Behavioral Ecology

Article	Citations
Should I stay or should I go? Behavioral adjustments of fur seals related to foraging success	69
Corrigendum to: Mesopredators retain their fear of humans across a development gradient	45
An (almost) fatal blow to conventional wisdom: a comment on Richardson and Zuk	38
The value ofnottrusting intuition: a response to comments on Richardson and Zuk	24
Social pairing in the absence of reproductive senescence in a socially monogamous songbird	23
Plasticity of snowy plover incubation behaviors in response to risks of nest predation	22
Group social structure has limited impact on reproductive success in a wild mammal	22
Heterogeneous responsiveness to environmental stimuli	22
The oxidative cost of helping and its minimization in a cooperative breeder	22
Expression of Concern: Multiple environmental cues impact habitat choice during nocturnal homing of specialized reef shrimp	22
North American barn swallows pair, mate, and interact assortatively	21
Inter-sexual phenotypic divergence is correlated with habitat structure in an invasive lizard	21
Ineffective integration of multiple anti-predator defenses in a rotifer: a low-cost insurance?	21
Low incidence of cannibalism among brood parasitic cuckoo catfish embryos	20
Site fidelity increases reproductive success by increasing foraging efficiency in a marine predator	18
Long-term evaluation of the association between dominance, bib size, sex and age	18
Double brooding in house wrens is repeatable but constrained by time-of-season	18
Collective Self-Assessment in Banded Mongoose Intergroup Contests	18
Factors influencing dispersal initiation and timing in a facultative cooperative breeder	17
Public information use—are invasive demersal fish species more effective than natives?	17
Predator activity and scent cues influence white-tailed deer behavior in a multi-predator landscape	17
Silver spoons, reproduction, and growth catch-up in eastern Grey kangaroos	17
The interplay between satiation and temptation drives cleaner fish Labroides dimidiatus foraging behavior and service quality toward client reef fish	17
Can you hear/see me? Multisensory integration of signals does not always facilitate mate choice	16
Aggression rates increase around seasonally exploited resources in a primarily grass-eating primate	16

Within-flock heterogeneity in exploration affects flock behavior in a highly gregarious bird	16
Chronic predation risk affects prey escape abilities through behavioral and physiological changes	15
Enhanced conspicuousness of prey in warmer water mitigates the constraint of turbidity for predators	15
Predation risk elicits a negative relationship between boldness and growth in Helisoma snails	15
Intrinsic and extrinsic factors modulating vigilance and foraging in two gregarious foragers	15
To bob or not to bob: context-dependence of an antipredator response in neotropical harvestmen	15
Patterns of extra-territorial nest-box visits in a songbird suggest a role in extrapair mating	14
Environment and mate attractiveness in a wild insect	14
Vibrating aggression: spider males perform an unusual assessment strategy during contest displays	14
Long-term fitness effects of the early-life environment in a wild bird population	14
Recognition of conspecific immunological status in a neotropical paper wasp	14
Social integration predicts survival in female white-faced capuchin monkeys	14
Adult sex ratio and male body condition affect alternative reproductive tactics in a spider	13
Social networks reveal sex- and age-patterned social structure in Butler’s gartersnakes (Thamnophis butleri)	13
Correction to: Does developmental environment affect sexual conflict? An experimental test in the seed beetle	13
Causes and consequences of lifetime fitness variation in male Collared Lizards displaying alternative social ontogenies	13
Perception and predation of ladybird spiders and other red-and-black arthropods by 3 predators	13
Opposite-sex associations are linked with annual fitness, but sociality is stable over lifetime	13
Simulated infection alters the behavior of pair bonded songbirds and their healthy neighbors	13
Territorial-sneaker games with non-uniform interactions and female mate choice	12
Not all who wander are lost: prospecting and settlement of male floaters in the spotless starling	12
An island bird community retains anti-predator behavior toward a locally extinct nest predator	12
The effects of ecology and behavior on the evolution of coloration in Coraciiformes	12
Female state and condition-dependent chemical signaling revealed by male choice of silk trails	11
