Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

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Nocturnal and diurnal predator and prey interactions with crab spider color polymorphs	33
Functional diversification of contact calls contribute to the cohesion of a multi-level society	32
Motivation matters: lighter littermates of the domestic cat compete more successfully for meat at weaning	25
Impact of blood parasites on the behaviour of two congeneric wall lizards (genus Podarcis)	25
Maternal stress effects on infant development in wild Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi)	24
Thermal energetics of male courtship song in a lek-breeding bat	23
Social modulation of spatial dynamics in treefrog choruses	21
Female-limited X chromosome evolution reveals that lifespan is mainly modulated by interlocus rather than intralocus sexual conflict	19
Anxiety-like behavior and tectal gene expression in a foraging/predator avoidance tradeoff task using adult African clawed frogs Xenopus laevis	19
Time allocation to balance group living trade-offs in Ethiopian wolves	17
Morphological evolution and the behavioral organization of agricultural division of labor in the leafcutter ant Atta cephalotes	17
The evolution of ant worker polymorphism correlates with multiple social traits	16
Behavioural response to predation risks depends on experimental change in dehydration state in a lizard	16
Population specific annual cycles and migration strategies in a leap-frog migrant	15
Versatile and inexpensive device for capturing high-quality behavioral videos under diverse field conditions	15
Evidence of sociality and group foraging in Antarctic minke whales (Balaenoptera bonaerensis)	14
Drivers and consequences of female reproductive competition in an egalitarian, sexually monomorphic primate	14
Are the personality measures for laboratory mice applicable for wild rats?	14
Ectoparasites exposure affects early growth and mouth colour in nestlings of a cavity-nesting raptor	14
Correction to: Daily foraging activity of an imperiled ground squirrel: effects of hibernation, thermal environment, body condition, and conspecific density	13
White plumage color as an honest indicator: feather macrostructure links reflectance with reproductive effort and success	13
Familiarity effects on fish behaviour are disrupted in shoals that contain also unfamiliar individuals	13
Water clarity affects collective behavior in two cyprinid fishes	13
Investigation of field and laboratory-based personality traits in a wild ornate box turtle (Terrapene ornata) population	13
Should I stay or should I go now: dispersal decisions and reproductive success in male white-faced capuchins (Cebus imitator)	13

Impact of predator model presentation paradigms on titi monkey alarm sequences	12
Syntactic rules predict song type matching in a songbird	12
From collocations to call-ocations: using linguistic methods to quantify animal call combinations	12
Evolutionary implications of size-selective mortality on the ontogenetic development of shoal cohesion: a neurochemical approach using a zebrafish, Danio rerio, harvest selection experiment	12
Who to help? Helping decisions in a cooperatively breeding bird with redirected care	12
Weak evidence for a relationship between group size and flight initiation distance in response to underwater human presence in an exploited fish species	11
Background contrast affects detection and recognition of courting wolf spiders by intended and unintended receivers	11
The availability of male mates affects the social mating strategies of a predominantly socially monogamous passerine	11
Behavioral responses of two African mesopredators to human and non-human apex predators	11
Floral and insect traits predict predation risk and neophobia impacts on flower-visiting insects’ behavior	11
Reproduction of a field cricket under high-intensity artificial light at night and a simulated heat wave	11
Behavioral repertoire of Lahille’s bottlenose dolphins that interact with artisanal fishers	11
Bumblebee cognitive abilities are robust to changes in colony size	11
The gullible genius: fast learners fall for fake news	10
Social information used to elicit cache protection differs between pinyon jays and Clark’s nutcrackers	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
The impact of high temperatures on bird responses to alarm calls	10
Brighter is better: bill fluorescence increases social attraction in a colonial seabird and reveals a potential link with foraging	10
Range utilization slopes as a measure of central tendency and intergroup overlap in primates	10
Cooperation by ant queens during colony-founding perpetuates alternative forms of social organization	10
Decoupled auditory perception from acoustic signal divergence hinders species recognition in territorial poison frogs	10
Exorcising the ghost in the computer: ChatGPT, science publishing, and GenAI policy for Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology	10
Timing of seasonal events is correlated with social network position in a wild mammal	9
Female gray treefrogs maintain mate choice decisions under predation threat, but adjust movements to reduce conspicuousness during mate approach	9
