Animal Behaviour

Article	Citations
The development of animal personality across ontogeny: a cross-species review	67
Guidelines for the ethical treatment of nonhuman animals in behavioural research and teaching	37
Chimpanzees combine pant hoots with food calls into larger structures	36
Prosociality, social tolerance and partner choice facilitate mutually beneficial cooperation in common marmosets, Callithrix jacchus	30
Novelty at second glance: a critical appraisal of the novel object paradigm based on meta-analysis	29
Facultative polyandry protects females from compromised male fertility caused by heatwave conditions	28
Social bonds predict dominance trajectories in adult male chimpanzees	27
Do bumble bees play?	26
Low-amplitude noise elicits the Lombard effect in plainfin midshipman mating vocalizations in the wild	26
City mice and country mice: innovative problem solving in rural and urban noncommensal rodents	25
Yawn contagion promotes motor synchrony in wild lions, Panthera leo	25
Guidelines for the treatment of animals in behavioural research and teaching	24
Heat stress inhibits cognitive performance in wild Western Australian magpies, Cracticus tibicen dorsalis	22
Vocal athletics – from birdsong production mechanisms to sexy songs	22
The causes and consequences of yawning in animal groups	22
The reliability of individual vocal signature varies across the bonobo's graded repertoire	22
Ultrasonic courtship vocalizations of male house mice contain distinct individual signatures	22
Mechanisms and constraints underlying acoustic variation in rodents	21
Animal size and sea water temperature, but not pH, influence a repeatable startle response behaviour in a wide-ranging marine mollusc	21
Social network stability is impacted by removing a dominant male in replicate dominance hierarchies of a cichlid fish	21
Predator exposure enhances the escape behaviour of a small marsupial, the burrowing bettong	20
Short-term impacts of daily feeding on the residency, distribution and energy expenditure of sharks	20
Wind slows play: increasing wind speed reduces flower visiting rate in honey bees	20
Getting lost: the fungal hijacking of ant foraging behaviour in space and time	20
Motivation, accuracy and positive feedback through experience explain innovative problem solving and its repeatability	20

Stable social groups foster conformity and among-group differences	19
Urban birdsongs: higher minimum song frequency of an urban colonist persists in a common garden experiment	19
Complex interactions between temperature, sexual signals and mate choice in a desert-dwelling jumping spider	19
Urbanization predicts flight initiation distance in feral pigeons (Columba livia) across New York City	19
Social exploitation of extensive, ephemeral, environmentally controlled prey patches by supergroups of rorqual whales	19
Parasitism and host social behaviour: a meta-analysis of insights derived from social network analysis	19
Egg rejection changes with seasonal variation in risk of cuckoo parasitism in Daurian redstarts, Phoenicurus auroreus	18
The dark side of play: play fighting as a substitute for real fighting in domestic pigs, Sus scrofa	18
Behavioural correlations across multiple stages of the antipredator response: do animals that escape sooner hide longer?	18
Timing of mating, reproductive status and resource availability in relation to migration in the painted lady butterfly	18
The representation of animal behaviour in the fossil record	18
Plumage colour saturation predicts long-term, cross-seasonal social dominance in a mutually ornamented bird	18
Consistent after all: behavioural repeatability in a long-lived lizard across a 6-year field study	18
The effect of individual learning on collective foraging in honey bees in differently structured landscapes	18
Predatory behaviour as a personality trait in a wild fish population	18
Bumble bees strategically use ground level linear features in navigation	18
Play fighting in wild spotted hyaenas: like a bridge over the troubled water of a hierarchical society	17
Bonobos and chimpanzees preferentially attend to familiar members of the dominant sex	17
Love thy neighbour: behavioural and endocrine correlates of male strategies during intergroup encounters in bonobos	17
Bridging animal personality with space use and resource use in a free-ranging population of an asocial ground squirrel	17
Task-dependent reversal learning dynamics challenge the reversal paradigm of measuring cognitive flexibility	16
Effects of prey colour on bird predation: an experiment in Mediterranean woodlands	16
Colour morph predicts social behaviour and contest outcomes in a polymorphic lizard (Podarcis erhardii)	16
A combination of rules govern fruit trait preference by frugivorous bat and bird species: nutrients, defence and size	16
