Ethology

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Criteria for acceptable studies of animal personality and behavioural syndromes	69
Environmental effects on the covariation among pace‐of‐life traits	22
Potential short‐term earthquake forecasting by farm animal monitoring	21
Ethology adopts the STRANGE framework for animal behaviour research, to improve reporting standards	20
Naked mole‐rats (Heterocephalus glaber) do not specialise in cooperative tasks	15
Long‐term behavioral repeatability in wild adult and captive juvenile turtles (Terrapene carolina): Implications for personality development	15
Better safe than sorry: The response to a simulated predator and unfamiliar scent by the European hare	14
Strong behavioural defensive responses of endemic Rana latastei tadpoles induced by a native predator's odour	13
Synchrony, leadership, and association in male Indo‐pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus)	13
Female common cuckoo calls dampen the mobbing intensity of great reed warbler hosts	13
Evolutionary origins of cooperative and communal breeding: Lessons from the crotophagine cuckoos	13
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
Cheetah behaviour at scent‐marking sites indicates differential use by sex and social rank	12
Expanding the concept of social behavior to interspecific interactions	12
Keeping up with environmental change: The importance of sociality	12
Temperature‐related breakdowns in the coordination of mating in Enchenopa binotata treehoppers (Hemiptera: Membracidae)	12
An insight into natural koala drinking behaviour	12
Long‐term repeatability of behaviours in zebrafish (Danio rerio)	12
The evolution of reversed sex roles and classical polyandry: Insights from coucals and other animals	12
Great tits (Parus major) adequately respond to both allopatric combinatorial mobbing calls and their isolated parts	11
Male anti‐predation services in primates as costly signalling? A comparative analysis and review	11
A positive feedback loop between sociality and social competence	11
Measuring personality traits in Eurasian red squirrels: A critical comparison of different methods	10
A behavioral logic underlying aggression in an African cichlid fish	10
What influences aggression and foraging activity in social birds? Measuring individual, group and environmental characteristics	10

Exploration influences problem solving in the fawn‐footed mosaic‐tailed rat (Melomys cervinipes)	9
The effects of exposure to predators on personality and plasticity	9
Group‐level variation in co‐feeding tolerance between two sanctuary‐housed communities of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)	9
A multi‐trait, field‐based examination of personality in a semi‐aquatic turtle	9
Analysis of central place foraging behaviour of wolves using hidden Markov models	9
Mobbing responses of great tits (Parus major) do not depend on the number of heterospecific callers	8
Passive traps and sampling bias: Social effects and personality affect trap entry by sticklebacks	8
Habitat‐dependent advertisement call variation in the monkey frog Phyllomedusa nordestina	8
Teaching animal behavior online: A primer for the pandemic and beyond	8
Do monkeys use sex toys? Evidence of stone tool‐assisted masturbation in free‐ranging long‐tailed macaques	8
Effect of rearing style on the development of social behaviour in young ravens (Corvus corax)	8
Disadvantages of living in a populous neighborhood for sit‐and‐wait predators: Competition for space reduces pit‐trap size in antlion larvae	8
Responses of a pair‐living, sexually monogamous primate to the simulated presence of solitary individuals: A field playback experiment	8
Haliotis tuberculata, a generalist marine herbivore that prefers a mixed diet, but with consistent individual foraging activity	8
Long‐term repeatability and stability of three personality traits in meadow voles	7
No evidence for memory retention of a learned association between a cue and roost quality after hibernation in free‐ranging bats	7
Co‐option and the evolution of food sharing in vampire bats	7
Female Western Australian magpies discriminate between familiar and unfamiliar human voices	7
Siblings matter: Family heterogeneity improves associative learning later in life	7
Importance of vision in tandem running during colony relocation in an Indian ant	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
Pairing status moderates both the production of and responses to anti‐parasitic referential alarm calls in male yellow warblers	7
Yellow‐breasted Boubous (Laniarius atroflavus) jointly defend territories with male‐led duets against stranger pairs, males and females	7
