Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Article	Citations
Energetic management in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in Taï National Park, Côte d’Ivoire	33
Spatiotemporal patterns of wolf, mesocarnivores and prey in a Mediterranean area	29
Exploitative competition and displacement mediated by eusocial bees: experimental evidence in a wild pollinator community	27
Linking ecology and cognition: does ecological specialisation predict cognitive test performance?	25
Common permutation methods in animal social network analysis do not control for non-independence	21
Comparing ecological and evolutionary variability within datasets	20
Neophobia in 10 ungulate species—a comparative approach	20
Quantifying within-group variation in sociality—covariation among metrics and patterns across primate groups and species	19
Effects of early life adversity on maternal effort and glucocorticoids in wild olive baboons	18
Infection threat shapes our social instincts	18
Water clarity affects collective behavior in two cyprinid fishes	17
Radical change: temporal patterns of oxidative stress during social ascent in a dominance hierarchy	17
Background complexity and optimal background matching camouflage	17
The role of social structure and dynamics in the maintenance of endemic disease	17
Strategic adjustment of ejaculate quality in response to variation of the socio-sexual environment	16
Better together? How intergroup associations affect energy balance and feeding behavior in wild bonobos	15
Biologically meaningful moonlight measures and their application in ecological research	15
Long-term effects of prenatal sound experience on songbird behavior and their relation to song learning	15
The cost of associating with males for Bornean and Sumatran female orangutans: a hidden form of sexual conflict?	15
Suppression of personality variation in boldness during foraging in three-spined sticklebacks	13
Reproduction is affected by individual breeding experience but not pair longevity in a socially monogamous bird	13
Group size and modularity interact to shape the spread of infection and information through animal societies	13
High road mortality during female-biased larval dispersal in an iconic beetle	13
Extreme ecological constraints lead to high degree of individual stereotypy in the vocal repertoire of the Cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus)	13
Number of callers may affect the response to conspecific mobbing calls in great tits (Parus major)	13

Urbanisation weakens selection on the timing of breeding and clutch size in blue tits but not in great tits	13
A systematic review of sex differences in rough and tumble play across non-human mammals	12
Composition and compound proportions affect the response to complex chemical signals in a spiny lizard	12
The impact of turbidity on foraging and risk taking in the invasive Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) and a threatened native cichlid (Oreochromis amphimelas)	12
Sex, age, molt strategy, and migration distance explain the phenology of songbirds at a stopover along the East Asian flyway	12
Exploring links between personality traits and their social and non-social environments in wild poison frogs	12
Specialist predation covaries with colour polymorphism in tawny owls	12
Social relationships between chimpanzee sons and mothers endure but change during adolescence and adulthood	12
Repeatable differences in exploratory behaviour predict tick infestation probability in wild great tits	12
Year-round spatial distribution and migration phenology of a rapidly declining trans-Saharan migrant—evidence of winter movements and breeding site fidelity in European turtle doves	12
Snake personality: Differential effects of development and social experience	12
When Older Males Sire More Offspring—Increased Attractiveness or Higher Fertility?	11
The development and maintenance of sex differences in dietary breadth and complexity in Bornean orangutans	11
Bat echolocation plasticity in allopatry: a call for caution in acoustic identification of Pipistrellus sp.	11
Kin bias and male pair-bond status shape male-male relationships in a multilevel primate society	11
Climbing up the ladder: male reproductive behaviour changes with age in a long-lived fish	11
Personality and behavioral syndromes in two Peromyscus species: presence, lack of state dependence, and lack of association with home range size	11
The effect of reproductive state on activity budget, feeding behavior, and urinary C-peptide levels in wild female Assamese macaques	10
Egg covering in cavity nesting birds may prevent nest usurpation by other species	10
Morph-specific differences in escape behavior in a color polymorphic lizard	10
Family feud: permanent group splitting in a highly philopatric mammal, the killer whale (Orcinus orca)	10
Evolution of boldness and exploratory behavior in giant mice from Gough Island	10
Measuring fitness and inferring natural selection from long-term field studies: different measures lead to nuanced conclusions	10
Territorial males do not discriminate between local and novel plumage phenotypes in a tropical songbird species complex: implications for the role of social selection in trait evolution	10
