Behavioral Ecology

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Volume 23, issue 6, 2012

Boldness affects foraging decisions in barnacle geese: an experimental approach pp. 1155-1161

Ralf H. J. M. Kurvers, Bart A. Nolet, Herbert H. T. Prins, Ronald C. Ydenberg and Kees van Oers

Simultaneous mate-sampling by female barking treefrogs (Hyla gratiosa) pp. 1162-1169

Christopher G. Murphy

Measuring mating competition correctly: available evidence supports operational sex ratio theory pp. 1170-1177

Karen de Jong, Elisabet Forsgren, Hanno Sandvik and Trond Amundsen

Coping with social stress: heart rate responses to agonistic interactions in king penguins pp. 1178-1185

Vincent A. Viblanc, Victorien Valette, Marion Kauffmann, Nelly Malosse and René Groscolas

Pack social dynamics and inbreeding avoidance in the cooperatively breeding red wolf pp. 1186-1194

Amanda M. Sparkman, Jennifer R. Adams, Todd D. Steury, Lisette P. Waits and Dennis L. Murray

Trash to treasure: leaf-cutting ants repair nest-mound damage by recycling refuse dump materials pp. 1195-1202

Alejandro G. Farji-Brener and Mariana Tadey

Nest value mediates reproductive decision making within termite societies pp. 1203-1208

Katharina Hoffmann, Kevin R. Foster and Judith Korb

Determinants of yearling male lekking effort and mating success in black grouse (Tetrao tetrix) pp. 1209-1217

Matti Kervinen, Rauno V. Alatalo, Christophe Lebigre, Heli Siitari and Carl D. Soulsbury

Males adjust signaling effort based on female mate-preference cues pp. 1218-1225

Rafael L. Rodríguez, Christina Haen, Reginald B. Cocroft and Kasey D. Fowler-Finn

Small-scale demographic structure suggests preemptive behavior in a flocking shorebird pp. 1226-1233

Jutta Leyrer, Tamar Lok, Maarten Brugge, Anne Dekinga, Bernard Spaans, Jan A. van Gils, Brett K. Sandercock and Theunis Piersma

The energetics of lactation and the return to fecundity in wild chimpanzees pp. 1234-1241

Melissa Emery Thompson, Martin N. Muller and Richard W. Wrangham

Influence of phenotypic and social traits on dispersal in a family living, tropical bird pp. 1242-1249

Corey E. Tarwater

Fungus-gardening ants prefer native fungal species: do ants control their crops? pp. 1250-1256

Jon N Seal, Jeffrey Gus and Ulrich G. Mueller

Editor’s choice Impact of tourism on Nubian Ibex (Capra nubiana) revealed through assessment of behavioral indicators pp. 1257-1262

Solomon A. Tadesse and Burt P. Kotler

Repeated probing of hosts: an important component of superparasitism pp. 1263-1268

Yael Keinan, Miriam Kishinevsky, Michal Segoli and Tamar Keasar

Color Change from male-mimic to Gynomorphic: a New Aspect of Signaling Sexual Status in Damselflies (Odonata, Zygoptera) pp. 1269-1275

Shao-Chang Huang and Judith Reinhard

Environmental and social factors affecting the excretion of intestinal parasite eggs in graylag geese pp. 1276-1283

Claudia A. F. Wascher, Alexandra C. Bauer, Anna Ria Holtmann and Kurt Kotrschal

The effects of genotype, caste, and age on foraging performance in leaf-cutting ants pp. 1284-1288

Natasha Constant, Lorenzo A. Santorelli, Juliane F. S. Lopes and William O. H. Hughes

Habitat selection in site-faithful ovenbirds and recruits in the absence of experimental attraction pp. 1289-1295

Stéphane Thériault, Marc-André Villard and Samuel Haché

Male display areas in exploded leks: the importance of food resources for male mating success pp. 1296-1307

Juan C. Alonso, Marina Magaña and Jose M. Álvarez-Martínez

What is a subgroup? How socioecological factors influence interindividual distance pp. 1308-1315

