Behavioral Ecology

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Volume 25, issue 6, 2014

Behavioral ecology and genomics: new directions, or just a more detailed map? pp. 1277-1282

Marlene Zuk and Susan L. Balenger

Behavioral ecology as big science: 25 years of asking the same questions pp. 1283-1286

Andrew Cockburn

Measuring variation in cognition pp. 1287-1292

Candy Rowe and Susan D. Healy

What counts as (non) cognitive? A comment on Rowe and Healy pp. 1293-1294

Louise Barrett

How and why are some species so smart? A comment on Rowe and Healy pp. 1294-1295

Alex Thornton

Towards fruitful interaction between behavioral ecology and cognitive science: a comment on Rowe and Healy pp. 1295-1296

Carel ten Cate

Measuring variation in cognition can be done, but it requires hard empirical work: a comment on Rowe and Healy pp. 1296-1297

Niclas Kolm

Studying microevolutionary processes in cognitive traits: a comment on Rowe and Healy pp. 1297-1298

John L. Quinn, Ella F. Cole and Julie Morand-Ferron

Measuring cognition will be difficult but worth it: a response to comments on Rowe and Healy pp. 1298

Candy Rowe and Susan D. Healy

Toward wild psychometrics: linking individual cognitive differences to fitness pp. 1299-1301

Alex Thornton, Jess Isden and Joah R. Madden

Editor's choice Local enhancement in a seabird: reaction distances and foraging consequence of predator aggregations pp. 1302-1310

Andréa Thiebault, Ralf H.E. Mullers, Pierre A. Pistorius and Yann Tremblay

Dangerous neighbors: interactive effects of factors influencing cannibalism in pit-building antlion larvae pp. 1311-1319

Erez David Barkae, Ohad Golan and Ofer Ovadia

Reject the odd egg: egg recognition mechanisms in parrotbills pp. 1320-1324

Canchao Yang, Anders Pape Møller, Eivin Røskaft, Arne Moksnes, Wei Liang and Bård G. Stokke

Wall lizards display conspicuous signals to conspecifics and reduce detection by avian predators pp. 1325-1337

Kate L.A. Marshall and Martin Stevens

Thrips domiciles protect larvae from desiccation in an arid environment pp. 1338-1346

James D.J. Gilbert

Social foraging in the lizard Ameiva corax pp. 1347-1352

Douglas A. Eifler and Maria A. Eifler

Behavioral responses of wolves to roads: scale-dependent ambivalence pp. 1353-1364

Barbara Zimmermann, Lindsey Nelson, Petter Wabakken, Håkan Sand and Olof Liberg

"Jack-of-all-trades" egg mimicry in the brood parasitic Horsfield’s bronze-cuckoo? pp. 1365-1373

William E. Feeney, Mary Caswell Stoddard, Rebecca M. Kilner and Naomi E. Langmore

Personality predicts behavioral flexibility in a fluctuating, natural environment pp. 1374-1379

Katherine A. Herborn, Britt J. Heidinger, Lucille Alexander and Kathryn E. Arnold

Reciprocal territorial responses of parapatric African sunbirds: species-level asymmetry and intraspecific geographic variation pp. 1380-1394

Jay P. McEntee

The role of previous social experience on risk-taking and leadership in three-spined sticklebacks pp. 1395-1401

Jolle W. Jolles, Adeline Fleetwood-Wilson, Shinnosuke Nakayama, Martin C. Stumpe, Rufus A. Johnstone and Andrea Manica

Individual attributes and self-organizational processes affect dominance network structure in pukeko pp. 1402-1408

Cody J. Dey and James S. Quinn

Flexible alternative mating tactics by New Zealand giraffe weevils pp. 1409-1416

Christina. J. Painting and Gregory I. Holwell

The position of eyespots and thickened segments influence their protective value to caterpillars pp. 1417-1422

John Skelhorn, Giles Dorrington, Thomas J. Hossie and Thomas N. Sherratt

What to do when stopping over: behavioral decisions of a migrating songbird during stopover are dictated by initial change in their body condition and mediated by key environmental conditions pp. 1423-1435

Adam D. Smith and Scott R. McWilliams

Negotiation of territorial boundaries in a songbird pp. 1436-1450

Sandra L. Vehrencamp, Jesse M. Ellis, Brett F. Cropp and John M. Koltz

Male hyraxes increase song complexity and duration in the presence of alert individuals pp. 1451-1458

Vlad Demartsev, Arik Kershenbaum, Amiyaal Ilany, Adi Barocas, Einat Bar Ziv, Lee Koren and Eli Geffen

