Behavioral Ecology

2002 - 2025

Current editor(s): Louise Barrett

From International Society for Behavioral Ecology
Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, UK.
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Volume 36, issue 3, 2025

Behavioral diversity and agonism are higher in larger groups among wild Costa Rican capuchins pp. 325-383

Shasta E Webb, Silvia Carboni, Allegra N DePasquale, Rachel E Williamson, Saúl Cheves Hernandez, Ronald Lopez and Amanda D Melin

Life expectancy in ants explains variation in helpfulness regardless of phylogenetic relatedness pp. 403-410

Filip Turza, Daniel Stec, Diego Fontaneto and Krzysztof Miler

Close encounters: behavioral responses of migrating songbirds to the perceived risk of predation pp. e01555-23

Claire E Nemes, Andrea M Lindsay, Lucas W DeGroote and Emily B Cohen

Volume 36, issue 2, 2025

Experimental support for partial compensation, not matched, partner response rules in blue tits pp. 139-146

Aisha C Bründl, Léa A Lejeune, Purabi Deshpande, Jessica E Mulvey, Alice C Thiney, Alexis S Chaine and Andrew F Russell

Reproduction is driven by seasonal environmental variation in an equatorial mammal, the banded mongoose (Mungos mungo) pp. 477-482

Monil Khera, Kevin Arbuckle, Francis Mwanguhya, Michael A Cant and Hazel J Nichols

To bob or not to bob: context-dependence of an antipredator response in neotropical harvestmen pp. 520-535

Austin C Calhoun, Kerrigan B Tobin, Dylan M Poorboy, Rachel M Bowden and Ben M Sadd

Previous reproductive success informs nest-building decisions pp. 611-621

Evelyn J Alexander, Sophie C Edwards, Elisabeth G Chapman and Susan D Healy

Don’t leave the past behind: larval experience shapes pupal antipredator response in Aedes aegypti pp. 708-716

Kanika Rawat, Akshaye Anand Bhambore and Kavita Isvaran

Colorful network: pair-bonding temporal dynamics involve sexual signals and impact reproduction pp. 818-820

Marie Barou-Dagues, Sébastian Sosa and Frédéric Angelier

Escalated begging does not compromise nestling health pp. 1443-1449

Daniel Parejo-Pulido, Tomás Redondo, Silvia Casquero and Lorenzo Pérez-Rodríguez

Territorial-sneaker games with non-uniform interactions and female mate choice pp. 3669-3675

Thomas N Sherratt, Christopher D Beatty, Ian DewanConceptualization, Katherine Di Iorio, Isaac Finkelstein, Karl Loeffler-Henry, Marrissa Miller, Falisha Para, Megan Raposo and Frances Sherratt

Volume 36, issue 1, 2025

Can I have fries with that? Context-dependent foraging behavior in urban and rural American crows pp. 1-48

Margaret R Merz, Sophie Cote, Rachel Weinberg, Timary Malley and Andrea K Townsend

A reinvestigation of cognitive styles in sticklebacks: decision success varies with behavioral type pp. 1-13

Nick A R Jones, Kirstin Gaffney, Giacomo Gardella, Annie Rowe, Helen C Spence-Jones, Amelia Munson, Tom M Houslay and Mike M Webster

Responses in adult pied flycatcher males depend on playback song similarity to local population pp. 42-45

Mario Gallego-Abenza, Fanny-Linn H Kraft, Lan Ma, Samyuktha Rajan and David Wheatcroft

Nonreproductive division of labor in staghorn ferns pp. 413-440

Kahurangi Cronin, Ian Hutton and K C Burns

Reduced fitness of secondary females in a polygynous species: a 32-yr study of Savannah sparrows pp. 738-753

Sarah D Mueller, Nathaniel T Wheelwright, Daniel J Mennill, Amy E M Newman, Stéphanie M Doucet, Joseph B Burant, Sarah L Dobney, Greg W Mitchell, Hayley A Spina, Bradley K Woodworth and D Ryan Norris

I remember you! Multicomponent warning signals and predator memory pp. 1053-1059

Anita Szabó, Magdalena Bělová and Alice Exnerová

Animal personalities influence male mating behavior and reproductive fitness pp. e0239051-661

Ruonan Li, Chen Yang, Yingqiang Lou, Jianhua Lü and Nan Lyu

Volume 35, issue 6, 2024

Learning to handle flowers increases pollen collection for bees but does not affect pollination success for plants pp. 37-1170

