Behavioral Ecology

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Volume 20, issue 6, 2009

Female túngara frogs vary in commitment to mate choice pp. 1153-1159

Alexander T. Baugh and Michael J. Ryan

Food quality affects search strategy in the acellular slime mould, Physarum polycephalum pp. 1160-1167

Tanya Latty and Madeleine Beekman

Individual behavior and survival: the roles of predator avoidance, foraging success, and vigilance pp. 1168-1174

Alex Sansom, Johan Lind and Will Cresswell

Male and female crickets use different decision rules in response to mating signals pp. 1175-1184

Anne S. Leonard and Ann V. Hedrick

Paternity in the classical polyandrous black coucal (Centropus grillii)--a cuckoo accepting cuckoldry? pp. 1185-1193

Christina Muck, Bart Kempenaers, Sylvia Kuhn, Mihai Valcu and Wolfgang Goymann

The effects of wind on trap structural and material properties of a sit-and-wait predator pp. 1194-1203

Chen-Pan Liao, Kai-Jung Chi and I-Min Tso

Coral bleaching and habitat degradation increase susceptibility to predation for coral-dwelling fishes pp. 1204-1210

Darren J. Coker, Morgan S. Pratchett and Philip L. Munday

Reproductive energetics in free-living female chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) pp. 1211-1216

Carson M. Murray, Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, Lynn E. Eberly and Anne E. Pusey

Persuasive companions can be wrong: the use of misleading social information in nutmeg mannikins pp. 1217-1222

Guillaume Rieucau and Luc-Alain Giraldeau

Environment-dependent use of mate choice cues in sticklebacks pp. 1223-1227

Jan Heuschele, Miia Mannerla, Phillip Gienapp and Ulrika Candolin

The educated prey: consequences for exploitation and control pp. 1228-1235

Richard Bischof and Andreas Zedrosser

Female cooperation in plug formation in a spider: effects of male copulatory courtship pp. 1236-1241

Anita Aisenberg and William G. Eberhard

Courtship effort is a better predictor of mating success than ornamentation for male wolf spiders pp. 1242-1251

Paul S. Shamble, Dustin J. Wilgers, Katharine A. Swoboda and Eileen A. Hebets

Odor preference in house mice: influences of habitat heterogeneity and chromosomal incompatibility pp. 1252-1261

Ana Claudia Nunes, Maria da Luz Mathias and Guila Ganem

Limited kin discrimination abilities mediate tolerance toward relatives in polyembryonic parasitoid wasps pp. 1262-1267

Michal Segoli, Tamar Keasar, Ally R. Harari and Amos Bouskila

Are bird species that vocalize at higher frequencies preadapted to inhabit noisy urban areas? pp. 1268-1273

Yang Hu and Gonçalo C. Cardoso

Current brood size and residual reproductive value predict offspring desertion in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides pp. 1274-1281

Richard J.S. Ward, Sheena C. Cotter and Rebecca M. Kilner

Learned conspecific mate preference in a species pair of sticklebacks pp. 1282-1288

Genevieve M. Kozak and Janette W. Boughman

Prevalence of avian influenza and sexual selection in ducks pp. 1289-1294

Gergely Hegyi, Anders Pape Møller, Marcel Eens and László Zsolt Garamszegi

Sophisticated early life lessons: threat-sensitive generalization of predator recognition by embryonic amphibians pp. 1295-1298

Maud C.O. Ferrari and Douglas P. Chivers

How depth alters detection and capture of buried prey: exploitation of sea turtle eggs by mongooses pp. 1299-1306

Patrick A. Leighton, Julia A. Horrocks and Donald L. Kramer

Courtship song's role during female mate choice in the field cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus pp. 1307-1314

Darren Rebar, Nathan W. Bailey and Marlene Zuk

Familiarity breeds contempt: effects of striped skunk color, shape, and abundance on wild carnivore behavior pp. 1315-1322

Jennifer S. Hunter

Mate choice based on complex visual signals in the brook stickleback, Culaea inconstans pp. 1323-1333

Jessica L. Ward and Deborah A. McLennan

Why are females ornamented? A test of the courtship stimulation and courtship rejection hypotheses pp. 1334-1342

Rita Chan, Devi Stuart-Fox and Tim S. Jessop

Cleaning in pairs enhances honesty in male cleaning gobies pp. 1343-1347

Marta C. Soares, Redouan Bshary and Isabelle M. Côté

Female American goldfinches use carotenoid-based bill coloration to signal status pp. 1348-1355

Troy G. Murphy, Malcolm F. Rosenthal, Robert Montgomerie and Keith A. Tarvin

Importance of internal pattern contrast and contrast against the background in aposematic signals pp. 1356-1362

Marianne Aronsson and Gabriella Gamberale-Stille

Changing philosophies and tools for statistical inferences in behavioral ecology pp. 1363-1375

