Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Article	Citations
Thermal energetics of male courtship song in a lek-breeding bat	48
Nocturnal and diurnal predator and prey interactions with crab spider color polymorphs	40
Social modulation of spatial dynamics in treefrog choruses	29
Drivers and consequences of female reproductive competition in an egalitarian, sexually monomorphic primate	21
Female-limited X chromosome evolution reveals that lifespan is mainly modulated by interlocus rather than intralocus sexual conflict	21
Should I stay or should I go now: dispersal decisions and reproductive success in male white-faced capuchins (Cebus imitator)	21
Evidence of sociality and group foraging in Antarctic minke whales (Balaenoptera bonaerensis)	18
Investigation of field and laboratory-based personality traits in a wild ornate box turtle (Terrapene ornata) population	18
Are the personality measures for laboratory mice applicable for wild rats?	18
Time allocation to balance group living trade-offs in Ethiopian wolves	18
Impact of blood parasites on the behaviour of two congeneric wall lizards (genus Podarcis)	17
Functional diversification of contact calls contribute to the cohesion of a multi-level society	17
Versatile and inexpensive device for capturing high-quality behavioral videos under diverse field conditions	16
The science funding crisis threatens the careers of future behavioral ecologists	16
Anxiety-like behavior and tectal gene expression in a foraging/predator avoidance tradeoff task using adult African clawed frogs Xenopus laevis	15
Behavioural response to predation risks depends on experimental change in dehydration state in a lizard	15
Familiarity effects on fish behaviour are disrupted in shoals that contain also unfamiliar individuals	15
Morphological evolution and the behavioral organization of agricultural division of labor in the leafcutter ant Atta cephalotes	15
White plumage color as an honest indicator: feather macrostructure links reflectance with reproductive effort and success	14
Bumblebee cognitive abilities are robust to changes in colony size	14
Syntactic rules predict song type matching in a songbird	14
Floral and insect traits predict predation risk and neophobia impacts on flower-visiting insects’ behavior	14
Impact of predator model presentation paradigms on titi monkey alarm sequences	13
Correction to: Daily foraging activity of an imperiled ground squirrel: effects of hibernation, thermal environment, body condition, and conspecific density	13
Behavioral repertoire of Lahille’s bottlenose dolphins that interact with artisanal fishers	13

Behavioral responses of two African mesopredators to human and non-human apex predators	12
Background contrast affects detection and recognition of courting wolf spiders by intended and unintended receivers	12
The availability of male mates affects the social mating strategies of a predominantly socially monogamous passerine	12
Who to help? Helping decisions in a cooperatively breeding bird with redirected care	12
Weak evidence for a relationship between group size and flight initiation distance in response to underwater human presence in an exploited fish species	11
The impact of high temperatures on bird responses to alarm calls	11
From collocations to call-ocations: using linguistic methods to quantify animal call combinations	11
Evolutionary implications of size-selective mortality on the ontogenetic development of shoal cohesion: a neurochemical approach using a zebrafish, Danio rerio, harvest selection experiment	11
Reproduction of a field cricket under high-intensity artificial light at night and a simulated heat wave	11
Infant mortality associated with immigration of males in a multi-level society	11
Correction to: Offspring’s early-life performance varies with father’s sperm quality in a genetically monogamous seabird	10
Exorcising the ghost in the computer: ChatGPT, science publishing, and GenAI policy for Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology	10
Sex difference in homing: males but not females return home despite offspring mortality in Ikakogi tayrona, a glassfrog with prolonged maternal care	10
Females know best: dispersal polymorphism maintained by sex-specific foraging	10
Communication behavior of the snow leopard (Panthera uncia): understanding marking-behavior patterns to optimize camera-trapping studies	10
Spatial vigilance architecture of Indian flying fox colonies in rural parts of Barak Valley, Northeast India	10
Timing of seasonal events is correlated with social network position in a wild mammal	10
Decoupled auditory perception from acoustic signal divergence hinders species recognition in territorial poison frogs	10
Female gray treefrogs maintain mate choice decisions under predation threat, but adjust movements to reduce conspicuousness during mate approach	10
Range utilization slopes as a measure of central tendency and intergroup overlap in primates	10
Social information used to elicit cache protection differs between pinyon jays and Clark’s nutcrackers	10
Forelimb stripe coloration signals age, but not physiological health, in painted turtles	10
