Animal Behaviour

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Editors Page	58
Editors’ Acknowledgments	47
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Honey bee foraging behaviour can be influenced by preferencesfor oscillating flowers	39
Sexual size dimorphism of brood-parasitic nestlings does not affect host chick survival, size or fledging phenology	36
Strong ties formation, composition and processes at play during the developmental period of juvenile vervet monkeys	34
Female–female conflict is higher during periods of parental care in a group-living cichlid fish	33
Low size dimorphism does not lead to reduced sexual segregation: exploring effects of habitat divergence and activity	33
28 minutes later: investigating the role of aflatrem-like compounds in Ophiocordyceps parasite manipulation of zombie ants	32
Anthropogenic influences on play of the green monkeys of Barbados	31
Punishment from dominant breeders increases helping effort of subordinates in a cooperatively breeding cichlid	30
Association Page	30
The unfulfilled potential of dogs in studying behavioural ecology and evolution during the Anthropocene	29
Prepared learning in plant–pollinator interactions	28
Olfaction and reproductive isolation in birds	26
Stimulus type and social context are stronger than individual differences in common marmosets' novelty exploration	25
Parental predator exposure affects offspring boldness and laterality in the stickleback	25
Brown-headed cowbirds select nests to parasitize based on individual host attributes rather than nest type	24
Collective attention in navigating homing pigeons: group size effect and individual differences	22
Bonobos and chimpanzees preferentially attend to familiar members of the dominant sex	22
Hatchling vocalizations and beneficial social interactions in subterranean nests of a widespread reptile	21
Sperm oxidative status varies with the level of sperm competition and affects male reproductive success	21
Environment-dependent benefits of interindividual variation in honey bee recruitment	20
Male reproductive strategies are influenced by the maternal sociosexual environment	20
Behavioural plasticity and the anthropause: an urban bird becomes less aggressive	20

Coordination of care is facilitated by delayed feeding and collective arrivals in the long-tailed tit	19
Indirect effect of familiarity on survival: a path analysis on video game data	19
Diel timing of migration is not plastic in a migratory ungulate	19
Foraging location preferences reflect memory interference associated with spatial learning tasks in a food-caching bird	19
Reducing the bias due to unknown relationships in measuring the steepness of a dominance hierarchy	18
Urbanization predicts flight initiation distance in feral pigeons (Columba livia) across New York City	18
Fitness incentives to male fighters undermine fighting performance in intergroup contests	18
No evidence of kin preferences in a feral horse multilevel society	17
Association Page	17
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Resource limitation drives fission–fusion dynamics of group composition and size in a social bird	17
Editors Page	17
Anyone listening? No evidence for eavesdropping on male singing interactions in the great tit, Parus major	17
Association Page	17
Conceptual representations of animal social networks: an overview	17
Socially cued anticipatory plasticity predicts male primary mating tactic but not mating behaviour rates	16
Extragroup paternity in gelada monkeys, Theropithecus gelada, at Guassa, Ethiopia and a comparison with other primates	16
Assessing animal welfare: a triangulation of preference, judgement bias and other candidate welfare indicators	16
k-mer analysis shows hybrid hummingbirds perform variable, transgressive courtship sequences	16
Dynamic visual noise promotes social attraction, but does not affect group size preference, in a shoaling fish	16
Phenotypic plasticity in the anthropause: does reduced human activity impact novel nesting behaviour in an urban bird?	16
Automating the analysis of fish grazing behaviour from videos using image classification and optical flow	15
Woodpeckers are more cryptic against tree bark on which they forage	15
Prenatal sound experience affects song preferences in male zebra finches	15
Looking into each other's eyes makes it better: eye-to-eye contact enhances sexual interactions in wild geladas	15
Carotenoid intake during early life mediates ontogenetic colour shifts and dynamic colour change during adulthood	15
Potential costs of learning have no detectable impact on reproductive success for bumble bees	15
