Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Article	Citations
Time allocation to balance group living trade-offs in Ethiopian wolves	57
The science funding crisis threatens the careers of future behavioral ecologists	55
Anxiety-like behavior and tectal gene expression in a foraging/predator avoidance tradeoff task using adult African clawed frogs Xenopus laevis	27
Functional diversification of contact calls contribute to the cohesion of a multi-level society	26
Female-limited X chromosome evolution reveals that lifespan is mainly modulated by interlocus rather than intralocus sexual conflict	21
Drivers and consequences of female reproductive competition in an egalitarian, sexually monomorphic primate	21
Are the personality measures for laboratory mice applicable for wild rats?	19
Shifting expectations? Bumblebees show limited adjustment based on recent reward history	18
Versatile and inexpensive device for capturing high-quality behavioral videos under diverse field conditions	16
Nocturnal and diurnal predator and prey interactions with crab spider color polymorphs	16
Behavioural response to predation risks depends on experimental change in dehydration state in a lizard	16
Social integration in temporal multiplex association networks predicts offspring survival in female geoffroy’s spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi)	15
Morphological evolution and the behavioral organization of agricultural division of labor in the leafcutter ant Atta cephalotes	15
Ontogeny and Sociobiological factors affecting behavior and its repeatability in captive-bred Arctic foxes (Vulpes lagopus)	15
Evidence of sociality and group foraging in Antarctic minke whales (Balaenoptera bonaerensis)	15
White plumage color as an honest indicator: feather macrostructure links reflectance with reproductive effort and success	15
Habitat complexity and spatial navigation: linking habitat to cognitive strategy in cyprinid fishes	14
The future of evolutionary behavioral biology	13
Background contrast affects detection and recognition of courting wolf spiders by intended and unintended receivers	13
Impact of blood parasites on the behaviour of two congeneric wall lizards (genus Podarcis)	13
Investigation of field and laboratory-based personality traits in a wild ornate box turtle (Terrapene ornata) population	13
Behavioral responses of two African mesopredators to human and non-human apex predators	12
Impact of predator model presentation paradigms on titi monkey alarm sequences	12
The availability of male mates affects the social mating strategies of a predominantly socially monogamous passerine	12
Bumblebee cognitive abilities are robust to changes in colony size	12

Reproduction of a field cricket under high-intensity artificial light at night and a simulated heat wave	11
Testing for cryptic male mate choice in an insect with high mating failure	11
Syntactic rules predict song type matching in a songbird	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
Behavioral repertoire of Lahille’s bottlenose dolphins that interact with artisanal fishers	11
Weak evidence for a relationship between group size and flight initiation distance in response to underwater human presence in an exploited fish species	11
From collocations to call-ocations: using linguistic methods to quantify animal call combinations	10
Sex, not familiarity, shapes social interactions in adult captive tortoises (Testudo hermanni)	10
Spatial vigilance architecture of Indian flying fox colonies in rural parts of Barak Valley, Northeast India	10
Social information used to elicit cache protection differs between pinyon jays and Clark’s nutcrackers	10
Exorcising the ghost in the computer: ChatGPT, science publishing, and GenAI policy for Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology	10
Floral and insect traits predict predation risk and neophobia impacts on flower-visiting insects’ behavior	10
The impact of high temperatures on bird responses to alarm calls	10
Evolutionary dynamics of size and plumage dimorphism in birds	10
A behavioral syndrome and within-pair similarity in boldness and foraging site fidelity of a monogamous seabird	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
Context-dependent abdomen bobbing in a jumping spider: a dynamic visual signal	10
Male calls induce egg laying in isolated female frogs	10
Socio-sexual environment influences fecundity, but not response to bacterial infection, in Drosophila melanogaster females	10
Analysis of inconsistencies for the study of dominance: assessing influence of some biological traits on hierarchy in male brown bears	10
Range utilization slopes as a measure of central tendency and intergroup overlap in primates	10
Bumblebees display stimulus-specific persistence behaviour after being trained on delayed reinforcement	9
Sex-specific migration strategies and underlying physiology contribute to spring arrival protandry in a songbird	9
Male nuptial display colour and vocalisation appear to signal independent information in the whirring tree frog	9
