COMPETITION OVER GUARDING IN THE ARABIAN BABBLER (TURDOIDES SQUAMICEPS), A COOPERATIVE BREEDER [VERSION 1; REFEREES: 1 APPROVED, 2 APPROVED WITH RESERVATIONS]

Competition over guarding in the Arabian babbler (Turdoides squamiceps), a cooperative breeder [version 1; referees: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

Observations on 12 groups comprised of two adult males and one adult female (some included one or two fledglings), tame, individually marked, Arabian babblers (Turdoides squamiceps) in the rift valley in Israel revealed that the babblers compete to guard.The pattern of guarding and the way by which one sentinel replaces another reflect the dominanc

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Influence of linguistic properties and hearing impairment on visual speech perception skills in the German language.

Visual input is crucial for understanding speech under noisy conditions, but there are hardly any tools to assess the individual ability to Countertop Deep Fryers lipread.With this study, we wanted to (1) investigate how linguistic characteristics of language on the one hand and hearing impairment on the other hand have an impact on lipreading abil

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