Filippo Aureli, Colleen M. Schaffner, Norberto Asensio and David Lusseau

Personality and metamorphosis: is behavioral variation consistent across ontogenetic niche shifts? pp. 1316-1323

Alexander D. M. Wilson and Jens Krause

Forewarned is forearmed: early signals of RHP predict opponent fatigue in hermit crab shell fights pp. 1324-1329

Sophie L. Mowles and Mark Briffa

Wait or fight? Ownership asymmetry affects contest behaviors in a parasitoid wasp pp. 1330-1337

Rihab Mohamad, Jean-Paul Monge and Marlène Goubault

The communicative significance of song frequency and song length in territorial chiffchaffs pp. 1338-1347

Pavel Linhart, Hans Slabbekoorn and Roman Fuchs

Infanticide risk and male quality influence optimal group composition for Colobus vellerosus pp. 1348-1359

Julie A. Teichroeb, Eva C. Wikberg, Iulia Bădescu, Lisa J. Macdonald and Pascale Sicotte

Flexible alarm calling in meerkats: the role of the social environment and predation urgency pp. 1360-1364

Simon W. Townsend, Maria Rasmussen, Tim Clutton-Brock and Marta B. Manser

Residency and a Broad Feeding Spectrum are Related to Extensive Spatial Exploration in Parrots pp. 1365-1371

Claudia Mettke-Hofmann, Michael Wink, Michael Braun and Hans Winkler

Mass Fluctuations Suggest Different Functions of Bimodal Foraging Trips in a Central-place Forager pp. 1372-1378

Jorg Welcker, Anika Beiersdorf, Øystein Varpe and Harald Steen

Volume 23, issue 5, 2012

Supercolonies of billions in an invasive ant: What is a society? pp. 925-933

Mark W. Moffett

Seeing the forest and the trees pp. 934-934

Deborah M. Gordon and Nicole E. Heller

The logic of hypersocial colonies pp. 934-935

Jes Søe Pedersen

Comment on Moffett: "Supercolonies of billions in an invasive ant: What is a society?" pp. 935-937

Philip J. Lester and Monica A. M. Gruber

Ecological and evolutionary perspectives on "supercolonies": a commentary on Moffett pp. 937-938

A. V. Suarez and E. L. Suhr

Supercolonies, nests, and societies: distinguishing the forests from the trees pp. 938-939

Mark W. Moffett

The challenges of mixing associational learning theory with information-based decision-making theory pp. 940-943

Meredith Root-Bernstein

Spontaneous formation of multiple routes in individual desert ants (Cataglyphis velox) pp. 944-954

Michael Mangan and Barbara Webb

Lateralization in refuge selection in Podarcis hispanica at different hierarchical levels pp. 955-959

Enrique García-Muñoz, Verónica Gomes and Miguel A. Carretero

Boldness behavior and stress physiology in a novel urban environment suggest rapid correlated evolutionary adaptation pp. 960-969

Jonathan W. Atwell, Gonçalo C. Cardoso, Danielle J. Whittaker, Samuel Campbell-Nelson, Kyle W. Robertson and Ellen D. Ketterson

Influence of immediate predation risk by lions on the vigilance of prey of different body size pp. 970-976

S. Périquet, L. Todd-Jones, M. Valeix, B. Stapelkamp, N. Elliot, M. Wijers, O. Pays, D. Fortin, H. Madzikanda, H. Fritz, D. W. Macdonald and A. J. Loveridge

When should animals share food? Game theory applied to kleptoparasitic populations with food sharing pp. 977-991

Christoforos Hadjichrysanthou and Mark Broom

Regulation of queen development through worker aggression in a predatory ant pp. 992-998

Clint A. Penick and Jürgen Liebig

Alternative reproductive tactics in female horseshoe crabs pp. 999-1008

Sheri L. Johnson and H. Jane Brockmann

Male courtship pheromones as indicators of genetic quality in an arctiid moth (Utetheisa ornatrix) pp. 1009-1014