Females know best: dispersal polymorphism maintained by sex-specific foraging	9
Parasitic egg phenotypes induce short-term imprinting effects on host egg recognition	9
Timing of seasonal events is correlated with social network position in a wild mammal	9
Long-term effects of litter characteristics on reproduction in female cavies (Cavia aperea)	9
Determining sensitive stages of larval development to predation risk in Indosylvirana indica	9
Temporal avoidance of interfering noise by common chiffchaff	9
Correction to: Offspring’s early-life performance varies with father’s sperm quality in a genetically monogamous seabird	9
Infant mortality associated with immigration of males in a multi-level society	9
Forelimb stripe coloration signals age, but not physiological health, in painted turtles	9
Introduction to topical collection “Measuring individual reproductive success in the wild”	9
Egg-puncturing behaviour by shiny cowbirds increases nest desertion in chalk-browed mockingbirds	9
The multilevel society of proboscis monkeys with a possible patrilineal basis	9
Decoupled auditory perception from acoustic signal divergence hinders species recognition in territorial poison frogs	9
Communication behavior of the snow leopard (Panthera uncia): understanding marking-behavior patterns to optimize camera-trapping studies	9
Does the development environment cause the pace of life to change in a rainforest lizard?	9
Spatiotemporal variation of behavior and repeatability in a long-lived turtle	8
Individual behavioral variability across time and contexts in Dendrobates tinctorius poison frogs	8
Winners and losers in the host family over brood parasitism	8
Elevational patterns in life history, behavior, physiology, and morphology: Insights from the Andean rodent Phyllotis vaccarum	8
Disruptive colouration and background matching enable visual camouflage in a tropical rainforest stream frog	8
Social information-mediated population dynamics in non-grouping prey	8
Is flying riskier for female katydids than for males?	8
Monandry and its underlying mechanisms in the rhinoceros beetle Trypoxylus dichotomus	8
Habitat-dependent variation in consistent behavioural traits does not affect the efficiency of resource acquisition in a thermophilic ant	8
Individual and collective cognition in social insects: what’s in a name?	8
Costs of personality: bold incubating goldeneye females risk their lives when a predator attacks	8

Meet me in the middle: potential collaborative benthic hunting in humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae)	8
Begging is an honest signal of hunger in a communally nesting bird with low genetic relatedness	8
No evidence that recruitment pheromone modulates olfactory, visual, or spatial learning in the ant Lasius niger	8
Extended parental care in the mass provisioning silk wasp, Microstigmus rosae	7
Head size does not predict egg-rejection behavior in Daurian redstarts (Phoenicurus auroreus)	7
Environmental uncertainty affects movement and space-use in sheep	7
Reproductive success of Bornean orangutan males: scattered in time but clustered in space	7
Year-round behavioural time budgets of common woodpigeons inferred from acceleration data using machine learning	7
Eyes, ears, and play in the wild: flexible use of sensory channels in spotted hyena communication	7
From waiting to moving: how golden snub-nosed monkeys facilitate a group departure	7
Investigating personality in vipers: individual rattlesnakes exhibit consistent behavioral responses in defensive and exploratory contexts	7
Effects of seed traits on the cache size of a scatter-hoarding rodent, Leopoldamys edwardsi	7
Quantification of multi-task predation reveals behavioural regulation and attentional processes in mantids	7
Large and interactive pipefish females display ornaments for longer with many males around	7
Male color polymorphism in populations of reef geckos (Sphaerodactylus notatus) reduces the utility of visual signals in sex recognition	7
Variation in behavioral tempo, not thermal sensitivity, determines the onset of foraging in ant colonies	7
Social interactions throughout life impair longevity and age-specific mating success in male parasitoids	7
The significance of disentangling shared mating traits: A review of empirical approaches	6
Heat-altered scent marks of males of a fossorial reptile still allow recognition by females but lose information on male quality	6
Infection by a fungal pathogen and mating behavior in Pacific treefrogs: a test of the Hamilton-Zuk hypothesis	6
Endurance rivalry among male spotted hyenas: what does it mean to “endure”?	6
Song frequency affects territorial response in the Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove Turtur chalcospilos	6
Sensitivity threshold of avian magnetic compass to oscillating magnetic field is species-specific	6
Food-caching chickadees do not exhibit directional bias when learning a spatial task	6
Correction to: Individual and collective cognition in social insects: what’s in a name?	6
