Animal Behaviour

Article	Citations
Association Page	85
Erratum to “Extreme temperatures can intensify predator–prey interactions” [Animal Behaviour 225, July 2025, 123242]	57
Sexual size dimorphism of brood-parasitic nestlings does not affect host chick survival, size or fledging phenology	39
Editors Page	39
Olfaction and reproductive isolation in birds	38
Foraging location preferences reflect memory interference associated with spatial learning tasks in a food-caching bird	37
Environment-dependent benefits of interindividual variation in honey bee recruitment	36
Coordination of care is facilitated by delayed feeding and collective arrivals in the long-tailed tit	34
Prepared learning in plant–pollinator interactions	30
Diel timing of migration is not plastic in a migratory ungulate	27
Reducing the bias due to unknown relationships in measuring the steepness of a dominance hierarchy	26
Editors Page	25
Editors’ Acknowledgments	25
Punishment from dominant breeders increases helping effort of subordinates in a cooperatively breeding cichlid	25
Sperm oxidative status varies with the level of sperm competition and affects male reproductive success	25
Strong ties formation, composition and processes at play during the developmental period of juvenile vervet monkeys	23
Male reproductive strategies are influenced by the maternal sociosexual environment	22
Parental predator exposure affects offspring boldness and laterality in the stickleback	22
Brown-headed cowbirds select nests to parasitize based on individual host attributes rather than nest type	21
Behavioural plasticity and the anthropause: an urban bird becomes less aggressive	21
28 minutes later: investigating the role of aflatrem-like compounds in Ophiocordyceps parasite manipulation of zombie ants	20
Fitness incentives to male fighters undermine fighting performance in intergroup contests	20
Honey bee foraging behaviour can be influenced by preferencesfor oscillating flowers	20
Hatchling vocalizations and beneficial social interactions in subterranean nests of a widespread reptile	20
Conceptual representations of animal social networks: an overview	20

The social consequences of sexual conflict in bed bugs: social networks and sexual attraction	19
Anthropogenic influences on play of the green monkeys of Barbados	19
The unfulfilled potential of dogs in studying behavioural ecology and evolution during the Anthropocene	19
Editors' Acknowledgments	19
Bottlenose dolphin community structure along Florida’s Gulf coast	19
Stimulus type and social context are stronger than individual differences in common marmosets' novelty exploration	19
Female–female conflict is higher during periods of parental care in a group-living cichlid fish	19
Population-dependent dispersal potential of freshwater invasive amphipods: a case study of Dikerogammarus villosus	19
Wild kangaroos become more social when caring for young and may maintain long-term affiliations with popular individuals	18
Editors Page	18
The importance of detailed observations of behaviour and natural history for generating and answering novel questions	18
Association Page	18
k-mer analysis shows hybrid hummingbirds perform variable, transgressive courtship sequences	18
Mobbing sequences of American wrens elicit mobbing responses in European tits	17
Association Page	17
Frenemies in Fur: neighbour–stranger discrimination and the ‘dear enemy’ effect in mammals, and how it relates to sociality	17
Exploring the potency and replenishment of woodfrog disturbance cues, a nonspecific communication system in aquatic species	17
Contrasting acoustic-space competition avoidance strategies in Afrotropical forest birds	17
Woodpeckers are more cryptic against tree bark on which they forage	17
Beyond brawls: the role of aggression in male contests among common fighting spiders	16
Socially cued anticipatory plasticity predicts male primary mating tactic but not mating behaviour rates	16
Inconsistent fear: repeatability in flight initiation distance and neophobic behaviour differs in a ground-nesting bird	16
Investigating the impact of human disturbance on predator behaviour in human-dominated landscapes	16
No evidence of kin preferences in a feral horse multilevel society	16
Carotenoid intake during early life mediates ontogenetic colour shifts and dynamic colour change during adulthood	16
The choice of euthanasia techniques can affect experimental results in aquatic behavioural studies	16
Map and compass navigation: the mechanism and ontogeny of animal maps	15
Assessing animal welfare: a triangulation of preference, judgement bias and other candidate welfare indicators	15
Behavioural plasticity adjusts rapidly to repeated temperature increases: mean, among- and within-individual responses	15
Phenotypic plasticity in the anthropause: does reduced human activity impact novel nesting behaviour in an urban bird?	15
Prenatal sound experience affects song preferences in male zebra finches	15
Potential costs of learning have no detectable impact on reproductive success for bumble bees	15
Active interactions between animals and technology: biohybrid approaches for animal behaviour research	15
Validation of a novel immersive virtual reality set-up with responses of wild-caught freely moving coral reef fish	14
Sex roles in parental care in a species with precocial offspring and frequent brood desertion	14
Resource limitation drives fission–fusion dynamics of group composition and size in a social bird	14
Editors Page	14
Does distinctiveness enhance memory for cooperative events in Norway rats?	14
