Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Papers
(The median citation count of Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Nocturnal and diurnal predator and prey interactions with crab spider color polymorphs31
Functional diversification of contact calls contribute to the cohesion of a multi-level society30
Impact of blood parasites on the behaviour of two congeneric wall lizards (genus Podarcis)26
Motivation matters: lighter littermates of the domestic cat compete more successfully for meat at weaning25
Maternal stress effects on infant development in wild Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi)24
Thermal energetics of male courtship song in a lek-breeding bat24
Social modulation of spatial dynamics in treefrog choruses22
Familiarity effects on fish behaviour are disrupted in shoals that contain also unfamiliar individuals20
Anxiety-like behavior and tectal gene expression in a foraging/predator avoidance tradeoff task using adult African clawed frogs Xenopus laevis19
Should I stay or should I go now: dispersal decisions and reproductive success in male white-faced capuchins (Cebus imitator)17
Behavioural response to predation risks depends on experimental change in dehydration state in a lizard17
Female-limited X chromosome evolution reveals that lifespan is mainly modulated by interlocus rather than intralocus sexual conflict17
Time allocation to balance group living trade-offs in Ethiopian wolves17
The evolution of ant worker polymorphism correlates with multiple social traits16
Versatile and inexpensive device for capturing high-quality behavioral videos under diverse field conditions15
Ectoparasites exposure affects early growth and mouth colour in nestlings of a cavity-nesting raptor15
Population specific annual cycles and migration strategies in a leap-frog migrant14
Water clarity affects collective behavior in two cyprinid fishes13
White plumage color as an honest indicator: feather macrostructure links reflectance with reproductive effort and success13
Evidence of sociality and group foraging in Antarctic minke whales (Balaenoptera bonaerensis)13
Drivers and consequences of female reproductive competition in an egalitarian, sexually monomorphic primate13
Impact of predator model presentation paradigms on titi monkey alarm sequences12
Correction to: Daily foraging activity of an imperiled ground squirrel: effects of hibernation, thermal environment, body condition, and conspecific density12
Morphological evolution and the behavioral organization of agricultural division of labor in the leafcutter ant Atta cephalotes12
From collocations to call-ocations: using linguistic methods to quantify animal call combinations12
Cooperation by ant queens during colony-founding perpetuates alternative forms of social organization12
Who to help? Helping decisions in a cooperatively breeding bird with redirected care12
Are the personality measures for laboratory mice applicable for wild rats?12
Syntactic rules predict song type matching in a songbird11
Background contrast affects detection and recognition of courting wolf spiders by intended and unintended receivers11
The availability of male mates affects the social mating strategies of a predominantly socially monogamous passerine11
Behavioral responses of two African mesopredators to human and non-human apex predators11
Bumblebee cognitive abilities are robust to changes in colony size11
The gullible genius: fast learners fall for fake news11
Behavioral repertoire of Lahille’s bottlenose dolphins that interact with artisanal fishers11
Evolutionary implications of size-selective mortality on the ontogenetic development of shoal cohesion: a neurochemical approach using a zebrafish, Danio rerio, harvest selection experiment11
Weak evidence for a relationship between group size and flight initiation distance in response to underwater human presence in an exploited fish species11
Floral and insect traits predict predation risk and neophobia impacts on flower-visiting insects’ behavior11
Sex difference in homing: males but not females return home despite offspring mortality in Ikakogi tayrona, a glassfrog with prolonged maternal care10
Exorcising the ghost in the computer: ChatGPT, science publishing, and GenAI policy for Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology10
Reproduction of a field cricket under high-intensity artificial light at night and a simulated heat wave10
Social information used to elicit cache protection differs between pinyon jays and Clark’s nutcrackers10
Spatial vigilance architecture of Indian flying fox colonies in rural parts of Barak Valley, Northeast India10
Decoupled auditory perception from acoustic signal divergence hinders species recognition in territorial poison frogs10
Female gray treefrogs maintain mate choice decisions under predation threat, but adjust movements to reduce conspicuousness during mate approach10
Correction to: Offspring’s early-life performance varies with father’s sperm quality in a genetically monogamous seabird10
Range utilization slopes as a measure of central tendency and intergroup overlap in primates10
The impact of high temperatures on bird responses to alarm calls10
