Behavioral Ecology

2002 - 2025

Current editor(s): Louise Barrett

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Volume 34, issue 6, 2023

The role of plasticity, trade-offs, and feedbacks in shaping behavioral correlations pp. 913-918

Ned A Dochtermann

Female state and condition-dependent chemical signaling revealed by male choice of silk trails pp. 919-929

Michelle Beyer, Kardelen Özgün Uludağ and Cristina Tuni

Changes in the acoustic structure of Australian bird communities along a habitat complexity gradient pp. 930-940

Vicente García-Navas, Naliny Feliu and Daniel T Blumstein

Both learning and syntax recognition are used by great tits when answering to mobbing calls pp. 941-949

Ambre Salis, Jean-Paul Léna and Thierry Lengagne

Lack of intergenerational reproductive conflict, rather than lack of inclusive fitness benefits, explains absence of post-reproductive lifespan in long-finned pilot whales pp. 950-959

Jack L McCormack, Kevin Arbuckle, Karen Fullard, William Amos and Hazel J Nichols

Expression of trematode-induced zombie-ant behavior is strongly associated with temperature pp. 960-968

Simone Nordstrand and Brian Lund

Sex-specific effects of psychoactive pollution on behavioral individuality and plasticity in fish pp. 969-978

Giovanni Polverino, Upama Aich, Jack A Brand, Michael G Bertram, Jake M Martin, Hung Tan, Vrishin R Soman, Rachel T Mason and Bob B M Wong

Dominance loss and tenure maintenance in Kalahari meerkats pp. 979-991

Chris Duncan, Jack Thorley, Marta B Manser and Tim Clutton-Brock

Food supply and provisioning behavior of parents: Are small hoopoe nestlings condemned to die? pp. 992-1001

Paula Ferrer-Pereira, Ester Martínez-Renau, Manuel Martín-Vivaldi and Juan José Soler

Early-life behavior, survival, and maternal personality in a wild marsupial pp. 1002-1012

Weliton Menário, Wendy J King, Timothée Bonnet, Marco Festa-Bianchet and Loeske E B Kruuk

White-tailed deer responses to acoustic predator cues are contingent upon past land use and contemporary fire regime pp. 1013-1022

Savannah L Bartel and John C Kilgo

Phenology and environmental determinants of explosive breeding in gliding treefrogs: diel timing of rainfall matters pp. 1023-1035

Brandon A Güell and Karen M Warkentin

The impact of food availability on risk-induced trait responses in prey pp. 1036-1042

Michael J Sheriff, Isabella Mancini, Olivia K Aguiar, Eleanor R DiNuzzo, Sophia Maloney-Buckley, Sam Sonnega and Sarah C Donelan

Competition for acoustic space in a temperate-forest bird community pp. 1043-1054

Agata Staniewicz, Emilia Sokołowska, Adrianna Muszyńska and Michał Budka

Golden mimics use multiple defenses to counter generalist and specialist predators pp. 1055-1064

Stano Pekár, Martin J Whiting and Marie E Herberstein

Large fitness benefits of social nesting in a small carpenter bee pp. 1065-1075

Michael Mikát and Sandra M Rehan

Cumulative experience influences contest investment in a social fish pp. 1076-1086

Macie D Benincasa, Ryan L Earley and Ian M Hamilton

Foraging is prioritized over nestmate rescue in desert ants and pupae are rescued more than adults pp. 1087-1096

Adi Bar, Tomer Gilad, Doaa Massad, Asaph Ferber, Dan Ben-Ezra, Daniela Segal, Susanne Foitzik and Inon Scharf

Volume 34, issue 5, 2023

Peacock spiders prefer image statistics of average natural scenes over those of male ornamentation pp. 719-728

Marie-Christin Hardenbicker and Cynthia Tedore

Passive and active parental food allocation in a songbird pp. 729-740

Daniel Parejo-Pulido, Lorenzo Pérez-Rodríguez, Inmaculada Abril-Colón, Jaime Potti and Tomás Redondo

Condition dependence of (un)predictability in escape behavior of a grasshopper species pp. 741-750

Gabe Winter, Luis Wirsching and Holger Schielzeth

Interactions between color and gloss in iridescent camouflage pp. 751-758

Dylan H N Thomas, Karin Kjernsmo, Nicholas E Scott-Samuel, Heather M Whitney and Innes C Cuthill

To eat, or not to eat: a phantom decoy affects information-gathering behavior by a free-ranging mammalian herbivore pp. 759-768

