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Cover: New technology constantly opens up possibilities for research in orientation and navigation. Combining different sensors allows especially detailed insights into the behaviour of animals in the wild. Here, an Egyptian fruit bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus) is carrying a tag that records movement through acceleration, position via GPS and echolocation with a microphone. In their review, Greif and Yovel (jeb184689) demonstrate how sound recordings on animals can be used to infer a variety of behaviours. This could be vocalisations like echolocation calls (in red), but also wing beat during flight (illustrated with an oscillogram in yellow, confirmed through acceleration recordings in blue). Photo credit: Stefan Greif.
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Featured article – Colour blindness test gets submerged
John Endler and team have come up with a new way to test animal colour vision based on methods to determine whether humans are ‘colour blind’, and they demonstrate how this method works with triggerfish.
Editorial - Thanking our peer reviewers in 2018
We value the time and expertise of our reviewers and would like to publicly thank all those who have contributed to our peer review process in the past year.
Editors' choice - Global dynamics of bipedal macaques during grounded and aerial running
Trained macaques that can walk on two legs never seemed to run, but Naomichi Ogihara and team show that they run all the time, although their legs are too springy for them to get off the ground, and they can take off like runners when moving at top speed.
Conversation - Early-career researchers: an interview with Danielle Levesque
Danielle Levesque is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maine, USA, where she studies hibernation and torpor in mammals. She told us how her research has taken her to Madagascar and Borneo, and why she thinks it is important to learn coding.
Read more of our interviews with early-career researchers on our Interviews page.
Journal news - Journal of Experimental Biology Outstanding Paper Prize 2018
Prize winners Till Harter, Mike Sackville and Dave Metzinger
We are delighted to announce the shortlist of papers nominated by the journal Editors for the 2018 award. Featuring topics as wide-ranging as the development of oxygen transport in snapping turtle embryos, the factors that cause cold flies to fall into a coma and the visual features that influence flying hoverflies, the shortlist celebrates the journal's diversity. Special congratulations go to Colin Brauner's team at the University of British Columbia, winner of this year's Outstanding Paper Prize.