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Helicopter parenting: local-scale environment determines hiding and supervision in neonatal ungulates	14
The influence of social rank on learning in a group-living fish	14
Editors Page	13
Male forehead gland scent may encode multiple information in the great Himalayan leaf-nosed bat, Hipposideros armiger	13
About time: synchrony in onset of parental care influences cooperation and offspring performance in a burying beetle	13
Effects of hormones and digestive tract morphology on personality-driven foraging behaviour in the turtle Mauremys reevesii	13
Plant choice for oviposition in the phytophagous insect Bemisia tabaci: cytotype, including symbionts, knows best!	13
Divergent nutrient preferences of two coexisting fruit flies, Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans	13
Light modulates population differences in alternative mating tactics in Trinidadian guppies	13
Editors Page	12
Animal Behaviour Best Paper Prizes 2025	12

Human impact on deer use is greater than predators and competitors in a multiuse recreation area	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
Wildlife tourism has little energetic impact on the world's largest predatory shark	12
Bachelor groups form due to individual choices or environmental disrupters in African striped mice	12
The effect of turbidity on female mate choice in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata	12
Hyperparasitoids exploit plant volatiles to locate their parasitoid host despite nonhost herbivore interference	12
Is there evidence for the Bruce effect in white-faced capuchins?	12
Silk of females performing maternal care elicits reduced courtship responses in male spiders	12
Neural networks reveal emergent properties of collective learning in democratic but not despotic groups	12
Social preference persists at roosting aggregations in a cooperatively breeding bird	12
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]	12
Collective close calling mediates group cohesion in foraging meerkats via spatially determined differences in call rates	12
Effects of assortative mating for personality on reproductive success in greylag geese, Anser anser	12
Heat stress inhibits cognitive performance in wild Western Australian magpies, Cracticus tibicen dorsalis	12
Information maintenance of food sources is associated with environment, spatial cognition and age in a food-caching bird	12
Erratum to “Context-dependent responses of naïve ungulates to wolf-sound playback in a human-dominated landscape” [Animal Behaviour, 185 (2022), 9–20]	11
Learning predictably changing spatial patterns across days in a food-caching bird	11
Are you serious? Relaxed open mouth may unveil the competitive/cooperative nature of play fighting in two feline species	11
Heterogeneous microcosm mazes affect reproduction and survival in a wingless hyperparasitoid wasp	11
Finding love: fruit fly males evolving under higher sexual selection are inherently better at finding receptive females	11
The ontogeny of nest-building behaviour in Sumatran orang-utans, Pongo abelii	11
Association Page	11
Females pair with males larger than themselves in a socially monogamous songbird	11
Earwig mothers can boost offspring’s defence against pathogens during postoviposition care	11
Too hot to handle: male dragonflies decrease time spent mating at higher temperatures	11
Estimating social network metrics from single-file movements in Barbary macaques, Macaca sylvanus	11
Thermoenergetic challenges and daytime behavioural patterns of a wild cathemeral mammal	11
Association Page	11
Effect of age and mating on body condition, fecundity and metabolic rate in female sand crickets, Gryllus firmus	11
Studying mate choice using inertial measurement units: a validation study with treefrogs	11
Social impact of mara pair disruption on the formation of new bonds and reproduction in a multiple mate choice context	11
Reversal learning of visual cues in Heliconiini butterflies	11
Nest construction and its effect on posthatching family life in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides	10
Human activity selectively affects a dynamic defensive mutualism	10
Higher cortisol in muscle correlates with weaker strength of female mate preference in the swordtail fish Xiphophorus multilineatus	10
Both humans and conspecifics provide social support to dog and wolf puppies	10
The smell of familiarity: conspecific faeces influence roost exploration and occupation in wild Bechstein's bats	10
Selective social tolerance drives differentiated relationships among wild female chimpanzees	10
How do primates decide where to feed? Insights from wild western gorillas	10
Microgeographical variation in birdsong: Savannah sparrows exhibit microdialects in an island population	10
The heritability of fear: decomposing sources of variation in marmot flight initiation distance	10
Innovating to solve a novel puzzle: wild Asian elephants vary in their ability to problem solve	10
Capybara responses to varying levels of predation risk	10
Knowing a fellow by their bellow: acoustic individuality in the bellows of the American alligator	10
Acoustic modulation of reproductive hormones in the blacktail shiner, Cyprinella venusta, a soniferous cyprinid	10
Risky business: consistent breeding migration in a benthic shark despite environmental variability	10
Costa's hummingbird has an extended sensitive phase of vocal learning	10
When sibling tolerance meets cannibalism of the dead in spiderlings	10
Association Page	10
Inference in wolves and dogs: the ‘cups task’, revisited	10
Social networks of the greater horseshoe bat during the hibernation season: a landscape-scale case study	10
