Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Article	Citations
Thermal energetics of male courtship song in a lek-breeding bat	42
Nocturnal and diurnal predator and prey interactions with crab spider color polymorphs	35
Impact of blood parasites on the behaviour of two congeneric wall lizards (genus Podarcis)	28
Anxiety-like behavior and tectal gene expression in a foraging/predator avoidance tradeoff task using adult African clawed frogs Xenopus laevis	20
Should I stay or should I go now: dispersal decisions and reproductive success in male white-faced capuchins (Cebus imitator)	19
Investigation of field and laboratory-based personality traits in a wild ornate box turtle (Terrapene ornata) population	18
Female-limited X chromosome evolution reveals that lifespan is mainly modulated by interlocus rather than intralocus sexual conflict	18
White plumage color as an honest indicator: feather macrostructure links reflectance with reproductive effort and success	17
Morphological evolution and the behavioral organization of agricultural division of labor in the leafcutter ant Atta cephalotes	16
Are the personality measures for laboratory mice applicable for wild rats?	15
Time allocation to balance group living trade-offs in Ethiopian wolves	15
Behavioural response to predation risks depends on experimental change in dehydration state in a lizard	15
Familiarity effects on fish behaviour are disrupted in shoals that contain also unfamiliar individuals	14
Evidence of sociality and group foraging in Antarctic minke whales (Balaenoptera bonaerensis)	14
Ectoparasites exposure affects early growth and mouth colour in nestlings of a cavity-nesting raptor	14
Drivers and consequences of female reproductive competition in an egalitarian, sexually monomorphic primate	14
Functional diversification of contact calls contribute to the cohesion of a multi-level society	14
Population specific annual cycles and migration strategies in a leap-frog migrant	13
Correction to: Daily foraging activity of an imperiled ground squirrel: effects of hibernation, thermal environment, body condition, and conspecific density	13
The science funding crisis threatens the careers of future behavioral ecologists	13
Floral and insect traits predict predation risk and neophobia impacts on flower-visiting insects’ behavior	13
Versatile and inexpensive device for capturing high-quality behavioral videos under diverse field conditions	13
Social modulation of spatial dynamics in treefrog choruses	13
Syntactic rules predict song type matching in a songbird	12
Impact of predator model presentation paradigms on titi monkey alarm sequences	12

Who to help? Helping decisions in a cooperatively breeding bird with redirected care	11
Behavioral responses of two African mesopredators to human and non-human apex predators	11
Bumblebee cognitive abilities are robust to changes in colony size	11
Behavioral repertoire of Lahille’s bottlenose dolphins that interact with artisanal fishers	11
Cooperation by ant queens during colony-founding perpetuates alternative forms of social organization	11
Social information used to elicit cache protection differs between pinyon jays and Clark’s nutcrackers	10
Female gray treefrogs maintain mate choice decisions under predation threat, but adjust movements to reduce conspicuousness during mate approach	10
Infant mortality associated with immigration of males in a multi-level society	10
The gullible genius: fast learners fall for fake news	10
Weak evidence for a relationship between group size and flight initiation distance in response to underwater human presence in an exploited fish species	10
Sex difference in homing: males but not females return home despite offspring mortality in Ikakogi tayrona, a glassfrog with prolonged maternal care	10
Termite eusociality and contrasting selective pressure on social and innate immunity	10
Correction to: Offspring’s early-life performance varies with father’s sperm quality in a genetically monogamous seabird	10
The availability of male mates affects the social mating strategies of a predominantly socially monogamous passerine	10
From collocations to call-ocations: using linguistic methods to quantify animal call combinations	10
Background contrast affects detection and recognition of courting wolf spiders by intended and unintended receivers	10
Communication behavior of the snow leopard (Panthera uncia): understanding marking-behavior patterns to optimize camera-trapping studies	10
Decoupled auditory perception from acoustic signal divergence hinders species recognition in territorial poison frogs	10
Evolutionary implications of size-selective mortality on the ontogenetic development of shoal cohesion: a neurochemical approach using a zebrafish, Danio rerio, harvest selection experiment	10
The impact of high temperatures on bird responses to alarm calls	10
Reproduction of a field cricket under high-intensity artificial light at night and a simulated heat wave	10
Spatial vigilance architecture of Indian flying fox colonies in rural parts of Barak Valley, Northeast India	9