Cristian Gabriel Orlando, Peter B Banks, Tanya Latty and Clare McArthur

How do resource distribution and taxonomy affect the use of dual foraging in seabirds? A review pp. 769-779

Jessica A Phillips, Tim Guilford and Annette L Fayet

The evolution of extra-pair paternity and paternal care in birds pp. 780-789

Jørgen S Søraker, Jonathan Wright, Fredrik Øglænd Hanslin and Michael Le Pepke

Grow up, be persistent, and stay focused: keys for solving foraging problems by free-ranging possums pp. 790-803

Hannah Harris, Katie K Y Wat, Peter B Banks, Aaron Greenville and Clare McArthur

Common cuckoos do not mimic the size and shape of host eggs pp. 804-815

Derya Akkaynak and Mary Caswell Stoddard

Generalist dietary responses to individual versus combined plant toxin odors: an African elephant study pp. 816-830

Twané BesterMammal, Melissa H Schmitt and Adrian M ShraderMammal

Hiding among colors: background color diversity impedes detection time pp. 831-839

Akhil Sadiq and Ullasa Kodandaramaiah

The optimal time to approach an unfamiliar object: a Bayesian model pp. 840-849

Tom N Sherratt, Ian Dewan and John Skelhorn

The estimation of reproductive values from pedigrees pp. 850-861

Mirjam J Borger, Jan Komdeur, David S Richardson and Franz J Weissing

Dazzled by shine: gloss as an antipredator strategy in fast moving prey pp. 862-871

Patricia Henríquez-Piskulich, Devi Stuart-Fox, Mark Elgar, Ivan Marusic and Amanda M Franklin

Carotenoid-dependent plumage coloration is associated with reduced male care in passerine birds pp. 872-880

Verónica A Rincón-Rubio, Tamás Székely, András Liker and Alejandro Gonzalez-Voyer

Single fathers sacrifice their broods and re-mate quickly in a socially monogamous cichlid pp. 881-890

Holger Zimmermann, Kristina M Sefc and Aneesh P H Bose

Egg mimicry, not the sight of a common cuckoo, is the cue for parasitic egg rejection pp. 891-897

Gabriela Štětková, Michal Šulc, Václav Jelínek, Anna Hughes and Marcel Honza

Sex and background risk influence responses to acute predation risk in Trinidadian guppies pp. 898-906

Alix J P Brusseau, Laurence E A Feyten, Veronica Groves, Miguel Eduardo L Felismino, Denis Cao Van Truong, Adam L Crane, Indar W Ramnarine and Grant E Brown

Model aversiveness and the evolution of imperfect Batesian mimics pp. 907-912

Thomas W Pike and Oliver H P Burman

Volume 34, issue 4, 2023

Low incidence of cannibalism among brood parasitic cuckoo catfish embryos pp. 521-527

Holger Zimmerman, Deryk Tolman and Martin Reichard

Multiple antipredator behaviors in wild red-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus ascanius) groups reveal spatially distinct landscapes of fear pp. 528-538

Lillian J Fornof, Fiona A Stewart and Alex K Piel

Larval and adult experience and ecotype affect oviposition behavior in a niche-expanding butterfly pp. 547-561

Simon Braem and Hans Van Dyck

Helpers don’t help when it’s hot in a cooperatively breeding bird, the Southern Pied Babbler pp. 562-570

Amanda R Bourne, Amanda R Ridley and Susan J Cunningham

How molting locusts avoid cannibalism pp. 571-580

Koutaro Ould Maeno, Cyril Piou, Douglas W Whitman, Sidi Ould Ely, Sid’Ahmed Ould Mohamed, Mohamed El Hacen Jaavar and Mohamed Abdallahi Ould Babah Ebbe

Nestling mouth colors mediate parental favoritism but do not influence detectability pp. 581-592

Shana E Border, Liana E Haas, Madison E Steines and Matthew B Dugas

Female foraging strategy co-evolves with sexual harassment intensity in the Trinidadian guppy pp. 593-601

Yusan Yang, Eleanor Grant, Andrés López-Sepulcre and Swanne P Gordon

Bumblebee flower constancy and pollen diversity over time pp. 602-612

Johanna Yourstone, Vidula Varadarajan and Ola Olsson

Juvenile leg autotomy predicts adult male morph in a New Zealand harvestman with weapon polymorphism pp. 613-620

Erin C Powell, Christina J Painting, Glauco Machado and Gregory I Holwell

Vocal performance increases rapidly during the dawn chorus in Adelaide’s warbler (Setophaga adelaidae) pp. 621-630

