Animal Behaviour

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Association Page	112
Editors Page	66
Sexual size dimorphism of brood-parasitic nestlings does not affect host chick survival, size or fledging phenology	46
Foraging location preferences reflect memory interference associated with spatial learning tasks in a food-caching bird	45
Coordination of care is facilitated by delayed feeding and collective arrivals in the long-tailed tit	40
Olfaction and reproductive isolation in birds	38
Conceptual representations of animal social networks: an overview	28
Brown-headed cowbirds select nests to parasitize based on individual host attributes rather than nest type	28
Reducing the bias due to unknown relationships in measuring the steepness of a dominance hierarchy	25
Population-dependent dispersal potential of freshwater invasive amphipods: a case study of Dikerogammarus villosus	25
The unfulfilled potential of dogs in studying behavioural ecology and evolution during the Anthropocene	24
Editors Page	24
Anthropogenic influences on play of the green monkeys of Barbados	23
Stimulus type and social context are stronger than individual differences in common marmosets' novelty exploration	23
Editors’ Acknowledgments	23
Diel timing of migration is not plastic in a migratory ungulate	22
Erratum to “Extreme temperatures can intensify predator–prey interactions” [Animal Behaviour 225, July 2025, 123242]	22
Reduced visibility and audibility prompt antipredator behaviour even in a relatively predator-free environment	22
Punishment from dominant breeders increases helping effort of subordinates in a cooperatively breeding cichlid	21
Fitness incentives to male fighters undermine fighting performance in intergroup contests	20
Prepared learning in plant–pollinator interactions	20
28 minutes later: investigating the role of aflatrem-like compounds in Ophiocordyceps parasite manipulation of zombie ants	20
Parental predator exposure affects offspring boldness and laterality in the stickleback	20
Behavioural plasticity and the anthropause: an urban bird becomes less aggressive	20
Vocal and display differences in an island form of a lekking species with an acrobatic dance routine	20

Sperm oxidative status varies with the level of sperm competition and affects male reproductive success	19
The effects of social and foraging experiences across cognitive domains in Polistes fuscatus	19
Male reproductive strategies are influenced by the maternal sociosexual environment	19
Strong ties formation, composition and processes at play during the developmental period of juvenile vervet monkeys	19
Honey bee foraging behaviour can be influenced by preferencesfor oscillating flowers	18
Hatchling vocalizations and beneficial social interactions in subterranean nests of a widespread reptile	18
Environment-dependent benefits of interindividual variation in honey bee recruitment	18
‘Small’ sample size scenarios in animal behaviour: alternatives to the use of null hypothesis significance testing	18
Editors' Acknowledgments	17
Wild kangaroos become more social when caring for young and may maintain long-term affiliations with popular individuals	17
Bottlenose dolphin community structure along Florida’s Gulf coast	17
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Contrasting acoustic-space competition avoidance strategies in Afrotropical forest birds	16
Inconsistent fear: repeatability in flight initiation distance and neophobic behaviour differs in a ground-nesting bird	16
African elephant, Loxodonta africana, behaviours across levels of tourism in Zambezi National Park, Zimbabwe	16
Active interactions between animals and technology: biohybrid approaches for animal behaviour research	16
Editors Page	16
Simulating waggle dance electric fields: a tool for studying honey bee communication	16
Investigating the impact of human disturbance on predator behaviour in human-dominated landscapes	16
Prenatal sound experience affects song preferences in male zebra finches	16
Behavioural plasticity adjusts rapidly to repeated temperature increases: mean, among- and within-individual responses	15
Association Page	15
Potential costs of learning have no detectable impact on reproductive success for bumble bees	15
Carotenoid intake during early life mediates ontogenetic colour shifts and dynamic colour change during adulthood	15
The importance of detailed observations of behaviour and natural history for generating and answering novel questions	15
Beyond brawls: the role of aggression in male contests among common fighting spiders	15
Map and compass navigation: the mechanism and ontogeny of animal maps	15
