Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Article	Citations
Time allocation to balance group living trade-offs in Ethiopian wolves	57
The science funding crisis threatens the careers of future behavioral ecologists	55
Anxiety-like behavior and tectal gene expression in a foraging/predator avoidance tradeoff task using adult African clawed frogs Xenopus laevis	27
Functional diversification of contact calls contribute to the cohesion of a multi-level society	26
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
Are the personality measures for laboratory mice applicable for wild rats?	19
Shifting expectations? Bumblebees show limited adjustment based on recent reward history	18
Nocturnal and diurnal predator and prey interactions with crab spider color polymorphs	16
Behavioural response to predation risks depends on experimental change in dehydration state in a lizard	16
Versatile and inexpensive device for capturing high-quality behavioral videos under diverse field conditions	16
Ontogeny and Sociobiological factors affecting behavior and its repeatability in captive-bred Arctic foxes (Vulpes lagopus)	15
Evidence of sociality and group foraging in Antarctic minke whales (Balaenoptera bonaerensis)	15
White plumage color as an honest indicator: feather macrostructure links reflectance with reproductive effort and success	15
Social integration in temporal multiplex association networks predicts offspring survival in female geoffroy’s spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi)	15
Morphological evolution and the behavioral organization of agricultural division of labor in the leafcutter ant Atta cephalotes	15
Habitat complexity and spatial navigation: linking habitat to cognitive strategy in cyprinid fishes	14
Impact of blood parasites on the behaviour of two congeneric wall lizards (genus Podarcis)	13
Investigation of field and laboratory-based personality traits in a wild ornate box turtle (Terrapene ornata) population	13
The future of evolutionary behavioral biology	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
Impact of predator model presentation paradigms on titi monkey alarm sequences	12
The availability of male mates affects the social mating strategies of a predominantly socially monogamous passerine	12
Bumblebee cognitive abilities are robust to changes in colony size	12

Syntactic rules predict song type matching in a songbird	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
Behavioral repertoire of Lahille’s bottlenose dolphins that interact with artisanal fishers	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
Reproduction of a field cricket under high-intensity artificial light at night and a simulated heat wave	11
Testing for cryptic male mate choice in an insect with high mating failure	11
Floral and insect traits predict predation risk and neophobia impacts on flower-visiting insects’ behavior	10
The impact of high temperatures on bird responses to alarm calls	10
Evolutionary dynamics of size and plumage dimorphism in birds	10
A behavioral syndrome and within-pair similarity in boldness and foraging site fidelity of a monogamous seabird	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
Context-dependent abdomen bobbing in a jumping spider: a dynamic visual signal	10
Male calls induce egg laying in isolated female frogs	10
Socio-sexual environment influences fecundity, but not response to bacterial infection, in Drosophila melanogaster females	10
Analysis of inconsistencies for the study of dominance: assessing influence of some biological traits on hierarchy in male brown bears	10
Range utilization slopes as a measure of central tendency and intergroup overlap in primates	10
From collocations to call-ocations: using linguistic methods to quantify animal call combinations	10
Sex, not familiarity, shapes social interactions in adult captive tortoises (Testudo hermanni)	10
Spatial vigilance architecture of Indian flying fox colonies in rural parts of Barak Valley, Northeast India	10
Social information used to elicit cache protection differs between pinyon jays and Clark’s nutcrackers	10
Exorcising the ghost in the computer: ChatGPT, science publishing, and GenAI policy for Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology	10
Long-term effects of litter characteristics on reproduction in female cavies (Cavia aperea)	9
Determining sensitive stages of larval development to predation risk in Indosylvirana indica	9
Temporal avoidance of interfering noise by common chiffchaff	9
Correction to: Offspring’s early-life performance varies with father’s sperm quality in a genetically monogamous seabird	9
Infant mortality associated with immigration of males in a multi-level society	9
Forelimb stripe coloration signals age, but not physiological health, in painted turtles	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
The multilevel society of proboscis monkeys with a possible patrilineal basis	9
Decoupled auditory perception from acoustic signal divergence hinders species recognition in territorial poison frogs	9
