Animal Behaviour

Article	Citations
Association Page	78
Erratum to “Extreme temperatures can intensify predator–prey interactions” [Animal Behaviour 225, July 2025, 123242]	53
Editors Page	39
Olfaction and reproductive isolation in birds	37
Sexual size dimorphism of brood-parasitic nestlings does not affect host chick survival, size or fledging phenology	37
Prepared learning in plant–pollinator interactions	37
Foraging location preferences reflect memory interference associated with spatial learning tasks in a food-caching bird	36
The unfulfilled potential of dogs in studying behavioural ecology and evolution during the Anthropocene	34
Population-dependent dispersal potential of freshwater invasive amphipods: a case study of Dikerogammarus villosus	31
Punishment from dominant breeders increases helping effort of subordinates in a cooperatively breeding cichlid	28
Hatchling vocalizations and beneficial social interactions in subterranean nests of a widespread reptile	26
Honey bee foraging behaviour can be influenced by preferencesfor oscillating flowers	26
Editors Page	25
Behavioural plasticity and the anthropause: an urban bird becomes less aggressive	25
Conceptual representations of animal social networks: an overview	24
Sperm oxidative status varies with the level of sperm competition and affects male reproductive success	24
Editors’ Acknowledgments	23
Strong ties formation, composition and processes at play during the developmental period of juvenile vervet monkeys	23
Indirect effect of familiarity on survival: a path analysis on video game data	21
Anthropogenic influences on play of the green monkeys of Barbados	20
Coordination of care is facilitated by delayed feeding and collective arrivals in the long-tailed tit	20
Fitness incentives to male fighters undermine fighting performance in intergroup contests	20
Reducing the bias due to unknown relationships in measuring the steepness of a dominance hierarchy	20
Diel timing of migration is not plastic in a migratory ungulate	20
Male reproductive strategies are influenced by the maternal sociosexual environment	20

Parental predator exposure affects offspring boldness and laterality in the stickleback	19
28 minutes later: investigating the role of aflatrem-like compounds in Ophiocordyceps parasite manipulation of zombie ants	19
Bottlenose dolphin community structure along Florida’s Gulf coast	19
Female–female conflict is higher during periods of parental care in a group-living cichlid fish	19
Brown-headed cowbirds select nests to parasitize based on individual host attributes rather than nest type	19
Stimulus type and social context are stronger than individual differences in common marmosets' novelty exploration	19
Environment-dependent benefits of interindividual variation in honey bee recruitment	19
k-mer analysis shows hybrid hummingbirds perform variable, transgressive courtship sequences	18
Socially cued anticipatory plasticity predicts male primary mating tactic but not mating behaviour rates	18
Resource limitation drives fission–fusion dynamics of group composition and size in a social bird	18
The social consequences of sexual conflict in bed bugs: social networks and sexual attraction	18
Editors' Acknowledgments	18
Association Page	18
Editors Page	17
Wild kangaroos become more social when caring for young and may maintain long-term affiliations with popular individuals	17
Investigating the impact of human disturbance on predator behaviour in human-dominated landscapes	17
Phenotypic plasticity in the anthropause: does reduced human activity impact novel nesting behaviour in an urban bird?	17
Beyond brawls: the role of aggression in male contests among common fighting spiders	17
Association Page	17
Active interactions between animals and technology: biohybrid approaches for animal behaviour research	16
Behavioural plasticity adjusts rapidly to repeated temperature increases: mean, among- and within-individual responses	16
Inconsistent fear: repeatability in flight initiation distance and neophobic behaviour differs in a ground-nesting bird	16
Frenemies in Fur: neighbour–stranger discrimination and the ‘dear enemy’ effect in mammals, and how it relates to sociality	16
The choice of euthanasia techniques can affect experimental results in aquatic behavioural studies	16
Exploring the potency and replenishment of woodfrog disturbance cues, a nonspecific communication system in aquatic species	15
The influence of social rank on learning in a group-living fish	15
Woodpeckers are more cryptic against tree bark on which they forage	15
The importance of detailed observations of behaviour and natural history for generating and answering novel questions	15
Mobbing sequences of American wrens elicit mobbing responses in European tits	15
Association Page	15
No evidence of kin preferences in a feral horse multilevel society	14
Carotenoid intake during early life mediates ontogenetic colour shifts and dynamic colour change during adulthood	14
Sex roles in parental care in a species with precocial offspring and frequent brood desertion	14
Editors Page	14
Assessing animal welfare: a triangulation of preference, judgement bias and other candidate welfare indicators	14
Map and compass navigation: the mechanism and ontogeny of animal maps	14
Helicopter parenting: local-scale environment determines hiding and supervision in neonatal ungulates	14
Prenatal sound experience affects song preferences in male zebra finches	14
Potential costs of learning have no detectable impact on reproductive success for bumble bees	14
