The two species of African rhinoceros are conservation icons. Large, charismatic, and vitally important for their ecosystems, ...

The resulting coevolutionary arms race includes sophisticated defenses by hosts and escalating tools of exploitation by parasites. For the parasite, benefits include increased fecundity due to ...

What if expiration dates could tell us more than when something goes bad? Scientists have found that dates on plastic food ...

The population of Canada geese in North Carolina has grown over the years, and geese are transmitters of deadly bird flu.

It has long been assumed that cowbird parasitism can result in changes in songbird communities, but surprisingly the De Groot and Smith (2001) study is the first to assess whether this brood parasite ...

Hauber, M. E. Discordancy or template-based recognition? Dissecting the cognitive basis of foreign eggs in hosts of avian brood parasites. Journal of Experimental Biology 213, 1976–1983 (2010).

Surprisingly the De Groot and Smith (2001) study is the first to assess whether this brood parasite can change bird community composition. They state their hypothesis as: brown-headed cowbirds change ...

If you've noticed odd behaviour by birds visiting the feeder in your garden, pay close attention - you may be inadvertently harming them ...

Most of her research combines two groups of organisms with magnificent life-history strategies: birds and their haemosporidian parasites – a group of protozoans that includes the infamous pathogens ...