Maggie M Mayberry, Katherine C Naumer, Annaliese N Novinger, Dalton M McCart, Rachel V Wilkins, Haley Muse, Tia-Lynn Ashman and Avery L Russell

Can recent evolutionary history promote resilience to environmental change? pp. 100-103

Eleanor K Bladon, Sonia Pascoal and Rebecca M Kilner

Form-assortative mating behaviors of individuals from parasitic and non-parasitic populations of Arctic lamprey (Lethenteron camtschaticum) pp. 123-140

Léa Daupagne, Chiharu Furusawa, Hironori Mieda, Osamu Kishida, Emilien Lasne, Cédric Tentelier and Itsuro Koizumi

Sex-specific manipulation of sexually cannibalistic mantid mating behavior by hairworms pp. 133-140

Kazuki Kuroda, Takahiro Kuroda, Hiroto Nishino and Yasuoki Takami

A test of the mechanistic process behind the convergent agonistic character displacement hypothesis pp. 141-152

Shannon Buckley Luepold, Sandro Carlotti and Gilberto Pasinelli

Homing behavior of a tree lizard: influences of mating resource and habitat structure pp. 151-178

Yu- De Zhang, Chun-Chia Chou, Chen-Pan Liao, Jhan-Wei Lin, Rulon W Clark, Jung-Ya Hsu and Wen-San Huang

Association of prey quality with environmental odors in the foraging behavior of Pardosa milvina pp. 361-370

Hailey C Shannon and Ann L Rypstra

Flash behaviors protect prey from avian predators pp. 697-702

Seongsoo No, Hyeon-Mo Yang, Thomas N Sherratt and Changku Kang

Neighbors affect vocal behavior of tropical wrens: a multispeaker density-manipulation experiment pp. 1484-1503

Natalie V Sánchez, Isabel Vargas-Valverde, María José Espejo-Uribe and Daniel J Mennill

Are weapon allometries steeper in major or minor males? A meta-analysis pp. 2450-2458

Sydney K Kochensparger, Christina J Painting, Bruno A Buzatto and Erin L McCullough

Acoustic effects complement visual displays of Great Bowerbird bowers pp. 2827-2841

John A Endler, Selina Meehan, Aida Rodrigues and Vicki Hallett

Age, sex, and temperature shape off-territory feeder use in black-capped chickadees pp. 20151429-12

Megan LaRocque, Jan J Wijmenga and Kimberley J Mathot

Volume 35, issue 5, 2024

Influence of visual information on sniffing behavior in a routinely trichromatic primate pp. 328-48

Brigitte M Weiß and Anja Widdig

How does viewing angle affect the perceived accuracy of Batesian mimicry in hoverflies? pp. 495-566

Lucy Baker, Chris Taylor, Francis Gilbert and Tom Reader

Captive birds exhibit greater foraging efficiency and vigilance after anti-predator training pp. 1598-1607

Jessica L Roberts and David Luther

Volume 35, issue 4, 2024

Archerfish foraging success varies with immediate competition level but not group size pp. 1-10

Dagmar der Weduwen, Nick A R Jones, Adèle Dubosque, Stefan Schuster, Keith T Sillar, Mike Webster and Luke Rendell

Sex allocation is color morph-specific and associated with fledging condition in a wild bird pp. 1-20

Amandine Tooth, Chiara Morosinotto and Patrik Karell

Maternal investment and early thermal conditions affect performance and antipredator responses pp. 36-41

Maider Iglesias-Carrasco, Jiayu Zhang and Daniel W A Noble

Exposure to humans and task difficulty levels affect wild raccoons (Procyon lotor) learning pp. 167-177

Louis Lazure and Robert B Weladji

Can developmental plasticity shape sexual competition and promote reproductive isolation? pp. 288-292

Kristin Hubakk, Zachariah Wylde and Russell Bonduriansky

Relative telencephalon size does not affect collective motion in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata) pp. 1415-1419

Annika Boussard, Mikaela Ahlkvist, Alberto Corral-López, Stephanie Fong, John Fitzpatrick and Niclas Kolm

Short-term heat waves have long-term consequences for parents and offspring in stickleback pp. 288a-292a

Rachel Barrett and Laura R Stein

Effects of inbreeding and elevated rearing temperatures on strategic sperm investment pp. 36-42

Meng-Han Joseph Chung, Md Mahmud-Al-Hasan, Michael D Jennions and Megan L Head

Does losing reduce the tendency to engage with rivals to reach mates? An experimental test pp. 36a-42a

