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
Effects of multiple stressors on fish shoal collective motion are independent and vary with shoaling metric	32
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
Is less more? A commentary on the practice of ‘metric hacking’ in animal social network analysis	27
Do bumble bees play?	26
The role of diversity in science: a case study of women advancing female birdsong research	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
Aggression and motivation to disperse in eusocial naked mole-rats, Heterocephalus glaber	23
Vocal athletics – from birdsong production mechanisms to sexy songs	22
Ultrasonic courtship vocalizations of male house mice contain distinct individual signatures	22
Heat stress inhibits cognitive performance in wild Western Australian magpies, Cracticus tibicen dorsalis	22
The causes and consequences of yawning in animal groups	22
Comparative analysis of noise effects on wild and captive freshwater fish behaviour	22
The reliability of individual vocal signature varies across the bonobo's graded repertoire	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
Motivation, accuracy and positive feedback through experience explain innovative problem solving and its repeatability	20
Getting lost: the fungal hijacking of ant foraging behaviour in space and time	20
Wind slows play: increasing wind speed reduces flower visiting rate in honey bees	20
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
Stable social groups foster conformity and among-group differences	19
Urbanization predicts flight initiation distance in feral pigeons (Columba livia) across New York City	19
Complex interactions between temperature, sexual signals and mate choice in a desert-dwelling jumping spider	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
Urban birdsongs: higher minimum song frequency of an urban colonist persists in a common garden experiment	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
Behavioural correlations across multiple stages of the antipredator response: do animals that escape sooner hide longer?	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
Consistent after all: behavioural repeatability in a long-lived lizard across a 6-year field study	18
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
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
A combination of rules govern fruit trait preference by frugivorous bat and bird species: nutrients, defence and size	16
Effects of prey colour on bird predation: an experiment in Mediterranean woodlands	16
Task-dependent reversal learning dynamics challenge the reversal paradigm of measuring cognitive flexibility	16
Analysis of female song provides insight into the evolution of sex differences in a widely studied songbird	16
Colour morph predicts social behaviour and contest outcomes in a polymorphic lizard (Podarcis erhardii)	16
Herring gull aversion to gaze in urban and rural human settlements	16
Collective close calling mediates group cohesion in foraging meerkats via spatially determined differences in call rates	15
The function of chimpanzee greeting calls is modulated by their acoustic variation	15
Polar bear foraging on common eider eggs: estimating the energetic consequences of a climate-mediated behavioural shift	15
Negative frequency-dependent prey selection by wolves and its implications on predator–prey dynamics	15
Mate choice and the ‘opposite miss’ to Weber's law: proportional processing governs signal preferences in a treefrog	15
Social connectedness and movements among communities of giraffes vary by sex and age class	14
Automating the analysis of fish grazing behaviour from videos using image classification and optical flow	14
Fitness effects of seasonal birth timing in a long-lived social primate living in the equatorial forest	14
Movement tortuosity and speed reveal the trade-offs of crop raiding for African elephants	14
Punishment controls helper defence against egg predators but not fish predators in cooperatively breeding cichlids	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
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
Contest competition for fruit and space among wild chimpanzees in relation to the vertical stratification of metabolizable energy	13
Variable use of polyadic grooming and its effect on access to social partners in wild chimpanzees and bonobos	13
Maternal stress during pregnancy affects activity, exploration and potential dispersal of daughters in an invasive fish	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

Balancing risk and reward: mating opportunity influences thermal refuge use in fiddler crabs	13
Vibratory communication in a black widow spider (Latrodectus hesperus): signal structure and signalling mechanisms	13
Assessing animal welfare: a triangulation of preference, judgement bias and other candidate welfare indicators	13
Spatially clustered resources increase male aggregation and mating duration in Drosophila melanogaster	13
Vocal learning in Savannah sparrows: acoustic similarity to neighbours shapes song development and territorial aggression	13
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
Interacting effects of short-term and long-term noise exposure on antipredator behaviour in sand gobies	12
The role of visual and olfactory cues in social decisions of guppies and zebrafish	12
Hive minded: like neurons, honey bees collectively integrate negative feedback to regulate decisions	12
Behavioural context shapes vocal sequences in two anuran species with different repertoire sizes	12
