Animal Behaviour

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Association Page	128
Editors Page	70
Sexual size dimorphism of brood-parasitic nestlings does not affect host chick survival, size or fledging phenology	53
Foraging location preferences reflect memory interference associated with spatial learning tasks in a food-caching bird	44
Editors Page	40
Editors’ Acknowledgments	33
Population-dependent dispersal potential of freshwater invasive amphipods: a case study of Dikerogammarus villosus	28
Anthropogenic influences on play of the green monkeys of Barbados	28
The unfulfilled potential of dogs in studying behavioural ecology and evolution during the Anthropocene	26
Parental predator exposure affects offspring boldness and laterality in the stickleback	25
Erratum to “Extreme temperatures can intensify predator–prey interactions” [Animal Behaviour 225, July 2025, 123242]	25
Prepared learning in plant–pollinator interactions	24
Honey bee foraging behaviour can be influenced by preferencesfor oscillating flowers	23
Strong ties formation, composition and processes at play during the developmental period of juvenile vervet monkeys	23
Olfaction and reproductive isolation in birds	23
28 minutes later: investigating the role of aflatrem-like compounds in Ophiocordyceps parasite manipulation of zombie ants	22
Behavioural plasticity and the anthropause: an urban bird becomes less aggressive	22
Stimulus type and social context are stronger than individual differences in common marmosets' novelty exploration	21
‘Small’ sample size scenarios in animal behaviour: alternatives to the use of null hypothesis significance testing	21
The effects of social and foraging experiences across cognitive domains in Polistes fuscatus	21
Coordination of care is facilitated by delayed feeding and collective arrivals in the long-tailed tit	20
Diel timing of migration is not plastic in a migratory ungulate	20
Environment-dependent benefits of interindividual variation in honey bee recruitment	20
Punishment from dominant breeders increases helping effort of subordinates in a cooperatively breeding cichlid	20
Fitness incentives to male fighters undermine fighting performance in intergroup contests	20

Size discrimination in the Mexican axolotl: evidence for quantitative abilities in an understudied amphibian	19
Male reproductive strategies are influenced by the maternal sociosexual environment	19
Brown-headed cowbirds select nests to parasitize based on individual host attributes rather than nest type	18
Bottlenose dolphin community structure along Florida’s Gulf coast	18
Conceptual representations of animal social networks: an overview	18
Facial width-to-height ratio predicts aggression and contest outcomes in wild golden snub-nosed monkeys	17
Vocal and display differences in an island form of a lekking species with an acrobatic dance routine	17
Habituation, den defence and predatory opportunism appear to have contributed to coyote aggression in an urban park	17
Reduced visibility and audibility prompt antipredator behaviour even in a relatively predator-free environment	17
Editors' Acknowledgments	17
Reducing the bias due to unknown relationships in measuring the steepness of a dominance hierarchy	17
Contrasting acoustic-space competition avoidance strategies in Afrotropical forest birds	16
Simulating waggle dance electric fields: a tool for studying honey bee communication	16
Editors Page	16
African elephant, Loxodonta africana, behaviours across levels of tourism in Zambezi National Park, Zimbabwe	16
Association Page	16
Woodpeckers are more cryptic against tree bark on which they forage	16
Exploring the potency and replenishment of woodfrog disturbance cues, a nonspecific communication system in aquatic species	16
No evidence of kin preferences in a feral horse multilevel society	16
Association Page	16
Investigating the impact of human disturbance on predator behaviour in human-dominated landscapes	15
Inconsistent fear: repeatability in flight initiation distance and neophobic behaviour differs in a ground-nesting bird	15
Does distinctiveness enhance memory for cooperative events in Norway rats?	15
Potential costs of learning have no detectable impact on reproductive success for bumble bees	15
Do survival predictors change over time? Investigating temporal dynamics in founder screening for reintroduction	15