The influence of social rank on learning in a group-living fish	15
Do survival predictors change over time? Investigating temporal dynamics in founder screening for reintroduction	15
No evidence of kin preferences in a feral horse multilevel society	15
Frenemies in Fur: neighbour–stranger discrimination and the ‘dear enemy’ effect in mammals, and how it relates to sociality	15
Exploring the potency and replenishment of woodfrog disturbance cues, a nonspecific communication system in aquatic species	15
The social consequences of sexual conflict in bed bugs: social networks and sexual attraction	15
Woodpeckers are more cryptic against tree bark on which they forage	15
Phenotypic plasticity in the anthropause: does reduced human activity impact novel nesting behaviour in an urban bird?	14
Socially cued anticipatory plasticity predicts male primary mating tactic but not mating behaviour rates	14
Editors Page	14
Mobbing sequences of American wrens elicit mobbing responses in European tits	14
Editors Page	14
Stress is not one-size-fits-all: stressor-specific effects on learning and memory in a molluscan model	14
Resource limitation drives fission–fusion dynamics of group composition and size in a social bird	14
Does distinctiveness enhance memory for cooperative events in Norway rats?	14
Dopamine is a key regulator of the sexual receptivity switch in female Nasonia vitripennis	14
Wildlife tourism has little energetic impact on the world's largest predatory shark	13
Animal Behaviour Best Paper Prizes 2025	13
Is there evidence for the Bruce effect in white-faced capuchins?	13
Effects of assortative mating for personality on reproductive success in greylag geese, Anser anser	13
Editors Page	13
About time: synchrony in onset of parental care influences cooperation and offspring performance in a burying beetle	13
Hyperparasitoids exploit plant volatiles to locate their parasitoid host despite nonhost herbivore interference	13

Plant choice for oviposition in the phytophagous insect Bemisia tabaci: cytotype, including symbionts, knows best!	13
Validation of a novel immersive virtual reality set-up with responses of wild-caught freely moving coral reef fish	13
Male forehead gland scent may encode multiple information in the great Himalayan leaf-nosed bat, Hipposideros armiger	12
Divergent nutrient preferences of two coexisting fruit flies, Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans	12
Longitudinal evidence for the emergence of multiple intelligences in assistance dog puppies	12
I love to hate my neighbour: how recognition of dear enemies affects male antipredator behaviours in a lizard species	12
Helicopter parenting: local-scale environment determines hiding and supervision in neonatal ungulates	12
Light modulates population differences in alternative mating tactics in Trinidadian guppies	12
Silk of females performing maternal care elicits reduced courtship responses in male spiders	12
Heat stress inhibits cognitive performance in wild Western Australian magpies, Cracticus tibicen dorsalis	12
Neural networks reveal emergent properties of collective learning in democratic but not despotic groups	12
Human impact on deer use is greater than predators and competitors in a multiuse recreation area	12
Effects of hormones and digestive tract morphology on personality-driven foraging behaviour in the turtle Mauremys reevesii	12
Association Page	11
Editors Page	11
Association Page	11
Reversal learning of visual cues in Heliconiini butterflies	11
Earwig mothers can boost offspring’s defence against pathogens during postoviposition care	11
Social impact of mara pair disruption on the formation of new bonds and reproduction in a multiple mate choice context	11
The effect of turbidity on female mate choice in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata	11
Roost fidelity partially explains maternity roosting association patterns in Myotis lucifugus	11
Larger eggs are more attractive? Parental preference trapped in the brood parasitism strategy	11
Too hot to handle: male dragonflies decrease time spent mating at higher temperatures	11
Erratum to “Context-dependent responses of naïve ungulates to wolf-sound playback in a human-dominated landscape” [Animal Behaviour, 185 (2022), 9–20]	11
Sperm storage ability is associated with oviposition but not mating behaviour differences in macrobiotid tardigrades	11
Finding love: fruit fly males evolving under higher sexual selection are inherently better at finding receptive females	11
Sex roles in parental care in a species with precocial offspring and frequent brood desertion	11
