Ethology

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Ethology adopts the STRANGE framework for animal behaviour research, to improve reporting standards	24
Keeping up with environmental change: The importance of sociality	23
Naked mole‐rats (Heterocephalus glaber) do not specialise in cooperative tasks	18
Expanding the concept of social behavior to interspecific interactions	17
A positive feedback loop between sociality and social competence	16
Male anti‐predation services in primates as costly signalling? A comparative analysis and review	14
Female common cuckoo calls dampen the mobbing intensity of great reed warbler hosts	14
Evolutionary origins of cooperative and communal breeding: Lessons from the crotophagine cuckoos	13
Measuring personality traits in Eurasian red squirrels: A critical comparison of different methods	13
No evidence for general intelligence in a fish	12
Best of a bad job or masters of illusion: Do nest light conditions make the eggs of brood parasitic brown‐headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater) more similar to the eggs of their hosts?	12
Great tits (Parus major) adequately respond to both allopatric combinatorial mobbing calls and their isolated parts	12
Analysis of central place foraging behaviour of wolves using hidden Markov models	11
Importance of vision in tandem running during colony relocation in an Indian ant	11
Group‐level variation in co‐feeding tolerance between two sanctuary‐housed communities of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)	11
Inherit the kingdom or storm the castle? Breeding strategies in a social carnivore	10
The effects of exposure to predators on personality and plasticity	10
Urban fox squirrels exhibit tolerance to humans but respond to stimuli from natural predators	10
Co‐option and the evolution of food sharing in vampire bats	10
Characterization of social behavior in the spiny mouse, Acomys cahirinus	10
A behavioral logic underlying aggression in an African cichlid fish	10
The effect of temperature on the spatial learning rate of zebrafish (Danio rerio)	9
Siblings matter: Family heterogeneity improves associative learning later in life	9
Exploration influences problem solving in the fawn‐footed mosaic‐tailed rat (Melomys cervinipes)	9
Passive traps and sampling bias: Social effects and personality affect trap entry by sticklebacks	9

Responses of a pair‐living, sexually monogamous primate to the simulated presence of solitary individuals: A field playback experiment	9
A comparison of low‐cost behavioral observation software applications for handheld computers and recommendations for use	9
The curious case of great ape curiosity and how it is shaped by sociality	8
Mobbing responses of great tits (Parus major) do not depend on the number of heterospecific callers	8
Field studies need to report essential information on social organisation – independent of the study focus	8
Do monkeys use sex toys? Evidence of stone tool‐assisted masturbation in free‐ranging long‐tailed macaques	8
Interspecific aggression and defence of extra nest sites in two species of songbirds	8
Pairing status moderates both the production of and responses to anti‐parasitic referential alarm calls in male yellow warblers	8
Shoaling behaviour in the European cuttlefishSepia officinalis	7
Yellow‐breasted Boubous (Laniarius atroflavus) jointly defend territories with male‐led duets against stranger pairs, males and females	7
Vervet monkeys socialize more when time budget constraints are experimentally reduced	7
Effects of a COVID‐19 lockdown‐induced pause and resumption of artificial provisioning on blacktip reef sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus) and pink whiprays (Pateobatis fai) in French Po	7
Female Western Australian magpies discriminate between familiar and unfamiliar human voices	7
Wild narrow‐striped mongooses use social information to enhance behavioural flexibility	7
An ambiguous function of an alarm pheromone in the collective displays of the Australian meat ant, Iridomyrmex purpureus	7
Norway rats help social partners in need in response to ultrasonic begging signals	7
Does the presence of a conspecific increase or decrease fear? Neophobia and habituation in zebra finches	7
On the importance of defendable resources for social evolution: Applying new techniques to a long‐standing question	6
Invasive brown widow spiders disperse aerially under a broad range of environmental conditions	6
Deciphering choreographies of elaborate courtship displays of golden‐collared manakins using markerless motion capture	6
Sex differences in social odor discrimination by southern giant pouched rats (Cricetomys ansorgei)	6
Stability and change in gartersnake social networks across ontogeny	6
Large female song repertoires and within‐pair song type sharing in a temperate breeding songbird	6
