Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Article	Citations
Nocturnal and diurnal predator and prey interactions with crab spider color polymorphs	36
Functional diversification of contact calls contribute to the cohesion of a multi-level society	32
Impact of blood parasites on the behaviour of two congeneric wall lizards (genus Podarcis)	26
Motivation matters: lighter littermates of the domestic cat compete more successfully for meat at weaning	22
Maternal stress effects on infant development in wild Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi)	19
Thermal energetics of male courtship song in a lek-breeding bat	19
Female-limited X chromosome evolution reveals that lifespan is mainly modulated by interlocus rather than intralocus sexual conflict	17
Familiarity effects on fish behaviour are disrupted in shoals that contain also unfamiliar individuals	17
Population specific annual cycles and migration strategies in a leap-frog migrant	16
Morphological evolution and the behavioral organization of agricultural division of labor in the leafcutter ant Atta cephalotes	15
Behavioural response to predation risks depends on experimental change in dehydration state in a lizard	15
Evidence of sociality and group foraging in Antarctic minke whales (Balaenoptera bonaerensis)	15
Should I stay or should I go now: dispersal decisions and reproductive success in male white-faced capuchins (Cebus imitator)	14
Time allocation to balance group living trade-offs in Ethiopian wolves	14
White plumage color as an honest indicator: feather macrostructure links reflectance with reproductive effort and success	14
Investigation of field and laboratory-based personality traits in a wild ornate box turtle (Terrapene ornata) population	14
Anxiety-like behavior and tectal gene expression in a foraging/predator avoidance tradeoff task using adult African clawed frogs Xenopus laevis	14
Social modulation of spatial dynamics in treefrog choruses	13
Versatile and inexpensive device for capturing high-quality behavioral videos under diverse field conditions	13
Ectoparasites exposure affects early growth and mouth colour in nestlings of a cavity-nesting raptor	13
Drivers and consequences of female reproductive competition in an egalitarian, sexually monomorphic primate	13
Are the personality measures for laboratory mice applicable for wild rats?	13
Behavioral responses of two African mesopredators to human and non-human apex predators	12
Impact of predator model presentation paradigms on titi monkey alarm sequences	12
Syntactic rules predict song type matching in a songbird	12

Who to help? Helping decisions in a cooperatively breeding bird with redirected care	12
Behavioral repertoire of Lahille’s bottlenose dolphins that interact with artisanal fishers	12
Evolutionary implications of size-selective mortality on the ontogenetic development of shoal cohesion: a neurochemical approach using a zebrafish, Danio rerio, harvest selection experiment	12
Correction to: Daily foraging activity of an imperiled ground squirrel: effects of hibernation, thermal environment, body condition, and conspecific density	12
Bumblebee cognitive abilities are robust to changes in colony size	11
From collocations to call-ocations: using linguistic methods to quantify animal call combinations	11
Weak evidence for a relationship between group size and flight initiation distance in response to underwater human presence in an exploited fish species	11
Floral and insect traits predict predation risk and neophobia impacts on flower-visiting insects’ behavior	11
The impact of high temperatures on bird responses to alarm calls	11
Spatial vigilance architecture of Indian flying fox colonies in rural parts of Barak Valley, Northeast India	10
Reproduction of a field cricket under high-intensity artificial light at night and a simulated heat wave	10
The availability of male mates affects the social mating strategies of a predominantly socially monogamous passerine	10
Social information used to elicit cache protection differs between pinyon jays and Clark’s nutcrackers	10
Background contrast affects detection and recognition of courting wolf spiders by intended and unintended receivers	10
Correction to: Offspring’s early-life performance varies with father’s sperm quality in a genetically monogamous seabird	10
Decoupled auditory perception from acoustic signal divergence hinders species recognition in territorial poison frogs	10
The gullible genius: fast learners fall for fake news	10
Cooperation by ant queens during colony-founding perpetuates alternative forms of social organization	10
Female gray treefrogs maintain mate choice decisions under predation threat, but adjust movements to reduce conspicuousness during mate approach	9
Termite eusociality and contrasting selective pressure on social and innate immunity	9
Females know best: dispersal polymorphism maintained by sex-specific foraging	9
Egg-puncturing behaviour by shiny cowbirds increases nest desertion in chalk-browed mockingbirds	9
Influence of different weather aspects on breeding performance, food supply and nest-space use in hoopoe offspring	9
Long-term effects of litter characteristics on reproduction in female cavies (Cavia aperea)	9