Collective close calling mediates group cohesion in foraging meerkats via spatially determined differences in call rates	15
Negative frequency-dependent prey selection by wolves and its implications on predator–prey dynamics	15
Polar bear foraging on common eider eggs: estimating the energetic consequences of a climate-mediated behavioural shift	15
The function of chimpanzee greeting calls is modulated by their acoustic variation	15
Fitness effects of seasonal birth timing in a long-lived social primate living in the equatorial forest	14
Automating the analysis of fish grazing behaviour from videos using image classification and optical flow	14
Shifting balances in the weighting of sensory modalities are predicted by divergence in brain morphology in incipient species of Heliconius butterflies	14
Relationship quality affects social stress buffering in dogs and wolves	14
Social connectedness and movements among communities of giraffes vary by sex and age class	14
Disentangling the importance of social and ecological information in goal-directed movements in a wild primate	14
Field evidence supporting monitoring of chemical information on pathways by male African elephants	13
Spatially clustered resources increase male aggregation and mating duration in Drosophila melanogaster	13
Balancing risk and reward: mating opportunity influences thermal refuge use in fiddler crabs	13
Ontogeny and personality affect inhibitory control in guppies, Poecilia reticulata	13
Let's talk about sex roles: what affects perceptions of sex differences in animal behaviour?	13
Vocal learning in Savannah sparrows: acoustic similarity to neighbours shapes song development and territorial aggression	13
Vibratory communication in a black widow spider (Latrodectus hesperus): signal structure and signalling mechanisms	13
Contest competition for fruit and space among wild chimpanzees in relation to the vertical stratification of metabolizable energy	13
Assessing animal welfare: a triangulation of preference, judgement bias and other candidate welfare indicators	13
Maternal stress during pregnancy affects activity, exploration and potential dispersal of daughters in an invasive fish	13
Personality shifts are inconsistent across two rapid range expansions of a non-native spider	12
Interacting effects of short-term and long-term noise exposure on antipredator behaviour in sand gobies	12
Risk in one is not risk in all: snails show differential decision making under high- and low-risk environments	12
Complex trade-offs in oviposition site selection in a cannibalistic frog	12
Autumn southward migration of dragonflies along the Baltic coast and the influence of weather on flight behaviour	12
Content bias in the cultural evolution of house finch song	12

The role of visual and olfactory cues in social decisions of guppies and zebrafish	12
Behavioural context shapes vocal sequences in two anuran species with different repertoire sizes	12
Cleaner fish and other wrasse match primates in their ability to delay gratification	12
Using playback to test leadership in mixed-species flocks and compare flocking with mobbing	11
Female helpers signal their contribution to chick provisioning in a cooperatively breeding bird	11
Skilful mating? Insights from animal contest research	11
Combining social information use and comfort seeking for nest site selection in a cavity-nesting raptor	11
Genetic ancestry predicts male–female affiliation in a natural baboon hybrid zone	11
Social environment affects inhibitory control via developmental plasticity in a fish	11
Individual foraging site fidelity increases from incubation to nestling rearing in a colonial bird	11
Plumage manipulation alters associations between behaviour, physiology, the internal microbiome and fitness	11
Producer–scrounger relationships in yellow-bellied marmots	11
Relationship quality underpins pair bond formation and subsequent reproductive performance	11
Extrapair paternity in a sequentially polyandrous shorebird: limited evidence for the sperm storage hypothesis	11
Size variation does not act as insurance in bumble bees; instead, workers add weight in an unpredictable environment	11
The form and function of chimpanzee buttress drumming	11
A reproductive heir has a central position in multilayer social networks of paper wasps	11
Differential effect of aircraft noise on the spectral-temporal acoustic characteristics of frog species	11
High temperatures reduce song production and alter signal salience in songbirds	11
Anthropogenic noise alters the perception of a predator in a local community of great tits	11
Plasticity and repeatability of activity patterns in free-living Arctic ground squirrels	11
Costs, constraints and sexual trait elaboration	11
The behaviour of infected guppies depends on social context, parasite tolerance and host sex	11
