Animal Behaviour

Article	Citations
The development of animal personality across ontogeny: a cross-species review	60
Sex-specific foraging behaviour is affected by wind conditions in a sexually size dimorphic seabird	34
Innovation and decreased neophobia drive invasion success in a widespread avian invader	33
Chimpanzees combine pant hoots with food calls into larger structures	33
Cognitive characteristics of 8- to 10-week-old assistance dog puppies	33
Effects of multiple stressors on fish shoal collective motion are independent and vary with shoaling metric	27
Interactions between social groups of colobus monkeys (Colobus vellerosus) explain similarities in their gut microbiomes	27
Novelty at second glance: a critical appraisal of the novel object paradigm based on meta-analysis	26
Is less more? A commentary on the practice of ‘metric hacking’ in animal social network analysis	26
Guidelines for the ethical treatment of nonhuman animals in behavioural research and teaching	25
Facultative polyandry protects females from compromised male fertility caused by heatwave conditions	25
Prosociality, social tolerance and partner choice facilitate mutually beneficial cooperation in common marmosets, Callithrix jacchus	25
Social bonds predict dominance trajectories in adult male chimpanzees	25
Integration of physiology, behaviour and life history traits: personality and pace of life in a marine gastropod	25
Bateman (1948): rise and fall of a paradigm?	24
Does dispersal make the heart grow bolder? Avoidance of anthropogenic habitat elements across wolf life history	24
The role of diversity in science: a case study of women advancing female birdsong research	24
When personality matters: personality and social structure in wild bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus	24
Diversity and inclusion activisms in animal behaviour and the ABS: a historical view from the U.S.A.	23
Behavioural lateralization in a detour test is not repeatable in fishes	23
Low-amplitude noise elicits the Lombard effect in plainfin midshipman mating vocalizations in the wild	23
Yawn contagion promotes motor synchrony in wild lions, Panthera leo	23
Contingent parental responses are naturally associated with zebra finch song learning	22
The role of spatial accuracy and precision in hermit crab contests	22
Comparative analysis of noise effects on wild and captive freshwater fish behaviour	21

Virile crayfish escalate aggression according to body size instead of weapon size	21
Insights found in century-old writings on animal behaviour and some cautions for today	21
A primer on the relationship between group size and group performance	20
The reliability of individual vocal signature varies across the bonobo's graded repertoire	20
Vocal athletics – from birdsong production mechanisms to sexy songs	20
Guidelines for the treatment of animals in behavioural research and teaching	20
Getting lost: the fungal hijacking of ant foraging behaviour in space and time	20
Social network stability is impacted by removing a dominant male in replicate dominance hierarchies of a cichlid fish	20
Animal size and sea water temperature, but not pH, influence a repeatable startle response behaviour in a wide-ranging marine mollusc	19
Do bumble bees play?	19
Environmental context elicits behavioural modification of collective state in schooling fish	19
Parasitism and host social behaviour: a meta-analysis of insights derived from social network analysis	19
Wind slows play: increasing wind speed reduces flower visiting rate in honey bees	19
Ultrasonic courtship vocalizations of male house mice contain distinct individual signatures	19
The effect of individual learning on collective foraging in honey bees in differently structured landscapes	18
City mice and country mice: innovative problem solving in rural and urban noncommensal rodents	18
Aggression and motivation to disperse in eusocial naked mole-rats, Heterocephalus glaber	18
Complex interactions between temperature, sexual signals and mate choice in a desert-dwelling jumping spider	18
Egg rejection changes with seasonal variation in risk of cuckoo parasitism in Daurian redstarts, Phoenicurus auroreus	18
Underwater noise impairs social communication during aggressive and reproductive encounters	18
Heat stress inhibits cognitive performance in wild Western Australian magpies, Cracticus tibicen dorsalis	17
Mechanisms and constraints underlying acoustic variation in rodents	17
The representation of animal behaviour in the fossil record	17
Motivation, accuracy and positive feedback through experience explain innovative problem solving and its repeatability	17
Short-term impacts of daily feeding on the residency, distribution and energy expenditure of sharks	17
Predator exposure enhances the escape behaviour of a small marsupial, the burrowing bettong	17
