Mating

The biggest reason spiders stay in a bedroom is food. Spiders feed on insects and other small arthropods. If the room has clothes moths, mosquitoes, flies, ants, silverfish, carpet beetles or other pests, those prey can support spider activity. Spiders follow food.

— Bob Gilbert, staff entomologist with Blue Sky Pest Control (as quoted in the Good Housekeeping article).

Selective differences of fractions of a percent in large populations can drive total shifts in population composition.

— Desai, the paper's senior author

Our goal is to reach every farmer and ensure that the benefits reach even the remotest villages. Once the breed is officially recognised, we can also apply for a GI tag.

— Tadang Tamut, chairman of the Jomlo Mongku Mithun Farmers’ Federation, Siang region, on the goal of reaching farmers and obtaining a GI tag

the animals should have a proper, species-appropriate home.

— In the local Facebook group, an anonymous Facebook user argued that the animals should have a proper, species-appropriate home.

The site captures an amazing snapshot of hominin anatomy, locomotion, behavior, and environments.

— Lead study author Kevin Hatala, associate professor of biology at Chatham University in Pittsburgh and an associate researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, said.

If you’re too busy for sex, you’re too busy.

— Esther Perel — a catchphrase she popularized about relationships and sexuality, observed at a New York City event she hosted.

So the behavioural difference would be that calling. So when toads can't call, they have to actively search. They meet at the ponds ... and they don't have a call to bring the ladies in. So they have to actively go out, and it's a little bit more of a search effort.

— Jayna Bergman, project lead at the University of Ottawa, describing the behavioural difference between calling and non-calling Western toads.

Our findings show that song plays a more important role than plumage coloration in reproductive isolation between species.

— Vicente García-Navas, co-author of the paper, told Biology Letters.