Behavioral Ecology

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An (almost) fatal blow to conventional wisdom: a comment on Richardson and Zuk	50
The value ofnottrusting intuition: a response to comments on Richardson and Zuk	46
Heterogeneous responsiveness to environmental stimuli	28
Site fidelity increases reproductive success by increasing foraging efficiency in a marine predator	27
North American barn swallows pair, mate, and interact assortatively	26
Low incidence of cannibalism among brood parasitic cuckoo catfish embryos	26
The interplay between satiation and temptation drives cleaner fish Labroides dimidiatus foraging behavior and service quality toward client reef fish	25
Inter-sexual phenotypic divergence is correlated with habitat structure in an invasive lizard	25
Predator activity and scent cues influence white-tailed deer behavior in a multi-predator landscape	23
Expression of Concern: Multiple environmental cues impact habitat choice during nocturnal homing of specialized reef shrimp	22
Ineffective integration of multiple anti-predator defenses in a rotifer: a low-cost insurance?	21
Group social structure has limited impact on reproductive success in a wild mammal	20
Collective self-assessment in banded mongoose intergroup contests	19
Social pairing in the absence of reproductive senescence in a socially monogamous songbird	19
Long-term evaluation of the association between dominance, bib size, sex and age	19
Double brooding in house wrens is repeatable but constrained by time-of-season	19
Plasticity of snowy plover incubation behaviors in response to risks of nest predation	18
Public information use—are invasive demersal fish species more effective than natives?	18
Factors influencing dispersal initiation and timing in a facultative cooperative breeder	18
Cognitive individual differences are key in the network of trait covariance	18
Silver spoons, reproduction, and growth catch-up in eastern Grey kangaroos	18
Within-flock heterogeneity in exploration affects flock behavior in a highly gregarious bird	17
Experimental evidence for flexibility in provisioning behavior in a cooperatively breeding bird	17
The unusual food provisioning by males beyond mating in the spider Manogea porracea (Araneidae)	16
Enhanced conspicuousness of prey in warmer water mitigates the constraint of turbidity for predators	16

To bob or not to bob: context-dependence of an antipredator response in neotropical harvestmen	15
Effects of seed mass on seed foraging behaviors of two sympatric rodent species	15
Can you hear/see me? Multisensory integration of signals does not always facilitate mate choice	15
Vibrating aggression: spider males perform an unusual assessment strategy during contest displays	15
Intrinsic and extrinsic factors modulating vigilance and foraging in two gregarious foragers	15
Environment and mate attractiveness in a wild insect	15
Predation risk elicits a negative relationship between boldness and growth in Helisoma snails	15
Aggression rates increase around seasonally exploited resources in a primarily grass-eating primate	15
Causes and consequences of lifetime fitness variation in male Collared Lizards displaying alternative social ontogenies	14
Patterns of extra-territorial nest-box visits in a songbird suggest a role in extrapair mating	13
Social networks reveal sex- and age-patterned social structure in Butler’s gartersnakes (Thamnophis butleri)	13
Inbreeding strategies under social and sexual complexity: insights from female and male guppies	13
Social integration predicts survival in female white-faced capuchin monkeys	13
Long-term fitness effects of the early-life environment in a wild bird population	12
Perception and predation of ladybird spiders and other red-and-black arthropods by 3 predators	12
Recognition of conspecific immunological status in a neotropical paper wasp	12
Correction to: Does developmental environment affect sexual conflict? An experimental test in the seed beetle	12
Opposite-sex associations are linked with annual fitness, but sociality is stable over lifetime	12
Female state and condition-dependent chemical signaling revealed by male choice of silk trails	11
Wild crickets can adjust escaping speed under varying predation cues	11
Effects of danger cues on mating interactions are size dependent in freshwater crayfish	11
Range expansion during recolonization: what does animal personality have to do with it?	11
Whoever their partner, female blue tits breed the same	11
The evolution of brood parasitism from host egg predation	11
