Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Papers
(The TQCC of Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology is 5. 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
Thermal energetics of male courtship song in a lek-breeding bat24
Maternal stress effects on infant development in wild Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi)24
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
Drivers and consequences of female reproductive competition in an egalitarian, sexually monomorphic primate13
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It’s the time of the season: seasonal variation in sexually conflicted size-assortative pairing7
Investigating personality in vipers: individual rattlesnakes exhibit consistent behavioral responses in defensive and exploratory contexts7
Conflict and the evolution of viviparity in vertebrates7
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
Sensitivity threshold of avian magnetic compass to oscillating magnetic field is species-specific7
Effects of seed traits on the cache size of a scatter-hoarding rodent, Leopoldamys edwardsi7
Large and interactive pipefish females display ornaments for longer with many males around7
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
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
Social interactions throughout life impair longevity and age-specific mating success in male parasitoids7
Year-round behavioural time budgets of common woodpigeons inferred from acceleration data using machine learning7
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
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
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
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
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
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