Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Article	Citations
Time allocation to balance group living trade-offs in Ethiopian wolves	52
Investigation of field and laboratory-based personality traits in a wild ornate box turtle (Terrapene ornata) population	52
Evidence of sociality and group foraging in Antarctic minke whales (Balaenoptera bonaerensis)	26
Should I stay or should I go now: dispersal decisions and reproductive success in male white-faced capuchins (Cebus imitator)	23
The science funding crisis threatens the careers of future behavioral ecologists	21
Familiarity effects on fish behaviour are disrupted in shoals that contain also unfamiliar individuals	21
Anxiety-like behavior and tectal gene expression in a foraging/predator avoidance tradeoff task using adult African clawed frogs Xenopus laevis	20
Functional diversification of contact calls contribute to the cohesion of a multi-level society	19
Drivers and consequences of female reproductive competition in an egalitarian, sexually monomorphic primate	17
White plumage color as an honest indicator: feather macrostructure links reflectance with reproductive effort and success	16
Impact of blood parasites on the behaviour of two congeneric wall lizards (genus Podarcis)	15
Female-limited X chromosome evolution reveals that lifespan is mainly modulated by interlocus rather than intralocus sexual conflict	15
Versatile and inexpensive device for capturing high-quality behavioral videos under diverse field conditions	15
Morphological evolution and the behavioral organization of agricultural division of labor in the leafcutter ant Atta cephalotes	15
Social integration in temporal multiplex association networks predicts offspring survival in female geoffroy’s spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi)	15
Are the personality measures for laboratory mice applicable for wild rats?	15
Habitat complexity and spatial navigation: linking habitat to cognitive strategy in cyprinid fishes	14
The future of evolutionary behavioral biology	14
Shifting expectations? Bumblebees show limited adjustment based on recent reward history	14
Nocturnal and diurnal predator and prey interactions with crab spider color polymorphs	14
Ontogeny and Sociobiological factors affecting behavior and its repeatability in captive-bred Arctic foxes (Vulpes lagopus)	14
Behavioural response to predation risks depends on experimental change in dehydration state in a lizard	13
Behavioral repertoire of Lahille’s bottlenose dolphins that interact with artisanal fishers	13
Background contrast affects detection and recognition of courting wolf spiders by intended and unintended receivers	13
Behavioral responses of two African mesopredators to human and non-human apex predators	12

Testing for cryptic male mate choice in an insect with high mating failure	12
Reproduction of a field cricket under high-intensity artificial light at night and a simulated heat wave	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	11
Bumblebee cognitive abilities are robust to changes in colony size	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
Impact of predator model presentation paradigms on titi monkey alarm sequences	11
From collocations to call-ocations: using linguistic methods to quantify animal call combinations	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
Weak evidence for a relationship between group size and flight initiation distance in response to underwater human presence in an exploited fish species	11
Syntactic rules predict song type matching in a songbird	11
Context-dependent abdomen bobbing in a jumping spider: a dynamic visual signal	10
Exorcising the ghost in the computer: ChatGPT, science publishing, and GenAI policy for Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology	10
Forelimb stripe coloration signals age, but not physiological health, in painted turtles	10
The devil is in the details: does the male and female dark flank spot in the fish Poecilia vivipara have a sexual role?	10
Communication behavior of the snow leopard (Panthera uncia): understanding marking-behavior patterns to optimize camera-trapping studies	10
Correction to: Offspring’s early-life performance varies with father’s sperm quality in a genetically monogamous seabird	10
A behavioral syndrome and within-pair similarity in boldness and foraging site fidelity of a monogamous seabird	10
Parasitic egg phenotypes induce short-term imprinting effects on host egg recognition	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
Females know best: dispersal polymorphism maintained by sex-specific foraging	10
Analysis of inconsistencies for the study of dominance: assessing influence of some biological traits on hierarchy in male brown bears	10
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
Does the development environment cause the pace of life to change in a rainforest lizard?	9
Determining sensitive stages of larval development to predation risk in Indosylvirana indica	9
Evolutionary dynamics of size and plumage dimorphism in birds	9
Sex, not familiarity, shapes social interactions in adult captive tortoises (Testudo hermanni)	9
Introduction to topical collection “Measuring individual reproductive success in the wild”	9
Long-term effects of litter characteristics on reproduction in female cavies (Cavia aperea)	9