Simulated infection alters the behavior of pair bonded songbirds and their healthy neighbors	11
The effect of heterospecific and conspecific competition on inter-individual differences in tungara frog tadpole (Engystomops pustulosus) behavior	11
An island bird community retains anti-predator behavior toward a locally extinct nest predator	10
Not all who wander are lost: prospecting and settlement of male floaters in the spotless starling	10
A reinvestigation of cognitive styles in sticklebacks: decision success varies with behavioral type	10
A field experiment reveals reciprocal effects of host personality and parasitism in wild lizards	10
Multiple opportunities arise from multiple color defense strategies: a comment on Postema et al.	10
Fish experienced with predation take fewer risks and enhance foraging success of naïve conspecifics: a benefit of sociality	10
Expression of trematode-induced zombie-ant behavior is strongly associated with temperature	10
Territorial-sneaker games with non-uniform interactions and female mate choice	10
Male mating tactics are associated with distinct female cognitive-behavioral profiles in 4 poeciliids	10
The effects of ecology and behavior on the evolution of coloration in Coraciiformes	10
Grow up, be persistent, and stay focused: keys for solving foraging problems by free-ranging possums	10
Can I have fries with that? Context-dependent foraging behavior in urban and rural American crows	10
Housework or vigilance? Bilbies alter their burrowing activity under threat of predation by feral cats	10
Social and spatial boundaries can shape behavioral transmission of mud-ring feeding among bottlenose dolphins	10
Personality predicts mode of attack in a generalist ground spider predator	10
Light received by embryos promotes postnatal junior phenotypes in a seabird	10
Scope and adaptive value of modulating aggression over breeding stages in a competitive female bird	9
Juvenile leg autotomy predicts adult male morph in a New Zealand harvestman with weapon polymorphism	9
Failed despots and the equitable distribution of fitness in a subsidized species	9
Risking infanticide or losing precious time? Delay of reproduction in a short-lived mammal	9
Both learning and syntax recognition are used by great tits when answering to mobbing calls	9
Declining food availability alters vocal behavior of a nomadic finch	9
Grandparental co-residence and grandchild survival: the role of resource competition in a pre-industrial population	9
Experimentally advancing morning emergence time does not increase extra-pair siring success in blue tit males	9

Cumulative experience influences contest investment in a social fish	9
Defensive coloration as a multivariate optimum: a comment on Postema et al	9
Foraging in heterogeneous landscapes: variation in movement patterns of a tropical sand-bubbler crab	8
Latent layers in social networks and their implications for comparative analyses	8
Maternal diet exerts sex-specific effects on offspring’ personalities in predatory mites	8
Body condition reveals hidden correlations between co-infection and behavior in sunfish	8
Local dominance predicts foraging decisions in a changing environment	8
Social and ecological factors associated with innovation in urban sulphur-crested cockatoos ( Cacatua galerita )	8
Seasonal transition in metabolic regulation of behavior in a hibernating marsupial	8
Flamingos as ecosystem engineers: flock size and foraging behaviors linked to nutrient availability	8
Turnover in male dominance offsets the positive effect of polygyny on within-group relatedness	8
Resource availability, competitor abundance and specialization affect competition among bumblebees	8
Effects of resource availability on the web structure of female western black widows: is the web structure constrained by physiological trade-offs?	8
Correction to: Black and orange coloration predict success during male–male competition in the guppy	8
Clutch attendance and call parameters are linked to mating success in a glassfrog with paternal care	8
Sex-dependent integration of ornamentation, personality, morphology, and life history	7
Sexual dimorphism in pollen foraging and sensory traits in Heliconius butterflies	7
Dominance asymmetries shape vocal exchanges in meerkats	7
Relative telencephalon size does not affect collective motion in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata)	7
Correction to: Dietary tryptophan affects group behavior in a social bird	7
What can we do as behavioral ecologists (and conservationists)—a comment on Natural history in practice: rethinking ideals in Behavioral Ecology (Guevara	7