Brighter is better: bill fluorescence increases social attraction in a colonial seabird and reveals a potential link with foraging10
Termite eusociality and contrasting selective pressure on social and innate immunity9
Reproduction is affected by individual breeding experience but not pair longevity in a socially monogamous bird9
Egg-puncturing behaviour by shiny cowbirds increases nest desertion in chalk-browed mockingbirds9
Lesser spot-nosed monkeys coordinate alarm call production with associated Campbell’s monkeys9
No evidence that grooming is exchanged for coalitionary support in the short- or long-term via direct or generalized reciprocity in unrelated rhesus macaques9
Optimal clutch size and male incubation investment in the male-only incubating emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae)9
Communication behavior of the snow leopard (Panthera uncia): understanding marking-behavior patterns to optimize camera-trapping studies9
Females know best: dispersal polymorphism maintained by sex-specific foraging9
Influence of different weather aspects on breeding performance, food supply and nest-space use in hoopoe offspring9
Determining sensitive stages of larval development to predation risk in Indosylvirana indica9
Timing of seasonal events is correlated with social network position in a wild mammal9
Correction to: When Older Males Sire More Offspring—Increased Attractiveness or Higher Fertility?9
Introduction to topical collection “Measuring individual reproductive success in the wild”9
Intersection between parental investment, transgenerational immunity, and termite sociality in the face of disease: a theoretical approach9
Long-term effects of litter characteristics on reproduction in female cavies (Cavia aperea)8
Measuring fitness and inferring natural selection from long-term field studies: different measures lead to nuanced conclusions8
Neophobia in 10 ungulate species—a comparative approach8
Female remating decisions and mate choice benefits in the beetle Gnatocerus cornutus8
Does the development environment cause the pace of life to change in a rainforest lizard?8
Colony fitness increases in the honey bee at queen mating frequencies higher than genetic diversity asymptote8
Sex-specific migration strategies and underlying physiology contribute to spring arrival protandry in a songbird8
Transfer of information between a highly social species and heterospecific community members8
Allo-suckling occurrence and its effect on lactation and nursing duration in harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) in Orkney, Scotland8
No evidence that recruitment pheromone modulates olfactory, visual, or spatial learning in the ant Lasius niger8
Bumblebees display stimulus-specific persistence behaviour after being trained on delayed reinforcement8
Individual behavioral variability across time and contexts in Dendrobates tinctorius poison frogs8
Spatiotemporal variation of behavior and repeatability in a long-lived turtle8
Detecting behavioural lateralisation in Poecilia reticulata is strongly dependent on experimental design8
Evidence of intrapopulation differences in rattlesnake defensive behavior across neighboring habitats8
The multilevel society of proboscis monkeys with a possible patrilineal basis8
Male nuptial display colour and vocalisation appear to signal independent information in the whirring tree frog8
Individual and collective cognition in social insects: what’s in a name?8
Social interactions throughout life impair longevity and age-specific mating success in male parasitoids7
Habitat-dependent variation in consistent behavioural traits does not affect the efficiency of resource acquisition in a thermophilic ant7
Extended parental care in the mass provisioning silk wasp, Microstigmus rosae7
Male color polymorphism in populations of reef geckos (Sphaerodactylus notatus) reduces the utility of visual signals in sex recognition7
Sensitivity threshold of avian magnetic compass to oscillating magnetic field is species-specific7
Large and interactive pipefish females display ornaments for longer with many males around7
Investigating personality in vipers: individual rattlesnakes exhibit consistent behavioral responses in defensive and exploratory contexts7
Social information-mediated population dynamics in non-grouping prey7
Is flying riskier for female katydids than for males?7
Reproductive success of Bornean orangutan males: scattered in time but clustered in space7
Correction to: Individual and collective cognition in social insects: what’s in a name?7
Quantification of multi-task predation reveals behavioural regulation and attentional processes in mantids7
Food-caching chickadees do not exhibit directional bias when learning a spatial task7
Year-round behavioural time budgets of common woodpigeons inferred from acceleration data using machine learning7
Effects of seed traits on the cache size of a scatter-hoarding rodent, Leopoldamys edwardsi7
Begging is an honest signal of hunger in a communally nesting bird with low genetic relatedness7
How territoriality reduces disease transmission among social insect colonies7
Description of the behavioural contexts of underwater sound production in juvenile green turtles Chelonia mydas7
