Animal Behaviour

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Social and abiotic factors differentially affect plumage ornamentation of young and old males in an Australian songbird	42
Editors Page	40
Bumble bees strategically use ground level linear features in navigation	37
Olfaction and reproductive isolation in birds	33
Homing navigation is optimized to diurnal constraints in a tropical seabird, the red-footed booby	30
Alarm cue properties and euthanasia impact on tadpole antipredator behaviour in Rana temporaria and Bufo bufo	30
Geographical variation in parental calls contextually shapes nestling songbird responses	29
Weak premating reproductive isolation despite divergence in secondary sexual traits in the variable seedeater	28
Variable and mismatching temperature regimes impair song learning in zebra finches	28
Environmental visual complexity increases the foraging success of mesopredators by promoting explorative behaviours	28
Begging call mimicry and formation of host-specific lineages in the shining bronze-cuckoo, Chalcites lucidus	27
On the function of the male’s front legs in Sepsis flies (Diptera: Sepsidae): evolutionary insight from behavioural detail	27
In dogs, social stimuli overshadow nonsocial stimuli and stronger attachment correlates with responses to the latter	25
Playing music to animals: an interdisciplinary approach to improving our understanding of animals' responses to music	24
Editors Page	24
Communication via female resistance: sexual behavioural modulation and mutual mate choice determinants in a scorpion	23
Foraging location preferences reflect memory interference associated with spatial learning tasks in a food-caching bird	23
The role of contextual and individual factors in male mate choice for size in a marine snail	22
Prepared learning in plant–pollinator interactions	22
The older the bolder: common goldeneye antipredator behaviour based on long-term individual data	21
Looking out for each other: coordination and turn taking in common marmoset vigilance	21
Hatchling vocalizations and beneficial social interactions in subterranean nests of a widespread reptile	21
Retraction notice to “The personality types of key catalytic individuals shape colonies' collective behaviour and success” [Animal Behaviour, 93 (2014), 87–95]	20
Systematic examination of learning in the invasive ant Linepithema humile reveals fast learning and long-lasting memory	20
Mate choice copying in Drosophila is probably less robust than previously suggested	20

Conceptual representations of animal social networks: an overview	20
Task-dependent reversal learning dynamics challenge the reversal paradigm of measuring cognitive flexibility	19
Female–female conflict is higher during periods of parental care in a group-living cichlid fish	19
Plumage convergence resulting from social mimicry in birds? A tetrachromatic view	19
Acoustic signalling performance: variation in vigour at multiple scales	18
Odour discrimination in African painted dogs	18
Personality and behavioural syndromes in two species of fruit bats (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae)	17
Cofoundress association time affects clutch size contributions in a quasisocial parasitoid	17
Long-lasting social bonds of a habitat-structured delphinid social system	17
Facing the heat: nestlings of a cavity-nesting raptor trade safety for food when exposed to high nest temperatures	17
Honey bee foraging behaviour can be influenced by preferencesfor oscillating flowers	17
Eavesdropping on conspecific alarm calls links birds across territory borders into a population-wide information network	16
Social influences on embryonic behaviour and the developmental onset of embryonic acquired predator recognition in minnows	16
Mating displays: the interface of mechanism, function and evolution	16
Behavioural traits for success: comparison between two sympatric lacertid lizard species	16
Strong ties formation, composition and processes at play during the developmental period of juvenile vervet monkeys	15
More aggressive sea turtles win fights over foraging resources independent of body size and years of presence	15
Gut cancer increases the risk of Drosophila being preyed upon by hunting spiders	15
Worker task organization in incipient bumble bee nests	15
28 minutes later: investigating the role of aflatrem-like compounds in Ophiocordyceps parasite manipulation of zombie ants	15
Individual differences in spatial learning are correlated across tasks but not with stress response behaviour in guppies	15
Parental and individual experience with predation risk interact in shaping phenotypes in a sex-specific manner	15
Impacts of fungal disease on dyadic social interactions in a wild agamid lizard	14
Quantifying mating behaviour using accelerometry and machine learning: challenges and opportunities	14
Fitness benefits from co-display favour subdominant male–male partnerships between phenotypes	14
Where the fiddlers sing: fiddler crabs change their tunes depending on the context	14
The effect of performance capacity and decision-making speed on skilful fighting	14
Rise and fall: increasing temperatures have nonlinear effects on aggression in a tropical fish	14
Network formation during social integration in juvenile vervet monkeys	14
Fatherhood increases attraction to sensory stimuli from unrelated pups in male California mice, Peromyscus californicus	14
Past experience with spatial or temporal resource unpredictability shapes exploration in honey bees, Apis mellifera	14
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?	14
