Behavioural Processes

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Aroma-dillo or Area-dillo? An examination of armadillos’ sensory modality bias	53
Daily running trials increase sprint speed in endangered lizards (Gallotia simonyi)	41
1-Back reinforcement matching and mismatching by pigeons: Implicit or explicit learning?	28
Acute caffeine enhances sign-tracking in male Sprague-Dawley rats	28
Irrational behavior in dogs (Canis lupus familiaris): A violation of independence from irrelevant alternatives	27
Chronic high-dose testosterone impairs economic decision making, but has no effect on memory in male rats	21
Learning about reward identities and time	19
Modeling resurgence with an evolutionary theory of behavior dynamics	19
Behavioural changes of native freshwater prawn in the presence of a predator fish	18
Light, camera, action: Behavioral responses of the yellow scorpion Tityus serrulatus to different lights	17
A Pavlovian, conditioned-reinforcement approach to reducing impulsive choice	17
Unpredictable mealtimes rather than social jetlag affects acquisition and retention of hippocampal dependent memory	16
Not just for males: Flehmen as a tool for detection of reproductive status and individual recognition across sexes in four African equid species	15
ABA, AAB and ABC renewal with Pavlovian Conditioning of Tentacle Lowering procedure in the snail Cornu aspersum	15
Behavioral responses to predator and heterospecific alarm calls are habitat-specific in Eurasian tree sparrows	15
Prepulse inhibition deficits in inbred and outbred rats and between-strain differences in startle habituation do not depend on startle reactivity levels	14
Social isolation interaction with the feeding regime differentially affects survival and results in a hump-shaped pattern in movement activity	14
Three methods of behavioural testing to measure anxiety – A review	14
Time, uncertainty, and suboptimal choice	13
Influence of web traits, height, and daily periods of exposition on prey captured by orb-weaver spiders	13
Activity vs exploration: Locomotion in a known and unknown environment differs in Atlantic cod juveniles (Gadus morhua)	13
A test of the role of stimulus-response and stimulus-outcome associations in the effects of intermittent-access training	13
Pigeon leadership hierarchies are not dependent on environmental contexts or individual phenotypes	13
Social dynamics and behavior of zoo-housed red-footed tortoises at different housing densities	12
An investigation of population variation in maze exploration and its predictors in wild Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata)	12

Climatic factors impacting thermoregulatory behaviours of coastal and inland rattlesnakes	11
An evaluation of hedonic responses in taste-potentiated odor aversion using the analysis of licking microstructure and orofacial reactivity	11
Responses to environmental enrichment are associated with personality characteristics in chestnut-bellied seed finches (Sporophila angolensis)	11
Evaluation of temperament traits and its association with visual lateralisation in oval squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana)	11
Effects of individual or common resources availability in choosing individual or shared contingencies	10
Environmental conditions shape learning in larval zebrafish	10
May unpredictable events affect monkey welfare under human care?	10
Does predation environment affect repeated responses to predation cues in the fish Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora?	10
SQAB 2021: Translational research using computation approaches	10
Housing-dependent variation in goal-tracking behavior predicts use of a spatial strategy in a dual-solution Morris water maze task	9
Training primates to forage in virtual 3D environments	9
Effects of inter-trial interval on sign-tracking and conditioned reinforcer efficacy in female rats	9
Choice reaction time in pigeons fails to increase as predicted by Hick’s law	9
No evidence of the choice overload effect in a computerized paradigm with rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) and capuchin monkeys (Sapajus apella)	9
Individual differences in degree of discounting: Do different procedures and measures assess the same construct?	9
Interference of same/different learning by a spatial discrimination	9
Contextualising courtship: Exploring male body odour effects on vocal modulation	9
Non-invasive, real-time stress measurement: Vocalization compared with thermal imaging in kittens of the domestic cat in response to social separation	9
Extrinsic traits consistently drive microhabitat decisions of an arboreal snake, independently of sex and personality	9
Environmental enrichment accelerates the acquisition of schedule-induced drinking in rats	9
Female Java sparrows prefer high exploratory males without assortative mating	9
Effects of probabilistic win-paired-cues on loss trials on risky choice in rats	8
