Behavioral Ecology

Article	Citations
Low incidence of cannibalism among brood parasitic cuckoo catfish embryos	84
Should I stay or should I go? Behavioral adjustments of fur seals related to foraging success	63
Corrigendum to: Mesopredators retain their fear of humans across a development gradient	38
An (almost) fatal blow to conventional wisdom: a comment on Richardson and Zuk	32
The value ofnottrusting intuition: a response to comments on Richardson and Zuk	23
Plasticity of snowy plover incubation behaviors in response to risks of nest predation	22
Expression of Concern: Multiple environmental cues impact habitat choice during nocturnal homing of specialized reef shrimp	21
The effect of baculum shape and mating behavior on mating-induced prolactin release in female house mice	20
Group social structure has limited impact on reproductive success in a wild mammal	20
Ineffective integration of multiple anti-predator defenses in a rotifer: a low-cost insurance?	20
Site fidelity increases reproductive success by increasing foraging efficiency in a marine predator	19
Social pairing in the absence of reproductive senescence in a socially monogamous songbird	19
Inter-sexual phenotypic divergence is correlated with habitat structure in an invasive lizard	18
The oxidative cost of helping and its minimization in a cooperative breeder	18
North American barn swallows pair, mate, and interact assortatively	17
Factors influencing dispersal initiation and timing in a facultative cooperative breeder	16
Chronic predation risk affects prey escape abilities through behavioral and physiological changes	16
Enhanced conspicuousness of prey in warmer water mitigates the constraint of turbidity for predators	16
Can you hear/see me? Multisensory integration of signals does not always facilitate mate choice	16
Crocodile social environments dictated by male philopatry	16
Testing hormonal responses to real and simulated social challenges in a competitive female bird	16
Intrinsic and extrinsic factors modulating vigilance and foraging in two gregarious foragers	15
Aggression rates increase around seasonally exploited resources in a primarily grass-eating primate	15
Public information use—are invasive demersal fish species more effective than natives?	15
Within-flock heterogeneity in exploratory affects flock behaviour in a highly gregarious bird	15

Silver spoons, reproduction, and growth catch-up in eastern Grey kangaroos	15
Recognition of conspecific immunological status in a neotropical paper wasp	14
Adult sex ratio and male body condition affect alternative reproductive tactics in a spider	14
Social integration predicts survival in female white-faced capuchin monkeys	13
Opposite-sex associations are linked with annual fitness, but sociality is stable over lifetime	13
To bob or not to bob: context-dependence of an antipredator response in neotropical harvestmen	13
A grander view of life that includes gametic processes: a comment on Shuker and Kvarnemo	13
Vibrating aggression: spider males perform an unusual assessment strategy during contest displays	13
Environment and mate attractiveness in a wild insect	13
Social networks reveal sex- and age-patterned social structure in Butler’s gartersnakes (Thamnophis butleri)	13
Female state and condition-dependent chemical signaling revealed by male choice of silk trails	12
Social environment shapes female settlement decisions in a solitary carnivore	12
The effects of ecology and behavior on the evolution of coloration in Coraciiformes	12
Simulated infection alters the behavior of pair bonded songbirds and their healthy neighbors	12
Patterns of extra-territorial nest-box visits in a songbird suggest a role in extrapair mating	12
Efficiency of antlion trap design and larval behavior in capture success	12
Correction to: Does developmental environment affect sexual conflict? An experimental test in the seed beetle	12
Predation risk elicits a negative relationship between boldness and growth in Helisoma snails	12
Personality predicts mode of attack in a generalist ground spider predator	11
Fish experienced with predation take fewer risks and enhance foraging success of naïve conspecifics: a benefit of sociality	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	11
Expression of trematode-induced zombie-ant behavior is strongly associated with temperature	11
Territorial-sneaker games with non-uniform interactions and female mate choice	11
Range expansion during recolonization: what does animal personality have to do with it?	11
Emergence and repeatability of leadership and coordinated motion in fish shoals	11
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
Exploring the effects of extreme polyandry on estimates of sexual selection and reproductive success	10
Visual recognition and coevolutionary history drive responses of amphibians to an invasive predator	10
Male mating tactics are associated with distinct female cognitive-behavioral profiles in 4 poeciliids	10
Whoever their partner, female blue tits breed the same	10
Housework or vigilance? Bilbies alter their burrowing activity under threat of predation by feral cats	10
The evolution of brood parasitism from host egg predation	10
Multiple opportunities arise from multiple color defense strategies: a comment on Postema et al.	10
Environmental variability as a predictor of behavioral flexibility in urban environments	10
Not all who wander are lost: prospecting and settlement of male floaters in the spotless starling	10
Can I have fries with that? Context-dependent foraging behavior in urban and rural American crows	10