No evidence that grooming is exchanged for coalitionary support in the short- or long-term via direct or generalized reciprocity in unrelated rhesus macaques	9
Bumblebees display stimulus-specific persistence behaviour after being trained on delayed reinforcement	9
Intersection between parental investment, transgenerational immunity, and termite sociality in the face of disease: a theoretical approach	9
Costs of personality: bold incubating goldeneye females risk their lives when a predator attacks	9
Spatiotemporal variation of behavior and repeatability in a long-lived turtle	9
Correction to: When Older Males Sire More Offspring—Increased Attractiveness or Higher Fertility?	9
Long-term effects of litter characteristics on reproduction in female cavies (Cavia aperea)	9
Does the development environment cause the pace of life to change in a rainforest lizard?	9
Individual and collective cognition in social insects: what’s in a name?	9
Introduction to topical collection “Measuring individual reproductive success in the wild”	9
Egg-puncturing behaviour by shiny cowbirds increases nest desertion in chalk-browed mockingbirds	9
Detecting behavioural lateralisation in Poecilia reticulata is strongly dependent on experimental design	8
Sex-specific migration strategies and underlying physiology contribute to spring arrival protandry in a songbird	8
Begging is an honest signal of hunger in a communally nesting bird with low genetic relatedness	8
Extended parental care in the mass provisioning silk wasp, Microstigmus rosae	8
Female remating decisions and mate choice benefits in the beetle Gnatocerus cornutus	8
Social information-mediated population dynamics in non-grouping prey	8
Male color polymorphism in populations of reef geckos (Sphaerodactylus notatus) reduces the utility of visual signals in sex recognition	8
Social interactions throughout life impair longevity and age-specific mating success in male parasitoids	8
Male nuptial display colour and vocalisation appear to signal independent information in the whirring tree frog	8
Individual behavioral variability across time and contexts in Dendrobates tinctorius poison frogs	8
Determining sensitive stages of larval development to predation risk in Indosylvirana indica	8
Investigating personality in vipers: individual rattlesnakes exhibit consistent behavioral responses in defensive and exploratory contexts	8
Effects of seed traits on the cache size of a scatter-hoarding rodent, Leopoldamys edwardsi	8
Year-round behavioural time budgets of common woodpigeons inferred from acceleration data using machine learning	8
Is flying riskier for female katydids than for males?	8
Measuring fitness and inferring natural selection from long-term field studies: different measures lead to nuanced conclusions	8
The multilevel society of proboscis monkeys with a possible patrilineal basis	8

No evidence that recruitment pheromone modulates olfactory, visual, or spatial learning in the ant Lasius niger	8
Reproductive success of Bornean orangutan males: scattered in time but clustered in space	8
Habitat-dependent variation in consistent behavioural traits does not affect the efficiency of resource acquisition in a thermophilic ant	8
It’s the time of the season: seasonal variation in sexually conflicted size-assortative pairing	8
Sensitivity threshold of avian magnetic compass to oscillating magnetic field is species-specific	7
Age-dependent drivers of sex-specific disappearance in wild redfronted lemurs: the role of behavior	7
Correction to: Individual and collective cognition in social insects: what’s in a name?	7
Food-caching chickadees do not exhibit directional bias when learning a spatial task	7
Variation in behavioral tempo, not thermal sensitivity, determines the onset of foraging in ant colonies	7
Conflict and the evolution of viviparity in vertebrates	7
Wild Australian magpies learn to pull intact, not broken, strings to obtain food	7
Opportunity is not everything: genetic monogamy and limited brood parasitism in a colonial woodpecker	7
The effects of environmental light on the role of male chemotactile cues in wolf spider mating interactions	7
Correction to: Is provisioning rate of parents and helpers infuenced by the simulated presence of novel individuals?	7
Large and interactive pipefish females display ornaments for longer with many males around	7
Previous mating success motivates homing of male glassfrogs Hyalinobatrachium valerioi	7
Description of the behavioural contexts of underwater sound production in juvenile green turtles Chelonia mydas	7
Exploratory behaviour divergence between surface populations, cave colonists and a cave population in the water louse, Asellus aquaticus	7
Which acoustic parameters modify the great tit’s response to conspecific combinatorial mobbing calls?	7
Quantification of multi-task predation reveals behavioural regulation and attentional processes in mantids	7
Communicating the cost of your altruism makes you cool—competitive altruism and sexual selection in a real-life charity situation	7
Head size does not predict egg-rejection behavior in Daurian redstarts (Phoenicurus auroreus)	7
Do female bluethroats without extra-pair offspring have more MHC-compatible social mates?	7
When Older Males Sire More Offspring—Increased Attractiveness or Higher Fertility?	7
