Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

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Nocturnal and diurnal predator and prey interactions with crab spider color polymorphs	52
Should I stay or should I go now: dispersal decisions and reproductive success in male white-faced capuchins (Cebus imitator)	51
Ontogeny and Sociobiological factors affecting behavior and its repeatability in captive-bred Arctic foxes (Vulpes lagopus)	25
Familiarity effects on fish behaviour are disrupted in shoals that contain also unfamiliar individuals	23
Investigation of field and laboratory-based personality traits in a wild ornate box turtle (Terrapene ornata) population	21
Evidence of sociality and group foraging in Antarctic minke whales (Balaenoptera bonaerensis)	20
Time allocation to balance group living trade-offs in Ethiopian wolves	20
Shifting expectations? Bumblebees show limited adjustment based on recent reward history	20
Morphological evolution and the behavioral organization of agricultural division of labor in the leafcutter ant Atta cephalotes	18
The science funding crisis threatens the careers of future behavioral ecologists	17
Anxiety-like behavior and tectal gene expression in a foraging/predator avoidance tradeoff task using adult African clawed frogs Xenopus laevis	17
Functional diversification of contact calls contribute to the cohesion of a multi-level society	16
Drivers and consequences of female reproductive competition in an egalitarian, sexually monomorphic primate	15
Impact of blood parasites on the behaviour of two congeneric wall lizards (genus Podarcis)	15
White plumage color as an honest indicator: feather macrostructure links reflectance with reproductive effort and success	15
Behavioural response to predation risks depends on experimental change in dehydration state in a lizard	15
Social integration in temporal multiplex association networks predicts offspring survival in female geoffroy’s spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi)	15
Versatile and inexpensive device for capturing high-quality behavioral videos under diverse field conditions	15
Behavioral repertoire of Lahille’s bottlenose dolphins that interact with artisanal fishers	14
Female-limited X chromosome evolution reveals that lifespan is mainly modulated by interlocus rather than intralocus sexual conflict	14
Floral and insect traits predict predation risk and neophobia impacts on flower-visiting insects’ behavior	14
Are the personality measures for laboratory mice applicable for wild rats?	14
Reproduction of a field cricket under high-intensity artificial light at night and a simulated heat wave	13
Impact of predator model presentation paradigms on titi monkey alarm sequences	13
Background contrast affects detection and recognition of courting wolf spiders by intended and unintended receivers	13

Testing for cryptic male mate choice in an insect with high mating failure	13
From collocations to call-ocations: using linguistic methods to quantify animal call combinations	13
Bumblebee cognitive abilities are robust to changes in colony size	12
The availability of male mates affects the social mating strategies of a predominantly socially monogamous passerine	12
Weak evidence for a relationship between group size and flight initiation distance in response to underwater human presence in an exploited fish species	12
Behavioral responses of two African mesopredators to human and non-human apex predators	12
Who to help? Helping decisions in a cooperatively breeding bird with redirected care	11
Evolutionary implications of size-selective mortality on the ontogenetic development of shoal cohesion: a neurochemical approach using a zebrafish, Danio rerio, harvest selection experiment	11
The impact of high temperatures on bird responses to alarm calls	11
Syntactic rules predict song type matching in a songbird	11
Communication behavior of the snow leopard (Panthera uncia): understanding marking-behavior patterns to optimize camera-trapping studies	10
Range utilization slopes as a measure of central tendency and intergroup overlap in primates	10
Timing of seasonal events is correlated with social network position in a wild mammal	10
A behavioral syndrome and within-pair similarity in boldness and foraging site fidelity of a monogamous seabird	10
Social information used to elicit cache protection differs between pinyon jays and Clark’s nutcrackers	10
Infant mortality associated with immigration of males in a multi-level society	10
Exorcising the ghost in the computer: ChatGPT, science publishing, and GenAI policy for Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology	10
Analysis of inconsistencies for the study of dominance: assessing influence of some biological traits on hierarchy in male brown bears	10
Females know best: dispersal polymorphism maintained by sex-specific foraging	10
Spatial vigilance architecture of Indian flying fox colonies in rural parts of Barak Valley, Northeast India	10
Correction to: Offspring’s early-life performance varies with father’s sperm quality in a genetically monogamous seabird	10
Forelimb stripe coloration signals age, but not physiological health, in painted turtles	10