Repeatability of alert and flight initiation distances in king penguins: Effects of colony, approach speed, and weather	6
Cooperative intentions and their implications on reciprocal cooperation in Norway rats	6
Female preference for artificial song dialects in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)	6
Tactile stimuli induce deimatic antipredator displays in ringneck snakes	6
Sexual selection in a tropical toad: Do female toads choose brighter males in a species with rapid colour change?	6
Odd one in: Oddity within mixed‐species shoals does not affect shoal preference by vagrant tropical damselfish in the presence or absence of a predator	6
How great tits respond to urgency‐based information in allopatric Southern house wren mobbing calls	6
Social dominance does not increase oxidative stress in a female dominance hierarchy of an African cichlid fish	6
Parasite‐mediated sexual selection in a damselfly	5
Calling activity determines male mating success in a territorial frog with parental care	5
Direct reciprocity among humans	5
Pattern, function and constraint of infant handling in wild Japanese macaques	5
Sneaky copulations by subordinate males suggest direct fitness benefits from male–male associations in spotted bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus maculatus)	5
Dominant females have brighter ornamentation in a sexually dimorphic lekking species	5
Visual lateralization in flight: Lateral preferences in parent‐offspring relative positions in geese	5
Visual and chemical signals provide different information in Polistes fuscatus wasps	5
Interactions between oxidative stress and attractiveness to mates and individual mate choice in the beetle Tenebrio molitor	5
Breeder aggression does not predict current or future cooperative group formation in a cooperatively breeding bird	5
Fully flexible analysis of behavioural sequences based on parametric survival models with frailties—A tutorial	5
The American robin (Turdus migratorius): A focal species for anti‐parasitic egg rejection studies among hosts of the brown‐headed cowbird (Molothrus ater)	5
Does habitat complexity and prior residency influence aggression between invasive and native freshwater crayfish?	5
Landscape features causing the local congregation of honeybee males (Apismellifera L.)	5
Exploring a novel substrate‐borne vibratory signal in the wolf spider Schizocosa floridana	5
Black‐headed gulls synchronize vigilance with their nearest neighbor irrespective of the neighbor's relative position	5
Through a glass darkly? Divergent reactions of eight Lake Tanganyika cichlid species towards their mirror image in their natural environment	5
Observations of multiple reproductive females in groups of smooth‐coated otters	5
The handsome liar: Male spiders offering worthless gifts can benefit increasing mating duration	5

Innate and learned predator recognition across populations of Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar	4
Alarm calls of southern house wrens, Troglodytes aedon bonariae, convey information about the level of risk	4
Hauling up a hefty meal: Long‐Jawed spider (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) uses silk lines to transport large prey vertically through the air in the absence of a web	4
Dragline silk reveals female developmental stage and mediates male vibratory courtship in the nuptial gift‐giving spider Pisaura mirabilis	4
Female bird song rates do not covary with population density in a North American species	4
Collective defence and behavioural homogeneity during simulated territorial intrusions in banded mongooses (Mungos mungo)	4
Resource selection in nasute termite: The role of social information	4
Advertising sex and individual identity by long‐distance chirps in wild‐living mature cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus)	4
Social network analysis of small social groups: Application of a hurdle GLMM approach in the Alpine marmot (Marmota marmota)	4
Reciprocity versus pseudo‐reciprocity: A false dichotomy	4
Tool use and tooling in ravens (Corvus corax): A review and novel observations	4
The generalist parasitoid Nasonia vitripennis shows more behavioural plasticity in host preference than its three specialist sister species	4
House sparrows exhibit individual differences in generalization when confronted with different novel stimuli	4
No evidence for contribution of sexually monomorphic wing pigmentation pattern to mate choice in Drosophila guttifera	4
Sparring dynamics and individual laterality in male South African giraffes	4
Group orientation and social order versus disorder: Perspective of outsiders toward experimental chains of social hermit crabs	4
Automatic individual recognition of Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) from sequential images	3
Adjustment of egg laying by both hosts and intraspecific brood parasites in a beetle	3