Interactions between prenatal maternal effects and posthatching conditions in a wild bird population pp. 1459-1466

Marta Giordano, Ton G. G. Groothuis and Barbara Tschirren

Socially mediated polyandry: a new benefit of communal nesting in mammals pp. 1467-1473

Yannick Auclair, Barbara König and Anna K. Lindholm

Responses of vervet monkeys in large troops to terrestrial and aerial predator alarm calls pp. 1474-1484

Nicholas Ducheminsky, S. Peter Henzi and Louise Barrett

Parental provisioning in house wrens: effects of varying brood size and consequences for offspring pp. 1485-1493

E. Keith Bowers, Daniela Nietz, Charles F. Thompson and Scott K. Sakaluk

The influence of forage, protected areas, and mating prospects on grouping patterns of male elephants pp. 1494-1504

Patrick I. Chiyo, John W. Wilson, Elizabeth A. Archie, Phyllis C. Lee, Cynthia J. Moss and Susan C. Alberts

Parental defense of offspring and life history of a long-lived raptor pp. 1505-1512

Anders Pape Møller and Jan Tøttrup Nielsen

Sex on the rocks: reproductive tactics and breeding success of South American fur seal males pp. 1513-1523

Valentina Franco-Trecu, Paula Costa, Yolanda Schramm, Bettina Tassino and Pablo Inchausti

Comparing population level sexual selection in a species with alternative reproductive tactics pp. 1524-1533

Karen M. Cogliati, Allison F. Mistakidis, Julie R. Marentette, Adrienne Lau, Benjamin M. Bolker, Bryan D. Neff and Sigal Balshine

Volume 25, issue 5, 2014

Behavioral ecology and the successful integration of function and mechanism pp. 1019-1021

Pat Monaghan

Acoustic communication in a noisy world: can fish compete with anthropogenic noise? pp. 1022-1030

Andrew N. Radford, Emma Kerridge and Stephen D. Simpson

The complexity of fish communication in human-disturbed environments: a comment on Radford et al pp. 1031-1032

Ulrika Candolin

The effects of anthropogenic noise on fish: a comment on Radford et al pp. 1032

Hansjoerg P. Kunc

Fish struggle to be heard—but just how much fin waving is there? A comment on Radford et al pp. 1033-1034

Henrik Brumm

Animal communication in a human-dominated world: a comment on Radford et al pp. 1033

Bob B.M. Wong

How fish might adjust their acoustic communication in anthropogenic noise: a response to comments on Radford et al pp. 1035-1036

Andrew N. Radford and Stephen D. Simpson

Editor's choice Artificial night lighting rather than traffic noise affects the daily timing of dawn and dusk singing in common European songbirds pp. 1037-1047

Arnaud Da Silva, Jelmer M. Samplonius, Emmi Schlicht, Mihai Valcu and Bart Kempenaers

Foraging for carotenoids: do colorful male hihi target carotenoid-rich foods in the wild? pp. 1048-1057

Leila K. Walker, Rose Thorogood, Filiz Karadas, David Raubenheimer, Rebecca M. Kilner and John G. Ewen

Forewarned is forearmed: aggression and information use determine fitness costs of slave raids pp. 1058-1063

Isabelle Kleeberg, Tobias Pamminger, Evelien Jongepier, Mirjam Papenhagen and Susanne Foitzik

Ecological and behavioral correlates of individual flocking propensity of a tropical songbird pp. 1064-1072

Abigail J. Darrah and Kimberly G. Smith

Boldness and asymmetric contests: role- and outcome-dependent effects of fighting in hermit crabs pp. 1073-1082

Winnie Courtene-Jones and Mark Briffa

Extreme short-term repeatability of male courtship performance in a tropical orb-web spider pp. 1083-1088

Anne E. Wignall, Darrell J. Kemp and Marie E. Herberstein

Living on the edge: range edge birds consume novel foods sooner than established ones pp. 1089-1096

Andrea L. Liebl and Lynn B. Martin

Condition-dependent mate assessment and choice by peahens: implications for sexual selection pp. 1097-1104

Roslyn Dakin and Robert Montgomerie

Parasite- and predator-induced maternal effects in the great tit (Parus major) pp. 1105-1114

Alessandra Basso, Michael Coslovsky and Heinz Richner

Context-dependent relationship between a composite measure of men’s mate value and ejaculate quality pp. 1115-1122

Samantha Leivers, Gillian Rhodes and Leigh W. Simmons

Time scales of associating food and odor by predator communities in the field pp. 1123-1130