The devil is in the details: does the male and female dark flank spot in the fish Poecilia vivipara have a sexual role?	10
Parasitic egg phenotypes induce short-term imprinting effects on host egg recognition	9
Measuring fitness and inferring natural selection from long-term field studies: different measures lead to nuanced conclusions	9
Bumblebees display stimulus-specific persistence behaviour after being trained on delayed reinforcement	9
Egg-puncturing behaviour by shiny cowbirds increases nest desertion in chalk-browed mockingbirds	9
Temporal avoidance of interfering noise by common chiffchaff	9
Decoupled auditory perception from acoustic signal divergence hinders species recognition in territorial poison frogs	9
Does the development environment cause the pace of life to change in a rainforest lizard?	9
Costs of personality: bold incubating goldeneye females risk their lives when a predator attacks	9
Individual behavioral variability across time and contexts in Dendrobates tinctorius poison frogs	9
The multilevel society of proboscis monkeys with a possible patrilineal basis	9
Long-term effects of litter characteristics on reproduction in female cavies (Cavia aperea)	9
Introduction to topical collection “Measuring individual reproductive success in the wild”	9
Determining sensitive stages of larval development to predation risk in Indosylvirana indica	9
Sex-specific migration strategies and underlying physiology contribute to spring arrival protandry in a songbird	9
Correction to: When Older Males Sire More Offspring—Increased Attractiveness or Higher Fertility?	9
Individual and collective cognition in social insects: what’s in a name?	8
Habitat-dependent variation in consistent behavioural traits does not affect the efficiency of resource acquisition in a thermophilic ant	8
No evidence that recruitment pheromone modulates olfactory, visual, or spatial learning in the ant Lasius niger	8
Monandry and its underlying mechanisms in the rhinoceros beetle Trypoxylus dichotomus	8
Spatiotemporal variation of behavior and repeatability in a long-lived turtle	8
Is flying riskier for female katydids than for males?	8
Year-round behavioural time budgets of common woodpigeons inferred from acceleration data using machine learning	8
Elevational patterns in life history, behavior, physiology, and morphology: Insights from the Andean rodent Phyllotis vaccarum	8
Begging is an honest signal of hunger in a communally nesting bird with low genetic relatedness	8
Male nuptial display colour and vocalisation appear to signal independent information in the whirring tree frog	8
Social interactions throughout life impair longevity and age-specific mating success in male parasitoids	8
Winners and losers in the host family over brood parasitism	8

Description of the behavioural contexts of underwater sound production in juvenile green turtles Chelonia mydas	7
Male color polymorphism in populations of reef geckos (Sphaerodactylus notatus) reduces the utility of visual signals in sex recognition	7
Correction to: Individual and collective cognition in social insects: what’s in a name?	7
Variation in behavioral tempo, not thermal sensitivity, determines the onset of foraging in ant colonies	7
Eyes, ears, and play in the wild: flexible use of sensory channels in spotted hyena communication	7
Effects of seed traits on the cache size of a scatter-hoarding rodent, Leopoldamys edwardsi	7
Sensitivity threshold of avian magnetic compass to oscillating magnetic field is species-specific	7
Conflict and the evolution of viviparity in vertebrates	7
Investigating personality in vipers: individual rattlesnakes exhibit consistent behavioral responses in defensive and exploratory contexts	7
Exploratory behaviour divergence between surface populations, cave colonists and a cave population in the water louse, Asellus aquaticus	7
Do female bluethroats without extra-pair offspring have more MHC-compatible social mates?	7
Wild Australian magpies learn to pull intact, not broken, strings to obtain food	7
Quantification of multi-task predation reveals behavioural regulation and attentional processes in mantids	7
It’s the time of the season: seasonal variation in sexually conflicted size-assortative pairing	7
Social information-mediated population dynamics in non-grouping prey	7
Previous mating success motivates homing of male glassfrogs Hyalinobatrachium valerioi	7
Food-caching chickadees do not exhibit directional bias when learning a spatial task	7
Do common cuckoos’ vocalisations affect egg discrimination in the strong rejector red-backed shrike?	7
Head size does not predict egg-rejection behavior in Daurian redstarts (Phoenicurus auroreus)	7
From waiting to moving: how golden snub-nosed monkeys facilitate a group departure	7
Reproductive success of Bornean orangutan males: scattered in time but clustered in space	7
Large and interactive pipefish females display ornaments for longer with many males around	7
Extended parental care in the mass provisioning silk wasp, Microstigmus rosae	7
Exploring rodent-seed interaction experimental designs: a comparative analysis of mixed versus single release of multiple seed species	6
Absence of a dear enemy effect and limited evidence of neighbour-stranger vocal discrimination in Ecstatic Display Songs of nesting African penguins	6