Timing of seasonal events is correlated with social network position in a wild mammal	9
Infant mortality associated with immigration of males in a multi-level society	9
Sex difference in homing: males but not females return home despite offspring mortality in Ikakogi tayrona, a glassfrog with prolonged maternal care	9
Communication behavior of the snow leopard (Panthera uncia): understanding marking-behavior patterns to optimize camera-trapping studies	9
Determining sensitive stages of larval development to predation risk in Indosylvirana indica	9
Intersection between parental investment, transgenerational immunity, and termite sociality in the face of disease: a theoretical approach	9
Brighter is better: bill fluorescence increases social attraction in a colonial seabird and reveals a potential link with foraging	9
Optimal clutch size and male incubation investment in the male-only incubating emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae)	9
Exorcising the ghost in the computer: ChatGPT, science publishing, and GenAI policy for Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology	9
Range utilization slopes as a measure of central tendency and intergroup overlap in primates	9
Correction to: When Older Males Sire More Offspring—Increased Attractiveness or Higher Fertility?	9
Introduction to topical collection “Measuring individual reproductive success in the wild”	9
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
Transfer of information between a highly social species and heterospecific community members	8
Extended parental care in the mass provisioning silk wasp, Microstigmus rosae	8
The multilevel society of proboscis monkeys with a possible patrilineal basis	8
Individual behavioral variability across time and contexts in Dendrobates tinctorius poison frogs	8
Spatiotemporal variation of behavior and repeatability in a long-lived turtle	8
Does the development environment cause the pace of life to change in a rainforest lizard?	8
Costs of personality: bold incubating goldeneye females risk their lives when a predator attacks	8
Social interactions throughout life impair longevity and age-specific mating success in male parasitoids	8
Detecting behavioural lateralisation in Poecilia reticulata is strongly dependent on experimental design	8
Individual and collective cognition in social insects: what’s in a name?	8
Male nuptial display colour and vocalisation appear to signal independent information in the whirring tree frog	8
Female remating decisions and mate choice benefits in the beetle Gnatocerus cornutus	8
Social information-mediated population dynamics in non-grouping prey	8

Measuring fitness and inferring natural selection from long-term field studies: different measures lead to nuanced conclusions	8
Sex-specific migration strategies and underlying physiology contribute to spring arrival protandry in a songbird	8
Bumblebees display stimulus-specific persistence behaviour after being trained on delayed reinforcement	8
The effects of environmental light on the role of male chemotactile cues in wolf spider mating interactions	7
Conflict and the evolution of viviparity in vertebrates	7
How territoriality reduces disease transmission among social insect colonies	7
Quantification of multi-task predation reveals behavioural regulation and attentional processes in mantids	7
Male color polymorphism in populations of reef geckos (Sphaerodactylus notatus) reduces the utility of visual signals in sex recognition	7
Year-round behavioural time budgets of common woodpigeons inferred from acceleration data using machine learning	7
It’s the time of the season: seasonal variation in sexually conflicted size-assortative pairing	7
Correction to: Individual and collective cognition in social insects: what’s in a name?	7
Variation in behavioral tempo, not thermal sensitivity, determines the onset of foraging in ant colonies	7
Habitat-dependent variation in consistent behavioural traits does not affect the efficiency of resource acquisition in a thermophilic ant	7
Large and interactive pipefish females display ornaments for longer with many males around	7
Effects of seed traits on the cache size of a scatter-hoarding rodent, Leopoldamys edwardsi	7
When Older Males Sire More Offspring—Increased Attractiveness or Higher Fertility?	7
Reproductive success of Bornean orangutan males: scattered in time but clustered in space	7
Begging is an honest signal of hunger in a communally nesting bird with low genetic relatedness	7
Description of the behavioural contexts of underwater sound production in juvenile green turtles Chelonia mydas	7
Food-caching chickadees do not exhibit directional bias when learning a spatial task	7
Is flying riskier for female katydids than for males?	7
Sensitivity threshold of avian magnetic compass to oscillating magnetic field is species-specific	7
No evidence that recruitment pheromone modulates olfactory, visual, or spatial learning in the ant Lasius niger	7
Investigating personality in vipers: individual rattlesnakes exhibit consistent behavioral responses in defensive and exploratory contexts	7
Evidence of intrapopulation differences in rattlesnake defensive behavior across neighboring habitats	7
