Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Article	Citations
Effective use of the McNemar test	62
Attentive red squirrel mothers have faster growing pups and higher lifetime reproductive success	32
Aggregation and social interaction in garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis)	32
Energetic management in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in Taï National Park, Côte d’Ivoire	28
Social relationships among adult male chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii): variation in the strength and quality of social bonds	24
Exploitative competition and displacement mediated by eusocial bees: experimental evidence in a wild pollinator community	23
Spatiotemporal patterns of wolf, mesocarnivores and prey in a Mediterranean area	22
Linking ecology and cognition: does ecological specialisation predict cognitive test performance?	21
Female dispersal patterns influenced by male tenure duration and group size in western lowland gorillas	19
Home range establishment and the mechanisms of philopatry among female Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) at Tuanan	19
Infection threat shapes our social instincts	17
Fear of the dark? A mesopredator mitigates large carnivore risk through nocturnality, but humans moderate the interaction	17
Neophobia in 10 ungulate species—a comparative approach	17
Exposure to a novel predator induces visual predator recognition by naïve prey	17
The evolution of parental care strategies in subsocial wasps	17
Comparing ecological and evolutionary variability within datasets	16
Fight intensity correlates with stronger and more mechanically efficient weapons in three species of Aegla crabs	16
Condition-dependent differences in male vibratory pre-copulatory and copulatory courtship in a nuptial gift-giving spider	15
Background complexity and optimal background matching camouflage	15
Gone with the wind: Is signal timing in a neotropical katydid an adaptive response to variation in wind-induced vibratory noise?	15
Switching from mesopredator to apex predator: how do responses vary in amphibians adapted to cave living?	15
Radical change: temporal patterns of oxidative stress during social ascent in a dominance hierarchy	15
Anthropogenic noise reduces male reproductive investment in an acoustically signaling insect	15
Grouped circular data in biology: advice for effectively implementing statistical procedures	14
Effects of early life adversity on maternal effort and glucocorticoids in wild olive baboons	14

Elevation-related differences in annual survival of adult food-caching mountain chickadees are consistent with natural selection on spatial cognition	14
The role of social structure and dynamics in the maintenance of endemic disease	14
Refrigeration or anti-theft? Food-caching behavior of wolverines (Gulo gulo) in Scandinavia	14
Common permutation methods in animal social network analysis do not control for non-independence	14
Competitive ability determines coalition participation and partner selection during maturation in wild male chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii)	14
Insulin-like growth factor 1 is related to the expression of plumage traits in a passerine species	13
Extreme ecological constraints lead to high degree of individual stereotypy in the vocal repertoire of the Cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus)	13
Gut microbial pulse provides nutrition for parental provisioning in incipient termite colonies	13
Strategic adjustment of ejaculate quality in response to variation of the socio-sexual environment	13
Group size and modularity interact to shape the spread of infection and information through animal societies	12
Flash behavior in mammals?	12
Suppression of personality variation in boldness during foraging in three-spined sticklebacks	12
The cost of associating with males for Bornean and Sumatran female orangutans: a hidden form of sexual conflict?	12
Repeatable differences in exploratory behaviour predict tick infestation probability in wild great tits	12
Getting ahead: exploitative competition by an invasive lizard	12
Number of callers may affect the response to conspecific mobbing calls in great tits (Parus major)	12
Water clarity affects collective behavior in two cyprinid fishes	12
Better together? How intergroup associations affect energy balance and feeding behavior in wild bonobos	12
Lack of consistent responses to aircraft noise in dawn song timing of bird populations near tropical airports	12
Nest defence and offspring provisioning in a cooperative bird: individual subordinates vary in total contribution, but no division of tasks among breeders and subordinates	12
Quantifying within-group variation in sociality—covariation among metrics and patterns across primate groups and species	12
Long-term effects of prenatal sound experience on songbird behavior and their relation to song learning	11
Worker propensity affects flexible task reversion in an ant	11
High road mortality during female-biased larval dispersal in an iconic beetle	11
Climbing up the ladder: male reproductive behaviour changes with age in a long-lived fish	11