Arne Janssen, Juliana Oliveira Fonseca, Felipe Colares, Lidiane Silva, Aline R.P. Pedrosa, Eraldo R. Lima, Michiel van Wijk, Angelo Pallini, Cleber M. Oliveira, Maurice W. Sabelis and Izabela Lesna

The cost of teaching embryos in superb fairy-wrens pp. 1131-1135

Sonia Kleindorfer, Herbert Hoi, Christine Evans, Katharina Mahr, Jeremy Robertson, Mark E. Hauber and Diane Colombelli-Négrel

The flush early and avoid the rush hypothesis holds after accounting for spontaneous behavior pp. 1136-1147

Dana M. Williams, Diogo S.M. Samia, William E. Cooper and Daniel T. Blumstein

Shaping the antipredator strategy: flexibility, consistency, and behavioral correlations under varying predation threat pp. 1148-1156

Morgan David, Marion Salignon and Marie-Jeanne Perrot-Minnot

Sex-biased juvenile dispersal is adaptive but does not create genetic structure in island lizards pp. 1157-1163

Ryan Calsbeek, M.C. Duryea, Elizabeth Parker and Robert M. Cox

Social and ecological factors influencing offspring survival in wild macaques pp. 1164-1172

Daphne Kerhoas, Dyah Perwitasari-Farajallah, Muhammad Agil, Anja Widdig and Antje Engelhardt

Conditional helping and evolutionary transitions to eusociality and cooperative breeding pp. 1173-1182

Luke Holman

Resource redistribution in polydomous ant nest networks: local or global? pp. 1183-1191

Samuel Ellis, Daniel W. Franks and Elva J.H. Robinson

Feather bacterial load affects plumage condition, iridescent color, and investment in preening in pigeons pp. 1192-1198

Sarah Leclaire, Pauline Pierret, Marion Chatelain and Julien Gasparini

Human observers impact habituated samango monkeys’ perceived landscape of fear pp. 1199-1204

Katarzyna Nowak, Aliza le Roux, Shane A. Richards, Ciska P.J. Scheijen and Russell A. Hill

The effects of familiarity and mating experience on mate choice in mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki pp. 1205-1211

Regina Vega-Trejo, Rose E. O’Dea, Michael D. Jennions and Megan L. Head

Maternal lineages best explain the associations of a semisocial marsupial pp. 1212-1222

Michaela D.J. Blyton, David B. Lindenmayer and Sam C. Banks

Exaggerated rostra as weapons and the competitive assessment strategy of male giraffe weevils pp. 1223-1232

Christina J. Painting and Gregory I. Holwell

Frugivorous bats evaluate the quality of social information when choosing novel foods pp. 1233-1239

M. Teague O’Mara, Dina K.N. Dechmann and Rachel A. Page

Roosting behavior and group decision making in 2 syntopic bat species with fission–fusion societies pp. 1240-1247

Daniela Fleischmann and Gerald Kerth

Melanic coloration differentially predicts transfer of immune factors to eggs with daughters or sons pp. 1248-1255

Nicola Saino, Maria Romano, Diego Rubolini, Manuela Caprioli, Alessandra Costanzo, Luca Canova and Anders Pape Møller

Female discrimination against heterospecific mates does not depend on mating habitat pp. 1256-1267

Alycia C.R. Lackey and Janette W. Boughman

Optimal hunting conditions drive circalunar behavior of a diurnal carnivore pp. 1268-1275

Femke Broekhuis, Steffen Grünewälder, John W. McNutt and David W. Macdonald

Volume 25, issue 4, 2014

Winning, losing, and reaching out pp. 675-679

Lee Alan Dugatkin and Hudson Kern Reeve

The past and the future of Behavioral Ecology pp. 680-684

Manfred Milinski

Male-to-female testosterone ratios, dimorphism, and life history—what does it really tell us? pp. 685-699

Wolfgang Goymann and John C. Wingfield

Female peak testosterone levels in birds tell an evolutionary story: a comment on Goymann and Wingfield pp. 700-701

László Zsolt Garamszegi

Female androgen levels—what are the selective pressures in birds? A comment on Goymann and Wingfield pp. 701

Katherine L. Buchanan and Kerry V. Fanson

Male and female testosterone—is one sex made in the image of the other? A comment on Goymann and Wingfield pp. 702

Ellen D. Ketterson

In search for a theory of testosterone in female birds: a comment on Goymann and Wingfield pp. 702-704

Ton G.G. Groothuis, Berber de Jong and Martina Müller

Correlated evolution of female and male testosterone—internal constraints or external determinants? A response to comments on Goymann and Wingfield pp. 704-705