Exploratory behaviour divergence between surface populations, cave colonists and a cave population in the water louse, Asellus aquaticus	6
Single paternity in the kelp crab Taliepus dentatus despite polyandry	6
Individual repeatability and plasticity of reproductive phenology in a resident montane bird	6
Social group size influences pathogen transmission in salamanders	6
Annual fitness costs may be balanced by a conservative life history strategy in groups of unrelated ant queens	6
Urban lizards use sleep sites that mirror the structural, thermal, and light properties of natural sites	6
Heat-altered scent marks of males of a fossorial reptile still allow recognition by females but lose information on male quality	6
Spider colony extinction does not depend on degree of sociality and maternal size in three Anelosimus species (Araneae, Theridiidae)	6
Correction to: Is provisioning rate of parents and helpers infuenced by the simulated presence of novel individuals?	6
Wild Australian magpies learn to pull intact, not broken, strings to obtain food	6
Communicating the cost of your altruism makes you cool—competitive altruism and sexual selection in a real-life charity situation	6
Opportunity is not everything: genetic monogamy and limited brood parasitism in a colonial woodpecker	6
The evolution of dynamic and flexible courtship displays that reveal individual quality	6
Competitive asymmetries, birthing asynchrony and sibling rivalry in a social lizard	6
Aggression and multi-modal signaling in noise in a common urban songbird	6
Infection by a fungal pathogen and mating behavior in Pacific treefrogs: a test of the Hamilton-Zuk hypothesis	6
Encoding and decoding of the information in the honeybee waggle dance	6
Age-dependent drivers of sex-specific disappearance in wild redfronted lemurs: the role of behavior	6
Previous mating success motivates homing of male glassfrogs Hyalinobatrachium valerioi	6
Do female bluethroats without extra-pair offspring have more MHC-compatible social mates?	6
Functional properties of ant queen pheromones as revealed by behavioral experiments	6
A systematic review of sex differences in rough and tumble play across non-human mammals	6
Neither paternity loss nor perceived threat of cuckoldry affects male nestling provisioning in grass wrens	6
No evidence for adaptive sex ratio adjustment in a cooperatively breeding bird with helpful helpers	6
Introduction to topical collection “Sexual selection, sexual conflict and aging”	6
Endurance rivalry among male spotted hyenas: what does it mean to “endure”?	6
Which acoustic parameters modify the great tit’s response to conspecific combinatorial mobbing calls?	6
Do agricultural practices on meadows reduce or increase flight initiation distance in the white stork ciconia ciconia?	6
Social thermoregulation in Mediterranean greater white-toothed shrews (Crocidura russula)	6
Sex-dependent recognition and behavior against nest predators and brood parasites by Chestnut-capped Blackbird Chrysomus ruficapillus	5
Bacterial infection influences courtship behavior and mate choice in a wolf spider	5
Parasite induced changes in contact behaviour is affected by parasitic status of group members	5
Latitudinal cline in reproductive traits in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum	5
Effects of mating age and mate age on lifespan and reproduction in a horned beetle	5
Priority of access to food and its influence on social dynamics of an endangered carnivore	5
Using an agent-based model to inform sampling design for animal social network analysis	5
Common permutation methods in animal social network analysis do not control for non-independence	5
Evaluating scleral exposure in human eyes: a review of measurement methods, an exploration of reliability, and implications in behavioral experimental research	5
Niche partitioning among social clusters of a resident estuarine apex predator	5
Fecal avoidance and gastrointestinal parasitism in semi-free ranging woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha poeppigii)	5
First evidence of contagious yawning in a wild lemur	5
Background risk during development and early life does not affect later activity and risk-taking across genetically distinct lineages of the mangrove rivulus	5
Tolerant and intolerant macaques differ in the context specificity of their calls and how they ‘comment’ on the interactions of others	5
Costs and benefits of polyandrous mating to the female emerald treefrog (Zhangixalus prasinatus), a lek-chorusing anuran	5
Wild and captive immature orangutans differ in their non-vocal communication with others, but not with their mothers	5
Multiple parasitism in an evictor brood parasite: patterns revealed by long-term monitoring, continuous video recording, and genetic analyses	5
Does mutualism provide additional indirect benefits? Behavioral indicators of chemical communication in a temporally dynamic fish-mussel mutualism	5
Longitudinal effects of habitat quality, body condition, and parasites on colour patches of a multiornamented lizard	5
Sisters doing it for themselves: extensive reproductive plasticity in workers of a primitively eusocial bee	5
Individual flexibility in group foraging behaviour of reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi)	5