Urban fox squirrels exhibit tolerance to humans but respond to stimuli from natural predators	7
Characterization of social behavior in the spiny mouse, Acomys cahirinus	7
Illusion susceptibility in domestic dogs	7
Norway rats help social partners in need in response to ultrasonic begging signals	7
A comparison of low‐cost behavioral observation software applications for handheld computers and recommendations for use	7
There is no place like home: Larval habitat type and size affect risk‐taking behaviour in fire salamander larvae (Salamandra salamandra)	6
Shoaling behaviour in the European cuttlefishSepia officinalis	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
No evidence for general intelligence in a fish	6
Tactile stimuli induce deimatic antipredator displays in ringneck snakes	6
Seasonal and diel plasticity of song type use in individual ovenbirds (Seiurus aurocapilla)	6
Experimental study of alarm calls of the oriental tit (Parus minor) toward different predators and reactions they induce in nestlings	6
Female preference for artificial song dialects in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)	6
Prior residence effect determines success of male–male territorial competition in a color polymorphic poison frog	6
Field studies need to report essential information on social organisation – independent of the study focus	6
Does the presence of a conspecific increase or decrease fear? Neophobia and habituation in zebra finches	6
Sexual selection in a tropical toad: Do female toads choose brighter males in a species with rapid colour change?	6
Chemical signalling behaviour in intrasexual communication of lizards lacking femoral pores	6
Cooperative intentions and their implications on reciprocal cooperation in Norway rats	6
Vervet monkeys socialize more when time budget constraints are experimentally reduced	6
Observations of multiple reproductive females in groups of smooth‐coated otters	5
Interspecific aggression and defence of extra nest sites in two species of songbirds	5
Inherit the kingdom or storm the castle? Breeding strategies in a social carnivore	5
Are northern mockingbirds classic open‐ended song learners?	5
Anthropogenic noise affects female, not male house wren response to change in signaling network	5
Sex differences in social odor discrimination by southern giant pouched rats (Cricetomys ansorgei)	5

Breeder aggression does not predict current or future cooperative group formation in a cooperatively breeding bird	5
The curious case of great ape curiosity and how it is shaped by sociality	5
The effect of temperature on the spatial learning rate of zebrafish (Danio rerio)	5
On the importance of defendable resources for social evolution: Applying new techniques to a long‐standing question	5
Visual and chemical signals provide different information in Polistes fuscatus wasps	5
Flush early and avoid the rush? It may depend on where you stand	5
How great tits respond to urgency‐based information in allopatric Southern house wren mobbing calls	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
Communal egg‐laying behaviour and the consequences of egg aggregation in the brown anole (Anolis sagrei)	5
Calling activity determines male mating success in a territorial frog with parental care	5
Invasive brown widow spiders disperse aerially under a broad range of environmental conditions	5
Selection on ultrasonic call rate in neonatal rats affects low frequency, but not ultrasonic, vocalizations in adults	5
Deciphering choreographies of elaborate courtship displays of golden‐collared manakins using markerless motion capture	5
Dominant females have brighter ornamentation in a sexually dimorphic lekking species	4
Does individual personality predict male mating preference for female body size in the Trinidadian guppy?	4
Under adverse conditions, older small tree finch males (Camarhynchus parvulus) produce more offspring than younger males	4
Innate and learned predator recognition across populations of Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar	4
Exploring a novel substrate‐borne vibratory signal in the wolf spider Schizocosa floridana	4
Fully flexible analysis of behavioural sequences based on parametric survival models with frailties—A tutorial	4
Through a glass darkly? Divergent reactions of eight Lake Tanganyika cichlid species towards their mirror image in their natural environment	4
Male aggressiveness in a polygynous ungulate varies with social and ecological context	4
Eavesdropping of an African ground squirrel on the heterospecific alarm calls of a noisy ground‐nesting bird	4
Landscape features causing the local congregation of honeybee males (Apismellifera L.)	4
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	4
