Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Article	Citations
Effective use of the McNemar test	64
Attentive red squirrel mothers have faster growing pups and higher lifetime reproductive success	34
Energetic management in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in Taï National Park, Côte d’Ivoire	28
Social relationships among adult male chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii): variation in the strength and quality of social bonds	25
Spatiotemporal patterns of wolf, mesocarnivores and prey in a Mediterranean area	24
Exploitative competition and displacement mediated by eusocial bees: experimental evidence in a wild pollinator community	23
Linking ecology and cognition: does ecological specialisation predict cognitive test performance?	21
Female dispersal patterns influenced by male tenure duration and group size in western lowland gorillas	19
Exposure to a novel predator induces visual predator recognition by naïve prey	17
Comparing ecological and evolutionary variability within datasets	17
Neophobia in 10 ungulate species—a comparative approach	17
Fear of the dark? A mesopredator mitigates large carnivore risk through nocturnality, but humans moderate the interaction	17
Infection threat shapes our social instincts	17
The evolution of parental care strategies in subsocial wasps	17
Effects of early life adversity on maternal effort and glucocorticoids in wild olive baboons	16
Water clarity affects collective behavior in two cyprinid fishes	16
Common permutation methods in animal social network analysis do not control for non-independence	16
Switching from mesopredator to apex predator: how do responses vary in amphibians adapted to cave living?	16
Radical change: temporal patterns of oxidative stress during social ascent in a dominance hierarchy	16
Condition-dependent differences in male vibratory pre-copulatory and copulatory courtship in a nuptial gift-giving spider	15
Background complexity and optimal background matching camouflage	15
Gone with the wind: Is signal timing in a neotropical katydid an adaptive response to variation in wind-induced vibratory noise?	15
Anthropogenic noise reduces male reproductive investment in an acoustically signaling insect	15
Quantifying within-group variation in sociality—covariation among metrics and patterns across primate groups and species	15
The role of social structure and dynamics in the maintenance of endemic disease	15

Better together? How intergroup associations affect energy balance and feeding behavior in wild bonobos	14
Strategic adjustment of ejaculate quality in response to variation of the socio-sexual environment	14
Getting ahead: exploitative competition by an invasive lizard	14
Gut microbial pulse provides nutrition for parental provisioning in incipient termite colonies	14
Grouped circular data in biology: advice for effectively implementing statistical procedures	14
Competitive ability determines coalition participation and partner selection during maturation in wild male chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii)	14
High road mortality during female-biased larval dispersal in an iconic beetle	13
Extreme ecological constraints lead to high degree of individual stereotypy in the vocal repertoire of the Cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus)	13
Long-term effects of prenatal sound experience on songbird behavior and their relation to song learning	12
Duration of female parental care and their survival in the little auk Alle alle - are these two traits linked?	12
Number of callers may affect the response to conspecific mobbing calls in great tits (Parus major)	12
Group size and modularity interact to shape the spread of infection and information through animal societies	12
Lack of consistent responses to aircraft noise in dawn song timing of bird populations near tropical airports	12
The cost of associating with males for Bornean and Sumatran female orangutans: a hidden form of sexual conflict?	12
Repeatable differences in exploratory behaviour predict tick infestation probability in wild great tits	12
Year-round spatial distribution and migration phenology of a rapidly declining trans-Saharan migrant—evidence of winter movements and breeding site fidelity in European turtle doves	12
Suppression of personality variation in boldness during foraging in three-spined sticklebacks	12
Nest defence and offspring provisioning in a cooperative bird: individual subordinates vary in total contribution, but no division of tasks among breeders and subordinates	12
Composition and compound proportions affect the response to complex chemical signals in a spiny lizard	11
Manipulation of worker size diversity does not affect colony fitness under natural conditions in the ant Temnothorax nylanderi	11
Are lizards capable of inhibitory control? Performance on a semi-transparent version of the cylinder task in five species of Australian skinks	11
Social relationships between chimpanzee sons and mothers endure but change during adolescence and adulthood	11
Exploring links between personality traits and their social and non-social environments in wild poison frogs	11
Worker propensity affects flexible task reversion in an ant	11
Snake personality: Differential effects of development and social experience	11
