Ethology

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Cheek‐to‐cheek: Communal nesting in an ephemeral pool‐breeding frog	27
Reflections on Konrad Lorenz	24
Flies getting filthy: The precopulatory mating behaviours of three mud‐dwelling species of Australian Lispe (Diptera: Muscidae)	23
Cooperative and Solitary Mobbing to Defend Offspring in Wild Gray Mouse Lemurs, Microcebus murinus	18
Anti‐Snake Behavior and Snake Discrimination in Vervet Monkeys	17
Animal Ethics in Behavioral Studies—Advocating a Differentiated View	16
Deer Vigilance and Movement Behavior Are Affected by Edge Density and Connectivity	15
Grouped and Vibrating: The Influence of Group Size, Triggering Stimuli, and Leg Loss in Bobbing in an Arachnid	14
Sneaky copulations by subordinate males suggest direct fitness benefits from male–male associations in spotted bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus maculatus)	14
Is Paw Preference in Rats Influenced by Environmental Novelty?	12
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Multi‐night territorial behavior, chorus attendance, and mating success in red‐eyed treefrogs	12
Third‐Party Affiliation in Domestic Dogs During and After a Human Conflict	9
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How great tits respond to urgency‐based information in allopatric Southern house wren mobbing calls	9
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Do Green Lynx Spiders (Peucetia viridans) Change Color in Response to Their Backgrounds?	8
Learning and innovation in urban yellow mongooses (Cynictis penicillata)	8
How important is temperature for strike success of ectotherms? Thermal effects on predator–prey interactions of free‐ranging pit vipers (Gloydius blomhoffii)	8

Abdominal Spines on an Amazonian Spiny Spider (Micrathena schreibersi): A Defense Against Mud‐Dauber Wasps (Sceliphron spp.) Attack?	8
Host size selection and progeny sex determination in Hymenoepimecis bicolor (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae)	8
Behaviour in a novel environment provides clues to the success of an invasive species	8
Cognitive and sensory capacity each contribute to the canine spatial bias	8
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Testing a behavioral model for the maintenance of androdioecy as a result of sexual conflict in the clam shrimpEulimnadia dahli	7
A vocalization in male Japanese bush warblers in response to both predators and conspecific females	7
Shoaling behaviour in the European cuttlefishSepia officinalis	7
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Policing is more effective against eggs of non‐natal versus natal workers at early colony stages in a bumblebee	7
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Testosterone, signal coloration, and signal color perception in male zebra finch contests	7
Retaining memory after hibernation: Performance varies independently of activity levels in wild grey mouse lemurs	7
Invasive brown widow spiders disperse aerially under a broad range of environmental conditions	7
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Effects of human disturbance on risk‐taking behavior in painted turtles	6
An ambiguous function of an alarm pheromone in the collective displays of the Australian meat ant, Iridomyrmex purpureus	6
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The effect of phenotypic heterogeneity on behaviours linked to invasive success	6
Effects of Coffee on Drosophila melanogaster: Concentration‐Dependent Enhancement and Sleep Deprivation Recovery	6
The perks of being in good conditions: How does female parasitism affect male mate choice in an orb‐web spider?	6
A “feel‐free” format for ETHOLOGY	6
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Parasite‐mediated sexual selection in a damselfly	5
Characterization of social behavior in the spiny mouse, Acomys cahirinus	5
Evasive Maneuvers of Mosquitoes Reveal Variability in Escape Success and Echolocation Plasticity of Myotis riparius (Vespertilionidae)	5
Obituary: Professor Wolfgang Wickler (November 18, 1931– January 12, 2024)	5
Male mate preference against tail‐elongated females in the barn swallow	5
A positive feedback loop between sociality and social competence	5
Strategic Deployment of Secondary Defences in the Springbok Mantis (Miomantis Caffra)	5
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On the importance of defendable resources for social evolution: Applying new techniques to a long‐standing question	5
Sperm Strategies: Partner's Mating Status as a Driver of Last Male Success in Ladybirds	5
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Defensive Behaviour in Intertidal Crabs	4
Correction to Decision Time Modulates Social Foraging Success in Wild Common Ravens Corvus corax	4
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Among‐individual behavioral responses to predation risk are invariant within two species of freshwater snails	4
Sibling cannibalism in the false widow spider is dependent on spiderling density and the reliable availability of fresh prey	4
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Evaluation of sensory modalities involved in finding food and foraging behaviour in light/dark conditions in tadpoles of the invasive species Lithobates catesbeianus	4