Early life events, but not response to a short photoperiod, correlate with foraging behaviour of Siberian hamsters	14
Honest signalling of age in a territorial breeder	13
Problem-solving ability in wild raccoons, Procyon lotor, in relation to external factors and individual traits	13
Homing pigeon navigational ontogeny: no evidence that exposure to a novel release site is sufficient for learning	13
Consistent after all: behavioural repeatability in a long-lived lizard across a 6-year field study	13
Impact of conspecific necromones on the oxygen uptake rates of a benthic elasmobranch	13
Bonobos and chimpanzees preferentially attend to familiar members of the dominant sex	13
Experimental manipulation of population density in a wild bird alters social structure but not patch discovery rate	13
Anthropogenic influences on play of the green monkeys of Barbados	13
Effects of phytochemicals on predatory decision making in a spider	13
The function of chimpanzee greeting calls is modulated by their acoustic variation	13
Relationship quality underpins pair bond formation and subsequent reproductive performance	13
Behavioural sleep in salmonid fish with flexible diel activity	13
Social reinforcement guides operant behaviour and auditory learning in a songbird	13
Behavioural variation facilitates coexistence and explains the functions of mixed-species groups of sympatric delphinids	13
Social organization variation and behavioural flexibility in the facultative cleaning goby Elacatinus prochilos	13
Sex-specific parental care during postfledging in common ravens	13
Effect of experience on mating behaviour in male Heliconius melpomene butterflies	12

Avoid the light to avoid the heat? Thermal and light preferences of Aedes aegypti mosquito larvae	12
Low food stores affect dance communication and health-related gene expression in honey bees	12
Personality is independent of morphological differences in common waxbills	12
Collective attention in navigating homing pigeons: group size effect and individual differences	12
Sexual size dimorphism of brood-parasitic nestlings does not affect host chick survival, size or fledging phenology	12
Punishment from dominant breeders increases helping effort of subordinates in a cooperatively breeding cichlid	12
Approaches to measuring predation pressure	12
Low size dimorphism does not lead to reduced sexual segregation: exploring effects of habitat divergence and activity	12
Response to competing conspecific cues depends on social context in the honey bee Apis mellifera	12
Does parental experience with visual and olfactory predator cues have consequences for offspring in guppies?	12
Infection by virulent wMelPop Wolbachia improves learning and memory capacity in Drosophila melanogaster	12
Courtship is associated with greater spatial cognition and decreased boldness in a swordtail fish	12
Vocal learning in Savannah sparrows: acoustic similarity to neighbours shapes song development and territorial aggression	12
Spatiotemporal patterns of egg laying in the common cuckoo	12
Is biparental defence driven by territory protection, offspring protection or both?	12
Editors’ Acknowledgments	11
Editors Page	11
Disease defences across levels of biological organization: individual and social immunity in acorn ants	11
Adult sex ratio influences courtship behaviour, contest behaviour and breeding success in Onthophagus taurus	11
Female neophobia predicts the use of buildings as nesting sites in a Neotropical songbird	11
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Dispersal and life history of brown widow spiders in dated invasive populations on two continents	11
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The submissive pattern of postconflict affiliation in asymmetric relationships: a test in male and sexually coerced female baboons	11
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Uncertain foraging opportunities and predation risk exert additive effects on induced neophobia in cichlids	11
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Dominant males exploit the courtship effort of subordinate males in an Amazonian fish	11
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Bruce effect, pregnancy block and disruption or feticide: proposal of a new term ‘effect of nonsire male's presence’	11
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Multimodal communication development in semiwild chimpanzees	11
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A novel function of egg burial: burying material prevents eggs rolling out of wind-swayed nests	10
Does song overlap signal aggressiveness? An experimental study with repeated measures in free-ranging great tits	10
Age mediates access to landfill food resources and foraging proficiency in a long-lived bird species	10
Colour morph predicts social behaviour and contest outcomes in a polymorphic lizard (Podarcis erhardii)	10
Reducing the bias due to unknown relationships in measuring the steepness of a dominance hierarchy	10
Female demographic changes contribute to the maintenance of social stability within a primate multilevel society	10
Editors Page	10
Social tolerance plays a key role in shared leadership	10
Determinants of social structure in a northern population of black-tailed prairie dogs, Cynomys ludovicianus	10
Agonistic and affiliative social relationships are associated with marmot docility but not boldness	10
Helping syndrome is partially confirmed in the eusocial naked mole-rat	10
Hainan frilled treefrogs' calls partially conform to Menzerath–Altmann's law, but oppose Zipf's law of abbreviation	10
Trade-offs between sociality and gastrointestinal parasite infection in the context of a natural disaster	10