Experimental tests of a seasonally changing visual preference for habitat in a long‐distance migratory shorebird	4
Social dominance does not increase oxidative stress in a female dominance hierarchy of an African cichlid fish	4
Stability and change in gartersnake social networks across ontogeny	4
Lifetime low behavioural plasticity of personality traits in the common vole (Microtus arvalis) under laboratory conditions	4
Parasite‐mediated sexual selection in a damselfly	4
Large female song repertoires and within‐pair song type sharing in a temperate breeding songbird	4
Alarm calls of southern house wrens, Troglodytes aedon bonariae, convey information about the level of risk	4
Environmental and social factors influencing wolf (Canis lupus) howling behavior	4
Dragline silk reveals female developmental stage and mediates male vibratory courtship in the nuptial gift‐giving spider Pisaura mirabilis	4
Sparring dynamics and individual laterality in male South African giraffes	3
Sex differences in olfactory social recognition memory in meadow voles, Microtus pennsylvanicus	3
Egg sac damage and previous egg sac production influence truncated parental investment in the wolf spider, Pardosa milvina	3
“Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise”: Indiscriminate male care in a neotropical spider	3
No behavioral syndromes or sex‐specific personality differences in the southern rainforest sunskink (Lampropholis similis)	3
Does habitat complexity and prior residency influence aggression between invasive and native freshwater crayfish?	3
Boldness and exploration vary between shell morphs but not environmental contexts in the snail Cepaea nemoralis	3
Mate finding in a mimetic termitophile amidst its host termites	3
Darwin’s finches habitually anoint their feathers with leaves of the endemic tree Psidium galapageium during the non‐breeding season	3
No evidence for contribution of sexually monomorphic wing pigmentation pattern to mate choice in Drosophila guttifera	3
Testosterone, signal coloration, and signal color perception in male zebra finch contests	3
Mutual wing‐eating between female and male within mating pairs in wood‐feeding cockroach	3
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	3
Revisiting the components of Macroscelidea social systems: Evidence for variable social organization, including pair‐living, but not for a monogamous mating system	3
Level of local human disturbance and feeding state determines escape behaviour in Eurasian Oystercatchers	3
Artificial light affects the foraging behavior in greater white‐toothed shrews (CROCIDURA RUSSULA)	3
Collective defence and behavioural homogeneity during simulated territorial intrusions in banded mongooses (Mungos mungo)	3
Interactions between oxidative stress and attractiveness to mates and individual mate choice in the beetle Tenebrio molitor	3
Cost of mating in male Menochilus sexmaculatus (Fabricius) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)	3
Phenotypic plasticity related to temperature induces song variation in the field cricket Gryllus rubens	3
Use of conditional prey attack strategies in two generalist ground spider species	3
Social paper wasp (Agelaia pallipes) predates songbird nestling	3
What the Corona (SARS‐CoV 2) pandemic, climate change, and the biodiversity crisis teach us about human nature	3
Repeatability of alert and flight initiation distances in king penguins: Effects of colony, approach speed, and weather	3
Mate choice in a promiscuous poison frog	3
Flies getting filthy: The precopulatory mating behaviours of three mud‐dwelling species of Australian Lispe (Diptera: Muscidae)	3
Group orientation and social order versus disorder: Perspective of outsiders toward experimental chains of social hermit crabs	3
The handsome liar: Male spiders offering worthless gifts can benefit increasing mating duration	3
Female bird song rates do not covary with population density in a North American species	3
Resource selection in nasute termite: The role of social information	3
Does prior residency interact with loss? A study of male–male contests in the hermit crab Pagurus minutus	3
Spatial behaviour of the Apennine hare: Are females territorial?	3
The generalist parasitoid Nasonia vitripennis shows more behavioural plasticity in host preference than its three specialist sister species	3
Advertising sex and individual identity by long‐distance chirps in wild‐living mature cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus)	3
Song matching in a long‐lived, sedentary bird with a low song rate: The importance of song type, song duration and intrusion	3
Parasitism of Neoconocephalus katydids by the parasitoid fly, Ormia lineifrons	2