The social consequences of sexual conflict in bed bugs: social networks and sexual attraction	15
Mobbing sequences of American wrens elicit mobbing responses in European tits	15
The importance of detailed observations of behaviour and natural history for generating and answering novel questions	15
Wild kangaroos become more social when caring for young and may maintain long-term affiliations with popular individuals	15
Active interactions between animals and technology: biohybrid approaches for animal behaviour research	15
Editors' Acknowledgments	15
Canada jays, Perisoreus canadensis, use multiple context-dependent cache protection strategies	15
Exploring the potency and replenishment of woodfrog disturbance cues, a nonspecific communication system in aquatic species	15
Investigating the impact of human disturbance on predator behaviour in human-dominated landscapes	15
The choice of euthanasia techniques can affect experimental results in aquatic behavioural studies	15
Contrasting acoustic-space competition avoidance strategies in Afrotropical forest birds	15
Editors Page	14
Neural networks reveal emergent properties of collective learning in democratic but not despotic groups	14
Helicopter parenting: local-scale environment determines hiding and supervision in neonatal ungulates	14
Plant choice for oviposition in the phytophagous insect Bemisia tabaci: cytotype, including symbionts, knows best!	14
Frenemies in Fur: neighbour–stranger discrimination and the ‘dear enemy’ effect in mammals, and how it relates to sociality	14
An independent experiment does not support stress-mediated kin discrimination through red squirrel vocalizations	14
Light modulates population differences in alternative mating tactics in Trinidadian guppies	14
Information maintenance of food sources is associated with environment, spatial cognition and age in a food-caching bird	14
Editors Page	14
Collective close calling mediates group cohesion in foraging meerkats via spatially determined differences in call rates	14
Sex roles in parental care in a species with precocial offspring and frequent brood desertion	14
Interaction between sexual communication functions leads to reproductive interference in two syntopic scorpion species	14

Hyperparasitoids exploit plant volatiles to locate their parasitoid host despite nonhost herbivore interference	13
Roost fidelity partially explains maternity roosting association patterns in Myotis lucifugus	13
Effects of hormones and digestive tract morphology on personality-driven foraging behaviour in the turtle Mauremys reevesii	13
Heat stress inhibits cognitive performance in wild Western Australian magpies, Cracticus tibicen dorsalis	13
Bachelor groups form due to individual choices or environmental disrupters in African striped mice	13
I love to hate my neighbour: how recognition of dear enemies affects male antipredator behaviours in a lizard species	13
Repeated training of homing pigeons reveals age-dependent idiosyncrasy and visual landmark use	13
Human impact on deer use is greater than predators and competitors in a multiuse recreation area	13
Keep calm and carry on: reactive indifference to predator encounters by a gregarious prey species	13
Ionizing radiation alters male Acheta domesticus courtship songs that are critical for mating success	13
Effects of assortative mating for personality on reproductive success in greylag geese, Anser anser	13
Wildlife tourism has little energetic impact on the world's largest predatory shark	13
Validation of a novel immersive virtual reality set-up with responses of wild-caught freely moving coral reef fish	13
Association Page	13
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Association Page	12
Social preference persists at roosting aggregations in a cooperatively breeding bird	12
Retraction notice to “Personality and morphology shape task participation, collective foraging and escape behaviour in the social spider Stegodyphus dumicola” [Animal Behaviour, 105 (2015), 47–54]	12
Microgeographical variation in birdsong: Savannah sparrows exhibit microdialects in an island population	12
Social impact of mara pair disruption on the formation of new bonds and reproduction in a multiple mate choice context	12
Earwig mothers can boost offspring’s defence against pathogens during postoviposition care	12
Association Page	12
Is female mate choice repeatable across males with nearly identical songs?	12
Are you serious? Relaxed open mouth may unveil the competitive/cooperative nature of play fighting in two feline species	12