Expression of trematode-induced zombie-ant behavior is strongly associated with temperature	11
Range expansion during recolonization: what does animal personality have to do with it?	11
A reinvestigation of cognitive styles in sticklebacks: decision success varies with behavioral type	11
The effect of heterospecific and conspecific competition on inter-individual differences in tungara frog tadpole (Engystomops pustulosus) behavior	11
Effects of danger cues on mating interactions are size dependent in freshwater crayfish	11
Personality predicts mode of attack in a generalist ground spider predator	11
Fish experienced with predation take fewer risks and enhance foraging success of naïve conspecifics: a benefit of sociality	11
Whoever their partner, female blue tits breed the same	10
Grow up, be persistent, and stay focused: keys for solving foraging problems by free-ranging possums	10
Housework or vigilance? Bilbies alter their burrowing activity under threat of predation by feral cats	10
Male mating tactics are associated with distinct female cognitive-behavioral profiles in 4 poeciliids	10
Multiple opportunities arise from multiple color defense strategies: a comment on Postema et al.	10
The evolution of brood parasitism from host egg predation	10
A field experiment reveals reciprocal effects of host personality and parasitism in wild lizards	10
Can I have fries with that? Context-dependent foraging behavior in urban and rural American crows	10
Light received by embryos promotes postnatal junior phenotypes in a seabird	9
Resource availability, competitor abundance and specialization affect competition among bumblebees	9
Defensive coloration as a multivariate optimum: a comment on Postema et al	9
Latent layers in social networks and their implications for comparative analyses	9
Declining food availability alters vocal behavior of a nomadic finch	9
Risking infanticide or losing precious time? Delay of reproduction in a short-lived mammal	9
Both learning and syntax recognition are used by great tits when answering to mobbing calls	9
Failed despots and the equitable distribution of fitness in a subsidized species	9
Environmental variability as a predictor of behavioral flexibility in urban environments	9
Effects of resource availability on the web structure of female western black widows: is the web structure constrained by physiological trade-offs?	9
Scope and adaptive value of modulating aggression over breeding stages in a competitive female bird	9

Juvenile leg autotomy predicts adult male morph in a New Zealand harvestman with weapon polymorphism	9
Cumulative experience influences contest investment in a social fish	9
Grandparental co-residence and grandchild survival: the role of resource competition in a pre-industrial population	9
Experimentally advancing morning emergence time does not increase extra-pair siring success in blue tit males	9
Foraging in heterogeneous landscapes: variation in movement patterns of a tropical sand-bubbler crab	8
Clutch attendance and call parameters are linked to mating success in a glassfrog with paternal care	8
Cognitive flexibility in a generalist raptor: a comparative analysis along an urbanization gradient	8
Flamingos as ecosystem engineers: flock size and foraging behaviors linked to nutrient availability	8
Correction to: Female-biased sex ratios in urban centers create a “fertility trap” in 
post-war Finland	8
Human-induced pheromone pollution leads to changes in alternative mating tactics of moths	8
Correction to: Black and orange coloration predict success during male–male competition in the guppy	8
Local dominance predicts foraging decisions in a changing environment	8
Too much information: subordinate species disadvantaged by greater release of volatiles from resources	8
Turnover in male dominance offsets the positive effect of polygyny on within-group relatedness	8
Cold winters have morph-specific effects on natal dispersal distance in a wild raptor	8
Sex-dependent integration of ornamentation, personality, morphology, and life history	8
Temporal dissonance between group size and its benefits requires whole-of-lifecycle measurements	8
Sex allocation is color morph-specific and associated with fledging condition in a wild bird	8
Behavioral flexibility facilitates the use of spatial and temporal refugia during variable winter weather	8
Body condition reveals hidden correlations between co-infection and behavior in sunfish	8
Phenology and environmental determinants of explosive breeding in gliding treefrogs: diel timing of rainfall matters	7