Indirect effect of familiarity on survival: a path analysis on video game data	10
Friend virus severity is associated with male mouse social status and environmental temperature	10
Coordination of care is facilitated by delayed feeding and collective arrivals in the long-tailed tit	10
Ontogenetic change in social context as a cue for a behavioural switch in spiderlings	10
Are song sequencing rules learned by song sparrows?	9
Contrasting effects of cooperative group size and number of helpers on maternal investment in eggs and nestlings	9
Delayed benefits for fallow bucks: more fights decrease same day mating success, but increase matings the next day	9
My way is the highway: the role of plasticity in learning complex migration routes	9
Does trapping catch sociable, exploratory and innovative mynas preferentially? No, but perhaps less fearful ones	9
Sperm oxidative status varies with the level of sperm competition and affects male reproductive success	9
Diel timing of migration is not plastic in a migratory ungulate	9
Bridging animal personality with space use and resource use in a free-ranging population of an asocial ground squirrel	9
An introduction to the Special Issue honouring Susan A. Foster	9
Male reproductive strategies are influenced by the maternal sociosexual environment	9
Images of nonhuman animals in animal behaviour textbooks communicate an androcentric view of reproductive-related behaviours	9
The relaxed open mouth is a true signal in dogs: demonstrating Tinbergen's ritualization process	9
Testing measures of boldness and exploratory activity in native versus invasive species: geckos as a model system	9
Exploration and spatial cognition show long-term repeatability but no heritability in the Aegean wall lizard	9
Unrevealing components of risk assessment: escape behaviour and refuge use in a web-building spider	9
Behavioural plasticity and the anthropause: an urban bird becomes less aggressive	9
Acquisition of predator knowledge in sooty mangabeys	9
Function of meerkats' mobbing-like response to secondary predator cues: recruitment not teaching	9
Association Page	9
Environment-dependent benefits of interindividual variation in honey bee recruitment	9
Ageing impairs protein leveraging in a sex-specific manner in Drosophila melanogaster	9
Human food provisioning impacts the social environment, home range and fitness of a marine top predator	8
Predatory cue use in flush responses of a colonial nesting seabird during polar bear foraging	8
Reintroducing native predators improves antipredator responses in naïve prey	8
Origin and experience influence the leading behaviour of reintroduced Przewalski's horses	8
Urbanization predicts flight initiation distance in feral pigeons (Columba livia) across New York City	8

Social transmission of egg rejection in a cuckoo host	8
Associations between social behaviour and proinflammatory immune activation are modulated by age in a free-ranging primate population	8
Navigating the night: effects of artificial light on the behaviour of Atlantic puffin fledglings	8
Differential impact of artificial light at night on cognitive flexibility in visual and spatial reversal learning tasks	8
Corrigendum to “Wildlife tourism has little energetic impact on the world's largest predatory shark” [Anim Behav 207 (2024) 247–265]	8
Activity modulation and selection for forests help giant anteaters to cope with temperature changes	8
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Facultative polyandry protects females from compromised male fertility caused by heatwave conditions	8
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Performance of Doppler shift compensation varies with environmental temperature and humidity in bats	8
Greater spear-nosed bats commute long distances alone, rest together, but forage apart	8
Context-dependent preferences in wild fruit bats	8
The unfulfilled potential of dogs in studying behavioural ecology and evolution during the Anthropocene	8
Activity of Asiatic lions in relation to activity of prey and kleptoparasitism	8
Physiological state predicts space use of sharks at a tourism provisioning site	8
Defection on the bounty? Kinship and cooperative exploitation of a rich, essential but dangerous resource	8
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Pseudoreplication of sound treatments in underwater exposure studies	8
Personality-dependent passage behaviour of an aquatic invasive species at a barrier to dispersal	8
Space use and social networks: correlated but not congruent in California ground squirrels	8
Negative frequency-dependent prey selection by wolves and its implications on predator–prey dynamics	8
Male superb lyrebirds mimic functionally distinct heterospecific vocalizations during different modes of sexual display	8
An investigation of personality-related recapture bias in black-capped chickadees, Poecile atricapillus	8
The curious case of rhesus macaques: despotism does not prevent third-party postconflict affiliation	8
Book Review	8
Erratum to “A visual signal to achieve joint attention in wild plains zebras, Equus quagga” [Anim Behav 211 (2024) 131–145]	8
Male and female identity and environmental contexts influence courtship behaviour in a songbird	7
Relaxed territoriality amid female trickery in a solitary carnivore	7
No evidence for olfactory kin discrimination in begging blue tit nestlings	7
Genital behaviour in Menidon falcatus (Diptera, Syrphidae) and the possible significance of repeated, rhythmic movements	7
The importance of detailed observations of behaviour and natural history for generating and answering novel questions	7