It’s the time of the season: seasonal variation in sexually conflicted size-assortative pairing7
Conflict and the evolution of viviparity in vertebrates7
Spider colony extinction does not depend on degree of sociality and maternal size in three Anelosimus species (Araneae, Theridiidae)6
Endurance rivalry among male spotted hyenas: what does it mean to “endure”?6
Do female bluethroats without extra-pair offspring have more MHC-compatible social mates?6
The effects of environmental light on the role of male chemotactile cues in wolf spider mating interactions6
Urban lizards use sleep sites that mirror the structural, thermal, and light properties of natural sites6
Communicating the cost of your altruism makes you cool—competitive altruism and sexual selection in a real-life charity situation6
Multiple phenotypic traits predict male mating success in a critically endangered frog6
Annual fitness costs may be balanced by a conservative life history strategy in groups of unrelated ant queens6
Which acoustic parameters modify the great tit’s response to conspecific combinatorial mobbing calls?6
Heat-altered scent marks of males of a fossorial reptile still allow recognition by females but lose information on male quality6
Correction to: Is provisioning rate of parents and helpers infuenced by the simulated presence of novel individuals?6
When Older Males Sire More Offspring—Increased Attractiveness or Higher Fertility?6
Do agricultural practices on meadows reduce or increase flight initiation distance in the white stork ciconia ciconia?6
Wild Australian magpies learn to pull intact, not broken, strings to obtain food6
No evidence for adaptive sex ratio adjustment in a cooperatively breeding bird with helpful helpers6
High pair fidelity despite sex differences in the duration of parental care in a long-lived migratory bird6
A systematic review of sex differences in rough and tumble play across non-human mammals6
Encoding and decoding of the information in the honeybee waggle dance6
Opportunity is not everything: genetic monogamy and limited brood parasitism in a colonial woodpecker6
Infection by a fungal pathogen and mating behavior in Pacific treefrogs: a test of the Hamilton-Zuk hypothesis6
Variation in behavioral tempo, not thermal sensitivity, determines the onset of foraging in ant colonies6
Exploratory behaviour divergence between surface populations, cave colonists and a cave population in the water louse, Asellus aquaticus6
Social thermoregulation in Mediterranean greater white-toothed shrews (Crocidura russula)6
Functional properties of ant queen pheromones as revealed by behavioral experiments6
The evolution of dynamic and flexible courtship displays that reveal individual quality6
Introduction to topical collection “Sexual selection, sexual conflict and aging”6
Single paternity in the kelp crab Taliepus dentatus despite polyandry6
Age-dependent drivers of sex-specific disappearance in wild redfronted lemurs: the role of behavior6
Sisters doing it for themselves: extensive reproductive plasticity in workers of a primitively eusocial bee5
Competitive asymmetries, birthing asynchrony and sibling rivalry in a social lizard5
First evidence of contagious yawning in a wild lemur5
Social group size influences pathogen transmission in salamanders5
Individual flexibility in group foraging behaviour of reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi)5
Evaluating scleral exposure in human eyes: a review of measurement methods, an exploration of reliability, and implications in behavioral experimental research5
Biologically meaningful moonlight measures and their application in ecological research5
Priority of access to food and its influence on social dynamics of an endangered carnivore5
Using an agent-based model to inform sampling design for animal social network analysis5
How does host social behavior drive parasite non-selective evolution from the within-host to the landscape-scale?5
Does mutualism provide additional indirect benefits? Behavioral indicators of chemical communication in a temporally dynamic fish-mussel mutualism5
Fecal avoidance and gastrointestinal parasitism in semi-free ranging woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha poeppigii)5
Sex-dependent recognition and behavior against nest predators and brood parasites by Chestnut-capped Blackbird Chrysomus ruficapillus5
Fear of sex: sexual conflict exposed as avoidance in a parthenogenetic invertebrate5
Aggression and multi-modal signaling in noise in a common urban songbird5
Polarize, catalyze, and stabilize: how a minority of norm internalizers amplify group selection and punishment5
Tolerant and intolerant macaques differ in the context specificity of their calls and how they ‘comment’ on the interactions of others5
Common permutation methods in animal social network analysis do not control for non-independence5
Fatal attraction: territorial males of a neotropical lizard increase predation risk when females are sexually receptive5
Background risk during development and early life does not affect later activity and risk-taking across genetically distinct lineages of the mangrove rivulus5