Caitlin A. Kelly, Amanda J. Norbutus, Anthony F. Lagalante and Vikram K. Iyengar

Kinship, parentage, and temporal stability in nursery colonies of Leisler’s bat (Nyctalus leisleri) pp. 1015-1021

Emma S. M. Boston, Stéphane G. Roué, W. I. Montgomery and Paulo A. Prodöhl

Nest site and weather affect the personality of harvester ant colonies pp. 1022-1029

Noa Pinter-Wollman, Deborah M. Gordon and Susan Holmes

Urban areas as refuges from predators and flight distance of prey pp. 1030-1035

Anders Pape Møller

Comb size and color relate to sperm quality: a test of the phenotype-linked fertility hypothesis pp. 1036-1041

Kristen J. Navara, Erin M. Anderson and Meghan L. Edwards

Costs of elaborate weapons in a rhinoceros beetle: how difficult is it to fly with a big horn? pp. 1042-1048

Erin L. McCullough, Paul R. Weingarden and Douglas J. Emlen

Photorefractoriness and energy availability interact to permit facultative timing of spring breeding pp. 1049-1058

James C. Dooley and Brian J. Prendergast

The importance of a good neighborhood: dispersal decisions in juvenile common lizards are based on social environment pp. 1059-1067

Elodie Vercken, Barry Sinervo and Jean Clobert

Prospecting behavior and the influenceof forest cover on natal dispersal in aresident bird pp. 1068-1077

Allison S. Cox and Dylan C. Kesler

Reinterpreting Bateman gradients: multiple mating and selection in both sexes of a songbird species pp. 1078-1088

N.M. Gerlach, McGlothlin J.w, Parker P.g and Ketterson E.d

Wind selectivity and partial compensation for wind drift among nocturnally migrating passerines pp. 1089-1101

James D. McLaren, Judy Shamoun-Baranes and Willem Bouten

Parent–offspring conflict during the transition to independence in a pelagic seabird pp. 1102-1107

Samuel Riou, Olivier Chastel and Keith C Hamer

Alternative matings and the opportunity costs of paternal care in house sparrows pp. 1108-1114

P. L. Schwagmeyer, Patricia G. Parker, Douglas W. Mock and Hubert Schwabl

Modeling multiple nonconsumptive effects in simple food webs: a modified Lotka–Volterra approach pp. 1115-1125

Ashley E. Larsen

Dominance status and sex influence nutritional state and immunity in burying beetles Nicrophorus orbicollis pp. 1126-1132

Sandra Steiger, Susan N. Gershman, Adam M. Pettinger, Anne-Katrin Eggert and Scott K. Sakaluk

Opposite effects of learning cause asymmetric mate preferences in hybridizing species pp. 1133-1139

Machteld N Verzijden, Zachary W Culumber and Gil G Rosenthal

How effective and persistent are fragmentsof male genitalia as mating plugs? pp. 1140-1145

M.E. Herberstein, A.E. Wignall, S.H. Nessler, A.M.T. Harmer and J.M. Schneider

Male decisions or female accessibility? Spatiotemporal patterns of extra pair paternity in a songbird pp. 1146-1153

David Canal, Roger Jovani and Jaime Potti

Volume 23, issue 4, 2012

The varying relationship between helping and individual quality pp. 693-698

Pat Barclay and H. Kern Reeve

Paternal care and the evolution of exaggerated sexual swellings in primates pp. 699-706

Susan C. Alberts and Courtney L. Fitzpatrick

Environmental interference: impact of acoustic noise on seismic communication and mating success pp. 707-714

Shira D. Gordon and George W. Uetz

Evolutionary correlation between male substances and female remating frequency in a seed beetle pp. 715-722

Takashi Yamane and Takahisa Miyatake

Preserving perceptual distances in chromaticity diagrams pp. 723-728

Thomas W. Pike

Lack of floral constancy by bee fly pollinators: implications for ethological isolation in an African daisy pp. 729-734