Chenke Zang, Meng-Han Joseph Chung, Teresa Neeman, Lauren Harrison, Ivan M Vinogradov and Michael D Jennions

Scope and adaptive value of modulating aggression over breeding stages in a competitive female bird pp. 69-75

Elizabeth M George, Abigail M Weber and Kimberly A Rosvall

Molecular sibship reconstruction reveals a promiscuous mating system in brood parasitic little bronze-cuckoos (Chalcites minutillus) pp. 421-425

Hee-Jin Noh, Linda Neaves, Alicia Grealy and Naomi E Langmores

Túngara frog call-timing decisions arise as internal rhythms interact with fluctuating chorus noise pp. 3891-262

Luke C Larter and Michael J Ryan

The evolution of brood parasitism from host egg predation pp. eaar4380-12

Pierick Mouginot, Matthias Galipaud and Martin Reichard

Volume 35, issue 3, 2024

Predator metamorphosis and its consequence for prey risk assessment pp. 1-8

Himal Thapa, Adam L Crane, Gabrielle H Achtymichuk, Sultan M M Sadat, Douglas P Chivers and Maud C O Ferrari

Sexual selection: competition for resources provided by mating partners pp. 8-800

Tim Janicke

Warm-up and metrics of song performance: a commentary on Vazquez-Cardona et al pp. e29-e32

Gonçalo C Cardoso

A variance-partitioning approach for assessing mate choice and which sex controls mating behavior pp. 38-92

Chang S Han and Hyoseul Hyun

Dietary tryptophan affects group behavior in a social bird pp. 111-115

Beatriz C Saldanha, Patrícia Beltrão, Ana Cristina R Gomes, Marta C Soares, Gonçalo C Cardoso and Sandra Trigo

Sex-dependent audience effect in foraging guppies pp. 116-126

Natalia Tepox-Vivar, Guadalupe Lopez-Nava, Juan H García-Chávez and Palestina Guevara-Fiore

Cognitive flexibility in a generalist raptor: a comparative analysis along an urbanization gradient pp. 183-197

Laura Marina Biondi, Aanalía Medina, Eugenia Andrea Bonetti, Carla Angela Paterlini and María Susana Bó

With or without you: gut microbiota does not predict aggregation behavior in European earwig females pp. 205-235

Marie-Charlotte Cheutin, Benjamin Leclerc and Joël Meunier

The matador bug’s elaborate flags deter avian predators pp. 211-238

Juliette J Rubin, Jorge L Medina-Madrid, Jay J Falk and Ummat Somjee

Sex-specific nest attendance rhythm and foraging habitat use in a colony-breeding waterbird pp. 416-420

Tamar Lok, Matthijs van der Geest, Petra de Goeij, Eldar Rakhimberdiev and Theunis Piersma

Social complexity affects cognitive abilities but not brain structure in a Poeciliid fish pp. 424-436

Zegni Triki, Tunhe Zhou, Elli Argyriou, Edson Sousa de Novais, Oriane Servant and Niclas Kolm

Effects of early predation and social cues on the relationship between laterality and personality pp. 520-535

Paolo Panizzon, Jakob Gismann, Bernd Riedstra, Marion Nicolaus, Culum Brown and Ton Groothuis

Vibrating aggression: spider males perform an unusual assessment strategy during contest displays pp. 565-575

João Gabriel Lacerda de Almeida, Gareth Arnott and Paulo Enrique Cardoso Peixoto

Limited evidence of biased offspring sex allocation in a cavity-nesting conspecific brood parasite pp. 600-601

Caitlin P Wells, Bruce E Lyon, Caroline M Thow, Tez Stair, Melissa Jones, Mitch Hinton and John M Eadie

Small-scale land-use change effects on breeding success in r desert-living social bird pp. 607-613

Krista N Oswald, Oded Berger-Tal and Uri Roll

Volume 35, issue 2, 2024

Sensory trap leads to reliable communication without a shift in nonsexual responses to the model cue pp. 1-237

Skye D Fissette, Tyler J Buchinger, Sonam Tamrakar, Anne M Scott and Weiming Li

Effects of past mating behavior versus past ejaculation on male mate choice and male attractiveness pp. 52-42

Meng-Han Joseph Chung, Megan L Head, Rebecca J Fox and Michael D Jennions

Population turnover, behavioral conservatism, and rates of cultural evolution pp. 179-187