Mating traits are phenotypically but not genetically correlated to fitness	7
Multiple views on animal coloration: a comment on Postema et al	7
Correction to: Dietary tryptophan affects group behavior in a social bird	7
Risky business: males choose more receptive adults over safer subadults in a cannibalistic spider	7
Habitat change alters the expression and efficiency of a female ornament	7
Moving away from repeatability: a comment on Stuber et al.	7
Sex-specific effects of psychoactive pollution on behavioral individuality and plasticity in fish	7
Responses in adult pied flycatcher males depend on playback song similarity to local population	7
Interplay of cooperative breeding and predation risk on egg allocation and reproductive output	7
Relative telencephalon size does not affect collective motion in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata)	7
Triparental ageing in a laboratory population of an insect with maternal care	7
Geographic differences in individual recognition linked with social but not nonsocial cognition	7
Acoustic effects complement visual displays of Great Bowerbird bowers	7
Many avenues for spatial personality research: a response to comments on Stuber et al. (2022)	7
Sexual selection in sharper focus: a comment on Janicke, Shuker, and Kvarnemo	7
Intricate covariation between exploration and avoidance learning in a generalist predator	7
Peacock spiders prefer image statistics of average natural scenes over those of male ornamentation	7
Limited evidence of biased offspring sex allocation in a cavity-nesting conspecific brood parasite	7
Torpor use in response to predation risk in a small, free-living bird	7
Common cuckoos do not mimic the size and shape of host eggs	7
When parents play favorites: brood demand shapes parental preference for offspring UV color	6
Reduced fitness of secondary females in a polygynous species: a 32-yr study of Savannah sparrows	6
Sexual selection: competition for resources provided by mating partners	6
The presence of territorial damselfish predicts choosy client species richness at cleaning stations	6
Iridescence untwined: honey bees can separate hue variations in space and time	6
No signs of behavioral evolution of threespine stickleback following northern pike invasion	6
Sexual conflict and social networks in bed bugs: effects of social experience	6
Interannual variation in foraging decisions in chick-rearing black-legged kittiwakes	6
Interactions between color and gloss in iridescent camouflage	6
Chemical footprints mediate habitat selection in co-occurring aphids	6
Condition dependence of (un)predictability in escape behavior of a grasshopper species	6
A data editor for behavioral ecology	6
Finding shortcuts through collective tunnel excavations in a subterranean termite	6
Bumblebee flower constancy and pollen diversity over time	6
Female blue tits sing frequently: a sex comparison of occurrence, context, and structure of song	6
Ecological adaptation and birdsong: how body and bill sizes affect passerine sound frequencies	5
Reproduction is driven by seasonal environmental variation in an equatorial mammal, the banded mongoose (Mungos mungo)	5
Structural equation modeling reveals determinants of fitness in a cooperatively breeding bird	5
Functionally redundant multimodal predator cues elicit changes in prey foraging behavior	5
Decoding the chaffinch “rain” call: a female-directed alarm call?	5
Physical Interactions Shape Collective Thermoregulatory Behavior in Honey Bees	5
Size-dependent aggression towards kin in a cannibalistic species	5
Foraging flight strategy varies with species identity of co-occurring individuals in bats	5
Hiding among colors: background color diversity impedes detection time	5
Nestling mouth colors mediate parental favoritism but do not influence detectability	5
Predicting foraging dive outcomes in chinstrap penguins using biologging and animal-borne cameras	5
Golden mimics use multiple defenses to counter generalist and specialist predators	5
White-tailed deer responses to acoustic predator cues are contingent upon past land use and contemporary fire regime	5
The complex interplay between male and female mating history: a comment on Richardson and Zuk	5
Cadmium does not affect post-hatching maternal care or early offspring development in earwigs	5
Egg mimicry, not the sight of a common cuckoo, is the cue for parasitic egg rejection	5
Sexual selection does not drive hindwing tail elaboration in a moon moth,Actias luna	5