Behavioural plasticity adjusts rapidly to repeated temperature increases: mean, among- and within-individual responses	15
Dopamine is a key regulator of the sexual receptivity switch in female Nasonia vitripennis	15
Prenatal sound experience affects song preferences in male zebra finches	15
Frenemies in Fur: neighbour–stranger discrimination and the ‘dear enemy’ effect in mammals, and how it relates to sociality	15
Stress is not one-size-fits-all: stressor-specific effects on learning and memory in a molluscan model	15
Active interactions between animals and technology: biohybrid approaches for animal behaviour research	15
Mobbing sequences of American wrens elicit mobbing responses in European tits	15
The social consequences of sexual conflict in bed bugs: social networks and sexual attraction	14
The influence of social rank on learning in a group-living fish	14
Map and compass navigation: the mechanism and ontogeny of animal maps	14
Phenotypic plasticity in the anthropause: does reduced human activity impact novel nesting behaviour in an urban bird?	14
Resource limitation drives fission–fusion dynamics of group composition and size in a social bird	14
Beyond brawls: the role of aggression in male contests among common fighting spiders	14
The importance of detailed observations of behaviour and natural history for generating and answering novel questions	14
Socially cued anticipatory plasticity predicts male primary mating tactic but not mating behaviour rates	14
Wild kangaroos become more social when caring for young and may maintain long-term affiliations with popular individuals	14
Editors Page	13
Permanent and temporary mate switching in a long-lived seabird: insights from a 64-year study	13
Editors Page	13
Wildlife tourism has little energetic impact on the world's largest predatory shark	13
Plasticity in social foraging is a matter of age in great tits	13
Longitudinal evidence for the emergence of multiple intelligences in assistance dog puppies	12
Roost fidelity partially explains maternity roosting association patterns in Myotis lucifugus	12
I love to hate my neighbour: how recognition of dear enemies affects male antipredator behaviours in a lizard species	12
About time: synchrony in onset of parental care influences cooperation and offspring performance in a burying beetle	12

Silk of females performing maternal care elicits reduced courtship responses in male spiders	12
Larger eggs are more attractive? Parental preference trapped in the brood parasitism strategy	12
Effects of hormones and digestive tract morphology on personality-driven foraging behaviour in the turtle Mauremys reevesii	12
Light modulates population differences in alternative mating tactics in Trinidadian guppies	11
Sex roles in parental care in a species with precocial offspring and frequent brood desertion	11
Plant choice for oviposition in the phytophagous insect Bemisia tabaci: cytotype, including symbionts, knows best!	11
Human impact on deer use is greater than predators and competitors in a multiuse recreation area	11
Skilful attacking trades off with defensive ability in hermit crabs	11
Linking body condition and vocal signals: how little auk, Alle alle, chicks communicate their needs to parents	11
Association Page	11
Effects of assortative mating for personality on reproductive success in greylag geese, Anser anser	11
Is there evidence for the Bruce effect in white-faced capuchins?	11
Animal Behaviour Best Paper Prizes 2025	11
Helicopter parenting: local-scale environment determines hiding and supervision in neonatal ungulates	11
Diet as a potential mechanism of habitat selection: Evidence from sympatric Peromyscus species	11
Editors Page	11
Association Page	11
Hyperparasitoids exploit plant volatiles to locate their parasitoid host despite nonhost herbivore interference	11
Male forehead gland scent may encode multiple information in the great Himalayan leaf-nosed bat, Hipposideros armiger	11
Editors Page	11
Neural networks reveal emergent properties of collective learning in democratic but not despotic groups	11
Validation of a novel immersive virtual reality set-up with responses of wild-caught freely moving coral reef fish	11
The effect of turbidity on female mate choice in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata	11
Divergent nutrient preferences of two coexisting fruit flies, Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans	11
Females pair with males larger than themselves in a socially monogamous songbird	10