The causes and consequences of yawning in animal groups	17
Behavioural correlations across multiple stages of the antipredator response: do animals that escape sooner hide longer?	17
From ridge tops to ravines: landscape drivers of chimpanzee ranging patterns	17
Herring gull aversion to gaze in urban and rural human settlements	16
Predatory behaviour as a personality trait in a wild fish population	16
Bumble bees strategically use ground level linear features in navigation	16
Timing of mating, reproductive status and resource availability in relation to migration in the painted lady butterfly	16
How does individual variation in sociality influence fitness in prairie voles?	16
Urban birdsongs: higher minimum song frequency of an urban colonist persists in a common garden experiment	16
Stable social groups foster conformity and among-group differences	16
The history and impact of women in animal behaviour and the ABS: a North American perspective	16
Social exploitation of extensive, ephemeral, environmentally controlled prey patches by supergroups of rorqual whales	15
A combination of rules govern fruit trait preference by frugivorous bat and bird species: nutrients, defence and size	15
Plumage colour saturation predicts long-term, cross-seasonal social dominance in a mutually ornamented bird	15
Dynamic terminal investment in male burying beetles	15
Ontogeny of vocal learning in a hummingbird	15
Bonobos and chimpanzees preferentially attend to familiar members of the dominant sex	15
Mate choice and the ‘opposite miss’ to Weber's law: proportional processing governs signal preferences in a treefrog	15
Pigeons remember visual landmarks after one release and rely upon them more if they are anosmic	15
Urbanization predicts flight initiation distance in feral pigeons (Columba livia) across New York City	15
Effects of prey colour on bird predation: an experiment in Mediterranean woodlands	14
The dark side of play: play fighting as a substitute for real fighting in domestic pigs, Sus scrofa	14
Complex distress calls sound frightening: the case of the weeping lizard	14
Seasonal shifts in activity timing reduce heat loss of small mammals during winter	14

Good prospects: high-resolution telemetry data suggests novel brood site selection behaviour in waterfowl	14
The function of chimpanzee greeting calls is modulated by their acoustic variation	14
Experimental manipulation of mixed-species flocks reveals heterospecific audience effects on calling	14
Polar bear foraging on common eider eggs: estimating the energetic consequences of a climate-mediated behavioural shift	14
Social interactions and interaction partners in infant orang-utans of two wild populations	14
Consistent after all: behavioural repeatability in a long-lived lizard across a 6-year field study	14
Task-dependent reversal learning dynamics challenge the reversal paradigm of measuring cognitive flexibility	13
Fitness effects of seasonal birth timing in a long-lived social primate living in the equatorial forest	13
Analysis of female song provides insight into the evolution of sex differences in a widely studied songbird	13
Ontogeny and personality affect inhibitory control in guppies, Poecilia reticulata	13
Variable use of polyadic grooming and its effect on access to social partners in wild chimpanzees and bonobos	13
Negative frequency-dependent prey selection by wolves and its implications on predator–prey dynamics	13
Bridging animal personality with space use and resource use in a free-ranging population of an asocial ground squirrel	13
Claw size predicts dominance within and between invasive species of crayfish	13
Black widows on an urban heat island: extreme heat affects spider development and behaviour from egg to adulthood	13
Relationship quality affects social stress buffering in dogs and wolves	13
Play fighting in wild spotted hyaenas: like a bridge over the troubled water of a hierarchical society	13
Punishment controls helper defence against egg predators but not fish predators in cooperatively breeding cichlids	13
The genesis of giants: behavioural ontogeny of male northern elephant seals	13
Collective behaviour of fish in the presence and absence of flow	13
Flipping the parental switch: from killing to caring in male mammals	13
Automating the analysis of fish grazing behaviour from videos using image classification and optical flow	13
Disentangling the importance of social and ecological information in goal-directed movements in a wild primate	13
Content bias in the cultural evolution of house finch song	12
Social connectedness and movements among communities of giraffes vary by sex and age class	12
Contest competition for fruit and space among wild chimpanzees in relation to the vertical stratification of metabolizable energy	12