Multiple phenotypic traits predict male mating success in a critically endangered frog	5
Performance and efficiency in leaf transport: unveiling the task allocation puzzle in Acromyrmex subterraneus	5
How does host social behavior drive parasite non-selective evolution from the within-host to the landscape-scale?	5
Direct and correlated responses to artificial selection on foraging in Drosophila	5
No evidence of sex ratio manipulation by black-throated blue warblers in response to food availability	5

Helpers are associated with increased nest attentiveness and more constant egg temperatures in chestnut-crowned babblers	5
Polarize, catalyze, and stabilize: how a minority of norm internalizers amplify group selection and punishment	5
Biologically meaningful moonlight measures and their application in ecological research	5
Fatal attraction: territorial males of a neotropical lizard increase predation risk when females are sexually receptive	5
An empirical assessment of the role of independence filters in temporal activity analyses using camera trapping data	5
High pair fidelity despite sex differences in the duration of parental care in a long-lived migratory bird	5
Intraspecific variation in invertebrate cognition: a review	4
Allopatric montane wren-babblers exhibit similar song notes but divergent vocal sequences	4
Inherited differences of migratory phenotypes in two Acrocephalus warblers in relation to geomagnetic field parameters	4
Agonism does not covary with territoriality in a gregarious reptile	4
Male mate guarding in a polyandrous and sexually cannibalistic praying mantid	4
Behavioural infection tolerance of malaria is negatively correlated with pro-inflammatory cytokine expression in the brain of an invasive songbird	4
Individual capture history affects site use and defensive behavior of foraging eastern copperheads at a recreational site	4
Movement and sound production in yearling humpback whales: age-class comparisons	4
Correction to: Cooperation by ant queens during colony‑founding perpetuates alternative forms of social organization	4
Intense sociability in a “non-social” snake (Python regius)	4
A behavioral syndrome of competitiveness in a non-social rodent	4
Social immunity in the honey bee: do immune-challenged workers enter enforced or self-imposed exile?	4
What is in a scent? Understanding the role of scent marking in social dynamics and territoriality of free-ranging dogs	4
Correction to: Anthropogenic noise reduces male reproductive investment in an acoustically signaling insect	4
Costs of social conflict: do injuries mirror patterns of aggression in blue monkeys?	4
Why empresses have more sons? Maternal instant social condition determines it	4
Ant genotype, but not genotype of cultivated fungi, predicts queen acceptance in the asexual fungus-farming ant Mycocepurus smithii (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)	4
Reactivity and social rank in male bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis)	4
Habitat quality affects the social organization in mouse lemurs (Microcebus griseorufus)	4
State and physiology behind personality in arthropods: a review	4
Brown and grey morphs differ in their nocturnality in the polymorphic scops owl (Otus scops)	4
Fluctuating environments hinder the ability of female lizards to choose suitable nest sites for their embryos	4
Shorter effective lifespan in laboratory populations of D. melanogaster might reduce sexual selection	4
Drivers of passive leadership in wild songbirds: species-level differences and spatio-temporally dependent intraspecific effects	4
Investigating associations between nematode infection and three measures of sociality in Asian elephants	4
Stopover territoriality in songbirds crossing the Sahara: aggression and energetics during migration	4
Food limitation modulates the endogenous control of spring migratory behavior in a captive long-distance migratory bird population	4
Movement modeling and patterns of within- and among-individual behavioral variation across time scales in neonate garter snakes (Thamnophis elegans)	4
Robustness in action: Leg loss does not affect mating success in male harvestmen	4
Between-group variation in production of pant-grunt vocalizations by wild bonobos (Pan paniscus)	4
The relationship between preference and switching in flower foraging by bees	4
Feral ungulate and macropod responses to resource scarcity and predation risk at savanna waterholes	4
Heliconiini butterflies as a case study in evolutionary cognitive ecology: behavioural innovation and mushroom body expansion	4
Multimodal female mate choice in a polymorphic flat rock lizard	4
Collective behavior diverges independently of the benthic-limnetic axis in stickleback	4
Correction to: Learning without a brain: classical conditioning in the ophiuroid Ophiocoma echinata	4
Tits (Paridae sp.) use social information when locating and choosing nest lining material	4
Experimental manipulation of chest spotting alters territorial aggression in urban and rural song sparrows	4
Eggshell coloration is related to condition of females and offspring but not to male provisioning effort in a cup-nesting passerine	4