László Zsolt Garamszegi, Sara Calhim, Ned Dochtermann, Gergely Hegyi, Peter L. Hurd, Christian Jørgensen, Nobuyuki Kutsukake, Marc J. Lajeunesse, Kimberly A. Pollard, Holger Schielzeth, Matthew R.E. Symonds and Shinichi Nakagawa

Trait duplication by means of sensory bias pp. 1376-1381

Rafael Lucas Rodríguez

Volume 20, issue 5, 2009

Alternative foraging tactics and risk taking in brook charr (Salvelinus fontinalis) pp. 913-921

Michelle Farwell and Robert L. McLaughlin

Larger colonies do not have more specialized workers in the ant Temnothorax albipennis pp. 922-929

Anna Dornhaus, Jo-Anne Holley and Nigel R. Franks

Food limitation increases aggression in juvenile meerkats pp. 930-935

S.J. Hodge, A. Thornton, T.P. Flower and T.H. Clutton-Brock

Vigilance and predator detection vary between avian species with different visual acuity and coverage pp. 936-945

Vanessa Tisdale and Esteban Fernández-Juricic

Adaptive learning in the foraging behavior of the predatory mite Phytoseiulus persimilis pp. 946-950

H. Rahmani, D. Hoffmann, A. Walzer and P. Schausberger

Age-related reproductive performance in the parental burying beetle, Nicrophorus orbicollis pp. 951-956

Stephen T. Trumbo

Cryptic female choice by female control of oviposition timing in a soldier fly pp. 957-960

Flavia Barbosa

Individual quality and reproductive effort mirrored in white wing plumage in both sexes of south polar skuas pp. 961-966

Sveinn Are Hanssen, Jan O. Bustnes, Torkild Tveraa, Dennis Hasselquist, Øystein Varpe and John-André Henden

Evolution and life-history correlates of female song in the New World blackbirds pp. 967-977

J. Jordan Price

Flexible cuckoo chick-rejection rules in the superb fairy-wren pp. 978-984

Naomi E. Langmore, Andrew Cockburn, Andrew F. Russell and Rebecca M. Kilner

Remotely sensed productivity, regional home range selection, and local range use by an omnivorous primate pp. 985-992

Erik P. Willems, Robert A. Barton and Russell A. Hill

Female choice for optimal combinations of multiple male display traits increases offspring survival pp. 993-999

Lesley T. Lancaster, Christy A. Hipsley and Barry Sinervo

Carotenoid-based status signaling by females in the tropical streak-backed oriole pp. 1000-1006

Troy G. Murphy, Diego Hernández-Muciño, Marcela Osorio-Beristain, Robert Montgomerie and Kevin E. Omland

Queen reproductive state modulates pheromone production and queen-worker interactions in honeybees pp. 1007-1014

Sarah D. Kocher, Freddie-Jeanne Richard, David R. Tarpy and Christina M. Grozinger

Should females prefer males with elaborate nests? pp. 1015-1019

Topi K. Lehtonen and Bob B.M. Wong

Effect of parasite-induced behavioral alterations on juvenile development pp. 1020-1025

Fleur Ponton, David Duneau, Marta I. Sánchez, Alexandre Courtiol, Anatoli T. Terekhin, Elena V. Budilova, François Renaud and Frédéric Thomas

Breeding systems, climate, and the evolution of migration in shorebirds pp. 1026-1033

Gabriel E. García-Peña, Gavin H. Thomas, John D. Reynolds and Tamás Székely

Male songbirds provide indirect parental care by guarding females during incubation pp. 1034-1038

Bradley C. Fedy and Thomas E. Martin

Ecological, social, and reproductive factors shape producer--scrounger dynamics in baboons pp. 1039-1049

Andrew J. King, Nick J.B. Isaac and Guy Cowlishaw

Behavioral adaptation of Pallas's squirrels to germination schedule and tannins in acorns pp. 1050-1055

Zhishu Xiao, Xu Gao, Mingmin Jiang and Zhibin Zhang

Inbreeding avoidance through cryptic female choice in the cannibalistic orb-web spider Argiope lobata pp. 1056-1062

Klaas Welke and Jutta M. Schneider

Female-specific ornamentation predicts offspring quality in the striped plateau lizard, Sceloporus virgatus pp. 1063-1071

Stacey L. Weiss, Eileen A. Kennedy and James A. Bernhard

Female ornamentation and directional male mate preference in the rock sparrow pp. 1072-1078

Matteo Griggio, Alessandro Devigili, Herbert Hoi and Andrea Pilastro

Sexual selection on body size and secondary sexual characters in 2 closely related, sympatric chameleons in Madagascar pp. 1079-1088

Kristopher B. Karsten, Laza N. Andriamandimbiarisoa, Stanley F. Fox and Christopher J. Raxworthy