Perception and predation of ladybird spiders and other red-and-black arthropods by 3 predators	10
Grow up, be persistent, and stay focused: keys for solving foraging problems by free-ranging possums	10
Scope and adaptive value of modulating aggression over breeding stages in a competitive female bird	10
Cumulative experience influences contest investment in a social fish	9
Failed despots and the equitable distribution of fitness in a subsidized species	9
Correction to: Black and orange coloration predict success during male–male competition in the guppy	9
Turnover in male dominance offsets the positive effect of polygyny on within-group relatedness	9
Defensive coloration as a multivariate optimum: a comment on Postema et al	9
Declining food availability alters vocal behavior of a nomadic finch	9
Experimentally advancing morning emergence time does not increase extra-pair siring success in blue tit males	9
Effects of resource availability on the web structure of female western black widows: is the web structure constrained by physiological trade-offs?	9
Body condition reveals hidden correlations between co-infection and behavior in sunfish	9

Temporal dissonance between group size and its benefits requires whole-of-lifecycle measurements	9
Sex allocation is color morph-specific and associated with fledging condition in a wild bird	9
Resource availability, competitor abundance and specialization affect competition among bumblebees	9
Both learning and syntax recognition are used by great tits when answering to mobbing calls	9
Juvenile leg autotomy predicts adult male morph in a New Zealand harvestman with weapon polymorphism	9
Grandparental co-residence and grandchild survival: the role of resource competition in a pre-industrial population	9
Foraging in heterogeneous landscapes: variation in movement patterns of a tropical sand-bubbler crab	9
Clutch attendance and call parameters are linked to mating success in a glassfrog with paternal care	9
Risking infanticide or losing precious time? Delay of reproduction in a short-lived mammal	9
Light received by embryos promotes postnatal junior phenotypes in a seabird	9
Conditional natal dispersal provides a mechanism for populations tracking resource pulses after fire	8
Cold winters have morph-specific effects on natal dispersal distance in a wild raptor	8
Sex-dependent integration of ornamentation, personality, morphology, and life history	8
Risky business: males choose more receptive adults over safer subadults in a cannibalistic spider	8
Flamingos as ecosystem engineers: flock size and foraging behaviors linked to nutrient availability	8
Behavioral flexibility facilitates the use of spatial and temporal refugia during variable winter weather	8
Cognitive flexibility in a generalist raptor: a comparative analysis along an urbanization gradient	8
Human-induced pheromone pollution leads to changes in alternative mating tactics of moths	8
Postcopulatory sexual selection is associated with sperm aggregate quality in Peromyscus mice	8
Female mate preferences do not predict male sexual signals across populations	8
Correction to: Female-biased sex ratios in urban centers create a “fertility trap” in 
post-war Finland	8
Too much information: subordinate species disadvantaged by greater release of volatiles from resources	8
Triparental ageing in a laboratory population of an insect with maternal care	8
Multiple views on animal coloration: a comment on Postema et al	8
Habitat change alters the expression and efficiency of a female ornament	7
Relative telencephalon size does not affect collective motion in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata)	7
Limited evidence of biased offspring sex allocation in a cavity-nesting conspecific brood parasite	7
Phenology and environmental determinants of explosive breeding in gliding treefrogs: diel timing of rainfall matters	7
Mating traits are phenotypically but not genetically correlated to fitness	7
Responses in adult pied flycatcher males depend on playback song similarity to local population	7
Peacock spiders prefer image statistics of average natural scenes over those of male ornamentation	7
Geographic differences in individual recognition linked with social but not nonsocial cognition	7
Interplay of cooperative breeding and predation risk on egg allocation and reproductive output	7
Moving away from repeatability: a comment on Stuber et al.	7
Acoustic effects complement visual displays of Great Bowerbird bowers	7
The definition of sexual selection	7
Intricate covariation between exploration and avoidance learning in a generalist predator	7
Correction to: Dietary tryptophan affects group behavior in a social bird	7
Common cuckoos do not mimic the size and shape of host eggs	7
Effects of chronic and acute predation risk on sexual ornamentation and mating preferences	7
Torpor use in response to predation risk in a small, free-living bird	7
Sex-specific effects of psychoactive pollution on behavioral individuality and plasticity in fish	7
Song varies with latitude, climate, and species richness in a Neotropical bird	6
Dissecting how behavior and environment shape spatial personalities: a comment on Stuber et al.	6
Predicting foraging dive outcomes in chinstrap penguins using biologging and animal-borne cameras	6
Interannual variation in foraging decisions in chick-rearing black-legged kittiwakes	6
Condition- and context-dependent alternative reproductive tactic in Drosophila prolongata	6
Sexual conflict and social networks in bed bugs: effects of social experience	6