Habitat complexity and complex signal function – exploring the role of ornamentation	5
Dissecting how behavior and environment shape spatial personalities: a comment on Stuber et al.	5
Obituary: Staffan Ulfstrand	5
Does losing reduce the tendency to engage with rivals to reach mates? An experimental test	5
Nonreproductive division of labor in staghorn ferns	5
The habitat connectivity hypothesis of escape in urban woodland birds	5
Heterogeneity in resource competition covaries with individual variation in long-term social relationships	5

Helpers don’t help when it’s hot in a cooperatively breeding bird, the Southern Pied Babbler	4
Kin do not always help: testing multiple hypotheses on nest feeding in a cooperatively breeding bird	4
Sexual selection and species recognition promote complex male courtship displays in ungulates	4
The development of spatial personalities: a comment on Stuber et al.	4
Dazzled by shine: gloss as an antipredator strategy in fast moving prey	4
Is aggression related to inhibitory control in a free-living female songbird?	4
Condition-transfer maternal effects modulate inter-locus sexual conflict	4
Wild zebra finches are attracted towards acoustic cues from conspecific social groups	4
Can native predators be used as a stepping stone to reduce prey naivety to novel predators?	4
The risk of brood parasitism does not affect levels of extrapair paternity in a cuckoo host	4
Short-term increases in rival number improves single mating productivity in male Drosophila	4
Which plumage patches provide information about condition and success in a female fairy-wren?	4
Age, but not an immune challenge, triggers terminal investment in the Pacific field cricket, Teleogryllus oceanicus	4
Ecological constraints alone cannot explain delayed dispersal in splendid fairywrens	4
Exposure to elevated temperature during development affects bumblebee foraging behavior	4
Foraging is prioritized over nestmate rescue in desert ants and pupae are rescued more than adults	4
Individuals with larger head volume have better learning ability in wild chestnut thrushes	4
Cooperative breeding in birds increases the within-year fecundity mean without increasing the variance: A potential mechanism to buffer environmental uncertainty	4
No evidence of adaptive tolerance of parasitism in a cavity-nesting brood parasite host	4
Background selection for camouflage shifts in accordance with color change in an intertidal prawn	4
Urbanization enhances ornament expression in a common waterbird	4
Effects of inbreeding and elevated rearing temperatures on strategic sperm investment	4
Interaction between anthropogenic stressors affects antipredator defense in an intertidal crustacean	4
Age interactions influence biparental care behavior and reproductive success	4
High spatial pair cohesion during and after breeding in a socially monogamous territorial passerine	4
Maximum performance expression is affected by octopamine and antennae removal in Acheta domesticus	4
Are weapon allometries steeper in major or minor males? A meta-analysis	4
Passive and active parental food allocation in a songbird	4
Patch quality and habitat fragmentation shape the foraging patterns of a specialist folivore	4
Anuran mating systems: the role of climate, life history traits, and sex ratio	4
Breeding site fidelity is lower in polygamous shorebirds and male-biased in monogamous species	4
Will agreeing on a definition improve our understanding of sexual selection?	4
Short-term heat waves have long-term consequences for parents and offspring in stickleback	4
Flash behaviors protect prey from avian predators	4
Modeling effects of habitat structure on intraguild predation frequency and spatial coexistence between jaguars and ocelots	4
The optimal time to approach an unfamiliar object: a Bayesian model	4
Altitudinal differences in foraging decisions under predation risk in great tits	3
Can recent evolutionary history promote resilience to environmental change?	3
The last of us: social information enhances trappability in fruit flies	3
Warm-up and metrics of song performance: a commentary on Vazquez-Cardona et al.	3
On the strategic learning of signal associations	3
Spontaneous quantity discrimination in the Australian sleepy lizard (Tiliqua rugosa)	3
Individual survival is dictated by group personality in a marsh ecosystem predator–prey interaction	3
Sex-specific manipulation of sexually cannibalistic mantid mating behavior by hairworms	3
Female mating status has been overlooked in mate choice research: a comment on Richardson and Zuk	3
Dehydrated males are less likely to dive into the mating pool	3
