Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Article	Citations
Network reaction norms: taking account of network position and plasticity in response to environmental change	28
Tight quarters: ranging and feeding competition in a Colobus angolensis ruwenzorii multilevel society occupying a fragmented habitat	24
Evaluating the cues that coordinate a shift towards the robbing foraging tactic in the honey bee (Apis mellifera)	24
When are females dominant over males in rats (Rattus norvegicus)?	23
White plumage color as an honest indicator: feather macrostructure links reflectance with reproductive effort and success	22
Comparison of digital photography and spectrometry for evaluating colour perception in humans and other trichromatic species	22
Morphological evolution and the behavioral organization of agricultural division of labor in the leafcutter ant Atta cephalotes	22
Correction to: Is provisioning rate of parents and helpers infuenced by the simulated presence of novel individuals?	19
Female mate choice in an arachnid with exclusive paternal care: males in good condition have higher mating success, but only if they can advertise it	17
Moonlight predicts the timing and duration of parental behavior across latitudes in a diurnal songbird	17
Extreme ecological constraints lead to high degree of individual stereotypy in the vocal repertoire of the Cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus)	16
Multi-year assessment of variability in spatial and social relationships in a subterranean rodent, the highland tuco-tuco (Ctenomys opimus)	16
Correction to: Size is not everything: differing activity and foraging patterns between the sexes in a monomorphic mammal	15
Ectoparasites exposure affects early growth and mouth colour in nestlings of a cavity-nesting raptor	14
Parasite resistance and immunity across female castes in a social insect	13
Large eastern grey kangaroo males are dominant but do not monopolize matings	13
Long-term effects of sex-specific sibling interaction on the development of blue-footed boobies	13
Static and dynamic methods in social network analysis reveal the association patterns of desert-dwelling giraffe	13
Litter characteristics and helping context during early life shape the responsiveness of the stress axis in a wild cooperative breeder	12
Familiarity effects on fish behaviour are disrupted in shoals that contain also unfamiliar individuals	12
Maternal stress effects on infant development in wild Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi)	12
Reproductive timing as an explanation for skewed parentage assignment ratio in a bisexually philopatric population	12
Endurance rivalry among male spotted hyenas: what does it mean to “endure”?	12
Fertilization success suggests random pairing in frogs with regard to body size	12
Nocturnal and diurnal predator and prey interactions with crab spider color polymorphs	12

Urban lizards use sleep sites that mirror the structural, thermal, and light properties of natural sites	12
Unraveling the content of tail displays in an Asian agamid lizard	11
Anxiety-like behavior and tectal gene expression in a foraging/predator avoidance tradeoff task using adult African clawed frogs Xenopus laevis	11
Thermal energetics of male courtship song in a lek-breeding bat	11
Toxic personalities: are chemical defences and boldness correlated?	11
Which acoustic parameters modify the great tit’s response to conspecific combinatorial mobbing calls?	11
Two coinhabitants visually lure prey to host territory through a shared conspicuous trait	11
Should I stay or should I go now: dispersal decisions and reproductive success in male white-faced capuchins (Cebus imitator)	10
Food-hoarding and nest-building propensities are associated in a cavity-nesting bird	10
Social modulation of spatial dynamics in treefrog choruses	10
Time allocation to balance group living trade-offs in Ethiopian wolves	10
Collaborative behaviour and coalitions in male jaguars (Panthera onca)—evidence and comparison with other felids	10
Facultative and persistent offspring sex-ratio bias in relation to the social environment in cooperatively breeding red-winged fairy-wrens (Malurus elegans)	10
Genetic conflicts and the case for licensed anthropomorphizing	10
Flocking in birds is associated with diet, foraging substrate, timing of activity, and life history	10
Effects of developmental environment on animal personality in a tropical skink	10
Drivers and consequences of female reproductive competition in an egalitarian, sexually monomorphic primate	10
Information transfer during mobbing: call rate is more important than the number of callers in a southern temperate passerine	9
Flight behaviours and energy savings in adult and juvenile house martins (Delichon urbicum) foraging near their breeding colony	9
Female-limited X chromosome evolution reveals that lifespan is mainly modulated by interlocus rather than intralocus sexual conflict	9
The role of serotonin in modulating common waxbill behaviour	9
The fast and the curious III: speed, endurance, activity, and exploration in mice	9