Wolfgang Goymann and John C. Wingfield

Editor's choice Dominant aggression as a deterrent signal in paper wasps pp. 706-715

Faye J. Thompson, Lynda Donaldson, Rufus A. Johnstone, Jeremy Field and Michael A. Cant

Can males detect the strength of sperm competition and presence of genital plugs during mate choice? pp. 716-722

Stefanie M. Zimmer, Jutta M. Schneider and Marie E. Herberstein

Partners’ personality types and mate preferences: predation risk matters pp. 723-733

Aimeric Teyssier, Elvire Bestion, Murielle Richard and Julien Cote

Behavioral drivers of communal roosting in a songbird: a combined theoretical and empirical approach pp. 734-743

Andrew J. Laughlin, Daniel R. Sheldon, David W. Winkler and Caz M. Taylor

Immigration and dispersal are key determinants of cultural diversity in a songbird population pp. 744-753

Annette L. Fayet, Joseph A. Tobias, Rogier E. Hintzen and Nathalie Seddon

Maternal care provides antifungal protection to eggs in the European earwig pp. 754-761

Stefan Boos, Joël Meunier, Samuel Pichon and Mathias Kölliker

Evolution of parental roles in provisioning birds: diet determines role asymmetry in raptors pp. 762-772

Geir A. Sonerud, Ronny Steen, Vidar Selås, Ole M. Aanonsen, Gunn-Henny Aasen, Kristine L. Fagerland, Annette Fosså, Lena Kristiansen, Line M. Løw, Mads E. Rønning, Sarah K. Skouen, Espen Asakskogen, Hilde M. Johansen, Jon T. Johnsen, Lise I. Karlsen, Gunnar C. Nyhus, Line T. Røed, Kristin Skar, Bjørn-Arild Sveen, Reidar Tveiten and Tore Slagsvold

Effects of predation risk on group size, vigilance, and foraging behavior in an African ungulate community pp. 773-784

Scott Creel, Paul Schuette and David Christianson

Mismatched begging displays between foreign and host offspring reduce brood parasite fitness pp. 785-793

James W. Rivers, Melissa A. Blundell and Stephen I. Rothstein

Socioecology, but not cognition, predicts male coalitions across primates pp. 794-801

Annie Bissonnette, Mathias Franz, Oliver Schülke and Julia Ostner

Residual correlations, and not individual properties, determine a nest defense boldness syndrome pp. 802-812

Jon E. Brommer, Patrik Karell, Kari Ahola and Teuvo Karstinen

Prior experience affects allocation to current reproduction in a burying beetle pp. 813-818

Eric J. Billman, J. Curtis Creighton and Mark C. Belk

Evidence of the Lombard effect in fishes pp. 819-826

Daniel E. Holt and Carol E. Johnston

Sex ratio does not influence sex change despite its effect on reproductive success pp. 827-833

Sara Kappus and Peggy Fong

Wealth modifies relationships between kin and women’s fertility in high-income countries pp. 834-842

Susan B. Schaffnit and Rebecca Sear

Delayed dispersal in western bluebirds: teasing apart the importance of resources and parents pp. 843-851

Janis L. Dickinson, Elise D. Ferree, Caitlin A. Stern, Rose Swift and Benjamin Zuckerberg

Factors affecting low resident male siring success in one-male groups of blue monkeys pp. 852-861

Su-Jen Roberts, Eleni Nikitopoulos and Marina Cords

Mean ecological conditions modulate the effects of group living and communal rearing on offspring production and survival pp. 862-870

Luis A. Ebensperger, Álvaro Villegas, Sebastian Abades and Loren D. Hayes

Effect of prey personality depends on predator species pp. 871-877

Chelsea A. Blake and Caitlin R. Gabor

Variance in male lifetime reproductive success and estimation of the degree of polygyny in a primate pp. 878-889

Constance Dubuc, Angelina Ruiz-Lambides and Anja Widdig

Host escape behavior and blood parasite infections in birds pp. 890-900

L. García-Longoria, L. Z. Garamszegi and A. P. Møller

Clonal variation in aggregation and defensive behavior in pea aphids pp. 901-908

Frédéric B. Muratori, Angéla Rouyar and Thierry Hance

Singing in Africa: no evidence for a long supposed function of winter song in a migratory songbird pp. 909-915

Marjorie C. Sorensen

Increasing sexual ornamentation during a biological invasion pp. 916-923

Gonçalo C. Cardoso, Helena R. Batalha, Sandra Reis and Ricardo J. Lopes

Energetic cost of behavioral thermoregulation in turtle embryos pp. 924-927

Bo Zhao, Ping Ding and Wen Zhang

A recent predatory encounter influences male courtship in a desert-dwelling fish pp. 928-932

