation and changes in land use have reduced the tropical dry forest to isolated forest patches in northwestern Costa Rica. We examined the effect of patch area and length of the dry season on nestedness of the entire ...
Natural History and Larval Behavior of the parasitoid Zatypota petronae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)
(2007)
The koinobiont ectoparasitoid Zatypota petronae Gauld (Ichneumonidae) parasitizes medium-sized immatures of the cobweb spider Theridion evexum Keyserling (Theridiidae). Zatypota petronae apparently attacks the spider inside ...