Are all butterflies equal? Population-wise proboscis length variation predicts flower choice in a butterfly	12
Movement tortuosity and speed reveal the trade-offs of crop raiding for African elephants	12
Let's talk about sex roles: what affects perceptions of sex differences in animal behaviour?	12
Balancing risk and reward: mating opportunity influences thermal refuge use in fiddler crabs	12
Food availability reverses the effect of hunger state on copulation rate in Drosophila prolongata females	12
Vibratory communication in a black widow spider (Latrodectus hesperus): signal structure and signalling mechanisms	12
Personality shifts are inconsistent across two rapid range expansions of a non-native spider	12
Colour morph predicts social behaviour and contest outcomes in a polymorphic lizard (Podarcis erhardii)	12
Plasticity and repeatability of activity patterns in free-living Arctic ground squirrels	11
Niche partitioning and individual specialization among age, breeding status and sex classes in a long-lived seabird	11
Behavioural context shapes vocal sequences in two anuran species with different repertoire sizes	11
Birdsong learning is mutually beneficial for tutee and tutor in song sparrows	11
Sex- and context-specific associations between personality and a measure of fitness but no link with life history traits	11
Spatially clustered resources increase male aggregation and mating duration in Drosophila melanogaster	11
Hive minded: like neurons, honey bees collectively integrate negative feedback to regulate decisions	11
Love thy neighbour: behavioural and endocrine correlates of male strategies during intergroup encounters in bonobos	11
Reactive and pre-emptive spatial cohesion in a social primate	11
Intergroup lethal gang attacks in wild crested macaques, Macaca nigra	11
Environmental and life history factors, but not age, influence social learning about food: a meta-analysis	11
Maternal stress during pregnancy affects activity, exploration and potential dispersal of daughters in an invasive fish	11
Costs, constraints and sexual trait elaboration	11
Cleaner fish and other wrasse match primates in their ability to delay gratification	11
The role of visual and olfactory cues in social decisions of guppies and zebrafish	11
Skilful mating? Insights from animal contest research	10
Filial egg cannibalism in the European earwig: its determinants and implications in the evolution of maternal egg care	10
Collective close calling mediates group cohesion in foraging meerkats via spatially determined differences in call rates	10
Animal territoriality, property and access: a collaborative exchange between animal behaviour and the social sciences	10
Information use in foraging flocks of songbirds: no evidence for social transmission of patch quality	10
Leptin regulates song effort in Neotropical singing mice (Scotinomys teguina)	10
Analysing age structure, residency and relatedness uncovers social network structure in aggregations of young birds	10
Relationship quality underpins pair bond formation and subsequent reproductive performance	10
Physiological innovation and the evolutionary elaboration of courtship behaviour	10
Do less or eat more: strategies to cope with costs of parental care in a pair-living monkey	10
Different as night and day: wild bats modify echolocation in complex environments when visual cues are present	10
Social environment affects inhibitory control via developmental plasticity in a fish	10
Autumn migratory timing and pace are driven by breeding season carryover effects	10
Genetic ancestry predicts male–female affiliation in a natural baboon hybrid zone	10
Nest construction, ambient temperature and reproductive success in a cavity-nesting bird	10
Complex trade-offs in oviposition site selection in a cannibalistic frog	10
A study of tactical and sexual dimorphism in cognition with insights for sexual conflict	10
Bateman (1948): was it all wrong? A comment on Hoquet (2020)	10
Trade-offs of strategic sperm adjustments and their consequences under phenotype–environment mismatches in guppies	10
Winner effects and switching assessment strategies facilitate fast and frugal decisions in territorial contests	10
Sharing spaces: niche differentiation in diet and substrate use among wild capuchin monkeys	10
Interacting effects of short-term and long-term noise exposure on antipredator behaviour in sand gobies	10
A reproductive heir has a central position in multilayer social networks of paper wasps	10
Spawning-related movements in a salmonid appear timed to reduce exposure to visually oriented predators	10
Trade-off between predation risk and behavioural thermoregulation drives resting behaviour in a cold-adapted mesocarnivore	10
Measuring mimicry: methods for quantifying visual similarity	10