Marcus Michelangeli and Bob B. M. Wong

Effect of flower visual angle on flower constancy: a test of the search image hypothesis pp. 933-944

Hiroshi S. Ishii and Hikaru Masuda

Context-dependent effects of carotenoid supplementation on reproduction in zebra finches pp. 945-950

Mirre J.P. Simons, Michael Briga, Bas Leenknegt and Simon Verhulst

The effect of ecological context and relatedness on larval cannibalism in a fungus-associated beetle pp. 951-959

Corlett W. Wood, Hannah E. Marti and Edmund D. Brodie

Direction of approach by predators and flight initiation distance of urban and rural populations of birds pp. 960-966

Anders Pape Møller and Piotr Tryjanowski

The opportunity for sampling: the ecological context of female mate choice pp. 967-974

Rittik Deb and Rohini Balakrishnan

Caterpillar hair as a physical barrier against invertebrate predators pp. 975-983

Shinji Sugiura and Kazuo Yamazaki

Vocal fundamental and formant frequencies are honest signals of threat potential in peripubertal males pp. 984-988

Carolyn R. Hodges-Simeon, Michael Gurven, David A. Puts and Steven J.C. Gaulin

A test of the sexy-sperm and good-sperm hypotheses for the evolution of polyandry pp. 989-995

Kathryn B. McNamara, Emile van Lieshout and Leigh W. Simmons

Bacterial communities in meerkat anal scent secretions vary with host sex, age, and group membership pp. 996-1004

Sarah Leclaire, Johanna F. Nielsen and Christine M. Drea

Tests of the kin selection model of mate choice and inbreeding avoidance in satin bowerbirds pp. 1005-1014

Sheila M. Reynolds, J. Albert C. Uy, Gail L. Patricelli, Seth W. Coleman, Michael J. Braun and Gerald Borgia

Complex behavior can also emerge from simple linear interactions: comment on Bradbury and Vehrencamp pp. e1015-e1016

Gabriel Ramos-Fernández and Denis Boyer

Complex behavior can also emerge from simple linear interactions. A reply to Ramos-Fernández and Boyer (2014) pp. e1016-e1017

Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra Vehrencamp

Volume 25, issue 3, 2014

Complexity and behavioral ecology pp. 435-442

Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp

Human behavioral ecology and its evil twin pp. 443-449

Ruth Mace

Animal visual illusion and confusion: the importance of a perceptual perspective pp. 450-463

Laura A. Kelley and Jennifer L. Kelley

Confusion and illusion: understanding visual traits and behavior. A comment on Kelley and Kelley pp. 464-465

Martin Stevens

Identifying animal illusions requires neuronal and cognitive approaches: comment on Kelley and Kelley pp. 465

Marc Théry

When seeing is deceiving: a comment on Kelley and Kelley pp. 466-467

Michael J. Ryan

Alluring illusions: a comment on Kelley and Kelley pp. 466

Sami Merilaita

Exploring the perceptual canvas of signal evolution: comment on Kelley and Kelley pp. 467-468

Darrell J. Kemp and Thomas E. White

Perceptual biases and animal illusions: a response to comments on Kelley and Kelley pp. 468-469

Laura A. Kelley and Jennifer L. Kelley

Editor's choice Countering counteradaptations: males hijack control of female kicking behavior pp. 470-476

Carly J. Wilson and Joseph L. Tomkins

Spatial ecology of perceived predation risk and vigilance behavior in white-faced capuchins pp. 477-486

Fernando A. Campos and Linda M. Fedigan

An arms race between producers and scroungers can drive the evolution of social cognition pp. 487-495

Michal Arbilly, Daniel B. Weissman, Marcus W. Feldman and Uri Grodzinski

Signals of need and quality: Atlantic puffin chicks can beg and boast pp. 496-503

Megan E. Rector, Carolyn J. Walsh, Amy-Lee Kouwenberg, Michelle G. Fitzsimmons and Anne E. Storey

Interspecific analysis of vehicle avoidance behavior in birds pp. 504-508

Arild Husby and Magne Husby

Increased perception of predation risk to adults and offspring alters avian reproductive strategy and performance pp. 509-519

Fangyuan Hua, Kathryn E. Sieving, Robert J. Fletcher and Chloe A. Wright

Behavioral strategies and signaling in interspecific aggressive interactions in gray tree frogs pp. 520-530

