This has a detrimental effect on plant reproduction: a) the density of conspecifics is fundamental to favor higher levels of inter-plant pollen transfer, and b) reproductive success depends on the quantity and quality of effective pollination visits, and both of these are likely to depend on local abundance. ❋ Unknown (2007)
They learn to recognize the features of their fellow monkeys (so called conspecifics) and can grasp the identity of every group member quickly. ❋ Unknown (2010)
They learn to recognise the features of their fellow monkeys (so called conspecifics) and can grasp the identity of every group member quickly. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Or maybe you and I are just not conspecifics after all. ❋ Unknown (2009)
While your Female Friends are writing their blogs, the Men are gossiping and whinging with their conspecifics who occur with high density in their workplace IRL and pretending that this is all just part of their 'doing Science' job ... ❋ Candid Engineer (2008)
There are two generalizations that may be made from studies on latitudinal variation in growth rates: high-latitude fish populations often attain larger maximum body size than conspecifics at lower latitudes; and, although lower temperatures often reduce activity and constrain individuals to grow more slowly, they compensate by accelerating growth rate or larval development time relative to low-latitude conspecifics when raised at identical temperatures. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Species-typical behavior is important for the organism because behaving 'correctly' keeps the animal safe from danger and helps it utilize resources - such as what is the right kind of food to eat or prey to hunt, where and how to find appropriate shelter, and also how to interact with conspecifics, or others of its species, in a social manner which would include mating and parenting. ❋ DNLee (2009)
According to the researchers, magpies were chosen because they compete with conspecifics for food that they hide and have a memory for where food is hoarded, making them good candidates for complex social understanding. ❋ Field Notes (2009)
If altruistic organisms were somehow to emerge, this literature sometimes suggests, they would lose the competition for survival and reproduction to their selfish conspecifics, and they would quickly become extinct. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Therefore, an aberrant individual with a tall sinistral shell among tall-shelled dextral conspecifics is more likely to be able to mate and leave offspring than one with a wide sinistral shell among wide-shelled dextral conspecifics. ❋ AYDIN (2008)
While the research on understanding what conspecifics can see has focused on chimpanzees and to a lesser extent other great apes, there are a few studies on other species. ❋ Andrews, Kristin (2008)
Though these systems are described as communication, the central theoretical questions are whether the communicative utterances are referential and whether the utterers are mentally representing the referent, that is, whether the utterance is meaningful from the perspective of conspecifics. ❋ Andrews, Kristin (2008)
If parents shape the linguistic environment of their offspring, and if we all shape the linguistic environments of our conspecifics (merely by talking to them!) then the possibility of a ˜linguistic ratchet effect™ is clearly open. ❋ Cowie, Fiona (2008)
What is the average distance between conspecifics? ❋ Darren Naish (2006)