Spatial vigilance architecture of Indian flying fox colonies in rural parts of Barak Valley, Northeast India	9
Decoupled auditory perception from acoustic signal divergence hinders species recognition in territorial poison frogs	9
Bumblebees display stimulus-specific persistence behaviour after being trained on delayed reinforcement	9
Male nuptial display colour and vocalisation appear to signal independent information in the whirring tree frog	8
Sex-specific migration strategies and underlying physiology contribute to spring arrival protandry in a songbird	8
Individual and collective cognition in social insects: what’s in a name?	8
Extended parental care in the mass provisioning silk wasp, Microstigmus rosae	8
No evidence that recruitment pheromone modulates olfactory, visual, or spatial learning in the ant Lasius niger	8
The multilevel society of proboscis monkeys with a possible patrilineal basis	8
Egg-puncturing behaviour by shiny cowbirds increases nest desertion in chalk-browed mockingbirds	8
Effects of seed traits on the cache size of a scatter-hoarding rodent, Leopoldamys edwardsi	8
Social information-mediated population dynamics in non-grouping prey	8
Winners and losers in the host family over brood parasitism	8
Spatiotemporal variation of behavior and repeatability in a long-lived turtle	8
Measuring fitness and inferring natural selection from long-term field studies: different measures lead to nuanced conclusions	8
Temporal avoidance of interfering noise by common chiffchaff	8
Individual behavioral variability across time and contexts in Dendrobates tinctorius poison frogs	8
Costs of personality: bold incubating goldeneye females risk their lives when a predator attacks	8

Male color polymorphism in populations of reef geckos (Sphaerodactylus notatus) reduces the utility of visual signals in sex recognition	8
Wild Australian magpies learn to pull intact, not broken, strings to obtain food	7
It’s the time of the season: seasonal variation in sexually conflicted size-assortative pairing	7
Begging is an honest signal of hunger in a communally nesting bird with low genetic relatedness	7
Social interactions throughout life impair longevity and age-specific mating success in male parasitoids	7
Do common cuckoos’ vocalisations affect egg discrimination in the strong rejector red-backed shrike?	7
Description of the behavioural contexts of underwater sound production in juvenile green turtles Chelonia mydas	7
From waiting to moving: how golden snub-nosed monkeys facilitate a group departure	7
Head size does not predict egg-rejection behavior in Daurian redstarts (Phoenicurus auroreus)	7
Monandry and its underlying mechanisms in the rhinoceros beetle Trypoxylus dichotomus	7
Elevational patterns in life history, behavior, physiology, and morphology: Insights from the Andean rodent Phyllotis vaccarum	7
Reproductive success of Bornean orangutan males: scattered in time but clustered in space	7
Investigating personality in vipers: individual rattlesnakes exhibit consistent behavioral responses in defensive and exploratory contexts	7
Variation in behavioral tempo, not thermal sensitivity, determines the onset of foraging in ant colonies	7
Do female bluethroats without extra-pair offspring have more MHC-compatible social mates?	7
Eyes, ears, and play in the wild: flexible use of sensory channels in spotted hyena communication	7
Is flying riskier for female katydids than for males?	7
Habitat-dependent variation in consistent behavioural traits does not affect the efficiency of resource acquisition in a thermophilic ant	7
Year-round behavioural time budgets of common woodpigeons inferred from acceleration data using machine learning	7
Quantification of multi-task predation reveals behavioural regulation and attentional processes in mantids	7
Correction to: Individual and collective cognition in social insects: what’s in a name?	7
Aggression and multi-modal signaling in noise in a common urban songbird	6
A systematic review of sex differences in rough and tumble play across non-human mammals	6
No evidence for adaptive sex ratio adjustment in a cooperatively breeding bird with helpful helpers	6
Spider colony extinction does not depend on degree of sociality and maternal size in three Anelosimus species (Araneae, Theridiidae)	6
The significance of disentangling shared mating traits: A review of empirical approaches	6
Exploratory behaviour divergence between surface populations, cave colonists and a cave population in the water louse, Asellus aquaticus	6
Sensitivity threshold of avian magnetic compass to oscillating magnetic field is species-specific	6
Age-dependent drivers of sex-specific disappearance in wild redfronted lemurs: the role of behavior	6
Single paternity in the kelp crab Taliepus dentatus despite polyandry	6
Performance and efficiency in leaf transport: unveiling the task allocation puzzle in Acromyrmex subterraneus	6
Introduction to topical collection “Sexual selection, sexual conflict and aging”	6
Annual fitness costs may be balanced by a conservative life history strategy in groups of unrelated ant queens	6
Functional properties of ant queen pheromones as revealed by behavioral experiments	6
