True Facts Animal Awards: Best Worst Jumping and More

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Caveney S, h. Faecal firing in a skipper caterpillar is pressure-driven. J Exp Biol. 1998 Jan;201 (Pt 1):121-33. doi: 10.1242/jeb.201.1.121.

Essner RL Jr, Pereira REE, Blackburn DC, Singh AL, Stanley EL, Moura MO, Confetti AE, Pie MR. Semicircular canal size constrains vestibular function in miniaturized frogs. Sci Adv. 2022 Jun 17;8(24):eabn1104. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abn1104. 

Essner, R.L., Suffian, D.J., Bishop, P.J. et al. Landing in basal frogs: evidence of saltational patterns in the evolution of anuran locomotion. Naturwissenschaften 97, 935–939 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-010-0697-4

Goutte, S., Mason, M.J., Antoniazzi, M.M. et al. Intense bone fluorescence reveals hidden patterns in pumpkin toadlets. Sci Rep 9, 5388 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-41959-8

Goutte, S., Mason, M.J., Christensen-Dalsgaard, J. et al. Evidence of auditory insensitivity to vocalization frequencies in two frogs. Sci Rep 7, 12121 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-12145-5

Mattila HR, Otis GW, Nguyen LTP, Pham HD, Knight OM, Phan NT (2020) Honey bees (Apis cerana) use animal feces as a tool to defend colonies against group attack by giant hornets (Vespa soror). PLoS ONE 15(12): e0242668. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242668

Nunes I, Guimarães CS, Moura PHAG, Pedrozo M, Moroti MdT, Castro LM, et al. (2021) Hidden by the name: A new fluorescent pumpkin toadlet from the Brachycephalus ephippium group (Anura: Brachycephalidae). PLoS ONE 16(4): e0244812. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244812

Reilly, Stephen, Richard Essner, Sally Wren, Luke Easton, Phillip J. Bishop, Movement patterns in leiopelmatid frogs: Insights into the locomotor repertoire of basal anurans, Behavioural Processes, Volume 121, 2015, Pages 43-53, ISSN 0376-6357, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2015.10.001.