Egg-puncturing behaviour by shiny cowbirds increases nest desertion in chalk-browed mockingbirds	9
Lesser spot-nosed monkeys coordinate alarm call production with associated Campbell’s monkeys	9
Termite eusociality and contrasting selective pressure on social and innate immunity	9
Females know best: dispersal polymorphism maintained by sex-specific foraging	9
Sex difference in homing: males but not females return home despite offspring mortality in Ikakogi tayrona, a glassfrog with prolonged maternal care	9
Determining sensitive stages of larval development to predation risk in Indosylvirana indica	9
Influence of different weather aspects on breeding performance, food supply and nest-space use in hoopoe offspring	9
Optimal clutch size and male incubation investment in the male-only incubating emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae)	9
Infant mortality associated with immigration of males in a multi-level society	9
Communication behavior of the snow leopard (Panthera uncia): understanding marking-behavior patterns to optimize camera-trapping studies	9
Introduction to topical collection “Measuring individual reproductive success in the wild”	9
Correction to: When Older Males Sire More Offspring—Increased Attractiveness or Higher Fertility?	9
Detecting behavioural lateralisation in Poecilia reticulata is strongly dependent on experimental design	8
Male nuptial display colour and vocalisation appear to signal independent information in the whirring tree frog	8
Individual behavioral variability across time and contexts in Dendrobates tinctorius poison frogs	8
Colony fitness increases in the honey bee at queen mating frequencies higher than genetic diversity asymptote	8
Measuring fitness and inferring natural selection from long-term field studies: different measures lead to nuanced conclusions	8
Allo-suckling occurrence and its effect on lactation and nursing duration in harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) in Orkney, Scotland	8
Extended parental care in the mass provisioning silk wasp, Microstigmus rosae	8
Intersection between parental investment, transgenerational immunity, and termite sociality in the face of disease: a theoretical approach	8
Long-term effects of litter characteristics on reproduction in female cavies (Cavia aperea)	8
Does the development environment cause the pace of life to change in a rainforest lizard?	8
Sex-specific migration strategies and underlying physiology contribute to spring arrival protandry in a songbird	8
Spatiotemporal variation of behavior and repeatability in a long-lived turtle	8
Female remating decisions and mate choice benefits in the beetle Gnatocerus cornutus	8

Social interactions throughout life impair longevity and age-specific mating success in male parasitoids	8
No evidence that grooming is exchanged for coalitionary support in the short- or long-term via direct or generalized reciprocity in unrelated rhesus macaques	8
Bumblebees display stimulus-specific persistence behaviour after being trained on delayed reinforcement	8
The multilevel society of proboscis monkeys with a possible patrilineal basis	8
Transfer of information between a highly social species and heterospecific community members	8
Individual and collective cognition in social insects: what’s in a name?	8
No evidence that recruitment pheromone modulates olfactory, visual, or spatial learning in the ant Lasius niger	8
Reproductive success of Bornean orangutan males: scattered in time but clustered in space	7
Correction to: Individual and collective cognition in social insects: what’s in a name?	7
Habitat-dependent variation in consistent behavioural traits does not affect the efficiency of resource acquisition in a thermophilic ant	7
Male color polymorphism in populations of reef geckos (Sphaerodactylus notatus) reduces the utility of visual signals in sex recognition	7
Effects of seed traits on the cache size of a scatter-hoarding rodent, Leopoldamys edwardsi	7
Evidence of intrapopulation differences in rattlesnake defensive behavior across neighboring habitats	7
Social information-mediated population dynamics in non-grouping prey	7
Quantification of multi-task predation reveals behavioural regulation and attentional processes in mantids	7
Is flying riskier for female katydids than for males?	7
Year-round behavioural time budgets of common woodpigeons inferred from acceleration data using machine learning	7
Description of the behavioural contexts of underwater sound production in juvenile green turtles Chelonia mydas	7
Begging is an honest signal of hunger in a communally nesting bird with low genetic relatedness	7
It’s the time of the season: seasonal variation in sexually conflicted size-assortative pairing	7
How territoriality reduces disease transmission among social insect colonies	7
Investigating personality in vipers: individual rattlesnakes exhibit consistent behavioral responses in defensive and exploratory contexts	7
Which acoustic parameters modify the great tit’s response to conspecific combinatorial mobbing calls?	6
Spider colony extinction does not depend on degree of sociality and maternal size in three Anelosimus species (Araneae, Theridiidae)	6