Sequential and network analyses to describe multiple signal use in captive mangabeys	10
Disentangling female postmating responses induced by semen transfer components in a simultaneous hermaphrodite	10
Vocal learning in Savannah sparrows: acoustic similarity to neighbours shapes song development and territorial aggression	10
Evidence for the ‘behavioural character’ hypothesis: does boldness programme disparate antipredator strategies?	10
The dance of the Cape gannet may contain social information on foraging behaviour	10

Behavioural flexibility in a heat-sensitive endotherm: the role of bed sites as thermal refuges	9
Combining social information use and comfort seeking for nest site selection in a cavity-nesting raptor	9
Autumn southward migration of dragonflies along the Baltic coast and the influence of weather on flight behaviour	9
‘Hangry’ Drosophila: food deprivation increases male aggression	9
Shifting balances in the weighting of sensory modalities are predicted by divergence in brain morphology in incipient species of Heliconius butterflies	9
Long-term repeatability and age-related plasticity of female behaviour in a free-living passerine	9
Protective coloration of European vipers throughout the predation sequence	9
Assessing animal welfare: a triangulation of preference, judgement bias and other candidate welfare indicators	9
Anthropogenic noise alters the perception of a predator in a local community of great tits	9
Do reproductive constraints or experience drive age-dependent space use in two large herbivores?	9
Rearing enrichments differentially modified hen personality traits and reduced prediction of range use	9
Extrapair paternity in a sequentially polyandrous shorebird: limited evidence for the sperm storage hypothesis	9
Geographical variation of social calls and vocal discrimination in male Himalayan leaf-nosed bats	9
Phenotype networks reveal differences between practice and courtship displays in swallow-tailed manakins	9
The form and function of chimpanzee buttress drumming	9
The behaviour of infected guppies depends on social context, parasite tolerance and host sex	9
Plumage manipulation alters associations between behaviour, physiology, the internal microbiome and fitness	9
Precise cache detection by olfaction in a scatter-hoarder bird	9
Producer–scrounger relationships in yellow-bellied marmots	9
Using ternary plots to investigate continuous variation in animal contest strategies	9
Urban populations of shrews show larger behavioural differences among individuals than rural populations	9
Living with low environmental complexity increases fear indicators in Nile tilapia	9
The effect of predation risk on group behaviour and information flow during repeated collective decisions	9
Female helpers signal their contribution to chick provisioning in a cooperatively breeding bird	9
The interplay between winner–loser effects and social rank in cooperatively breeding vertebrates	9
Size variation does not act as insurance in bumble bees; instead, workers add weight in an unpredictable environment	9
Risk in one is not risk in all: snails show differential decision making under high- and low-risk environments	9
Aggressive males are more attractive to females and more likely to win contests in jumping spiders	9
Individual foraging site fidelity increases from incubation to nestling rearing in a colonial bird	9
Females don't always sing in response to male song, but when they do, they sing to males with higher-pitched songs	9
Why do nestling birds fledge early in the day?	8
My way is the highway: the role of plasticity in learning complex migration routes	8
Using playback to test leadership in mixed-species flocks and compare flocking with mobbing	8
Exploration and spatial cognition show long-term repeatability but no heritability in the Aegean wall lizard	8
Effects of a group-living experience on the antipredator responses of individual tadpoles	8
Detectable but unseen: imperfect crypsis protects crab spiders from predators	8
Niko Tinbergen and questions of instinct	8
Reproductive skew in quasisocial parasitoids: how egalitarian is cooperative brooding?	8
Moonlight triggers nocturnal display in a diurnal bird	8
High temperatures reduce song production and alter signal salience in songbirds	8
A test of the win-stay–lose-shift foraging strategy and its adaptive value in albatrosses	8
Honey bees adjust colour preferences in response to concurrent social information from conspecifics and heterospecifics	8
How healthy is your mate? Sex-specific consequences of parasite infections in the moth Helicoverpa armigera	8
More aggressive sea turtles win fights over foraging resources independent of body size and years of presence	8
The role of behavioural flexibility in primate diversification	8