Female great tits (Parus major) reproduce earlier when paired with a male they prefer	2
Female choice and male aggression in the polymorphic lizard Sceloporus minor	2
Heads up! Variation in the vigilance of foraging chipmunks in response to experimental manipulation of perceived risk	2
Reproductive behaviours in male parasitoids: From mating system to pairing pattern	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
Context‐sensitive dance–vocal displays affect song patterns and partner responses in a socially monogamous songbird	2
A proposal to enhance data quality and FAIRness	2
Social network analysis of small social groups: Application of a hurdle GLMM approach in the Alpine marmot (Marmota marmota)	2
Pattern, function and constraint of infant handling in wild Japanese macaques	2
Black‐headed gulls synchronize vigilance with their nearest neighbor irrespective of the neighbor's relative position	2

Nest defense, personality, and fitness of a locally endangered island passerine	2
Benefits and costs of social foraging in velvet worms	2
Unpredictability of vigilance in two sympatric Tibetan ungulates	2
Aggression‐based social learning in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)	2
Nest‐site selection in a neotropical arachnid with exclusive male care: Proximate cues and adaptive meaning	2
Dynamic table‐visiting behavior of birds at outdoor restaurants and cafés	2
Response to heterospecific calls in non‐passerine species: can two Rallidae species recognise each other based on their vocalisations?	2
“Urchin pinning”: Behavioural observations reveal how hungry urchins actively prey upon their sea star predators	2
Sneaky copulations by subordinate males suggest direct fitness benefits from male–male associations in spotted bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus maculatus)	2
Tool use and tooling in ravens (Corvus corax): A review and novel observations	2
Genital movements are not restricted to spermatozoa transfer in a haplogyne spider	2
Spatial behavior of northern flying squirrels in the same social network	2
Effects of caffeine on mating behavior and sperm precedence in Tribolium castaneum	2
Female preferences for conspecific males indicate reproductive isolation between sympatric Labeotropheus Ahl from Lake Malaŵi	2
Does spatial sorting explain leading edge personality types in a spider’s non‐native range?	2
Social relationships among captive female Himalayan tahr	2
Intraspecific variation in responses to aposematic prey in a jumping spider (Phidippus regius)	2
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	2
Female sex pheromone emission is affected by body condition, but not immune system function, in the orb‐web spider Argiope bruennichi	2
Males mate indiscriminately in the tropical jumping spider Hasarius adansoni (Audouin, 1826)	1
Effects of group behavior in the predatory raid on damselfish nests by the false cleanerfishAspidontus taeniatus	1
The perks of being in good conditions: How does female parasitism affect male mate choice in an orb‐web spider?	1
Stable individual differences in the frequency of chin‐marking behavior across development in the domestic rabbit	1
Unequal sample sizes according to the square‐root allocation rule are useful when comparing several treatments with a control	1
Colony size, nestmate density and social history shape behavioural variation in Formica fusca colonies	1
Contribution of ethology to evolutionary medicine	1
Variation in escape response of Himalayan marmots (Marmota himalayana) under different human disturbances	1
Among‐individual behavioral responses to predation risk are invariant within two species of freshwater snails	1
Linking male reproductive success to effort within and among nests in a co‐breeding stream fish	1
Close bonds and social rank similarities favor non‐random mating in captive stump‐tailed macaques (Macaca arctoides)	1
Nuptial pad (“breeding gland”) morphology is related to non‐random mating in wild male common frogs (Rana temporaria)	1
Behavioral responses of two small‐sized rodents, Phyllotis vaccarum and Abrothrix andina, to energy challenges of high‐altitude habitats in the Andes Mountains	1
Larval ecology, dispersal, and the evolution of sociality in the sea	1
Testing adaptive significance of host manipulation with a parasitoid wasp	1
Direct reciprocity among humans	1
Do sheep (Ovis aries) perform third‐party interventions?	1
Temporal non‐independence of foraging dive and surface duration sequences in the European shag Gulosus aristotelis	1
Agonistic behaviour in the long‐snout seahorse: A gentlemanly challenge	1
Random mating for body size despite fitness benefits of size‐assortative mating in a treefrog	1