Allan G. Ellis and Steven D. Johnson

Within-group competition reduces cooperation and payoffs in human groups pp. 735-741

Jessica L. Barker, Pat Barclay and H. Kern Reeve

Socially induced tactic change in 2 types of sand goby sneaker males pp. 742-750

Takeshi Takegaki, Ola Svensson and Charlotta Kvarnemo

Food availability and offspring sex in a monogamous seabird: insights from an experimental approach pp. 751-758

Thomas Merkling, Sarah Leclaire, Etienne Danchin, Emeline Lhuillier, Richard H. Wagner, Joël White, Scott A. Hatch and Pierrick Blanchard

Food stress during juvenile and maternal development shapes natal and breeding dispersal in a spider pp. 759-764

L. Mestre and D. Bonte

Pelage coloration in pinnipeds: functional considerations pp. 765-774

Tim Caro, Theodore Stankowich, Sarah L. Mesnick, Daniel P. Costa and Karrie Beeman

Nice guys finish last: same-sex sexual behavior and pairing success in male budgerigars pp. 775-782

Puya Abbassi and Nancy Tyler Burley

Direct and indirect assessment of parasitism risk by a cuckoo host pp. 783-789

Justin A. Welbergen and Nicholas B. Davies

Latency to flee from an immobile predator: effects of predation risk and cost of immobility for the prey pp. 790-797

William E. Cooper, Pilar López, José Martín and Valentín Pérez-Mellado

Learned recognition of brood parasitic cuckoos in the superb fairy-wren Malurus cyaneus pp. 798-805

N. E. Langmore, W. E. Feeney, J. Crowe-Riddell, H. Luan, K. M. Louwrens and A. Cockburn

Experimental evidence for cryptic interference among socially foraging shorebirds pp. 806-814

Allert Imre Bijleveld, Eelke Olov Folmer and Theunis Piersma

Males responding to sperm competition cues have higher fertilization success in a soldier fly pp. 815-819

Flavia Barbosa

Opposing effects of sperm viability and velocity on the outcome of sperm competition pp. 820-826

Chad C. Smith

Male dimorphism of a neotropical arachnid: harem size, sneaker opportunities, and gonadal investment pp. 827-835

Roberto Munguía-Steyer, Bruno A. Buzatto and Glauco Machado

Evidence for multicontest eavesdropping in chickadees pp. 836-842

Cory A. Toth, Daniel J. Mennill and Laurene M. Ratcliffe

Between individual variation in risk-taking behavior and its life history consequences pp. 843-853

Anders Pape Møller and László Zsolt Garamszegi

Distress calls in tufted titmice (Baeolophus bicolor): are conspecifics or predators the target? pp. 854-862

Carrie L. Branch and Todd M. Freeberg

Inducible defense behavior of an anuran tadpole: cue-detection range and cue types used against predator pp. 863-868

Teruhiko Takahara, Yukihiro Kohmatsu, Atsushi Maruyama, Hideyuki Doi, Hiroki Yamanaka and Ryohei Yamaoka

Mutual mate choice in the potbellied seahorse (Hippocampus abdominalis) pp. 869-878

Angela Bahr, Stefan Sommer, Beat Mattle and Anthony B. Wilson

Mixing nutrients mitigates the intake constraints of a plant toxin in a generalist herbivore pp. 879-888

Carolyn L. Nersesian, Peter B. Banks, Stephen J. Simpson and Clare McArthur

The evolution of multimale groups in Verreaux's sifaka, or how to test an evolutionary demographic model pp. 889-897

Markus Port, Rufus A. Johnstone and Peter M. Kappeler

How dispersal influences parent–offspring conflict over investment pp. 898-906

Bram Kuijper and Rufus A. Johnstone

Melanin-based coloration reflects alternative strategies to cope with food limitation in pigeons pp. 907-915

L. Jacquin, C. Récapet, P. Bouche, G. Leboucher and J. Gasparini

Territorial song sparrows tolerate juveniles during the early song-learning phase pp. 916-923