Boldness and exploration vary between shell morphs but not environmental contexts in the snail Cepaea nemoralis	3
Testosterone, signal coloration, and signal color perception in male zebra finch contests	3
A proposal to enhance data quality and FAIRness	3
In search of the perfect web? Males of the golden silk orb‐web spider trichonephila clavipes do not aggregate in webs of high‐quality females	3
Effects of group behavior in the predatory raid on damselfish nests by the false cleanerfishAspidontus taeniatus	3
Reciprocal altruism in Norway rats	3
Female sex pheromone emission is affected by body condition, but not immune system function, in the orb‐web spider Argiope bruennichi	3
Revisiting the components of Macroscelidea social systems: Evidence for variable social organization, including pair‐living, but not for a monogamous mating system	3
Reproductive behaviours in male parasitoids: From mating system to pairing pattern	3
Heads up! Variation in the vigilance of foraging chipmunks in response to experimental manipulation of perceived risk	3
Effects of human disturbance on risk‐taking behavior in painted turtles	3
Darwin’s finches habitually anoint their feathers with leaves of the endemic treePsidium galapageiumduring the non‐breeding season	3
Nest‐site selection in a neotropical arachnid with exclusive male care: Proximate cues and adaptive meaning	3
Social relationships among captive female Himalayan tahr	3
Learning and innovation in urban yellow mongooses (Cynictis penicillata)	3
Mutual wing‐eating between female and male within mating pairs in wood‐feeding cockroach	3
Female great tits (Parus major) reproduce earlier when paired with a male they prefer	3
Flies getting filthy: The precopulatory mating behaviours of three mud‐dwelling species of Australian Lispe (Diptera: Muscidae)	3
Mate choice in a promiscuous poison frog	3
Female choice and male aggression in the polymorphic lizard Sceloporus minor	3
Artificial light affects the foraging behavior in greater white‐toothed shrews (CROCIDURA RUSSULA)	3
“Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise”: Indiscriminate male care in a neotropical spider	3
Mate finding in a mimetic termitophile amidst its host termites	3
Use of conditional prey attack strategies in two generalist ground spider species	3
Acoustic features of long‐distance calls of wild cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) are linked to the caller age from newborns to adults	3
Host size selection and progeny sex determination in Hymenoepimecis bicolor (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae)	3
Context‐sensitive dance–vocal displays affect song patterns and partner responses in a socially monogamous songbird	3
Hidden black and yellow thigh color acts as an aposematic signal in the Eastern Gray Treefrog (Hyla versicolor)	3
Among‐individual behavioral responses to predation risk are invariant within two species of freshwater snails	3
Level of local human disturbance and feeding state determines escape behaviour in Eurasian Oystercatchers	3
Nest defense, personality, and fitness of a locally endangered island passerine	3
Effects of a past contest on the future winning probability in a hyper‐aggressive fruit fly	3
Spatial behavior of northern flying squirrels in the same social network	3
Experience of social density during early life is associated with attraction to conspecific odour in the common vole (Microtus arvalis)	2
Male secondary sexual traits do not predict female preference in Caribbean livebearing fishes (Limia)	2
Locomotion with a twist: Aquatic beetle walks upside down on the underside of the water's surface	2
Predicting breeding systems to guide conservation strategies: A kiwi example	2
The strange occurrence of male cannibalism on adult females in snakes	2
Spatial configuration learning in Vespula germanica forager wasps	2
Free‐ranging male northern map turtles use public information when interacting with potential mates	2
Aggressive vocalizations during intergroup interactions in roost defense in the Spix's disk‐winged bat	2
Parasitism of Neoconocephalus katydids by the parasitoid fly, Ormia lineifrons	2
Genital movements are not restricted to spermatozoa transfer in a haplogyne spider	2
Benefits and costs of social foraging in velvet worms	2
Tadpole plasticity shapes the potential benefits of egg feeding to poison frog parents	2
Lack of caste discrimination by males during sexual context in a neotropical paper wasp	2
Larval ecology, dispersal, and the evolution of sociality in the sea	2
Dynamic table‐visiting behavior of birds at outdoor restaurants and cafés	2
Testing the effects of kinship, reciprocity and dominance on prosocial food provisioning in azure‐winged magpies (Cyanopica cyana), carrion crows (Corvus corone) and common ravens (C.	2
“Urchin pinning”: Behavioural observations reveal how hungry urchins actively prey upon their sea star predators	2