Females know best: dispersal polymorphism maintained by sex-specific foraging	9
Introduction to topical collection “Measuring individual reproductive success in the wild”	9
Influence of different weather aspects on breeding performance, food supply and nest-space use in hoopoe offspring	9
Male nuptial display colour and vocalisation appear to signal independent information in the whirring tree frog	9
Range utilization slopes as a measure of central tendency and intergroup overlap in primates	9
Timing of seasonal events is correlated with social network position in a wild mammal	9
Correction to: When Older Males Sire More Offspring—Increased Attractiveness or Higher Fertility?	9
Intersection between parental investment, transgenerational immunity, and termite sociality in the face of disease: a theoretical approach	9
Egg-puncturing behaviour by shiny cowbirds increases nest desertion in chalk-browed mockingbirds	9
Exorcising the ghost in the computer: ChatGPT, science publishing, and GenAI policy for Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology	9
Optimal clutch size and male incubation investment in the male-only incubating emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae)	9
Costs of personality: bold incubating goldeneye females risk their lives when a predator attacks	9
Long-term effects of litter characteristics on reproduction in female cavies (Cavia aperea)	9
Does the development environment cause the pace of life to change in a rainforest lizard?	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
Social interactions throughout life impair longevity and age-specific mating success in male parasitoids	8
Detecting behavioural lateralisation in Poecilia reticulata is strongly dependent on experimental design	8
Individual behavioral variability across time and contexts in Dendrobates tinctorius poison frogs	8
Individual and collective cognition in social insects: what’s in a name?	8
Measuring fitness and inferring natural selection from long-term field studies: different measures lead to nuanced conclusions	8
Social information-mediated population dynamics in non-grouping prey	8
Sex-specific migration strategies and underlying physiology contribute to spring arrival protandry in a songbird	8
Bumblebees display stimulus-specific persistence behaviour after being trained on delayed reinforcement	8
Extended parental care in the mass provisioning silk wasp, Microstigmus rosae	8
Is flying riskier for female katydids than for males?	8
Spatiotemporal variation of behavior and repeatability in a long-lived turtle	8
The multilevel society of proboscis monkeys with a possible patrilineal basis	8
Determining sensitive stages of larval development to predation risk in Indosylvirana indica	8

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
Wild Australian magpies learn to pull intact, not broken, strings to obtain food	7
Previous mating success motivates homing of male glassfrogs Hyalinobatrachium valerioi	7
Quantification of multi-task predation reveals behavioural regulation and attentional processes in mantids	7
Begging is an honest signal of hunger in a communally nesting bird with low genetic relatedness	7
Evidence of intrapopulation differences in rattlesnake defensive behavior across neighboring habitats	7
Habitat-dependent variation in consistent behavioural traits does not affect the efficiency of resource acquisition in a thermophilic ant	7
Female remating decisions and mate choice benefits in the beetle Gnatocerus cornutus	7
Sensitivity threshold of avian magnetic compass to oscillating magnetic field is species-specific	7
When Older Males Sire More Offspring—Increased Attractiveness or Higher Fertility?	7
Description of the behavioural contexts of underwater sound production in juvenile green turtles Chelonia mydas	7
How territoriality reduces disease transmission among social insect colonies	7
Variation in behavioral tempo, not thermal sensitivity, determines the onset of foraging in ant colonies	7
No evidence that recruitment pheromone modulates olfactory, visual, or spatial learning in the ant Lasius niger	7
Effects of seed traits on the cache size of a scatter-hoarding rodent, Leopoldamys edwardsi	7
Year-round behavioural time budgets of common woodpigeons inferred from acceleration data using machine learning	7
It’s the time of the season: seasonal variation in sexually conflicted size-assortative pairing	7
Exploratory behaviour divergence between surface populations, cave colonists and a cave population in the water louse, Asellus aquaticus	7
Correction to: Individual and collective cognition in social insects: what’s in a name?	7
Investigating personality in vipers: individual rattlesnakes exhibit consistent behavioral responses in defensive and exploratory contexts	7
Male color polymorphism in populations of reef geckos (Sphaerodactylus notatus) reduces the utility of visual signals in sex recognition	7
Food-caching chickadees do not exhibit directional bias when learning a spatial task	6