No evidence for adaptive sex ratio adjustment in a cooperatively breeding bird with helpful helpers	6
Functional properties of ant queen pheromones as revealed by behavioral experiments	6
Encoding and decoding of the information in the honeybee waggle dance	6
Communicating the cost of your altruism makes you cool—competitive altruism and sexual selection in a real-life charity situation	6
Age-dependent drivers of sex-specific disappearance in wild redfronted lemurs: the role of behavior	6
Beluga societies: the social and cultural lives of an enigmatic odontocete	6
A systematic review of sex differences in rough and tumble play across non-human mammals	6
Performance and efficiency in leaf transport: unveiling the task allocation puzzle in Acromyrmex subterraneus	6
First evidence of contagious yawning in a wild lemur	6
Introduction to topical collection “Sexual selection, sexual conflict and aging”	6
Annual fitness costs may be balanced by a conservative life history strategy in groups of unrelated ant queens	6
Single paternity in the kelp crab Taliepus dentatus despite polyandry	6
No association between metabolic rate and an exaggerated sexually selected trait	6
The significance of disentangling shared mating traits: A review of empirical approaches	6
Opportunity is not everything: genetic monogamy and limited brood parasitism in a colonial woodpecker	6
Heat-altered scent marks of males of a fossorial reptile still allow recognition by females but lose information on male quality	6
Spider colony extinction does not depend on degree of sociality and maternal size in three Anelosimus species (Araneae, Theridiidae)	6
Aggression and multi-modal signaling in noise in a common urban songbird	6
Sex-dependent recognition and behavior against nest predators and brood parasites by Chestnut-capped Blackbird Chrysomus ruficapillus	6
Neither paternity loss nor perceived threat of cuckoldry affects male nestling provisioning in grass wrens	6
Longitudinal effects of habitat quality, body condition, and parasites on colour patches of a multiornamented lizard	6
Do agricultural practices on meadows reduce or increase flight initiation distance in the white stork ciconia ciconia?	6
Individual repeatability and plasticity of reproductive phenology in a resident montane bird	6
Correction to: Is provisioning rate of parents and helpers infuenced by the simulated presence of novel individuals?	6
Endurance rivalry among male spotted hyenas: what does it mean to “endure”?	6
Infection by a fungal pathogen and mating behavior in Pacific treefrogs: a test of the Hamilton-Zuk hypothesis	6
Competitive asymmetries, birthing asynchrony and sibling rivalry in a social lizard	6
Between-group variation in production of pant-grunt vocalizations by wild bonobos (Pan paniscus)	5
Costs of social conflict: do injuries mirror patterns of aggression in blue monkeys?	5
Increased worker aggression toward allopatric compared to sympatric males in an ant species with limited female dispersal	5
Multiple parasitism in an evictor brood parasite: patterns revealed by long-term monitoring, continuous video recording, and genetic analyses	5
Effects of mating age and mate age on lifespan and reproduction in a horned beetle	5
The evolution of dynamic and flexible courtship displays that reveal individual quality	5
Individual flexibility in group foraging behaviour of reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi)	5
Bacterial infection influences courtship behavior and mate choice in a wolf spider	5
Fecal avoidance and gastrointestinal parasitism in semi-free ranging woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha poeppigii)	5
Does mutualism provide additional indirect benefits? Behavioral indicators of chemical communication in a temporally dynamic fish-mussel mutualism	5
Costs and benefits of polyandrous mating to the female emerald treefrog (Zhangixalus prasinatus), a lek-chorusing anuran	5
Tits (Paridae sp.) use social information when locating and choosing nest lining material	5
Intraspecific variation in invertebrate cognition: a review	5
Eggshell coloration is related to condition of females and offspring but not to male provisioning effort in a cup-nesting passerine	5
Experimental arena size affects magnitude and repeatability of individual sociability in three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus	5
Behavioral syndromes are associated with social plasticity and competence in a wild primate	5
Latitudinal cline in reproductive traits in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum	5
An empirical assessment of the role of independence filters in temporal activity analyses using camera trapping data	5
Sisters doing it for themselves: extensive reproductive plasticity in workers of a primitively eusocial bee	5
Polarize, catalyze, and stabilize: how a minority of norm internalizers amplify group selection and punishment	5
Background risk during development and early life does not affect later activity and risk-taking across genetically distinct lineages of the mangrove rivulus	5
Helpers are associated with increased nest attentiveness and more constant egg temperatures in chestnut-crowned babblers	5