Contrasting acoustic-space competition avoidance strategies in Afrotropical forest birds	14
Hyperparasitoids exploit plant volatiles to locate their parasitoid host despite nonhost herbivore interference	14
Neural networks reveal emergent properties of collective learning in democratic but not despotic groups	14
Interaction between sexual communication functions leads to reproductive interference in two syntopic scorpion species	13
Editors Page	13
Male forehead gland scent may encode multiple information in the great Himalayan leaf-nosed bat, Hipposideros armiger	13
Collective close calling mediates group cohesion in foraging meerkats via spatially determined differences in call rates	13
I love to hate my neighbour: how recognition of dear enemies affects male antipredator behaviours in a lizard species	13
Plant choice for oviposition in the phytophagous insect Bemisia tabaci: cytotype, including symbionts, knows best!	13
Keep calm and carry on: reactive indifference to predator encounters by a gregarious prey species	13
Validation of a novel immersive virtual reality set-up with responses of wild-caught freely moving coral reef fish	13

Information maintenance of food sources is associated with environment, spatial cognition and age in a food-caching bird	13
Heat stress inhibits cognitive performance in wild Western Australian magpies, Cracticus tibicen dorsalis	12
Roost fidelity partially explains maternity roosting association patterns in Myotis lucifugus	12
Bachelor groups form due to individual choices or environmental disrupters in African striped mice	12
Editors Page	12
Effects of assortative mating for personality on reproductive success in greylag geese, Anser anser	12
Light modulates population differences in alternative mating tactics in Trinidadian guppies	12
Human impact on deer use is greater than predators and competitors in a multiuse recreation area	12
Divergent nutrient preferences of two coexisting fruit flies, Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans	12
About time: synchrony in onset of parental care influences cooperation and offspring performance in a burying beetle	12
Wildlife tourism has little energetic impact on the world's largest predatory shark	12
Is there evidence for the Bruce effect in white-faced capuchins?	12
Effects of hormones and digestive tract morphology on personality-driven foraging behaviour in the turtle Mauremys reevesii	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
Association Page	11
Thermoenergetic challenges and daytime behavioural patterns of a wild cathemeral mammal	11
Too hot to handle: male dragonflies decrease time spent mating at higher temperatures	11
The effect of turbidity on female mate choice in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata	11
Females pair with males larger than themselves in a socially monogamous songbird	11
Is female mate choice repeatable across males with nearly identical songs?	11
How do primates decide where to feed? Insights from wild western gorillas	11
Studying mate choice using inertial measurement units: a validation study with treefrogs	11
Effect of age and mating on body condition, fecundity and metabolic rate in female sand crickets, Gryllus firmus	11
Editors Page	11
Social preference persists at roosting aggregations in a cooperatively breeding bird	11
Acoustic communication and environmental factors drive coordinated digging behaviour during an early life stage transition of a freshwater turtle	11
Finding love: fruit fly males evolving under higher sexual selection are inherently better at finding receptive females	11
Association Page	11
Social impact of mara pair disruption on the formation of new bonds and reproduction in a multiple mate choice context	11
Learning predictably changing spatial patterns across days in a food-caching bird	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
Editors Page	11
Are you serious? Relaxed open mouth may unveil the competitive/cooperative nature of play fighting in two feline species	11
Evidence of stable preferential affiliative relationships in the domestic pig	10
Earwig mothers can boost offspring’s defence against pathogens during postoviposition care	10
Selective social tolerance drives differentiated relationships among wild female chimpanzees	10
Socioecological correlates of social play in adult mantled howler monkeys	10
Infection impairs problem-solving performance in American crows	10
Getting lost: the fungal hijacking of ant foraging behaviour in space and time	10
Estimating social network metrics from single-file movements in Barbary macaques, Macaca sylvanus	10
The ontogeny of nest-building behaviour in Sumatran orang-utans, Pongo abelii	10
The smell of familiarity: conspecific faeces influence roost exploration and occupation in wild Bechstein's bats	10
Workload inequality increases with group size in a cooperatively breeding bird	10
Microgeographical variation in birdsong: Savannah sparrows exhibit microdialects in an island population	10
Reversal learning of visual cues in Heliconiini butterflies	10
Heterogeneous microcosm mazes affect reproduction and survival in a wingless hyperparasitoid wasp	10
The role of cuticular hydrocarbon sexual dimorphism on Drosophila courtship	10
Acoustic modulation of reproductive hormones in the blacktail shiner, Cyprinella venusta, a soniferous cyprinid	10
Searching day and night: diel hierarchical search patterns in a large marine predator that never stops swimming	10
Ranging patterns and mortality of an at-risk marine mammal resident in a highly urbanized estuary	9