Mark Dyble and Alberto J C Micheletti

Parental overproduction allows siblicidal bird to adjust brood size to climate-driven prey variation pp. 264-273

Iván Bizberg-Barraza, Cristina Rodríguez and Hugh Drummond

Low sex drive and choosy females: fungal infections are a reproductive downfall for male house flies pp. 413-420

Sam Edwards, Eleanor Bath and Henrik H De Fine Licht

Flexible females: nutritional state influences biparental cooperation in a burying beetle pp. 543-553

Georgia A Lambert and Per T Smiseth

A new trophic specialization buffers a top predator against climate-driven resource instability pp. 948-958

Laura Gangoso, Duarte S Viana, Marina Merchán and Jordi Figuerola

No geographical differences in male mate choice in a widespread fish, Limia perugiae pp. 1125-1127

Chance Powell and Ingo Schlupp

Lunar synchrony, geography, and individual clocks shape autumn migration timing in an avian migrant pp. 3525-3546

Alicia M Korpach, Christina M Davy, Alex M Mills and Kevin C Fraser

Volume 35, issue 1, 2024

Obituary: Staffan Ulfstrand pp. .

Ingrid Ahnesjö, Charlotta Kvarnemo, Gunilla Rosenqvist and Marlene Zuk

Wild bumblebees use both absolute and relative evaluation when foraging pp. 1-48

Claire T Hemingway, Smruti Pimplikar and Felicity Muth

Behavioral estimates of mating success corroborate genetic evidence for pre-copulatory selection pp. 12-58

Rachana S Bhave, Heidi A Seears, Aaron M Reedy, Tyler N Wittman, Christopher D Robinson and Robert M Cox

Movement or plasticity: acoustic responses of a torrent frog to stream geophony pp. 67-75

Rubens A F Turin and Renato C Nali

Multilevel Bayesian analysis of monk parakeet contact calls shows dialects between European cities pp. 179-187

Simeon Q Smeele, Stephen A Tyndel, Lucy M Aplin and Mary Brooke McElreath

Condition-transfer maternal effects modulate inter-locus sexual conflict pp. 182-192

Roberto García-Roa, Gonçalo S Faria, Daniel W A Noble and Pau Carazo

Spontaneous quantity discrimination in the Australian sleepy lizard (Tiliqua rugosa) pp. 214-236

Birgit Szabo, Madeleine L Holmes, Benjamin J Ashton and Martin J Whiting

Transgenerational exposure to deoxygenation and warming disrupts mate detection in Gammarus locusta pp. 220-231

Beatriz P Pereira, Simon Neff, Francisco O Borges, Eve Otjacques, Guilherme Barreto, Maddalena Ranucci, Mélanie Court, Rui Rosa, Tiago Repolho and José Ricardo Paula

Aggression rates increase around seasonally exploited resources in a primarily grass-eating primate pp. 232-238

Julie C Jarvey, Bobbi S Low, Abebaw Azanaw Haile, Kenneth L Chiou, Noah Snyder-Mackler, Amy Lu, Thore J Bergman, Jacinta C Beehner and India A Schneider-Crease

Food quantity and the intensity of the alarm signal combine to modulate the resource selection in a termite species pp. 246-259

Aline N F Silva, Cátila R Silva, Renan E C Santos, Carla C M Arce, Ana Paula A Araújo and Paulo F Cristaldo

Individual survival is dictated by group personality in a marsh ecosystem predator–prey interaction pp. 293-295

Christina M Salerno, Regan C Williams and Stephanie J Kamel

Geographic variation in individual face learning based on plasticity rather than local genetic adaptation in Polistes wasps pp. 321-326

Meagan Simons, Delbert A GreenII and Elizabeth A Tibbetts

Social security: Does social position influence flight initiation distance? pp. 325-383

Tali Szulanski, Conner S Philson, Kenta Uchida and Daniel T Blumstein

Immune challenge changes social behavior in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata) pp. 330-341

Stella A Encel, Timothy M Schaerf and Ashley J W Ward

Housework or vigilance? Bilbies alter their burrowing activity under threat of predation by feral cats pp. 415-425

Faith S E Chen, Stuart J Dawson and Patricia A Fleming

Predator selection on multicomponent warning signals in an aposematic moth pp. 417-423

Liisa Hämäläinen, Georgina E Binns, Nathan S Hart, Johanna Mappes, Paul G Mc, Louis G O’Neill, Hannah M Rowland, Kate D L Umbers and Marie E Herberstein