No evidence of sex ratio manipulation by black-throated blue warblers in response to food availability	5
Where did she go? Changes in social context alter calling strategies of eastern gray treefrogs	5
Wild and captive immature orangutans differ in their non-vocal communication with others, but not with their mothers	5
Food limitation modulates the endogenous control of spring migratory behavior in a captive long-distance migratory bird population	5
Tolerant and intolerant macaques differ in the context specificity of their calls and how they ‘comment’ on the interactions of others	5
Direct and correlated responses to artificial selection on foraging in Drosophila	5

Biologically meaningful moonlight measures and their application in ecological research	5
Allopatric montane wren-babblers exhibit similar song notes but divergent vocal sequences	5
Using an agent-based model to inform sampling design for animal social network analysis	5
Nest-host selection and parasitic nestling survival in the spotless starling (Sturnus unicolor)	5
Evaluating scleral exposure in human eyes: a review of measurement methods, an exploration of reliability, and implications in behavioral experimental research	5
Common permutation methods in animal social network analysis do not control for non-independence	5
Parasite induced changes in contact behaviour is affected by parasitic status of group members	5
Friendly or powerful? Alternative reproductive strategies among males of collins’ squirrel monkeys (Saimiri collinsi)	5
State and physiology behind personality in arthropods: a review	4
Ant genotype, but not genotype of cultivated fungi, predicts queen acceptance in the asexual fungus-farming ant Mycocepurus smithii (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)	4
Advertising and receiving from heights increases transmission of vocalizations in semi-arboreal mice	4
Production of chirp trains by Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis) in the northern South China Sea	4
How distinct are sleep sites from active sites across habitat types in lizards?	4
Stopover territoriality in songbirds crossing the Sahara: aggression and energetics during migration	4
Juvenile vibratory experience affects adult mate preferences in a wolf spider	4
Heliconiini butterflies as a case study in evolutionary cognitive ecology: behavioural innovation and mushroom body expansion	4
Hormonal modulation of brood allocation underlying evolutionary conflicts in the supercolonial ant Tapinoma darioi	4
Basking buddies: factors influencing social associations in basking aggregations of turtles	4
Behavioural infection tolerance of malaria is negatively correlated with pro-inflammatory cytokine expression in the brain of an invasive songbird	4
Male mate guarding in a polyandrous and sexually cannibalistic praying mantid	4
Two coinhabitants visually lure prey to host territory through a shared conspicuous trait	4
Multimodal female mate choice in a polymorphic flat rock lizard	4
Male mating success in the glass frog Espadarana prosoblepon is driven by chorus tenure across years	4
Agonism does not covary with territoriality in a gregarious reptile	4
Female age and reproductive stage influence copulation patterns in mountain gorillas’ variable mating system	4
Why empresses have more sons? Maternal instant social condition determines it	4
Experimental manipulation of chest spotting alters territorial aggression in urban and rural song sparrows	4
Evidence for an association between genetic and acoustic variation in the mimic poison frog Ranitomeya imitator	4
Trust myself or trust my friends? Exploring the effect of sex on social information use in Poecilia wingei	4
Inherited differences of migratory phenotypes in two Acrocephalus warblers in relation to geomagnetic field parameters	4
Habitat quality affects the social organization in mouse lemurs (Microcebus griseorufus)	4
The relationship between preference and switching in flower foraging by bees	4
Body size does not affect crypsis: evidence from 3D-printed turtle models	4
Information transfer during mobbing: call rate is more important than the number of callers in a southern temperate passerine	4
Movement and sound production in yearling humpback whales: age-class comparisons	4
Brown and grey morphs differ in their nocturnality in the polymorphic scops owl (Otus scops)	4
Moonlight predicts the timing and duration of parental behavior across latitudes in a diurnal songbird	4
Discrimination against foreign male and female reproductives in complex insect families	4
A behavioral syndrome of competitiveness in a non-social rodent	4
What is in a scent? Understanding the role of scent marking in social dynamics and territoriality of free-ranging dogs	4
Extended and physical phenotypes affect concept learning between wild birds	4
Intense sociability in a “non-social” snake (Python regius)	4
Same-sex socio-sexual interactions among male narwhal	4
Investigating associations between nematode infection and three measures of sociality in Asian elephants	4
Correction to: Learning without a brain: classical conditioning in the ophiuroid Ophiocoma echinata	4
Individual capture history affects site use and defensive behavior of foraging eastern copperheads at a recreational site	4