Male Barbary macaques choose loyal coalition partners which may increase their coalition network betweenness	2
Unconditional adoption rules out the need for parent–offspring recognition in a single‐brooded colonial seabird	2
Association between external female genital mutilation and securing paternity in a spider	2
Harvesters (Arachnida: Opiliones) mate more at cooler temperatures, but the effect of temperature on mating varies across years	2
Photoperiod influences the development and the expression of personality traits and social behaviour in wild cavies (Cavia aperea)	2
Do pet dogs reciprocate the receipt of food from familiar and unfamiliar conspecifics?	2
Female preferences for conspecific males indicate reproductive isolation between sympatric Labeotropheus Ahl from Lake Malaŵi	2
Unequal sample sizes according to the square‐root allocation rule are useful when comparing several treatments with a control	2
Phenotype predicts interspecific dominance hierarchies in a cloud‐forest hummingbird guild	2
Linking male reproductive success to effort within and among nests in a co‐breeding stream fish	2
Does spatial sorting explain leading edge personality types in a spider’s non‐native range?	2
Response to heterospecific calls in non‐passerine species: can two Rallidae species recognise each other based on their vocalisations?	2

Cognitive and sensory capacity each contribute to the canine spatial bias	2
Behavioral responses of two small‐sized rodents, Phyllotis vaccarum and Abrothrix andina, to energy challenges of high‐altitude habitats in the Andes Mountains	2
Loss of complex female song but not duetting in the ancestors of Carolina wrens	2
Grooming reciprocation in Himalayan tahr and the cognitive constraint hypothesis	2
Maternal cannibalistic preferences affect offspring preferences and development in Menochilus sexmaculatus Fabricius (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae): A transgenerational investigation	2
Do sheep (Ovis aries) perform third‐party interventions?	2
Aggression‐based social learning in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)	2
Sex and age differences in the preference for materials for the communal nests of sociable weavers Philetairus socius	1
Colour biases in learned foraging preferences in Trinidadian guppies	1
Group chorusing as an intragroup signal in the greater ani, a communally breeding bird	1
Variation in escape response of Himalayan marmots (Marmota himalayana) under different human disturbances	1
Whiptail lizards (Aspidoscelis exsanguis) recognize invertebrate prey via cuticular hydrocarbons	1
Do reproductive characteristics of the species explain differences in the investment in weapon size present in males?	1
Collective decision‐making, caste roles and sequential transport during colony emigration in the small carpenter ant, Camponotus yamaokai	1
Inter‐group conflict in a cooperatively breeding bird: New insights into “home field advantage”	1
A vocalization in male Japanese bush warblers in response to both predators and conspecific females	1
Males of a Neotropical spider adjust prey‐gift construction but not mate search in response to sperm competition	1
Water webbing: Long‐jawed spider (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) produces webs that touch the surface of ephemeral waterbodies	1
Behavioural profiles in a wild population of a cooperatively breeding cichlid	1
Policing is more effective against eggs of non‐natal versus natal workers at early colony stages in a bumblebee	1
Insects within bushes assemble and forage closer to artificial light at night	1
How important is temperature for strike success of ectotherms? Thermal effects on predator–prey interactions of free‐ranging pit vipers (Gloydius blomhoffii)	1
Close bonds and social rank similarities favor non‐random mating in captive stump‐tailed macaques (Macaca arctoides)	1
Instrumental helping and short‐term reciprocity in chimpanzees and human children	1
Agonistic behaviour in the long‐snout seahorse: A gentlemanly challenge	1
Temporal non‐independence of foraging dive and surface duration sequences in the European shag Gulosus aristotelis	1
Eight‐legged swimmers: Behavioral responses to floods in two South American spiders	1
Blue‐tailed skinks have predation‐dependent threat discrimination	1
Recognizing interspecific dominance signals? Blue tits adjust nest defence based on great tit's black bib size	1
Sex‐specific oviposition site selection in an arboreal treefrog with a resource‐defense mating system	1
Shaped by you: The effect of social partner on cortisol and behavior during adolescence in a female rodent	1
Mating preference is mating system and relatedness dependent in the ladybird beetle, Menochilus sexmaculatus	1
Multi‐night territorial behavior, chorus attendance, and mating success in red‐eyed treefrogs	1
