Animal Behaviour

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Association Page	114
Editors Page	68
Sexual size dimorphism of brood-parasitic nestlings does not affect host chick survival, size or fledging phenology	48
Foraging location preferences reflect memory interference associated with spatial learning tasks in a food-caching bird	40
Editors Page	38
Editors’ Acknowledgments	31
Anthropogenic influences on play of the green monkeys of Barbados	30
Reducing the bias due to unknown relationships in measuring the steepness of a dominance hierarchy	25
Population-dependent dispersal potential of freshwater invasive amphipods: a case study of Dikerogammarus villosus	25
Vocal and display differences in an island form of a lekking species with an acrobatic dance routine	24
The unfulfilled potential of dogs in studying behavioural ecology and evolution during the Anthropocene	23
Punishment from dominant breeders increases helping effort of subordinates in a cooperatively breeding cichlid	23
Erratum to “Extreme temperatures can intensify predator–prey interactions” [Animal Behaviour 225, July 2025, 123242]	23
Parental predator exposure affects offspring boldness and laterality in the stickleback	22
Prepared learning in plant–pollinator interactions	21
Reduced visibility and audibility prompt antipredator behaviour even in a relatively predator-free environment	21
Diel timing of migration is not plastic in a migratory ungulate	20
Fitness incentives to male fighters undermine fighting performance in intergroup contests	20
28 minutes later: investigating the role of aflatrem-like compounds in Ophiocordyceps parasite manipulation of zombie ants	20
‘Small’ sample size scenarios in animal behaviour: alternatives to the use of null hypothesis significance testing	20
Strong ties formation, composition and processes at play during the developmental period of juvenile vervet monkeys	20
Stimulus type and social context are stronger than individual differences in common marmosets' novelty exploration	20
Behavioural plasticity and the anthropause: an urban bird becomes less aggressive	20
The effects of social and foraging experiences across cognitive domains in Polistes fuscatus	20
Male reproductive strategies are influenced by the maternal sociosexual environment	19

Honey bee foraging behaviour can be influenced by preferencesfor oscillating flowers	19
Sperm oxidative status varies with the level of sperm competition and affects male reproductive success	19
Brown-headed cowbirds select nests to parasitize based on individual host attributes rather than nest type	18
Olfaction and reproductive isolation in birds	18
Conceptual representations of animal social networks: an overview	18
Editors' Acknowledgments	17
Coordination of care is facilitated by delayed feeding and collective arrivals in the long-tailed tit	17
Environment-dependent benefits of interindividual variation in honey bee recruitment	17
Bottlenose dolphin community structure along Florida’s Gulf coast	17
Resource limitation drives fission–fusion dynamics of group composition and size in a social bird	16
Editors Page	16
Woodpeckers are more cryptic against tree bark on which they forage	16
Wild kangaroos become more social when caring for young and may maintain long-term affiliations with popular individuals	16
Association Page	16
Exploring the potency and replenishment of woodfrog disturbance cues, a nonspecific communication system in aquatic species	16
No evidence of kin preferences in a feral horse multilevel society	15
African elephant, Loxodonta africana, behaviours across levels of tourism in Zambezi National Park, Zimbabwe	15
Behavioural plasticity adjusts rapidly to repeated temperature increases: mean, among- and within-individual responses	15
Inconsistent fear: repeatability in flight initiation distance and neophobic behaviour differs in a ground-nesting bird	15
Investigating the impact of human disturbance on predator behaviour in human-dominated landscapes	15
Association Page	15
Stress is not one-size-fits-all: stressor-specific effects on learning and memory in a molluscan model	15
Frenemies in Fur: neighbour–stranger discrimination and the ‘dear enemy’ effect in mammals, and how it relates to sociality	15
Simulating waggle dance electric fields: a tool for studying honey bee communication	15
Contrasting acoustic-space competition avoidance strategies in Afrotropical forest birds	15
Do survival predictors change over time? Investigating temporal dynamics in founder screening for reintroduction	15
Dopamine is a key regulator of the sexual receptivity switch in female Nasonia vitripennis	15
Does distinctiveness enhance memory for cooperative events in Norway rats?	14
Map and compass navigation: the mechanism and ontogeny of animal maps	14
Phenotypic plasticity in the anthropause: does reduced human activity impact novel nesting behaviour in an urban bird?	14
Active interactions between animals and technology: biohybrid approaches for animal behaviour research	14
Beyond brawls: the role of aggression in male contests among common fighting spiders	14
The importance of detailed observations of behaviour and natural history for generating and answering novel questions	14
Mobbing sequences of American wrens elicit mobbing responses in European tits	14
Potential costs of learning have no detectable impact on reproductive success for bumble bees	14
The social consequences of sexual conflict in bed bugs: social networks and sexual attraction	14
The influence of social rank on learning in a group-living fish	14
Prenatal sound experience affects song preferences in male zebra finches	14