Sex, age, molt strategy, and migration distance explain the phenology of songbirds at a stopover along the East Asian flyway	11
Climbing up the ladder: male reproductive behaviour changes with age in a long-lived fish	11
Geographic intra-specific variation in social organization is driven by population density	11
Predator personality and prey detection: inter-individual variation in responses to cryptic and conspicuous prey	11
Seasonal changes and the influence of tree species and ambient temperature on the fission-fusion dynamics of tree-roosting bats	10
Specialist predation covaries with colour polymorphism in tawny owls	10
Reproductive physiology corresponds to adult nutrition and task performance in a Neotropical paper wasp: a test of dominance-nutrition hypothesis predictions	10
Multi-scale settlement patterns of a migratory songbird in a European primaeval forest	10
Urbanisation weakens selection on the timing of breeding and clutch size in blue tits but not in great tits	10
Biologically meaningful moonlight measures and their application in ecological research	10
The effect of variation in moonlight on nocturnal song of a diurnal bird species	10
The impact of turbidity on foraging and risk taking in the invasive Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) and a threatened native cichlid (Oreochromis amphimelas)	10
The fast and the curious II: performance, personality, and metabolism in Karoo bush rats	10
Personality and behavioral syndromes in two Peromyscus species: presence, lack of state dependence, and lack of association with home range size	10
Fighting for what it’s worth: participation and outcome of inter-group encounters in a pair-living primate, the Javan gibbon (Hylobates moloch)	10
Bat echolocation plasticity in allopatry: a call for caution in acoustic identification of Pipistrellus sp.	10
Rapid shifts in behavioural traits during a recent fish invasion	9
Spatial and seasonal patterns of communal latrine use by spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) reflect a seasonal resource defense strategy	9
Open habitats promote female group formation in a solitary ungulate: the Japanese serow	9
Challenges of dehydration result in a behavioral shift in invasive toads	9
Family feud: permanent group splitting in a highly philopatric mammal, the killer whale (Orcinus orca)	9
When Older Males Sire More Offspring—Increased Attractiveness or Higher Fertility?	9
Guppies in the puzzle box: innovative problem-solving by a teleost fish	9
Evolution of boldness and exploratory behavior in giant mice from Gough Island	9
Priority of access to food and its influence on social dynamics of an endangered carnivore	9

Territorial males do not discriminate between local and novel plumage phenotypes in a tropical songbird species complex: implications for the role of social selection in trait evolution	9
The effect of reproductive state on activity budget, feeding behavior, and urinary C-peptide levels in wild female Assamese macaques	9
Brood sex ratio modulates the effects of extra food on parental effort and sibling competition in a sexually dimorphic raptor	9
Reproduction is affected by individual breeding experience but not pair longevity in a socially monogamous bird	9
Mixture models as a method for comparative sociality: social networks and demographic change in resident killer whales	9
Covariation in superoxide, sperm telomere length and sperm velocity in a polymorphic reptile	8
The duration of artificial light defines sexual signalling in the common glow-worm	8
A condition-dependent male sexual signal predicts adaptive predator-induced plasticity in offspring	8
Morph-specific differences in escape behavior in a color polymorphic lizard	8
Flocking in birds is associated with diet, foraging substrate, timing of activity, and life history	8
An experimental test of changed personality in butterflies from anthropogenic landscapes	8
Thinking outside the box: problem-solving in free-living lizards	8
Ecological and environmental predictors of escape among birds on a large tropical island	8
Proteins from femoral gland secretions of male rock lizards Iberolacerta cyreni allow self—but not individual—recognition of unfamiliar males	8
Tolerant and intolerant macaques differ in the context specificity of their calls and how they ‘comment’ on the interactions of others	8
Inferring the mating system in the burrowing shrimp Lepidophthalmus bocourti (Decapoda, Axiidea, Callichiridae) from the social structure and sexual dimorphism	8
Kin bias and male pair-bond status shape male-male relationships in a multilevel primate society	8
Quantitative cognition in carpenter ants	8
Sociality and parasite transmission	8
Colony fitness increases in the honey bee at queen mating frequencies higher than genetic diversity asymptote	8
Does ecology and life history predict parental cooperation in birds? A comparative analysis	8
Metabolic rate shapes phenotypic covariance among physiological, behavioral, and life-history traits in honeybees	8
Tail autotomy is associated with boldness in male but not female water anoles	8
The development and maintenance of sex differences in dietary breadth and complexity in Bornean orangutans	8
Males and females of a polygamous songbird respond differently to mating opportunities	8
Defending as a unit: sex- and context-specific territorial defence in a duetting bird	8