The effects of environmental light on the role of male chemotactile cues in wolf spider mating interactions	6
A systematic review of sex differences in rough and tumble play across non-human mammals	6
Heat-altered scent marks of males of a fossorial reptile still allow recognition by females but lose information on male quality	6
Sex-dependent recognition and behavior against nest predators and brood parasites by Chestnut-capped Blackbird Chrysomus ruficapillus	6
Absence of a dear enemy effect and limited evidence of neighbour-stranger vocal discrimination in Ecstatic Display Songs of nesting African penguins	6
Aggression and multi-modal signaling in noise in a common urban songbird	6
Infection by a fungal pathogen and mating behavior in Pacific treefrogs: a test of the Hamilton-Zuk hypothesis	6
Individual repeatability and plasticity of reproductive phenology in a resident montane bird	6
Communicating the cost of your altruism makes you cool—competitive altruism and sexual selection in a real-life charity situation	6
Do female bluethroats without extra-pair offspring have more MHC-compatible social mates?	6
Head size does not predict egg-rejection behavior in Daurian redstarts (Phoenicurus auroreus)	6
Encoding and decoding of the information in the honeybee waggle dance	6
Which acoustic parameters modify the great tit’s response to conspecific combinatorial mobbing calls?	6
Exploring rodent-seed interaction experimental designs: a comparative analysis of mixed versus single release of multiple seed species	6
High pair fidelity despite sex differences in the duration of parental care in a long-lived migratory bird	6
Introduction to topical collection “Sexual selection, sexual conflict and aging”	6
No evidence for adaptive sex ratio adjustment in a cooperatively breeding bird with helpful helpers	6
No association between metabolic rate and an exaggerated sexually selected trait	6
Spider colony extinction does not depend on degree of sociality and maternal size in three Anelosimus species (Araneae, Theridiidae)	6
Correction to: Is provisioning rate of parents and helpers infuenced by the simulated presence of novel individuals?	6
Functional properties of ant queen pheromones as revealed by behavioral experiments	6
Conflict and the evolution of viviparity in vertebrates	6
Opportunity is not everything: genetic monogamy and limited brood parasitism in a colonial woodpecker	6
Endurance rivalry among male spotted hyenas: what does it mean to “endure”?	6
Competitive asymmetries, birthing asynchrony and sibling rivalry in a social lizard	6
Neither paternity loss nor perceived threat of cuckoldry affects male nestling provisioning in grass wrens	6
The evolution of dynamic and flexible courtship displays that reveal individual quality	6
Annual fitness costs may be balanced by a conservative life history strategy in groups of unrelated ant queens	6
Age-dependent drivers of sex-specific disappearance in wild redfronted lemurs: the role of behavior	6
Urban lizards use sleep sites that mirror the structural, thermal, and light properties of natural sites	6
Single paternity in the kelp crab Taliepus dentatus despite polyandry	6
Do agricultural practices on meadows reduce or increase flight initiation distance in the white stork ciconia ciconia?	6
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
Fatal attraction: territorial males of a neotropical lizard increase predation risk when females are sexually receptive	5
Polarize, catalyze, and stabilize: how a minority of norm internalizers amplify group selection and punishment	5
Costs of social conflict: do injuries mirror patterns of aggression in blue monkeys?	5
No evidence of sex ratio manipulation by black-throated blue warblers in response to food availability	5
Tolerant and intolerant macaques differ in the context specificity of their calls and how they ‘comment’ on the interactions of others	5
Parasite induced changes in contact behaviour is affected by parasitic status of group members	5
Sisters doing it for themselves: extensive reproductive plasticity in workers of a primitively eusocial bee	5
Fecal avoidance and gastrointestinal parasitism in semi-free ranging woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha poeppigii)	5
Individual flexibility in group foraging behaviour of reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi)	5
Performance and efficiency in leaf transport: unveiling the task allocation puzzle in Acromyrmex subterraneus	5
Common permutation methods in animal social network analysis do not control for non-independence	5
Priority of access to food and its influence on social dynamics of an endangered carnivore	5
Between-group variation in production of pant-grunt vocalizations by wild bonobos (Pan paniscus)	5
Effects of mating age and mate age on lifespan and reproduction in a horned beetle	5
Niche partitioning among social clusters of a resident estuarine apex predator	5
Wild and captive immature orangutans differ in their non-vocal communication with others, but not with their mothers	5