Maternal parity influences the birth sex ratio and birth interval of captive Francois’ langur (Trachypithecus francoisi)	9
The first two functionally antagonistic call notes influence female choice in the Anhui tree frog	9
Functional properties of ant queen pheromones as revealed by behavioral experiments	9
Conspecific scent marks may influence underground site selection by a fossorial reptile	9
Age-related reductions in within-individual variation increase the repeatability of mating behaviour	9
Communicating the cost of your altruism makes you cool—competitive altruism and sexual selection in a real-life charity situation	9
The interplay of experience and pre-existing bias in nectar-robbing behavior by the common eastern bumble bee	9
Vocal-visual combinations in wild chimpanzees	8
Evidence of sociality and group foraging in Antarctic minke whales (Balaenoptera bonaerensis)	8
To house or oust: Honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies can evaluate and evict drones of low quality	8
Spatiotemporal variation in cognitive phenotype, social network position, and distribution of social associations in a food-caching bird	8
Comparison of numerosity concept in a freshwater turtle after a two-year retention interval	8
Food-associated calls in disc-winged bats	8
Winter food selection and exploratory behavior vary with natal territory characteristics in wild great tits	8
Heat-altered scent marks of males of a fossorial reptile still allow recognition by females but lose information on male quality	8
Intraspecific color diversity and camouflage associated with ontogeny in an insular land crab	8
Versatile and inexpensive device for capturing high-quality behavioral videos under diverse field conditions	8
Infection by a fungal pathogen and mating behavior in Pacific treefrogs: a test of the Hamilton-Zuk hypothesis	8
The operational sex ratio experienced by mothers modulates the expression of sons’ alternative reproductive tactics in spider mites	8
Spider colony extinction does not depend on degree of sociality and maternal size in three Anelosimus species (Araneae, Theridiidae)	8
Lead pollution impacts the dynamics and resolution of contests between the native Mexican mojarra and invasive convict cichlid	8
Developmental changes in red-eyed treefrog embryo behavior increase escape-hatching success in wasp attacks	8
Do agricultural practices on meadows reduce or increase flight initiation distance in the white stork ciconia ciconia?	8
Grooming reciprocity in Geoffroy’s spider monkeys, and the influence of the opportunity of interaction	8
Evolution of social behaviour in an infectious world: comparative analysis of social network structure versus parasite richness	7
Barbary ground squirrels do not have a sentinel system but instead synchronize vigilance	7
Water clarity affects collective behavior in two cyprinid fishes	7
Food, shadow, and fire influence a tropical bird´s display	7

Motivation matters: lighter littermates of the domestic cat compete more successfully for meat at weaning	7
Functional diversification of contact calls contribute to the cohesion of a multi-level society	7
Dissecting the two mechanisms of scramble competition among the Virunga mountain gorillas	7
Cooperatively breeding banded mongooses do not avoid inbreeding through familiarity-based kin recognition	7
Opportunity is not everything: genetic monogamy and limited brood parasitism in a colonial woodpecker	7
Responsiveness to contest experiences is associated with competitive ability but not aggressiveness or boldness	7
Behavioral correlates of migration in bats – do migration strategies predict responses to a novel environment?	7
Learning without a brain: classical conditioning in the ophiuroid Ophiocoma echinata	7
Social clues in risky pools: Perceived conspecific rivals modify individual mosquito oviposition decisions in response to larval predation and competition	7
Quantitative cognition in carpenter ants	7
Population specific annual cycles and migration strategies in a leap-frog migrant	7
The role of social structure and dynamics in the maintenance of endemic disease	7
Impact of blood parasites on the behaviour of two congeneric wall lizards (genus Podarcis)	7
Impact of light pollution on aquatic invertebrates: Behavioral responses and ecological consequences	6
Daily foraging activity of an imperiled ground squirrel: effects of hibernation, thermal environment, body condition, and conspecific density	6
Testing presence of directionality information in female spider silk trails through male trail-following behavior	6
Weak evidence for a relationship between group size and flight initiation distance in response to underwater human presence in an exploited fish species	6
A systematic review of sex differences in rough and tumble play across non-human mammals	6
Behavioural response to predation risks depends on experimental change in dehydration state in a lizard	6
The evolution of ant worker polymorphism correlates with multiple social traits	6