Duration of female parental care and their survival in the little auk Alle alle - are these two traits linked?	11
Snake personality: Differential effects of development and social experience	11
Social relationships between chimpanzee sons and mothers endure but change during adolescence and adulthood	11
Composition and compound proportions affect the response to complex chemical signals in a spiny lizard	11
Manipulation of worker size diversity does not affect colony fitness under natural conditions in the ant Temnothorax nylanderi	11
Predator personality and prey detection: inter-individual variation in responses to cryptic and conspicuous prey	11
Sex, age, molt strategy, and migration distance explain the phenology of songbirds at a stopover along the East Asian flyway	11
Are lizards capable of inhibitory control? Performance on a semi-transparent version of the cylinder task in five species of Australian skinks	10
Fighting for what it’s worth: participation and outcome of inter-group encounters in a pair-living primate, the Javan gibbon (Hylobates moloch)	10
Exploring links between personality traits and their social and non-social environments in wild poison frogs	10
Great tit responses to the calls of an unfamiliar species suggest conserved perception of call ordering	10
Specialist predation covaries with colour polymorphism in tawny owls	10
Personality and behavioral syndromes in two Peromyscus species: presence, lack of state dependence, and lack of association with home range size	10
Bat echolocation plasticity in allopatry: a call for caution in acoustic identification of Pipistrellus sp.	10
Seasonal changes and the influence of tree species and ambient temperature on the fission-fusion dynamics of tree-roosting bats	10
Urbanisation weakens selection on the timing of breeding and clutch size in blue tits but not in great tits	10
Reproductive physiology corresponds to adult nutrition and task performance in a Neotropical paper wasp: a test of dominance-nutrition hypothesis predictions	10
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	10
The fast and the curious II: performance, personality, and metabolism in Karoo bush rats	10
Rapid shifts in behavioural traits during a recent fish invasion	9
Open habitats promote female group formation in a solitary ungulate: the Japanese serow	9
Challenges of dehydration result in a behavioral shift in invasive toads	9
Predictability and variability of association patterns in sooty mangabeys	9
Brood sex ratio modulates the effects of extra food on parental effort and sibling competition in a sexually dimorphic raptor	9
Guppies in the puzzle box: innovative problem-solving by a teleost fish	9

Does the tie fit the female? Melanin-based colouration, aggressive personality and reproductive investment in female great tits (Parus major)	9
Geographic intra-specific variation in social organization is driven by population density	9
The effect of variation in moonlight on nocturnal song of a diurnal bird species	9
Song-type switching rate in the chaffinch carries a message during simulated intrusion	9
Multi-scale settlement patterns of a migratory songbird in a European primaeval forest	9
Mixture models as a method for comparative sociality: social networks and demographic change in resident killer whales	9
Biologically meaningful moonlight measures and their application in ecological research	9
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	9
Does consistent individual variability in pelagic fish larval behaviour affect recruitment in nursery habitats?	8
An experimental test of changed personality in butterflies from anthropogenic landscapes	8
The impact of turbidity on foraging and risk taking in the invasive Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) and a threatened native cichlid (Oreochromis amphimelas)	8
Inferring the mating system in the burrowing shrimp Lepidophthalmus bocourti (Decapoda, Axiidea, Callichiridae) from the social structure and sexual dimorphism	8
Metabolic rate shapes phenotypic covariance among physiological, behavioral, and life-history traits in honeybees	8
Flocking in birds is associated with diet, foraging substrate, timing of activity, and life history	8
Reproduction is affected by individual breeding experience but not pair longevity in a socially monogamous bird	8
Spatial and seasonal patterns of communal latrine use by spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) reflect a seasonal resource defense strategy	8
The effect of reproductive state on activity budget, feeding behavior, and urinary C-peptide levels in wild female Assamese macaques	8
Covariation in superoxide, sperm telomere length and sperm velocity in a polymorphic reptile	8
Quantitative cognition in carpenter ants	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
When Older Males Sire More Offspring—Increased Attractiveness or Higher Fertility?	8
Evolution of boldness and exploratory behavior in giant mice from Gough Island	8
Kin bias and male pair-bond status shape male-male relationships in a multilevel primate society	8
Does ecology and life history predict parental cooperation in birds? A comparative analysis	8
Defending as a unit: sex- and context-specific territorial defence in a duetting bird	8