Does mutualism provide additional indirect benefits? Behavioral indicators of chemical communication in a temporally dynamic fish-mussel mutualism	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
Multiple phenotypic traits predict male mating success in a critically endangered frog	5
Evaluating scleral exposure in human eyes: a review of measurement methods, an exploration of reliability, and implications in behavioral experimental research	5
Biologically meaningful moonlight measures and their application in ecological research	5
Robustness in action: Leg loss does not affect mating success in male harvestmen	5

Costs and benefits of polyandrous mating to the female emerald treefrog (Zhangixalus prasinatus), a lek-chorusing anuran	5
Helpers are associated with increased nest attentiveness and more constant egg temperatures in chestnut-crowned babblers	5
Using an agent-based model to inform sampling design for animal social network analysis	5
An empirical assessment of the role of independence filters in temporal activity analyses using camera trapping data	5
First evidence of contagious yawning in a wild lemur	5
Inherited differences of migratory phenotypes in two Acrocephalus warblers in relation to geomagnetic field parameters	4
Intense sociability in a “non-social” snake (Python regius)	4
Social immunity in the honey bee: do immune-challenged workers enter enforced or self-imposed exile?	4
Movement and sound production in yearling humpback whales: age-class comparisons	4
Shorter effective lifespan in laboratory populations of D. melanogaster might reduce sexual selection	4
Individual capture history affects site use and defensive behavior of foraging eastern copperheads at a recreational site	4
Latitudinal cline in reproductive traits in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum	4
Drivers of passive leadership in wild songbirds: species-level differences and spatio-temporally dependent intraspecific effects	4
Stopover territoriality in songbirds crossing the Sahara: aggression and energetics during migration	4
Reactivity and social rank in male bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis)	4
Behavioural infection tolerance of malaria is negatively correlated with pro-inflammatory cytokine expression in the brain of an invasive songbird	4
Correction to: Cooperation by ant queens during colony‑founding perpetuates alternative forms of social organization	4
State and physiology behind personality in arthropods: a review	4
Tits (Paridae sp.) use social information when locating and choosing nest lining material	4
Eggshell coloration is related to condition of females and offspring but not to male provisioning effort in a cup-nesting passerine	4
Investigating associations between nematode infection and three measures of sociality in Asian elephants	4
Direct and correlated responses to artificial selection on foraging in Drosophila	4
Male mate guarding in a polyandrous and sexually cannibalistic praying mantid	4
Food limitation modulates the endogenous control of spring migratory behavior in a captive long-distance migratory bird population	4
Collective behavior diverges independently of the benthic-limnetic axis in stickleback	4
Allopatric montane wren-babblers exhibit similar song notes but divergent vocal sequences	4
Juvenile vibratory experience affects adult mate preferences in a wolf spider	4
Discrimination against foreign male and female reproductives in complex insect families	4
Habitat quality affects the social organization in mouse lemurs (Microcebus griseorufus)	4
Correction to: Learning without a brain: classical conditioning in the ophiuroid Ophiocoma echinata	4
Experimental manipulation of chest spotting alters territorial aggression in urban and rural song sparrows	4
Correction to: Anthropogenic noise reduces male reproductive investment in an acoustically signaling insect	4
Friendly or powerful? Alternative reproductive strategies among males of collins’ squirrel monkeys (Saimiri collinsi)	4
What is in a scent? Understanding the role of scent marking in social dynamics and territoriality of free-ranging dogs	4
Movement modeling and patterns of within- and among-individual behavioral variation across time scales in neonate garter snakes (Thamnophis elegans)	4
Heliconiini butterflies as a case study in evolutionary cognitive ecology: behavioural innovation and mushroom body expansion	4
Experimental arena size affects magnitude and repeatability of individual sociability in three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus	4
Feral ungulate and macropod responses to resource scarcity and predation risk at savanna waterholes	4
Intraspecific variation in invertebrate cognition: a review	4
Why empresses have more sons? Maternal instant social condition determines it	4
Female age and reproductive stage influence copulation patterns in mountain gorillas’ variable mating system	4
Ant genotype, but not genotype of cultivated fungi, predicts queen acceptance in the asexual fungus-farming ant Mycocepurus smithii (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)	4