Estimating social network metrics from single-file movements in Barbary macaques, Macaca sylvanus	12
Studying mate choice using inertial measurement units: a validation study with treefrogs	12
Erratum to “Context-dependent responses of naïve ungulates to wolf-sound playback in a human-dominated landscape” [Animal Behaviour, 185 (2022), 9–20]	12
Editors Page	12
Association Page	12
Effect of age and mating on body condition, fecundity and metabolic rate in female sand crickets, Gryllus firmus	12
Evidence of stable preferential affiliative relationships in the domestic pig	12
Finding love: fruit fly males evolving under higher sexual selection are inherently better at finding receptive females	12
Too hot to handle: male dragonflies decrease time spent mating at higher temperatures	12
Evaluating adaptive hypotheses for female-led infanticide in wild chimpanzees	11
Experimental evidence that nestlings adjust their fledging time to each other in a multiparous bird	11
Seasonal fission and fusion of killer whale, Orcinus orca, social structure at sub-Antarctic Marion Island	11
The role of male body size in mating success and male–male competition in a false widow spider	11
The ontogeny of nest-building behaviour in Sumatran orang-utans, Pongo abelii	11
Reversal learning of visual cues in Heliconiini butterflies	11
Thermoenergetic challenges and daytime behavioural patterns of a wild cathemeral mammal	11
Learning predictably changing spatial patterns across days in a food-caching bird	11
Information cascades spread adaptive and maladaptive behaviours in group-living animals	11
Getting lost: the fungal hijacking of ant foraging behaviour in space and time	11
How do primates decide where to feed? Insights from wild western gorillas	11
Females pair with males larger than themselves in a socially monogamous songbird	11
No risk to scrambling? Mating tactic does not affect the frequency of leg autotomy in a New Zealand harvestman	11
Editors Page	11
Invasion of alien slugs in disturbed habitats: role of behavioural phenotype, plasticity and interspecific competition	11
The effect of turbidity on female mate choice in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata	11
Capybara responses to varying levels of predation risk	10
Nest construction and its effect on posthatching family life in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides	10
The parasitoid Cotesia glomerata responds differently to plant volatile emission induced by parasitized caterpillars	10
Food-exchanging Norway rats apply the direct reciprocity decision rule rather than copying by imitation	10
Experimental evidence for female mate choice in a noctuid moth	10
Resting ecology of parasitoids in the field: safe in a bed and breakfast?	10
Higher cortisol in muscle correlates with weaker strength of female mate preference in the swordtail fish Xiphophorus multilineatus	10
Both humans and conspecifics provide social support to dog and wolf puppies	10
The effect of temporal masking on alarm call communication in wild superb fairy-wrens	10
Searching day and night: diel hierarchical search patterns in a large marine predator that never stops swimming	10
Fitness effects of seasonal birth timing in a long-lived social primate living in the equatorial forest	10
Association Page	10
Selective social tolerance drives differentiated relationships among wild female chimpanzees	10
Social networks of the greater horseshoe bat during the hibernation season: a landscape-scale case study	10
Knowing a fellow by their bellow: acoustic individuality in the bellows of the American alligator	10
The heritability of fear: decomposing sources of variation in marmot flight initiation distance	10
Costa's hummingbird has an extended sensitive phase of vocal learning	10
When sibling tolerance meets cannibalism of the dead in spiderlings	10
Infection impairs problem-solving performance in American crows	10
Is sexiness cumulative? Arguments from birdsong culture	10
Innovating to solve a novel puzzle: wild Asian elephants vary in their ability to problem solve	10
Human activity selectively affects a dynamic defensive mutualism	10
Parental care behaviour in bumble bee queens is tightly regulated by the number of helpers in incipient nests	9
Family pigs’ and dogs’ reactions to human emotional vocalizations:a citizen science study	9
Within-cavity nest preferences: honey bees favour the entrance rather than the ceiling when initiating their nest	9
Changes in movement characteristics in response to private and social information acquisition of socially foraging fish	9
The smell of familiarity: conspecific faeces influence roost exploration and occupation in wild Bechstein's bats	9