Plasticity in social foraging is a matter of age in great tits	13
Socially cued anticipatory plasticity predicts male primary mating tactic but not mating behaviour rates	13
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Editors Page	13
Divergent nutrient preferences of two coexisting fruit flies, Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans	12
Effects of hormones and digestive tract morphology on personality-driven foraging behaviour in the turtle Mauremys reevesii	12
Longitudinal evidence for the emergence of multiple intelligences in assistance dog puppies	12
Plant choice for oviposition in the phytophagous insect Bemisia tabaci: cytotype, including symbionts, knows best!	12
About time: synchrony in onset of parental care influences cooperation and offspring performance in a burying beetle	12
Roost fidelity partially explains maternity roosting association patterns in Myotis lucifugus	12
I love to hate my neighbour: how recognition of dear enemies affects male antipredator behaviours in a lizard species	12
Animal Behaviour Best Paper Prizes 2025	12

Male forehead gland scent may encode multiple information in the great Himalayan leaf-nosed bat, Hipposideros armiger	12
Silk of females performing maternal care elicits reduced courtship responses in male spiders	12
Larger eggs are more attractive? Parental preference trapped in the brood parasitism strategy	12
Editors Page	12
Helicopter parenting: local-scale environment determines hiding and supervision in neonatal ungulates	12
Neural networks reveal emergent properties of collective learning in democratic but not despotic groups	11
Effects of assortative mating for personality on reproductive success in greylag geese, Anser anser	11
Diet as a potential mechanism of habitat selection: Evidence from sympatric Peromyscus species	11
Association Page	11
Sex roles in parental care in a species with precocial offspring and frequent brood desertion	11
Human impact on deer use is greater than predators and competitors in a multiuse recreation area	11
Validation of a novel immersive virtual reality set-up with responses of wild-caught freely moving coral reef fish	11
Editors Page	11
Association Page	11
Light modulates population differences in alternative mating tactics in Trinidadian guppies	11
Hyperparasitoids exploit plant volatiles to locate their parasitoid host despite nonhost herbivore interference	11
Wildlife tourism has little energetic impact on the world's largest predatory shark	11
Is there evidence for the Bruce effect in white-faced capuchins?	11
The effect of turbidity on female mate choice in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata	11
Heat stress inhibits cognitive performance in wild Western Australian magpies, Cracticus tibicen dorsalis	11
Risky business: consistent breeding migration in a benthic shark despite environmental variability	10
Reversal learning of visual cues in Heliconiini butterflies	10
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]	10
Effect of age and mating on body condition, fecundity and metabolic rate in female sand crickets, Gryllus firmus	10
Tempted yet cautious: how described odds lower risk aversion in capuchins	10
Talking more and fighting less? Conflict management through acoustic signals in a cooperatively breeding species	10
Studying mate choice using inertial measurement units: a validation study with treefrogs	10
The ontogeny of nest-building behaviour in Sumatran orang-utans, Pongo abelii	10
Rodents versus endophytic fungi: do mice and voles recognize infected food in cafeteria tests?	10
Are you serious? Relaxed open mouth may unveil the competitive/cooperative nature of play fighting in two feline species	10
Social impact of mara pair disruption on the formation of new bonds and reproduction in a multiple mate choice context	10
Females pair with males larger than themselves in a socially monogamous songbird	10
Evidence of stable preferential affiliative relationships in the domestic pig	10
Acoustic communication and environmental factors drive coordinated digging behaviour during an early life stage transition of a freshwater turtle	10
Estimating social network metrics from single-file movements in Barbary macaques, Macaca sylvanus	10
Heterogeneous microcosm mazes affect reproduction and survival in a wingless hyperparasitoid wasp	10
Erratum to “Context-dependent responses of naïve ungulates to wolf-sound playback in a human-dominated landscape” [Animal Behaviour, 185 (2022), 9–20]	10
Sperm storage ability is associated with oviposition but not mating behaviour differences in macrobiotid tardigrades	10
Too hot to handle: male dragonflies decrease time spent mating at higher temperatures	10
How do primates decide where to feed? Insights from wild western gorillas	10
Infection stress and mate assessment in wolf spiders: female mate choice varies with sensory mode of male courtship	10
Both humans and conspecifics provide social support to dog and wolf puppies	9
Information cascades spread adaptive and maladaptive behaviours in group-living animals	9
Motivational trade-offs as evidence for sentience in bees: a critique	9
Is sexiness cumulative? Arguments from birdsong culture	9
Shelter preferences of juvenile European lobster: mussel shell aggregations as settlement habitat	9
Association Page	9
Searching day and night: diel hierarchical search patterns in a large marine predator that never stops swimming	9
Costa's hummingbird has an extended sensitive phase of vocal learning	9
Social preference persists at roosting aggregations in a cooperatively breeding bird	9