Persistence associated with extractive foraging explains variation in innovation in Darwin’s finches pp. 479-488

Paula Ibáñez de Aldecoa, Sabine Tebbich and Andrea S Griffin

Exploration and social environment affect inbreeding avoidance in a small mammal pp. 513-515

Katherine Vandal, Dany Garant, Patrick Bergeron and Denis Réale

Experimentally seeded social cues in the wild: costs to bearers and potential benefits to receivers pp. 543-550

Clare T M Doherty and Mark E Laidre

Whoever their partner, female blue tits breed the same pp. 617-619

Ségolène Delaitre, Claire Doutrelant and Samuel P Caro

Sexually attractive traits predict predation-threat sensitivity of male alternative mating tactics pp. 673-681

Jean-Guy J Godin, Heather E Mc and Thomas M Houslay

Sex ratio affects sexual selection against mutant alleles in a locus-specific way pp. 709-719

Sakshi Sharda, Brian Hollis and Tadeusz J Kawecki

Inter- and intraspecific female behavioral plasticity drive temporal niche segregation in two Tribolium species pp. 716-726

Miraim Benita, Ariel Menahem, Inon Scharf and Daphna Gottlieb

Altitudinal differences in foraging decisions under predation risk in great tits pp. 857-864

Thomas Crouchet, Philipp Heeb and Alexis S Chaine

Mutual mate guarding with limited sexual conflict in a sex-role-reversed shorebird pp. 866-874

Johannes Krietsch, Mihai Valcu, Margherita Cragnolini, Wolfgang Forstmeier and Bart Kempenaers

Flexible learning in complex worlds pp. 943-947

Olof Leimar, Andrés E Quiñones and Redouan Bshary

The risk of brood parasitism does not affect levels of extrapair paternity in a cuckoo host pp. 1001-1010

Jinggang Zhang, Peter Santema, Hui Wang, Zixuan Lin, Lixing Yang, Denghui Yan, Jianqiang Li, Wenhong Deng and Bart Kempenaers

Peregrine falcons shift mean and variance in provisioning in response to increasing brood demand pp. 1033-1043

Rebekah A McKinnon, Kevin Hawkshaw, Erik Hedlin, Shinichi Nakagawa and Kimberley J Mathot

Machine learning reveals singing rhythms of male Pacific field crickets are clock controlled pp. 1096-1432

Mary L Westwood, Quentin Geissmann, Aidan J O’Donnell, Jack Rayner, Will Schneider, Marlene Zuk, Nathan W Bailey and Sarah E Reece

Social networks reveal sex- and age-patterned social structure in Butler’s gartersnakes (Thamnophis butleri) pp. 1231-1238

Morgan Skinner, Megan Hazell, Joel Jameson and Stephen C Lougheed

A field experiment reveals reciprocal effects of host personality and parasitism in wild lizards pp. 1280-1286

Eric Payne, David L Sinn, Orr Spiegel, Michael G Gardner and Andrew Sih

Intrinsic and extrinsic factors modulating vigilance and foraging in two gregarious foragers pp. 1367-1379

Flavio Monti, Francesco Ferretti and Niccolò Fattorini

Temperature variability is associated with the occurrence of extrapair paternity in blue tits pp. 1809-1815

Aneta Arct, Rafał Martyka, Szymon M Drobniak, Lars Gustafsson and Mariusz Cichoń

Sex-dependent integration of ornamentation, personality, morphology, and life history pp. 2027-2041

David López-Idiáquez, Céline Teplitsky, Amélie Fargevieille, María Del Rey-Granado, Raphaëlle Mercier Gauthier, Christophe de Franceschi, Anne Charmantier, Claire Doutrelant and Denis Réale

Modeling effects of habitat structure on intraguild predation frequency and spatial coexistence between jaguars and ocelots pp. 2703-2711

Sean Richards, Siria Gámez and Nyeema C Harris

Personality affects female mate choice: frogs displaying more consistent bold behaviors are choosier pp. 4607-4642

Olivia S Feagles and Gerlinde Höbel

Functional heterogeneity facilitates effectual collective task performance in a worker-polymorphic ant pp. 5835-5840

Takuto Sakai, Isaac Planas-Sitjà and Adam L Cronin

Social inheritance of avoidances shapes the structure of animal social networks pp. 20141016-1372

Celine H Frère, Barbara Class, Dominique A Potvin and Amiyaal Ilany