Christopher N. Templeton, S. Elizabeth Campbell and Michael D. Beecher

Volume 23, issue 3, 2012

Multisensory perception in uncertain environments pp. 457-462

Nicole E. Munoz and Daniel T. Blumstein

Heterospecific information about predation risk influences exploratory behavior pp. 463-472

Ping Huang, Kathryn E. Sieving and Colette M. St. Mary

Melanic color-dependent antipredator behavior strategies in barn owl nestlings pp. 473-480

Valentijn van den Brink, Vassilissa Dolivo, Xavier Falourd, Amélie N. Dreiss and Alexandre Roulin

Beards augment perceptions of men's age, social status, and aggressiveness, but not attractiveness pp. 481-490

Barnaby J. Dixson and Paul L. Vasey

Leks in ground-displaying birds: hotspots or safe places? pp. 491-501

Juan C. Alonso, Jose M. Álvarez-Martínez and Carlos Palacín

The condition dependence of a secondary sexual trait is stronger under high parasite infection level pp. 502-511

Pablo Vergara, Francois Mougeot, Jesús Martínez-Padilla, Fiona Leckie and Steve M. Redpath

Determinants of body size composition in limited shelter space: why are anemonefishes protandrous? pp. 512-520

Akihisa Hattori

Mating systems in cooperative breeders: the roles of resource dispersion and conflict mitigation pp. 521-530

M. Y. L. Wong, L. A. Jordan, S. Marsh-Rollo, S. St-Cyr, J. O. Reynolds, K. A. Stiver, J. K. Desjardins, J. L. Fitzpatrick and S. Balshine

Host location by visual and olfactory floral cues in an oligolectic bee: innate and learned behavior pp. 531-538

Paulo Milet-Pinheiro, Manfred Ayasse, Clemens Schlindwein, Heidi E. M. Dobson and Stefan Dötterl

Priming men with different contest outcomes modulates their dominance perceptions pp. 539-543

Christopher D. Watkins and Benedict C. Jones

Foraging guild influences dependence on heterospecific alarm calls in Amazonian bird flocks pp. 544-550

Ari E. Martínez and Rosana T. Zenil

Rival presence leads to reversible changes in male mate choice of a desert dwelling ungulate pp. 551-558

Torsten Wronski, David Bierbach, Lara-Marlene Czupalla, Hannes Lerp, Madlen Ziege, Peter L. Cunningham and Martin Plath

Possible top-down control of solitary bee populations by ambush predators pp. 559-565

Miguel A. Rodríguez-Gironés

Interspecific dominance relationships and hybridization between black-capped and mountain chickadees pp. 566-572

A. Grava, T. Grava, R. Didier, L. A. Lait, J. Dosso, E. Koran, T. M. Burg and K. A. Otter

Estrous synchrony in a nonseasonal breeder: adaptive strategy or population process? pp. 573-581

P. M. R. Clarke, S. P. Henzi and L. Barrett

Male preference and female cues: males assess female sexual maturity and mating status in a web-building spider pp. 582-587

Cristina Tuni and Reut Berger-Tal

How dancing honey bees keep track of changes: the role of inspector bees pp. 588-596

Boris Granovskiy, Tanya Latty, Michael Duncan, David J. T. Sumpter and Madeleine Beekman

Male greater sac-winged bats gain direct fitness benefits when roosting in multimale colonies pp. 597-606

Martina Nagy, Mirjam Knörnschild, Christian C. Voigt and Frieder Mayer

Optimal marauding in bowerbirds pp. 607-614

Stephen Pruett-Jones and Aviad Heifetz

Unmasking Zorro: functional importance of the facial mask in the Masked Shrike (Lanius nubicus) pp. 615-618

Reuven Yosef, Piotr Zduniak and Piotr Tryjanowski

Tonic immobility is a measure of boldness toward predators: an application of Bayesian structural equation modeling pp. 619-626

Pim Edelaar, David Serrano, Martina Carrete, Julio Blas, Jaime Potti and José Luis Tella

