Ethology

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Female sex pheromone emission is affected by body condition, but not immune system function, in the orb‐web spider Argiope bruennichi	23
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Whiptail lizards (Aspidoscelis exsanguis) recognize invertebrate prey via cuticular hydrocarbons	17
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No evidence for general intelligence in a fish	12
Mobbing responses of great tits (Parus major) do not depend on the number of heterospecific callers	12
Siblings matter: Family heterogeneity improves associative learning later in life	11
Infection influences vibratory signal components in a wolf spider	11
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Black‐headed gulls synchronize vigilance with their nearest neighbor irrespective of the neighbor's relative position	9
Ethology now publishes Registered Reports	9
Group chorusing as an intragroup signal in the greater ani, a communally breeding bird	9
Male‐specific nocturnal song functions similarly to day song in a diurnal bird species	9
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Cheek‐to‐cheek: Communal nesting in an ephemeral pool‐breeding frog	8

Level of local human disturbance and feeding state determines escape behaviour in Eurasian Oystercatchers	7
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Effects of short‐ and long‐term enrichment on brain and behavior in Trinidadian guppies	7
Juvenile hormone and temperature effects in the postzygotic parental investment of male waterbug Abedus ovatus (Belostomatidae)	7
Great white pelicans (Pelecanus onocrotalus) fail to use tools flexibly in problem‐solving tasks	7
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Body size and predator cues structure variation in defensive displays of Neotropical calico snakes (Oxyrhopus spp.)	7
Fully flexible analysis of behavioural sequences based on parametric survival models with frailties—A tutorial	6
Reflections on Konrad Lorenz	6
Does the type of task affect prey discrimination learning in avian predators?	6
Loss of complex female song but not duetting in the ancestors of Carolina wrens	6
Sneaky copulations by subordinate males suggest direct fitness benefits from male–male associations in spotted bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus maculatus)	6
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How context influences primates' decisions about reciprocity	6
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Through a glass darkly? Divergent reactions of eight Lake Tanganyika cichlid species towards their mirror image in their natural environment	6
Diving behavior in a Neotropical spider (Trechalea extensa) as a potential antipredator tactic	6
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Males of a Neotropical spider adjust prey‐gift construction but not mate search in response to sperm competition	6
On closer inspection: Reviewing the debate on whether fish cooperate to inspect predators	6
Collective decision‐making, caste roles and sequential transport during colony emigration in the small carpenter ant, Camponotus yamaokai	5
From individuals to populations: How homo‐ and heterospecific interactions influence habitat selection in a sit‐and‐wait predator	5
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Tool use and tooling in ravens (Corvus corax): A review and novel observations	5
Should I stay or should I fly: Aerial dispersal in a funnel‐web wolf spider from the grasslands of southern South America	5
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A little on the nose: A mosquito targets the nostrils of tree frogs for a blood meal	5
Parasitism of Neoconocephalus katydids by the parasitoid fly, Ormia lineifrons	5
Free‐ranging male northern map turtles use public information when interacting with potential mates	5
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Hidden black and yellow thigh color acts as an aposematic signal in the Eastern Gray Treefrog (Hyla versicolor)	4
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Flies getting filthy: The precopulatory mating behaviours of three mud‐dwelling species of Australian Lispe (Diptera: Muscidae)	4
Cooperative and Solitary Mobbing to Defend Offspring in Wild Gray Mouse Lemurs, Microcebus murinus	4
Social dominance does not increase oxidative stress in a female dominance hierarchy of an African cichlid fish	4
The Evolution of Social Behaviour	4
Multi‐night territorial behavior, chorus attendance, and mating success in red‐eyed treefrogs	4
Expanding the concept of social behavior to interspecific interactions	4
Pattern, function and constraint of infant handling in wild Japanese macaques	4
A comparison of low‐cost behavioral observation software applications for handheld computers and recommendations for use	4
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Stable individual differences in the frequency of chin‐marking behavior across development in the domestic rabbit	4
Females Guarded by Sneaker Males Experience Higher Predation in the Two‐Spotted Spider Mite	4
Effects of group behavior in the predatory raid on damselfish nests by the false cleanerfishAspidontus taeniatus	4
Risk‐Taking in Bluebirds After Exposure to a Nest Predator Relates to Parental Roles and Shows Little Cooperation Between Partners	3
The frequency and position of stable associations offset their transitivity in a diversity of vertebrate social networks	3

“Urchin pinning”: Behavioural observations reveal how hungry urchins actively prey upon their sea star predators	3
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Random mating for body size despite fitness benefits of size‐assortative mating in a treefrog	3
Context‐sensitive dance–vocal displays affect song patterns and partner responses in a socially monogamous songbird	3
Anti‐Snake Behavior and Snake Discrimination in Vervet Monkeys	3
Cognitive and sensory capacity each contribute to the canine spatial bias	3
RETRACTION: Non‐conceptive sexual behavior in spiders: A form of play associated with body condition, personality type, and male intrasexual selection	3
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Shaped by you: The effect of social partner on cortisol and behavior during adolescence in a female rodent	3
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The wolf spider Pardosa milvina varies silk deposition in response to self and same‐sex conspecific silk	3