Communicating the cost of your altruism makes you cool—competitive altruism and sexual selection in a real-life charity situation	6
Beluga societies: the social and cultural lives of an enigmatic odontocete	6
Coming out from the shadows: facultative slave-making ants reveal their chemical identity during colony development	6
Functional properties of ant queen pheromones as revealed by behavioral experiments	6
No association between metabolic rate and an exaggerated sexually selected trait	6
A systematic review of sex differences in rough and tumble play across non-human mammals	6
Description of the behavioural contexts of underwater sound production in juvenile green turtles Chelonia mydas	6
Exploratory behaviour divergence between surface populations, cave colonists and a cave population in the water louse, Asellus aquaticus	6
Previous mating success motivates homing of male glassfrogs Hyalinobatrachium valerioi	6
Age-dependent drivers of sex-specific disappearance in wild redfronted lemurs: the role of behavior	6
Correction to: Is provisioning rate of parents and helpers infuenced by the simulated presence of novel individuals?	6
Encoding and decoding of the information in the honeybee waggle dance	6
Individual repeatability and plasticity of reproductive phenology in a resident montane bird	6
Single paternity in the kelp crab Taliepus dentatus despite polyandry	6
Spider colony extinction does not depend on degree of sociality and maternal size in three Anelosimus species (Araneae, Theridiidae)	6
Breeders and helpers do not show task specialisation nor compensatory care in the cooperatively breeding grayish baywing	6
Effect of sympatry on discrimination of advertisement and aggressive signals by female chorus frogs	6
Wild Australian magpies learn to pull intact, not broken, strings to obtain food	6
Do common cuckoos’ vocalisations affect egg discrimination in the strong rejector red-backed shrike?	6
Do female bluethroats without extra-pair offspring have more MHC-compatible social mates?	6
Do agricultural practices on meadows reduce or increase flight initiation distance in the white stork ciconia ciconia?	6
Direct and correlated responses to artificial selection on foraging in Drosophila	5
Using an agent-based model to inform sampling design for animal social network analysis	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
Adults adjust vigilance behavior to the number of reliable eyes in a family living bird	5
Plains zebra (Equus quagga) group movement decisions are associated with visual and tactile behaviours performed by initiators, followers and non-followers	5
Parasite induced changes in contact behaviour is affected by parasitic status of group members	5
No evidence for adaptive sex ratio adjustment in a cooperatively breeding bird with helpful helpers	5
Absence of a dear enemy effect and limited evidence of neighbour-stranger vocal discrimination in Ecstatic Display Songs of nesting African penguins	5
Sex-dependent recognition and behavior against nest predators and brood parasites by Chestnut-capped Blackbird Chrysomus ruficapillus	5
Polarize, catalyze, and stabilize: how a minority of norm internalizers amplify group selection and punishment	5
Individual flexibility in group foraging behaviour of reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi)	5
Costs of social conflict: do injuries mirror patterns of aggression in blue monkeys?	5
Costs and benefits of polyandrous mating to the female emerald treefrog (Zhangixalus prasinatus), a lek-chorusing anuran	5
Common permutation methods in animal social network analysis do not control for non-independence	5
The eye that guards the rock: does it shape the world? nest site attendance patterns in a colonially breeding pelagic seabird	5
Fecal avoidance and gastrointestinal parasitism in semi-free ranging woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha poeppigii)	5
Condition-dependent success of resource-based reproductive tactics across both sexes in Drosophila prolongata	5
Parasitic freshwater mussels impact the shoaling behaviour and habitat use of their host fish	5
Nest-host selection and parasitic nestling survival in the spotless starling (Sturnus unicolor)	5
The evolution of dynamic and flexible courtship displays that reveal individual quality	5
Performance and efficiency in leaf transport: unveiling the task allocation puzzle in Acromyrmex subterraneus	5
First evidence of contagious yawning in a wild lemur	5
Competitive asymmetries, birthing asynchrony and sibling rivalry in a social lizard	5
Evaluating scleral exposure in human eyes: a review of measurement methods, an exploration of reliability, and implications in behavioral experimental research	5
Allopatric montane wren-babblers exhibit similar song notes but divergent vocal sequences	5
No evidence of sex ratio manipulation by black-throated blue warblers in response to food availability	5
Intraspecific variation in invertebrate cognition: a review	5
Annual fitness costs may be balanced by a conservative life history strategy in groups of unrelated ant queens	5