Longitudinal effects of habitat quality, body condition, and parasites on colour patches of a multiornamented lizard	6
Do agricultural practices on meadows reduce or increase flight initiation distance in the white stork ciconia ciconia?	6
The significance of disentangling shared mating traits: A review of empirical approaches	6
No association between metabolic rate and an exaggerated sexually selected trait	6
Spider colony extinction does not depend on degree of sociality and maternal size in three Anelosimus species (Araneae, Theridiidae)	6
Exploring rodent-seed interaction experimental designs: a comparative analysis of mixed versus single release of multiple seed species	6
Sex-dependent recognition and behavior against nest predators and brood parasites by Chestnut-capped Blackbird Chrysomus ruficapillus	6
Fecal avoidance and gastrointestinal parasitism in semi-free ranging woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha poeppigii)	6
Aggression and multi-modal signaling in noise in a common urban songbird	6
Performance and efficiency in leaf transport: unveiling the task allocation puzzle in Acromyrmex subterraneus	6
Absence of a dear enemy effect and limited evidence of neighbour-stranger vocal discrimination in Ecstatic Display Songs of nesting African penguins	6
No evidence for adaptive sex ratio adjustment in a cooperatively breeding bird with helpful helpers	6
Heat-altered scent marks of males of a fossorial reptile still allow recognition by females but lose information on male quality	6
Functional properties of ant queen pheromones as revealed by behavioral experiments	6
Individual repeatability and plasticity of reproductive phenology in a resident montane bird	6
Introduction to topical collection “Sexual selection, sexual conflict and aging”	6
A systematic review of sex differences in rough and tumble play across non-human mammals	6
Multiple parasitism in an evictor brood parasite: patterns revealed by long-term monitoring, continuous video recording, and genetic analyses	6
Background risk during development and early life does not affect later activity and risk-taking across genetically distinct lineages of the mangrove rivulus	6
Individual flexibility in group foraging behaviour of reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi)	6
The evolution of dynamic and flexible courtship displays that reveal individual quality	6
First evidence of contagious yawning in a wild lemur	6
Annual fitness costs may be balanced by a conservative life history strategy in groups of unrelated ant queens	6
Encoding and decoding of the information in the honeybee waggle dance	6
Endurance rivalry among male spotted hyenas: what does it mean to “endure”?	6
Infection by a fungal pathogen and mating behavior in Pacific treefrogs: a test of the Hamilton-Zuk hypothesis	6
Single paternity in the kelp crab Taliepus dentatus despite polyandry	6
Multiple phenotypic traits predict male mating success in a critically endangered frog	6
Priority of access to food and its influence on social dynamics of an endangered carnivore	6
High pair fidelity despite sex differences in the duration of parental care in a long-lived migratory bird	6
Competitive asymmetries, birthing asynchrony and sibling rivalry in a social lizard	6
Neither paternity loss nor perceived threat of cuckoldry affects male nestling provisioning in grass wrens	6
No evidence of sex ratio manipulation by black-throated blue warblers in response to food availability	5
Tolerant and intolerant macaques differ in the context specificity of their calls and how they ‘comment’ on the interactions of others	5
Evaluating scleral exposure in human eyes: a review of measurement methods, an exploration of reliability, and implications in behavioral experimental research	5
Using an agent-based model to inform sampling design for animal social network analysis	5
Costs and benefits of polyandrous mating to the female emerald treefrog (Zhangixalus prasinatus), a lek-chorusing anuran	5
Allopatric montane wren-babblers exhibit similar song notes but divergent vocal sequences	5
Friendly or powerful? Alternative reproductive strategies among males of collins’ squirrel monkeys (Saimiri collinsi)	5
Intense sociability in a “non-social” snake (Python regius)	5
Effects of mating age and mate age on lifespan and reproduction in a horned beetle	5
Food limitation modulates the endogenous control of spring migratory behavior in a captive long-distance migratory bird population	5
Does mutualism provide additional indirect benefits? Behavioral indicators of chemical communication in a temporally dynamic fish-mussel mutualism	5
Direct and correlated responses to artificial selection on foraging in Drosophila	5
Helpers are associated with increased nest attentiveness and more constant egg temperatures in chestnut-crowned babblers	5
Bacterial infection influences courtship behavior and mate choice in a wolf spider	5
Behavioral syndromes are associated with social plasticity and competence in a wild primate	5
Sisters doing it for themselves: extensive reproductive plasticity in workers of a primitively eusocial bee	5