Effect of age and mating on body condition, fecundity and metabolic rate in female sand crickets, Gryllus firmus	10
Are you serious? Relaxed open mouth may unveil the competitive/cooperative nature of play fighting in two feline species	10
Heterogeneous microcosm mazes affect reproduction and survival in a wingless hyperparasitoid wasp	10
Risky business: consistent breeding migration in a benthic shark despite environmental variability	10
Talking more and fighting less? Conflict management through acoustic signals in a cooperatively breeding species	10
Learning predictably changing spatial patterns across days in a food-caching bird	10
How do primates decide where to feed? Insights from wild western gorillas	10
Rodents versus endophytic fungi: do mice and voles recognize infected food in cafeteria tests?	10
Sperm storage ability is associated with oviposition but not mating behaviour differences in macrobiotid tardigrades	10
Too hot to handle: male dragonflies decrease time spent mating at higher temperatures	10
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]	10
Estimating social network metrics from single-file movements in Barbary macaques, Macaca sylvanus	10
Infection stress and mate assessment in wolf spiders: female mate choice varies with sensory mode of male courtship	10
Acoustic communication and environmental factors drive coordinated digging behaviour during an early life stage transition of a freshwater turtle	10
Tempted yet cautious: how described odds lower risk aversion in capuchins	10
The ontogeny of nest-building behaviour in Sumatran orang-utans, Pongo abelii	10
Erratum to “Context-dependent responses of naïve ungulates to wolf-sound playback in a human-dominated landscape” [Animal Behaviour, 185 (2022), 9–20]	10
Evidence of stable preferential affiliative relationships in the domestic pig	10
Social preference persists at roosting aggregations in a cooperatively breeding bird	10
Studying mate choice using inertial measurement units: a validation study with treefrogs	10
Reversal learning of visual cues in Heliconiini butterflies	10
Earwig mothers can boost offspring’s defence against pathogens during postoviposition care	10
The heritability of fear: decomposing sources of variation in marmot flight initiation distance	9
The role of cuticular hydrocarbon sexual dimorphism on Drosophila courtship	9
Food-exchanging Norway rats apply the direct reciprocity decision rule rather than copying by imitation	9
Both humans and conspecifics provide social support to dog and wolf puppies	9
Association Page	9
The three-morph problem: Male trimorphism and alternative reproductive tactics in a Neotropical arachnid	9
Communication networks of wild zebra finches, Taeniopygia castanotis	9
The role of male body size in mating success and male–male competition in a false widow spider	9
The parasitoid Cotesia glomerata responds differently to plant volatile emission induced by parasitized caterpillars	9
Knowing a fellow by their bellow: acoustic individuality in the bellows of the American alligator	9
Emotional contexts influence vocal individuality in ungulates	9
Shelter preferences of juvenile European lobster: mussel shell aggregations as settlement habitat	9
Variation in Nubian ibex's tolerance to humans is shaped by urban environmental conditions and social groups	9
Searching day and night: diel hierarchical search patterns in a large marine predator that never stops swimming	9
Human activity selectively affects a dynamic defensive mutualism	9
Resting ecology of parasitoids in the field: safe in a bed and breakfast?	9
The resident effect dominates over previous winner/loser experience in surface fish of the Mexican tetra	9
The effect of temporal masking on alarm call communication in wild superb fairy-wrens	9
Editors Page	9
Long-term stability of dominance hierarchies in a wild parrot with fission–fusion dynamics	9
Workload inequality increases with group size in a cooperatively breeding bird	9
Growing up wild: social learning opportunities during foraging in immature baboons	9
Vocal interactions between singing humpback whales, Megaptera novaeangliae	9
Ranging patterns and mortality of an at-risk marine mammal resident in a highly urbanized estuary	9
Yellowhammer males sing using individual isochronous rhythms and maximize rhythmic dissimilarity with neighbours	9
Editors Page	9