Flocking in birds is associated with diet, foraging substrate, timing of activity, and life history	10
Rapid shifts in behavioural traits during a recent fish invasion	10
Open habitats promote female group formation in a solitary ungulate: the Japanese serow	10
Longitudinal effects of habitat quality, body condition, and parasites on colour patches of a multiornamented lizard	10
The evolution of ant worker polymorphism correlates with multiple social traits	10
Embryonic antipredator defenses and behavioral carryover effects in the fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas)	9
Mixture models as a method for comparative sociality: social networks and demographic change in resident killer whales	9
Brood sex ratio modulates the effects of extra food on parental effort and sibling competition in a sexually dimorphic raptor	9
Convergent character displacement in sympatric tamarin calls (Saguinus spp.)	9
Tolerant and intolerant macaques differ in the context specificity of their calls and how they ‘comment’ on the interactions of others	9
Ecological and environmental predictors of escape among birds on a large tropical island	9
Fortune favors the bold toad: urban-derived behavioral traits may provide advantages for invasive amphibian populations	9
The face never lies: facial expressions and mimicry modulate playful interactions in wild geladas	9
Breeding stage, not sex, affects foraging characteristics in masked boobies at Rapa Nui	9
Does ecology and life history predict parental cooperation in birds? A comparative analysis	9
Priority of access to food and its influence on social dynamics of an endangered carnivore	9
Guppies in the puzzle box: innovative problem-solving by a teleost fish	9
Colony fitness increases in the honey bee at queen mating frequencies higher than genetic diversity asymptote	9
Felid bedrooms with a panoramic view: selection of resting sites by Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) in a karstic landscape	8
A condition-dependent male sexual signal predicts adaptive predator-induced plasticity in offspring	8
Tail autotomy is associated with boldness in male but not female water anoles	8
Absentee owners and overlapping home ranges in a territorial species	8
Termite eusociality and contrasting selective pressure on social and innate immunity	8
Prior territorial responses and home range size predict territory defense in radio-tagged great tits	8
Gregariousness is associated with parasite species richness in a community of wild chimpanzees	8
Males and females of a polygamous songbird respond differently to mating opportunities	8

Sociality and parasite transmission	8
The duration of artificial light defines sexual signalling in the common glow-worm	8
Inferring the mating system in the burrowing shrimp Lepidophthalmus bocourti (Decapoda, Axiidea, Callichiridae) from the social structure and sexual dimorphism	8
Maternal lactational investment is higher for sons in chimpanzees	8
Quantitative cognition in carpenter ants	8
Chronic exposure to urban noise during the vocal learning period does not lead to increased song frequencies in zebra finches	7
Conspecific disturbance odors act as alarm cues to affect female mate choice in a treefrog	7
Food limitation modulates the endogenous control of spring migratory behavior in a captive long-distance migratory bird population	7
Not so naïve: endangered mammal responds to olfactory cues of an introduced predator after less than 150 years of coexistence	7
Which acoustic parameters modify the great tit’s response to conspecific combinatorial mobbing calls?	7
Sex, shells, and weaponry: coercive reproductive tactics in the painted turtle, Chrysemys picta	7
Size is not everything: differing activity and foraging patterns between the sexes in a monomorphic mammal	7
Why sharing data and code during peer review can enhance behavioral ecology research	7
Strongly bonded individuals prefer to forage together in cooperatively breeding dwarf mongoose groups	7
Breakdown of the ideal free distribution under conditions of severe and low competition	7
Foraging and feeding are independently regulated by social and personal hunger in the clonal raider ant	7
Locomotion, interactions and information transfer vary according to context in a cryptic fish species	7
Female polyandry dilutes inbreeding in a solitary fast-living hibernator	7
Genetic conflicts and the case for licensed anthropomorphizing	7
Ecological and reproductive drivers of fission-fusion dynamics in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) inhabiting a montane forest	7
Shorter effective lifespan in laboratory populations of D. melanogaster might reduce sexual selection	7
Sperm Sizer: a program to semi-automate the measurement of sperm length	7
Social immunity in the honey bee: do immune-challenged workers enter enforced or self-imposed exile?	7
Plasticity and flexibility in the anti-predator responses of treefrog tadpoles	7
The specificity of sperm-mediated paternal effects in threespine sticklebacks	7
Age-related division of labor occurs in ants at the earliest stages of colony initiation	7
The characteristics and consequences of African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) den site selection	7
Caffeine and ethanol in nectar interact with flower color impacting bumblebee behavior	7
