Animal Behaviour

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Editors Page	69
Editors’ Acknowledgments	50
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Sexual size dimorphism of brood-parasitic nestlings does not affect host chick survival, size or fledging phenology	40
Strong ties formation, composition and processes at play during the developmental period of juvenile vervet monkeys	39
28 minutes later: investigating the role of aflatrem-like compounds in Ophiocordyceps parasite manipulation of zombie ants	37
Female–female conflict is higher during periods of parental care in a group-living cichlid fish	37
Low size dimorphism does not lead to reduced sexual segregation: exploring effects of habitat divergence and activity	37
Anthropogenic influences on play of the green monkeys of Barbados	35
Olfaction and reproductive isolation in birds	32
Foraging location preferences reflect memory interference associated with spatial learning tasks in a food-caching bird	32
Association Page	31
Prepared learning in plant–pollinator interactions	31
Parental predator exposure affects offspring boldness and laterality in the stickleback	30
Brown-headed cowbirds select nests to parasitize based on individual host attributes rather than nest type	28
Stimulus type and social context are stronger than individual differences in common marmosets' novelty exploration	27
Indirect effect of familiarity on survival: a path analysis on video game data	25
Bottlenose dolphin community structure along Florida’s Gulf coast	25
Erratum to “Extreme temperatures can intensify predator–prey interactions” [Animal Behaviour 225, July 2025, 123242]	24
The unfulfilled potential of dogs in studying behavioural ecology and evolution during the Anthropocene	24
Urbanization predicts flight initiation distance in feral pigeons (Columba livia) across New York City	23
Sperm oxidative status varies with the level of sperm competition and affects male reproductive success	21
Male reproductive strategies are influenced by the maternal sociosexual environment	21
Environment-dependent benefits of interindividual variation in honey bee recruitment	21
Diel timing of migration is not plastic in a migratory ungulate	20

Reducing the bias due to unknown relationships in measuring the steepness of a dominance hierarchy	20
Collective attention in navigating homing pigeons: group size effect and individual differences	20
Fitness incentives to male fighters undermine fighting performance in intergroup contests	20
Coordination of care is facilitated by delayed feeding and collective arrivals in the long-tailed tit	20
Hatchling vocalizations and beneficial social interactions in subterranean nests of a widespread reptile	19
Honey bee foraging behaviour can be influenced by preferencesfor oscillating flowers	19
Association Page	19
Behavioural plasticity and the anthropause: an urban bird becomes less aggressive	19
Conceptual representations of animal social networks: an overview	19
Editors Page	19
Punishment from dominant breeders increases helping effort of subordinates in a cooperatively breeding cichlid	19
Association Page	18
Phenotypic plasticity in the anthropause: does reduced human activity impact novel nesting behaviour in an urban bird?	18
Resource limitation drives fission–fusion dynamics of group composition and size in a social bird	18
k-mer analysis shows hybrid hummingbirds perform variable, transgressive courtship sequences	18
Canada jays, Perisoreus canadensis, use multiple context-dependent cache protection strategies	17
Frenemies in Fur: neighbour–stranger discrimination and the ‘dear enemy’ effect in mammals, and how it relates to sociality	17
Socially cued anticipatory plasticity predicts male primary mating tactic but not mating behaviour rates	17
The social consequences of sexual conflict in bed bugs: social networks and sexual attraction	17
Inconsistent fear: repeatability in flight initiation distance and neophobic behaviour differs in a ground-nesting bird	17
Woodpeckers are more cryptic against tree bark on which they forage	17
Editors' Acknowledgments	17
The choice of euthanasia techniques can affect experimental results in aquatic behavioural studies	17
No evidence of kin preferences in a feral horse multilevel society	16
Prenatal sound experience affects song preferences in male zebra finches	16
Carotenoid intake during early life mediates ontogenetic colour shifts and dynamic colour change during adulthood	16
Wild kangaroos become more social when caring for young and may maintain long-term affiliations with popular individuals	16
The influence of social rank on learning in a group-living fish	16
Contrasting acoustic-space competition avoidance strategies in Afrotropical forest birds	16
Exploring the potency and replenishment of woodfrog disturbance cues, a nonspecific communication system in aquatic species	16
Potential costs of learning have no detectable impact on reproductive success for bumble bees	16
Mobbing sequences of American wrens elicit mobbing responses in European tits	16
The importance of detailed observations of behaviour and natural history for generating and answering novel questions	16
Investigating the impact of human disturbance on predator behaviour in human-dominated landscapes	16
Association Page	16
Active interactions between animals and technology: biohybrid approaches for animal behaviour research	16
Editors Page	15
Collective close calling mediates group cohesion in foraging meerkats via spatially determined differences in call rates	15