Urban populations of shrews show larger behavioural differences among individuals than rural populations	11
Autumn migratory timing and pace are driven by breeding season carryover effects	11
Intergroup lethal gang attacks in wild crested macaques, Macaca nigra	11
Measuring mimicry: methods for quantifying visual similarity	11
Aggressive males are more attractive to females and more likely to win contests in jumping spiders	11
Niche partitioning and individual specialization among age, breeding status and sex classes in a long-lived seabird	11
Sequential and network analyses to describe multiple signal use in captive mangabeys	10
Living with low environmental complexity increases fear indicators in Nile tilapia	10
Winner effects and switching assessment strategies facilitate fast and frugal decisions in territorial contests	10
Experimental evidence for female mate choice in a noctuid moth	10
Geographical variation of social calls and vocal discrimination in male Himalayan leaf-nosed bats	10
Moonlight triggers nocturnal display in a diurnal bird	10
Correlated behavioural plasticities: insights from plasticity evolution, the integrated phenotype and behavioural syndromes	10
The interplay between winner–loser effects and social rank in cooperatively breeding vertebrates	10
Do reproductive constraints or experience drive age-dependent space use in two large herbivores?	10
A study of tactical and sexual dimorphism in cognition with insights for sexual conflict	10
Urban foxes are bolder but not more innovative than their rural conspecifics	10
Phenotype networks reveal differences between practice and courtship displays in swallow-tailed manakins	10
Extended male–female bonds and potential for prolonged paternal investment in a polygynandrous primate (Papio anubis)	10
Behavioural flexibility in a heat-sensitive endotherm: the role of bed sites as thermal refuges	10
The effect of predation risk on group behaviour and information flow during repeated collective decisions	10
Spatial and temporal cohesion of parents and offspring in a social large carnivore	10
Resource limitation drives fission–fusion dynamics of group composition and size in a social bird	10
A test of the win-stay–lose-shift foraging strategy and its adaptive value in albatrosses	10
Personality and plasticity predict postrelease performance in a reintroduced mesopredator	10
Sharing spaces: niche differentiation in diet and substrate use among wild capuchin monkeys	10
Physiological innovation and the evolutionary elaboration of courtship behaviour	10
Effects of a group-living experience on the antipredator responses of individual tadpoles	10
Reef manta ray social dynamics depend on individual differences in behaviour	10
Spawning-related movements in a salmonid appear timed to reduce exposure to visually oriented predators	10
‘Hangry’ Drosophila: food deprivation increases male aggression	10
Trade-off between predation risk and behavioural thermoregulation drives resting behaviour in a cold-adapted mesocarnivore	10
Honey bees adjust colour preferences in response to concurrent social information from conspecifics and heterospecifics	10
Long-term repeatability and age-related plasticity of female behaviour in a free-living passerine	9
The relaxed open mouth is a true signal in dogs: demonstrating Tinbergen's ritualization process	9
Activity modulation and selection for forests help giant anteaters to cope with temperature changes	9
The interplay between sperm-mediated and care-mediated paternal effects in threespine sticklebacks	9
How healthy is your mate? Sex-specific consequences of parasite infections in the moth Helicoverpa armigera	9
Interpack communication in African wild dogs at long-term shared marking sites	9
Rearing enrichments differentially modified hen personality traits and reduced prediction of range use	9
Individual vocal signatures show reduced complexity following invasion	9
High-valued seeds are remembered better: evidence for item-based spatial memory of scatter-hoarding rodents	9
Defection on the bounty? Kinship and cooperative exploitation of a rich, essential but dangerous resource	9
Female demographic changes contribute to the maintenance of social stability within a primate multilevel society	9
Habitat-dependent intergroup hostility in Diana monkeys, Cercopithecus diana	9
Male–male interactions select for conspicuous male coloration in damselflies	9
Reproductive skew in quasisocial parasitoids: how egalitarian is cooperative brooding?	9
Stronger maternal social bonds and higher rank are associated with accelerated infant maturation in Kinda baboons	9
Urban noise does not affect cognitive performance in wild Australian magpies	9
Social complexity in plateau pikas, Ochotona curzoniae	9
Looking out for each other: coordination and turn taking in common marmoset vigilance	9