Does consistent individual variability in pelagic fish larval behaviour affect recruitment in nursery habitats?	8
Breeding stage, not sex, affects foraging characteristics in masked boobies at Rapa Nui	8
Effects of early thermal environment on the behavior and learning of a lizard with bimodal reproduction	7
Shorter effective lifespan in laboratory populations of D. melanogaster might reduce sexual selection	7
Evidence of intrapopulation differences in rattlesnake defensive behavior across neighboring habitats	7
Measuring fitness and inferring natural selection from long-term field studies: different measures lead to nuanced conclusions	7
Variation in carotenoid-containing retinal oil droplets correlates with variation in perception of carotenoid coloration	7
A systematic review of sex differences in rough and tumble play across non-human mammals	7
Gregariousness is associated with parasite species richness in a community of wild chimpanzees	7
The face never lies: facial expressions and mimicry modulate playful interactions in wild geladas	7
Why sharing data and code during peer review can enhance behavioral ecology research	7
Task partitioning in ants lacking discrete morphological worker subcastes	7
Embryonic antipredator defenses and behavioral carryover effects in the fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas)	7
Female polyandry dilutes inbreeding in a solitary fast-living hibernator	7
The evolution of ant worker polymorphism correlates with multiple social traits	7
Sexually dichromatic coloration of female Iberian green lizards correlates with health state and reproductive investment	7
Convergent character displacement in sympatric tamarin calls (Saguinus spp.)	7
Male accessory gland depletion in a tephritid fly affects female fecundity independently of sperm depletion	7
Social immunity in the honey bee: do immune-challenged workers enter enforced or self-imposed exile?	7
Locomotion, interactions and information transfer vary according to context in a cryptic fish species	7
Age-related division of labor occurs in ants at the earliest stages of colony initiation	7
Longitudinal effects of habitat quality, body condition, and parasites on colour patches of a multiornamented lizard	7
Maternal lactational investment is higher for sons in chimpanzees	7
Ectoparasites exposure affects early growth and mouth colour in nestlings of a cavity-nesting raptor	6
Which acoustic parameters modify the great tit’s response to conspecific combinatorial mobbing calls?	6
The characteristics and consequences of African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) den site selection	6
Allo-suckling occurrence and its effect on lactation and nursing duration in harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) in Orkney, Scotland	6
Strongly bonded individuals prefer to forage together in cooperatively breeding dwarf mongoose groups	6
Black widow spiders use path integration on their webs	6
Social and sexual behaviors predict immune system activation, but not adrenocortical activation, in male rhesus macaques	6
The role of claw color in species recognition and mate choice in a fiddler crab	6
Niche partitioning among social clusters of a resident estuarine apex predator	6
Fortune favors the bold toad: urban-derived behavioral traits may provide advantages for invasive amphibian populations	6
Maternal stress effects on infant development in wild Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi)	6
Absentee owners and overlapping home ranges in a territorial species	6
Weak evidence that asset protection underlies temporal or contextual consistency in boldness of a terrestrial crustacean	6
Size is not everything: differing activity and foraging patterns between the sexes in a monomorphic mammal	6
Sperm Sizer: a program to semi-automate the measurement of sperm length	6
Escape-hatching decisions show adaptive ontogenetic changes in how embryos manage ambiguity in predation risk cues	6
Long-term field studies in bat research: importance for basic and applied research questions in animal behavior	6
The specificity of sperm-mediated paternal effects in threespine sticklebacks	6
Behavioural correlations and aggression in praying mantids	6
Prior territorial responses and home range size predict territory defense in radio-tagged great tits	6
Urban lizards use sleep sites that mirror the structural, thermal, and light properties of natural sites	6
Sex, shells, and weaponry: coercive reproductive tactics in the painted turtle, Chrysemys picta	6
Male care status influences the risk-taking decisions in a glassfrog	6
Honey bee aggression: evaluating causal links to disease-resistance traits and infection	6
Food limitation modulates the endogenous control of spring migratory behavior in a captive long-distance migratory bird population	6
Termite eusociality and contrasting selective pressure on social and innate immunity	6
When night never falls: female sexual signalling in a nocturnal insect along a latitudinal gradient	6
Mating with sexually attractive males provides female Gryllus firmus field crickets with direct but not indirect fitness benefits	6
Not so naïve: endangered mammal responds to olfactory cues of an introduced predator after less than 150 years of coexistence	5
