Territoriality is a widespread behavioral phenomenon that functions for partitioning space and defending resources. Birds tend to defend territories against homospecific individuals through long-distance acoustic signals, ...

Ecological segregation and interspecific territoriality can reduce exploitative competition in morphologically and ecologically very similar species allowing their coexistence. We studied habitat use and features, ecomorphology ...

Small rails remain poorly known due to their secretive habits and the lack of adequate methods for their study. Here we describe and test a novel method for trapping small rails. The playbacked V-netting consists in the ...

It is undeniable that the deteriorating situation of the ecosystem is one of the hottest issues in our world today and indeed one worth contemplating in literary productions. Questions like the destruction of the forests, ...

The Ocellated Crake (Micropygia schomburgkii) is a poorly known species with a scattered distribution in Central and South America, linked to sites with tall grass vegetation in grasslands and savannas. The species was not ...

New records of the Rufous-faced Crake, Laterallus xenopterus (Gruiformes: Rallidae) in Brazil and observations about its habitat. The Rufous-faced Crake, Laterallus xenopterus, is a bird that is rarely spotted at Paraguay, ...

This thesis examines Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, speculative fiction novels by Margaret Atwood. I argue that storytelling is a means of survival in both novels, since protagonists rely on telling their own ...

The Rufous-faced Crake, Laterallus xenopterus, is a bird that is rarely spotted at Paraguay, central Brazil, and central Bolivia. There are known species records at the Brazilian states of Distrito Federal, São Paulo, and ...

Literary analysis of the speculative fiction novel Oryx and crake, Written by the Canadian novelist and poet Margaret Atwood. In this analysis, approaches such as Eco criticism and Stylistics are employed to find what is ...