Polarize, catalyze, and stabilize: how a minority of norm internalizers amplify group selection and punishment	5
Robustness in action: Leg loss does not affect mating success in male harvestmen	5
Social immunity in the honey bee: do immune-challenged workers enter enforced or self-imposed exile?	5
Correction to: Anthropogenic noise reduces male reproductive investment in an acoustically signaling insect	5
Intraspecific variation in invertebrate cognition: a review	5
Wild and captive immature orangutans differ in their non-vocal communication with others, but not with their mothers	5
Common permutation methods in animal social network analysis do not control for non-independence	5
Latitudinal cline in reproductive traits in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum	5

An empirical assessment of the role of independence filters in temporal activity analyses using camera trapping data	5
Parasite induced changes in contact behaviour is affected by parasitic status of group members	5
Nest-host selection and parasitic nestling survival in the spotless starling (Sturnus unicolor)	5
Biologically meaningful moonlight measures and their application in ecological research	5
Between-group variation in production of pant-grunt vocalizations by wild bonobos (Pan paniscus)	5
Eggshell coloration is related to condition of females and offspring but not to male provisioning effort in a cup-nesting passerine	5
Shorter effective lifespan in laboratory populations of D. melanogaster might reduce sexual selection	5
Juvenile vibratory experience affects adult mate preferences in a wolf spider	5
Costs of social conflict: do injuries mirror patterns of aggression in blue monkeys?	5
Experimental arena size affects magnitude and repeatability of individual sociability in three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus	5
Where did she go? Changes in social context alter calling strategies of eastern gray treefrogs	4
The relationship between preference and switching in flower foraging by bees	4
Heliconiini butterflies as a case study in evolutionary cognitive ecology: behavioural innovation and mushroom body expansion	4
Experimental evidence that adult UV/yellow colouration functions as a signal in blue tit families — but only for parents	4
Site-specific fears: Negev gerbils from same points of origin share anti-predator behavior when translocated to new environments	4
Winter weather conditions result in temporal niche overlap among three sympatric medium-sized carnivores in northeastern Japan	4
Kinship study reveals stable non-kin-based associations in a medium-sized delphinid	4
Male mate guarding in a polyandrous and sexually cannibalistic praying mantid	4
Information transfer during mobbing: call rate is more important than the number of callers in a southern temperate passerine	4
Female age and reproductive stage influence copulation patterns in mountain gorillas’ variable mating system	4
Reactivity and social rank in male bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis)	4
Cooperative breeding and the selection for information sharing among groupmates	4
Behavioural infection tolerance of malaria is negatively correlated with pro-inflammatory cytokine expression in the brain of an invasive songbird	4
Moonlight predicts the timing and duration of parental behavior across latitudes in a diurnal songbird	4
Habitat quality affects the social organization in mouse lemurs (Microcebus griseorufus)	4
Tits (Paridae sp.) use social information when locating and choosing nest lining material	4
Investigating associations between nematode infection and three measures of sociality in Asian elephants	4
What is in a scent? Understanding the role of scent marking in social dynamics and territoriality of free-ranging dogs	4
State and physiology behind personality in arthropods: a review	4
Interindividual variability in flower pickiness by foraging bumblebees	4
Discrimination against foreign male and female reproductives in complex insect families	4
Basking buddies: factors influencing social associations in basking aggregations of turtles	4
Feral ungulate and macropod responses to resource scarcity and predation risk at savanna waterholes	4
Two coinhabitants visually lure prey to host territory through a shared conspicuous trait	4
Collective behavior diverges independently of the benthic-limnetic axis in stickleback	4
Seasonal changes in color patches and parasite load of male torquate lizards (Sceloporus torquatus)	4
Maternal parity influences the birth sex ratio and birth interval of captive Francois’ langur (Trachypithecus francoisi)	4
Multimodal female mate choice in a polymorphic flat rock lizard	4
Movement and sound production in yearling humpback whales: age-class comparisons	4
Same-sex socio-sexual interactions among male narwhal	4
Inherited differences of migratory phenotypes in two Acrocephalus warblers in relation to geomagnetic field parameters	4
Collaborative behaviour and coalitions in male jaguars (Panthera onca)—evidence and comparison with other felids	4
Ant genotype, but not genotype of cultivated fungi, predicts queen acceptance in the asexual fungus-farming ant Mycocepurus smithii (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)	4