Life-long testosterone and antiandrogen treatments affect the survival and reproduction of captive male red-legged partridges (Alectoris rufa)	5
Evolution of social behaviour in an infectious world: comparative analysis of social network structure versus parasite richness	5

Transfer of information between a highly social species and heterospecific community members	5
Commerson’s dolphins (Cephalorhynchus commersonii) can relax acoustic crypsis	5
Calling amplitude flexibility and acoustic spacing in the territorial frog Allobates femoralis	5
A new classification of mammalian uni-male multi-female groups based on the fundamental principles governing inter- and intrasexual relationships	5
Extent of threat detection depends on predator type and behavioral context in wild samango monkey groups	5
Felid bedrooms with a panoramic view: selection of resting sites by Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) in a karstic landscape	5
Foraging and feeding are independently regulated by social and personal hunger in the clonal raider ant	5
Differences in incubation behaviour and niche separation of two competing flycatcher species	5
How does host social behavior drive parasite non-selective evolution from the within-host to the landscape-scale?	5
Fertilization success suggests random pairing in frogs with regard to body size	5
Effective conspecific communication with aberrant calls in the common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)	5
Heterogeneity in social network connections is density-dependent: implications for disease dynamics in a gregarious ungulate	5
Ecological and reproductive drivers of fission-fusion dynamics in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) inhabiting a montane forest	5
Should I stay or should I go: the effect of avian brood parasitism on host fledging dynamics	5
Audible, but not ultrasonic, calls reflect surface-dwelling or subterranean specialization in pup and adult Brandt’s and mandarin voles	5
Breakdown of the ideal free distribution under conditions of severe and low competition	5
Investigating personality in vipers: individual rattlesnakes exhibit consistent behavioral responses in defensive and exploratory contexts	5
Reef manta ray cephalic lobe movements are modulated during social interactions	5
Multiple signals predict male mating success in the lek-mating lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus)	5
Neighbour effects do not always show consistent patterns, contrast of seed trait matters: evidence from a seed-rodent mutualism study	5
Genetic conflicts and the case for licensed anthropomorphizing	5
Influence of past and current social contexts on hunting behaviour in spiderlings	5
Sex differences in ocular morphology in Caucasian people: a dubious role of sexual selection in the evolution of sexual dimorphism of the human eye	5
Sensitivity threshold of avian magnetic compass to oscillating magnetic field is species-specific	5
Split sex ratios and genetic relatedness in a primitively eusocial sweat bee	5
Multimodal female mate choice in a polymorphic flat rock lizard	5
Plasticity and flexibility in the anti-predator responses of treefrog tadpoles	5
Sick and tired: sickness behaviour, polyparasitism and food stress in a gregarious mammal	5
Chronic exposure to urban noise during the vocal learning period does not lead to increased song frequencies in zebra finches	5
Mexican mojarra can dominate non-native convict cichlids even when outnumbered	5
Behavioral responses of wild animals to anthropogenic change: insights from domestication	4
Stranger Danger: Differential response to strangers and neighbors by a social carnivore, the Asiatic wild dog (Cuon alpinus)	4
Food preference and food type innovation of surface- vs. cave-dwelling waterlouse (Asellus aquaticus) after 60 000 years of isolation	4
Response to short-lived human overcrowding by free-ranging dogs	4
Analysis of astrovirus transmission pathways in a free-ranging fission-fusion colony of Natterer’s bats (Myotis nattereri)	4
Has an invasive lizard lost its antipredator behaviours following 40 generations of isolation from snake predators?	4
Population-specific assessment of carry-over effects across the range of a migratory songbird	4
Morphological evolution and the behavioral organization of agricultural division of labor in the leafcutter ant Atta cephalotes	4
Colony but not social phenotype or status structures the gut bacteria of a eusocial mammal	4
Tick parasitism impairs contest behavior in the western fence lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis)	4
How territoriality reduces disease transmission among social insect colonies	4
Forget the audience: tadpoles release similar disturbance cues regardless of kinship or familiarity	4
Seasonal shifts in sociosexual behaviour and reproductive phenology in giraffe	4
Collaborative behaviour and coalitions in male jaguars (Panthera onca)—evidence and comparison with other felids	4
Sex-specific signalling of individual personality by a mutual plumage ornament in a passerine	4
Convergent evolution of antlions and wormlions: similarities and differences in the behavioural ecology of unrelated trap-building predators	4
An experimental test of information use by wood ducks (Aix sponsa): external habitat cues, not social visual cues, influence initial nest site selection	4