Nest construction and its effect on posthatching family life in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides	9
When sibling tolerance meets cannibalism of the dead in spiderlings	9
Capybara responses to varying levels of predation risk	9
Editors Page	8
Female matrilines and male partnerships: long-term social dynamics of African lions	8
Motivational trade-offs as evidence for sentience in bees: a critique	8
Maternal conflict intervention is more frequent in chimpanzee compared to bonobo development	8

Editors Page	8
Social buffering in domestic hens, Gallus gallus domesticus: breed differences in reliance on conspecifics and humans	8
Is sexiness cumulative? Arguments from birdsong culture	8
Editors Page	8
Computational analyses of dynamic visual displays reveal diet-dependent male signalling in Rabidosa rabida wolf spiders	8
Mechanisms of mobbing call recognition: exploring featural decoding in great tits	8
Alerting components in animal vocalization	8
Information cascades spread adaptive and maladaptive behaviours in group-living animals	8
Growing into it: evidence of an ontogenetic shift in grey whale use of foraging tactics	8
Dogs, demonstrators and detours: does the shape of the obstacle matter?	8
Animal personality is a class of variation not a set of traits	8
Innovating to solve a novel puzzle: wild Asian elephants vary in their ability to problem solve	8
Inference in wolves and dogs: the ‘cups task’, revisited	8
The combined effects of elevated within-group aggression and intergroup threat on dwarf mongoose behaviour	8
Consistent individual differences give rise to ‘caching syndromes’ in a food-storing passerine	8
Factors affecting frontline host defences against avian brood parasitism: a meta-analysis	8
Animal Behaviour Best Paper Prizes 2024	8
Within-cavity nest preferences: honey bees favour the entrance rather than the ceiling when initiating their nest	8
Guidelines for the ethical treatment of nonhuman animals in behavioural research and teaching	8
Associative learning in bumble bees is disrupted by high trace metal concentrations	8
Maternal care and early rearing environment influence puppy behaviour and cognition	8
Selective social tolerance drives differentiated relationships among wild female chimpanzees	8
The smell of familiarity: conspecific faeces influence roost exploration and occupation in wild Bechstein's bats	8
The role of similarity of stimuli and responses in learning by nectar-foraging bumble bees: a test of Osgood’s model	8
Interactive electrical behaviour in mormyrid weakly electric fish: jamming avoidance response or social interaction?	7
Pseudoreplication of sound treatments in underwater exposure studies	7
Parental care behaviour in bumble bee queens is tightly regulated by the number of helpers in incipient nests	7
The complex societies of spotted hyaenas	7
In dogs, social stimuli overshadow nonsocial stimuli and stronger attachment correlates with responses to the latter	7
Impacts of fungal disease on dyadic social interactions in a wild agamid lizard	7
Editors Page	7
Association Page	7
Rise and fall: increasing temperatures have nonlinear effects on aggression in a tropical fish	7
Goats discriminate emotional valence in the human voice	7
Gut cancer increases the risk of Drosophila being preyed upon by hunting spiders	7
Short- and medium-term exposure to salinity alters response to predation, activity and spatial movements in tadpoles	7
One herd, different movements: spatial behaviour of female forest chamois in a changing meteorological perspective	7
Size sometimes matters: recognition of known predators with artificially altered body size by untrained birds	7
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
Family pigs’ and dogs’ reactions to human emotional vocalizations:a citizen science study	7
Infection by virulent wMelPop Wolbachia improves learning and memory capacity in Drosophila melanogaster	7
The case for investigating the cognitive map in nonavian reptiles	7
Delayed benefits for fallow bucks: more fights decrease same day mating success, but increase matings the next day	7
Editors Page	7
Sex-specific territoriality, aggression and duetting in the Carolina wren during the nonbreeding season	7
Alarm cue properties and euthanasia impact on tadpole antipredator behaviour in Rana temporaria and Bufo bufo	7
Born to aggressive mothers: are certain chicks more susceptible to early-life exposure to aggression?	7