Helicopter parenting: local-scale environment determines hiding and supervision in neonatal ungulates	15
Editors Page	15
Sex roles in parental care in a species with precocial offspring and frequent brood desertion	15
Neural networks reveal emergent properties of collective learning in democratic but not despotic groups	15
Assessing animal welfare: a triangulation of preference, judgement bias and other candidate welfare indicators	15
Keep calm and carry on: reactive indifference to predator encounters by a gregarious prey species	15
Plant choice for oviposition in the phytophagous insect Bemisia tabaci: cytotype, including symbionts, knows best!	15
Association Page	14
Wildlife tourism has little energetic impact on the world's largest predatory shark	14
Bachelor groups form due to individual choices or environmental disrupters in African striped mice	14
Male forehead gland scent may encode multiple information in the great Himalayan leaf-nosed bat, Hipposideros armiger	14
Validation of a novel immersive virtual reality set-up with responses of wild-caught freely moving coral reef fish	14

Roost fidelity partially explains maternity roosting association patterns in Myotis lucifugus	14
Heat stress inhibits cognitive performance in wild Western Australian magpies, Cracticus tibicen dorsalis	14
Light modulates population differences in alternative mating tactics in Trinidadian guppies	13
Erratum to “Context-dependent responses of naïve ungulates to wolf-sound playback in a human-dominated landscape” [Animal Behaviour, 185 (2022), 9–20]	13
Editors Page	13
Effects of assortative mating for personality on reproductive success in greylag geese, Anser anser	13
Ionizing radiation alters male Acheta domesticus courtship songs that are critical for mating success	13
Editors Page	13
Effects of hormones and digestive tract morphology on personality-driven foraging behaviour in the turtle Mauremys reevesii	13
I love to hate my neighbour: how recognition of dear enemies affects male antipredator behaviours in a lizard species	13
Hyperparasitoids exploit plant volatiles to locate their parasitoid host despite nonhost herbivore interference	13
Human impact on deer use is greater than predators and competitors in a multiuse recreation area	13
Earwig mothers can boost offspring’s defence against pathogens during postoviposition care	13
Information maintenance of food sources is associated with environment, spatial cognition and age in a food-caching bird	13
Interaction between sexual communication functions leads to reproductive interference in two syntopic scorpion species	13
Association Page	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
Learning predictably changing spatial patterns across days in a food-caching bird	12
Reversal learning of visual cues in Heliconiini butterflies	12
Too hot to handle: male dragonflies decrease time spent mating at higher temperatures	12
Social preference persists at roosting aggregations in a cooperatively breeding bird	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
Social impact of mara pair disruption on the formation of new bonds and reproduction in a multiple mate choice context	12
Association Page	12
Effect of age and mating on body condition, fecundity and metabolic rate in female sand crickets, Gryllus firmus	12
Is female mate choice repeatable across males with nearly identical songs?	12
Finding love: fruit fly males evolving under higher sexual selection are inherently better at finding receptive females	12
Studying mate choice using inertial measurement units: a validation study with treefrogs	12
Evidence of stable preferential affiliative relationships in the domestic pig	11
The effect of turbidity on female mate choice in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata	11
Innovating to solve a novel puzzle: wild Asian elephants vary in their ability to problem solve	11
Invasion of alien slugs in disturbed habitats: role of behavioural phenotype, plasticity and interspecific competition	11
The parasitoid Cotesia glomerata responds differently to plant volatile emission induced by parasitized caterpillars	11
The effect of temporal masking on alarm call communication in wild superb fairy-wrens	11
The ontogeny of nest-building behaviour in Sumatran orang-utans, Pongo abelii	11
Editors Page	11
How do primates decide where to feed? Insights from wild western gorillas	11
Workload inequality increases with group size in a cooperatively breeding bird	11
Experimental evidence that nestlings adjust their fledging time to each other in a multiparous bird	11
Information cascades spread adaptive and maladaptive behaviours in group-living animals	11
Nest construction and its effect on posthatching family life in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides	11
Microgeographical variation in birdsong: Savannah sparrows exhibit microdialects in an island population	11
Females pair with males larger than themselves in a socially monogamous songbird	11
Evaluating adaptive hypotheses for female-led infanticide in wild chimpanzees	11
Getting lost: the fungal hijacking of ant foraging behaviour in space and time	11
Selective social tolerance drives differentiated relationships among wild female chimpanzees	11
The role of male body size in mating success and male–male competition in a false widow spider	11
Costa's hummingbird has an extended sensitive phase of vocal learning	11
Thermoenergetic challenges and daytime behavioural patterns of a wild cathemeral mammal	11