Juleyska Vazquez-Cardona, Tyler R Bonnell, Peter C Mower, Orlando J Medina, Hester Jiskoot and David M Logue

A rapidly evolving cricket produces percussive vibrations: how, who, when, and why pp. 631-641

Aaron W Wikle, E Dale Broder, James H Gallagher and Robin M Tinghitella

Conditional indirect genetic effects of caregivers on brood in the clonal raider ant pp. 642-652

Patrick K Piekarski, Stephany Valdés-Rodríguez and Daniel J C Kronauer

Symbiotic microbiota vary with breeding group membership in a highly social joint-nesting bird pp. 653-661

Leanne A Grieves, Gregory B Gloor and James S Quinn

Male and female Brandt’s voles have higher reproductive success when they have more mating partners regardless of population density pp. 662-672

Xin Zhang, Renée C Firman, Mingjing Song, Guoliang Li, Chaoyuan Cheng, Jing Liu, Shuli Huang, Erdenetuya Batsuren and Zhibin Zhang

Aggression and spatial positioning of kin and non-kin fish in social groups pp. 673-681

Aneesh P H Bose, Johanna Dabernig-Heinz, Jan Oberkofler, Lukas Koch, Jacqueline Grimm, Kristina M Sefc and Alex Jordan

Size-selective harvesting impacts learning and decision-making in zebrafish, Danio rerio pp. 682-694

Tamal Roy, Tabea Rohr and Robert Arlinghaus

Virtual prey with Lévy motion are preferentially attacked by predatory fish pp. 695-699

Christos C Ioannou, Luis Arrochela Braga Carvalho, Chessy Budleigh and Graeme D Ruxton

When parents play favorites: brood demand shapes parental preference for offspring UV color pp. 700-707

Jorge García-Campa, Wendt Müller, Alicia Rodríguez-Juncá and Judith Morales

Intricate covariation between exploration and avoidance learning in a generalist predator pp. 708-717

Chi-Yun Kuo, Hao-En Chin and Yu-Zhe Wu

Volume 34, issue 3, 2023

Opposite-sex associations are linked with annual fitness, but sociality is stable over lifetime pp. 315-324

Jamie Dunning, Terry Burke, Alex Hoi Hang Chan, Heung Ying Janet Chik, Tim Evans and Julia Schroeder

Spatial learning overshadows learning novel odors and sounds in both predatory and frugivorous bats pp. 325-333

Marjorie May Dixon, Gerald G Carter, Michael J Ryan and Rachel A Page

Functionally redundant multimodal predator cues elicit changes in prey foraging behavior pp. 334-339

Fiona G Shogren, Eileen A Hebets and John P DeLong

Relatedness modulates reproductive competition among queens in ant societies with multiple queens pp. 340-345

Heikki Helanterä, Martina Ozan and Liselotte Sundström

Experimentally advancing morning emergence time does not increase extra-pair siring success in blue tit males pp. 346-353

Peter Santema and Bart Kempenaers

Finding shortcuts through collective tunnel excavations in a subterranean termite pp. 354-362

Zion Michael, Thomas Chouvenc, Nan-Yao Su and Sang-Bin Lee

Coercion promotes alloparental care in cooperative breeders pp. 363-372

Markus Zöttl, Tanja Schreier and Michael Taborsky

Divergent foraging strategies between populations of sympatric matrilineal killer whales pp. 373-386

Jennifer B Tennessen, Marla M Holt, Brianna M Wright, M Bradley Hanson, Candice K Emmons, Deborah A Giles, Jeffrey T Hogan, Sheila J Thornton and Volker B Deecke

The effects of ecology and behavior on the evolution of coloration in Coraciiformes pp. 387-398

Frane Babarović, Christopher R Cooney, Zoë K Varley, Lara O Nouri, Nicola J Nadeau and Gavin H Thomas

Cadmium does not affect post-hatching maternal care or early offspring development in earwigs pp. 399-407

Romain Honorio, Sarah Moreau, Charlotte Lécureuil and Joël Meunier

Variable ambient temperature promotes song learning and production in zebra finches pp. 408-417

Maëlle Lefeuvre, ChuChu Lu, Carlos A Botero and Joanna Rutkowska

Nest material preferences in wild hazel dormice Muscardinus avellanarius: testing predictions from optimal foraging theory pp. 418-425

Sarah A Collins, Sarah M Lane, Minako Ishibashi and Tracey Hamston

Varying benefits of generalist and specialist camouflage in two versus four background environments pp. 426-436

Anna E Hughes, Emmanuelle S Briolat, Lina María Arenas, Eric Liggins and Martin Stevens