Male–male interactions select for conspicuous male coloration in damselflies	9
Acoustic modulation of reproductive hormones in the blacktail shiner, Cyprinella venusta, a soniferous cyprinid	9
Egg turning in a subtropical shorebird has a diel rhythmicityand is affected by predation risk	9
Dogs, demonstrators and detours: does the shape of the obstacle matter?	9

Sex-specific territoriality, aggression and duetting in the Carolina wren during the nonbreeding season	9
Editors Page	9
Goats discriminate emotional valence in the human voice	9
Guidelines for the ethical treatment of nonhuman animals in behavioural research and teaching	9
Socioecological correlates of social play in adult mantled howler monkeys	9
Individual recognition and individual identity signals in Polistes fuscatus wasps vary geographically	9
The effects of prenatal predator cue exposure on offspring substrate preferences in the wolf spider Tigrosa helluo	9
The role of similarity of stimuli and responses in learning by nectar-foraging bumble bees: a test of Osgood’s model	9
The case for investigating the cognitive map in nonavian reptiles	9
Maternal conflict intervention is more frequent in chimpanzee compared to bonobo development	9
Animal Behaviour Best Paper Prizes 2024	9
Size sometimes matters: recognition of known predators with artificially altered body size by untrained birds	9
Workload inequality increases with group size in a cooperatively breeding bird	9
Long-term observations reveal short-term mother–calf affiliation in wild harbour porpoises	9
Habituation or sensitization? Short-term adjustment of flight initiation distance in incubating common eiders	9
Book Review	9
Physiological innovation and the evolutionary elaboration of courtship behaviour	9
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How healthy is your mate? Sex-specific consequences of parasite infections in the moth Helicoverpa armigera	8
Vocal sacs do not function in multimodal mate attraction under nocturnal illumination in Cope's grey treefrog	8
Costs and benefits of isolation from siblings during family life in adult earwigs	8
Growing into it: evidence of an ontogenetic shift in grey whale use of foraging tactics	8
Size-based dominance relationships in female forest elephants, Loxodonta cyclotis	8
Behavioural sleep in salmonid fish with flexible diel activity	8
Female demographic changes contribute to the maintenance of social stability within a primate multilevel society	8
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Definition and interpretation effects: how different vigilance definitions can produce varied results	8
Social exploitation of extensive, ephemeral, environmentally controlled prey patches by supergroups of rorqual whales	8
The context of sexual coercion in orang-utans: when do male and female mating interests collide?	8
Courtship vocalizations of wild house mice show highly dynamic changes and correlate with male copulatory success	8
Biological, social and ecological correlates of social play in immature Bwindi mountain gorillas, Gorilla beringei beringei	8
Homing pigeon navigational ontogeny: no evidence that exposure to a novel release site is sufficient for learning	8
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Does song overlap signal aggressiveness? An experimental study with repeated measures in free-ranging great tits	8
Urban foxes are bolder but not more innovative than their rural conspecifics	8
Behavioural context shapes vocal sequences in two anuran species with different repertoire sizes	8
Consistent individual differences give rise to ‘caching syndromes’ in a food-storing passerine	8
Short- and medium-term exposure to salinity alters response to predation, activity and spatial movements in tadpoles	8
Mechanisms of mobbing call recognition: exploring featural decoding in great tits	8
Behavioural traits for success: comparison between two sympatric lacertid lizard species	8
Performance of Doppler shift compensation varies with environmental temperature and humidity in bats	8
Rise and fall: increasing temperatures have nonlinear effects on aggression in a tropical fish	7
Playing music to animals: an interdisciplinary approach to improving our understanding of animals' responses to music	7
Space use and social networks: correlated but not congruent in California ground squirrels	7
Images of nonhuman animals in animal behaviour textbooks communicate an androcentric view of reproductive-related behaviours	7
Long-lasting social bonds of a habitat-structured delphinid social system	7
