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Journal of Experimental Biology is the leading journal in comparative physiology

Journal of Experimental Biology

Walking on your knuckles is a weird way to get around, but it's normal for chimps & gorillas. Recently, Thompson & co showed that, while the hand posture is odd, the muscle contractions required are quite similar to a monkey's, which walk on their palms doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Journal of Experimental Biology

Read the first additional language abstract in Hawaiian by Gough & co doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... Spread the word 🔁

In his ECR Spotlight, Sudeep R tells us about his recent JEB paper with Hema Somanathan & Sachin Bhaskar showing that Asian giant honeybees are faithful to bluish flowers & how he enjoys designing and engineering equipment for experiments doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Tiny warty birch caterpillars are the kings of their tiny castles, seeing off caterpillar intruders, but when they sense the thundering footsteps of threatening ladybird beetles, the caterpillars fall silent and even abandon home until the coast is clear doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Science is an international endeavour and for many researchers English is their 2nd or 3rd language, so now JEB encourages you to submit an additional abstract in your own language or that of the region where you performed your research journals.biologists.com/jeb/pages/jo... Spread the word 🔁

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We have updated our Methods & Techniques guidelines. You now have 7000 words and 10 display items to report innovative methodological advances or significant modifications to recognized methods of data collection/analysis Find out more at journals.biologists.com/jeb/pages/ar...

There are many great reasons to publish your next paper with JEB, and one of them is our fabulous team of Editors, who are practising scientists, leaders in their field and help make your research reach its full potential 🔁 tinyurl.com/yc8ah7zh

Issue 10 has closed and issue 11 is open The cover image by Kenneth Lohmann shows hatchling loggerhead turtles, which are about to begin a lengthy migratory journey guided by their detection and use of Earth's magnetic field journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22...

Journal of Experimental Biology

Summary: Multiple datastreams are combined to generate a complete energetics model for Hawaiian short-finned pilot whales.

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Daily energetic expenditure and energy consumption of short-finned pilot whales