Social network differences and phenotypic divergence between stickleback ecotypes pp. 437-445

Kevin M Neumann and Alison M Bell

Grandparental co-residence and grandchild survival: the role of resource competition in a pre-industrial population pp. 446-456

Simon Chapman, Mirkka Danielsbacka, Antti O Tanskanen, Mirkka Lahdenperä, Jenni Pettay and Virpi Lummaa

Perturbations highlight importance of social history in parakeet rank dynamics pp. 457-467

Annemarie van der Mare, Xavier Francis, Claire L O’Connell, Cesar O Estien, Chelsea Carminito, Virginia Darby Moore, Nickolas Lormand, Bryan M Kluever and Elizabeth A Hobson

Age, but not an immune challenge, triggers terminal investment in the Pacific field cricket, Teleogryllus oceanicus pp. 468-479

Nicola-Anne J Rutkowski, Yong Zhi Foo, Therésa M Jones and Kathryn B McNamara

Recognition of conspecific immunological status in a neotropical paper wasp pp. 480-487

André Rodrigues de Souza, Wilson França, Amanda Prato, Markus J Rantala and Fábio Santos do Nascimento

Sexual selection does not drive hindwing tail elaboration in a moon moth, Actias luna pp. 488-494

Juliette J Rubin and Akito Y Kawahara

Separate and combined effects of boat noise and a live crab predator on mussel valve gape behavior pp. 495-505

Jeroen Hubert, A Daniëlle van der Burg, Rob Witbaard and Hans Slabbekoorn

Mating assortment and the strength of sexual selection in a polyandrous population of Cook Strait giant weta pp. 506-513

Clint D Kelly and Darryl T Gwynne

Flexible use of visual and acoustic cues during roost finding in Spix’s disc-winged bat (Thyroptera tricolor) pp. 514-520

Miriam Gioiosa, Marcelo Araya-Salas, Christian Castillo-Salazar, Silvia Chaves-Ramírez, Maurizio Gioiosa, Nazareth Rojas, Mariela Sánchez-Chavarría, Dino Scaravelli and Gloriana Chaverri

Volume 34, issue 2, 2023

Unlike a virgin: a meta-analytical review of female mating status in studies of female mate choice pp. 165-182

Jon Richardson and Marlene Zuk

An (almost) fatal blow to conventional wisdom: a comment on Richardson and Zuk pp. 184-184

Liam R Dougherty

The complex interplay between male and female mating history: a comment on Richardson and Zuk pp. 184-185

Upama Aich and Bob B M Wong

Female mating status has been overlooked in mate choice research: a comment on Richardson and Zuk pp. 184a-184a

Varpu Pärssinen and Charlotta Kvarnemo

Assumptions, models and data: a comment on Richardson and Zuk pp. 185-186

Lutz Fromhage and Michael D Jennions

Keeping the Virgin in her niche: a commentary on Richardson and Zuk pp. 186-187

Paola Fascinetto-Zago and Gil G Rosenthal

The value of not trusting intuition: a response to comments on Richardson and Zuk pp. 187-188

Jon Richardson and Marlene Zuk

Eyes on the future: buffering increased costs of incubation by abandoning offspring pp. 189-196

Sveinn Are Hanssen, Kjell Einar Erikstad, Hanno Sandvik, Torkild Tveraa and Jan Ove Bustnes

The effect of individual state on the strength of mate choice in females and males pp. 197-209

Liam R Dougherty

The effect of heterospecific and conspecific competition on inter-individual differences in tungara frog tadpole (Engystomops pustulosus) behavior pp. 210-222

Cammy Beyts, Maddalena Cella, Nick Colegrave, Roger Downie, Julien G A Martin and Patrick Walsh

Display site selection in a ground dwelling bird: the importance of viewshed pp. 223-235

Alberto Ucero, Juan C Alonso, Carlos Palacín, Inmaculada Abril-Colón and José M Álvarez-Martínez

Territoriality varies across elevation in a Hawaiian songbird pp. 236-243

Gabrielle R Names, Thomas P Hahn, John C Wingfield and Kathleen E Hunt

An experimental field test of female defense in territorial male collared lizards pp. 244-250

Troy A Baird and Dalton C Leibold

Simulated infection alters the behavior of pair bonded songbirds and their healthy neighbors pp. 251-260

Ashley C Love, Anna C Anthony, Aimee Nash, Angel Campos-Melara, Jahnavi Kodali and Sarah E DuRant

Turnover in male dominance offsets the positive effect of polygyny on within-group relatedness pp. 261-268