Birdsong tuned to the environment: green hylia song varies with elevation, tree cover, and noise pp. 1089-1095

Alexander N. G. Kirschel, Daniel T. Blumstein, Rachel E. Cohen, Wolfgang Buermann, Thomas B. Smith and Hans Slabbekoorn

Why some memories do not last a lifetime: dynamic long-term retrieval in changing environments pp. 1096-1105

Aimee S. Dunlap, Colleen M. McLinn, Holly A. MacCormick, Matthew E. Scott and Benjamin Kerr

Worker reproduction in mixed-species colonies of honey bees pp. 1106-1110

Ken Tan, Mingxian Yang, Sarah Radloff, Christian W. W. Pirk, Robin M. Crewe, Mananya Phiancharoen, Randall Hepburn and Benjamin P. Oldroyd

Peripheral obstructions influence marmot vigilance: integrating observational and experimental results pp. 1111-1117

Peter A. Bednekoff and Daniel T. Blumstein

Male dominance influences pheromone expression, ejaculate quality, and fertilization success in the Australian field cricket, Teleogryllus oceanicus pp. 1118-1124

Melissa L. Thomas and Leigh W. Simmons

Mate-guarding behavior in clam shrimp: a field approach pp. 1125-1132

Chiara Benvenuto, Brenton Knott and Stephen C. Weeks

Trade-offs between markers of absolute and relative quality in human facial preferences pp. 1133-1137

Tamsin K. Saxton, Anthony C. Little, Hannah M. Rowland, Ting Gao and S. Craig Roberts

The cost of virulence: an experimental study of egg eviction by brood parasitic chicks pp. 1138-1146

Tomáš Grim, Jarkko Rutila, Phillip Cassey and Mark E. Hauber

Males use sex pheromone assessment to tailor ejaculates to risk of sperm competition in a butterfly pp. 1147-1151

Helena Larsdotter Mellström and Christer Wiklund

Volume 20, issue 4, 2009

Protein content of diets dictates the daily energy intake of a free-ranging primate pp. 685-690

Annika M. Felton, Adam Felton, David Raubenheimer, Stephen J. Simpson, William J. Foley, Jeff T. Wood, Ian R. Wallis and David B. Lindenmayer

Parasitic cowbirds may defeat host defense by causing rejecters to misimprint on cowbird eggs pp. 691-699

Bill M. Strausberger and Stephen I. Rothstein

Nutritional enrichment increases courtship intensity and improves mating success in male spiders pp. 700-708

Johannes Peter Lomborg and Søren Toft

Vigilance and predation of a forest-living bird species depend on large-scale habitat structure pp. 709-715

Michael Griesser and Magdalena Nystrand

Beyond waist--hip ratio: experimental multivariate evidence that average women's torsos are most attractive pp. 716-721

Misha L. Donohoe, William von Hippel and Robert C. Brooks

Preexisting behavior renders a mutation adaptive: flexibility in male phonotaxis behavior and the loss of singing ability in the field cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus pp. 722-728

Robin M. Tinghitella, Jeffrey M. Wang and Marlene Zuk

Maternal weight, offspring competitive ability, and the evolution of communal breeding pp. 729-735

Sarah J. Hodge, Matthew B.V. Bell, Francis Mwanguhya, Solomon Kyabulima, Ruth C. Waldick and Andy F. Russell

Reproductive effort in biparental care: an experimental study in long-lived Cape gannets pp. 736-744

Allert I. Bijleveld and Ralf H.E. Mullers

An avian eavesdropping network: alarm signal reliability and heterospecific response pp. 745-752

Robert D. Magrath, Benjamin J. Pitcher and Janet L. Gardner

Secondary sexual trait size reveals competitive fertilization success in Drosophila bipectinata Duda pp. 753-760

Michal Polak and Leigh W. Simmons

Brood size in a polyembryonic parasitoid wasp is affected by relatedness among competing larvae pp. 761-767

Michal Segoli, Ally R. Harari, Amos Bouskila and Tamar Keasar

Female reproductive tactics in a sex-role reversed pipefish: scanning for male quality and number pp. 768-772

K. Silva, V.C. Almada, M.N. Vieira and N.M. Monteiro

Cues, concessions, and inheritance: dominance hierarchies in the paper wasp Polistes dominulus pp. 773-780

Lorenzo Zanette and Jeremy Field

A behavioral syndrome linking courtship behavior toward males and females predicts reproductive success from a single mating in the hissing cockroach, Gromphadorhina portentosa pp. 781-788

David M. Logue, Sandeep Mishra, David McCaffrey, Deborah Ball and William H. Cade

Aggressive Ural owl mothers recruit more offspring pp. 789-796

Pekka Kontiainen, Hannu Pietiäinen, Kalle Huttunen, Patrik Karell, Heikki Kolunen and Jon E. Brommer