Evidence of intrapopulation differences in rattlesnake defensive behavior across neighboring habitats	7
Information content of ultraviolet-reflecting colour patches and visual perception of body coloration in the Tyrrhenian wall lizard Podarcis tiliguerta	7
Black widow spiders use path integration on their webs	6
Large body size variation is associated with low communication success in tandem running ants	6
How does host social behavior drive parasite non-selective evolution from the within-host to the landscape-scale?	6
Reef manta ray cephalic lobe movements are modulated during social interactions	6
Stranger Danger: Differential response to strangers and neighbors by a social carnivore, the Asiatic wild dog (Cuon alpinus)	6
Ectoparasites exposure affects early growth and mouth colour in nestlings of a cavity-nesting raptor	6
Maternal stress effects on infant development in wild Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi)	6
Food-caching chickadees do not exhibit directional bias when learning a spatial task	6
Conflict and the evolution of viviparity in vertebrates	6
How territoriality reduces disease transmission among social insect colonies	6
Escape-hatching decisions show adaptive ontogenetic changes in how embryos manage ambiguity in predation risk cues	6
Split sex ratios and genetic relatedness in a primitively eusocial sweat bee	6
Niche partitioning among social clusters of a resident estuarine apex predator	6
When night never falls: female sexual signalling in a nocturnal insect along a latitudinal gradient	6
Juvenile social play predicts docility in Belding’s ground squirrels	6
Population specific annual cycles and migration strategies in a leap-frog migrant	6
Urban lizards use sleep sites that mirror the structural, thermal, and light properties of natural sites	6
State and physiology behind personality in arthropods: a review	6
Heliconiini butterflies as a case study in evolutionary cognitive ecology: behavioural innovation and mushroom body expansion	6
Allo-suckling occurrence and its effect on lactation and nursing duration in harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) in Orkney, Scotland	6
Transfer of information between a highly social species and heterospecific community members	6
Social and sexual behaviors predict immune system activation, but not adrenocortical activation, in male rhesus macaques	6
Long-term field studies in bat research: importance for basic and applied research questions in animal behavior	6
The evolution of dynamic and flexible courtship displays that reveal individual quality	6
Effects of developmental environment on animal personality in a tropical skink	6
Morphological evolution and the behavioral organization of agricultural division of labor in the leafcutter ant Atta cephalotes	6
Weak evidence that asset protection underlies temporal or contextual consistency in boldness of a terrestrial crustacean	6
A new classification of mammalian uni-male multi-female groups based on the fundamental principles governing inter- and intrasexual relationships	6
Investigating personality in vipers: individual rattlesnakes exhibit consistent behavioral responses in defensive and exploratory contexts	5
Adaptive tuning of the exploitation-exploration trade-off in four honey bee species	5
Antipredator responses of the morphs of an amphibian species match their differential predation pressures	5
Social foraging can benefit artisanal fishers who interact with wild dolphins	5
Evolution from monogamy to polygyny: insights from the solitary Japanese serow	5
The effects of intra- and interspecific competitions on personality and individual plasticity in two sympatric brown frogs	5
Impact of light pollution on aquatic invertebrates: Behavioral responses and ecological consequences	5
Population-specific assessment of carry-over effects across the range of a migratory songbird	5
Fertilization success suggests random pairing in frogs with regard to body size	5
Multimodal female mate choice in a polymorphic flat rock lizard	5
Sick and tired: sickness behaviour, polyparasitism and food stress in a gregarious mammal	5
Offspring sex ratios are male-biased reflecting sex-biased dispersal in Idaho, USA, wolves	5
Seasonal shifts in sociosexual behaviour and reproductive phenology in giraffe	5
Allopatric montane wren-babblers exhibit similar song notes but divergent vocal sequences	5
Context of breaching and tail slapping in Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins in the northern South China Sea	5
Invasion of cane toads (Rhinella marina) affects the problem-solving performance of vulnerable predators (monitor lizards, Varanus varius)	5
Mexican mojarra can dominate non-native convict cichlids even when outnumbered	5
Aggression and multi-modal signaling in noise in a common urban songbird	5
A description of a new discovery: African wild dog packs communicate with other packs by posting scent-mark messages at a shared marking site	5
No evidence for innate differences in tadpole behavior between natural, urbanized, and invasive populations	5
Sensitivity threshold of avian magnetic compass to oscillating magnetic field is species-specific	5
Reproductive timing as an explanation for skewed parentage assignment ratio in a bisexually philopatric population	5