Food-caching chickadees do not exhibit directional bias when learning a spatial task	6
Opportunity is not everything: genetic monogamy and limited brood parasitism in a colonial woodpecker	6
Conflict and the evolution of viviparity in vertebrates	6
Exploratory behaviour divergence between surface populations, cave colonists and a cave population in the water louse, Asellus aquaticus	6
Do agricultural practices on meadows reduce or increase flight initiation distance in the white stork ciconia ciconia?	6
Urban lizards use sleep sites that mirror the structural, thermal, and light properties of natural sites	6
Functional properties of ant queen pheromones as revealed by behavioral experiments	6
The evolution of dynamic and flexible courtship displays that reveal individual quality	6
Single paternity in the kelp crab Taliepus dentatus despite polyandry	6
Communicating the cost of your altruism makes you cool—competitive altruism and sexual selection in a real-life charity situation	6
Endurance rivalry among male spotted hyenas: what does it mean to “endure”?	6
Heat-altered scent marks of males of a fossorial reptile still allow recognition by females but lose information on male quality	6
Correction to: Is provisioning rate of parents and helpers infuenced by the simulated presence of novel individuals?	6
Large and interactive pipefish females display ornaments for longer with many males around	6
The effects of environmental light on the role of male chemotactile cues in wolf spider mating interactions	6
Sensitivity threshold of avian magnetic compass to oscillating magnetic field is species-specific	6
Social thermoregulation in Mediterranean greater white-toothed shrews (Crocidura russula)	6
Competitive asymmetries, birthing asynchrony and sibling rivalry in a social lizard	6
Multiple phenotypic traits predict male mating success in a critically endangered frog	6
Annual fitness costs may be balanced by a conservative life history strategy in groups of unrelated ant queens	6
Encoding and decoding of the information in the honeybee waggle dance	6
A systematic review of sex differences in rough and tumble play across non-human mammals	6
Infection by a fungal pathogen and mating behavior in Pacific treefrogs: a test of the Hamilton-Zuk hypothesis	6
Wild Australian magpies learn to pull intact, not broken, strings to obtain food	6
Do female bluethroats without extra-pair offspring have more MHC-compatible social mates?	6
Variation in behavioral tempo, not thermal sensitivity, determines the onset of foraging in ant colonies	6
When Older Males Sire More Offspring—Increased Attractiveness or Higher Fertility?	6
Age-dependent drivers of sex-specific disappearance in wild redfronted lemurs: the role of behavior	6
No evidence for adaptive sex ratio adjustment in a cooperatively breeding bird with helpful helpers	6
Introduction to topical collection “Sexual selection, sexual conflict and aging”	6
Using an agent-based model to inform sampling design for animal social network analysis	5
How does host social behavior drive parasite non-selective evolution from the within-host to the landscape-scale?	5
Niche partitioning among social clusters of a resident estuarine apex predator	5
Fecal avoidance and gastrointestinal parasitism in semi-free ranging woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha poeppigii)	5
First evidence of contagious yawning in a wild lemur	5
Social group size influences pathogen transmission in salamanders	5
Sex-dependent recognition and behavior against nest predators and brood parasites by Chestnut-capped Blackbird Chrysomus ruficapillus	5
Tolerant and intolerant macaques differ in the context specificity of their calls and how they ‘comment’ on the interactions of others	5
Wild and captive immature orangutans differ in their non-vocal communication with others, but not with their mothers	5
Common permutation methods in animal social network analysis do not control for non-independence	5
Multiple parasitism in an evictor brood parasite: patterns revealed by long-term monitoring, continuous video recording, and genetic analyses	5
Bacterial infection influences courtship behavior and mate choice in a wolf spider	5
An empirical assessment of the role of independence filters in temporal activity analyses using camera trapping data	5
Individual flexibility in group foraging behaviour of reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi)	5
High pair fidelity despite sex differences in the duration of parental care in a long-lived migratory bird	5
Aggression and multi-modal signaling in noise in a common urban songbird	5
Fear of sex: sexual conflict exposed as avoidance in a parthenogenetic invertebrate	5
Evaluating scleral exposure in human eyes: a review of measurement methods, an exploration of reliability, and implications in behavioral experimental research	5
Polarize, catalyze, and stabilize: how a minority of norm internalizers amplify group selection and punishment	5
Biologically meaningful moonlight measures and their application in ecological research	5
Helpers are associated with increased nest attentiveness and more constant egg temperatures in chestnut-crowned babblers	5