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Topographical aspects of brief-stimulus presentations: A re-examination of the problem of conditioned reinforcement	8
Fins of Fury or Fainéant: Fluoxetine impacts the aggressive behavior of fighting fish (Betta splendens)	8
Characteristics influencing local enhancement in free-living striped mice	8
Consummatory successive positive contrast with aversive solutions in infant rats: Replication and generalization to a higher concentration of a bitter solution	8
Experimental analysis of choice behavior in Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica)	8
Examining resurgence and repetition with the evolutionary theory of behavior dynamics	8
Covariation among behavioral traits and hatching time in zebrafish	8
A preliminary evaluation of habituation and dishabituation of operant responding in mice	8
Motivational state-dependent renewal and reinstatement of operant responding under food and water deprivation states	7
Altruism, reciprocity, and probability: Examining relations through a discounting framework	7
Some properties of habituation of siphon withdrawal in the slimy clam (Ruditapes decussatus)	7
Effects of external cues and group mate body size on the collective behavior of shoaling crucian carp	7
Stag beetle Cyclommatus mniszechi employs both mutual- and self-assessment strategies in male-male combat	7
Alcohol exposure and environmental enrichment effects on contextual fear conditioning in zebrafish	7
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Nearest neighbour distance does not affect escape behaviour in urban hooded crows	7
Persistent fine-tuning of egg rejection based on parasitic timing in a cuckoo host even after relaxation of parasitism pressure	7
Ejaculation latency determines susceptibility to stress in the male rat	7
Comparison of ultrasonic isolation calls of pure-breeding and interspecies hybrid Phodopus dwarf hamster pups	7
Preliminary evidence for timing abnormalities in the CNTNAP2 knockout rat	7
Domestication and social environment modulate fear responses in young chickens	7
Autoshaped impulsivity: Some explorations with a neural network model	7
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Chicks make stochastic decisions based on gain rates of different time constants	7
Instructional control in choice tasks: The relation between type of schedule and relative expected values	7
Effects of domestication on neophobia: A comparison between the domesticated Bengalese finch (Lonchura striata var. domestica) and its wild ancestor, the white-rumped munia (Lonchura striata)	7
Trained dogs do not give up: Effects of advanced training on the persistence of domestic dogs	7

Ontogeny of pup isolation-induced ultrasonic calls in a highly social rodent, the Harting’s vole (Microtus hartingi)	7
Trap versus net: Behavioural sampling bias caused by capture method in three-spined sticklebacks	7
Resurgence increases with repetition	7
Generalizability of time-based interventions: Effects of choice procedure and smaller-sooner delay	7
Extra-experimental scarcity impacts hypothetical operant demand: A natural SARS-CoV-2 eperiment	7
Applying an eye tracking technique to gibbons: First study using scanpath measurements for visual stimuli	7
Abbreviated fixed-interval interventions promote self-control in rats	6
Anxiety in Brazilian dogs: Typical behaviors, anxiety-inducing situations, and sociodemographic factors	6
Choices about whether to wait: Changes in delay discounting without changes in time perception	6
Effects of housing density on anxiety-like behavior of zebrafish in the plus maze with ramp	6
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Sex-based differences, diurnal and seasonal trends in thermoregulatory behaviour of nesting Painted Stork (Mycteria leucocephala)	6
Female aggression towards same-sex rivals depends on context in a tropical songbird	6
Reproductive consequences of material use in avian nest construction	6
Attention bias and novel object test in rams (Ovis aries) under intensive farming	6
Removing the opportunity to respond induces resurgence	6
Coup in the coop: Rank changes in chicken dominance hierarchies over maturation	6
Never smile at a crocodile: Gaping behaviour in the Nile crocodile at Ndumo Game Reserve, South Africa	6
Observation of female-male mounting in the carrion crow	6
Matching is acquired faster than mismatching by pigeons when salient stimuli are presented manually	6
Patrolling the area, not ousting intruders, relates to reproductive success for territorial male Leon Springs pupfish, Cyprinodon bovinus	5
Blackouts can serve as a contextual feature and enhance resurgence	5
Stimulus characteristics, learning bias and visual discrimination in zebrafish (Danio rerio)	5
Investigating individual learning behaviour of dogs during a yes/no detection task	5
Overmatching under food uncertainty in foraging pigeons	5