Longitudinal effects of habitat quality, body condition, and parasites on colour patches of a multiornamented lizard5
Neither paternity loss nor perceived threat of cuckoldry affects male nestling provisioning in grass wrens5
Performance and efficiency in leaf transport: unveiling the task allocation puzzle in Acromyrmex subterraneus5
Niche partitioning among social clusters of a resident estuarine apex predator5
An empirical assessment of the role of independence filters in temporal activity analyses using camera trapping data5
Multiple parasitism in an evictor brood parasite: patterns revealed by long-term monitoring, continuous video recording, and genetic analyses5
Bacterial infection influences courtship behavior and mate choice in a wolf spider5
Brown and grey morphs differ in their nocturnality in the polymorphic scops owl (Otus scops)4
Diel variation in anti-predation behavior of a ground squirrel and relationships between vigilance and escape4
Advertising and receiving from heights increases transmission of vocalizations in semi-arboreal mice4
What is in a scent? Understanding the role of scent marking in social dynamics and territoriality of free-ranging dogs4
Juvenile vibratory experience affects adult mate preferences in a wolf spider4
Correction to: Anthropogenic noise reduces male reproductive investment in an acoustically signaling insect4
Robustness in action: Leg loss does not affect mating success in male harvestmen4
Costs and benefits of polyandrous mating to the female emerald treefrog (Zhangixalus prasinatus), a lek-chorusing anuran4
Shorter effective lifespan in laboratory populations of D. melanogaster might reduce sexual selection4
Costs of social conflict: do injuries mirror patterns of aggression in blue monkeys?4
The relationship between preference and switching in flower foraging by bees4
Latitudinal cline in reproductive traits in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum4
Reactivity and social rank in male bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis)4
Direct and correlated responses to artificial selection on foraging in Drosophila4
Agonism does not covary with territoriality in a gregarious reptile4
Intense sociability in a “non-social” snake (Python regius)4
Fluctuating environments hinder the ability of female lizards to choose suitable nest sites for their embryos4
Heliconiini butterflies as a case study in evolutionary cognitive ecology: behavioural innovation and mushroom body expansion4
Intraspecific variation in invertebrate cognition: a review4
Tits (Paridae sp.) use social information when locating and choosing nest lining material4
Movement modeling and patterns of within- and among-individual behavioral variation across time scales in neonate garter snakes (Thamnophis elegans)4
Between-group variation in production of pant-grunt vocalizations by wild bonobos (Pan paniscus)4
No evidence of sex ratio manipulation by black-throated blue warblers in response to food availability4
Multimodal female mate choice in a polymorphic flat rock lizard4
Feral ungulate and macropod responses to resource scarcity and predation risk at savanna waterholes4
Effects of mating age and mate age on lifespan and reproduction in a horned beetle4
Correction to: Cooperation by ant queens during colony‑founding perpetuates alternative forms of social organization4
Stopover territoriality in songbirds crossing the Sahara: aggression and energetics during migration4
Experimental manipulation of chest spotting alters territorial aggression in urban and rural song sparrows4
Social immunity in the honey bee: do immune-challenged workers enter enforced or self-imposed exile?4
Habitat quality affects the social organization in mouse lemurs (Microcebus griseorufus)4
Ant genotype, but not genotype of cultivated fungi, predicts queen acceptance in the asexual fungus-farming ant Mycocepurus smithii (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)4
Friendly or powerful? Alternative reproductive strategies among males of collins’ squirrel monkeys (Saimiri collinsi)4
Inherited differences of migratory phenotypes in two Acrocephalus warblers in relation to geomagnetic field parameters4
Investigating associations between nematode infection and three measures of sociality in Asian elephants4
The eavesdropping risk of conspicuous sexual signaling in humpback whales4
Allopatric montane wren-babblers exhibit similar song notes but divergent vocal sequences4
Food limitation modulates the endogenous control of spring migratory behavior in a captive long-distance migratory bird population4
Movement and sound production in yearling humpback whales: age-class comparisons4
Correction to: Learning without a brain: classical conditioning in the ophiuroid Ophiocoma echinata4
Wild and captive immature orangutans differ in their non-vocal communication with others, but not with their mothers4
Drivers of passive leadership in wild songbirds: species-level differences and spatio-temporally dependent intraspecific effects4
Helpers are associated with increased nest attentiveness and more constant egg temperatures in chestnut-crowned babblers4
Individual capture history affects site use and defensive behavior of foraging eastern copperheads at a recreational site4