Social networks of the greater horseshoe bat during the hibernation season: a landscape-scale case study	10
Resting ecology of parasitoids in the field: safe in a bed and breakfast?	10
Knowing a fellow by their bellow: acoustic individuality in the bellows of the American alligator	10
Association Page	10
Food-exchanging Norway rats apply the direct reciprocity decision rule rather than copying by imitation	10
Fitness effects of seasonal birth timing in a long-lived social primate living in the equatorial forest	10
Searching day and night: diel hierarchical search patterns in a large marine predator that never stops swimming	10
Infection impairs problem-solving performance in American crows	10
Higher cortisol in muscle correlates with weaker strength of female mate preference in the swordtail fish Xiphophorus multilineatus	10
Is sexiness cumulative? Arguments from birdsong culture	10
Computational analyses of dynamic visual displays reveal diet-dependent male signalling in Rabidosa rabida wolf spiders	10
The smell of familiarity: conspecific faeces influence roost exploration and occupation in wild Bechstein's bats	10
Ranging patterns and mortality of an at-risk marine mammal resident in a highly urbanized estuary	10
The heritability of fear: decomposing sources of variation in marmot flight initiation distance	10
Socioecological correlates of social play in adult mantled howler monkeys	10
Human activity selectively affects a dynamic defensive mutualism	10
Acoustic modulation of reproductive hormones in the blacktail shiner, Cyprinella venusta, a soniferous cyprinid	10
Capybara responses to varying levels of predation risk	10
Experimental evidence for female mate choice in a noctuid moth	10
Both humans and conspecifics provide social support to dog and wolf puppies	10
When sibling tolerance meets cannibalism of the dead in spiderlings	10
Biological, social and ecological correlates of social play in immature Bwindi mountain gorillas, Gorilla beringei beringei	9
Mechanisms of mobbing call recognition: exploring featural decoding in great tits	9
Short- and medium-term exposure to salinity alters response to predation, activity and spatial movements in tadpoles	9
The role of similarity of stimuli and responses in learning by nectar-foraging bumble bees: a test of Osgood’s model	9
The effects of prenatal predator cue exposure on offspring substrate preferences in the wolf spider Tigrosa helluo	9
Animal Behaviour Best Paper Prizes 2024	9
Dogs, demonstrators and detours: does the shape of the obstacle matter?	9
Editors Page	9
Size-based dominance relationships in female forest elephants, Loxodonta cyclotis	9

Vocal sacs do not function in multimodal mate attraction under nocturnal illumination in Cope's grey treefrog	9
Egg turning in a subtropical shorebird has a diel rhythmicityand is affected by predation risk	9
Size sometimes matters: recognition of known predators with artificially altered body size by untrained birds	9
Within-cavity nest preferences: honey bees favour the entrance rather than the ceiling when initiating their nest	9
Costs and benefits of isolation from siblings during family life in adult earwigs	9
Social exploitation of extensive, ephemeral, environmentally controlled prey patches by supergroups of rorqual whales	9
Long-term observations reveal short-term mother–calf affiliation in wild harbour porpoises	9
Definition and interpretation effects: how different vigilance definitions can produce varied results	9
Book Review	9
Changes in movement characteristics in response to private and social information acquisition of socially foraging fish	9
Editors Page	9
How healthy is your mate? Sex-specific consequences of parasite infections in the moth Helicoverpa armigera	9
Fitness benefits from co-display favour subdominant male–male partnerships between phenotypes	8
Guidelines for the ethical treatment of nonhuman animals in behavioural research and teaching	8
Association Page	8
Homing pigeon navigational ontogeny: no evidence that exposure to a novel release site is sufficient for learning	8
Consistent individual differences give rise to ‘caching syndromes’ in a food-storing passerine	8
Maternal conflict intervention is more frequent in chimpanzee compared to bonobo development	8
Physiological innovation and the evolutionary elaboration of courtship behaviour	8
Habituation or sensitization? Short-term adjustment of flight initiation distance in incubating common eiders	8
Family pigs’ and dogs’ reactions to human emotional vocalizations:a citizen science study	8
Performance of Doppler shift compensation varies with environmental temperature and humidity in bats	8
Behavioural sleep in salmonid fish with flexible diel activity	8
Urban foxes are bolder but not more innovative than their rural conspecifics	8
Goats discriminate emotional valence in the human voice	8
The context of sexual coercion in orang-utans: when do male and female mating interests collide?	8
Sex-specific territoriality, aggression and duetting in the Carolina wren during the nonbreeding season	8
Courtship vocalizations of wild house mice show highly dynamic changes and correlate with male copulatory success	8
Association Page	8
Editors Page	8
Behavioural context shapes vocal sequences in two anuran species with different repertoire sizes	8
Growing into it: evidence of an ontogenetic shift in grey whale use of foraging tactics	8
The case for investigating the cognitive map in nonavian reptiles	8
Exposure to lead (Pb) contamination heightens predator avoidance behaviours in an urban bird	8