Prevention of self-grooming in rats: Evidence for a rebound effect	5
Non-individualistic ultrasonic and audible isolation calls throughout ontogeny in a rodent, Eolagurus luteus	5
Individual vocal identity may be obscured following colony assembly in captive black-capped chickadees	5
Evaluating effects of context changes on resurgence in humans	5
Effects of water restriction and dirt on grooming behavior in neotropical rodents (Trinomys setosus and T. yonenagae) (Echimyidae)	5
Invasive social wasp learning abilities when foraging in human modified environments	5
Size matters: Antagonistic effects of body size on courtship and digging in a wolf spider with non-traditional sex roles	5
Degrading stimuli by reducing image resolution impairs performance in a rodent continuous performance test	5
Can a traditional partner preference test quantify monogamous behavior in captive coyotes?	5
Domestication effects on aggressiveness: Comparison of biting motivation and bite force between wild and domesticated finches	5
Ecology of acoustic partitioning in insect assemblages	5
Black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) discriminate between naturally-ordered and scramble-ordered chick-a-dee calls and individual preference is related to rate of learning	5
Measuring behavioral coping style and stress reactivity experimentally in wild olive baboons	5
Analixity: An open source, low-cost analysis system for the elevated plus maze test, based on computer vision techniques	5
Resurgence of target behavior after negative punishment of alternative behavior	5
Reducing impulsive choice: VIII. Effects of delay-exposure training in female rats	5
Primacy and recency effects in hierarchical renewal in rats	5
Threespine stickleback do not use social cues to learn about predation risk	5
Exploring innovative problem-solving in African lions (Panthera leo) and snow leopards (Panthera uncia)	5
Effort-motivated behavior resolves paradoxes in appetitive conditioning	5
Maternal deprivation effect on morphine-induced CPP is related to changes in opioid receptors in selected rat brain regions (hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, and nucleus accumbens)	5
Number-of-responses matching in pigeons (Columba livia): Choice biases following delay and no-sample tests	4
Investigating the role of environmental enrichment initiated in adolescence against the detrimental effects of chronic unpredictable stress in adulthood: Sex-specific differences in behavioral and neu	4
Infant handling increases grooming towards mothers in wild geladas (Theropithecus gelada)	4
Adaptive forgetting of place/object memory for dung in the domestic horse (Equus ferus caballus): Memory for a day	4
Female dogs evaluate levels of competence in humans	4
The investigation of sexual and interspecies disparities in spatial learning and memory across two rodent species	4
Behavioural response of female Lewis rats toward 31-kHz ultrasonic calls	4
Evidence of AAB, ABA, and ABC renewal procedures for instrumental response in elementary school children	4
Foraging behaviour of Pheidole latinoda: An impetus for employing a heuristic approach to address optimization challenges	4
The effects of olfactory stimulation on the behaviour of captive slender lorises (Loris lydekkerianus)	4
Bottlenose dolphin communication during a role-specialized group foraging task	4
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No evidence for mate copying in Danio rerio	4
Auditory pattern discrimination in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus)	4
Oral antibiotics reduce voluntary exercise behavior in athletic mice	4
The temporal copulatory patterns of female rat sexual behavior	4
Foraging decisions of rock lizards may be dependent both on current rival assessment and dear enemy recognition	4
Equivalent learning, but unequal participation: Male bumble bees learn comparably to females, but participate in cognitive assessments at lower rates	4
Gain-loss asymmetry in delay and effort discounting of different amounts	4
Bringing the past into the present: Control by exteroceptive stimuli and key-peck location in a concurrent-chains procedure	4
Measurement of the exploration–exploitation response of dogs through a concurrent visual discrimination task	4
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Deciding what to do: Observations from a psycho-motor laboratory, including the discovery of pre-crastination	4
Aerial urination in Amazon river dolphins: reassessing its social significance and implications for sensory biology	4
White Leghorn and Red Junglefowl female chicks use distal and local cues similarly, but differ in persistency behaviors, during a spatial orientation task	4
A standardised ethogram for the Psittaciformes	3
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Almost there: Learning to navigate approximately with a grid map	3
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3D-printed operant chambers for rats: Design, assembly, and innovations	3