Content bias in the cultural evolution of house finch song	12
Personality shifts are inconsistent across two rapid range expansions of a non-native spider	12
Cleaner fish and other wrasse match primates in their ability to delay gratification	12
Intergroup lethal gang attacks in wild crested macaques, Macaca nigra	11
Extrapair paternity in a sequentially polyandrous shorebird: limited evidence for the sperm storage hypothesis	11
Skilful mating? Insights from animal contest research	11
The behaviour of infected guppies depends on social context, parasite tolerance and host sex	11
Combining social information use and comfort seeking for nest site selection in a cavity-nesting raptor	11
Social environment affects inhibitory control via developmental plasticity in a fish	11
Plumage manipulation alters associations between behaviour, physiology, the internal microbiome and fitness	11
Individual foraging site fidelity increases from incubation to nestling rearing in a colonial bird	11
Niche partitioning and individual specialization among age, breeding status and sex classes in a long-lived seabird	11
Plasticity and repeatability of activity patterns in free-living Arctic ground squirrels	11
Costs, constraints and sexual trait elaboration	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
High temperatures reduce song production and alter signal salience in songbirds	11
Genetic ancestry predicts male–female affiliation in a natural baboon hybrid zone	11
Anthropogenic noise alters the perception of a predator in a local community of great tits	11
Producer–scrounger relationships in yellow-bellied marmots	11
Relationship quality underpins pair bond formation and subsequent reproductive performance	11
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
Different as night and day: wild bats modify echolocation in complex environments when visual cues are present	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
Measuring mimicry: methods for quantifying visual similarity	11
Differential effect of aircraft noise on the spectral-temporal acoustic characteristics of frog species	11
Aggressive males are more attractive to females and more likely to win contests in jumping spiders	11
Personality and plasticity predict postrelease performance in a reintroduced mesopredator	10
A study of tactical and sexual dimorphism in cognition with insights for sexual conflict	10
Sequential and network analyses to describe multiple signal use in captive mangabeys	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
Reef manta ray social dynamics depend on individual differences in behaviour	10
Effects of a group-living experience on the antipredator responses of individual tadpoles	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
A test of the win-stay–lose-shift foraging strategy and its adaptive value in albatrosses	10
Bateman (1948): was it all wrong? A comment on Hoquet (2020)	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
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
Do reproductive constraints or experience drive age-dependent space use in two large herbivores?	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
The interplay between winner–loser effects and social rank in cooperatively breeding vertebrates	10
Individual differences in task participation in wild chacma baboons	9
Urban noise does not affect cognitive performance in wild Australian magpies	9
High-valued seeds are remembered better: evidence for item-based spatial memory of scatter-hoarding rodents	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
Long-term repeatability and age-related plasticity of female behaviour in a free-living passerine	9
Individual vocal signatures show reduced complexity following invasion	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
Stronger maternal social bonds and higher rank are associated with accelerated infant maturation in Kinda baboons	9
Social complexity in plateau pikas, Ochotona curzoniae	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
Impulsivity is affected by cognitive enrichment and links to brain gene expression in red junglefowl chicks	8
Out of sight, out of mind: dear enemy effect in the rufous hornero, Furnarius rufus	8
Zebrafish cooperate while inspecting predators: experimental evidence for conditional approach	8
Unpredictable risk enhances induced neophobia in northern red-bellied dace	8
Testing the acoustic adaptation hypothesis with vocalizations from three mongoose species	8
Biting and binding: an exclusive coercive mating strategy of males in a philodromid spider	8
Nest site selection in a terrestrial breeding frog: interrelationships between nest moisture, pH and male advertisement	8
My way is the highway: the role of plasticity in learning complex migration routes	8
Wood warblers learn to recognize mobbing calls of an unfamiliar species from heterospecific tutors	8
Male superb lyrebirds mimic functionally distinct heterospecific vocalizations during different modes of sexual display	8
Laboratory experiments reveal effects of group size on hunting performance in yellow saddle goatfish, Parupeneus cyclostomus	8
Behavioural syndrome between boldness and aggressiveness and link with reproductive success in a wild bird population	8
Factors affecting tolerance persistence after grooming interactions in wild female vervet monkeys, Chlorocebus pygerythrus	8
Spectral overlap and temporal avoidance in a tropical savannah frog community	8
The role of behavioural flexibility in primate diversification	8
Individual recognition and individual identity signals in Polistes fuscatus wasps vary geographically	8