Animal personality can modulate sexual conflict over offspring provisioning	9
Is it all about the pitch? Acoustic determinants of dog-directed speech preference in domestic dogs, Canis familiaris	9
Female behaviour is differentially associated with specific components of multimodal courtship in ring doves	9
Individual differences in task participation in wild chacma baboons	9
Parenting in the city: effects of urbanization on incubation behaviour and egg temperature in great tits, Parus major	8
Client fish traits underlying variation in service quality in a marine cleaning mutualism	8

Out of sight, out of mind: dear enemy effect in the rufous hornero, Furnarius rufus	8
Mortality risk promotes cooperation of wasps when paralysing hosts	8
Behavioural syndrome between boldness and aggressiveness and link with reproductive success in a wild bird population	8
Impulsivity is affected by cognitive enrichment and links to brain gene expression in red junglefowl chicks	8
Spectral overlap and temporal avoidance in a tropical savannah frog community	8
Individual recognition and individual identity signals in Polistes fuscatus wasps vary geographically	8
Relaxed territoriality amid female trickery in a solitary carnivore	8
No cultural transmission of use of nest materials in titmice Paridae	8
Exploration and spatial cognition show long-term repeatability but no heritability in the Aegean wall lizard	8
The angle of attack: rapping technique predicts skill in hermit crab contests	8
Echolocation call frequencies of bats vary with body temperature and weather conditions	8
Factors affecting tolerance persistence after grooming interactions in wild female vervet monkeys, Chlorocebus pygerythrus	8
Temperature-driven changes in behavioural unpredictability and personality in the beadlet sea anemone, Actinia equina	8
The role of behavioural flexibility in primate diversification	8
Jumping spiders attend to information from multiple modalities when preparing to jump	8
Heritability of dispersal in a rapidly spreading invasive spider	8
Nest site selection in a terrestrial breeding frog: interrelationships between nest moisture, pH and male advertisement	8
Experimental manipulation of food distribution alters social networks and information transmission across environments in a food-caching bird	8
Cooperative nest building in wild jackdaw pairs	8
The choice of euthanasia techniques can affect experimental results in aquatic behavioural studies	8
Spatial bet hedging, thermal trade-offs and glyphosate: crickets integrate multivariate information during oviposition	8
More aggressive sea turtles win fights over foraging resources independent of body size and years of presence	8
Reducing the bias due to unknown relationships in measuring the steepness of a dominance hierarchy	8
Oviposition site selection and learning in a butterfly under niche expansion: an experimental test	8
Odour-based social recognition in Damaraland mole-rats, Fukomys damarensis	8
Wild female vervet monkeys change grooming patterns and partners when freed from feeding constraints	8
Wood warblers learn to recognize mobbing calls of an unfamiliar species from heterospecific tutors	8
Why do nestling birds fledge early in the day?	8
Guidelines for the treatment of animals in behavioural research and teaching	8
Differences in flight initiation distances between African and Australian birds	8
Referential gestures are not ubiquitous in wild chimpanzees: alternative functions for exaggerated loud scratch gestures	8
Resource competition shapes female–female aggression in olive baboons, Papio anubis	8
Seasonal fission and fusion of killer whale, Orcinus orca, social structure at sub-Antarctic Marion Island	8
Spatiotemporal patterns of egg laying in the common cuckoo	8
Zebrafish cooperate while inspecting predators: experimental evidence for conditional approach	8
My way is the highway: the role of plasticity in learning complex migration routes	8
Male superb lyrebirds mimic functionally distinct heterospecific vocalizations during different modes of sexual display	8
A window into fly sex: mating increases female but reduces male longevity in black soldier flies	8
Testing the acoustic adaptation hypothesis with vocalizations from three mongoose species	8
Vocal functional flexibility: what it is and why it matters	7
Effects of variation in natural and artificial light at night on acoustic communication: a review and prospectus	7
Entry and aggregation at a Central African bai reveal social patterns in the elusive forest elephant Loxodonta cyclotis	7
Behavioural differences and interactions between two sessile bivalves forming mixed-species assemblages	7
Individual foraging specialization in group-living species	7
An integrated approach to infer the mechanisms of mate choice for size	7
