Monitoring and modeling non-native invasive green iguana population response to harvesting on Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands.

Registered hunters harvested over 1.3 million non-native invasive green iguanas () on Grand Cayman between October 2018 and August 2021. We used islandwide post-reproduction survey-based abundance estimates in August 2014-2021 and model-based abundance predictions for August 2022-2030 to assist natural resource managers with reassessment and modification of the harvest strategy due to diminishing returns to hunters paid per green iguana harvested.

Interspecific and intraspecific foraging differentiation of neighbouring tropical seabirds.

Background: Social interactions, reproductive demands and intrinsic constraints all influence foraging decisions in animals. Understanding the relative importance of these factors in shaping the way that coexisting species within communities use and partition resources is central to knowledge of ecological and evolutionary processes. However, in marine environments, our understanding of the mechanisms that lead to and allow coexistence is limited, particularly in the tropics.

Lateralisation of trunk movements in captive Asian elephants (Elephas maximus).

Behavioural lateralisation has been widely investigated in vertebrates. Most studies in this area have focused on laterality in paired organs such as hands, limbs, and eyes. Fewer studies have explored side preferences in unpaired organs such as tails or trunks.