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Norway rats help social partners in need in response to ultrasonic begging signals	3
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The females' response to male attractiveness: Mate choice, larvae production and differential brain protein expression	3
Long‐Term Behavioural Syndrome in Subadult Indian Social Spiders But Not Over the Short‐Term or in Juveniles	3
Adult poison dart frogs avoid potential heterospecific competitors using their sense of smell	3
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Chronic acetamiprid exposure moderately affects the foraging behaviour of buff‐tailed bumblebees (Bombus terrestris)	3
Recognizing interspecific dominance signals? Blue tits adjust nest defence based on great tit's black bib size	3
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Helping those who help others: The roles of indirect reciprocity and relatedness	3
Social network analysis of small social groups: Application of a hurdle GLMM approach in the Alpine marmot (Marmota marmota)	3
Breeder aggression does not predict current or future cooperative group formation in a cooperatively breeding bird	3
Are scientific journals delaying doctoral theses?	3
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Predicting breeding systems to guide conservation strategies: A kiwi example	2
The strange occurrence of male cannibalism on adult females in snakes	2
Bill color is dynamic across the breeding season but not condition‐dependent in Atlantic puffins	2
Cooperative intentions and their implications on reciprocal cooperation in Norway rats	2
A proposal to enhance data quality and FAIRness	2
Callosobruchus larval competition and its consequences for male and female adults	2
Female preference for artificial song dialects in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)	2
Behaviour in a novel environment provides clues to the success of an invasive species	2
A behavioral logic underlying aggression in an African cichlid fish	2
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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	2
Aversive reactions of two invertebrate predators to European red–black insects	2
Pairing status moderates both the production of and responses to anti‐parasitic referential alarm calls in male yellow warblers	2
Infection‐related sexual conflict in mating behaviors of wolf spiders	2
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Instrumental helping and short‐term reciprocity in chimpanzees and human children	2
Temporal non‐independence of foraging dive and surface duration sequences in the European shag Gulosus aristotelis	2
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Successful predatory‐avoidance behaviour to lion auditory cues during soft‐release from captivity in cheetah	2
Contrasting sex roles in two species with stable biparental care	2
Constructing composite scores for contemporaneous behaviors: A comparison of four approaches	2
Sex differences in social odor discrimination by southern giant pouched rats (Cricetomys ansorgei)	2
Single‐species and multi‐species playbacks elicit asymmetrical responses within mixed‐species chickadee, titmouse, and nuthatch flocks	2
Direct reciprocity among humans	2
Minimizing observer bias in animal behavior studies revisited: Improvement, but a long way to go	2
Response to heterospecific calls in non‐passerine species: can two Rallidae species recognise each other based on their vocalisations?	2
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How great tits respond to urgency‐based information in allopatric Southern house wren mobbing calls	2
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Using remote seminars to teach animal behavior	2
Nocturnal parental care and the role of parents in hatching their eggs in the clown anemonefish	1
Tap dancing frogs: Posterior toe tapping and feeding in Dendrobates tinctorius	1
Acoustic features of long‐distance calls of wild cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) are linked to the caller age from newborns to adults	1
Discrimination Against Non‐Nestmates Functions to Exclude Socially Parasitic Conspecifics in an Ant	1
Policing is more effective against eggs of non‐natal versus natal workers at early colony stages in a bumblebee	1
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Sparring dynamics and individual laterality in male South African giraffes	1
Learning and innovation in urban yellow mongooses (Cynictis penicillata)	1
Anuran juveniles avoid preying on aggressive ant species	1
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Do Rearing Group‐Size and Social Rank Influence the Affective State of a Cooperatively‐Breeding Cichlid Fish?	1
The paradox of learned song in a semi‐solitary mammal	1
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Heterospecific interference modulates the reproductive traits of a ladybird beetle	1
Behavioural profiles in a wild population of a cooperatively breeding cichlid	1

Male and female age affects the reproductive potential of two tephritid flies	1
Advertising sex and individual identity by long‐distance chirps in wild‐living mature cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus)	1
House sparrows exhibit individual differences in generalization when confronted with different novel stimuli	1
Response of the emerald‐spotted wood‐dove to the song of conspecific males and sympatric congeners	1
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How important is temperature for strike success of ectotherms? Thermal effects on predator–prey interactions of free‐ranging pit vipers (Gloydius blomhoffii)	1
Retaining memory after hibernation: Performance varies independently of activity levels in wild grey mouse lemurs	1
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Context‐dependent expression of variation in defensive behaviour in the lower termite Zootermopsis nevadensis	1
Conflicting cognitive decisions: Does egg retrieval modify egg rejection in a host of an obligate brood parasite?	1
Female Western Australian magpies discriminate between familiar and unfamiliar human voices	1
Are male meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus) influenced by social odor context with regard to scent marking behaviors?	1
Host size selection and progeny sex determination in Hymenoepimecis bicolor (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae)	1
Unraveling female mate choice in Schizocosa mccooki: The interplay of male mass and vibratory courtship	1
