Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Article	Citations
Nocturnal and diurnal predator and prey interactions with crab spider color polymorphs	34
Functional diversification of contact calls contribute to the cohesion of a multi-level society	32
Maternal stress effects on infant development in wild Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi)	26
Motivation matters: lighter littermates of the domestic cat compete more successfully for meat at weaning	26
Impact of blood parasites on the behaviour of two congeneric wall lizards (genus Podarcis)	26
Thermal energetics of male courtship song in a lek-breeding bat	22
Female-limited X chromosome evolution reveals that lifespan is mainly modulated by interlocus rather than intralocus sexual conflict	21
Are the personality measures for laboratory mice applicable for wild rats?	19
Drivers and consequences of female reproductive competition in an egalitarian, sexually monomorphic primate	19
Population specific annual cycles and migration strategies in a leap-frog migrant	17
Versatile and inexpensive device for capturing high-quality behavioral videos under diverse field conditions	17
Evidence of sociality and group foraging in Antarctic minke whales (Balaenoptera bonaerensis)	16
Familiarity effects on fish behaviour are disrupted in shoals that contain also unfamiliar individuals	15
Ectoparasites exposure affects early growth and mouth colour in nestlings of a cavity-nesting raptor	15
Social modulation of spatial dynamics in treefrog choruses	15
Should I stay or should I go now: dispersal decisions and reproductive success in male white-faced capuchins (Cebus imitator)	14
Anxiety-like behavior and tectal gene expression in a foraging/predator avoidance tradeoff task using adult African clawed frogs Xenopus laevis	14
Investigation of field and laboratory-based personality traits in a wild ornate box turtle (Terrapene ornata) population	14
White plumage color as an honest indicator: feather macrostructure links reflectance with reproductive effort and success	14
Behavioural response to predation risks depends on experimental change in dehydration state in a lizard	14
Who to help? Helping decisions in a cooperatively breeding bird with redirected care	13
Time allocation to balance group living trade-offs in Ethiopian wolves	13
Correction to: Daily foraging activity of an imperiled ground squirrel: effects of hibernation, thermal environment, body condition, and conspecific density	13
Morphological evolution and the behavioral organization of agricultural division of labor in the leafcutter ant Atta cephalotes	13
Water clarity affects collective behavior in two cyprinid fishes	13

Evolutionary implications of size-selective mortality on the ontogenetic development of shoal cohesion: a neurochemical approach using a zebrafish, Danio rerio, harvest selection experiment	12
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
Syntactic rules predict song type matching in a songbird	12
From collocations to call-ocations: using linguistic methods to quantify animal call combinations	12
Behavioral repertoire of Lahille’s bottlenose dolphins that interact with artisanal fishers	11
Bumblebee cognitive abilities are robust to changes in colony size	11
The availability of male mates affects the social mating strategies of a predominantly socially monogamous passerine	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
Reproduction of a field cricket under high-intensity artificial light at night and a simulated heat wave	11
Floral and insect traits predict predation risk and neophobia impacts on flower-visiting insects’ behavior	11
The impact of high temperatures on bird responses to alarm calls	11
Brighter is better: bill fluorescence increases social attraction in a colonial seabird and reveals a potential link with foraging	10
Cooperation by ant queens during colony-founding perpetuates alternative forms of social organization	10
The gullible genius: fast learners fall for fake news	10
Social information used to elicit cache protection differs between pinyon jays and Clark’s nutcrackers	10
Range utilization slopes as a measure of central tendency and intergroup overlap in primates	10
Background contrast affects detection and recognition of courting wolf spiders by intended and unintended receivers	10
Spatial vigilance architecture of Indian flying fox colonies in rural parts of Barak Valley, Northeast India	10
Correction to: Offspring’s early-life performance varies with father’s sperm quality in a genetically monogamous seabird	10
Decoupled auditory perception from acoustic signal divergence hinders species recognition in territorial poison frogs	10
Termite eusociality and contrasting selective pressure on social and innate immunity	9
Sex difference in homing: males but not females return home despite offspring mortality in Ikakogi tayrona, a glassfrog with prolonged maternal care	9
Infant mortality associated with immigration of males in a multi-level society	9
Introduction to topical collection “Measuring individual reproductive success in the wild”	9
No evidence that grooming is exchanged for coalitionary support in the short- or long-term via direct or generalized reciprocity in unrelated rhesus macaques	9