Parental care behaviour in bumble bee queens is tightly regulated by the number of helpers in incipient nests	8
Age mediates access to landfill food resources and foraging proficiency in a long-lived bird species	7
Display structure size affects the production of and response to multimodal duets in magpie-larks	7
Editors Page	7
Female demographic changes contribute to the maintenance of social stability within a primate multilevel society	7
The spiders that lost their personalities: assessing long-term behavioural individuality in social Stegodyphus dumicola	7
Feeding rate reflects quality in both parents and offspring: a longitudinal study in common terns	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
Helping syndrome is partially confirmed in the eusocial naked mole-rat	7
Adult sex ratio influences courtship behaviour, contest behaviour and breeding success in Onthophagus taurus	7
Alarm cue properties and euthanasia impact on tadpole antipredator behaviour in Rana temporaria and Bufo bufo	7
Fatherhood increases attraction to sensory stimuli from unrelated pups in male California mice, Peromyscus californicus	7
What it is like to be an optimist: temporal stability of cognitive bias in rats and its link to other individual traits	7
Visual and chemical signals function multimodally in species recognition	7
Understanding unpredictability: factors influencing how long antlion larvae play dead as an antipredator behaviour	7
The relaxed open mouth is a true signal in dogs: demonstrating Tinbergen's ritualization process	7
Playing music to animals: an interdisciplinary approach to improving our understanding of animals' responses to music	7
Corrigendum to “Consistency and plasticity of risk-taking behaviour towards humans at the nest in urban and forest great tits, Parus major” [Animal Behaviour, 179 (2021), 161–172]	7
Delayed benefits for fallow bucks: more fights decrease same day mating success, but increase matings the next day	7
Behavioural traits for success: comparison between two sympatric lacertid lizard species	7
Friend virus severity is associated with male mouse social status and environmental temperature	7
Infection by virulent wMelPop Wolbachia improves learning and memory capacity in Drosophila melanogaster	7
Predatory cue use in flush responses of a colonial nesting seabird during polar bear foraging	7
In dogs, social stimuli overshadow nonsocial stimuli and stronger attachment correlates with responses to the latter	7
Pseudoreplication of sound treatments in underwater exposure studies	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
Negative frequency-dependent prey selection by wolves and its implications on predator–prey dynamics	7
Capuchin monkeys’ ability to choose beneficial options is inhibited by added complexity	7
Editors Page	7
Does song overlap signal aggressiveness? An experimental study with repeated measures in free-ranging great tits	7
Images of nonhuman animals in animal behaviour textbooks communicate an androcentric view of reproductive-related behaviours	7
Space use and social networks: correlated but not congruent in California ground squirrels	7
Gut cancer increases the risk of Drosophila being preyed upon by hunting spiders	7
Rise and fall: increasing temperatures have nonlinear effects on aggression in a tropical fish	7
Reintroducing native predators improves antipredator responses in naïve prey	7
Determinants of social structure in a northern population of black-tailed prairie dogs, Cynomys ludovicianus	7
Impacts of fungal disease on dyadic social interactions in a wild agamid lizard	7
Editors Page	7
Unravelling communicative complexity: a multimodal comparative study of two lemur species with different social systems	7
Long-lasting social bonds of a habitat-structured delphinid social system	7
Editors Page	6
Predation facilitates evolution of sex-specific antipredator defences in a sexually dimorphic beetle	6
Behavioural thermoregulation compensates for changes in solar insolation in a wild insect	6
Guidelines for the treatment of animals in behavioural research and teaching	6
African penguins utilize their ventral dot patterns for individual recognition	6
Intraspecific variation in audience effects during outgroup conflict in a cooperatively breeding fish	6
Ideal free distribution of unequal competitors: spatial assortment and evolutionary diversification of competitive ability	6
Editors Page	6
Vocal recognition of distance calls in a group-living basal bird: the greylag goose, Anser anser	6
Relationship quality affects social stress buffering in dogs and wolves	6
Unbalanced dietary omega-6:3 ratio affects onset of nursing and nurse–larvae interactions by honey bees, Apis mellifera	6
Stable isotopes reveal the effects of maternal rank and infant age on weaning dynamics in wild chacma baboons	6
Social learning of navigational routes in tandem-running acorn ants, Temnothorax nylanderi	6
The transition to motherhood as the temporal locus of change for social network integration among wild vervet monkeys	6
Editors Page	6
Urban colonies are less aggressive but forage more than their forest counterparts in the ant Temnothorax nylanderi	6
Anthropogenic noise alters the perception of a predator in a local community of great tits	6
Why do some birds fledge late in the day?	6
Behavioural type depends on temperature and body size, but is uncoupled from metabolism, in an African lizard	6
Influence of maternal kinship on association network structure in a long-term study of spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi)	6