Population differences in the aggregation and collective foraging behavior of fragmented social spider colonies	1
Stable individual differences in the frequency of chin‐marking behavior across development in the domestic rabbit	1
Artificial selections for death‐feigning behavior in beetles show correlated responses in amplitude of circadian rhythms, but the period of the rhythm does not	1
Cheek‐to‐cheek: Communal nesting in an ephemeral pool‐breeding frog	1
Ratcheting up tool innovation in Goffin's cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana): The effect of contextually diverse prior experience	1
Dynamic visual noise has limited influence on the habitat selection and behavioural activity of crustaceans and cephalopods	1
On closer inspection: Reviewing the debate on whether fish cooperate to inspect predators	1
Dunking for droplets: Long‐jawed spider (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) bungees on silk line to collect water droplet from pond using its mouthparts	1
Retaining memory after hibernation: Performance varies independently of activity levels in wild grey mouse lemurs	1
Thanks to repetition, dustbathing detection can be automated combining accelerometry and wavelet analysis	1
No evidence that the widespread environmental contaminant caffeine alters energy balance or stress responses in fish	1
Minimizing observer bias in animal behavior studies revisited: Improvement, but a long way to go	1
A simple methodology for creating and applying replicable, photograph‐accurate coloration to 3D‐printed models for animal behavior studies	1
Successful predatory‐avoidance behaviour to lion auditory cues during soft‐release from captivity in cheetah	1
Landmark‐guided T‐maze learning in the wolf spiderTigrosa helluo	1
Chronic acetamiprid exposure moderately affects the foraging behaviour of buff‐tailed bumblebees (Bombus terrestris)	1
Individual variation and vulnerability to angling: No apparent behavioral differences among fish captured using different fishing gears	1
Contribution of ethology to evolutionary medicine	1
The perks of being in good conditions: How does female parasitism affect male mate choice in an orb‐web spider?	1
The females' response to male attractiveness: Mate choice, larvae production and differential brain protein expression	1
Egg sac recognition and fostering in the wolf spider Pardosa milvina (araneae: lycosidae) and its effects on spiderling survival	1
A little on the nose: A mosquito targets the nostrils of tree frogs for a blood meal	1
Males show their best side revisited – Effects of predation pressure on laterality in wild guppies	1
The Evolution of Social Behaviour	1
The geomagnetic field does not appear to influence navigation in Eastern painted turtles	1
Heterospecific interference modulates the reproductive traits of a ladybird beetle	1
Diving behavior in a Neotropical spider (Trechalea extensa) as a potential antipredator tactic	1
Male and female Australian magpie‐larks respond differently to variation in song frequency (pitch)	1
Do captive fish need cognitive enrichment? A test with a puzzle feeder in guppies	1
How context influences primates' decisions about reciprocity	1
Nuptial pad (“breeding gland”) morphology is related to non‐random mating in wild male common frogs (Rana temporaria)	1
Guiana dolphins use mangrove margins as a natural barrier to chase fish prey	1
The paradox of learned song in a semi‐solitary mammal	1
Western black widow spiders (Latrodectus hesperus) remember prey capture location and size, but only alter behavior for prey caught at particular sites	1
Random mating for body size despite fitness benefits of size‐assortative mating in a treefrog	1
Conditional reciprocity in invertebrates is robust to disturbances	1
Contrasting sex roles in two species with stable biparental care	1
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the principle of reciprocation	1
Helping those who help others: The roles of indirect reciprocity and relatedness	1
Gut parasites infection increases mate rejection in a species with indirect sperm transfer	1
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Great white pelicans (Pelecanus onocrotalus) fail to use tools flexibly in problem‐solving tasks	0
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Effects of short‐ and long‐term enrichment on brain and behavior in Trinidadian guppies	0
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Built to last a day: The function and benefits of spider mound nests	0
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Infection influences vibratory signal components in a wolf spider	0
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Does the type of task affect prey discrimination learning in avian predators?	0
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Reflections on Konrad Lorenz	0
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