Behaviour

Article	Citations
Musth and sexual selection in elephants: a review of signalling properties and potential fitness consequences	18
Submission signals in animal groups	16
Reinstating reptiles: from clueless creatures to esteemed models of cognitive biology	12
Long-term consistency despite cross-seasonal changes in personality traits of common waxbills	12
Conspecific scarring on wild belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) in Cunningham Inlet	12
Can animals develop depression? An overview and assessment of ‘depression-like’ states	11
Look at me while having sex! Eye-to-eye contact affects homosexual behaviour in bonobo females	11
Zoo-housed female chimpanzee adopts local female-specific tradition upon immigrating into a new group	10
Alternate without alternative: neither preference nor learning explains behaviour of C57BL/6J mice in the T-maze	9
Chemically mediated self-recognition in sibling juvenile common gartersnakes (Thamnophis sirtalis) reared on same or different diets: evidence for a chemical mirror?	9
Evolutionary loss of threat display in more social species: phylogenetic comparisons, natural interactions in the wild, and experiments with models	8
Killing behaviour of adult brood parasites	8
Drop when the stakes are high: adaptive, flexible use of dropping behaviour by aphids	8
Dealing with the unexpected: the effect of environmental variability on behavioural flexibility in a Mediterranean lizard	8
Sociosexual behaviour in wild chimpanzees occurs in variable contexts and is frequent between same-sex partners	8
Predators learning to avoid toxic invasive prey: a study on individual variation among free-ranging lizards	8
The behaviours of a female blonde capuchin (Sapajus flavius) towards her dead infant	7
Sex differences in response to environmental and social breeding cues in an amphibian	7
Lizards as models to explore the ecological and neuroanatomical correlates of miniaturization	7
Prospective evolutionary drivers of allocare in wild belugas	7
Communication across multiple sensory modes: quantifying the rich behavioural repertoire of a Neotropical torrent frog	7
The effect of group size on the speed of decision making depends on compromise and predation risk across populations in the guppy Poecilia reticulata	7
Female copulation calls vary with male ejaculation in captive olive baboons	6
Ecology and social behaviour of the Mongolian gerbil: a generalised review	6
The effects of habituation on boldness of urban and rural song sparrows (Melospiza melodia)	6

The role of personality traits in pair bond formation: pairing is influenced by the trait of exploration	5
The link between animal personality and habitat selection in males of the Neotropical poison frog Allobates femoralis	5
The voices of an alleged mute: sound emissions in a Tropidurus lizard	5
Social facilitation in short-tailed fruit bats, Carollia perspicillata (Linnaeus)	5
Conspecific aggression strategies are conditioned by environmental, social and intrinsic variables in breeding blue tits Cyanistes caeruleus	5
Spontaneous ingestion of water by a free-ranging maned sloth, Bradypus torquatus, in the Ibura National Forest, northeastern Brazil	5
Locomotion and habituation to novel experimental environments in a social fish species	5
Who cares for the eggs? Analysis of egg attendance behaviour in Ranitomeya imitator, a poison frog with biparental care	5
Aggression towards neonates and possible infanticide in the boto, or Amazon river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis)	5
Sexual adaptation: is female–male mounting a supernormal courtship display in Japanese macaques?	5
High risk of predation suppresses behavioural differences among bold and shy social prey individuals	4
The role of touch in captive and semi-captive Antillean manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus)	4
Nocturnal visual displays and call description of the cascade specialist glassfrog Sachatamia orejuela	4
The life of Fabian, an Azara’s owl monkey (Aotus azarae) of the Argentinean Chaco	4
A review of the behaviours of the Chondrichthyes: a multi-species ethogram for the chimaeras, sharks, and rays	4
Behavioural repeatability in the Big Brown Bat, Eptesicus fuscus	4
Body size, habitat quality, and territory defense in Bachman’s sparrow	4
Alarm calls of house wrens (Troglodytes aedon bonariae) elicit responses of conspecific and heterospecific species	4
Anatomy of avian distress calls: structure, variation, and complexity in two species of shorebird (Aves: Charadrii)	4
Resource availability influences global social network properties in Gunnison’s prairie dogs (Cynomys gunnisoni)	3
Do male Boana goiana (Lutz, 1968) (Anura: Hylidae) discriminate between the calls of neighbours and strangers?	3
Insights into insect cognition through mirror-induced behaviour in paper wasps	3
Who’s there? Third parties affect social interactions between spider monkey males	3
Does the presence of conspecifics facilitate exploratory behaviour in a cichlid fish (Etroplus suratensis)?	3
Anecdotic observations of homosexual behaviour among male capuchin monkeys (Sapajus sp.)	3
Do long-tailed macaques avoid large heterospecific carcasses?	3
An observation of attempted infanticide and female–female cooperation in wild plains zebras (Equus quagga)	3
Maternal care and secretive behaviour of neonates in the highly social lizard Liolaemus leopardinus (Squamata: Liolaemidae) from the central Chilean Andes may relate to size-specific bird predation	3
Effect of infant pelage colour on infant caring by other group members: a case study of wild Javan lutungs (Trachypithecus auratus)	3