Invasion of alien slugs in disturbed habitats: role of behavioural phenotype, plasticity and interspecific competition	9
Both humans and conspecifics provide social support to dog and wolf puppies	9
Nest construction and its effect on posthatching family life in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides	9
Editors Page	9
Computational analyses of dynamic visual displays reveal diet-dependent male signalling in Rabidosa rabida wolf spiders	9
The effect of temporal masking on alarm call communication in wild superb fairy-wrens	9
Resting ecology of parasitoids in the field: safe in a bed and breakfast?	9
Fitness effects of seasonal birth timing in a long-lived social primate living in the equatorial forest	9
Higher cortisol in muscle correlates with weaker strength of female mate preference in the swordtail fish Xiphophorus multilineatus	9
When sibling tolerance meets cannibalism of the dead in spiderlings	9
Association Page	9
Information cascades spread adaptive and maladaptive behaviours in group-living animals	9
Is sexiness cumulative? Arguments from birdsong culture	9
The parasitoid Cotesia glomerata responds differently to plant volatile emission induced by parasitized caterpillars	9
Innovating to solve a novel puzzle: wild Asian elephants vary in their ability to problem solve	9
Costa's hummingbird has an extended sensitive phase of vocal learning	9
The heritability of fear: decomposing sources of variation in marmot flight initiation distance	9
Human activity selectively affects a dynamic defensive mutualism	9
Capybara responses to varying levels of predation risk	9
Social networks of the greater horseshoe bat during the hibernation season: a landscape-scale case study	9
Inference in wolves and dogs: the ‘cups task’, revisited	8
Animal Behaviour Best Paper Prizes 2024	8
The complex societies of spotted hyaenas	8
Editors Page	8
Changes in movement characteristics in response to private and social information acquisition of socially foraging fish	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
Knowing a fellow by their bellow: acoustic individuality in the bellows of the American alligator	8
The role of male body size in mating success and male–male competition in a false widow spider	8
The role of similarity of stimuli and responses in learning by nectar-foraging bumble bees: a test of Osgood’s model	8

Vocal sacs do not function in multimodal mate attraction under nocturnal illumination in Cope's grey treefrog	8
Long-term observations reveal short-term mother–calf affiliation in wild harbour porpoises	8
Courtship vocalizations of wild house mice show highly dynamic changes and correlate with male copulatory success	8
Editors Page	8
Family pigs’ and dogs’ reactions to human emotional vocalizations:a citizen science study	8
Food-exchanging Norway rats apply the direct reciprocity decision rule rather than copying by imitation	8
Biological, social and ecological correlates of social play in immature Bwindi mountain gorillas, Gorilla beringei beringei	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
Mechanisms of mobbing call recognition: exploring featural decoding in great tits	8
Guidelines for the ethical treatment of nonhuman animals in behavioural research and teaching	8
The effects of prenatal predator cue exposure on offspring substrate preferences in the wolf spider Tigrosa helluo	8
Within-cavity nest preferences: honey bees favour the entrance rather than the ceiling when initiating their nest	8
Visual and chemical signals function multimodally in species recognition	7
Unravelling communicative complexity: a multimodal comparative study of two lemur species with different social systems	7
Reintroducing native predators improves antipredator responses in naïve prey	7
Performance of Doppler shift compensation varies with environmental temperature and humidity in bats	7
Adult sex ratio influences courtship behaviour, contest behaviour and breeding success in Onthophagus taurus	7
Male superb lyrebirds mimic functionally distinct heterospecific vocalizations during different modes of sexual display	7
Growing into it: evidence of an ontogenetic shift in grey whale use of foraging tactics	7
Behavioural context shapes vocal sequences in two anuran species with different repertoire sizes	7
Impacts of fungal disease on dyadic social interactions in a wild agamid lizard	7
Size-based dominance relationships in female forest elephants, Loxodonta cyclotis	7
Pseudoreplication of sound treatments in underwater exposure studies	7
In dogs, social stimuli overshadow nonsocial stimuli and stronger attachment correlates with responses to the latter	7
Goats discriminate emotional valence in the human voice	7
Costs and benefits of isolation from siblings during family life in adult earwigs	7
The spiders that lost their personalities: assessing long-term behavioural individuality in social Stegodyphus dumicola	7
Fitness benefits from co-display favour subdominant male–male partnerships between phenotypes	7
Fatherhood increases attraction to sensory stimuli from unrelated pups in male California mice, Peromyscus californicus	7
Age mediates access to landfill food resources and foraging proficiency in a long-lived bird species	7
Association Page	7
Editors Page	7
Behavioural sleep in salmonid fish with flexible diel activity	7
Habituation or sensitization? Short-term adjustment of flight initiation distance in incubating common eiders	7
The context of sexual coercion in orang-utans: when do male and female mating interests collide?	7