Individuality, as well as genetic background, affects syntactical features of courtship songs in male mice	7
Honey bee waggle dances facilitate shorter foraging distances and increased foraging aggregation	7
Testing measures of boldness and exploratory activity in native versus invasive species: geckos as a model system	7
Interactions and information: exploring task allocation in ant colonies using network analysis	7
Dispersal and life history of brown widow spiders in dated invasive populations on two continents	7
The context of sexual coercion in orang-utans: when do male and female mating interests collide?	7
Bumble bees are constant to nectar-robbing behaviour despite low switching costs	7
Food-exchanging Norway rats apply the direct reciprocity decision rule rather than copying by imitation	7
Microgeographical variation in birdsong: Savannah sparrows exhibit microdialects in an island population	7
Divorce rate varies with fluidity of passerine social environment	7
Ultraviolet polarized light pollution and evolutionary traps for aquatic insects	7
Causes of plasticity and consistency of dispersal behaviour in a group-living spider	7
Human impact on deer use is greater than predators and competitors in a multiuse recreation area	7
Start and end of daily activity predict extrapair siring success independently of age in male blue tits	7
Who cares? An integrative approach to understanding the evolution of behavioural plasticity in parental care	7
Personality-dependent passage behaviour of an aquatic invasive species at a barrier to dispersal	7
Age-dependent chemical signalling and its consequences for mate attraction in the gumleaf skeletonizer moth, Uraba lugens	7
Testosterone treatment produces sex-dependent effects in social dominance	7
Preschool for small frys: threat-sensitive learning of predators by embryonic fathead minnows	7
Multimodality during live tutoring is relevant for vocal learning in zebra finches	7
Inhibitory control performance is repeatable over time and across contexts in a wild bird population	7
Thermoenergetic challenges and daytime behavioural patterns of a wild cathemeral mammal	7
No risk to scrambling? Mating tactic does not affect the frequency of leg autotomy in a New Zealand harvestman	7
Conspicuous colours in a polymorphic orb-web spider: evidence of predator avoidance but not prey attraction	7
Interaction between sexual communication functions leads to reproductive interference in two syntopic scorpion species	7
Keep calm and carry on: reactive indifference to predator encounters by a gregarious prey species	7
Reciprocal plasticity and the diversification of communication systems	7
Costs and benefits of isolation from siblings during family life in adult earwigs	7
The male swallowtail butterfly, Papilio polytes, uses cuticular hydrocarbons for mate discrimination	7
Collective attention in navigating homing pigeons: group size effect and individual differences	7
Be early or be tolerated: vervet monkey, Chlorocebus pygerythrus, foraging strategies in a dispersed resource	7
Behavioural phenotype modulates group size effects in a lizard	7
Configural learning by cleaner fish in a complex biological market task	6
Assessing variability in affiliative maintenance behaviours in captive coppery titi monkeys, Plecturocebus cupreus	6
Auditory sensitivity and vocal acoustics in five species of estrildid songbirds	6
Carotenoid intake during early life mediates ontogenetic colour shifts and dynamic colour change during adulthood	6
Environmental effects on the ontogenesis of tadpole personality	6
Social and abiotic factors differentially affect plumage ornamentation of young and old males in an Australian songbird	6
Disease influences male advertisement and mating outcomes in a critically endangered amphibian	6
Does male mate choice select for female coloration in a promiscuous primate species?	6
Extragroup paternity in gelada monkeys, Theropithecus gelada, at Guassa, Ethiopia and a comparison with other primates	6
Understanding unpredictability: factors influencing how long antlion larvae play dead as an antipredator behaviour	6
Hatchling vocalizations and beneficial social interactions in subterranean nests of a widespread reptile	6
Human food provisioning impacts the social environment, home range and fitness of a marine top predator	6
Little penguins are more aggressive on islands that experience greater unregulated human disturbance	6
Responses of a scatter-hoarding squirrel to conspecific pilfering: a test of the reciprocal pilferage hypothesis	6
Shark habituation to a food-related olfactory cue	6
Frontline defences against cuckoo parasitism in the large-billed gerygones	6
Determinants of social structure in a northern population of black-tailed prairie dogs, Cynomys ludovicianus	6
Female signal jamming in a socially monogamous brood parasite	6