Sentence examples for position of nests from inspiring English sources

The number and composition of clusters was identical when analysing the data with the program Structure, which confirms that the clustering obtained with Geneland was robust and did not depend on the spatial position of nests.

The results for the hemispheric advantage in communication sound perception are consistent and cannot be explained by a small sample size, individual head turn preference or position of nest box and tail.

Recent discoveries in Mongolia of oviraptorids sitting in birdlike positions on nests of eggs formerly thought to belong to Protoceratops reveal that the parentage was misplaced and that oviraptorids, like their bird relatives, apparently tended their young.

These measures allow us to ask biologically meaningful questions about the position of the nests in the network.

Males that appeared to be stationary (i.e. nest holding) were observed for five to 15 minutes until they entered the nest, so that the position of the nest could be determined.

Although their concentrated search at the LM position showed that the ants had used the landmarks as reliable cues for the position of their nest, this landmark-induced search for the nest entrance did not reset the ant's path integrator.

Similarly the egocentric angle between the trail and nest-box was calculated for the same individuals and situations, to determine whether the position of the nest-box served as a point of reference.

We designed an experimental paradigm in which the position where the ants' path integrator was at the zero state (PI position) did not coincide with the position of the nest as marked by the familiar landmark panorama (LM position).

The position of all nest chambers was recorded in a grid documenting the spatial distribution within the study population.

Vertical slivers of soil were sliced away with a spade and the position of all nest chambers were also recorded in a grid.

The position of Dromiciops nested within the Australasian radiation in our results is in agreement with recent analyses incorporating critical early australidelphians [34] and with a simultaneous analysis of DNA sequences and morphological data [5].