Behavioural sleep in salmonid fish with flexible diel activity	7
Biological, social and ecological correlates of social play in immature Bwindi mountain gorillas, Gorilla beringei beringei	7
The spiders that lost their personalities: assessing long-term behavioural individuality in social Stegodyphus dumicola	7
Urban foxes are bolder but not more innovative than their rural conspecifics	7
Behavioural traits for success: comparison between two sympatric lacertid lizard species	7
Habituation or sensitization? Short-term adjustment of flight initiation distance in incubating common eiders	7
Association Page	7
Long-term observations reveal short-term mother–calf affiliation in wild harbour porpoises	7
Does group living protect offspring from the toxic effects of cadmium ingestion in juvenile earwigs?	7
Social structure in northern bottlenose whales: stable relationships without stable groups	7
Long-lasting social bonds of a habitat-structured delphinid social system	7
Size-based dominance relationships in female forest elephants, Loxodonta cyclotis	7
Egg turning in a subtropical shorebird has a diel rhythmicityand is affected by predation risk	7
Functionally referential communication about danger in cooperatively breeding white-winged choughs	7
Helping syndrome is partially confirmed in the eusocial naked mole-rat	7
Corrigendum to “Tempted yet cautious: how described odds lower risk aversion in capuchins” [Anim Behav 231 (2026) 123422]	7
Visual and chemical signals function multimodally in species recognition	7
Reintroducing native predators improves antipredator responses in naïve prey	7
Changes in movement characteristics in response to private and social information acquisition of socially foraging fish	7
Fatherhood increases attraction to sensory stimuli from unrelated pups in male California mice, Peromyscus californicus	7
Exposure to lead (Pb) contamination heightens predator avoidance behaviours in an urban bird	7
Fitness benefits from co-display favour subdominant male–male partnerships between phenotypes	7
Courtship vocalizations of wild house mice show highly dynamic changes and correlate with male copulatory success	7
Path minimization during solitary foraging in Aphaenogaster senilis ants	7
Costs and benefits of isolation from siblings during family life in adult earwigs	7
Effects of negative stimuli on object permanence performance in baboons, Papio anubis, according to task complexity	7
Speed consensus and behavioural coordination of Adélie penguins travelling on sea ice in groups	6
Burden of a failed error culture in biologging	6
Stable isotopes reveal the effects of maternal rank and infant age on weaning dynamics in wild chacma baboons	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
Understanding unpredictability: factors influencing how long antlion larvae play dead as an antipredator behaviour	6
Aggression induced by ornament similarity is limited to females in a mutually ornamented fish, Betta brownorum	6
Female assortment in Gouldian finch, Chloebia gouldiae, flocks: a case of female driven social niche construction?	6
How coevolution in daily activity rhythms governs encounters between predator and prey	6
Capuchin monkeys’ ability to choose beneficial options is inhibited by added complexity	6
Understanding the caffeine paradox: caffeinated nectar increases pollinators’ perceived value of flowers	6
The direction and strength of social plasticity in mating signals and mate preferences vary with the life stage of induction	6
Persistence of alternative reproductive tactics: a test of game-theoretic predictions	6
What you eat affects how you mate: sex-specific plasticity in black soldier fly reproduction driven by larval nutrition	6
Performance of Doppler shift compensation varies with environmental temperature and humidity in bats	6
African penguins utilize their ventral dot patterns for individual recognition	6
Can an acoustic communication network be used for spatial orientation?	6
Why do some birds fledge late in the day?	6
Dispersal behaviour and settlement in an invasive bird: dispersers prefer their natal habitat	6
Erratum to “Towards the integration of collective behaviour and social evolution” [Animal Behaviour 224 (June 2025) 123161]	6
Urban colonies are less aggressive but forage more than their forest counterparts in the ant Temnothorax nylanderi	6
ASAB Education Committee Infographic Competition Winners 2025	6