Heterogeneous microcosm mazes affect reproduction and survival in a wingless hyperparasitoid wasp	11
Are you serious? Relaxed open mouth may unveil the competitive/cooperative nature of play fighting in two feline species	11
Retraction notice to “Personality and morphology shape task participation, collective foraging and escape behaviour in the social spider Stegodyphus dumicola” [Animal Behaviour, 105 (2015), 47–54]	11
Microgeographical variation in birdsong: Savannah sparrows exhibit microdialects in an island population	11
When sibling tolerance meets cannibalism of the dead in spiderlings	10
Studying mate choice using inertial measurement units: a validation study with treefrogs	10
Searching day and night: diel hierarchical search patterns in a large marine predator that never stops swimming	10
Rodents versus endophytic fungi: do mice and voles recognize infected food in cafeteria tests?	10
Evidence of stable preferential affiliative relationships in the domestic pig	10
Infection stress and mate assessment in wolf spiders: female mate choice varies with sensory mode of male courtship	10
Social preference persists at roosting aggregations in a cooperatively breeding bird	10
The ontogeny of nest-building behaviour in Sumatran orang-utans, Pongo abelii	10
Shelter preferences of juvenile European lobster: mussel shell aggregations as settlement habitat	10
How do primates decide where to feed? Insights from wild western gorillas	10
Effect of age and mating on body condition, fecundity and metabolic rate in female sand crickets, Gryllus firmus	10
Tempted yet cautious: how described odds lower risk aversion in capuchins	10
Talking more and fighting less? Conflict management through acoustic signals in a cooperatively breeding species	10
Estimating social network metrics from single-file movements in Barbary macaques, Macaca sylvanus	10
The smell of familiarity: conspecific faeces influence roost exploration and occupation in wild Bechstein's bats	10
Acoustic communication and environmental factors drive coordinated digging behaviour during an early life stage transition of a freshwater turtle	10
Learning predictably changing spatial patterns across days in a food-caching bird	10
Females pair with males larger than themselves in a socially monogamous songbird	10
Risky business: consistent breeding migration in a benthic shark despite environmental variability	10
Is sexiness cumulative? Arguments from birdsong culture	9
Association Page	9
Motivational trade-offs as evidence for sentience in bees: a critique	9
Both humans and conspecifics provide social support to dog and wolf puppies	9
Yellowhammer males sing using individual isochronous rhythms and maximize rhythmic dissimilarity with neighbours	9
Variation in Nubian ibex's tolerance to humans is shaped by urban environmental conditions and social groups	9
Information cascades spread adaptive and maladaptive behaviours in group-living animals	9
Food-exchanging Norway rats apply the direct reciprocity decision rule rather than copying by imitation	9
Computational analyses of dynamic visual displays reveal diet-dependent male signalling in Rabidosa rabida wolf spiders	9
Capybara responses to varying levels of predation risk	9
Costa's hummingbird has an extended sensitive phase of vocal learning	9
Human activity selectively affects a dynamic defensive mutualism	9
Editors Page	9
The effect of temporal masking on alarm call communication in wild superb fairy-wrens	9
The role of male body size in mating success and male–male competition in a false widow spider	9
Emotional contexts influence vocal individuality in ungulates	9
Inference in wolves and dogs: the ‘cups task’, revisited	9
Social networks of the greater horseshoe bat during the hibernation season: a landscape-scale case study	9
The parasitoid Cotesia glomerata responds differently to plant volatile emission induced by parasitized caterpillars	9
Higher cortisol in muscle correlates with weaker strength of female mate preference in the swordtail fish Xiphophorus multilineatus	9
Nest construction and its effect on posthatching family life in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides	9
The role of cuticular hydrocarbon sexual dimorphism on Drosophila courtship	9
Innovating to solve a novel puzzle: wild Asian elephants vary in their ability to problem solve	9
Selective social tolerance drives differentiated relationships among wild female chimpanzees	9
Growing up wild: social learning opportunities during foraging in immature baboons	9
Resting ecology of parasitoids in the field: safe in a bed and breakfast?	9