When parents play favorites: brood demand shapes parental preference for offspring UV color	6
The presence of territorial damselfish predicts choosy client species richness at cleaning stations	6
Condition dependence of (un)predictability in escape behavior of a grasshopper species	6
Iridescence untwined: honey bees can separate hue variations in space and time	6
Structural equation modeling reveals determinants of fitness in a cooperatively breeding bird	6
Habitat complexity and complex signal function – exploring the role of ornamentation	6
Female blue tits sing frequently: a sex comparison of occurrence, context, and structure of song	6
Bumblebee flower constancy and pollen diversity over time	6
Reduced fitness of secondary females in a polygynous species: a 32-yr study of Savannah sparrows	6
Finding shortcuts through collective tunnel excavations in a subterranean termite	6
Sex differences, sexual selection, and gamete size: a comment on Shuker and Kvarnemo	6
No signs of behavioral evolution of threespine stickleback following northern pike invasion	6
Hiding among colors: background color diversity impedes detection time	6
Nestling mouth colors mediate parental favoritism but do not influence detectability	6
Chemical footprints mediate habitat selection in co-occurring aphids	6
Functionally redundant multimodal predator cues elicit changes in prey foraging behavior	6
A data editor for behavioral ecology	6
Sexual selection: competition for resources provided by mating partners	6
Many avenues for spatial personality research: a response to comments on Stuber et al. (2022)	6
Perceived risk structures the space use of competing carnivores	6
Interactions between color and gloss in iridescent camouflage	6
Social status does not predict in-camp integration among egalitarian hunter-gatherer men	5
Nonreproductive division of labor in staghorn ferns	5
Kin do not always help: testing multiple hypotheses on nest feeding in a cooperatively breeding bird	5
Effects of inbreeding and elevated rearing temperatures on strategic sperm investment	5
Age interactions influence biparental care behavior and reproductive success	5
White-tailed deer responses to acoustic predator cues are contingent upon past land use and contemporary fire regime	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
Heterogeneity in resource competition covaries with individual variation in long-term social relationships	5
Golden mimics use multiple defenses to counter generalist and specialist predators	5
Ecological adaptation and birdsong: how body and bill sizes affect passerine sound frequencies	5

MHC-II distance between parents predicts sex allocation decisions in a genetically monogamous bird	5
Patch quality and habitat fragmentation shape the foraging patterns of a specialist folivore	5
Modeling effects of habitat structure on intraguild predation frequency and spatial coexistence between jaguars and ocelots	5
Dazzled by shine: gloss as an antipredator strategy in fast moving prey	5
Short-term increases in rival number improves single mating productivity in male Drosophila	5
Egg mimicry, not the sight of a common cuckoo, is the cue for parasitic egg rejection	5
Obituary: Staffan Ulfstrand	5
Cadmium does not affect post-hatching maternal care or early offspring development in earwigs	5
Sexual selection does not drive hindwing tail elaboration in a moon moth,Actias luna	5
The complex interplay between male and female mating history: a comment on Richardson and Zuk	5
Foraging is prioritized over nestmate rescue in desert ants and pupae are rescued more than adults	5
No evidence of adaptive tolerance of parasitism in a cavity-nesting brood parasite host	5
Breeding site fidelity is lower in polygamous shorebirds and male-biased in monogamous species	5
Wild zebra finches are attracted towards acoustic cues from conspecific social groups	5
Individuals with larger head volume have better learning ability in wild chestnut thrushes	5
Does losing reduce the tendency to engage with rivals to reach mates? An experimental test	5
Decoding the chaffinch “rain” call: a female-directed alarm call?	5
Size-dependent aggression towards kin in a cannibalistic species	5
Interaction between anthropogenic stressors affects antipredator defense in an intertidal crustacean	4
Altitudinal differences in foraging decisions under predation risk in great tits	4
On the strategic learning of signal associations	4
Dominance loss and tenure maintenance in Kalahari meerkats	4
Helpers don’t help when it’s hot in a cooperatively breeding bird, the Southern Pied Babbler	4
Which plumage patches provide information about condition and success in a female fairy-wren?	4
Maximum performance expression is affected by octopamine and antennae removal in Acheta domesticus	4
The risk of brood parasitism does not affect levels of extrapair paternity in a cuckoo host	4
Negotiations over parental care: a test of alternative hypotheses in the clown anemonefish	4
Condition-transfer maternal effects modulate inter-locus sexual conflict	4
The development of spatial personalities: a comment on Stuber et al.	4
Can native predators be used as a stepping stone to reduce prey naivety to novel predators?	4
Relationship between dominance hierarchy steepness and rank-relatedness of benefits in primates	4
Individual survival is dictated by group personality in a marsh ecosystem predator–prey interaction	4
The size of a smell: assessment of rival’s relative size from femoral secretions in the common wall lizards,Podarcis muralis(Laurenti, 1768)	4