Song sharing correlates with social but not extrapair mating success in the white-crowned sparrow pp. 627-634

Angelika Poesel, Douglas A. Nelson and H. Lisle Gibbs

Resource limitation moderates the adaptive suppression of subordinate breeding in a cooperatively breeding mongoose pp. 635-642

H. J. Nichols, M. B. V. Bell, S. J. Hodge and M. A. Cant

Mate loss affects survival but not breeding in black brant geese pp. 643-648

Christopher A. Nicolai, James S. Sedinger, David H. Ward and W. Sean Boyd

Energetically optimal foraging strategy is emergent property of time-keeping behavior in honey bees pp. 649-658

Byron N. Van Nest and Darrell Moore

Evading invaders: the effectiveness of a behavioral response acquired through lifetime exposure pp. 659-664

N. A. Freidenfelds, T. R. Robbins and T. Langkilde

Competition level determines compensatory growth abilities pp. 665-671

Francisca H. I. D. Segers and Barbara Taborsky

No evidence for inbreeding avoidance through active mate choice in red-billed gulls pp. 672-675

Jussi S. Alho, Céline Teplitsky, James A. Mills, John W. Yarrall and Juha Merilä

Bolder, older, and selective: factors of individual-specific foraging behaviors in Steller’s jays pp. 676-683

Christina Rockwell, Pia O. Gabriel and Jeffrey M. Black

Male and female aggression: lessons from sex, rank, age, and injury in olive baboons pp. 684-691

Holly A. MacCormick, Daniel R. MacNulty, Anna L. Bosacker, Clarence Lehman, Andrea Bailey, D. Anthony Collins and Craig Packer

Volume 23, issue 2, 2012

Unraveling the true complexity of costly color signaling pp. 233-236

Darrell J. Kemp, Marie E. Herberstein and Gregory F. Grether

Paradoxical calls: the opposite signaling role of sound frequency across bird species pp. 237-241

Gonçalo C. Cardoso

Parental effects on animal personality pp. 242-245

Adam R. Reddon

The influence of ecology on sociality in the killer whale (Orcinus orca) pp. 246-253

Suzanne Beck, Sanna Kuningas, Ruth Esteban and Andrew D. Foote

Anthropogenic food patches and association patterns of Tursiops truncatus at Lampedusa island, Italy pp. 254-264

Daniela Silvia Pace, Marina Pulcini and Francesca Triossi

Changes in antipredator vigilance over time caused by a war of attrition between predator and prey pp. 265-270

Guy Beauchamp and Graeme D. Ruxton

Female house sparrows prefer big males with a large white wing bar and fewer feather holes caused by chewing lice pp. 271-277

Gregorio Moreno-Rueda and Herbert Hoi

Postcopulatory mechanisms of inbreeding avoidance in the island endemic hihi (Notiomystis cincta) pp. 278-284

Patricia Brekke, Jinliang Wang, Peter M. Bennett, Phillip Cassey, Deborah A. Dawson, Gavin J. Horsburgh and John G. Ewen

The effects of neighbor familiarity and size on cooperative defense of fiddler crab territories pp. 285-289

Isobel Booksmythe, Catherine Hayes, Michael D. Jennions and Patricia R. Y. Backwell

Personality constraints versus flexible antipredation behaviors: how important is boldness in risk management of redshanks (Tringa totanus) foraging in a natural system? pp. 290-301

Charline Couchoux and Will Cresswell

Nuptial gifts protect male bell crickets from female aggressive behavior pp. 302-306

Takashi Kuriwada and Eiiti Kasuya

Male competition strategies change when information concerning female receptivity is available pp. 307-312

Fei Xu, Jianguo Cui, Jing Song, Steven E. Brauth and Yezhong Tang

Effects of known age on male paternity in a migratory songbird pp. 313-321

Scott A. Tarof, Patrick M. Kramer, John Tautin and Bridget J. M. Stutchbury

Effects of neighbor familiarity on reproductive success in the great tit (Parus major) pp. 322-333