Ranging patterns and mortality of an at-risk marine mammal resident in a highly urbanized estuary	9
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The combined effects of elevated within-group aggression and intergroup threat on dwarf mongoose behaviour	8
Workload inequality increases with group size in a cooperatively breeding bird	8

The complex societies of spotted hyaenas	8
Maternal conflict intervention is more frequent in chimpanzee compared to bonobo development	8
Size sometimes matters: recognition of known predators with artificially altered body size by untrained birds	8
Egg turning in a subtropical shorebird has a diel rhythmicityand is affected by predation risk	8
Mechanisms of mobbing call recognition: exploring featural decoding in great tits	8
The case for investigating the cognitive map in nonavian reptiles	8
The role of similarity of stimuli and responses in learning by nectar-foraging bumble bees: a test of Osgood’s model	8
Animal Behaviour Best Paper Prizes 2024	8
The heritability of fear: decomposing sources of variation in marmot flight initiation distance	8
Long-term observations reveal short-term mother–calf affiliation in wild harbour porpoises	8
Interactive electrical behaviour in mormyrid weakly electric fish: jamming avoidance response or social interaction?	8
Short- and medium-term exposure to salinity alters response to predation, activity and spatial movements in tadpoles	8
Dogs, demonstrators and detours: does the shape of the obstacle matter?	8
Sex-specific territoriality, aggression and duetting in the Carolina wren during the nonbreeding season	8
Consistent individual differences give rise to ‘caching syndromes’ in a food-storing passerine	8
Biological, social and ecological correlates of social play in immature Bwindi mountain gorillas, Gorilla beringei beringei	8
Long-term stability of dominance hierarchies in a wild parrot with fission–fusion dynamics	8
Knowing a fellow by their bellow: acoustic individuality in the bellows of the American alligator	8
Vocal interactions between singing humpback whales, Megaptera novaeangliae	8
Size-based dominance relationships in female forest elephants, Loxodonta cyclotis	8
Female matrilines and male partnerships: long-term social dynamics of African lions	8
Growing into it: evidence of an ontogenetic shift in grey whale use of foraging tactics	8
Exposure to lead (Pb) contamination heightens predator avoidance behaviours in an urban bird	8
Changes in movement characteristics in response to private and social information acquisition of socially foraging fish	8
Parental care behaviour in bumble bee queens is tightly regulated by the number of helpers in incipient nests	8
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Associative learning in bumble bees is disrupted by high trace metal concentrations	7
Factors affecting frontline host defences against avian brood parasitism: a meta-analysis	7
Female demographic changes contribute to the maintenance of social stability within a primate multilevel society	7
Gut cancer increases the risk of Drosophila being preyed upon by hunting spiders	7
Performance of Doppler shift compensation varies with environmental temperature and humidity in bats	7
Impacts of fungal disease on dyadic social interactions in a wild agamid lizard	7
Pseudoreplication of sound treatments in underwater exposure studies	7
The spiders that lost their personalities: assessing long-term behavioural individuality in social Stegodyphus dumicola	7
Editors Page	7
Habituation or sensitization? Short-term adjustment of flight initiation distance in incubating common eiders	7
Infection by virulent wMelPop Wolbachia improves learning and memory capacity in Drosophila melanogaster	7
Costs and benefits of isolation from siblings during family life in adult earwigs	7
Family pigs’ and dogs’ reactions to human emotional vocalizations:a citizen science study	7
Guidelines for the ethical treatment of nonhuman animals in behavioural research and teaching	7
Friend virus severity is associated with male mouse social status and environmental temperature	7
Helping syndrome is partially confirmed in the eusocial naked mole-rat	7
Behavioural sleep in salmonid fish with flexible diel activity	7
Long-lasting social bonds of a habitat-structured delphinid social system	7
Feeding rate reflects quality in both parents and offspring: a longitudinal study in common terns	7
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In dogs, social stimuli overshadow nonsocial stimuli and stronger attachment correlates with responses to the latter	7