Infection impairs problem-solving performance in American crows	10
Acoustic communication and environmental factors drive coordinated digging behaviour during an early life stage transition of a freshwater turtle	10
Evidence of stable preferential affiliative relationships in the domestic pig	10
Invasion of alien slugs in disturbed habitats: role of behavioural phenotype, plasticity and interspecific competition	9
Computational analyses of dynamic visual displays reveal diet-dependent male signalling in Rabidosa rabida wolf spiders	9
Information cascades spread adaptive and maladaptive behaviours in group-living animals	9
Resting ecology of parasitoids in the field: safe in a bed and breakfast?	9
Workload inequality increases with group size in a cooperatively breeding bird	9
The role of male body size in mating success and male–male competition in a false widow spider	9
Editors Page	9
The parasitoid Cotesia glomerata responds differently to plant volatile emission induced by parasitized caterpillars	9
Socioecological correlates of social play in adult mantled howler monkeys	9
Food-exchanging Norway rats apply the direct reciprocity decision rule rather than copying by imitation	9
Variation in Nubian ibex's tolerance to humans is shaped by urban environmental conditions and social groups	9
Is sexiness cumulative? Arguments from birdsong culture	9
Ranging patterns and mortality of an at-risk marine mammal resident in a highly urbanized estuary	9
The effect of temporal masking on alarm call communication in wild superb fairy-wrens	9
The role of cuticular hydrocarbon sexual dimorphism on Drosophila courtship	9
Fitness effects of seasonal birth timing in a long-lived social primate living in the equatorial forest	9
Searching day and night: diel hierarchical search patterns in a large marine predator that never stops swimming	9
Maternal conflict intervention is more frequent in chimpanzee compared to bonobo development	8
The case for investigating the cognitive map in nonavian reptiles	8
Long-term observations reveal short-term mother–calf affiliation in wild harbour porpoises	8
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Animal Behaviour Best Paper Prizes 2024	8
Social exploitation of extensive, ephemeral, environmentally controlled prey patches by supergroups of rorqual whales	8
Sex-specific territoriality, aggression and duetting in the Carolina wren during the nonbreeding season	8

Costs and benefits of isolation from siblings during family life in adult earwigs	8
Vocal sacs do not function in multimodal mate attraction under nocturnal illumination in Cope's grey treefrog	8
Parental care behaviour in bumble bee queens is tightly regulated by the number of helpers in incipient nests	8
Goats discriminate emotional valence in the human voice	8
Exposure to lead (Pb) contamination heightens predator avoidance behaviours in an urban bird	8
Consistent individual differences give rise to ‘caching syndromes’ in a food-storing passerine	8
Guidelines for the ethical treatment of nonhuman animals in behavioural research and teaching	8
Within-cavity nest preferences: honey bees favour the entrance rather than the ceiling when initiating their nest	8
Growing into it: evidence of an ontogenetic shift in grey whale use of foraging tactics	8
Size sometimes matters: recognition of known predators with artificially altered body size by untrained birds	8
Physiological innovation and the evolutionary elaboration of courtship behaviour	8
Biological, social and ecological correlates of social play in immature Bwindi mountain gorillas, Gorilla beringei beringei	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
The effects of prenatal predator cue exposure on offspring substrate preferences in the wolf spider Tigrosa helluo	8
Habituation or sensitization? Short-term adjustment of flight initiation distance in incubating common eiders	8
The role of similarity of stimuli and responses in learning by nectar-foraging bumble bees: a test of Osgood’s model	8
Egg turning in a subtropical shorebird has a diel rhythmicityand is affected by predation risk	8
Courtship vocalizations of wild house mice show highly dynamic changes and correlate with male copulatory success	8
Behavioural context shapes vocal sequences in two anuran species with different repertoire sizes	8
Functionally referential communication about danger in cooperatively breeding white-winged choughs	8
Urban foxes are bolder but not more innovative than their rural conspecifics	8
Unravelling communicative complexity: a multimodal comparative study of two lemur species with different social systems	7
The relaxed open mouth is a true signal in dogs: demonstrating Tinbergen's ritualization process	7
Performance of Doppler shift compensation varies with environmental temperature and humidity in bats	7
Friend virus severity is associated with male mouse social status and environmental temperature	7
Behavioural sleep in salmonid fish with flexible diel activity	7
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Alarm cue properties and euthanasia impact on tadpole antipredator behaviour in Rana temporaria and Bufo bufo	7
Mechanisms of mobbing call recognition: exploring featural decoding in great tits	7
Interactive electrical behaviour in mormyrid weakly electric fish: jamming avoidance response or social interaction?	7
Size-based dominance relationships in female forest elephants, Loxodonta cyclotis	7
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Space use and social networks: correlated but not congruent in California ground squirrels	7