Commerson’s dolphins (Cephalorhynchus commersonii) can relax acoustic crypsis	5
Audible, but not ultrasonic, calls reflect surface-dwelling or subterranean specialization in pup and adult Brandt’s and mandarin voles	5
Females of solitary- and group-living sister species of African striped mice show a similar social structure following experimentally imposed group-living	5
Extent of threat detection depends on predator type and behavioral context in wild samango monkey groups	5
Should I stay or should I go: the effect of avian brood parasitism on host fledging dynamics	5
Multiple parasitism in an evictor brood parasite: patterns revealed by long-term monitoring, continuous video recording, and genetic analyses	5
Female gray treefrogs maintain mate choice decisions under predation threat, but adjust movements to reduce conspicuousness during mate approach	5
Chemical signal divergence among populations influences behavioral discrimination in the whiptail lizard Aspidoscelis lineattissimus (squamata: teiidae)	5
Response to short-lived human overcrowding by free-ranging dogs	5
Exploratory behaviour divergence between surface populations, cave colonists and a cave population in the water louse, Asellus aquaticus	5
Effective conspecific communication with aberrant calls in the common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)	5
Odor preferences in hybrid chickadees: implications for reproductive isolation and asymmetric introgression	5
Evolution of social behaviour in an infectious world: comparative analysis of social network structure versus parasite richness	5
Investigating temporal coordination in the duet contributions of a pair-living small ape	5
Do female amphibians and reptiles have greater reproductive output if they have more mates?	5
Colony but not social phenotype or status structures the gut bacteria of a eusocial mammal	4
Maximizing sexual signal transmission: use of multiple display sites by male houbara bustards	4
Convergent evolution of antlions and wormlions: similarities and differences in the behavioural ecology of unrelated trap-building predators	4
Sex-specific reproductive strategies in wild yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventer): senescence and genetic variance in annual reproductive success differ between the sexes	4
First evidence of contagious yawning in a wild lemur	4
Type and amount of social experience influences individual face learning in paper wasps	4
Has an invasive lizard lost its antipredator behaviours following 40 generations of isolation from snake predators?	4
Multi-year assessment of variability in spatial and social relationships in a subterranean rodent, the highland tuco-tuco (Ctenomys opimus)	4
Variation in the behaviour of an obligate corallivore is influenced by resource availability	4
Parasitic begging calls of nestmate-evictor common cuckoos stimulate more parental provisions by red-winged blackbirds than calls of nest-sharing brown-headed cowbirds	4
Feral ungulate and macropod responses to resource scarcity and predation risk at savanna waterholes	4
Social group size influences pathogen transmission in salamanders	4
Winter weather conditions result in temporal niche overlap among three sympatric medium-sized carnivores in northeastern Japan	4
Tits (Paridae sp.) use social information when locating and choosing nest lining material	4
The influence of age and development temperature on the temperature-related foraging risk of Formica cinerea ants	4
Does genetic differentiation underlie behavioral divergence in response to migration barriers in sticklebacks? A common garden experiment	4
Sex-specific signalling of individual personality by a mutual plumage ornament in a passerine	4
Evolution of reduced mate harming tendency of males in Drosophila melanogaster populations selected for faster life history	4
Social information used to elicit cache protection differs between pinyon jays and Clark’s nutcrackers	4
The interplay of experience and pre-existing bias in nectar-robbing behavior by the common eastern bumble bee	4
Testing the maintenance of natural responses to survival-relevant calls in the conservation breeding population of a critically endangered corvid (Corvus hawaiiensis)	4
Forget the audience: tadpoles release similar disturbance cues regardless of kinship or familiarity	4
Wild Australian magpies learn to pull intact, not broken, strings to obtain food	4
Parasitic cowbird development up to fledging and subsequent post-fledging survival reflect life history variation found across host species	4
Diel variation in anti-predation behavior of a ground squirrel and relationships between vigilance and escape	4
What is that smell? Hummingbirds avoid foraging on resources with defensive insect compounds	4
Food preference and food type innovation of surface- vs. cave-dwelling waterlouse (Asellus aquaticus) after 60 000 years of isolation	4
Large eastern grey kangaroo males are dominant but do not monopolize matings	4
Evaluating different metrics to study small color differences: the red bill and plumage of common waxbills as a case study	4
Ineffective nuptial gifts suggest female emancipation from sensory exploitation	4
Reproductive success of Bornean orangutan males: scattered in time but clustered in space	4