Michael S. Reichert and H. Carl Gerhardt

Habitat geometry does not affect levels of extrapair paternity in an extremely unfaithful fairy-wren pp. 531-537

Lyanne Brouwer, Martijn van de Pol and Andrew Cockburn

A songbird mimics different heterospecific alarm calls in response to different types of threat pp. 538-548

Branislav Igic and Robert D. Magrath

Mate choosiness in young male fruit flies pp. 549-552

Reuven Dukas and Carling M. Baxter

Host-shift effects on mating behavior and incipient pre-mating isolation in seed beetle pp. 553-564

Biljana Stojković, Uroš Savković, Mirko Đorđević and Nikola Tucić

Jackdaw nestlings can discriminate between conspecific calls but do not beg specifically to their parents pp. 565-573

Lies Zandberg, Jolle W. Jolles, Neeltje J. Boogert and Alex Thornton

Mixed-species associations can arise without heterospecific attraction pp. 574-581

Damien R. Farine, Charles P. Downing and Philip A. Downing

Experimental evidence of impacts of an invasive parakeet on foraging behavior of native birds pp. 582-590

Hannah L. Peck, Henrietta E. Pringle, Harry H. Marshall, Ian P.F. Owens and Alexa M. Lord

Playback tests and studies of animal contest dynamics: concepts and an example in the gray tree frog pp. 591-603

Michael S. Reichert

Wary invaders and clever natives: sympatric house geckos show disparate responses to predator scent pp. 604-611

Adam Cisterne, Eric P. Vanderduys, David A. Pike and Lin Schwarzkopf

Female preference for male color is necessary and sufficient for assortative mating in 2 cichlid sister species pp. 612-626

Oliver M. Selz, Michele E.R. Pierotti, Martine E. Maan, Corinne Schmid and Ole Seehausen

Aphids link different sensory modalities to accurately interpret ambiguous cues pp. 627-632

Matan Ben-Ari and Moshe Inbar

Maternal and additive genetic effects contribute to variation in offspring traits in a lizard pp. 633-640

Daniel W.A. Noble, S. Eryn McFarlane, J. Scott Keogh and Martin J. Whiting

Urban and colorful male house finches are less aggressive pp. 641-649

Masaru Hasegawa, Russell A. Ligon, Mathieu Giraudeau, Mamoru Watanabe and Kevin J. McGraw

No relationship between female emergence time from the roosting place and extrapair paternity pp. 650-659

Lotte Schlicht, Mihai Valcu, Peter Loës, Alexander Girg and Bart Kempenaers

Sequential male mate choice under sperm competition risk pp. 660-667

Steven A. Ramm and Paula Stockley

Cheating workers with large activated ovaries avoid risky foraging pp. 668-674

Katherine M. Roth, Madeleine Beekman, Michael H. Allsopp, Frances Goudie, Theresa C. Wossler and Benjamin P. Oldroyd

Volume 25, issue 2, 2014

Reflections pp. 239-241

Tim R. Birkhead

The dynamics of animal social networks: analytical, conceptual, and theoretical advances pp. 242-255

Noa Pinter-Wollman, Elizabeth A. Hobson, Jennifer E. Smith, Andrew J. Edelman, Daizaburo Shizuka, Shermin de Silva, James S. Waters, Steven D. Prager, Takao Sasaki, George Wittemyer, Jennifer Fewell and David B. McDonald

Everybody has a social life. Can social network analysis help us understand why not just how? Comment on Pinter-Wollman et al pp. 256-257

Nick J. Royle

The behavioral ecologist’s essential social networks cookbook—comment on Pinter-Wollman et al pp. 257-258

Luke Rendell and Shane Gero

Dynamic feedbacks on dynamic networks: on the importance of considering real-time rewiring—comment on Pinter-Wollman et al pp. 258-259

Andrew Sih and Tina W. Wey

We must consider dynamic changes in behavior in social networks and conduct manipulations: comment on Pinter-Wollman et al pp. 259-260

Sean A. Rands

Response to comments on the dynamics of network dynamics pp. 260-261

Noa Pinter-Wollman, Elizabeth A. Hobson, Jennifer E. Smith, Andrew J. Edelman, Daizaburo Shizuka, Shermin de Silva, James S. Waters, Steven D. Prager, Takao Sasaki, George Wittemyer, Jennifer Fewell and David B. McDonald

Editor's choice The biparental care hypothesis for the evolution of monogamy: experimental evidence in an amphibian pp. 262-270