Adult sex ratio influences courtship behaviour, contest behaviour and breeding success in Onthophagus taurus	7
Feeding rate reflects quality in both parents and offspring: a longitudinal study in common terns	7
Infection by virulent wMelPop Wolbachia improves learning and memory capacity in Drosophila melanogaster	7
What it is like to be an optimist: temporal stability of cognitive bias in rats and its link to other individual traits	7
Behavioural traits for success: comparison between two sympatric lacertid lizard species	7
Predatory cue use in flush responses of a colonial nesting seabird during polar bear foraging	7
Homing pigeon navigational ontogeny: no evidence that exposure to a novel release site is sufficient for learning	7
Images of nonhuman animals in animal behaviour textbooks communicate an androcentric view of reproductive-related behaviours	7
Visual and chemical signals function multimodally in species recognition	7
The complex societies of spotted hyaenas	7
Family pigs’ and dogs’ reactions to human emotional vocalizations:a citizen science study	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
Editors Page	7
Delayed benefits for fallow bucks: more fights decrease same day mating success, but increase matings the next day	7
Does group living protect offspring from the toxic effects of cadmium ingestion in juvenile earwigs?	7
The spiders that lost their personalities: assessing long-term behavioural individuality in social Stegodyphus dumicola	7
Impacts of fungal disease on dyadic social interactions in a wild agamid lizard	7
Male superb lyrebirds mimic functionally distinct heterospecific vocalizations during different modes of sexual display	7
Pseudoreplication of sound treatments in underwater exposure studies	7
Helping syndrome is partially confirmed in the eusocial naked mole-rat	7
In dogs, social stimuli overshadow nonsocial stimuli and stronger attachment correlates with responses to the latter	7
Gut cancer increases the risk of Drosophila being preyed upon by hunting spiders	7
Changes in movement characteristics in response to private and social information acquisition of socially foraging fish	7
Alerting components in animal vocalization	7
The context of sexual coercion in orang-utans: when do male and female mating interests collide?	7
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Fatherhood increases attraction to sensory stimuli from unrelated pups in male California mice, Peromyscus californicus	7
Fitness benefits from co-display favour subdominant male–male partnerships between phenotypes	7
Female demographic changes contribute to the maintenance of social stability within a primate multilevel society	7
Social learning of navigational routes in tandem-running acorn ants, Temnothorax nylanderi	6
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Reintroducing native predators improves antipredator responses in naïve prey	6
Colour morph predicts social behaviour and contest outcomes in a polymorphic lizard (Podarcis erhardii)	6
Stable isotopes reveal the effects of maternal rank and infant age on weaning dynamics in wild chacma baboons	6
Urban colonies are less aggressive but forage more than their forest counterparts in the ant Temnothorax nylanderi	6
Corrigendum to “Foraging response of bluegill Lepomis macrochirus to microplastics and subsequent impacts on swimming performance” [Animal Behaviour 221 (March 2025) 123079]	6
Burden of a failed error culture in biologging	6
Shedding light on nocturnal behaviour: a cost-effective solution for remote, infrared video recording in the field	6
Capuchin monkeys’ ability to choose beneficial options is inhibited by added complexity	6
African penguins utilize their ventral dot patterns for individual recognition	6
Dispersal behaviour and settlement in an invasive bird: dispersers prefer their natal habitat	6
Anthropogenic noise alters the perception of a predator in a local community of great tits	6
Long-lasting social bonds of a habitat-structured delphinid social system	6
Can an acoustic communication network be used for spatial orientation?	6
Behavioural syndrome between boldness and aggressiveness and link with reproductive success in a wild bird population	6
Adaptive adjustment of the FM component of calls in CF-FM bats is not involved in avoidance of conspecific jamming	6
Predation facilitates evolution of sex-specific antipredator defences in a sexually dimorphic beetle	6
Understanding unpredictability: factors influencing how long antlion larvae play dead as an antipredator behaviour	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
Persistence of alternative reproductive tactics: a test of game-theoretic predictions	6
Rise and fall: increasing temperatures have nonlinear effects on aggression in a tropical fish	6
Age mediates access to landfill food resources and foraging proficiency in a long-lived bird species	6
Playing music to animals: an interdisciplinary approach to improving our understanding of animals' responses to music	6
Spatial preferences influence associations between magnitude and space in honey bees	6
Behavioural thermoregulation compensates for changes in solar insolation in a wild insect	6
Watchful of strangers: waxbills redirect aggression from unfamiliar to familiar individuals	6
Vocal recognition of distance calls in a group-living basal bird: the greylag goose, Anser anser	6
Intraspecific variation in audience effects during outgroup conflict in a cooperatively breeding fish	6
Speed consensus and behavioural coordination of Adélie penguins travelling on sea ice in groups	6
Guidelines for the treatment of animals in behavioural research and teaching	6