Alarm cue properties and euthanasia impact on tadpole antipredator behaviour in Rana temporaria and Bufo bufo	7
Visual and chemical signals function multimodally in species recognition	7
Courtship vocalizations of wild house mice show highly dynamic changes and correlate with male copulatory success	7
Effects of negative stimuli on object permanence performance in baboons, Papio anubis, according to task complexity	7
Vocal sacs do not function in multimodal mate attraction under nocturnal illumination in Cope's grey treefrog	7
Functionally referential communication about danger in cooperatively breeding white-winged choughs	7
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Within-cavity nest preferences: honey bees favour the entrance rather than the ceiling when initiating their nest	7
Reintroducing native predators improves antipredator responses in naïve prey	7
Playing music to animals: an interdisciplinary approach to improving our understanding of animals' responses to music	7
Solo songs, duets and territory defence across seasons in female Galápagos yellow warblers, Setophaga petechia aureola	7
Does group living protect offspring from the toxic effects of cadmium ingestion in juvenile earwigs?	7
Adult sex ratio influences courtship behaviour, contest behaviour and breeding success in Onthophagus taurus	7
Urban foxes are bolder but not more innovative than their rural conspecifics	7
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Do food-caching chickadees grow their hippocampus every autumn when they need to cache food and then shrink it for the rest of the year?	7
Alerting components in animal vocalization	7
Goats discriminate emotional valence in the human voice	7
Anthropogenic noise alters the perception of a predator in a local community of great tits	6
Autumn mass change and winter mass loss differ between migratory and nonmigratory butterflies	6
Erratum to “A call for CARE in animal behaviour: an holistic ethical research framework” [Animal Behaviour 231 (2026) 123428]	6
Erratum to “Towards the integration of collective behaviour and social evolution” [Animal Behaviour 224 (June 2025) 123161]	6
Editors Page	6
ASAB Education Committee Infographic Competition Winners 2025	6
Female assortment in Gouldian finch, Chloebia gouldiae, flocks: a case of female driven social niche construction?	6
What it is like to be an optimist: temporal stability of cognitive bias in rats and its link to other individual traits	6
Behavioural traits for success: comparison between two sympatric lacertid lizard species	6
Behavioural thermoregulation compensates for changes in solar insolation in a wild insect	6
Capuchin monkeys’ ability to choose beneficial options is inhibited by added complexity	6
Stable isotopes reveal the effects of maternal rank and infant age on weaning dynamics in wild chacma baboons	6
Understanding unpredictability: factors influencing how long antlion larvae play dead as an antipredator behaviour	6
Spatial preferences influence associations between magnitude and space in honey bees	6
Male great bowerbirds upregulate multiple sexual signals following bower wall removal	6
Aggression induced by ornament similarity is limited to females in a mutually ornamented fish, Betta brownorum	6
Growing up with nutritional stress leads to peripheral social network positions, independent of ‘personality’	6
Rise and fall: increasing temperatures have nonlinear effects on aggression in a tropical fish	6
Display structure size affects the production of and response to multimodal duets in magpie-larks	6
What you eat affects how you mate: sex-specific plasticity in black soldier fly reproduction driven by larval nutrition	6
Unbalanced dietary omega-6:3 ratio affects onset of nursing and nurse–larvae interactions by honey bees, Apis mellifera	6
African penguins utilize their ventral dot patterns for individual recognition	6
Persistence of alternative reproductive tactics: a test of game-theoretic predictions	6
Social learning of navigational routes in tandem-running acorn ants, Temnothorax nylanderi	6
How do male danaine butterflies locate pyrrolizidine alkaloids? The foreleg as an olfactory alkaloid-sensing organ	6
Why do some birds fledge late in the day?	6
The direction and strength of social plasticity in mating signals and mate preferences vary with the life stage of induction	6
Dispersal behaviour and settlement in an invasive bird: dispersers prefer their natal habitat	6
Behavioural syndrome between boldness and aggressiveness and link with reproductive success in a wild bird population	6
Burden of a failed error culture in biologging	6