Non‐lunge feeding behaviour of humpback whales associated with fishing boats in Norway	4
Changes in Male Behavior in Response to Female Chemical Stimulus in an Understudied Arthropod Model	4
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Female choice and male aggression in the polymorphic lizard Sceloporus minor	4
Reciprocity versus pseudo‐reciprocity: A false dichotomy	4
Pair‐Coordinated Calling: Eurasian Magpies Respond Differently to Simulated Intruder Pairs That Overlap or Alternate Their Calls	4
Eight‐legged swimmers: Behavioral responses to floods in two South American spiders	4
Use of Social Information About Novel Food by Juvenile Solitary Forktongue Goby, Chaenogobius annularis	4

Behavioral response to chemical cues from injured conspecifics in the livebearing fish, Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora	4
Female great tits (Parus major) reproduce earlier when paired with a male they prefer	4
Sublethal effects of kleptoparasitism on experimental social spider colonies	4
Reciprocal altruism in Norway rats	4
Just Hang On: Australian Gall Midges Suspend Themselves on Spider Silk Without Becoming Entangled	4
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The strange occurrence of male cannibalism on adult females in snakes	3
Females Guarded by Sneaker Males Experience Higher Predation in the Two‐Spotted Spider Mite	3
Male–Male Competition Affects Color Phenotype Expression and Color‐Dependent Oxidative Stress Levels in a Polymorphic Cichlid Fish	3
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Siblings matter: Family heterogeneity improves associative learning later in life	3
Successful predatory‐avoidance behaviour to lion auditory cues during soft‐release from captivity in cheetah	3
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EXPRESSION OF CONCERN: Temperature Mediates Shifts in Individual Aggressiveness, Activity Level, and Social Behavior in a Spider	3
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Phenotype predicts interspecific dominance hierarchies in a cloud‐forest hummingbird guild	3
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Stable individual differences in the frequency of chin‐marking behavior across development in the domestic rabbit	3
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Constructing composite scores for contemporaneous behaviors: A comparison of four approaches	3
Male Barbary macaques choose loyal coalition partners which may increase their coalition network betweenness	3
Video evidence of mountings by female‐plumaged birds of paradise (Aves: Paradisaeidae) in the wild: Is there evidence of alternative mating tactics?	3
Complexity in Chick‐a‐Dee Calls of Mountain Chickadees (Poecile gambeli): Call Variation Associated With Flock Size and Flight	3
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Thanks to repetition, dustbathing detection can be automated combining accelerometry and wavelet analysis	3
Callosobruchus larval competition and its consequences for male and female adults	3
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Diving behavior in a Neotropical spider (Trechalea extensa) as a potential antipredator tactic	3
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Contrasting sex roles in two species with stable biparental care	3
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Of hormones (well, not really!), behavior, and observer bias	3
Heterospecific interference modulates the reproductive traits of a ladybird beetle	3
Graded‐risk sensitivity in northern European mixed‐species flocks of tit and nuthatch species	3
Observations of multiple reproductive females in groups of smooth‐coated otters	2
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Adaptive Significance of Long Mating With Repeated Intromissions in Zygogramma bicolorata	2
Movement in 3D: Novel Opportunities for Understanding Animal Behaviour and Space Use	2
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Tadpole plasticity shapes the potential benefits of egg feeding to poison frog parents	2
Variation in escape response of Himalayan marmots (Marmota himalayana) under different human disturbances	2
Mate finding in a mimetic termitophile amidst its host termites	2
Effects of a past contest on the future winning probability in a hyper‐aggressive fruit fly	2
Interactive effects of increased nestbox temperature and vitamin E on nestling growth are attenuated by plasticity in female incubation effort	2
EXPRESSION OF CONCERN: Precopulatory Sexual Cannibalism Causes Increase Egg Case Production, Hatching Success, and Female Attractiveness to Males	2
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Dominant females have brighter ornamentation in a sexually dimorphic lekking species	2
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Herbicide changes the role of body condition in mating interactions of a wolf spider but courtship is primarily affected by female immunity	2
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Grooming reciprocation in Himalayan tahr and the cognitive constraint hypothesis	2
No Effect of Note Order on the Response of Coal Tits to Conspecific, Heterospecific and Artificial Mobbing Calls	2
Nest defense, personality, and fitness of a locally endangered island passerine	2