The effect of temporal masking on alarm call communication in wild superb fairy-wrens	9
Selective social tolerance drives differentiated relationships among wild female chimpanzees	9
Food-exchanging Norway rats apply the direct reciprocity decision rule rather than copying by imitation	9
The role of cuticular hydrocarbon sexual dimorphism on Drosophila courtship	9
Editors Page	9
Nest construction and its effect on posthatching family life in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides	9
Ranging patterns and mortality of an at-risk marine mammal resident in a highly urbanized estuary	9
Earwig mothers can boost offspring’s defence against pathogens during postoviposition care	9
Learning predictably changing spatial patterns across days in a food-caching bird	9
When sibling tolerance meets cannibalism of the dead in spiderlings	9
Growing up wild: social learning opportunities during foraging in immature baboons	9
Variation in Nubian ibex's tolerance to humans is shaped by urban environmental conditions and social groups	9
The parasitoid Cotesia glomerata responds differently to plant volatile emission induced by parasitized caterpillars	9
Innovating to solve a novel puzzle: wild Asian elephants vary in their ability to problem solve	9
Social networks of the greater horseshoe bat during the hibernation season: a landscape-scale case study	9
Human activity selectively affects a dynamic defensive mutualism	9
Microgeographical variation in birdsong: Savannah sparrows exhibit microdialects in an island population	9
Resting ecology of parasitoids in the field: safe in a bed and breakfast?	9
Yellowhammer males sing using individual isochronous rhythms and maximize rhythmic dissimilarity with neighbours	8
Animal Behaviour Best Paper Prizes 2024	8
Editors Page	8
Sex-specific territoriality, aggression and duetting in the Carolina wren during the nonbreeding season	8
Changes in movement characteristics in response to private and social information acquisition of socially foraging fish	8
Short- and medium-term exposure to salinity alters response to predation, activity and spatial movements in tadpoles	8
Computational analyses of dynamic visual displays reveal diet-dependent male signalling in Rabidosa rabida wolf spiders	8
Workload inequality increases with group size in a cooperatively breeding bird	8
The heritability of fear: decomposing sources of variation in marmot flight initiation distance	8
The combined effects of elevated within-group aggression and intergroup threat on dwarf mongoose behaviour	8
Dogs, demonstrators and detours: does the shape of the obstacle matter?	8
Egg turning in a subtropical shorebird has a diel rhythmicityand is affected by predation risk	8

Mechanisms of mobbing call recognition: exploring featural decoding in great tits	8
Female matrilines and male partnerships: long-term social dynamics of African lions	8
Editors Page	8
The role of male body size in mating success and male–male competition in a false widow spider	8
The smell of familiarity: conspecific faeces influence roost exploration and occupation in wild Bechstein's bats	8
Emotional contexts influence vocal individuality in ungulates	8
Vocal interactions between singing humpback whales, Megaptera novaeangliae	8
Knowing a fellow by their bellow: acoustic individuality in the bellows of the American alligator	8
The role of similarity of stimuli and responses in learning by nectar-foraging bumble bees: a test of Osgood’s model	8
The complex societies of spotted hyaenas	8
Factors affecting frontline host defences against avian brood parasitism: a meta-analysis	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
Inference in wolves and dogs: the ‘cups task’, revisited	8
Capybara responses to varying levels of predation risk	8
Long-term stability of dominance hierarchies in a wild parrot with fission–fusion dynamics	8
Alerting components in animal vocalization	7
In dogs, social stimuli overshadow nonsocial stimuli and stronger attachment correlates with responses to the latter	7
Space use and social networks: correlated but not congruent in California ground squirrels	7
Homing pigeon navigational ontogeny: no evidence that exposure to a novel release site is sufficient for learning	7
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Interactive electrical behaviour in mormyrid weakly electric fish: jamming avoidance response or social interaction?	7
Behavioural traits for success: comparison between two sympatric lacertid lizard species	7
Social structure in northern bottlenose whales: stable relationships without stable groups	7
Performance of Doppler shift compensation varies with environmental temperature and humidity in bats	7
Alarm cue properties and euthanasia impact on tadpole antipredator behaviour in Rana temporaria and Bufo bufo	7
Urban foxes are bolder but not more innovative than their rural conspecifics	7
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Exposure to lead (Pb) contamination heightens predator avoidance behaviours in an urban bird	7
Associative learning in bumble bees is disrupted by high trace metal concentrations	7
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Long-term observations reveal short-term mother–calf affiliation in wild harbour porpoises	7
Visual and chemical signals function multimodally in species recognition	7
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Gut cancer increases the risk of Drosophila being preyed upon by hunting spiders	7
Delayed benefits for fallow bucks: more fights decrease same day mating success, but increase matings the next day	7
Size-based dominance relationships in female forest elephants, Loxodonta cyclotis	7