The relationship between preference and switching in flower foraging by bees	4
Agonism does not covary with territoriality in a gregarious reptile	4
Convergent evolution of antlions and wormlions: similarities and differences in the behavioural ecology of unrelated trap-building predators	3
Ecological drivers of bee cognition: insights from stingless bees	3
Does genetic differentiation underlie behavioral divergence in response to migration barriers in sticklebacks? A common garden experiment	3
Behavioral response to risk varies with sex and reproductive status in crayfish	3
Advertising and receiving from heights increases transmission of vocalizations in semi-arboreal mice	3
A dynamic state variable model suggests a stronger effect of age than individual energetic state on reproductive allocation in burying beetles	3
Kinship study reveals stable non-kin-based associations in a medium-sized delphinid	3
Phenotypic correlates of pelvic spine coloration in the threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus): implications for function and evolution	3
Hidden in plain sight: camouflage and hiding behaviour of wild precocial chicks in an open landscape	3
Social conditions alter the growth, metabolic rate, behavioral traits, and food-shelter preferences in the juvenile qingbo Spinibarbus sinensis	3
Rapid facial mimicry as a regulator of play in a despotic macaque species	3
Brown and grey morphs differ in their nocturnality in the polymorphic scops owl (Otus scops)	3
Female preferences for dominant frequency in frogs: constraints and impact on sexual size dimorphism	3
Multimodal female mate choice in a polymorphic flat rock lizard	3
Experimental variation of perceived predation risk does not affect coordination of parental care in long-tailed tits	3
Patch choice decisions by a fission–fusion forager as a test of the ecological constraints model	3
Maximum diving duration and its influencing factors of diving lizards	3
Prey availability influences the effect of boldness on reproductive success in a mammalian predator	3
Divergent killer whale populations exhibit similar acquisition but different healing rates of conspecific scars	3
From masquerading to blending in: ontogenetic shifts in antipredator camouflage in Wallace’s flying frogs	3
Maximizing sexual signal transmission: use of multiple display sites by male houbara bustards	3
Seasonal changes in color patches and parasite load of male torquate lizards (Sceloporus torquatus)	3
How human are invertebrates? Prospects and challenges of transferring cognitive concepts across species	3
Genetic diversity, paternal origin and pathogen resistance in Cataglyphis desert ants	3
Yawning informs behavioural state changing in wild spotted hyaenas	3
Interindividual variability in flower pickiness by foraging bumblebees	3
A behavioral syndrome of competitiveness in a non-social rodent	3
Not all company is comforting: metabolic consequences of conspecific presence depend on species’ social system in fish	3
Group size and modularity interact to shape the spread of infection and information through animal societies	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
Mother-offspring chemical communication and tadpole aggregation in a neotropical foam-nesting frog	3
Transition in the production of diploid-female to haploid-male eggs in bumblebee colonies: sperm quality or depletion?	3
Social foraging can benefit artisanal fishers who interact with wild dolphins	3
Sociality of a threatened ‘solitary’ marsupial before and after population reinforcement: associations and links to breeding success	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
Behavioural drivers of ecotone exploitation: activity of groundwater animals in spring	3
Selective use of conspecific and heterospecific social information during food restriction in captive finches	3
Potential social facilitation through song in bird communities	3
Cooperative breeding and the selection for information sharing among groupmates	3
Experimentally elevated temperatures reduce activity and host defense in the acacia ant Pseudomyrmex spinicola	3
Information transfer during mobbing: call rate is more important than the number of callers in a southern temperate passerine	3
Understanding the co-occurrence of Asian small-clawed otter and smooth-coated otter in a human-dominated landscape	3
Intrapopulation variation in boldness differs while average boldness is similar across populations of a widespread turtle	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
Diel variation in anti-predation behavior of a ground squirrel and relationships between vigilance and escape	3
Acoustic discrimination by hosts favours vocal trickery in fledglings of the brood-parasitic screaming cowbird	3
Tiny but socially valuable: eggs as sources of communication in the social wasp Mischocyttarus cerberus	3
Behavioural ecology and developmental plasticity in Indian anuran tadpoles	3
Daily foraging activity of an imperiled ground squirrel: effects of hibernation, thermal environment, body condition, and conspecific density	3