Cognitive phenotypes and their functional differences in the honey bee, Apis mellifera	8
Visual displays enhance vocal duet production and the perception of coordination despite spatial separation of partners	8
Cooperative nest building in wild jackdaw pairs	8
Objective and subjective components of resource value in lethal fights between male entomopathogenic nematodes	8
Echolocation call frequencies of bats vary with body temperature and weather conditions	8
The interacting effects of total light intensity and chromatic contrast on visual signal visibility in an Anolis lizard	8
Conservation practices and the formation of vocal dialects in the endangered Puerto Rican parrot, Amazona vittata	8
Individual differences in task participation in wild chacma baboons	8
Differential effect of aircraft noise on the spectral-temporal acoustic characteristics of frog species	8
Behavioural flexibility in the courtship dance of golden-collared manakins, Manacus vitellinus	8
The angle of attack: rapping technique predicts skill in hermit crab contests	8
Individual personality does not predict learning performance in a foraging context in female guppies, Poecilia reticulata	8
Animal personality can modulate sexual conflict over offspring provisioning	8
Defection on the bounty? Kinship and cooperative exploitation of a rich, essential but dangerous resource	8
Habitat-dependent intergroup hostility in Diana monkeys, Cercopithecus diana	8
Alliance-specific habitat selection by male Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay, Western Australia	8
Benefits of multiple mating in a sexually dimorphic polygynandrous insect	8
Waste management by ants: the enhancing role of larvae	8
Odour-based social recognition in Damaraland mole-rats, Fukomys damarensis	8
Wood warblers learn to recognize mobbing calls of an unfamiliar species from heterospecific tutors	8
Mass-nesting events in olive ridley sea turtles: environmental predictors of timing and size	8
Rival assessment by territorial southern white rhinoceros males via eavesdropping on the contact and courtship calls	8
Experimental manipulation of food distribution alters social networks and information transmission across environments in a food-caching bird	8
Interpack communication in African wild dogs at long-term shared marking sites	7
Thermoenergetic challenges and daytime behavioural patterns of a wild cathemeral mammal	7
Jumping spiders attend to information from multiple modalities when preparing to jump	7
Causes of plasticity and consistency of dispersal behaviour in a group-living spider	7
Temperature-driven changes in behavioural unpredictability and personality in the beadlet sea anemone, Actinia equina	7
Beyond thermal melanism: association of wing melanization with fitness and flight behaviour in a butterfly	7
Referential gestures are not ubiquitous in wild chimpanzees: alternative functions for exaggerated loud scratch gestures	7
Reducing the bias due to unknown relationships in measuring the steepness of a dominance hierarchy	7
Female demographic changes contribute to the maintenance of social stability within a primate multilevel society	7
Herring gulls target profitable Atlantic puffins during kleptoparasitic attack	7
Entry and aggregation at a Central African bai reveal social patterns in the elusive forest elephant Loxodonta cyclotis	7
Nest site selection in a terrestrial breeding frog: interrelationships between nest moisture, pH and male advertisement	7
Mortality risk promotes cooperation of wasps when paralysing hosts	7
Effects of site fidelity, group size and age on food-caching behaviour of common ravens, Corvus corax	7
The choice of euthanasia techniques can affect experimental results in aquatic behavioural studies	7
Reciprocal plasticity and the diversification of communication systems	7
Biting and binding: an exclusive coercive mating strategy of males in a philodromid spider	7
Male superb lyrebirds mimic functionally distinct heterospecific vocalizations during different modes of sexual display	7
Ontogeny of an interactive call-and-response system in Spix's disc-winged bats	7
Individual vocal signatures show reduced complexity following invasion	7
Client fish traits underlying variation in service quality in a marine cleaning mutualism	7
Spatial and temporal cohesion of parents and offspring in a social large carnivore	7
Personality and plasticity predict postrelease performance in a reintroduced mesopredator	7
State-dependent learning influences foraging behaviour in an acoustic predator	7
Dispersal and life history of brown widow spiders in dated invasive populations on two continents	7
The male swallowtail butterfly, Papilio polytes, uses cuticular hydrocarbons for mate discrimination	7
Ethology and animal behaviour in Latin America	7