Too much information: subordinate species disadvantaged by greater release of volatiles from resources	7
Human-induced pheromone pollution leads to changes in alternative mating tactics of moths	7
Cognitive flexibility in a generalist raptor: a comparative analysis along an urbanization gradient	7
Intricate covariation between exploration and avoidance learning in a generalist predator	7
Multi-level variation of instantaneous metabolism across activity and time in a songbird	7
Interplay of cooperative breeding and predation risk on egg allocation and reproductive output	7
Island-mainland song divergence is decoupled from genetic and geographic distance in silvereyes	7
Sex allocation is color morph-specific and associated with fledging condition in a wild bird	7
Predation risk shapes among- and within-individual variation in behavior in poison frog tadpoles	7
Multiple views on animal coloration: a comment on Postema et al	7
Geographic differences in individual recognition linked with social but not nonsocial cognition	7
Limited evidence of biased offspring sex allocation in a cavity-nesting conspecific brood parasite	7
Common cuckoos do not mimic the size and shape of host eggs	6
Torpor use in response to predation risk in a small, free-living bird	6
Triparental ageing in a laboratory population of an insect with maternal care	6
Mating traits are phenotypically but not genetically correlated to fitness	6
Banded mongooses discriminate relatedness and MHC diversity in unfamiliar conspecifics	6
Sexual selection in sharper focus: a comment on Janicke, Shuker, and Kvarnemo	6
Interactions between color and gloss in iridescent camouflage	6
Peacock spiders prefer image statistics of average natural scenes over those of male ornamentation	6
Habitat change alters the expression and efficiency of a female ornament	6
Phenology and environmental determinants of explosive breeding in gliding treefrogs: diel timing of rainfall matters	6
Sex-specific effects of psychoactive pollution on behavioral individuality and plasticity in fish	6
When parents play favorites: brood demand shapes parental preference for offspring UV color	6
Interannual variation in foraging decisions in chick-rearing black-legged kittiwakes	6
Diel effects on antipredator behavior: nuanced temporal effects in a dynamic landscape of fear	6
Acoustic effects complement visual displays of Great Bowerbird bowers	6
Responses in adult pied flycatcher males depend on playback song similarity to local population	6
High temperatures inhibit quantity discrimination of conspecifics in a wild bird	6
Reduced fitness of secondary females in a polygynous species: a 32-yr study of Savannah sparrows	6
Chemical footprints mediate habitat selection in co-occurring aphids	5
Predicting foraging dive outcomes in chinstrap penguins using biologging and animal-borne cameras	5
Heterogeneity in resource competition covaries with individual variation in long-term social relationships	5
Nestling mouth colors mediate parental favoritism but do not influence detectability	5
Obituary: Staffan Ulfstrand	5
Condition dependence of (un)predictability in escape behavior of a grasshopper species	5
Iridescence untwined: honey bees can separate hue variations in space and time	5
Finding shortcuts through collective tunnel excavations in a subterranean termite	5
Sexual selection: competition for resources provided by mating partners	5
Decoding the chaffinch “rain” call: a female-directed alarm call?	5
Sexual selection does not drive hindwing tail elaboration in a moon moth,Actias luna	5
Foraging flight strategy varies with species identity of co-occurring individuals in bats	5
The habitat connectivity hypothesis of escape in urban woodland birds	5
Reproduction is driven by seasonal environmental variation in an equatorial mammal, the banded mongoose (Mungos mungo)	5
Bumblebee flower constancy and pollen diversity over time	5
A data editor for behavioral ecology	5
The presence of territorial damselfish predicts choosy client species richness at cleaning stations	5
Correction to: Long-term fitness effects of the early-life environment in a wild bird population	5
Female blue tits sing frequently: a sex comparison of occurrence, context, and structure of song	5
Functionally redundant multimodal predator cues elicit changes in prey foraging behavior	5
Cadmium does not affect post-hatching maternal care or early offspring development in earwigs	5
Does losing reduce the tendency to engage with rivals to reach mates? An experimental test	5
