To avoid predation, octopuses select and actively modify shelters (also called dens) in the substratum, where they remain most of the time, especially during daylight hours.The main questions Westerns Bit that this study deals with are: Is den availability a significant constraint for the distribution of Octopus vulgaris on soft sediment? What kind
Background: Medical internship in South Africa is a two-year period after completing the basic medical degree.Interns rotate through six different domains, where they are exposed to various clinical procedures.These skills are often not up to standard, and interns feel unprepared for future challenges.This study evaluated the self-perceived readine
BACKGROUND: Around the world, researchers are using the observations and experiences of citizens to describe patterns in animal populations.This data is often collected via ongoing sampling or by synthesizing past experiences.Since elasmobranchs are relatively rare, obtaining data for broad-scale trend analysis requires high sampling effort.Elasmob
When stimulus intensity in simple reaction-time tasks randomly varies across trials, detection speed usually improves after a low-intensity trial.With auditory stimuli, this improvement was often found to be asymmetric, being greater on current low-intensity trials.Our study investigated (1) whether asymmetric sequential intensity adaptation also o