James Tumulty, Victor Morales and Kyle Summers

Fiddlers on the roof: elevation muddles mate choice in fiddler crabs pp. 271-275

Luke Holman, Andrew T. Kahn and Patricia R.Y. Backwell

Age-dependent relationships between multiple sexual pigments and condition in males and females pp. 276-287

Andrea S. Grunst, John T. Rotenberry and Melissa L. Grunst

Inbreeding depression of mating behavior and its reproductive consequences in a freshwater snail pp. 288-299

Tim Janicke, Nikolas Vellnow, Thomas Lamy, Elodie Chapuis and Patrice David

Leachates from an invasive shrub causes risk-prone behavior in a larval amphibian pp. 300-305

Caleb R. Hickman and James I. Watling

Predator exposure leads to a short-term reversal in female mate preferences in the green swordtail, Xiphophorus helleri pp. 306-312

Natalie Pilakouta and Suzanne H. Alonzo

When males are more inclined to stay at home: insights into the partial migration of a pelagic seabird provided by geolocators and isotopes pp. 313-319

Cristóbal Pérez, José Pedro Granadeiro, Maria P. Dias, Hany Alonso and Paulo Catry

Size and competitive mating success in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae pp. 320-327

Carl Smith, Andrew Pomiankowski and Duncan Greig

Sunbirds increase foraging success by using color as a cue for nectar quality pp. 328-334

Maxine Whitfield, Angela Köhler and Susan W. Nicolson

Social parasitism: emergence of the cuckoo strategy between pseudoscorpions pp. 335-343

Everton Tizo-Pedroso and Kleber Del-Claro

Available kin recognition cues may explain why wasp behavior reflects relatedness to nest mates pp. 344-351

Ellouise Leadbeater, Leonardo Dapporto, Stefano Turillazzi and Jeremy Field

Quality of breeding territory mediates the influence of paternal quality on sex ratio bias in a free-living bird population pp. 352-358

Sophie C. Bell, Ian P.F. Owens and Alexa M. Lord

A sex-specific behavioral syndrome in a wild passerine pp. 359-367

Nolwenn Fresneau, Edward Kluen and Jon E. Brommer

Population-level personalities in zebrafish: aggression-boldness across but not within populations pp. 368-373

Emília P. Martins and Anuradha Bhat

Diet-mediated social networks in shoaling fish pp. 374-377

Tanja K. Kleinhappel, Oliver H. P. Burman, Elizabeth A. John, Anna Wilkinson and Thomas W. Pike

Antipredator behavior: escape flights on a landscape slope pp. 378-385

Tore Slagsvold, Jan Hušek, Jason D. Whittington and Karen L. Wiebe

The presence of neighbors influences defense against predators in a cooperatively breeding cichlid pp. 386-391

Jennifer K. Hellmann and Ian M. Hamilton

Fallow bucks attend to vocal cues of motivation and fatigue pp. 392-401

Benjamin J. Pitcher, Elodie F. Briefer, Elisabetta Vannoni and Alan G. McElligott

Hide and seek: properties of prey and background patterns affect prey detection by blue tits pp. 402-408

Marina Dimitrova and Sami Merilaita

Sexual signaling under predation: attractive moths take the greater risks pp. 409-414

Nils Cordes, Leif Engqvist, Tim Schmoll and Klaus Reinhold

Trade-offs between personal immunity and reproduction in the burying beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides pp. 415-423

Catherine E. Reavey, Neil D. Warnock, Heiko Vogel and Sheena C. Cotter

Alloparenting in humans: fitness consequences of aunts and uncles on survival in historical Finland pp. 424-433

Aïda Nitsch, Charlotte Faurie and Virpi Lummaa

Volume 25, issue 1, 2014

25 years of Behavioral Ecology pp. 1-3

Leigh W. Simmons

Fitness costs as well as benefits are important when considering responses to anthropogenic noise pp. 4-7

Jade Read, Gareth Jones and Andrew N. Radford

How does honest costly signaling work? pp. 8-11

James P. Higham

Deception down under: is Australia a hot spot for deception? pp. 12-16

Marie E. Herberstein, Heather J. Baldwin and Anne C. Gaskett

Editor's choice Multilevel social organization and space use in reticulated giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) pp. 17-26

Kimberly L. VanderWaal, Hui Wang, Brenda McCowan, Hsieh Fushing and Lynne A. Isbell

A multifunctional visual display in elegant trogons targets conspecifics and heterospecifics pp. 27-34

Pierre-Paul Bitton and Stéphanie M. Doucet

Selection of interdependent choice of 2 complementary resources pp. 35-43

Nick Ruktanonchai, David L. Smith and Colette M. St. Mary

Novel effects of monitoring predators on costs of fleeing and not fleeing explain flushing early in economic escape theory pp. 44-52