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Aggression‐based social learning in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)	2
Do reproductive characteristics of the species explain differences in the investment in weapon size present in males?	2
The Relevance of Flash Coloration Against Avian Predation in a Morpho Butterfly: A Field Experiment in a Tropical Rainforest	2
Hidden black and yellow thigh color acts as an aposematic signal in the Eastern Gray Treefrog (Hyla versicolor)	2
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Male‐specific nocturnal song functions similarly to day song in a diurnal bird species	2
Aggressive vocalizations during intergroup interactions in roost defense in the Spix's disk‐winged bat	2
Aggression, but Not Familiar Recognition, Occurs During Cohabitation in Females of a Hermit Crab	2
Non‐Lethally Produced Chemical Risk Cues Elicit Antipredator Responses in a Common Canadian Minnow	2
Walk or swim: The substrate for movement affects female treefrog mate choice behaviors but has little effect on their preferences	2
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Visual lateralization in flight: Lateral preferences in parent‐offspring relative positions in geese	2
Artificial selections for death‐feigning behavior in beetles show correlated responses in amplitude of circadian rhythms, but the period of the rhythm does not	2
Harvesters (Arachnida: Opiliones) mate more at cooler temperatures, but the effect of temperature on mating varies across years	2
Western black widow spiders (Latrodectus hesperus) remember prey capture location and size, but only alter behavior for prey caught at particular sites	2
Does the type of task affect prey discrimination learning in avian predators?	2
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Keeping up with environmental change: The importance of sociality	2
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Shaped by you: The effect of social partner on cortisol and behavior during adolescence in a female rodent	1
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The impact of prior and current information of a new nest on relocation dynamics in an Indian ant	1
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Nuptial pad (“breeding gland”) morphology is related to non‐random mating in wild male common frogs (Rana temporaria)	1
Changes to the acoustic properties of Gromphadorhina portentosa defensive sounds when exposed to the molting hormone, 20‐hydroxyecdysone	1
Male anti‐predation services in primates as costly signalling? A comparative analysis and review	1
Song overlapping and matching during low‐arousal singing and their relation to visual ornaments, parental care and breeding success in the great tit (Parus major)	1
Absence of female preference and the origin of a unisexual species, the Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa)	1
The paradox of learned song in a semi‐solitary mammal	1
Mating May Enhance Rapid Formation of Stable Pair Bonds in the Monogamous California Mouse	1
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A comparison of low‐cost behavioral observation software applications for handheld computers and recommendations for use	1
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Through a glass darkly? Divergent reactions of eight Lake Tanganyika cichlid species towards their mirror image in their natural environment	1
Stuck on you: Wind‐dispersed seeds attach to the external surfaces of a tree frog	1
Black‐headed gulls synchronize vigilance with their nearest neighbor irrespective of the neighbor's relative position	1
Idiosyncrasy in Multimodal Gestural Communication: A Case Study of Hand‐Clapping in a Barbary Macaque (Macaca sylvanus)	1
Conflicting cognitive decisions: Does egg retrieval modify egg rejection in a host of an obligate brood parasite?	1
Random mating for body size despite fitness benefits of size‐assortative mating in a treefrog	1
Grassquits adjust parental care in broods parasitized by native nest flies	1
Dunking for droplets: Long‐jawed spider (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) bungees on silk line to collect water droplet from pond using its mouthparts	1
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Maternal cannibalistic preferences affect offspring preferences and development in Menochilus sexmaculatus Fabricius (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae): A transgenerational investigation	1
Do captive fish need cognitive enrichment? A test with a puzzle feeder in guppies	1
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Do Rearing Group‐Size and Social Rank Influence the Affective State of a Cooperatively‐Breeding Cichlid Fish?	1
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Reproductive behaviours in male parasitoids: From mating system to pairing pattern	1
The wolf spider Pardosa milvina varies silk deposition in response to self and same‐sex conspecific silk	1
Individual Behavioral Responses to Novel Stimuli in Breeding Common Terns (Sterna hirundo)	1
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Population differences in the aggregation and collective foraging behavior of fragmented social spider colonies	1
Tool use and tooling in ravens (Corvus corax): A review and novel observations	1