Impacts of fungal disease on dyadic social interactions in a wild agamid lizard	7
Delayed benefits for fallow bucks: more fights decrease same day mating success, but increase matings the next day	7
Friend virus severity is associated with male mouse social status and environmental temperature	7
In dogs, social stimuli overshadow nonsocial stimuli and stronger attachment correlates with responses to the latter	7
Unravelling communicative complexity: a multimodal comparative study of two lemur species with different social systems	7
Negative frequency-dependent prey selection by wolves and its implications on predator–prey dynamics	7
Male superb lyrebirds mimic functionally distinct heterospecific vocalizations during different modes of sexual display	7
Colour morph predicts social behaviour and contest outcomes in a polymorphic lizard (Podarcis erhardii)	7
Alarm cue properties and euthanasia impact on tadpole antipredator behaviour in Rana temporaria and Bufo bufo	7
Gut cancer increases the risk of Drosophila being preyed upon by hunting spiders	7
Fatherhood increases attraction to sensory stimuli from unrelated pups in male California mice, Peromyscus californicus	7
Adult sex ratio influences courtship behaviour, contest behaviour and breeding success in Onthophagus taurus	7
Age mediates access to landfill food resources and foraging proficiency in a long-lived bird species	7
Feeding rate reflects quality in both parents and offspring: a longitudinal study in common terns	7
Determinants of social structure in a northern population of black-tailed prairie dogs, Cynomys ludovicianus	7
Helping syndrome is partially confirmed in the eusocial naked mole-rat	7
Predatory cue use in flush responses of a colonial nesting seabird during polar bear foraging	7
Do food-caching chickadees grow their hippocampus every autumn when they need to cache food and then shrink it for the rest of the year?	7
Fitness benefits from co-display favour subdominant male–male partnerships between phenotypes	7
Reintroducing native predators improves antipredator responses in naïve prey	7
Pseudoreplication of sound treatments in underwater exposure studies	7
African penguins utilize their ventral dot patterns for individual recognition	6
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Resource competition shapes female–female aggression in olive baboons, Papio anubis	6
Relationship quality affects social stress buffering in dogs and wolves	6
The direction and strength of social plasticity in mating signals and mate preferences vary with the life stage of induction	6
Behavioural thermoregulation compensates for changes in solar insolation in a wild insect	6
Can an acoustic communication network be used for spatial orientation?	6
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Individuality, as well as genetic background, affects syntactical features of courtship songs in male mice	6
Why do some birds fledge late in the day?	6
Social learning of navigational routes in tandem-running acorn ants, Temnothorax nylanderi	6
Dispersal behaviour and settlement in an invasive bird: dispersers prefer their natal habitat	6
Does male mate choice select for female coloration in a promiscuous primate species?	6
Behavioural syndrome between boldness and aggressiveness and link with reproductive success in a wild bird population	6
Infection by virulent wMelPop Wolbachia improves learning and memory capacity in Drosophila melanogaster	6
Nestmate interference in acacia ants varies with colony size and task specialization	6
Stable isotopes reveal the effects of maternal rank and infant age on weaning dynamics in wild chacma baboons	6
Editors Page	6
Urban colonies are less aggressive but forage more than their forest counterparts in the ant Temnothorax nylanderi	6
Growing up with nutritional stress leads to peripheral social network positions, independent of ‘personality’	6
Anthropogenic noise alters the perception of a predator in a local community of great tits	6
How do male danaine butterflies locate pyrrolizidine alkaloids? The foreleg as an olfactory alkaloid-sensing organ	6
Intraspecific variation in audience effects during outgroup conflict in a cooperatively breeding fish	6
Shedding light on nocturnal behaviour: a cost-effective solution for remote, infrared video recording in the field	6
A combination of rules govern fruit trait preference by frugivorous bat and bird species: nutrients, defence and size	6
The transition to motherhood as the temporal locus of change for social network integration among wild vervet monkeys	6
Guidelines for the treatment of animals in behavioural research and teaching	6