Female gray treefrogs maintain mate choice decisions under predation threat, but adjust movements to reduce conspicuousness during mate approach	9
Females know best: dispersal polymorphism maintained by sex-specific foraging	9
Timing of seasonal events is correlated with social network position in a wild mammal	9
Egg-puncturing behaviour by shiny cowbirds increases nest desertion in chalk-browed mockingbirds	9
Influence of different weather aspects on breeding performance, food supply and nest-space use in hoopoe offspring	9
Correction to: When Older Males Sire More Offspring—Increased Attractiveness or Higher Fertility?	9
Exorcising the ghost in the computer: ChatGPT, science publishing, and GenAI policy for Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology	9
Communication behavior of the snow leopard (Panthera uncia): understanding marking-behavior patterns to optimize camera-trapping studies	9
Optimal clutch size and male incubation investment in the male-only incubating emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae)	9
Determining sensitive stages of larval development to predation risk in Indosylvirana indica	9
Intersection between parental investment, transgenerational immunity, and termite sociality in the face of disease: a theoretical approach	9
Long-term effects of litter characteristics on reproduction in female cavies (Cavia aperea)	8
The multilevel society of proboscis monkeys with a possible patrilineal basis	8
Begging is an honest signal of hunger in a communally nesting bird with low genetic relatedness	8
Measuring fitness and inferring natural selection from long-term field studies: different measures lead to nuanced conclusions	8
Extended parental care in the mass provisioning silk wasp, Microstigmus rosae	8
Spatiotemporal variation of behavior and repeatability in a long-lived turtle	8
Colony fitness increases in the honey bee at queen mating frequencies higher than genetic diversity asymptote	8
Bumblebees display stimulus-specific persistence behaviour after being trained on delayed reinforcement	8
Male nuptial display colour and vocalisation appear to signal independent information in the whirring tree frog	8
Social information-mediated population dynamics in non-grouping prey	8
Female remating decisions and mate choice benefits in the beetle Gnatocerus cornutus	8
Transfer of information between a highly social species and heterospecific community members	8
Individual behavioral variability across time and contexts in Dendrobates tinctorius poison frogs	8

Sex-specific migration strategies and underlying physiology contribute to spring arrival protandry in a songbird	8
Does the development environment cause the pace of life to change in a rainforest lizard?	8
Habitat-dependent variation in consistent behavioural traits does not affect the efficiency of resource acquisition in a thermophilic ant	8
Social interactions throughout life impair longevity and age-specific mating success in male parasitoids	8
Allo-suckling occurrence and its effect on lactation and nursing duration in harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) in Orkney, Scotland	8
Individual and collective cognition in social insects: what’s in a name?	8
Detecting behavioural lateralisation in Poecilia reticulata is strongly dependent on experimental design	8
Year-round behavioural time budgets of common woodpigeons inferred from acceleration data using machine learning	7
The effects of environmental light on the role of male chemotactile cues in wolf spider mating interactions	7
Investigating personality in vipers: individual rattlesnakes exhibit consistent behavioral responses in defensive and exploratory contexts	7
Correction to: Individual and collective cognition in social insects: what’s in a name?	7
No evidence that recruitment pheromone modulates olfactory, visual, or spatial learning in the ant Lasius niger	7
Description of the behavioural contexts of underwater sound production in juvenile green turtles Chelonia mydas	7
Sensitivity threshold of avian magnetic compass to oscillating magnetic field is species-specific	7
Large and interactive pipefish females display ornaments for longer with many males around	7
Is flying riskier for female katydids than for males?	7
Previous mating success motivates homing of male glassfrogs Hyalinobatrachium valerioi	7
How territoriality reduces disease transmission among social insect colonies	7
Male color polymorphism in populations of reef geckos (Sphaerodactylus notatus) reduces the utility of visual signals in sex recognition	7
Quantification of multi-task predation reveals behavioural regulation and attentional processes in mantids	7
Variation in behavioral tempo, not thermal sensitivity, determines the onset of foraging in ant colonies	7
Evidence of intrapopulation differences in rattlesnake defensive behavior across neighboring habitats	7
Food-caching chickadees do not exhibit directional bias when learning a spatial task	7
Effects of seed traits on the cache size of a scatter-hoarding rodent, Leopoldamys edwardsi	7
Reproductive success of Bornean orangutan males: scattered in time but clustered in space	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	6