Regulation of sex differences in risk-based decision making by gonadal hormones: Insights from rodent models	3
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Streamlining boldness measurement in fish: A practical approach to field studies	3
Acute noise is harmful on the anti-predator behaviour of commercially important juvenile coral reef fishes	3
Individual variation in activity budgets of a stable population of killer whales in managed care across a year	3
Soft calls do not modulate aggressiveness in male common cuckoos toward conspecific territorial intruders: A sequential playback study	3
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Effects of delay sequence in a delay discounting task	3
The consistency of exploration behaviours across life stages in a native Australian rodent, the fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat Melomys cervinipes	3
Emergent relations and competing behavior: Effects on interruptions, accuracy and reaction time	3
Behavioural changes in aposematic Heliconius melpomene butterflies in response to their predatory bird calls	3
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SQAB 2022: New directions in learning research	3
Evaluating indicators of intentionality, flexibility, and goal-association in domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus) facial signals	3
Examination of the joint Simon effect in rats: Changes in task performance based on actions of the partner	3
Boldness and learning in an active foraging lizard	3
Learning to stop responding	3
An introduction to “discrete choice experiments” for behavior analysts	3
Territorial defense is ineffective at protecting eggs from predation in the endangered Leon Springs pupfish (Cyprinodon bovinus)	3
Sex differences in the expression of aggressive behavior and influences on social choice in zebrafish (Danio rerio)	3
Behavioural responses to separation from human companion in the domestic cat: A survey-based study	3
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Search image formation for spider prey in a mud dauber wasp.	3
Recently encountered delay lengths produce contrast effects on delay discounting	3
Familiarity, personality, and foraging performance in three-spined sticklebacks	3
Stress-related impairment of fear memory acquisition and disruption of risk assessment behavior in female but not in male mice	3
Structural consistency of exploratory behaviour of sub-adult and adult spiny mice (Acomys cahirinus) in seven different tests	3
Activity behavior of goitered gazelles in an arid environment	3
The acoustic behavior of the Brazilian caatinga big rodent is incongruent to its actual position in Hydrochoerinae	3
The role of stimulus combinations in the repeated assessment of resurgence	3
Which form of environmental enrichment is most effective in rodent models of autism?	3
The effectiveness of Go/Nogo dual-task is modulated by SOA and Go/Nogo ratio	3
Using social network analysis to confirm the ‘gambit of the group’ hypothesis for a small cetacean	3
Rats do not consider all unfamiliar strains to be equivalent	3
Hot crabs with bold choices: Temperature has little impact on behavioural repeatability in Caribbean hermit crabs	3
Sexual stimulation of captive Iberian ibex bucks (Capra pyrenaica): Effect of male social rank on the response to estrous females	3
Cost does not prevent pigeons from investing in the future	3
Inhibition of alloparental behavior by acute stress in virgin male California mice (Peromyscus californicus)	3
Previous experience alters individual vulnerability to angling of crucian carp (Carassius auratus)	2
Evaluating and re-evaluating intra- and inter-species social transmission of food preferences in domestic dogs	2
Resource limitations: A taxonomy	2
Increased vigilance to neighbor duets broadcast from unexpected territorial boundaries in rufous horneros	2
Sleepiness profiles in mice submitted to acute and chronic sleep deprivation	2
Modulation of dear enemy effects by male dusky warblers (Phylloscopus fuscatus) at different reproductive stages	2
Corrigendum to “Evaluating indicators of intentionality, flexibility, and goal-association in domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus) facial signals” [Behav. Proc. 231, September 2025, 105244]	2
Rats can spontaneously discriminate different rhythms: An investigation using an automated habituation-dishabituation paradigm	2
Ambient light spectrum affects larval Mexican jumping bean moth (Cydia saltitans) behavior despite light obstruction from host seed	2
Response timing of budgerigars in a turn-taking task under operant conditioning	2
Predation risk in two Patagonian Liolaemus lizards: Similar escape behaviour in different environmental contexts	2
Learning and laterality in wild-caught Namaqua rock mice (Micaelamys namaquensis)	2
Evaluation of the capability of oil specific discrimination in detection dogs	2
