The study found that young mice went on extensive excursions far from their natal home, during which they visited a number of different areas, and spent the day in many different nests. The young mice were in no hurry to settle in a new home range; most spent weeks visiting different areas prior to settling, and most of them made repeated visits to particular locations and nests before eventually choosing a new home. This is a pattern that would be expected if mice were carefully comparing the relative merits of different sites.

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"Big Mamma, Little Papa" November 2008
"Sexual selection for male mobility in a giant insect with female-biased sexual dimorphism." American Naturalist 172: 417-423.
Clint D. Kelly, Luc F. Bussie`re and Darryl T. Gwynne
Clint D. Kelly, now at Iowa State University in Ames, and two colleagues studied the mating habits of the Cook Strait giant weta, Deinacrida rugosa, on Maud Island, New Zealand, by radio tracking sixty insects for several days. A male often walks long distances to find a receptive female—up to 300 feet each night—and once he does, he follows her to her refuge. There, the pair copulates repeatedly throughout the day, conveniently leaving behind empty sperm capsules that researchers use to estimate the amount of sperm transferred.

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"Tongue orchids' sexual guile: Utterly convincing" July 15, 2008
Orchid Sexual Deceit Provokes Ejaculation
A. C. Gaskett, C. G. Winnick, M. E. Herberstein
"The discovery that orchids can induce such an extreme response is more than just bizarre natural history, because biologists have always assumed that the sexual misrepresentations of orchids were harmless to the duped males, no more than a comical exercise in frustration.Yet the study, published last month in The American Naturalist, suggests a potentially huge cost to the wasps."

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"Sexy orchids do more than embarrass wasps?" May 8, 2008
Orchid Sexual Deceit Provokes Ejaculation
A. C. Gaskett, C. G. Winnick, and M. E. Herberstein
"Insects pollinating Australian tongue orchids (Cryptostylis species) frequently ejaculate and waste copious sperm," they wrote in a report in The American Naturalist.

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"Those clever flowers" May 8, 2008
Orchid Sexual Deceit Provokes Ejaculation
A. C. Gaskett, C. G. Winnick, and M. E. Herberstein
Secondly, researchers have found just how effective orchids can be at mimicking female wasps, as a way to lure male wasps in to collect their pollen . Not only do they attract the boys (which was already known), but they also seem to excite them enough to cause an ejaculation (releasing “copious sperm” according to the report). Obviously this is a waste of time and energy for the wasps, but apparently it helps the orchids, somehow – I guess by increasing stickiness? “Orchid species provoking such extreme pollinator behavior have the highest pollination success," they report in The American Naturalist.

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"Even by Parasite Standards, These Worms Stand Out" April 8, 2008
Parasite-Induced Fruit Mimicry in a Tropical Canopy Ant
S. P. Yanoviak, M. Kaspari, R. Dudley, and G. Poinar Jr
Dissecting the ants, the researchers found that the gasters were full of hundreds of tiny eggs containing developing worms. Dr. Yanoviak and his colleagues were then able to determine the stages in the parasite-host cycle, which they describe in a paper in The American Naturalist.