ArticleAnimal behaviour2016
The significance of spatial memory for water finding in a tadpole-transporting frog.
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- Behavioral flexibility and novel environments: integrating current perspectives for future directions.Current zoology · 2024Article
- Odor cues rather than personality affect tadpole deposition in a neotropical poison frog.Current zoology · 2024Article
- What Amphibians Can Teach Us About the Evolution of Parental Care.Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics · 2023Article
- Form, function, foam: evolutionary ecology of anuran nests and nesting behaviour.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
- Contrasting parental roles shape sex differences in poison frog space use but not navigational performance.eLife · 2022Article
- Exploring links between personality traits and their social and non-social environments in wild poison frogs.Behavioral ecology and sociobiology · 2022Article
- Large, old trees define the vertical, horizontal, and seasonal distributions of a poison frog.Oecologia · 2022Article
- It Began in Ponds and Rivers: Charting the Beginnings of the Ecology of Fish Cognition.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2022Review
- Tadpole-transporting frogs use stagnant water odor to find pools in the rainforest.The Journal of experimental biology · 2021Article
- Aposematism facilitates the diversification of parental care strategies in poison frogs.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Olfaction across the water-air interface in anuran amphibians.Cell and tissue research · 2021Review
- Frank Beach Award Winner: Lessons from poison frogs on ecological drivers of behavioral diversification.Hormones and behavior · 2020Review
- Developments in Amphibian Parental Care Research: History, Present Advances, and Future Perspectives.Herpetological monograph · 2020Article
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- The evolution of parental care diversity in amphibians.Nature communications · 2019Article
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Abstract
The ability to associate environmental cues with valuable resources strongly increases the chances of finding them again, and thus memory often guides animal movement. For example, many temperate region amphibians show strong breeding site fidelity and will return to the same areas even after the ponds have been destroyed. In contrast, many tropical amphibians depend on exploitation of small, scattered and fluctuating resources such as ephemeral pools for reproduction. It remains unknown whether tropical amphibians rely on spatial memory for effective exploitation of their reproductive resources. Poison frogs (Dendrobatidae) routinely shuttle their tadpoles from terrestrial clutches to dispersed aquatic deposition sites. We investigated the role of spatial memory for relocating previously discovered deposition sites in an experimental population of the brilliant-thighed poison frog,
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