Graded‐risk sensitivity in northern European mixed‐species flocks of tit and nuthatch species	1
Third‐Party Affiliation in Domestic Dogs During and After a Human Conflict	1
Co‐option and the evolution of food sharing in vampire bats	1
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Experience of social density during early life is associated with attraction to conspecific odour in the common vole (Microtus arvalis)	1
Testosterone, signal coloration, and signal color perception in male zebra finch contests	1
Uncoupled Evolutionary Patterns in Spectral and Temporal Components of Acoustic Signals in Anurans Associated With Streams	1
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Steps into a Small World: First glimpses on everyday moment‐to‐moment decision making in an ecologically meaningful multi‐choice system for assessing animal preferences	1
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Correction to “How important is temperature for strike success of ectotherms? Thermal effects on predator–prey interactions of free‐ranging pit vipers (Gloydius blomhoffii)”	1
Invasive brown widow spiders disperse aerially under a broad range of environmental conditions	1
Do captive fish need cognitive enrichment? A test with a puzzle feeder in guppies	1
Does a niche construction strategy adaptation really exist in brown‐headed cowbirds?	1
Personality may modulate learning and memory differences in two taxa of the African striped mouse genus Rhabdomys	1
Male Barbary macaques choose loyal coalition partners which may increase their coalition network betweenness	1
Male secondary sexual traits do not predict female preference in Caribbean livebearing fishes (Limia)	1
Social buffering of behavioural stress response in two fish species, Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) and koi carp (Cyprinus carpio)	1
Deciphering choreographies of elaborate courtship displays of golden‐collared manakins using markerless motion capture	1
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Repeatability of alert and flight initiation distances in king penguins: Effects of colony, approach speed, and weather	1
Dynamic table‐visiting behavior of birds at outdoor restaurants and cafés	1
Canada jays (Perisoreus canadensis) identify and exploit coniferous cache locations using visual cues	1
Abdominal Spines on an Amazonian Spiny Spider (Micrathena schreibersi): A Defense Against Mud‐Dauber Wasps (Sceliphron spp.) Attack?	1
Nuptial pad (“breeding gland”) morphology is related to non‐random mating in wild male common frogs (Rana temporaria)	1
Male anti‐predation services in primates as costly signalling? A comparative analysis and review	1
Testing a behavioral model for the maintenance of androdioecy as a result of sexual conflict in the clam shrimpEulimnadia dahli	1
Linking male reproductive success to effort within and among nests in a co‐breeding stream fish	1
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Movement in 3D: Novel Opportunities for Understanding Animal Behaviour and Space Use	0
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Mating May Enhance Rapid Formation of Stable Pair Bonds in the Monogamous California Mouse	0
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Intra‐individual modulations and inter‐individual variations of female signals in the domestic canary (Serinus canaria)	0
A new touchscreen for behavioural research on bees	0
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Population differences in multimodal lizard communication are not well explained by habitat or history	0
Defensive Behaviour in Intertidal Crabs	0
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Group‐level variation in co‐feeding tolerance between two sanctuary‐housed communities of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)	0
Genital movements are not restricted to spermatozoa transfer in a haplogyne spider	0
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Western black widow spiders (Latrodectus hesperus) remember prey capture location and size, but only alter behavior for prey caught at particular sites	0
The impact of prior and current information of a new nest on relocation dynamics in an Indian ant	0
The curious case of great ape curiosity and how it is shaped by sociality	0
Gut parasites infection increases mate rejection in a species with indirect sperm transfer	0
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Eumelanic Coloration Impacts Mating Behavior, Stress Response, and Predator Preference in the Polymorphic Eastern Mosquitofish	0
Behavioral response to chemical cues from injured conspecifics in the livebearing fish, Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora	0
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Agonistic behaviour in the long‐snout seahorse: A gentlemanly challenge	0
Daily variation and repeatability of advertisement calls in an austral temperate forest frog under controlled conditions	0
Links between personality, reproductive success and re‐pairing patterns in a long‐lived seabird	0
Sexual Selection and Predator Response in a Male‐Polymorphic Livebearing Fish	0
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Artificial light affects the foraging behavior in greater white‐toothed shrews (CROCIDURA RUSSULA)	0
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Close bonds and social rank similarities favor non‐random mating in captive stump‐tailed macaques (Macaca arctoides)	0
Female choice and male aggression in the polymorphic lizard Sceloporus minor	0
Song overlapping and matching during low‐arousal singing and their relation to visual ornaments, parental care and breeding success in the great tit (Parus major)	0
Changes in Male Behavior in Response to Female Chemical Stimulus in an Understudied Arthropod Model	0
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Condition‐Dependent Female Aggression and Its Effects on Mating Success and Sexual Cannibalism in Jumping Spiders	0
Polistes dominula spatial learning abilities while foraging	0
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Landmark‐guided T‐maze learning in the wolf spiderTigrosa helluo	0
Familiarity and social relationships in degus (Octodon degus)	0
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the principle of reciprocation	0
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Importance of vision in tandem running during colony relocation in an Indian ant	0