Communication behavior of the snow leopard (Panthera uncia): understanding marking-behavior patterns to optimize camera-trapping studies	9
Does the development environment cause the pace of life to change in a rainforest lizard?	9
Bumblebees display stimulus-specific persistence behaviour after being trained on delayed reinforcement	9
Sex-specific migration strategies and underlying physiology contribute to spring arrival protandry in a songbird	9
Male nuptial display colour and vocalisation appear to signal independent information in the whirring tree frog	9
Females know best: dispersal polymorphism maintained by sex-specific foraging	9
Parasitic egg phenotypes induce short-term imprinting effects on host egg recognition	9
Timing of seasonal events is correlated with social network position in a wild mammal	9
Disruptive colouration and background matching enable visual camouflage in a tropical rainforest stream frog	8
Social information-mediated population dynamics in non-grouping prey	8
Is flying riskier for female katydids than for males?	8
Monandry and its underlying mechanisms in the rhinoceros beetle Trypoxylus dichotomus	8
Habitat-dependent variation in consistent behavioural traits does not affect the efficiency of resource acquisition in a thermophilic ant	8
Individual and collective cognition in social insects: what’s in a name?	8
Costs of personality: bold incubating goldeneye females risk their lives when a predator attacks	8
Meet me in the middle: potential collaborative benthic hunting in humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae)	8
Begging is an honest signal of hunger in a communally nesting bird with low genetic relatedness	8
No evidence that recruitment pheromone modulates olfactory, visual, or spatial learning in the ant Lasius niger	8
Spatiotemporal variation of behavior and repeatability in a long-lived turtle	8

Individual behavioral variability across time and contexts in Dendrobates tinctorius poison frogs	8
Winners and losers in the host family over brood parasitism	8
Elevational patterns in life history, behavior, physiology, and morphology: Insights from the Andean rodent Phyllotis vaccarum	8
Year-round behavioural time budgets of common woodpigeons inferred from acceleration data using machine learning	7
Eyes, ears, and play in the wild: flexible use of sensory channels in spotted hyena communication	7
From waiting to moving: how golden snub-nosed monkeys facilitate a group departure	7
Male color polymorphism in populations of reef geckos (Sphaerodactylus notatus) reduces the utility of visual signals in sex recognition	7
Variation in behavioral tempo, not thermal sensitivity, determines the onset of foraging in ant colonies	7
Effects of seed traits on the cache size of a scatter-hoarding rodent, Leopoldamys edwardsi	7
Quantification of multi-task predation reveals behavioural regulation and attentional processes in mantids	7
Large and interactive pipefish females display ornaments for longer with many males around	7
Reproductive success of Bornean orangutan males: scattered in time but clustered in space	7
Social interactions throughout life impair longevity and age-specific mating success in male parasitoids	7
Extended parental care in the mass provisioning silk wasp, Microstigmus rosae	7
Head size does not predict egg-rejection behavior in Daurian redstarts (Phoenicurus auroreus)	7
Environmental uncertainty affects movement and space-use in sheep	7
Investigating personality in vipers: individual rattlesnakes exhibit consistent behavioral responses in defensive and exploratory contexts	7
Description of the behavioural contexts of underwater sound production in juvenile green turtles Chelonia mydas	6
Exploratory behaviour divergence between surface populations, cave colonists and a cave population in the water louse, Asellus aquaticus	6
Previous mating success motivates homing of male glassfrogs Hyalinobatrachium valerioi	6
Age-dependent drivers of sex-specific disappearance in wild redfronted lemurs: the role of behavior	6
Correction to: Is provisioning rate of parents and helpers infuenced by the simulated presence of novel individuals?	6
Encoding and decoding of the information in the honeybee waggle dance	6
Individual repeatability and plasticity of reproductive phenology in a resident montane bird	6
Single paternity in the kelp crab Taliepus dentatus despite polyandry	6
Spider colony extinction does not depend on degree of sociality and maternal size in three Anelosimus species (Araneae, Theridiidae)	6
Breeders and helpers do not show task specialisation nor compensatory care in the cooperatively breeding grayish baywing	6
Effect of sympatry on discrimination of advertisement and aggressive signals by female chorus frogs	6
Wild Australian magpies learn to pull intact, not broken, strings to obtain food	6
Do common cuckoos’ vocalisations affect egg discrimination in the strong rejector red-backed shrike?	6
Do female bluethroats without extra-pair offspring have more MHC-compatible social mates?	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
Heat-altered scent marks of males of a fossorial reptile still allow recognition by females but lose information on male quality	6