Mark Dyble and Tim H Clutton-Brock

The presence of territorial damselfish predicts choosy client species richness at cleaning stations pp. 269-277

Katie Dunkley, Kathryn E Whittey, Amy Ellison, Sarah E Perkins, Jo Cable and James E Herbert-Read

Jekyll and Hyde: Day–night personality differences in the water scorpion Nepa hoffmanni pp. 278-286

Hyoseul Hyun and Chang S Han

Testing the local mate competition rule in a quasi-gregarious parasitoid with facultative superparasitism pp. 287-296

Peng-Cheng Liu, Zi-Yin Wang, Mei Qi and Hao-Yuan Hu

The habitat connectivity hypothesis of escape in urban woodland birds pp. 297-305

Max Radvan, Anthony R Rendall and Michael A Weston

The size of a smell: assessment of rival’s relative size from femoral secretions in the common wall lizards, Podarcis muralis (Laurenti, 1768) pp. 306-313

Stefano Scali, Roberto Sacchi, Elisabetta Gozzo, Stefano Chiesa, Alan J Coladonato, Marco A L Zuffi and Marco Mangiacotti

Volume 34, issue 1, 2023

Color under pressure: how multiple factors shape defensive coloration pp. 1-13

Elizabeth G Postema, Mia K Lippey and Tiernan Armstrong-Ingram

Defensive coloration as a multivariate optimum: a comment on Postema et al pp. 14-14

Devi Stuart-Fox

On the spectrum of animal coloration: a comment on Postema et al pp. 15-15

Sami Merilaita

Multiple opportunities arise from multiple color defense strategies: a comment on Postema et al pp. 15-16

Jennifer L Kelley and William L Allen

Multiple views on animal coloration: a comment on Postema et al pp. 16-17

Darrell J Kemp

Tackling complexity in animal color research: a response to comments on Postema et al pp. 17-18

Elizabeth G Postema, Mia K Lippey and Tiernan Armstrong-Ingram

Higher ultraviolet skin reflectance signals submissiveness in the anemonefish, Amphiprion akindynos pp. 19-32

Laurie J Mitchell, Fabio Cortesi, N Justin Marshall and Karen L Cheney

Size of an interspecific competitor may be a source of information in reproductive decisions pp. 33-41

Reetta Hämäläinen, Panu Välimäki and Jukka T Forsman

Personality predicts mode of attack in a generalist ground spider predator pp. 42-49

Narmin Beydizada and Stano Pekár

Which plumage patches provide information about condition and success in a female fairy-wren? pp. 50-62

Sergio Nolazco, Kaspar Delhey, Marie Fan, Michelle L Hall, Sjouke A Kingma, Michael J Roast, Niki Teunissen and Anne Peters

Can native predators be used as a stepping stone to reduce prey naivety to novel predators? pp. 63-75

Leanne K Van der Weyde, Daniel T Blumstein, Mike Letnic, Katherine Tuft, Ned Ryan-Schofield and Katherine E Moseby

Foraging in heterogeneous landscapes: variation in movement patterns of a tropical sand-bubbler crab pp. 76-88

Tin Yan Hui and Gray A Williams

Group social structure has limited impact on reproductive success in a wild mammal pp. 89-98

Conner S Philson and Daniel T Blumstein

An arachnid’s guide to being an ant: morphological and behavioral mimicry in ant-mimicking spiders pp. 99-107

Nimish Subramaniam, Krishnapriya Tamma and Divya Uma

Sex differences in the predictability of risk-taking behavior pp. 108-116

Jack A Brand, Jason Henry, Gabriela C Melo, Donald Wlodkowic, Bob B M Wong and Jake M Martin

Ineffective integration of multiple anti-predator defenses in a rotifer: a low-cost insurance? pp. 117-124

Yuhan He, Konghao Zhu, Kangshun Zhao, Liang He, Ulrika Candolin, Jun Xu and Huan Zhang

Tracking the path of predator recognition in a predator-naive population of the pond snail pp. 125-135

Anuradha Batabyal and Ken Lukowiak

Photoperiod and rainfall are associated with seasonal shifts in social structure in a songbird pp. 136-149

Joseph F Welklin, Samantha M Lantz, Sarah Khalil, Nicole M Moody, Jordan Karubian and Michael S Webster

Patterns of extra-territorial nest-box visits in a songbird suggest a role in extrapair mating pp. 150-159

Peter Santema and Bart Kempenaers

Female song can be over-looked in even the most intensively studied songbirds pp. 160-161

Naomi E Langmore