Priority of access to food and its influence on social dynamics of an endangered carnivore	8
The development and maintenance of sex differences in dietary breadth and complexity in Bornean orangutans	8
Sociality and parasite transmission	7
Effects of early thermal environment on the behavior and learning of a lizard with bimodal reproduction	7
Thinking outside the box: problem-solving in free-living lizards	7
All together now! Hatching synchrony in freshwater turtles	7
Predator attack patterns influence vigilance in a virtual experiment	7
Proteins from femoral gland secretions of male rock lizards Iberolacerta cyreni allow self—but not individual—recognition of unfamiliar males	7
Sexually dichromatic coloration of female Iberian green lizards correlates with health state and reproductive investment	7
Family feud: permanent group splitting in a highly philopatric mammal, the killer whale (Orcinus orca)	7
Contact calling in context: intra- and intergroup variation in vocalization rates depend on a call’s function	7
Shorter effective lifespan in laboratory populations of D. melanogaster might reduce sexual selection	7
Colony fitness increases in the honey bee at queen mating frequencies higher than genetic diversity asymptote	7
Older males are more competitive in male fights and more aggressive toward females in the broad-horned flour beetle Gnatocerus cornutus	7
The duration of artificial light defines sexual signalling in the common glow-worm	7
Morph-specific differences in escape behavior in a color polymorphic lizard	7
Males and females of a polygamous songbird respond differently to mating opportunities	7
The evolution of ant worker polymorphism correlates with multiple social traits	7
Convergent character displacement in sympatric tamarin calls (Saguinus spp.)	7
Breeding stage, not sex, affects foraging characteristics in masked boobies at Rapa Nui	7
Locomotion, interactions and information transfer vary according to context in a cryptic fish species	7
Variation in carotenoid-containing retinal oil droplets correlates with variation in perception of carotenoid coloration	7
Embryonic antipredator defenses and behavioral carryover effects in the fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas)	7
Longitudinal effects of habitat quality, body condition, and parasites on colour patches of a multiornamented lizard	7
Maternal lactational investment is higher for sons in chimpanzees	7
Termite eusociality and contrasting selective pressure on social and innate immunity	6
When night never falls: female sexual signalling in a nocturnal insect along a latitudinal gradient	6
Ectoparasites exposure affects early growth and mouth colour in nestlings of a cavity-nesting raptor	6
The characteristics and consequences of African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) den site selection	6
Weak evidence that asset protection underlies temporal or contextual consistency in boldness of a terrestrial crustacean	6
Size is not everything: differing activity and foraging patterns between the sexes in a monomorphic mammal	6
Why sharing data and code during peer review can enhance behavioral ecology research	6
Honey bee aggression: evaluating causal links to disease-resistance traits and infection	6
Social and sexual behaviors predict immune system activation, but not adrenocortical activation, in male rhesus macaques	6
Niche partitioning among social clusters of a resident estuarine apex predator	6
Tolerant and intolerant macaques differ in the context specificity of their calls and how they ‘comment’ on the interactions of others	6
Prior territorial responses and home range size predict territory defense in radio-tagged great tits	6
Which acoustic parameters modify the great tit’s response to conspecific combinatorial mobbing calls?	6
The face never lies: facial expressions and mimicry modulate playful interactions in wild geladas	6
Sex, shells, and weaponry: coercive reproductive tactics in the painted turtle, Chrysemys picta	6
Strongly bonded individuals prefer to forage together in cooperatively breeding dwarf mongoose groups	6
Allo-suckling occurrence and its effect on lactation and nursing duration in harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) in Orkney, Scotland	6
Black widow spiders use path integration on their webs	6
The specificity of sperm-mediated paternal effects in threespine sticklebacks	6
Behavioural correlations and aggression in praying mantids	6
Mating with sexually attractive males provides female Gryllus firmus field crickets with direct but not indirect fitness benefits	6
Urban lizards use sleep sites that mirror the structural, thermal, and light properties of natural sites	6
Absentee owners and overlapping home ranges in a territorial species	6
Do female rainbow kribs choose males on the basis of their apparent aggression and boldness? A non-correlational mate choice study	6
Male accessory gland depletion in a tephritid fly affects female fecundity independently of sperm depletion	6
Task partitioning in ants lacking discrete morphological worker subcastes	6
Sperm Sizer: a program to semi-automate the measurement of sperm length	6