Aggression and spatial positioning of kin and non-kin fish in social groups	3
Geographic variation in individual face learning based on plasticity rather than local genetic adaptation in Polistes wasps	3
Short-term social dynamics following anthropogenic and natural disturbances in a free-living mammal	3
Spatial personalities: a meta-analysis of consistent individual differences in spatial behavior	3
Higher ultraviolet skin reflectance signals submissiveness in the anemonefish, Amphiprion akindynos	3
Molecular sibship reconstruction reveals a promiscuous mating system in brood parasitic little bronze-cuckoos (Chalcites minutillus)	3
Mating assortment and the strength of sexual selection in a polyandrous population of Cook Strait giant weta	3
Species cumulative impacts to mixed assemblages of Neotropical parrots	3
Lack of intergenerational reproductive conflict, rather than lack of inclusive fitness benefits, explains absence of post-reproductive lifespan in long-finned pilot whales	3
Male courtship reduces the risk of female aggression in web-building spiders but varies in structure	3
Dominance loss and tenure maintenance in Kalahari meerkats	3
Changes in the acoustic structure of Australian bird communities along a habitat complexity gradient	3
Moonlight influence on quality of nestlings of scops owls depends on paternal coloration	3
Feeding status impacts thermoregulation and its repeatability across day and night in a diurnal lizard	3
The matador bug’s elaborate flags deter avian predators	3
Escalated begging does not compromise nestling health	3
Far-reaching consequences of trait preferences for animal social network structure and function	3
Perturbations highlight importance of social history in parakeet rank dynamics	3
Multiple effects of weather on common waxbill group foraging and social behavior	3
Plan ahead, or wing it? How storm-petrel parents adjust food delivery to young chicks	3
A family history: effects of parental age on offspring life-history traits in bighorn sheep	3
Complex dynamics of social learning in groups of wild Arabian babblers	3
Behavioral choice and background matching facilitate camouflage in the European garden spider	3
Neighbors affect vocal behavior of tropical wrens: a multispeaker density-manipulation experiment	3
The scent of offspring: chemical profiles of larvae change during development and affect parental behavior in a burying beetle	3
Generalist dietary responses to individual versus combined plant toxin odors: an African elephant study	3
Vocal performance increases rapidly during the dawn chorus in Adelaide’s warbler (Setophaga adelaidae)	3
Female song can be over-looked in even the most intensively studied songbirds	3
Daily activity is repeatable but varies across the breeding season in female great tits	3
The size of a smell: assessment of rival’s relative size from femoral secretions in the common wall lizards,Podarcis muralis(Laurenti, 1768)	3
Social drivers of maturation age in female geladas	3
Sex-specific consequences of juvenile dispersal for survival and reproduction in an island lizard	3
Animal personalities influence male mating behavior and reproductive fitness	3
Assumptions, models and data: a comment on Richardson and Zuk	3
Anthropogenic noise and light alter temporal but not spatial breeding behavior in a wild frog	3
The role of behavioral type composition on resource use and growth of a juvenile predator	3
Varied female and male courtship behavior facilitated the evolution of a novel sexual signal	3
Relationship between dominance hierarchy steepness and rank-relatedness of benefits in primates	3
Don’t leave the past behind: larval experience shapes pupal antipredator response in Aedes aegypti	3
Tackling complexity in animal color research: a response to comments on Postema et al.	3
How does viewing angle affect the perceived accuracy of Batesian mimicry in hoverflies?	3
Synchronising anti-predator behavior in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum	3
The role of plasticity, trade-offs, and feedbacks in shaping behavioral correlations	3
Duration of nest-building in passerine birds: the roles of latitude, nest size, and nest type	3
Natural and anthropogenic noise increase vigilance and decrease foraging behaviors in song sparrows	3
Correction to: Social context alters host behavior and infection risk	3
The ontogeny of social networks in wild great tits (Parus major)	3
How molting locusts avoid cannibalism	3
Optimal distributions of central-place foragers: honey bee foraging in a mass flowering crop	3