Cooperative nest building in wild jackdaw pairs	8
Heritability of dispersal in a rapidly spreading invasive spider	8
No cultural transmission of use of nest materials in titmice Paridae	8
Odour-based social recognition in Damaraland mole-rats, Fukomys damarensis	8
Experimental manipulation of food distribution alters social networks and information transmission across environments in a food-caching bird	8
Temperature-driven changes in behavioural unpredictability and personality in the beadlet sea anemone, Actinia equina	8
Spatiotemporal patterns of egg laying in the common cuckoo	8
Client fish traits underlying variation in service quality in a marine cleaning mutualism	8
Exploration and spatial cognition show long-term repeatability but no heritability in the Aegean wall lizard	8
Guidelines for the treatment of animals in behavioural research and teaching	8
Oviposition site selection and learning in a butterfly under niche expansion: an experimental test	8
Resource competition shapes female–female aggression in olive baboons, Papio anubis	8
Wild female vervet monkeys change grooming patterns and partners when freed from feeding constraints	8
Why do nestling birds fledge early in the day?	8
Differences in flight initiation distances between African and Australian birds	8
Seasonal fission and fusion of killer whale, Orcinus orca, social structure at sub-Antarctic Marion Island	8
Spatial bet hedging, thermal trade-offs and glyphosate: crickets integrate multivariate information during oviposition	8
Echolocation call frequencies of bats vary with body temperature and weather conditions	8
Waste management by ants: the enhancing role of larvae	8
Relaxed territoriality amid female trickery in a solitary carnivore	8
Jumping spiders attend to information from multiple modalities when preparing to jump	8
More aggressive sea turtles win fights over foraging resources independent of body size and years of presence	8
Mortality risk promotes cooperation of wasps when paralysing hosts	8
Reducing the bias due to unknown relationships in measuring the steepness of a dominance hierarchy	8
The angle of attack: rapping technique predicts skill in hermit crab contests	8
The choice of euthanasia techniques can affect experimental results in aquatic behavioural studies	8
A window into fly sex: mating increases female but reduces male longevity in black soldier flies	8
Referential gestures are not ubiquitous in wild chimpanzees: alternative functions for exaggerated loud scratch gestures	8
Parenting in the city: effects of urbanization on incubation behaviour and egg temperature in great tits, Parus major	8
Visual displays enhance vocal duet production and the perception of coordination despite spatial separation of partners	8
Divorce rate varies with fluidity of passerine social environment	7
Ultraviolet polarized light pollution and evolutionary traps for aquatic insects	7
Keep calm and carry on: reactive indifference to predator encounters by a gregarious prey species	7
Individual foraging specialization in group-living species	7
Start and end of daily activity predict extrapair siring success independently of age in male blue tits	7
Testosterone treatment produces sex-dependent effects in social dominance	7
Personality-dependent passage behaviour of an aquatic invasive species at a barrier to dispersal	7
Costs and benefits of isolation from siblings during family life in adult earwigs	7
Age-dependent chemical signalling and its consequences for mate attraction in the gumleaf skeletonizer moth, Uraba lugens	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
Vocal functional flexibility: what it is and why it matters	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
An integrated approach to infer the mechanisms of mate choice for size	7
Interaction between sexual communication functions leads to reproductive interference in two syntopic scorpion species	7
Reciprocal plasticity and the diversification of communication systems	7
Honey bee waggle dances facilitate shorter foraging distances and increased foraging aggregation	7
The male swallowtail butterfly, Papilio polytes, uses cuticular hydrocarbons for mate discrimination	7
Interactions and information: exploring task allocation in ant colonies using network analysis	7
Collective attention in navigating homing pigeons: group size effect and individual differences	7
Preschool for small frys: threat-sensitive learning of predators by embryonic fathead minnows	7
Food-exchanging Norway rats apply the direct reciprocity decision rule rather than copying by imitation	7
Inhibitory control performance is repeatable over time and across contexts in a wild bird population	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
Human impact on deer use is greater than predators and competitors in a multiuse recreation area	7
Causes of plasticity and consistency of dispersal behaviour in a group-living spider	7
Individuality, as well as genetic background, affects syntactical features of courtship songs in male mice	7
Testing measures of boldness and exploratory activity in native versus invasive species: geckos as a model system	7
Who cares? An integrative approach to understanding the evolution of behavioural plasticity in parental care	7
Dispersal and life history of brown widow spiders in dated invasive populations on two continents	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
Multimodality during live tutoring is relevant for vocal learning in zebra finches	7
Microgeographical variation in birdsong: Savannah sparrows exhibit microdialects in an island population	7