Males show their best side revisited – Effects of predation pressure on laterality in wild guppies	1
Group chorusing as an intragroup signal in the greater ani, a communally breeding bird	1
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Repeatability of alert and flight initiation distances in king penguins: Effects of colony, approach speed, and weather	1
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Cooperative intentions and their implications on reciprocal cooperation in Norway rats	1
Mate choice in a promiscuous poison frog	1
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Testing the effects of kinship, reciprocity and dominance on prosocial food provisioning in azure‐winged magpies (Cyanopica cyana), carrion crows (Corvus corone) and common ravens (C.	1
Automatic individual recognition of Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) from sequential images	1
Sex and Morph Variation in Activity From Early Ontogeny to Maturity in Ruffs (Calidris pugnax)	1
The handsome liar: Male spiders offering worthless gifts can benefit increasing mating duration	1
Behavioural profiles in a wild population of a cooperatively breeding cichlid	1
A proposal to enhance data quality and FAIRness	1
Male and female Australian magpie‐larks respond differently to variation in song frequency (pitch)	1
Norway rats help social partners in need in response to ultrasonic begging signals	1
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A level playing field: No competitive advantage of conception risk in speed‐dating	1
Effects of short‐ and long‐term enrichment on brain and behavior in Trinidadian guppies	1
Sex‐specific oviposition site selection in an arboreal treefrog with a resource‐defense mating system	1
Dynamic visual noise has limited influence on the habitat selection and behavioural activity of crustaceans and cephalopods	1
Effects of Simulated Bear Attacks on Thatch Ant (Formica obscuripes) Defense of Honeydew‐Producing Aphids	1
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EXPRESSION OF CONCERN: Assessing the Effects of Rearing Environment, Natural Selection, and Developmental Stage on the Emergence of a Behavioral Syndrome	0
Helga‐Fischer‐Mamblona (1929–2022). Lorenzian ethology and Freudian psychoanalysis	0
The curious case of great ape curiosity and how it is shaped by sociality	0
Body size and predator cues structure variation in defensive displays of Neotropical calico snakes (Oxyrhopus spp.)	0
On Publication Ethics—Journals, Please Get Rid of Wording Restrictions That Include Citations	0
Expanding the concept of social behavior to interspecific interactions	0
Fully flexible analysis of behavioural sequences based on parametric survival models with frailties—A tutorial	0
RETRACTION: Non‐conceptive sexual behavior in spiders: A form of play associated with body condition, personality type, and male intrasexual selection	0
Revisiting the components of Macroscelidea social systems: Evidence for variable social organization, including pair‐living, but not for a monogamous mating system	0
Effects of Nest‐Site Availability on Male–Male Competition and the Foraging Costs of Egg Attendance in an Arachnid With Exclusive Paternal Care	0
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Does the presence of a conspecific increase or decrease fear? Neophobia and habituation in zebra finches	0
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Does habitat complexity and prior residency influence aggression between invasive and native freshwater crayfish?	0
Photoperiod influences the development and the expression of personality traits and social behaviour in wild cavies (Cavia aperea)	0
Wave of mutilation: Scavenging hermit crabs use social information to locate carcasses	0
Juvenile hormone and temperature effects in the postzygotic parental investment of male waterbug Abedus ovatus (Belostomatidae)	0
Are scientific journals delaying doctoral theses?	0
The Evolution of Social Behaviour	0
Parasitism of Neoconocephalus katydids by the parasitoid fly, Ormia lineifrons	0
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Close bonds and social rank similarities favor non‐random mating in captive stump‐tailed macaques (Macaca arctoides)	0
Communal nesting behaviour of Siberian flying squirrels during the non‐winter season	0
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Sex and age differences in the preference for materials for the communal nests of sociable weavers Philetairus socius	0
Licking their wounds: Social response to trauma by free‐ranging bison (Bison bison)	0
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Lionfish (Pterois volitans) Show Social Attraction to Conspecifics When Selecting Shelters	0
Behavioral Syndromes Across Time and Space in a Long‐Lived Turtle	0
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Pattern, function and constraint of infant handling in wild Japanese macaques	0
Ethology now publishes Registered Reports	0
Seasonally variable and sex‐specific motivation for cooperative resource defence in a duetting songbird—The Chubb's cisticola	0
Spatial configuration learning in Vespula germanica forager wasps	0
Characterization of the agonistic behavior of the weakly electric fish Gymnotus sylvius	0
Colour biases in learned foraging preferences in Trinidadian guppies	0