Feeding competition inferred from patch depletion in a supergroup of Rwenzori black-and-white colobus monkeys (Colobus angolensis ruwenzorii) in Rwanda	3
High incidence of leg autotomy in urban crickets	3
Age-dependent walking and feeding of the assassin bug Amphibolus venator	3
Subordinate submissive responses are predicted by dominant behaviour in a cooperatively breeding fish	3
Courtship rhythm in Nasonia vitripennis is affected by the clock gene period	3
Nothobranchius furzeri as an emerging model for mate choice: female choice revealed by animations	3
Use of landmarks for nest site choice and small-scale navigation to the nest in birds	3
Responses to a poached conspecific in wild forest elephants (Loxodonta africana cyclotis)	3
Biparental negotiation or larval begging? Determinant of male provisioning in a burying beetle (Nicrophorus quadripunctatus)	3
Quantifying shape similarity between prey and uninteresting models to study animal masquerade	3
On the applicability of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) as an intervention in dogs with fear and anxiety disorders after a traumatic event	3
Fellatio among male sanctuary-living chimpanzees during a period of social tension	3
Reconciliation in human adults: a video-assisted naturalistic observational study of post conflict conciliatory behaviour in interpersonal aggression	3
Constraints on population growth of blue monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis) in Kibale National Park, Uganda	3
Optimal foraging strategy to balance mixed diet by generalist consumers: a simulation model	3
More opportunities to peck for identical food availability increases foraging efficiency in pigeons	3
Inter-individual differences of calling and exploratory behaviour in a lebinthine cricket species hint at different mate-finding strategies	3
Spider monkey use of natural and artificial terrestrial water sources in Calakmul, Mexico	2
Colour vision in sengis (Macroscelidea, Afrotheria, Mammalia): choice experiments indicate dichromatism	2
Effects of conspecific density on tadpole risk assessment and defensive behaviour	2
Facultative male investment in prolonged mate-guarding in a butterfly	2

Autopreening behaviour may convey information about internal social state in Arabian babbler (Turdoides squamiceps) allopreening dyads	2
Swimming and diving as social play in juvenile rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)	2
Shifting incubation rhythms in response to predation risk and the length of the response in mountain bluebirds	2
Spontaneous nocturnal erections and masturbation in captive male chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)	2
Copulations with a nestling by an adult care-giver in a kin-living bird	2
Gregariousness and intraspecific aggression in Iberian bullfinches (Pyrrhula pyrrhula iberiae) throughout the year	2
Ontogeny of scent marking behaviours in an apex carnivore	2
Tools and food on heat lamps: pyrocognitive sparks in New Caledonian crows?	2
Habitat use and body temperature influence push-up display rate in the tree lizard, Urosaurus ornatus	2
Educating dog owners: how owner–dog interactions can benefit from addressing the human caregiving system and dog-directed parenting styles	2
Does anthropogenic noise promotes advertisement call adjustments in the rubí poison frog Andinobates bombetes?	2
Insight into manta ray behaviour using animal-borne Crittercams	2
Evidence of infanticide in the Cape mountain zebra (Equus zebra zebra)	2
Extent of encounter with an embedded food influences how it is processed by an urbanizing macaque species	2
Pattern biases, but not positional cues, influence learning in the little brown skink, Scincella lateralis	2
Active sharing of a novel, arbitrary innovation in captive cotton-top tamarins?	2
When can cropping rate compensate for increased vigilance?	2
Insightful behaviour in arthropods?	2
Open water grouping behaviour in harbour seals (Phoca vitulina richardii) of the Salish Sea	2
Host plant acceptance in a generalist insect: threshold, feedback or choice?	2
Ring a bell? Variable recognition of a multicomponent auditory stimulus associated with predation risk by zebrafish responding to full and partial matches	2
Active space of grasshopper mouse vocalizations (Onychomys) in relation to woody plant encroachment	2
Female social structure influences, and is influenced by, male introduction and integration success among captive rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)	2
From nestling to adult: personality traits are consistent within but not across life stages in a wild songbird	2
Size-assortative mating in explosive breeders: a case study of adaptive male mate choice in anurans	2
Parasites differentially impact crayfish personality in different contexts	2
White-edged cowards: high-pitched treefrogs will be attacked by those with orange legs	2
The effect of social odour context on the amount of time male meadow voles, Microtus pennsylvanicus, self-groom	2
Pharmacotherapeutics in clinical ethology: treatment efficacy, clinical pathology and outcome	2
Context-specific cue use in the Eastern painted turtle (Chrysemys picta) and its effects on decision making	2
Attention-getting in a white-cheeked gibbon by means of a novel vocalization?	2
Vocal complexity in Antillean manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus)	2
Innate response to first feeding in Octopus berrima hatchlings despite embryonic food imprinting	2
Preliminary evidence of tool use in an Australian magpie?	1
The squeaking vocalization of grey wolves (Canis lupus): individuality in a close-range affiliative mammalian vocalisation	1