Biologically meaningful moonlight measures and their application in ecological research	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
An empirical assessment of the role of independence filters in temporal activity analyses using camera trapping data	5
Farmland habitat-dependent litter availability shapes nest attachment behaviour in open cup-nesting birds	5
Neither paternity loss nor perceived threat of cuckoldry affects male nestling provisioning in grass wrens	5

Exploring rodent-seed interaction experimental designs: a comparative analysis of mixed versus single release of multiple seed species	5
Introduction to topical collection “Sexual selection, sexual conflict and aging”	5
Does mutualism provide additional indirect benefits? Behavioral indicators of chemical communication in a temporally dynamic fish-mussel mutualism	5
Behavioral syndromes are associated with social plasticity and competence in a wild primate	5
Movement and sound production in yearling humpback whales: age-class comparisons	4
Discrimination against foreign male and female reproductives in complex insect families	4
Male mate guarding in a polyandrous and sexually cannibalistic praying mantid	4
Evidence for an association between genetic and acoustic variation in the mimic poison frog Ranitomeya imitator	4
Proactive vs. reactive multi-brooding: divergent drivers of double brooding and replacement clutching in varied tits	4
Production of chirp trains by Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis) in the northern South China Sea	4
Helpers are associated with increased nest attentiveness and more constant egg temperatures in chestnut-crowned babblers	4
Increased worker aggression toward allopatric compared to sympatric males in an ant species with limited female dispersal	4
State and physiology behind personality in arthropods: a review	4
Intense sociability in a “non-social” snake (Python regius)	4
Heliconiini butterflies as a case study in evolutionary cognitive ecology: behavioural innovation and mushroom body expansion	4
Ant genotype, but not genotype of cultivated fungi, predicts queen acceptance in the asexual fungus-farming ant Mycocepurus smithii (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)	4
Individual capture history affects site use and defensive behavior of foraging eastern copperheads at a recreational site	4
Correction to: Learning without a brain: classical conditioning in the ophiuroid Ophiocoma echinata	4
Brown and grey morphs differ in their nocturnality in the polymorphic scops owl (Otus scops)	4
Fluctuating environments hinder the ability of female lizards to choose suitable nest sites for their embryos	4
Friendly or powerful? Alternative reproductive strategies among males of collins’ squirrel monkeys (Saimiri collinsi)	4
Tits (Paridae sp.) use social information when locating and choosing nest lining material	4
What is in a scent? Understanding the role of scent marking in social dynamics and territoriality of free-ranging dogs	4
Experimental arena size affects magnitude and repeatability of individual sociability in three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus	4
Between-group variation in production of pant-grunt vocalizations by wild bonobos (Pan paniscus)	4
Food limitation modulates the endogenous control of spring migratory behavior in a captive long-distance migratory bird population	4
Advertising and receiving from heights increases transmission of vocalizations in semi-arboreal mice	4
Stopover territoriality in songbirds crossing the Sahara: aggression and energetics during migration	4
Extended and physical phenotypes affect concept learning between wild birds	4
Habitat quality affects the social organization in mouse lemurs (Microcebus griseorufus)	4
Experimental manipulation of chest spotting alters territorial aggression in urban and rural song sparrows	4
Reactivity and social rank in male bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis)	4
Agonism does not covary with territoriality in a gregarious reptile	4
Where did she go? Changes in social context alter calling strategies of eastern gray treefrogs	4
Juvenile vibratory experience affects adult mate preferences in a wolf spider	4
Eggshell coloration is related to condition of females and offspring but not to male provisioning effort in a cup-nesting passerine	4
An investigation into the impact of urbanization on home range size, dispersal patterns, and body condition of a kin-structured songbird, the black-crested titmouse (Baeolophus atricristatus)	4
Wild and captive immature orangutans differ in their non-vocal communication with others, but not with their mothers	4
Why empresses have more sons? Maternal instant social condition determines it	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
Inherited differences of migratory phenotypes in two Acrocephalus warblers in relation to geomagnetic field parameters	4
Trust myself or trust my friends? Exploring the effect of sex on social information use in Poecilia wingei	4
Two coinhabitants visually lure prey to host territory through a shared conspicuous trait	3