The role of behavioral type composition on resource use and growth of a juvenile predator	4
The optimal time to approach an unfamiliar object: a Bayesian model	4
Family dynamics reveal that female house mice preferentially breed in their maternal community	4
Short-term heat waves have long-term consequences for parents and offspring in stickleback	4
The definition of sexual selection: a response to comments on Shuker and Kvarnemo	4
Sexual selection and species recognition promote complex male courtship displays in ungulates	4
Passive and active parental food allocation in a songbird	4
Exposure to elevated temperature during development affects bumblebee foraging behavior	4
Flash behaviors protect prey from avian predators	4
The matador bug’s elaborate flags deter avian predators	4
Moonlight influence on quality of nestlings of scops owls depends on paternal coloration	4
Assumptions, models and data: a comment on Richardson and Zuk	4
Group intrusions by a brood parasitic fish are not cooperative	4
Cooperative breeding in birds increases the within-year fecundity mean without increasing the variance: A potential mechanism to buffer environmental uncertainty	4
Age, but not an immune challenge, triggers terminal investment in the Pacific field cricket, Teleogryllus oceanicus	4
Background selection for camouflage shifts in accordance with color change in an intertidal prawn	4
Anuran mating systems: the role of climate, life history traits, and sex ratio	4
Urbanization enhances ornament expression in a common waterbird	4
The devil is in the details: a comment on Shuker and Kvarnemo	4
Are weapon allometries steeper in major or minor males? A meta-analysis	4
Can recent evolutionary history promote resilience to environmental change?	3
Anthropogenic noise and light alter temporal but not spatial breeding behavior in a wild frog	3
Changes in the acoustic structure of Australian bird communities along a habitat complexity gradient	3
Tackling complexity in animal color research: a response to comments on Postema et al.	3
Escalated begging does not compromise nestling health	3
Male courtship reduces the risk of female aggression in web-building spiders but varies in structure	3
Aggression and spatial positioning of kin and non-kin fish in social groups	3
Social drivers of maturation age in female geladas	3
Higher ultraviolet skin reflectance signals submissiveness in the anemonefish, Amphiprion akindynos	3
Generalist dietary responses to individual versus combined plant toxin odors: an African elephant study	3
How does viewing angle affect the perceived accuracy of Batesian mimicry in hoverflies?	3
The estimation of reproductive values from pedigrees	3
Carotenoid-dependent plumage coloration is associated with reduced male care in passerine birds	3
Molecular sibship reconstruction reveals a promiscuous mating system in brood parasitic little bronze-cuckoos (Chalcites minutillus)	3
The scent of offspring: chemical profiles of larvae change during development and affect parental behavior in a burying beetle	3
Multiple effects of weather on common waxbill group foraging and social behavior	3
Spontaneous quantity discrimination in the Australian sleepy lizard (Tiliqua rugosa)	3
Spatial personalities: a meta-analysis of consistent individual differences in spatial behavior	3
Neighbors affect vocal behavior of tropical wrens: a multispeaker density-manipulation experiment	3
Female mating status has been overlooked in mate choice research: a comment on Richardson and Zuk	3
Optimal distributions of central-place foragers: honey bee foraging in a mass flowering crop	3
One for all and all for one: phenotype assortment and reproductive success in masculinized females	3
Embracing complexity might help us find clarity: a comment on Shuker and Kvarnemo	3
Spatial learning overshadows learning novel odors and sounds in both predatory and frugivorous bats	3
Influence of visual information on sniffing behavior in a routinely trichromatic primate	3
Sex-specific manipulation of sexually cannibalistic mantid mating behavior by hairworms	3
Vocal performance increases rapidly during the dawn chorus in Adelaide’s warbler (Setophaga adelaidae)	3
Species cumulative impacts to mixed assemblages of Neotropical parrots	3
The ontogeny of social networks in wild great tits (Parus major)	3
Resource-dependent investment in male sexual traits in a viviparous fish	3
Synchronising anti-predator behavior in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum	3
Don’t leave the past behind: larval experience shapes pupal antipredator response in Aedes aegypti	3
Feeding status impacts thermoregulation and its repeatability across day and night in a diurnal lizard	3
Mating assortment and the strength of sexual selection in a polyandrous population of Cook Strait giant weta	3
Animal personalities influence male mating behavior and reproductive fitness	3
Allo-preening is linked to vocal signature development in a wild parrot	3
Lack of intergenerational reproductive conflict, rather than lack of inclusive fitness benefits, explains absence of post-reproductive lifespan in long-finned pilot whales	3
How molting locusts avoid cannibalism	3
Warm-up and metrics of song performance: a commentary on Vazquez-Cardona et al.	3
A family history: effects of parental age on offspring life-history traits in bighorn sheep	3
Natural and anthropogenic noise increase vigilance and decrease foraging behaviors in song sparrows	3
Daily activity is repeatable but varies across the breeding season in female great tits	3