An investigation of turn alternation in two species of terrestrial isopods: Porcellio spinicornis and Trachelipus rathkii	2
Are domestic chickens born with predator recognition? Validation of a sound playback experiment	2
Uncertainty in foraging success and its consequences on fitness	2
Measuring locomotor strategies of freely moving previsual rat pups	2
A mixed-species shoal including fewer heterospecifics is preferred by jack mackerel Trachurus japonicus juveniles	2
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Using the ‘stranger test’ to assess social competency in adult female Long Evans rats reared with a Fischer 344 partner	2
Locomotor play behavior evolves by random genetic drift but not as a correlated response to selective breeding for high voluntary wheel-running behavior	2
Motivating operations as contexts for operant discrimination training and testing	2
Qualitative variations in delay discounting: A brief review and future directions	2
Thin-fingered fiddler crabs display a natural preference for UV light cues but show no sensory bias to other hypertrophied claw coloration	2
The importance of color and body size for reproductive decision making by males and females of the giant river prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii (de Man, 1879) (Decapoda, Caridea, Palaemonidae)	2
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Captive Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna) show facial indicators of positive affect when reunited with their caregiver	2
Development of an apparatus for evaluating the visual and olfactory discrimination ability of cattle under controlled target visibility	2
The role of line-of-sight in operant experiments using food reinforcers in guinea pigs	2
ABA and AAB renewal of alcohol seeking in rats are reduced by exposure to beer before extinction	2
Kea (Nestor notabilis) and the ephemeral reward task: Success and hurdles explored	2
Female preference counteracts negative frequency dependent selection for a stable polymorphism in a livebearing fish	2
Rhesus monkeys show greater habituation to repeated computer-generated images than do orangutans	2
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Repeated reversals of concurrent olfactory discriminations in rats: A search for functional equivalence	2
Relational abilities index: A experimental study of the procedure at different trial durations	2
Tactile cues are important to environmental novelty during repeated open field tests	2
Reproductive advantage of the winners of male-male competition in Drosophila prolongata	2
Sheep's coping style can be identified by unsupervised machine learning from unlabeled data	2
Sexual maturity, lack of partner choice and sperm precedence in the promiscuous ladybird beetle Eriopis connexa (Germar): Who is my father?	2
Why do Cattle Egrets forage with cattle? An analysis from an anti-predation perspective	2
Modeling relational responding with artificial neural networks	2
When a glimpse is enough: Partial mimicry of jumping spiders by insects	2
Bonding against the odds: Male prairie vole response to the “widow effect” among females	2
Runway extinction in terrestrial toads (Rhinella arenarum): Instrumental or Pavlovian?	2
The effect of adulteration with a bitter tastant, denatonium benzoate, on the reinforcing value of sucrose	2
Interspecific differences in sociability, social novelty preference, anxiety- and depression-like behaviors between Brandt's voles and C57BL/6J mice	2
Time buffers teasing and lessens tobacco use: The moderating role of time perspective on bullying victimization and tobacco use in adolescents	2
Behavioral evidence that repetitive responses in a free-movement pattern Y-maze are associated with ageing-related deficit in working memory	2
First insights into social behavioral patterns between pairs of bait-attracted mature female tiger sharks from Fuvahmulah Island, Maldives	2
Social group during housing and testing modulates the effect of ethanol on zebrafish (Danio rerio) behavior	2
Prosociality and reciprocity according to parental status, communication, and personality in domestic canaries (Serinus canaria)	2
Further observations on the reinforcing value of sucrose solutions: Interaction between quantity and concentration	2
Decrease in the rewarding value of spatial novelty due to the contamination of the stimulus field with light – Evidence from a free exploration test involving rats	2
Complex nests but no use of tools: An investigation of problem solving in weaverbirds (Ploceidae)	2
Relationship between reinforcement rate and response rate in Pavlovian and operant conditioning with compound stimuli in rats	2
Punishment-induced resurgence	2
Horses can learn to identify joy and sadness against other basic emotions from human facial expressions	2
Motivational factors controlling flavor preference learning and performance: Effects of preexposure with nutritive and nonnutritive sweeteners	2