Priority of access to food and its influence on social dynamics of an endangered carnivore	5
Parasite induced changes in contact behaviour is affected by parasitic status of group members	5
Performance and efficiency in leaf transport: unveiling the task allocation puzzle in Acromyrmex subterraneus	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
Longitudinal effects of habitat quality, body condition, and parasites on colour patches of a multiornamented lizard	5

Neither paternity loss nor perceived threat of cuckoldry affects male nestling provisioning in grass wrens	5
Sisters doing it for themselves: extensive reproductive plasticity in workers of a primitively eusocial bee	5
Fatal attraction: territorial males of a neotropical lizard increase predation risk when females are sexually receptive	5
Effects of mating age and mate age on lifespan and reproduction in a horned beetle	5
Does mutualism provide additional indirect benefits? Behavioral indicators of chemical communication in a temporally dynamic fish-mussel mutualism	5
Advertising and receiving from heights increases transmission of vocalizations in semi-arboreal mice	4
Habitat quality affects the social organization in mouse lemurs (Microcebus griseorufus)	4
Why empresses have more sons? Maternal instant social condition determines it	4
Social immunity in the honey bee: do immune-challenged workers enter enforced or self-imposed exile?	4
Drivers of passive leadership in wild songbirds: species-level differences and spatio-temporally dependent intraspecific effects	4
Movement modeling and patterns of within- and among-individual behavioral variation across time scales in neonate garter snakes (Thamnophis elegans)	4
Friendly or powerful? Alternative reproductive strategies among males of collins’ squirrel monkeys (Saimiri collinsi)	4
Correction to: Anthropogenic noise reduces male reproductive investment in an acoustically signaling insect	4
Robustness in action: Leg loss does not affect mating success in male harvestmen	4
Movement and sound production in yearling humpback whales: age-class comparisons	4
Costs and benefits of polyandrous mating to the female emerald treefrog (Zhangixalus prasinatus), a lek-chorusing anuran	4
The relationship between preference and switching in flower foraging by bees	4
Between-group variation in production of pant-grunt vocalizations by wild bonobos (Pan paniscus)	4
Reactivity and social rank in male bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis)	4
Intraspecific variation in invertebrate cognition: a review	4
Agonism does not covary with territoriality in a gregarious reptile	4
Shorter effective lifespan in laboratory populations of D. melanogaster might reduce sexual selection	4
Diel variation in anti-predation behavior of a ground squirrel and relationships between vigilance and escape	4
Collective behavior diverges independently of the benthic-limnetic axis in stickleback	4
What is in a scent? Understanding the role of scent marking in social dynamics and territoriality of free-ranging dogs	4
Juvenile vibratory experience affects adult mate preferences in a wolf spider	4
The eavesdropping risk of conspicuous sexual signaling in humpback whales	4
Direct and correlated responses to artificial selection on foraging in Drosophila	4
Feral ungulate and macropod responses to resource scarcity and predation risk at savanna waterholes	4
No evidence of sex ratio manipulation by black-throated blue warblers in response to food availability	4
Correction to: Cooperation by ant queens during colony‑founding perpetuates alternative forms of social organization	4
Stopover territoriality in songbirds crossing the Sahara: aggression and energetics during migration	4
Experimental manipulation of chest spotting alters territorial aggression in urban and rural song sparrows	4
Intense sociability in a “non-social” snake (Python regius)	4
Ant genotype, but not genotype of cultivated fungi, predicts queen acceptance in the asexual fungus-farming ant Mycocepurus smithii (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)	4
Winter weather conditions result in temporal niche overlap among three sympatric medium-sized carnivores in northeastern Japan	4
Eggshell coloration is related to condition of females and offspring but not to male provisioning effort in a cup-nesting passerine	4
Tits (Paridae sp.) use social information when locating and choosing nest lining material	4
Inherited differences of migratory phenotypes in two Acrocephalus warblers in relation to geomagnetic field parameters	4
Investigating associations between nematode infection and three measures of sociality in Asian elephants	4
Latitudinal cline in reproductive traits in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum	4
Female age and reproductive stage influence copulation patterns in mountain gorillas’ variable mating system	4
Allopatric montane wren-babblers exhibit similar song notes but divergent vocal sequences	4
Correction to: Learning without a brain: classical conditioning in the ophiuroid Ophiocoma echinata	4
Costs of social conflict: do injuries mirror patterns of aggression in blue monkeys?	4
