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 5, 2025

Corticosterone-implanted chicks transmit stress to parents and neighbors in a colonial seabird pp. araf085.

Susana Cortés-Manzaneque, Sin-Yeon Kim and Alberto Velando

Divergent alternative mating tactics in convergent male reproductive morphs pp. araf086.

Renjie Zhang and Nathan W Bailey

Sexual selection in sharper focus: a comment on Janicke, Shuker, and Kvarnemo pp. araf087.

Jonathan M Henshaw, Kartikey Awasthi and Xiaoyan Long

Competition for eggs or sperm suffices to define sexual selection: a comment on Janicke (2024) pp. araf088.

Michael D Jennions

Gametes best discriminate natural and sexual selection: a comment on Janicke 2024 pp. araf089.

David M Shuker and Charlotta Kvarnemo

Foraging flight strategy varies with species identity of co-occurring individuals in bats pp. araf090.

Montaine Delmotte, Alice Baudouin, Anaïs Pessato, Andréas Ravache, Martin Thibault, Fabien Verniest and Kévin Barré

Predator activity and scent cues influence white-tailed deer behavior in a multi-predator landscape pp. araf091.

Matthew A Wuensch, Tony W Mong, Brandon M Scurlock, Nathan W Byer, Jonathon D Cepek and David Ward

Age-dependent changes in reproductive behavior and success in a long-lived beetle (Bolitotherus cornutus) pp. araf092.

Charlotte A Greene, Lisa D Mitchem, Vitor dos Anjos, Edmund D Brodie and Vincent A Formica

Response to intruder number is related to spontaneous quantity discrimination performance in a wild bird pp. araf093.

Grace Blackburn, Benjamin J Ashton, Holly Hunter and Amanda R Ridley

Effects of danger cues on mating interactions are size dependent in freshwater crayfish pp. araf094.

Greta Achenbach, Josephine Conlon, Divya Kumar, Madeleine Ruley, Brooke Struble and Lauren Mathews

The influence of hunger and sex on the foraging decisions of frugivorous bats pp. araf095.

Briana A Sealey, Logan S James, Michael J Ryan and Rachel A Page

Long-term fitness effects of the early-life environment in a wild bird population pp. araf097.

Yuheng Sun, Terry A Burke, Hannah L Dugdale and Julia Schroeder

Will agreeing on a definition improve our understanding of sexual selection? pp. araf098.

Suzanne H Alonzo

Complex dynamics of social learning in groups of wild Arabian babblers pp. araf099.

Naama Aljadeff, Oded Keynan and Arnon Lotem

The last of us: social information enhances trappability in fruit flies pp. araf100.

L Pollack, K Afework and J B Saltz

Site-level variation in field of view is associated with altered anti-predator responses in farming damselfish pp. araf102.

James S Boon, John E Stratford, Jason Lynch, Chris Yesson, Richard Field, Dan A Exton and Sally A Keith

Sex-specific consequences of juvenile dispersal for survival and reproduction in an island lizard pp. araf103.

C Ashlyn Crain, Tyler N Wittman, Rachana S Bhave, Heidi A Seears, Aaron M Reedy, Daniel A Warner and Robert M Cox

Impact of human presence and activity on urban Eurasian red squirrels’ innovative problem-solving pp. araf104.

Pizza Ka Yee Chow, Olli J Loukola and Cwyn Solvi

Does rainfall or temperature influence antipredator vigilance in a hibernating mammal? pp. araf105.

Karsten Bobb, Katie A Adler, Julien G A Martin and Daniel T Blumstein

Prey movement, size, and glossiness interact to impact praying mantid attack behaviors pp. araf107.

Yvonne Wang, Devi Stuart-Fox, Patricia Henríquez-Piskulich and Amanda M Franklin

Comparative evaluation over time during mate choice in the green swordtail Xiphophorus hellerii pp. araf108.

Kathryn Bullough, Bram Kuijper and Laura A Kelley

Good guardian, bad parent: tradeoffs between territory defense and parental care in Darwin's finches pp. araf109.

Andrew C Katsis, Lauren K Common, Çağlar Akçay and Sonia Kleindorfer

Boat noise alters individual behaviors but not communication between partners in a fish-shrimp mutualism pp. araf110.

Jack L Manera, Jake M Martin, Maria M Palacios, Rachel T Mason, Mark I McCormick and Bob B M Wong

Volume 36, issue 4, 2025

Fish experienced with predation take fewer risks and enhance foraging success of naïve conspecifics: a benefit of sociality pp. 317-328

Jesse Balaban-Feld, Sundararaj Vijayan, Burt P Kotler, Lotan T Tov Elem and Zvika Abramsky

Risking infanticide or losing precious time? Delay of reproduction in a short-lived mammal pp. 507-435

Lea Vodjerek, Jasmin Firozpoor, Heiko G Rödel and Jana A Eccard

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 De, 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

An island bird community retains anti-predator behavior toward a locally extinct nest predator pp. 473-490

James C Mouton, Peter Larramendy, Scott A Morrison, Cameron K Ghalambor and T Scott Sillett

Male activity under risk predicts paternal care and reproductive success in a bi-parental cichlid pp. 502-508

Ulrike Scherer, Petri T Niemelä and Wiebke Schuett

Silver spoons, reproduction, and growth catch-up in eastern Grey kangaroos pp. 998-1007

Kelly Forrester, Andrew M MacDonald and Marco Festa-Bianchet

Patterns and drivers of female extra-pair mating in wild Kalahari meerkats pp. 1147-1167

Annika Herdtle, Chris Duncan, Marta B Manser and Tim Clutton-Brock

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

Prey or protection? Access to food alters individual responses to competition in black widow spiders pp. 119-122

Tom Ratz and Pierre-Olivier Montiglio

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

Dynamic color change in the grouper Variola louti during interspecific interactions and swimming pp. 312-321

Sagi Marom, Moshe Kiflawi, Derya Akkaynak and Roi Holzman

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

Anuran mating systems: the role of climate, life history traits, and sex ratio pp. 1543-1552

Isabella Melo, Lucas Jardim, Alejandro Valencia-Zuleta, Amael Borzée, Mark-Oliver Rödel, Grant N Webster, Vishal Kumar Prasad, Deyatima Ghosh, Michael Mahony, José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho and Diego Llusia

Synchronising anti-predator behavior in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum pp. 2319-2338

Kentarou Matsumura

Human-induced pheromone pollution leads to changes in alternative mating tactics of moths pp. 2645-2650

Shevy Waner Rips, Michal Motro, Uzi Motro, Oren Kolodny and Ally Harari

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

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

Social security: individuals in socially reciprocal groups may perceive security from predators pp. 221344-20

Conner S Philson, Clara Klassen, Kenta Uchida and Daniel T Blumstein

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