Infection by a fungal pathogen and mating behavior in Pacific treefrogs: a test of the Hamilton-Zuk hypothesis	6
Endurance rivalry among male spotted hyenas: what does it mean to “endure”?	6
Song frequency affects territorial response in the Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove Turtur chalcospilos	6
Sensitivity threshold of avian magnetic compass to oscillating magnetic field is species-specific	6
Food-caching chickadees do not exhibit directional bias when learning a spatial task	6
Correction to: Individual and collective cognition in social insects: what’s in a name?	6
Communicating the cost of your altruism makes you cool—competitive altruism and sexual selection in a real-life charity situation	6
Beluga societies: the social and cultural lives of an enigmatic odontocete	6
Coming out from the shadows: facultative slave-making ants reveal their chemical identity during colony development	6
Functional properties of ant queen pheromones as revealed by behavioral experiments	6
No association between metabolic rate and an exaggerated sexually selected trait	6
A systematic review of sex differences in rough and tumble play across non-human mammals	6
The evolution of dynamic and flexible courtship displays that reveal individual quality	5
Performance and efficiency in leaf transport: unveiling the task allocation puzzle in Acromyrmex subterraneus	5
First evidence of contagious yawning in a wild lemur	5
Competitive asymmetries, birthing asynchrony and sibling rivalry in a social lizard	5
Evaluating scleral exposure in human eyes: a review of measurement methods, an exploration of reliability, and implications in behavioral experimental research	5
Allopatric montane wren-babblers exhibit similar song notes but divergent vocal sequences	5
No evidence of sex ratio manipulation by black-throated blue warblers in response to food availability	5
Intraspecific variation in invertebrate cognition: a review	5
Annual fitness costs may be balanced by a conservative life history strategy in groups of unrelated ant queens	5
Biologically meaningful moonlight measures and their application in ecological research	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
An empirical assessment of the role of independence filters in temporal activity analyses using camera trapping data	5
Farmland habitat-dependent litter availability shapes nest attachment behaviour in open cup-nesting birds	5
Neither paternity loss nor perceived threat of cuckoldry affects male nestling provisioning in grass wrens	5
Exploring rodent-seed interaction experimental designs: a comparative analysis of mixed versus single release of multiple seed species	5
Introduction to topical collection “Sexual selection, sexual conflict and aging”	5
Does mutualism provide additional indirect benefits? Behavioral indicators of chemical communication in a temporally dynamic fish-mussel mutualism	5
Behavioral syndromes are associated with social plasticity and competence in a wild primate	5
Direct and correlated responses to artificial selection on foraging in Drosophila	5
Using an agent-based model to inform sampling design for animal social network analysis	5
Multiple parasitism in an evictor brood parasite: patterns revealed by long-term monitoring, continuous video recording, and genetic analyses	5
Bacterial infection influences courtship behavior and mate choice in a wolf spider	5
Adults adjust vigilance behavior to the number of reliable eyes in a family living bird	5
Plains zebra (Equus quagga) group movement decisions are associated with visual and tactile behaviours performed by initiators, followers and non-followers	5
Parasite induced changes in contact behaviour is affected by parasitic status of group members	5
No evidence for adaptive sex ratio adjustment in a cooperatively breeding bird with helpful helpers	5
Absence of a dear enemy effect and limited evidence of neighbour-stranger vocal discrimination in Ecstatic Display Songs of nesting African penguins	5
Sex-dependent recognition and behavior against nest predators and brood parasites by Chestnut-capped Blackbird Chrysomus ruficapillus	5
Polarize, catalyze, and stabilize: how a minority of norm internalizers amplify group selection and punishment	5
Individual flexibility in group foraging behaviour of reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi)	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
Common permutation methods in animal social network analysis do not control for non-independence	5
The eye that guards the rock: does it shape the world? nest site attendance patterns in a colonially breeding pelagic seabird	5

Fecal avoidance and gastrointestinal parasitism in semi-free ranging woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha poeppigii)	5
Condition-dependent success of resource-based reproductive tactics across both sexes in Drosophila prolongata	5
Nest-host selection and parasitic nestling survival in the spotless starling (Sturnus unicolor)	5
Parasitic freshwater mussels impact the shoaling behaviour and habitat use of their host fish	5