Space use and parental care behaviour in Andinobates claudiae (Dendrobatidae)	1
Tongue-flicking: an idiosyncratic displacement behaviour in a free-ranging and urban-dwelling population of Balinese long-tailed macaques	1
Task division in a facultative cooperative breeder bird: do males take out the trash?	1
Problem-solving performance in wild Steller’s jays using a string-pulling task	1
Functional traits including interspecific sociality affect mobbing behaviour in a bird community of southern China	1
Adult sex ratios affect mating behaviour in the common housefly Musca domestica L. (Diptera; Muscidae)	1
A case of male infanticide in captive sika deer (Cervus nippon)	1
Dietary choices in a generalist herbivore, the eastern cottontail Sylvilagus floridanus, in urban landscapes	1
Multiple cues guarantee successful predation by a Neotropical wasp	1
European-native vocalizing: sex and age-class acoustic variation in the Central European red deer (Cervus elaphus)	1
The role of donor and receiver size in the response to public cues in Hart’s rivulus, Anablepsoides hartii	1
Colour, location and movement: what do models tell us about predation on colour morphs of a poison frog from eastern Amazonia?	1
Intersexual differences in the exploratory behaviour of blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus)	1
An anecdotal observation of anti-predatory tool use in a New Zealand parrot	1
Kleptoparasitic interactions by bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) during marine mammal foraging events	1
Parental reactions to a dying marmoset infant: conditional investment by the mother, but not the father	1
Dynamic object–fruit combinations by introduced Tanimbar corellas (Cacatua goffiniana) in Singapore	1
Potential multidimensional behavioural impacts of differential infection in two fish populations	1
No evidence that songbirds use odour cues to avoid malaria-infected conspecifics	1
Observations of daytime activity in the nocturnal northern giant mouse lemur (Mirza zaza)	1
The effect of crowd support: home advantage in football is reduced during the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic	1
An exploratory study of cooperation: food-sharing behaviour in wild varied white-fronted capuchin monkeys (Cebus versicolor) in Central Colombia	1
Zebrafish (Danio rerio) behavioural response to an odorant mixture containing attracting and repelling odorants	1
Matriphagy in five species of the genus Anelosimus (Araneae: Theridiidae)	1
Within-population song evolution in white-throated sparrows (Zonotrichia albicollis)	1
Brood size manipulation reveals cost on the size of the second clutch in the earwig Anisolabis maritime	1
Social buffering reduces hair cortisol content in black-tailed prairie dogs during reproduction	1
Eyes over stomach: companion dogs choose the larger quantity by sight, irrespective of the actual reward eaten	1
Effects of cross-fostering experience on emotion in adolescent Kunming mice	1
Effects of snow leopards (Panthera uncia) on olfactory communication of Pallas’s cats (Otocolobus manul) in the Altai Mountains, Mongolia	1
Female preferences for discrete and continuous male colour expression may help reinforce colour polymorphism in a desert lizard	1
Characterization of fever and sickness behavior regulated by cytokines during infection	1
The neurobiology of environmentally induced stereotypic behaviours in captive animals: assessing the basal ganglia pathways and cortico-striatal-thalamo-cortical circuitry hypotheses	1
The influence of operational sex ratio on reproductive success in male sheepshead minnow (Cyprinodon variegatus)	1
When the penny drops: sharks outsmart cichlids in serial reversal learning	1
Contrary to vertebrates, less aggressive and more consistent individuals are common in disturbed habitats in the colonial spider Metabus gravidus (Araneae: Araneidae)	1
Behavioural interactions between sika deer and Japanese serows: are larger and gregarious ungulates dominant?	1
Meows of captive feral domestic cats (Felis silvestris catus) in the mating season: acoustic correlates of caller identity and sex	1
Western Australian magpies respond to urgency information contained in conspecific alarm calls	1
Invader’s success: behavioural and reproductive plasticity of interacting exotic dung beetles	1
Birds using artificial plants as nesting material	1
Mobbing behaviour in non-breeding flocks of a passerine bird in northern Patagonia	1
Good fences make good neighbours: territorial male Cape fur seals use spatial acoustic map of neighbours	1
Why do males stay in biparental burying beetles?	1
Visual displays in a nocturnal rhacophorid frog (Buergeria japonica)	1

Playing dead: lizards show tonic immobility without human handling	1
Introduction to the special issue on Clinical ethology	1
Tool-assisted water scooping in Balinese long-tailed macaques	1
Intra- and interspecific behavioural ecology within and between Mollienesia males (sailfin molly Poecilia velifera and shortfin molly P. mexicana) in mangroves of the Yucatán peninsula	1
Opposing effects of vigilance and foraging on escape behaviour in hooded crows	1
Female preferences for high vocal effort in singing mice	1
Larger is not better: no mate preference by European common frog (Rana temporaria) males	1
Urban-nesting mountain chickadees have a reduced response to a simulated predator	1
An observation of intergroup infanticide in grey-cheeked mangabeys (Lophocebus albigena)	1
Vocal behaviour reveals asymmetries in neighbour relationships in a semi-colonial raptor, the Eurasian Scops Owl Otus scops	1