Friendly or powerful? Alternative reproductive strategies among males of collins’ squirrel monkeys (Saimiri collinsi)	4
Juvenile vibratory experience affects adult mate preferences in a wolf spider	4
Yawning informs behavioural state changing in wild spotted hyaenas	3
Quantifying within-group variation in sociality—covariation among metrics and patterns across primate groups and species	3
Acoustic discrimination by hosts favours vocal trickery in fledglings of the brood-parasitic screaming cowbird	3
Patch choice decisions by a fission–fusion forager as a test of the ecological constraints model	3
Maximizing sexual signal transmission: use of multiple display sites by male houbara bustards	3
Fertilization success suggests random pairing in frogs with regard to body size	3
Helping in greyish baywing decreases nest predation but does not ameliorate the costs of brood parasitism by screaming cowbirds	3
Genetic diversity, paternal origin and pathogen resistance in Cataglyphis desert ants	3
Daily foraging activity of an imperiled ground squirrel: effects of hibernation, thermal environment, body condition, and conspecific density	3
Advertising and receiving from heights increases transmission of vocalizations in semi-arboreal mice	3
Iberian wolf’s diet and its quality during breeding season: exploring the influence of zone, wolf groups, prey availability and individual factors	3
Testing the maintenance of natural responses to survival-relevant calls in the conservation breeding population of a critically endangered corvid (Corvus hawaiiensis)	3
Winter weather conditions result in temporal niche overlap among three sympatric medium-sized carnivores in northeastern Japan	3
Understanding the co-occurrence of Asian small-clawed otter and smooth-coated otter in a human-dominated landscape	3
Has an invasive lizard lost its antipredator behaviours following 40 generations of isolation from snake predators?	3
Ecological drivers of bee cognition: insights from stingless bees	3
Convergent evolution of antlions and wormlions: similarities and differences in the behavioural ecology of unrelated trap-building predators	3
Disturbance cues facilitate associative learning of predators in a coral reef fish	3
A dynamic state variable model suggests a stronger effect of age than individual energetic state on reproductive allocation in burying beetles	3
Social conditions alter the growth, metabolic rate, behavioral traits, and food-shelter preferences in the juvenile qingbo Spinibarbus sinensis	3
Kinship study reveals stable non-kin-based associations in a medium-sized delphinid	3
Female preferences for dominant frequency in frogs: constraints and impact on sexual size dimorphism	3
Hidden in plain sight: camouflage and hiding behaviour of wild precocial chicks in an open landscape	3
Embryonic risk cues in wood frog: effect in hatching time, morphology and behaviour	3
Information transfer during mobbing: call rate is more important than the number of callers in a southern temperate passerine	3
Joint evolution of traits for social learning	3
Female age and reproductive stage influence copulation patterns in mountain gorillas’ variable mating system	3
Experimental variation of perceived predation risk does not affect coordination of parental care in long-tailed tits	3
Maximum diving duration and its influencing factors of diving lizards	3
Maternal parity influences the birth sex ratio and birth interval of captive Francois’ langur (Trachypithecus francoisi)	3
Behavioural drivers of ecotone exploitation: activity of groundwater animals in spring	3
From masquerading to blending in: ontogenetic shifts in antipredator camouflage in Wallace’s flying frogs	3
From dyads to collectives: a review of honeybee signalling	3
Behavioural ecology and developmental plasticity in Indian anuran tadpoles	3
Testing presence of directionality information in female spider silk trails through male trail-following behavior	3
Social foraging can benefit artisanal fishers who interact with wild dolphins	3
Moonlight predicts the timing and duration of parental behavior across latitudes in a diurnal songbird	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
Two coinhabitants visually lure prey to host territory through a shared conspicuous trait	3
Intrapopulation variation in boldness differs while average boldness is similar across populations of a widespread turtle	3
Diel variation in anti-predation behavior of a ground squirrel and relationships between vigilance and escape	3
Rapid facial mimicry as a regulator of play in a despotic macaque species	3
Mother-offspring chemical communication and tadpole aggregation in a neotropical foam-nesting frog	3
Group size and modularity interact to shape the spread of infection and information through animal societies	3
Collaborative behaviour and coalitions in male jaguars (Panthera onca)—evidence and comparison with other felids	3
Social network does not influence microbiota of a gregarious bird in a common environment	3
Sociality of a threatened ‘solitary’ marsupial before and after population reinforcement: associations and links to breeding success	3
Prey availability influences the effect of boldness on reproductive success in a mammalian predator	3