A behavioral syndrome of competitiveness in a non-social rodent	4
Food limitation modulates the endogenous control of spring migratory behavior in a captive long-distance migratory bird population	4
Experimental variation of perceived predation risk does not affect coordination of parental care in long-tailed tits	3
Information transfer during mobbing: call rate is more important than the number of callers in a southern temperate passerine	3
Helping in greyish baywing decreases nest predation but does not ameliorate the costs of brood parasitism by screaming cowbirds	3
Heliconiini butterflies as a case study in evolutionary cognitive ecology: behavioural innovation and mushroom body expansion	3
Social network does not influence microbiota of a gregarious bird in a common environment	3
State and physiology behind personality in arthropods: a review	3
Testing the maintenance of natural responses to survival-relevant calls in the conservation breeding population of a critically endangered corvid (Corvus hawaiiensis)	3
Group size and modularity interact to shape the spread of infection and information through animal societies	3
Genetic diversity, paternal origin and pathogen resistance in Cataglyphis desert ants	3
Maximum diving duration and its influencing factors of diving lizards	3
Convergent evolution of antlions and wormlions: similarities and differences in the behavioural ecology of unrelated trap-building predators	3
Acoustic discrimination by hosts favours vocal trickery in fledglings of the brood-parasitic screaming cowbird	3
Social conditions alter the growth, metabolic rate, behavioral traits, and food-shelter preferences in the juvenile qingbo Spinibarbus sinensis	3
Two coinhabitants visually lure prey to host territory through a shared conspicuous trait	3
Behavioural ecology and developmental plasticity in Indian anuran tadpoles	3
Maternal parity influences the birth sex ratio and birth interval of captive Francois’ langur (Trachypithecus francoisi)	3
From dyads to collectives: a review of honeybee signalling	3
Understanding the co-occurrence of Asian small-clawed otter and smooth-coated otter in a human-dominated landscape	3
Kinship study reveals stable non-kin-based associations in a medium-sized delphinid	3
Embryonic risk cues in wood frog: effect in hatching time, morphology and behaviour	3
Multimodal female mate choice in a polymorphic flat rock lizard	3
Intrapopulation variation in boldness differs while average boldness is similar across populations of a widespread turtle	3
Brown and grey morphs differ in their nocturnality in the polymorphic scops owl (Otus scops)	3
Joint evolution of traits for social learning	3
Behavioural infection tolerance of malaria is negatively correlated with pro-inflammatory cytokine expression in the brain of an invasive songbird	3
Transition in the production of diploid-female to haploid-male eggs in bumblebee colonies: sperm quality or depletion?	3
A dynamic state variable model suggests a stronger effect of age than individual energetic state on reproductive allocation in burying beetles	3
Sand-bubbler crabs distinguish fiddler crab signals to predict intruders	3
Disturbance cues facilitate associative learning of predators in a coral reef fish	3
Social foraging can benefit artisanal fishers who interact with wild dolphins	3
Tiny but socially valuable: eggs as sources of communication in the social wasp Mischocyttarus cerberus	3
Female preferences for dominant frequency in frogs: constraints and impact on sexual size dimorphism	3
Iberian wolf’s diet and its quality during breeding season: exploring the influence of zone, wolf groups, prey availability and individual factors	3
Fluctuating environments hinder the ability of female lizards to choose suitable nest sites for their embryos	3
Has an invasive lizard lost its antipredator behaviours following 40 generations of isolation from snake predators?	3
Quantifying within-group variation in sociality—covariation among metrics and patterns across primate groups and species	3
Daily foraging activity of an imperiled ground squirrel: effects of hibernation, thermal environment, body condition, and conspecific density	3
Individual capture history affects site use and defensive behavior of foraging eastern copperheads at a recreational site	3
Rapid facial mimicry as a regulator of play in a despotic macaque species	3
Male mate guarding in a polyandrous and sexually cannibalistic praying mantid	3
Testing the factors on the evolution of movement-based visual signal complexity in an Asian agamid lizard	3
Fertilization success suggests random pairing in frogs with regard to body size	3
Phenotypic correlates of pelvic spine coloration in the threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus): implications for function and evolution	3
Effects of early life adversity on maternal effort and glucocorticoids in wild olive baboons	3
Yawning informs behavioural state changing in wild spotted hyaenas	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
Cooperative breeding and the selection for information sharing among groupmates	3
Mother-offspring chemical communication and tadpole aggregation in a neotropical foam-nesting frog	3