Golden mimics use multiple defenses to counter generalist and specialist predators	5
Reproductive senescence in a polymorphic raptor: phenotypic, sex, and environmental effects	5
Age-related changes and selective disappearance shape variation in bold-shy continuum in guppies	5
Sexual tail dimorphism explains speciation rate in swallows and martins	5
Sexual conflict and social networks in bed bugs: effects of social experience	5
Chemical cues facilitate foraging across the water-land interface in a resident predatory fish	5
Foraging is prioritized over nestmate rescue in desert ants and pupae are rescued more than adults	4

Which plumage patches provide information about condition and success in a female fairy-wren?	4
Individuals with larger head volume have better learning ability in wild chestnut thrushes	4
Far-reaching consequences of trait preferences for animal social network structure and function	4
Physical interactions shape collective thermoregulatory behavior in honey bees	4
The risk of brood parasitism does not affect levels of extrapair paternity in a cuckoo host	4
Ecological constraints alone cannot explain delayed dispersal in splendid fairywrens	4
Short-term heat waves have long-term consequences for parents and offspring in stickleback	4
Short-term increases in rival number improves single mating productivity in male Drosophila	4
Kin do not always help: testing multiple hypotheses on nest feeding in a cooperatively breeding bird	4
White-tailed deer responses to acoustic predator cues are contingent upon past land use and contemporary fire regime	4
High spatial pair cohesion during and after breeding in a socially monogamous territorial passerine	4
Egg mimicry, not the sight of a common cuckoo, is the cue for parasitic egg rejection	4
Passive and active parental food allocation in a songbird	4
Background selection for camouflage shifts in accordance with color change in an intertidal prawn	4
Helpers don’t help when it’s hot in a cooperatively breeding bird, the Southern Pied Babbler	4
Dazzled by shine: gloss as an antipredator strategy in fast moving prey	4
Can native predators be used as a stepping stone to reduce prey naivety to novel predators?	4
Age interactions influence biparental care behavior and reproductive success	4
Exposure to elevated temperature during development affects bumblebee foraging behavior	4
No evidence of adaptive tolerance of parasitism in a cavity-nesting brood parasite host	4
Condition-transfer maternal effects modulate inter-locus sexual conflict	4
Patch quality and habitat fragmentation shape the foraging patterns of a specialist folivore	4
Are weapon allometries steeper in major or minor males? A meta-analysis	4
Impediments to doing good science and a good work/life balance	4
Sexual selection and species recognition promote complex male courtship displays in ungulates	4
Urbanization enhances ornament expression in a common waterbird	4
Cooperative breeding in birds increases the within-year fecundity mean without increasing the variance: A potential mechanism to buffer environmental uncertainty	4
Will agreeing on a definition improve our understanding of sexual selection?	4
The optimal time to approach an unfamiliar object: a Bayesian model	4
Is aggression related to inhibitory control in a free-living female songbird?	4
Flash behaviors protect prey from avian predators	4
Nonreproductive division of labor in staghorn ferns	4
Age, but not an immune challenge, triggers terminal investment in the Pacific field cricket, Teleogryllus oceanicus	4
The complex interplay between male and female mating history: a comment on Richardson and Zuk	4
To flee or wait and see? Response of incubating white-browed scrubwrens to information about danger	4
Modeling effects of habitat structure on intraguild predation frequency and spatial coexistence between jaguars and ocelots	4
Anuran mating systems: the role of climate, life history traits, and sex ratio	4
Ecological adaptation and birdsong: how body and bill sizes affect passerine sound frequencies	4
Hiding among colors: background color diversity impedes detection time	4
Effects of inbreeding and elevated rearing temperatures on strategic sperm investment	4
Interaction between anthropogenic stressors affects antipredator defense in an intertidal crustacean	3
Anthropogenic noise and light alter temporal but not spatial breeding behavior in a wild frog	3
Short-term social dynamics following anthropogenic and natural disturbances in a free-living mammal	3