Path minimization during solitary foraging in Aphaenogaster senilis ants	7
Functionally referential communication about danger in cooperatively breeding white-winged choughs	7
Effects of negative stimuli on object permanence performance in baboons, Papio anubis, according to task complexity	7
Habituation or sensitization? Short-term adjustment of flight initiation distance in incubating common eiders	7
The relaxed open mouth is a true signal in dogs: demonstrating Tinbergen's ritualization process	7
Helping syndrome is partially confirmed in the eusocial naked mole-rat	7
Size sometimes matters: recognition of known predators with artificially altered body size by untrained birds	7
Courtship vocalizations of wild house mice show highly dynamic changes and correlate with male copulatory success	7
Growing into it: evidence of an ontogenetic shift in grey whale use of foraging tactics	7
Family pigs’ and dogs’ reactions to human emotional vocalizations:a citizen science study	7
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Biological, social and ecological correlates of social play in immature Bwindi mountain gorillas, Gorilla beringei beringei	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
One herd, different movements: spatial behaviour of female forest chamois in a changing meteorological perspective	7
The case for investigating the cognitive map in nonavian reptiles	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
Vocal sacs do not function in multimodal mate attraction under nocturnal illumination in Cope's grey treefrog	7
Infection by virulent wMelPop Wolbachia improves learning and memory capacity in Drosophila melanogaster	7
Pseudoreplication of sound treatments in underwater exposure studies	7
Goats discriminate emotional valence in the human voice	7
Does group living protect offspring from the toxic effects of cadmium ingestion in juvenile earwigs?	7
Costs and benefits of isolation from siblings during family life in adult earwigs	7
Long-lasting social bonds of a habitat-structured delphinid social system	7
Within-cavity nest preferences: honey bees favour the entrance rather than the ceiling when initiating their nest	7
Guidelines for the ethical treatment of nonhuman animals in behavioural research and teaching	7
Parental care behaviour in bumble bee queens is tightly regulated by the number of helpers in incipient nests	7
Erratum to “Towards the integration of collective behaviour and social evolution” [Animal Behaviour 224 (June 2025) 123161]	6
ASAB Education Committee Infographic Competition Winners 2025	6
Spatial preferences influence associations between magnitude and space in honey bees	6
Erratum to “A call for CARE in animal behaviour: an holistic ethical research framework” [Animal Behaviour 231 (2026) 123428]	6
What it is like to be an optimist: temporal stability of cognitive bias in rats and its link to other individual traits	6
Colour morph predicts social behaviour and contest outcomes in a polymorphic lizard (Podarcis erhardii)	6
Can an acoustic communication network be used for spatial orientation?	6
How coevolution in daily activity rhythms governs encounters between predator and prey	6
Shedding light on nocturnal behaviour: a cost-effective solution for remote, infrared video recording in the field	6
How do male danaine butterflies locate pyrrolizidine alkaloids? The foreleg as an olfactory alkaloid-sensing organ	6
Persistence of alternative reproductive tactics: a test of game-theoretic predictions	6
Stable isotopes reveal the effects of maternal rank and infant age on weaning dynamics in wild chacma baboons	6
Female assortment in Gouldian finch, Chloebia gouldiae, flocks: a case of female driven social niche construction?	6
Burden of a failed error culture in biologging	6
Age mediates access to landfill food resources and foraging proficiency in a long-lived bird species	6
Unbalanced dietary omega-6:3 ratio affects onset of nursing and nurse–larvae interactions by honey bees, Apis mellifera	6
Understanding unpredictability: factors influencing how long antlion larvae play dead as an antipredator behaviour	6
What you eat affects how you mate: sex-specific plasticity in black soldier fly reproduction driven by larval nutrition	6
Intraspecific variation in audience effects during outgroup conflict in a cooperatively breeding fish	6
The direction and strength of social plasticity in mating signals and mate preferences vary with the life stage of induction	6
Aggression induced by ornament similarity is limited to females in a mutually ornamented fish, Betta brownorum	6
African penguins utilize their ventral dot patterns for individual recognition	6
Capuchin monkeys’ ability to choose beneficial options is inhibited by added complexity	6
Understanding the caffeine paradox: caffeinated nectar increases pollinators’ perceived value of flowers	6
Male superb lyrebirds mimic functionally distinct heterospecific vocalizations during different modes of sexual display	6
The spiders that lost their personalities: assessing long-term behavioural individuality in social Stegodyphus dumicola	6
Playing music to animals: an interdisciplinary approach to improving our understanding of animals' responses to music	6
Behavioural syndrome between boldness and aggressiveness and link with reproductive success in a wild bird population	6
Speed consensus and behavioural coordination of Adélie penguins travelling on sea ice in groups	6
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Social learning of navigational routes in tandem-running acorn ants, Temnothorax nylanderi	6