Sex difference in homing: males but not females return home despite offspring mortality in Ikakogi tayrona, a glassfrog with prolonged maternal care	4
Caffeine and ethanol in nectar interact with flower color impacting bumblebee behavior	4
Social group size influences pathogen transmission in salamanders	4
Monomorphic call structure and dimorphic vocal phenology in a sex-role reversed frog	4
Chemical signal divergence among populations influences behavioral discrimination in the whiptail lizard Aspidoscelis lineattissimus (squamata: teiidae)	4
Anti-predatory sleep strategies are conserved in the agamid lizard Monilesaurus rouxii	4
Testing the maintenance of natural responses to survival-relevant calls in the conservation breeding population of a critically endangered corvid (Corvus hawaiiensis)	4
Investigating temporal coordination in the duet contributions of a pair-living small ape	4
Effects of developmental environment on animal personality in a tropical skink	4
Information content of ultraviolet-reflecting colour patches and visual perception of body coloration in the Tyrrhenian wall lizard Podarcis tiliguerta	4
No evidence for innate differences in tadpole behavior between natural, urbanized, and invasive populations	4
Offspring sex ratios are male-biased reflecting sex-biased dispersal in Idaho, USA, wolves	4
Search strategies in rural and urban environment during natal dispersal of the red squirrel	4
Age-based changes in kairomone response mediate task partitioning in stingless bee soldiers (Tetragonisca angustula)	4
Conspecific disturbance odors act as alarm cues to affect female mate choice in a treefrog	4
Egg covering in cavity nesting birds may prevent nest usurpation by other species	4
Sex-specific reproductive strategies in wild yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventer): senescence and genetic variance in annual reproductive success differ between the sexes	4
Evolution of reduced mate harming tendency of males in Drosophila melanogaster populations selected for faster life history	4
Multiple parasitism in an evictor brood parasite: patterns revealed by long-term monitoring, continuous video recording, and genetic analyses	4
A description of a new discovery: African wild dog packs communicate with other packs by posting scent-mark messages at a shared marking site	4
Nest ornaments and feather composition form an extended phenotype syndrome in a wild bird	4
Feral ungulate and macropod responses to resource scarcity and predation risk at savanna waterholes	4
Parasitic cowbird development up to fledging and subsequent post-fledging survival reflect life history variation found across host species	4
Male aggressiveness and risk-taking during reproduction are repeatable but not correlated in a wild bird population	4
Parasitic begging calls of nestmate-evictor common cuckoos stimulate more parental provisions by red-winged blackbirds than calls of nest-sharing brown-headed cowbirds	4
Females of solitary- and group-living sister species of African striped mice show a similar social structure following experimentally imposed group-living	4
Impact of light pollution on aquatic invertebrates: Behavioral responses and ecological consequences	4
Call rate, fundamental frequency, and syntax determine male-call attractiveness in blue petrels Halobaena caerulea	4
Reproductive timing as an explanation for skewed parentage assignment ratio in a bisexually philopatric population	4
Does sexual cannibalism secure genetic benefits of polyandry in a size-dimorphic spider?	4
Population specific annual cycles and migration strategies in a leap-frog migrant	4
Detecting behavioural lateralisation in Poecilia reticulata is strongly dependent on experimental design	4
Adaptive tuning of the exploitation-exploration trade-off in four honey bee species	4
Limited dispersal by large juvenile males leads to kin-structured neighborhoods in the black-crested titmouse (Baeolophus atricristatus)	4
Evolution from monogamy to polygyny: insights from the solitary Japanese serow	4
The influence of social environment on cooperation and conflict in an incipiently social bee, Ceratina calcarata	3
Juvenile social play predicts docility in Belding’s ground squirrels	3
Multi-year assessment of variability in spatial and social relationships in a subterranean rodent, the highland tuco-tuco (Ctenomys opimus)	3
Large eastern grey kangaroo males are dominant but do not monopolize matings	3
Do males that experience weapon damage have greater reproductive potential than intact males in polygynous scenarios?	3
The effects of intra- and interspecific competitions on personality and individual plasticity in two sympatric brown frogs	3
Type and amount of social experience influences individual face learning in paper wasps	3
Unraveling the content of tail displays in an Asian agamid lizard	3
Food, shadow, and fire influence a tropical bird´s display	3
Experimental evidence that adult UV/yellow colouration functions as a signal in blue tit families — but only for parents	3
Cooperation by ant queens during colony-founding perpetuates alternative forms of social organization	3
Food-hoarding and nest-building propensities are associated in a cavity-nesting bird	3
Behavior outweighs body size in mediating male reproductive success in a nest-building fish, bluehead chub	3