Free‐ranging male northern map turtles use public information when interacting with potential mates	1
Eight‐legged swimmers: Behavioral responses to floods in two South American spiders	1
Multi‐night territorial behavior, chorus attendance, and mating success in red‐eyed treefrogs	1
Tadpole plasticity shapes the potential benefits of egg feeding to poison frog parents	1
Association between external female genital mutilation and securing paternity in a spider	1
Loss of complex female song but not duetting in the ancestors of Carolina wrens	1
Adjustment of egg laying by both hosts and intraspecific brood parasites in a beetle	1
Comment on “Potential short‐term earthquake forecasting by farm animal monitoring” by Wikelski, Mueller, Scocco, Catorci, Desinov, Belyaev, Keim, Pohlmeier, Fechteler, and Mai	1
Spatial configuration learning in Vespula germanica forager wasps	1
Males show their best side revisited – Effects of predation pressure on laterality in wild guppies	1
The geomagnetic field does not appear to influence navigation in Eastern painted turtles	1
Acoustic features of long‐distance calls of wild cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) are linked to the caller age from newborns to adults	1
Western black widow spiders (Latrodectus hesperus) remember prey capture location and size, but only alter behavior for prey caught at particular sites	1
Policing is more effective against eggs of non‐natal versus natal workers at early colony stages in a bumblebee	1
Male and female Australian magpie‐larks respond differently to variation in song frequency (pitch)	1
Experience of social density during early life is associated with attraction to conspecific odour in the common vole (Microtus arvalis)	1
Effects of a past contest on the future winning probability in a hyper‐aggressive fruit fly	1
Predicting breeding systems to guide conservation strategies: A kiwi example	1
Gut parasites infection increases mate rejection in a species with indirect sperm transfer	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
The strange occurrence of male cannibalism on adult females in snakes	1
Cheek‐to‐cheek: Communal nesting in an ephemeral pool‐breeding frog	1
Individual variation and vulnerability to angling: No apparent behavioral differences among fish captured using different fishing gears	1
Males of a Neotropical spider adjust prey‐gift construction but not mate search in response to sperm competition	1
Mating preference is mating system and relatedness dependent in the ladybird beetle, Menochilus sexmaculatus	1
Hidden black and yellow thigh color acts as an aposematic signal in the Eastern Gray Treefrog (Hyla versicolor)	1
Collective decision‐making, caste roles and sequential transport during colony emigration in the small carpenter ant, Camponotus yamaokai	1
Effects of human disturbance on risk‐taking behavior in painted turtles	1
Egg sac recognition and fostering in the wolf spider Pardosa milvina (araneae: lycosidae) and its effects on spiderling survival	1
Aggressive vocalizations during intergroup interactions in roost defense in the Spix's disk‐winged bat	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
Inter‐group conflict in a cooperatively breeding bird: New insights into “home field advantage”	1
Retaining memory after hibernation: Performance varies independently of activity levels in wild grey mouse lemurs	1
Harvesters (Arachnida: Opiliones) mate more at cooler temperatures, but the effect of temperature on mating varies across years	1
Display above courts of White‐throated manakins: A new view about its display behavior	1
Individual plasticity drives boldness senescence in a territorial butterfly	1
Learning and innovation in urban yellow mongooses (Cynictis penicillata)	1
Maternal cannibalistic preferences affect offspring preferences and development in Menochilus sexmaculatus Fabricius (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae): A transgenerational investigation	1
The females' response to male attractiveness: Mate choice, larvae production and differential brain protein expression	1
First report of rapid eye color change in a non‐avian tetrapod	1
Contrasting sex roles in two species with stable biparental care	1
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Group chorusing as an intragroup signal in the greater ani, a communally breeding bird	0
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Infection influences vibratory signal components in a wolf spider	0
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Male‐specific nocturnal song functions similarly to day song in a diurnal bird species	0
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