Endurance rivalry among male spotted hyenas: what does it mean to “endure”?	6
Communicating the cost of your altruism makes you cool—competitive altruism and sexual selection in a real-life charity situation	6
The evolution of dynamic and flexible courtship displays that reveal individual quality	6
Competitive asymmetries, birthing asynchrony and sibling rivalry in a social lizard	6
Spider colony extinction does not depend on degree of sociality and maternal size in three Anelosimus species (Araneae, Theridiidae)	6
Functional properties of ant queen pheromones as revealed by behavioral experiments	6
Infection by a fungal pathogen and mating behavior in Pacific treefrogs: a test of the Hamilton-Zuk hypothesis	6
Wild Australian magpies learn to pull intact, not broken, strings to obtain food	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
No evidence for adaptive sex ratio adjustment in a cooperatively breeding bird with helpful helpers	6
Multiple phenotypic traits predict male mating success in a critically endangered frog	6
Encoding and decoding of the information in the honeybee waggle dance	6
A systematic review of sex differences in rough and tumble play across non-human mammals	6
Do agricultural practices on meadows reduce or increase flight initiation distance in the white stork ciconia ciconia?	6
Conflict and the evolution of viviparity in vertebrates	6
Do female bluethroats without extra-pair offspring have more MHC-compatible social mates?	6
Social thermoregulation in Mediterranean greater white-toothed shrews (Crocidura russula)	6
Single paternity in the kelp crab Taliepus dentatus despite polyandry	6
Annual fitness costs may be balanced by a conservative life history strategy in groups of unrelated ant queens	6
Introduction to topical collection “Sexual selection, sexual conflict and aging”	6
Which acoustic parameters modify the great tit’s response to conspecific combinatorial mobbing calls?	6
Urban lizards use sleep sites that mirror the structural, thermal, and light properties of natural sites	6
Opportunity is not everything: genetic monogamy and limited brood parasitism in a colonial woodpecker	6
Heat-altered scent marks of males of a fossorial reptile still allow recognition by females but lose information on male quality	6
When Older Males Sire More Offspring—Increased Attractiveness or Higher Fertility?	6
Sex-dependent recognition and behavior against nest predators and brood parasites by Chestnut-capped Blackbird Chrysomus ruficapillus	5
First evidence of contagious yawning in a wild lemur	5
Social group size influences pathogen transmission in salamanders	5
Bacterial infection influences courtship behavior and mate choice in a wolf spider	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
Tolerant and intolerant macaques differ in the context specificity of their calls and how they ‘comment’ on the interactions of others	5
Biologically meaningful moonlight measures and their application in ecological research	5
Niche partitioning among social clusters of a resident estuarine apex predator	5
Fecal avoidance and gastrointestinal parasitism in semi-free ranging woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha poeppigii)	5
High pair fidelity despite sex differences in the duration of parental care in a long-lived migratory bird	5
Neither paternity loss nor perceived threat of cuckoldry affects male nestling provisioning in grass wrens	5
Evaluating scleral exposure in human eyes: a review of measurement methods, an exploration of reliability, and implications in behavioral experimental research	5
Effects of mating age and mate age on lifespan and reproduction in a horned beetle	5
Polarize, catalyze, and stabilize: how a minority of norm internalizers amplify group selection and punishment	5
Multiple parasitism in an evictor brood parasite: patterns revealed by long-term monitoring, continuous video recording, and genetic analyses	5
Priority of access to food and its influence on social dynamics of an endangered carnivore	5
Fatal attraction: territorial males of a neotropical lizard increase predation risk when females are sexually receptive	5
Performance and efficiency in leaf transport: unveiling the task allocation puzzle in Acromyrmex subterraneus	5
Individual flexibility in group foraging behaviour of reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi)	5
Longitudinal effects of habitat quality, body condition, and parasites on colour patches of a multiornamented lizard	5
Aggression and multi-modal signaling in noise in a common urban songbird	5
Sisters doing it for themselves: extensive reproductive plasticity in workers of a primitively eusocial bee	5
Common permutation methods in animal social network analysis do not control for non-independence	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
Parasite induced changes in contact behaviour is affected by parasitic status of group members	5

How does host social behavior drive parasite non-selective evolution from the within-host to the landscape-scale?	5
An empirical assessment of the role of independence filters in temporal activity analyses using camera trapping data	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