Escape-hatching decisions show adaptive ontogenetic changes in how embryos manage ambiguity in predation risk cues	6
Age-related division of labor occurs in ants at the earliest stages of colony initiation	6

Foraging and feeding are independently regulated by social and personal hunger in the clonal raider ant	5
Life-long testosterone and antiandrogen treatments affect the survival and reproduction of captive male red-legged partridges (Alectoris rufa)	5
Commerson’s dolphins (Cephalorhynchus commersonii) can relax acoustic crypsis	5
A systematic review of sex differences in rough and tumble play across non-human mammals	5
Queen loss changes behavior and increases longevity in a stingless bee	5
Felid bedrooms with a panoramic view: selection of resting sites by Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) in a karstic landscape	5
Gregariousness is associated with parasite species richness in a community of wild chimpanzees	5
Should I stay or should I go: the effect of avian brood parasitism on host fledging dynamics	5
Calling amplitude flexibility and acoustic spacing in the territorial frog Allobates femoralis	5
Food limitation modulates the endogenous control of spring migratory behavior in a captive long-distance migratory bird population	5
Breakdown of the ideal free distribution under conditions of severe and low competition	5
The role of claw color in species recognition and mate choice in a fiddler crab	5
Multiple signals predict male mating success in the lek-mating lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus)	5
Not so naïve: endangered mammal responds to olfactory cues of an introduced predator after less than 150 years of coexistence	5
Evolution of social behaviour in an infectious world: comparative analysis of social network structure versus parasite richness	5
Within-shoal phenotypic homogeneity overrides familiarity in a social fish	5
Maternal stress effects on infant development in wild Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi)	5
Sick and tired: sickness behaviour, polyparasitism and food stress in a gregarious mammal	5
Social immunity in the honey bee: do immune-challenged workers enter enforced or self-imposed exile?	5
Influence of past and current social contexts on hunting behaviour in spiderlings	5
Measuring fitness and inferring natural selection from long-term field studies: different measures lead to nuanced conclusions	5
Transfer of information between a highly social species and heterospecific community members	5
Chronic exposure to urban noise during the vocal learning period does not lead to increased song frequencies in zebra finches	5
How does host social behavior drive parasite non-selective evolution from the within-host to the landscape-scale?	5
Ecological and environmental predictors of escape among birds on a large tropical island	5
Fortune favors the bold toad: urban-derived behavioral traits may provide advantages for invasive amphibian populations	5
Sensitivity threshold of avian magnetic compass to oscillating magnetic field is species-specific	5
Fertilization success suggests random pairing in frogs with regard to body size	5
Ecological and reproductive drivers of fission-fusion dynamics in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) inhabiting a montane forest	5
Male care status influences the risk-taking decisions in a glassfrog	5
Genetic conflicts and the case for licensed anthropomorphizing	5
Heterogeneity in social network connections is density-dependent: implications for disease dynamics in a gregarious ungulate	5
Effective conspecific communication with aberrant calls in the common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)	5
Split sex ratios and genetic relatedness in a primitively eusocial sweat bee	5
Extent of threat detection depends on predator type and behavioral context in wild samango monkey groups	5
Plasticity and flexibility in the anti-predator responses of treefrog tadpoles	5
Long-term field studies in bat research: importance for basic and applied research questions in animal behavior	5
Differences in incubation behaviour and niche separation of two competing flycatcher species	5
Females of solitary- and group-living sister species of African striped mice show a similar social structure following experimentally imposed group-living	4
Age-based changes in kairomone response mediate task partitioning in stingless bee soldiers (Tetragonisca angustula)	4
Seasonal shifts in sociosexual behaviour and reproductive phenology in giraffe	4
Detecting behavioural lateralisation in Poecilia reticulata is strongly dependent on experimental design	4
Convergent evolution of antlions and wormlions: similarities and differences in the behavioural ecology of unrelated trap-building predators	4
Sex difference in homing: males but not females return home despite offspring mortality in Ikakogi tayrona, a glassfrog with prolonged maternal care	4
Mexican mojarra can dominate non-native convict cichlids even when outnumbered	4
Feral ungulate and macropod responses to resource scarcity and predation risk at savanna waterholes	4
Reef manta ray cephalic lobe movements are modulated during social interactions	4