What do animals learn during anti-predator training? Testing for predator-specific learning in ‘alalā (Corvus hawaiiensis)	4
Detecting behavioural lateralisation in Poecilia reticulata is strongly dependent on experimental design	4
Sex difference in homing: males but not females return home despite offspring mortality in Ikakogi tayrona, a glassfrog with prolonged maternal care	4
Cooperation by ant queens during colony-founding perpetuates alternative forms of social organization	4
Collaborative behaviour and coalitions in male jaguars (Panthera onca)—evidence and comparison with other felids	4
The impact of high temperatures on bird responses to alarm calls	4
Tick parasitism impairs contest behavior in the western fence lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis)	4
Male aggressiveness and risk-taking during reproduction are repeatable but not correlated in a wild bird population	4
The influence of social environment on cooperation and conflict in an incipiently social bee, Ceratina calcarata	4
Analysis of astrovirus transmission pathways in a free-ranging fission-fusion colony of Natterer’s bats (Myotis nattereri)	4
Daily foraging activity of an imperiled ground squirrel: effects of hibernation, thermal environment, body condition, and conspecific density	4
Behavioral responses of wild animals to anthropogenic change: insights from domestication	4
Social status predicts different mating and reproductive success for men and women in China: evidence from the 2010–2017 CGSS data	4
Call rate, fundamental frequency, and syntax determine male-call attractiveness in blue petrels Halobaena caerulea	4
Multiple phenotypic traits predict male mating success in a critically endangered frog	3
Experimental evidence that adult UV/yellow colouration functions as a signal in blue tit families — but only for parents	3
Individual behavioural traits not social context affects learning about novel objects in archerfish	3
Food-hoarding and nest-building propensities are associated in a cavity-nesting bird	3
Unraveling the content of tail displays in an Asian agamid lizard	3
Prey availability influences the effect of boldness on reproductive success in a mammalian predator	3
Food, shadow, and fire influence a tropical bird´s display	3
Time-accuracy trade-off and task partitioning of hygienic behavior among honey bee (Apis mellifera) workers	3
Parameterizing animal sounds and motion with animal-attached tags to study acoustic communication	3
Effects of early-life experience on innovation and problem-solving in captive coyotes	3
Effect of body condition on mobility and mating success in a wild population of the scramble polygynous Cook Strait giant weta	3
Benefits of paternal thermoregulation: male midwife toads select warmer temperature to shorten embryonic development	3
Auditory and distance cues interact to modulate female gray treefrog preferences for male advertisement calls	3
Evolutionary implications of size-selective mortality on the ontogenetic development of shoal cohesion: a neurochemical approach using a zebrafish, Danio rerio, harvest selection experiment	3
The role of serotonin in modulating common waxbill behaviour	3
Patch choice decisions by a fission–fusion forager as a test of the ecological constraints model	3
Aversive reinforcement improves visual discrimination learning in free-flying wasps (Vespula vulgaris)	3
Behavior outweighs body size in mediating male reproductive success in a nest-building fish, bluehead chub	3
Behavioural drivers of ecotone exploitation: activity of groundwater animals in spring	3
From dyads to collectives: a review of honeybee signalling	3
Common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) fission–fusion dynamics in the south coast of Portugal	3
Disturbance cues facilitate associative learning of predators in a coral reef fish	3
Interrelationship among spatial cohesion, aggression rate, counter-aggression and female dominance in three lemur species	3
Reproduction of a field cricket under high-intensity artificial light at night and a simulated heat wave	3
Do males that experience weapon damage have greater reproductive potential than intact males in polygynous scenarios?	3
Sex-specific effects of capital resources on reproductive timing and success in red squirrels	3
Information transfer during mobbing: call rate is more important than the number of callers in a southern temperate passerine	3
Conspecific scent marks may influence underground site selection by a fossorial reptile	3
Intraspecific variation in invertebrate cognition: a review	3
Developmental changes in red-eyed treefrog embryo behavior increase escape-hatching success in wasp attacks	3
Absence of specific individuals and high food abundance elicit food calls in wild western gorillas	3
Parasite infection impairs the shoaling behaviour of uninfected shoal members under predator attack	3
Nestling sex does not influence provisioning effort of parents or helpers in a cooperative bird with a male-biased helper contingent	3
Brighter is better: bill fluorescence increases social attraction in a colonial seabird and reveals a potential link with foraging	3
Behavioural plasticity in the monsoonal tropics: implications for thermoregulatory traits in sandy shore crabs	3