Heat-altered scent marks of males of a fossorial reptile still allow recognition by females but lose information on male quality	6
Communicating the cost of your altruism makes you cool—competitive altruism and sexual selection in a real-life charity situation	6
Food-caching chickadees do not exhibit directional bias when learning a spatial task	6
Large and interactive pipefish females display ornaments for longer with many males around	6
Infection by a fungal pathogen and mating behavior in Pacific treefrogs: a test of the Hamilton-Zuk hypothesis	6
Do agricultural practices on meadows reduce or increase flight initiation distance in the white stork ciconia ciconia?	6
Exploring rodent-seed interaction experimental designs: a comparative analysis of mixed versus single release of multiple seed species	6
Neither paternity loss nor perceived threat of cuckoldry affects male nestling provisioning in grass wrens	6
Coming out from the shadows: facultative slave-making ants reveal their chemical identity during colony development	6
Encoding and decoding of the information in the honeybee waggle dance	6
No association between metabolic rate and an exaggerated sexually selected trait	6
Endurance rivalry among male spotted hyenas: what does it mean to “endure”?	6
Correction to: Is provisioning rate of parents and helpers infuenced by the simulated presence of novel individuals?	6
Previous mating success motivates homing of male glassfrogs Hyalinobatrachium valerioi	6
Beluga societies: the social and cultural lives of an enigmatic odontocete	6
Individual repeatability and plasticity of reproductive phenology in a resident montane bird	6
Absence of a dear enemy effect and limited evidence of neighbour-stranger vocal discrimination in Ecstatic Display Songs of nesting African penguins	6
Sex-dependent recognition and behavior against nest predators and brood parasites by Chestnut-capped Blackbird Chrysomus ruficapillus	6
Increased worker aggression toward allopatric compared to sympatric males in an ant species with limited female dispersal	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
Multiple parasitism in an evictor brood parasite: patterns revealed by long-term monitoring, continuous video recording, and genetic analyses	5
Sisters doing it for themselves: extensive reproductive plasticity in workers of a primitively eusocial bee	5
Does mutualism provide additional indirect benefits? Behavioral indicators of chemical communication in a temporally dynamic fish-mussel mutualism	5
Fecal avoidance and gastrointestinal parasitism in semi-free ranging woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha poeppigii)	5
The evolution of dynamic and flexible courtship displays that reveal individual quality	5
Bacterial infection influences courtship behavior and mate choice in a wolf spider	5
Evaluating scleral exposure in human eyes: a review of measurement methods, an exploration of reliability, and implications in behavioral experimental research	5
Latitudinal cline in reproductive traits in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum	5
Costs of social conflict: do injuries mirror patterns of aggression in blue monkeys?	5
Costs and benefits of polyandrous mating to the female emerald treefrog (Zhangixalus prasinatus), a lek-chorusing anuran	5
Parasite induced changes in contact behaviour is affected by parasitic status of group members	5
Using an agent-based model to inform sampling design for animal social network analysis	5
Direct and correlated responses to artificial selection on foraging in Drosophila	5
Biologically meaningful moonlight measures and their application in ecological research	5
Nest-host selection and parasitic nestling survival in the spotless starling (Sturnus unicolor)	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
Competitive asymmetries, birthing asynchrony and sibling rivalry in a social lizard	5
Adults adjust vigilance behavior to the number of reliable eyes in a family living bird	5
Food limitation modulates the endogenous control of spring migratory behavior in a captive long-distance migratory bird population	5
Effects of mating age and mate age on lifespan and reproduction in a horned beetle	5
Wild and captive immature orangutans differ in their non-vocal communication with others, but not with their mothers	5
No evidence of sex ratio manipulation by black-throated blue warblers in response to food availability	5
Individual flexibility in group foraging behaviour of reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi)	5
Common permutation methods in animal social network analysis do not control for non-independence	5
Behavioral syndromes are associated with social plasticity and competence in a wild primate	5

First evidence of contagious yawning in a wild lemur	5
Parasitic freshwater mussels impact the shoaling behaviour and habitat use of their host fish	5
An empirical assessment of the role of independence filters in temporal activity analyses using camera trapping data	5
Condition-dependent success of resource-based reproductive tactics across both sexes in Drosophila prolongata	5
Experimental arena size affects magnitude and repeatability of individual sociability in three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus	5
Allopatric montane wren-babblers exhibit similar song notes but divergent vocal sequences	5