A description of a new discovery: African wild dog packs communicate with other packs by posting scent-mark messages at a shared marking site	4
Neighbour effects do not always show consistent patterns, contrast of seed trait matters: evidence from a seed-rodent mutualism study	4
Anti-predatory sleep strategies are conserved in the agamid lizard Monilesaurus rouxii	4
Parasitic cowbird development up to fledging and subsequent post-fledging survival reflect life history variation found across host species	4
Information content of ultraviolet-reflecting colour patches and visual perception of body coloration in the Tyrrhenian wall lizard Podarcis tiliguerta	4
Search strategies in rural and urban environment during natal dispersal of the red squirrel	4
A new classification of mammalian uni-male multi-female groups based on the fundamental principles governing inter- and intrasexual relationships	4
Forget the audience: tadpoles release similar disturbance cues regardless of kinship or familiarity	4
How territoriality reduces disease transmission among social insect colonies	4
Collaborative behaviour and coalitions in male jaguars (Panthera onca)—evidence and comparison with other felids	4
Sex-specific signalling of individual personality by a mutual plumage ornament in a passerine	4
Egg covering in cavity nesting birds may prevent nest usurpation by other species	4
Sex differences in ocular morphology in Caucasian people: a dubious role of sexual selection in the evolution of sexual dimorphism of the human eye	4
Female polyandry dilutes inbreeding in a solitary fast-living hibernator	4
Multiple parasitism in an evictor brood parasite: patterns revealed by long-term monitoring, continuous video recording, and genetic analyses	4
Caffeine and ethanol in nectar interact with flower color impacting bumblebee behavior	4
Testing the maintenance of natural responses to survival-relevant calls in the conservation breeding population of a critically endangered corvid (Corvus hawaiiensis)	4
Food preference and food type innovation of surface- vs. cave-dwelling waterlouse (Asellus aquaticus) after 60 000 years of isolation	4
Chemical signal divergence among populations influences behavioral discrimination in the whiptail lizard Aspidoscelis lineattissimus (squamata: teiidae)	4
Male aggressiveness and risk-taking during reproduction are repeatable but not correlated in a wild bird population	4
Has an invasive lizard lost its antipredator behaviours following 40 generations of isolation from snake predators?	4
Evidence of intrapopulation differences in rattlesnake defensive behavior across neighboring habitats	4
Reproductive timing as an explanation for skewed parentage assignment ratio in a bisexually philopatric population	4
Audible, but not ultrasonic, calls reflect surface-dwelling or subterranean specialization in pup and adult Brandt’s and mandarin voles	4
Effects of developmental environment on animal personality in a tropical skink	4
Colony but not social phenotype or status structures the gut bacteria of a eusocial mammal	4
Conspecific disturbance odors act as alarm cues to affect female mate choice in a treefrog	4
Adaptive tuning of the exploitation-exploration trade-off in four honey bee species	4
Evolution of reduced mate harming tendency of males in Drosophila melanogaster populations selected for faster life history	4
Female song in eastern bluebirds varies in acoustic structure according to social context	4
Evolution from monogamy to polygyny: insights from the solitary Japanese serow	4
Multimodal female mate choice in a polymorphic flat rock lizard	4
Social stress in female Columbian ground squirrels: density-independent effects of kin contribute to variation in fecal glucocorticoid metabolites	4
Analysis of astrovirus transmission pathways in a free-ranging fission-fusion colony of Natterer’s bats (Myotis nattereri)	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
Population-specific assessment of carry-over effects across the range of a migratory songbird	4
Tick parasitism impairs contest behavior in the western fence lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis)	4
Investigating personality in vipers: individual rattlesnakes exhibit consistent behavioral responses in defensive and exploratory contexts	4
Population specific annual cycles and migration strategies in a leap-frog migrant	4
The evolution of dynamic and flexible courtship displays that reveal individual quality	3
Unraveling the content of tail displays in an Asian agamid lizard	3
No evidence for innate differences in tadpole behavior between natural, urbanized, and invasive populations	3
Cooperation by ant queens during colony-founding perpetuates alternative forms of social organization	3
Large eastern grey kangaroo males are dominant but do not monopolize matings	3
Food-hoarding and nest-building propensities are associated in a cavity-nesting bird	3
Type and amount of social experience influences individual face learning in paper wasps	3
Food, shadow, and fire influence a tropical bird´s display	3
Behavior outweighs body size in mediating male reproductive success in a nest-building fish, bluehead chub	3