Research disturbance negatively impacts incubation behaviour of female great tits	6
Maternal lactational investment is higher for sons in chimpanzees	6
Lovers, not fighters: docility influences reproductive fitness, but not survival, in male Cape ground squirrels, Xerus inauris	6
Hidden in plain sight: camouflage and hiding behaviour of wild precocial chicks in an open landscape	6
Investigating scent communication and latrine use to inform translocation of the Tasmanian devil	6
Parasitic cowbird development up to fledging and subsequent post-fledging survival reflect life history variation found across host species	6
The effects of intra- and interspecific competitions on personality and individual plasticity in two sympatric brown frogs	6
Animal social networks are robust to changing association definitions	6
Carryover effects of embryonic predation risk on larval growth, behaviour, morphology, and metamorphic traits of Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis	6
No evidence for innate differences in tadpole behavior between natural, urbanized, and invasive populations	6
Correction to: Visitation rate, but not foraging range, responds to brood size manipulation in an aerial insectivore	6
Cooperative parental performance at chick provisioning in a small passerine, the Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus	6
Social behaviors elevate predation risk in fiddler crabs: quantitative evidence from field observations	6
Type and amount of social experience influences individual face learning in paper wasps	6
Gregariousness is associated with parasite species richness in a community of wild chimpanzees	6
When is it safe to go home? Post-predation assessment of risk and safety when personal information conflicts with social cues	6
Prior territorial responses and home range size predict territory defense in radio-tagged great tits	6
Cooperation by ant queens during colony-founding perpetuates alternative forms of social organization	6
Testing the maintenance of natural responses to survival-relevant calls in the conservation breeding population of a critically endangered corvid (Corvus hawaiiensis)	6
Quantifying within-group variation in sociality—covariation among metrics and patterns across primate groups and species	6
Annual movement strategy predicts within-season space use by moose	6
Patch choice decisions by a fission–fusion forager as a test of the ecological constraints model	6
Kinship study reveals stable non-kin-based associations in a medium-sized delphinid	6
Genetic diversity, paternal origin and pathogen resistance in Cataglyphis desert ants	6
Seasonal changes in color patches and parasite load of male torquate lizards (Sceloporus torquatus)	6
Social thermoregulation in Mediterranean greater white-toothed shrews (Crocidura russula)	6
Three yellow patches differently correlate with escape behaviour, morphological traits, leukocytes, parasites, and hormones in a lizard species	5
Chestnut caching behavior of Chinese white-bellied rats (Niviventer confucianus) and South China field mice (Apodemus draco): effects of seed size and insect infestation	5
Little evidence for color- or size-based mating preferences by male strawberry poison frogs (Oophaga pumilio)	5
Testing the factors on the evolution of movement-based visual signal complexity in an Asian agamid lizard	5
Sexual dimorphism in dynamic body color in the green anole lizard	5
Multiple traits predict reproductive success and assortative mating in mutually ornamented Campo flickers (Colaptes campestris campestris)	5
Sex-specific effects of capital resources on reproductive timing and success in red squirrels	5
Interrelationship among spatial cohesion, aggression rate, counter-aggression and female dominance in three lemur species	5
From collocations to call-ocations: using linguistic methods to quantify animal call combinations	5
Morph-specific differences in escape behavior in a color polymorphic lizard	5
Maternal predation risk during pregnancy alters various social behaviors in the offspring of Brandt’s voles	5
Impact of predator model presentation paradigms on titi monkey alarm sequences	5
Decoupled evolution of mating biology and social structure in Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants	5
Longitudinal effects of habitat quality, body condition, and parasites on colour patches of a multiornamented lizard	5
Who to help? Helping decisions in a cooperatively breeding bird with redirected care	5
No evidence for adaptive sex ratio adjustment in a cooperatively breeding bird with helpful helpers	5
First evidence of contagious yawning in a wild lemur	5
The evolution of dynamic and flexible courtship displays that reveal individual quality	5
Exploration behavior differs between Darwin’s finch species and predicts territory defense and hatching success	5
Stranger Danger: Differential response to strangers and neighbors by a social carnivore, the Asiatic wild dog (Cuon alpinus)	5
Sociality and disease: behavioral perspectives in ecological and evolutionary immunology	5
The role of partially consumed acorn remains in scatter hoards and their implications in oak colonization	4