Ada M. Grabowska-Zhang, Teddy A. Wilkin and Ben C. Sheldon

Hand attractiveness—its determinants and associations with facial attractiveness pp. 334-342

Krzysztof Kościński

Does acoustic adaptation drive vertical stratification? A test in a tropical cricket assemblage pp. 343-354

Manjari Jain and Rohini Balakrishnan

Context-dependent male mate choice: the effects of competitor presence and competitor size pp. 355-360

Sophia Callander, Patricia R. Y. Backwell and Michael D. Jennions

Variable mode of estrus affects female decision for multiple mating pp. 361-367

Ines Klemme, Saana Kataja-aho, Jana A. Eccard and Hannu Ylönen

Consistent waves of collective vigilance in groups using public information about predation risk pp. 368-374

Guy Beauchamp, Peter Alexander and Roger Jovani

Vocal behavior predicts reproductive success in a teleost fish pp. 375-383

Raquel O. Vasconcelos, Rita Carriço, Andreia Ramos, Teresa Modesto, Paul J. Fonseca and M. Clara. P. Amorim

Prey pattern regularity and background complexity affect detectability of background-matching prey pp. 384-390

Marina Dimitrova and Sami Merilaita

Brood parasites may use gape size constraints to exploit provisioning rules of smaller hosts: an experimental test of mechanisms of food allocation pp. 391-396

Karen L. Wiebe and Tore Slagsvold

Sex roles in egg recognition and egg polymorphism in avian brood parasitism pp. 397-402

Wei Liang, Canchao Yang, Anton Antonov, Frode Fossøy, Bård G. Stokke, Arne Moksnes, Eivin Røskaft, Jacqui A. Shykoff, Anders P. Møller and Fugo Takasu

How do diurnal long-distance migrants select flight altitude in relation to wind? pp. 403-409

María Mateos-Rodríguez and Felix Liechti

Handling time and the evolution of caching behavior pp. 410-417

Maria Luisa S. P. Jorge, Sarah Brown and Marius van der Merwe

Educated predators make strategic decisions to eat defended prey according to their toxin content pp. 418-424

Craig A. Barnett, John Skelhorn, Melissa Bateson and Candy Rowe

Under my wing: lesser kestrels and jackdaws derive reciprocal benefits in mixed-species colonies pp. 425-433

Daniela Campobello, Maurizio Sarà and James F. Hare

Heat-conserving postures hinder escape: a thermoregulation–predation trade-off in wintering birds pp. 434-441

Jennie M. Carr and Steven L. Lima

It is a matter of taste: chemical signals mediate nuptial gift acceptance in a neotropical spider pp. 442-447

Pedro Erê Disconzi Brum, Luiz Ernesto Costa-Schmidt and Aldo Mellender de Araújo

Cognitive ability and the evolution of multiple behavioral display traits pp. 448-456

Jason Keagy, Jean-François Savard and Gerald Borgia

Volume 23, issue 1, 2012

Modeling male reproductive strategies and optimal mate number in an orb-web spider pp. 1-10

Clare C. Rittschof, Samantha A. Hilber, M. Scarlett Tudor and Colette M. St Mary

Reproductive skew in an avian cooperative breeder: an empirical test for theoretical models pp. 11-17

Xin Lu, Chen Wang and Bo Du

Kin presence drives philopatry and social aggregation in juvenile Desert Night Lizards (Xantusia vigilis) pp. 18-24

Alison R. Davis

Food availability and offspring demand influence sex-specific patterns and repeatability of parental provisioning pp. 25-34

Matthew Low, Troy Makan and Isabel Castro

Sister clade comparisons reveal reduced maternal care behavior in social cobweb spiders pp. 35-43

Kieran M. Samuk, Emily E. LeDue and Leticia Avilés

Who initiates extrapair mating in song sparrows? pp. 44-50

Çağlar Akçay, William A. Searcy, S. Elizabeth Campbell, Veronica A. Reed, Christopher N. Templeton, Kayla M. Hardwick and Michael D. Beecher

