In collaboration with Ester Desfilis, I have recently quick started ‘Mind your Nature’, a new popular science section in Mètode, an award-winning Spanish Divulgation Magazine. The section will delve into the wonders of Animal Behaviour and explore how its study can help us understand human…

To resolve the mechanisms that switch competition to cooperation is key to understanding biological organization. This is particularly relevant for intrasexual competition, which often leads to males harming females. The romantic notion of sexual reproduction as a cooperative endeavour has…

In a study that has just been published in Frontiers in Psychology, we show that beetles (Tenebrio molitor) use numerical cues to evaluate the number of rival males they encounter before mating. Due to their sophisticated sperm competition mechanisms, T.…

In some species, individuals of the same sex come in different colours or morphs, a phenomenon known as colour polymorphism. A recurring question in the study of polymorphic species is what evolutionary processes may allow the coexistence of different morphs…