Carotenoid intake during early life mediates ontogenetic colour shifts and dynamic colour change during adulthood	7
Group resource-holding potential: worker size, colony size and the outcome of contests in ants	7
Low-amplitude noise elicits the Lombard effect in plainfin midshipman mating vocalizations in the wild	7
How does evolution against brood parasites reshape or modify an instinctive behaviour in birds?	7
Extrapair paternity alongside social reproduction increases male lifetime fitness	7
Spatial fidelity and uniform exploration in the foraging behaviour of a giant predatory ant	7
Behavioural correlations across multiple stages of the antipredator response: do animals that escape sooner hide longer?	7
Feeding rate reflects quality in both parents and offspring: a longitudinal study in common terns	7
Alternative reproductive tactics: a fixed trait in a large mammal?	7
Syntactically aberrant vocalization in cuckoos disrupts communication but triggers host responses	7
How coevolution in daily activity rhythms governs encounters between predator and prey	7
Capuchin monkeys’ ability to choose beneficial options is inhibited by added complexity	7
Erratum to “The effect of temporal masking on alarm call communication in wild superb fairy-wrens” [Animal Behaviour, 219 (2025) Article 122996]	7
Considering temporal variations in mating opportunities: consequences for sexual selection estimates	7
Do cognitive traits associate with everyday behaviour in the domestic dog, Canis familiaris?	7
Mate-guarding behaviour in anurans: intrasexual selection and the evolution of prolonged amplexus in the harlequin toad Atelopus laetissimus	7
Escape behaviour of translocated eastern barred bandicoots differs in relation to invasive predators but not competitors	7
A migratory sparrow has personality in winter that is independent of other traits	7
Male chimpanzees communicate to mediate competition and cooperation during feeding	7
Mobbing sequences of American wrens elicit mobbing responses in European tits	7
Investigating the use of odour and colour foraging cues by rosy-faced lovebirds using deep-learning based analysis	7
Environmental variation promotes colour morph-specific behavioural differences in a cichlid fish	7
The causes and consequences of yawning in animal groups	7
Social and individual learners use different pathways to success in an ant minisociety	7
A step in the right direction: the effect of context, strain and sex on paw preference in mice	7
Postcopulatory song as a mate-guarding tactic in the Pacific field cricket, Teleogryllus oceanicus	7
Go your own way? Reasons for divorce in a monogamous seabird	6
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Sit-and-wait foraging is not enough in food-deprived environments: evidence from groundwater and salamanders	6
Differences in visual perception are correlated with variation in sea-finding behaviour between hatchling leatherback, Dermochelys coriacea, and loggerhead, Caretta caretta, marine turtles	6
Intergroup lethal gang attacks in wild crested macaques, Macaca nigra	6
Editors Page	6
Sex-mediated changes in foraging behaviour according to breeding stage in a monomorphic seabird adapted to rural habitats	6
Assessing variability in affiliative maintenance behaviours in captive coppery titi monkeys, Plecturocebus cupreus	6
Lean muscle mass, not aggression, mediates a link between dominance rank and testosterone in wild male chimpanzees	6
Behavioural plasticity shapes participation in a mixed-species flocking community of birds	6
Persistence of alternative reproductive tactics: a test of game-theoretic predictions	6
Foreign–local microdialect discrimination in a songbird, the black redstart	6
Exploring the interplay between nest vocalizations and foraging behaviour in breeding birds	6
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Vocal recognition of distance calls in a group-living basal bird: the greylag goose, Anser anser	6
Looking into each other's eyes makes it better: eye-to-eye contact enhances sexual interactions in wild geladas	6
Variability in ambient temperature promotes juvenile participation and shorter latency in a learning test in zebra finches	6
Obituary in memoriam of Professor Matthew J.G. Gage	6
Referential gestures are not ubiquitous in wild chimpanzees: alternative functions for exaggerated loud scratch gestures	6
Unbalanced dietary omega-6:3 ratio affects onset of nursing and nurse–larvae interactions by honey bees, Apis mellifera	6
Does cognitive performance predict contest outcome in pigs?	6
Individuality, as well as genetic background, affects syntactical features of courtship songs in male mice	6
Beyond plumage: acrobatic courtship displays show intermediate patterns in manakin hybrids	6
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Phenotypic plasticity in the anthropause: does reduced human activity impact novel nesting behaviour in an urban bird?	6
Display structure size affects the production of and response to multimodal duets in magpie-larks	6
No evidence of negative frequency-dependent selection in alternative reproductive tactics in a bulb mite	6
k-mer analysis shows hybrid hummingbirds perform variable, transgressive courtship sequences	6
More than the sum of its parts: individual behavioural phenotypes of a wild pinniped	6
Unusual use of shallow habitats may be evidence of a cultural tradition in Baird's beaked whales	6
Visual learning, route formation and the choreography of looking back in desert ants, Melophorus bagoti	6
Not enough time: short-term female presence after oviposition does not improve egg survival in the emerald glass frog	6