Collective behavior diverges independently of the benthic-limnetic axis in stickleback	4
Sex differences in development of behavioral individuality and plasticity in brine shrimp	4
Kinship study reveals stable non-kin-based associations in a medium-sized delphinid	4
Fluctuating environments hinder the ability of female lizards to choose suitable nest sites for their embryos	4
Winter weather conditions result in temporal niche overlap among three sympatric medium-sized carnivores in northeastern Japan	4
Cooperative breeding and the selection for information sharing among groupmates	4
Reactivity and social rank in male bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis)	4
Phenotypic correlates of pelvic spine coloration in the threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus): implications for function and evolution	3
Dual function of blue belly patches in the mesquite lizard	3
Experimentally elevated temperatures reduce activity and host defense in the acacia ant Pseudomyrmex spinicola	3
Yawning informs behavioural state changing in wild spotted hyaenas	3
Mother-offspring chemical communication and tadpole aggregation in a neotropical foam-nesting frog	3
Embryonic risk cues in wood frog: effect in hatching time, morphology and behaviour	3
Spatiotemporal antipredator responses of capybaras in areas with and without apex predators	3
Understanding the co-occurrence of Asian small-clawed otter and smooth-coated otter in a human-dominated landscape	3
Female preferences for dominant frequency in frogs: constraints and impact on sexual size dimorphism	3
Genetic diversity, paternal origin and pathogen resistance in Cataglyphis desert ants	3
Hidden in plain sight: camouflage and hiding behaviour of wild precocial chicks in an open landscape	3
Maternal parity influences the birth sex ratio and birth interval of captive Francois’ langur (Trachypithecus francoisi)	3
Helping in greyish baywing decreases nest predation but does not ameliorate the costs of brood parasitism by screaming cowbirds	3
Selective use of conspecific and heterospecific social information during food restriction in captive finches	3
From dyads to collectives: a review of honeybee signalling	3
Sociality of a threatened ‘solitary’ marsupial before and after population reinforcement: associations and links to breeding success	3
Iberian wolf’s diet and its quality during breeding season: exploring the influence of zone, wolf groups, prey availability and individual factors	3
Time for seafood? Factors affecting land vs. sea foraging choice in breeding Mediterranean gulls	3
Site-specific fears: Negev gerbils from same points of origin share anti-predator behavior when translocated to new environments	3
Joint evolution of traits for social learning	3
Behavioural ecology and developmental plasticity in Indian anuran tadpoles	3
Testing presence of directionality information in female spider silk trails through male trail-following behavior	3
Social conditions alter the growth, metabolic rate, behavioral traits, and food-shelter preferences in the juvenile qingbo Spinibarbus sinensis	3
Testing the factors on the evolution of movement-based visual signal complexity in an Asian agamid lizard	3
Maternal effects of gestating red deer Hinds on fetal body condition: influence of individual and social environmental features	3
Patch choice decisions by a fission–fusion forager as a test of the ecological constraints model	3
Interindividual variability in flower pickiness by foraging bumblebees	3
Sexual dimorphism in dynamic body color in the green anole lizard	3
Hydrodynamic analysis of self-propelled two-dimensional bionic fish in carangiform swimming mode	3
Prey availability influences the effect of boldness on reproductive success in a mammalian predator	3
Seasonal variation in the risk of cuckoo parasitism does not influence nest defense and egg rejection in a population of Daurian redstarts (Phoenicurus auroreus)	3
Do personality traits measured in the lab correlate with corresponding behaviours in the wild? Insights from stream-dwelling Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus)	3
A dynamic state variable model suggests a stronger effect of age than individual energetic state on reproductive allocation in burying beetles	3
Experimental variation of perceived predation risk does not affect coordination of parental care in long-tailed tits	3
Transition in the production of diploid-female to haploid-male eggs in bumblebee colonies: sperm quality or depletion?	3
Dual benefits of rapid changes in male amphibian body color during the breeding period: sexual selection and anti-predator benefits	3
Tiny but socially valuable: eggs as sources of communication in the social wasp Mischocyttarus cerberus	3
Collaborative behaviour and coalitions in male jaguars (Panthera onca)—evidence and comparison with other felids	3
Acoustic discrimination by hosts favours vocal trickery in fledglings of the brood-parasitic screaming cowbird	3
Seasonal changes in color patches and parasite load of male torquate lizards (Sceloporus torquatus)	3
Social status as a developmental process in wild vervet monkeys: beyond maternal inheritance	3
Rapid facial mimicry as a regulator of play in a despotic macaque species	3