William E. Cooper and Daniel T. Blumstein

Evidence of female preference for hidden sex signals in distant fish species pp. 53-57

Rodolphe E. Gozlan, Dean Burnard, J. Robert Britton and Demetra Andreou

Social elites can emerge naturally when interaction in networks is restricted pp. 58-68

Tamás Dávid-Barrett and R.I.M. Dunbar

Asymmetries in premating isolating mechanisms in a sympatric species flock of pupfish (Cyprinodon) pp. 69-75

Astrid Kodric-Brown and Rhiannon J.D. West

Sex-specific phenotypic integration: endocrine profiles, coloration, and behavior in fledgling boobies pp. 76-87

Juan A. Fargallo, Alberto Velando, Isabel López-Rull, Natalia Gañán, Natalia Lifshitz, Kazumasa Wakamatsu and Roxana Torres

Do paper wasps negotiate over helping effort? pp. 88-94

Lynda Donaldson, Faye J. Thompson, Jeremy Field and Michael A. Cant

Individual personality traits influence group exploration in a feral guppy population pp. 95-101

Culum Brown and Eleanor Irving

An evolutionary approach to change of status–fertility relationship in human fertility transition pp. 102-109

Jianghua Liu and Virpi Lummaa

Attraction to conspecific eggs may guide oviposition site selection in a solitary insect pp. 110-116

Jani Raitanen, Jukka T. Forsman, Sami M. Kivelä, Maarit I. Mäenpää and Panu Välimäki

Social dynamics drive selection in cooperative associations of ant queens pp. 117-123

Rebecca M. Clark and Jennifer H. Fewell

Necessity or capacity? Physiological state predicts problem-solving performance in house sparrows pp. 124-135

Veronika Bókony, Ádám Z. Lendvai, Csongor I. Vágási, Laura Pătraş, Péter L. Pap, József Németh, Ernő Vincze, Sándor Papp, Bálint Preiszner, Gábor Seress and András Liker

Male behavioral type affects female preference in Siamese fighting fish pp. 136-141

Teresa L. Dzieweczynski, Alyssa M. Russell, Lindsay M. Forrette and Krystal L. Mannion

Spider aggressiveness determines the bidirectional consequences of host–inquiline interactions pp. 142-151

Carl N. Keiser and Jonathan N. Pruitt

Biparental incubation patterns in a high-Arctic breeding shorebird: how do pairs divide their duties? pp. 152-164

Martin Bulla, Mihai Valcu, Anne L. Rutten and Bart Kempenaers

Offspring sex ratio varies with clutch size for female house wrens induced to lay supernumerary eggs pp. 165-171

E. Keith Bowers, Charles F. Thompson and Scott K. Sakaluk

Effects of age and experience on contest behavior in the burying beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides pp. 172-179

Victoria E. Lee, Megan L. Head, Mauricio J. Carter and Nick J. Royle

Context-, phenotype-, and kin-dependent natal dispersal of barn swallows (Hirundo rustica) pp. 180-190

Chiara Scandolara, Roberto Lardelli, Giovanni Sgarbi, Manuela Caprioli, Roberto Ambrosini, Diego Rubolini and Nicola Saino

Group tolerance, dispersal evolution, and the maintenance of polymorphism in recognition cues pp. 191-199

Thotsapol Chaianunporn and Thomas Hovestadt

Does male behavioral type correlate with species recognition and stress? pp. 200-205

James J. Muraco, Andrea S. Aspbury and Caitlin R. Gabor

Do scatter hoarders trade off increased predation risks for lower rates of cache pilferage? pp. 206-215

Michael A. Steele, Thomas A. Contreras, Leila Z. Hadj-Chikh, Salvatore J. Agosta, Peter D. Smallwood and Chioma N. Tomlinson

Reciprocity and conditional cooperation between great tit parents pp. 216-222

Rufus A. Johnstone, Andrea Manica, Annette L. Fayet, Mary Caswell Stoddard, Miguel A. Rodriguez-Gironés and Camilla A. Hinde

Food limitation leads to risky decision making and to tradeoffs with oviposition pp. 223-227

Zachary Stahlschmidt, Mary Elizabeth O’Leary and Shelley Adamo

Extrapair paternity in Mediterranean blue tits: socioecological factors and the opportunity for sexual selection pp. 228-238

Vicente García-Navas, Esperanza S. Ferrer, Javier Bueno-Enciso, Rafael Barrientos, Juan José Sanz and Joaquín Ortego