Vocal and genetic variation between a land-bridge island and mainland populations of the Black-crowned Antshrike (Thamnophilus atrinucha)	4
Using activity densities as an alternative approach to measuring ungulate giving-up densities in the presence of non-target species	4
Competitive asymmetries, birthing asynchrony and sibling rivalry in a social lizard	4
What is that smell? Hummingbirds avoid foraging on resources with defensive insect compounds	4
Understanding the co-occurrence of Asian small-clawed otter and smooth-coated otter in a human-dominated landscape	4
A dynamic state variable model suggests a stronger effect of age than individual energetic state on reproductive allocation in burying beetles	4
Do males that experience weapon damage have greater reproductive potential than intact males in polygynous scenarios?	4
Neither paternity loss nor perceived threat of cuckoldry affects male nestling provisioning in grass wrens	4
Behavioral responses of two African mesopredators to human and non-human apex predators	4
Response to short-lived human overcrowding by free-ranging dogs	4
Experimental evidence that adult UV/yellow colouration functions as a signal in blue tit families — but only for parents	4
Behavioural plasticity in the monsoonal tropics: implications for thermoregulatory traits in sandy shore crabs	4

Humpback whale suckling behavior: an insight into the mother-offspring strategy in mysticetes	4
In mixed company: two macaws are self-regarding in a symbolic prosocial choice task	4
The availability of male mates affects the social mating strategies of a predominantly socially monogamous passerine	4
Condition dependence in the sexual communication system of the túngara frog	4
Auditory and distance cues interact to modulate female gray treefrog preferences for male advertisement calls	4
Juvenile social play predicts docility in Belding’s ground squirrels	4
The gullible genius: fast learners fall for fake news	4
Behavior automatic analysis for wolf pack hunting: making fast behavior analysis of massive data possible	4
Where are the males? The influence of bottom-up and top-down factors and sociability on the spatial distribution of a territorial ungulate	4
Maximum diving duration and its influencing factors of diving lizards	4
Movement ecology during non-breeding season in a long-distance migratory shorebird: are space use and movement patterns sex-biased?	4
Egg covering by cavity-nesting birds: an experimental test of the usurpation hypothesis	4
Has an invasive lizard lost its antipredator behaviours following 40 generations of isolation from snake predators?	4
Among-individual differences in risk-taking behavior are associated with shell repair rate but not growth in a marine gastropod	4
Fear of sex: sexual conflict exposed as avoidance in a parthenogenetic invertebrate	4
Inferring the mating system in the burrowing shrimp Lepidophthalmus bocourti (Decapoda, Axiidea, Callichiridae) from the social structure and sexual dimorphism	4
Site-specific fears: Negev gerbils from same points of origin share anti-predator behavior when translocated to new environments	4
Melanin-based plumage coloration is associated with exposure in tawny owls under novel conditions	4
The impact of high temperatures on bird responses to alarm calls	4
Behavioral repertoire of Lahille’s bottlenose dolphins that interact with artisanal fishers	4
Transition in the production of diploid-female to haploid-male eggs in bumblebee colonies: sperm quality or depletion?	4
Age-dependent self- and individual chemosensory discrimination in male Psammodromus algirus lizards is based on lipids and proteins from their scent	4
Boldness and exploratory behaviors differ between sunfish (Lepomis spp.) congeners in a standardized assay	4
Social group size influences pathogen transmission in salamanders	4
Hoisting the white flag of surrender? Color change in agonistic encounters between Achala copper lizard males (Pristidactylus achalensis)	4
Performance and efficiency in leaf transport: unveiling the task allocation puzzle in Acromyrmex subterraneus	4
Young chicks quickly lose their spontaneous preference to aggregate with females	4
Background contrast affects detection and recognition of courting wolf spiders by intended and unintended receivers	4
Tiny but socially valuable: eggs as sources of communication in the social wasp Mischocyttarus cerberus	4
The development and maintenance of sex differences in dietary breadth and complexity in Bornean orangutans	4
Fortune favors the bold toad: urban-derived behavioral traits may provide advantages for invasive amphibian populations	4
Maternal rank acquisition in a primate with low aggression and coalition rates	4
Rapid facial mimicry as a regulator of play in a despotic macaque species	4
Sex-dependent recognition and behavior against nest predators and brood parasites by Chestnut-capped Blackbird Chrysomus ruficapillus	4
Syntactic rules predict song type matching in a songbird	4
Joint evolution of traits for social learning	4