Correction to: Social context alters host behavior and infection risk	3
The scent of offspring: chemical profiles of larvae change during development and affect parental behavior in a burying beetle	3
Synchronising anti-predator behavior in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum	3
The ontogeny of social networks in wild great tits (Parus major)	3
Higher ultraviolet skin reflectance signals submissiveness in the anemonefish, Amphiprion akindynos	3
Individual differences in behavior: a multi-trait study comparing different ant species	3
Color variation and visual modeling provide no support for adaptive coloration in a blue crayfish	3
Changes in the acoustic structure of Australian bird communities along a habitat complexity gradient	3
On the strategic learning of signal associations	3
Don’t leave the past behind: larval experience shapes pupal antipredator response in Aedes aegypti	3
Frequency masking drives species-specific temporal avoidance strategies in boreal songbirds	3
How does viewing angle affect the perceived accuracy of Batesian mimicry in hoverflies?	3
Assumptions, models and data: a comment on Richardson and Zuk	3
Varied female and male courtship behavior facilitated the evolution of a novel sexual signal	3
Individual survival is dictated by group personality in a marsh ecosystem predator–prey interaction	3
Perturbations highlight importance of social history in parakeet rank dynamics	3
Generalist dietary responses to individual versus combined plant toxin odors: an African elephant study	3
Warm-up and metrics of song performance: a commentary on Vazquez-Cardona et al.	3
Duration of nest-building in passerine birds: the roles of latitude, nest size, and nest type	3
The estimation of reproductive values from pedigrees	3
Vocal performance increases rapidly during the dawn chorus in Adelaide’s warbler (Setophaga adelaidae)	3
Neighbors affect vocal behavior of tropical wrens: a multispeaker density-manipulation experiment	3
Daily activity is repeatable but varies across the breeding season in female great tits	3
How molting locusts avoid cannibalism	3
Animal personalities influence male mating behavior and reproductive fitness	3
High detectability costs select weak warning signals in chemically defended gregarious prey	3
Species cumulative impacts to mixed assemblages of Neotropical parrots	3
The last of us: social information enhances trappability in fruit flies	3
Tackling complexity in animal color research: a response to comments on Postema et al.	3
Dominance loss and tenure maintenance in Kalahari meerkats	3
A family history: effects of parental age on offspring life-history traits in bighorn sheep	3
The size of a smell: assessment of rival’s relative size from femoral secretions in the common wall lizards,Podarcis muralis(Laurenti, 1768)	3
Feeding status impacts thermoregulation and its repeatability across day and night in a diurnal lizard	3
Relationship between dominance hierarchy steepness and rank-relatedness of benefits in primates	3
Spontaneous quantity discrimination in the Australian sleepy lizard (Tiliqua rugosa)	3
Mechanistic constraint and evolutionary history matter for the origin of innovation in animal communication	3
Female song can be over-looked in even the most intensively studied songbirds	3
On the definition of sexual selection: a response to comments on Janicke (2024)	3
Complex dynamics of social learning in groups of wild Arabian babblers	3
Can recent evolutionary history promote resilience to environmental change?	3
Aggression and spatial positioning of kin and non-kin fish in social groups	3
Social information use across trophic guilds: foraging bumble bees learn from lady beetles	3
Altitudinal differences in foraging decisions under predation risk in great tits	3
Molecular sibship reconstruction reveals a promiscuous mating system in brood parasitic little bronze-cuckoos (Chalcites minutillus)	3
Human disturbance, preys and refuge cover shape top predator movements in anthropogenic landscapes	3
Multiple effects of weather on common waxbill group foraging and social behavior	3
Plan ahead, or wing it? How storm-petrel parents adjust food delivery to young chicks	3
Female mating status has been overlooked in mate choice research: a comment on Richardson and Zuk	3
Sex-specific consequences of juvenile dispersal for survival and reproduction in an island lizard	3
Escalated begging does not compromise nestling health	3
The matador bug’s elaborate flags deter avian predators	3
Sex-specific manipulation of sexually cannibalistic mantid mating behavior by hairworms	3