Maximum diving duration and its influencing factors of diving lizards	3
Genetic diversity, paternal origin and pathogen resistance in Cataglyphis desert ants	3
Not all company is comforting: metabolic consequences of conspecific presence depend on species’ social system in fish	3
The relationship between preference and switching in flower foraging by bees	3
Helping in greyish baywing decreases nest predation but does not ameliorate the costs of brood parasitism by screaming cowbirds	3
Behavioural infection tolerance of malaria is negatively correlated with pro-inflammatory cytokine expression in the brain of an invasive songbird	3
Collective behavior diverges independently of the benthic-limnetic axis in stickleback	3
Hormonal modulation of brood allocation underlying evolutionary conflicts in the supercolonial ant Tapinoma darioi	3
Hidden in plain sight: camouflage and hiding behaviour of wild precocial chicks in an open landscape	3
Dual benefits of rapid changes in male amphibian body color during the breeding period: sexual selection and anti-predator benefits	3
Site-specific fears: Negev gerbils from same points of origin share anti-predator behavior when translocated to new environments	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
Body size does not affect crypsis: evidence from 3D-printed turtle models	3
Selective use of conspecific and heterospecific social information during food restriction in captive finches	3
Kinship study reveals stable non-kin-based associations in a medium-sized delphinid	3
A dynamic state variable model suggests a stronger effect of age than individual energetic state on reproductive allocation in burying beetles	3
Winter weather conditions result in temporal niche overlap among three sympatric medium-sized carnivores in northeastern Japan	3
Joint evolution of traits for social learning	3
Inferring the rules of social interaction in moving Tibetan antelopes	3
How distinct are sleep sites from active sites across habitat types in lizards?	3
Collaborative behaviour and coalitions in male jaguars (Panthera onca)—evidence and comparison with other felids	3
Maternal parity influences the birth sex ratio and birth interval of captive Francois’ langur (Trachypithecus francoisi)	3
Understanding the co-occurrence of Asian small-clawed otter and smooth-coated otter in a human-dominated landscape	3
Time for seafood? Factors affecting land vs. sea foraging choice in breeding Mediterranean gulls	3
Embryonic risk cues in wood frog: effect in hatching time, morphology and behaviour	3
Social status as a developmental process in wild vervet monkeys: beyond maternal inheritance	3
Testing the factors on the evolution of movement-based visual signal complexity in an Asian agamid lizard	3
Sex differences in development of behavioral individuality and plasticity in brine shrimp	3
Seasonal changes in color patches and parasite load of male torquate lizards (Sceloporus torquatus)	3
Information transfer during mobbing: call rate is more important than the number of callers in a southern temperate passerine	3
Disentangling the functions of bird vocalizations within and across species in mixed-species foraging flocks	3
Cooperative breeding and the selection for information sharing among groupmates	3
Intrapopulation variation in boldness differs while average boldness is similar across populations of a widespread turtle	3
A behavioral syndrome of competitiveness in a non-social rodent	3
Same-sex socio-sexual interactions among male narwhal	3
Moonlight predicts the timing and duration of parental behavior across latitudes in a diurnal songbird	3
Maternal effects of gestating red deer Hinds on fetal body condition: influence of individual and social environmental features	3
Rapid facial mimicry as a regulator of play in a despotic macaque species	3
Tiny but socially valuable: eggs as sources of communication in the social wasp Mischocyttarus cerberus	3
Basking buddies: factors influencing social associations in basking aggregations of turtles	3
Social network does not influence microbiota of a gregarious bird in a common environment	3
Male mating success in the glass frog Espadarana prosoblepon is driven by chorus tenure across years	3
Testing presence of directionality information in female spider silk trails through male trail-following behavior	3
Sucrose responsiveness is associated with foraging specialization in honeybees but not bumblebees	2
Individual recognition in guppies does not require large brains	2
Eurasian spoonbill chicks receive parental care up to several months after fledging, but not into migration	2
Food abundance and group size influence the phenology of reproduction in communally breeding Octodon degus	2
Dear territory or dear partner? Causes and consequences of breeding dispersal in a highly territorial bird of prey with a strong pair bond	2
Risk-taking behavior related to mercury contamination in a high Arctic seabird	2
Good body condition increases male attractiveness but not caring quality in a neotropical arachnid with male-only care	2