Why empresses have more sons? Maternal instant social condition determines it4
A behavioral syndrome of competitiveness in a non-social rodent3
Auditory and distance cues interact to modulate female gray treefrog preferences for male advertisement calls3
Geographical variation in squirrel mating calls and their recognition limits in the widely distributed species complex3
Testing the maintenance of natural responses to survival-relevant calls in the conservation breeding population of a critically endangered corvid (Corvus hawaiiensis)3
Collective behavior diverges independently of the benthic-limnetic axis in stickleback3
Maternal parity influences the birth sex ratio and birth interval of captive Francois’ langur (Trachypithecus francoisi)3
A dynamic state variable model suggests a stronger effect of age than individual energetic state on reproductive allocation in burying beetles3
Social conditions alter the growth, metabolic rate, behavioral traits, and food-shelter preferences in the juvenile qingbo Spinibarbus sinensis3
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
Kinship study reveals stable non-kin-based associations in a medium-sized delphinid3
Mother-offspring chemical communication and tadpole aggregation in a neotropical foam-nesting frog3
Testing presence of directionality information in female spider silk trails through male trail-following behavior3
Joint evolution of traits for social learning3
Quantifying within-group variation in sociality—covariation among metrics and patterns across primate groups and species3
Social network does not influence microbiota of a gregarious bird in a common environment3
Genetic diversity, paternal origin and pathogen resistance in Cataglyphis desert ants3
Inferring the mating system in the burrowing shrimp Lepidophthalmus bocourti (Decapoda, Axiidea, Callichiridae) from the social structure and sexual dimorphism3
Group size and modularity interact to shape the spread of infection and information through animal societies3
Understanding the co-occurrence of Asian small-clawed otter and smooth-coated otter in a human-dominated landscape3
Male mate guarding in a polyandrous and sexually cannibalistic praying mantid3
Rapid facial mimicry as a regulator of play in a despotic macaque species3
Female age and reproductive stage influence copulation patterns in mountain gorillas’ variable mating system3
Testing the factors on the evolution of movement-based visual signal complexity in an Asian agamid lizard3
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 dolphins3
Behavioural ecology and developmental plasticity in Indian anuran tadpoles3
Experimental evidence that adult UV/yellow colouration functions as a signal in blue tit families — but only for parents3
Experimental variation of perceived predation risk does not affect coordination of parental care in long-tailed tits3
Two coinhabitants visually lure prey to host territory through a shared conspicuous trait3
Intrapopulation variation in boldness differs while average boldness is similar across populations of a widespread turtle3
Collaborative behaviour and coalitions in male jaguars (Panthera onca)—evidence and comparison with other felids3
Helping in greyish baywing decreases nest predation but does not ameliorate the costs of brood parasitism by screaming cowbirds3
Information transfer during mobbing: call rate is more important than the number of callers in a southern temperate passerine3
Has an invasive lizard lost its antipredator behaviours following 40 generations of isolation from snake predators?3
State and physiology behind personality in arthropods: a review3
Embryonic risk cues in wood frog: effect in hatching time, morphology and behaviour3
Winter weather conditions result in temporal niche overlap among three sympatric medium-sized carnivores in northeastern Japan3
Daily foraging activity of an imperiled ground squirrel: effects of hibernation, thermal environment, body condition, and conspecific density3
Tiny but socially valuable: eggs as sources of communication in the social wasp Mischocyttarus cerberus3
Fertilization success suggests random pairing in frogs with regard to body size3
Disturbance cues facilitate associative learning of predators in a coral reef fish3
Acoustic discrimination by hosts favours vocal trickery in fledglings of the brood-parasitic screaming cowbird3
Female preferences for dominant frequency in frogs: constraints and impact on sexual size dimorphism3
Site-specific fears: Negev gerbils from same points of origin share anti-predator behavior when translocated to new environments3
Iberian wolf’s diet and its quality during breeding season: exploring the influence of zone, wolf groups, prey availability and individual factors3
Sexual dimorphism in dynamic body color in the green anole lizard3
Yawning informs behavioural state changing in wild spotted hyaenas3
Behavioural infection tolerance of malaria is negatively correlated with pro-inflammatory cytokine expression in the brain of an invasive songbird3
Maximum diving duration and its influencing factors of diving lizards3
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