Delayed benefits for fallow bucks: more fights decrease same day mating success, but increase matings the next day	7
Functionally referential communication about danger in cooperatively breeding white-winged choughs	7
Homing pigeon navigational ontogeny: no evidence that exposure to a novel release site is sufficient for learning	7
The case for investigating the cognitive map in nonavian reptiles	7
Social exploitation of extensive, ephemeral, environmentally controlled prey patches by supergroups of rorqual whales	7
Consistent individual differences give rise to ‘caching syndromes’ in a food-storing passerine	7
Editors Page	7
Space use and social networks: correlated but not congruent in California ground squirrels	7
Images of nonhuman animals in animal behaviour textbooks communicate an androcentric view of reproductive-related behaviours	7
Physiological innovation and the evolutionary elaboration of courtship behaviour	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
Association Page	7
Predatory cue use in flush responses of a colonial nesting seabird during polar bear foraging	7
Urban foxes are bolder but not more innovative than their rural conspecifics	7
Infection by virulent wMelPop Wolbachia improves learning and memory capacity in Drosophila melanogaster	7
Exposure to lead (Pb) contamination heightens predator avoidance behaviours in an urban bird	7
Alarm cue properties and euthanasia impact on tadpole antipredator behaviour in Rana temporaria and Bufo bufo	7
Behavioural traits for success: comparison between two sympatric lacertid lizard species	7
Egg turning in a subtropical shorebird has a diel rhythmicityand is affected by predation risk	7
Parental care behaviour in bumble bee queens is tightly regulated by the number of helpers in incipient nests	7
Sex-specific territoriality, aggression and duetting in the Carolina wren during the nonbreeding season	7
What you eat affects how you mate: sex-specific plasticity in black soldier fly reproduction driven by larval nutrition	6
Aggression induced by ornament similarity is limited to females in a mutually ornamented fish, Betta brownorum	6
Spatial preferences influence associations between magnitude and space in honey bees	6
Why do some birds fledge late in the day?	6
Feeding rate reflects quality in both parents and offspring: a longitudinal study in common terns	6
Editors Page	6
Female demographic changes contribute to the maintenance of social stability within a primate multilevel society	6
Does group living protect offspring from the toxic effects of cadmium ingestion in juvenile earwigs?	6
Helping syndrome is partially confirmed in the eusocial naked mole-rat	6
Nestmate interference in acacia ants varies with colony size and task specialization	6
Intraspecific variation in audience effects during outgroup conflict in a cooperatively breeding fish	6
Capuchin monkeys’ ability to choose beneficial options is inhibited by added complexity	6
Guidelines for the treatment of animals in behavioural research and teaching	6
Can an acoustic communication network be used for spatial orientation?	6
Autumn mass change and winter mass loss differ between migratory and nonmigratory butterflies	6
Editors Page	6
How do male danaine butterflies locate pyrrolizidine alkaloids? The foreleg as an olfactory alkaloid-sensing organ	6
How coevolution in daily activity rhythms governs encounters between predator and prey	6
Long-lasting social bonds of a habitat-structured delphinid social system	6
Colour morph predicts social behaviour and contest outcomes in a polymorphic lizard (Podarcis erhardii)	6
Gut cancer increases the risk of Drosophila being preyed upon by hunting spiders	6
The direction and strength of social plasticity in mating signals and mate preferences vary with the life stage of induction	6
Unbalanced dietary omega-6:3 ratio affects onset of nursing and nurse–larvae interactions by honey bees, Apis mellifera	6
Shedding light on nocturnal behaviour: a cost-effective solution for remote, infrared video recording in the field	6
Urban colonies are less aggressive but forage more than their forest counterparts in the ant Temnothorax nylanderi	6
Stable isotopes reveal the effects of maternal rank and infant age on weaning dynamics in wild chacma baboons	6
Vocal recognition of distance calls in a group-living basal bird: the greylag goose, Anser anser	6
Social learning of navigational routes in tandem-running acorn ants, Temnothorax nylanderi	6
Growing up with nutritional stress leads to peripheral social network positions, independent of ‘personality’	6
Persistence of alternative reproductive tactics: a test of game-theoretic predictions	6
Display structure size affects the production of and response to multimodal duets in magpie-larks	6
Rise and fall: increasing temperatures have nonlinear effects on aggression in a tropical fish	6
The relaxed open mouth is a true signal in dogs: demonstrating Tinbergen's ritualization process	6
Friend virus severity is associated with male mouse social status and environmental temperature	6
What it is like to be an optimist: temporal stability of cognitive bias in rats and its link to other individual traits	6
Dispersal behaviour and settlement in an invasive bird: dispersers prefer their natal habitat	6
Understanding unpredictability: factors influencing how long antlion larvae play dead as an antipredator behaviour	6
Anthropogenic noise alters the perception of a predator in a local community of great tits	6