No evidence for negative frequency–dependent feeding performance in relation to personality pp. 51-57

Ralf H.J.M. Kurvers, Simone I. van Santen de Hoog, Sipke E. van Wieren, Ronald C. Ydenberg and Herbert H.T. Prins

Migration strategy of a flight generalist, the Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus pp. 58-68

Raymond H.G. Klaassen, Bruno J. Ens, Judy Shamoun-Baranes, Klaus-Michael Exo and Franz Bairlein

Body spot coloration of a nocturnal sit-and-wait predator visually lures prey pp. 69-74

Sean J. Blamires, Cheng-Hui Lai, Ren-Chung Cheng, Chen-Pan Liao, Pao-Sheng Shen and I-Min Tso

Nonlinear effects of group size on the success of wolves hunting elk pp. 75-82

Daniel R. MacNulty, Douglas W. Smith, L. David Mech, John A. Vucetich and Craig Packer

Antipredator calls of tufted titmice and interspecific transfer of encoded threat information pp. 83-92

Stacia A. Hetrick and Kathryn E. Sieving

Variation in the effect of repeated intrusions on calling behavior in a territorial toadlet pp. 93-100

Stephen Heap, Devi Stuart-Fox and Phillip Byrne

Song bout length is indicative of spatial learning in European starlings pp. 101-111

Tara M. Farrell, Katelyn Weaver, Yong-Seok An and Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton

Generalization in mate-choice copying in humans pp. 112-124

Robert I. Bowers, Skyler S. Place, Peter M. Todd, Lars Penke and Jens B. Asendorpf

Honey bees use social information in waggle dances more fully when foraging errors are more costly pp. 125-131

Margaret K. Wray, Barrett A. Klein and Thomas D. Seeley

The economics of nestmate killing in avian brood parasites: a provisions trade-off pp. 132-140

Ros Gloag, Diego T. Tuero, Vanina D. Fiorini, Juan C. Reboreda and Alex Kacelnik

Spatial movements and social networks in juvenile male song sparrows pp. 141-152

Christopher N. Templeton, Veronica A. Reed, S. Elizabeth Campbell and Michael D. Beecher

Mechanisms underlying small-scale partial migration of a subtropical owl pp. 153-159

Mei-Ling Bai, Lucia Liu Severinghaus and Mark Todd Philippart

Stress-induced sex ratios in ground squirrels: support for a mechanistic hypothesis pp. 160-167

Calen P. Ryan, W. Gary Anderson, Laura E. Gardiner and James F. Hare

Resource allocation trade-off between sperm quality and immunity in the field cricket, Teleogryllus oceanicus pp. 168-173

Leigh W. Simmons

Zebra finches in poor condition produce more and consume more food in a producer–scrounger game pp. 174-180

Morgan David and Luc-Alain Giraldeau

Brooding, provisioning, and compensatory care in the cooperatively breeding acorn woodpecker pp. 181-190

Walter D. Koenig and Eric L. Walters

Costly copulation in the wild: mating increases the risk of parasitoid-mediated death in swarming locusts pp. 191-194

Darrell J. Kemp

Concurrent effects of sperm competition and female quality on male mate choice in the Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata) pp. 195-200

Sarah B. Jeswiet, Stacey S.Y. Lee-Jenkins and Jean-Guy J. Godin

Comparative effects of urban development and anthropogenic noise on bird songs pp. 201-209

J.L. Dowling, D.A. Luther and P.P. Marra

Size-dependent patterns of diel vertical migration: smaller fish may benefit from faster ascent pp. 210-217

Susan Busch and Thomas Mehner

Intersexual conflict during mate guarding in an androdioecious crustacean pp. 218-224

Chiara Benvenuto and Stephen C. Weeks

Social information use may lead to maladaptive decisions: a game theoretic model pp. 225-231

Frédérique Dubois, Dominique Drullion and Klaudia Witte