Evidence for an association between genetic and acoustic variation in the mimic poison frog Ranitomeya imitator	4
Stopover territoriality in songbirds crossing the Sahara: aggression and energetics during migration	4
Correction to: Learning without a brain: classical conditioning in the ophiuroid Ophiocoma echinata	4
Diel variation in anti-predation behavior of a ground squirrel and relationships between vigilance and escape	4
Experimental manipulation of chest spotting alters territorial aggression in urban and rural song sparrows	4
A behavioral syndrome of competitiveness in a non-social rodent	4
Quantifying within-group variation in sociality—covariation among metrics and patterns across primate groups and species	4
Brown and grey morphs differ in their nocturnality in the polymorphic scops owl (Otus scops)	4
Patch choice decisions by a fission–fusion forager as a test of the ecological constraints model	4
Individual capture history affects site use and defensive behavior of foraging eastern copperheads at a recreational site	4
Testing the factors on the evolution of movement-based visual signal complexity in an Asian agamid lizard	4
Genetic diversity, paternal origin and pathogen resistance in Cataglyphis desert ants	4
Fluctuating environments hinder the ability of female lizards to choose suitable nest sites for their embryos	4
Advertising and receiving from heights increases transmission of vocalizations in semi-arboreal mice	4
Hidden in plain sight: camouflage and hiding behaviour of wild precocial chicks in an open landscape	4
Agonism does not covary with territoriality in a gregarious reptile	4
Selective use of conspecific and heterospecific social information during food restriction in captive finches	4
Why empresses have more sons? Maternal instant social condition determines it	4
Behavioural drivers of ecotone exploitation: activity of groundwater animals in spring	3
Predator coloration and prey vision: the foraging cost to predators	3
Hydrodynamic analysis of self-propelled two-dimensional bionic fish in carangiform swimming mode	3
Sociality of a threatened ‘solitary’ marsupial before and after population reinforcement: associations and links to breeding success	3
Social foraging can benefit artisanal fishers who interact with wild dolphins	3
A dynamic state variable model suggests a stronger effect of age than individual energetic state on reproductive allocation in burying beetles	3
Helping in greyish baywing decreases nest predation but does not ameliorate the costs of brood parasitism by screaming cowbirds	3
Joint evolution of traits for social learning	3
Acoustic discrimination by hosts favours vocal trickery in fledglings of the brood-parasitic screaming cowbird	3
Timing matters: female receptivity and mate choice in the zebrafish (Danio rerio)	3
Conditional alternative movement tactics in male crocodiles	3
How human are invertebrates? Prospects and challenges of transferring cognitive concepts across species	3
From dyads to collectives: a review of honeybee signalling	3
From masquerading to blending in: ontogenetic shifts in antipredator camouflage in Wallace’s flying frogs	3
Dual function of blue belly patches in the mesquite lizard	3
Prey availability influences the effect of boldness on reproductive success in a mammalian predator	3
Transition in the production of diploid-female to haploid-male eggs in bumblebee colonies: sperm quality or depletion?	3
Social network does not influence microbiota of a gregarious bird in a common environment	3
Behavioural ecology and developmental plasticity in Indian anuran tadpoles	3
Mother-offspring chemical communication and tadpole aggregation in a neotropical foam-nesting frog	3
Socio-sexual behaviors and fecal hormone metabolites but not age predict female aggressive interactions in Macaca arctoides	3
Maximizing sexual signal transmission: use of multiple display sites by male houbara bustards	3
Behavioral response to risk varies with sex and reproductive status in crayfish	3
Potential social facilitation through song in bird communities	3
Phenotypic correlates of pelvic spine coloration in the threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus): implications for function and evolution	3
Divergent killer whale populations exhibit similar acquisition but different healing rates of conspecific scars	3
Ecological drivers of bee cognition: insights from stingless bees	3
Maximum diving duration and its influencing factors of diving lizards	3
Embryonic risk cues in wood frog: effect in hatching time, morphology and behaviour	3
Seasonal variation in the risk of cuckoo parasitism does not influence nest defense and egg rejection in a population of Daurian redstarts (Phoenicurus auroreus)	3
Testing presence of directionality information in female spider silk trails through male trail-following behavior	3
No evidence of reproductive senescence within the natural lifespan in resident mountain chickadees (Poecile gambeli)	3
Social status predicts different mating and reproductive success for men and women in China: evidence from the 2010–2017 CGSS data	3
Convergent evolution of antlions and wormlions: similarities and differences in the behavioural ecology of unrelated trap-building predators	3