A possible case of contemporary selection leading to a decrease in sexual plumage dimorphism in a grassland-breeding shorebird pp. 797-807

Julia Schroeder, Pedro M. Lourenço, Jos C.E.W. Hooijmeijer, Christiaan Both and Theunis Piersma

Hunting efficiency and predation risk shapes the color-associated foraging traits of a predator pp. 808-816

Chun-Min Fan, En-Cheng Yang and I-Min Tso

Queenless colonies of the Asian red dwarf honey bee (Apis florea) are infiltrated by workers from other queenless colonies pp. 817-820

Nadine C. Chapman, Piyamas Nanork, Rosalyn S. Gloag, Wandee Wattanachaiyingcharoen, Madeleine Beekman and Benjamin P. Oldroyd

Nestling begging increases predation risk, regardless of spectral characteristics or avian mobbing pp. 821-829

Paul G. McDonald, David R. Wilson and Christopher S. Evans

Personality traits in wild starlings: exploration behavior and environmental sensitivity pp. 830-837

Jeroen Minderman, Jane M. Reid, Peter G.H. Evans and Mark J. Whittingham

Who Cares? Between-group variation in alloparental caregiving in sperm whales pp. 838-843

Shane Gero, Dan Engelhaupt, Luke Rendell and Hal Whitehead

Variation in dominance hierarchies among group-living animals: modeling stability and the likelihood of coalitions pp. 844-855

Mark Broom, Andreas Koenig and Carola Borries

Condition-dependent mate choice and its implications for population differentiation in the wolf spider Pirata piraticus pp. 856-863

Debbie Eraly, Frederik Hendrickx and Luc Lens

The influence of the acoustic community on songs of birds in a neotropical rain forest pp. 864-871

David Luther

Behavior of kestrels feeding on frugivorous lizards: implications for secondary seed dispersal pp. 872-877

David P. Padilla and Manuel Nogales

Sex-specific parental strategies according to the sex of offspring in the Adélie penguin pp. 878-883

Michaël Beaulieu, Anne-Mathilde Thierry, Thierry Raclot, Yvon Le Maho, Yan Ropert-Coudert, Hélène Gachot-Neveu and André Ancel

Foraging theory and partial consumption in a tardigrade--nematode system pp. 884-890

Karin Hohberg and Walter Traunspurger

Condition-dependent alternative mating tactics in a sexually cannibalistic wolf spider pp. 891-900

Dustin J. Wilgers, Amy C. Nicholas, David H. Reed, Gail E. Stratton and Eileen A. Hebets

Song types, song performance, and the use of repertoires in dark-eyed juncos (Junco hyemalis) pp. 901-907

Gonçalo C. Cardoso, Jonathan W. Atwell, Ellen D. Ketterson and Trevor D. Price

Mate choice copying and mate quality bias: different processes, different species pp. 908-911

Antonios Vakirtzis and S. Craig Roberts

Volume 20, issue 3, 2009

Mimicry in coral reef fish: how accurate is this deception in terms of color and luminance? pp. 459-468

Karen L. Cheney and N. Justin Marshall

The effect of social facilitation on vigilance in the eastern gray kangaroo, Macropus giganteus pp. 469-477

Olivier Pays, Michel Goulard, Simon P. Blomberg, Anne W. Goldizen, Etienne Sirot and Peter J. Jarman

Maternal effects on offspring social status in spotted hyenas pp. 478-483

Marion L. East, Oliver P. Höner, Bettina Wachter, Kerstin Wilhelm, Terry Burke and Heribert Hofer

Modeling the role of competition and cooperation in the evolution of katydid acoustic synchrony pp. 484-489

Vivek Nityananda and Rohini Balakrishnan

Modeling rule-based behavior: habitat selection and the growth-survival trade-off in larval cod pp. 490-500

T. Kristiansen, C. Jørgensen, R. G. Lough, F. Vikebø and &O. Fiksen

Superb fairy-wren males aggregate into hidden leks to solicit extragroup fertilizations before dawn pp. 501-510

Andrew Cockburn, Anastasia H. Dalziell, Caroline J. Blackmore, Michael C. Double, Hanna Kokko, Helen L. Osmond, Nadeena R. Beck, Megan L. Head and Konstans Wells

Species and population differences in social recognition between fishes: a role for ecology? pp. 511-516

A.J.W. Ward, M.M. Webster, A.E. Magurran, S. Currie and J. Krause

Offspring development mode and the evolution of brood parasitism pp. 517-524

Donald C. Dearborn, Lauren S. MacDade, Scott Robinson, Alix D. Dowling Fink and Mark L. Fink

The distribution of unequal predators across food patches is not necessarily (semi)truncated pp. 525-534

Isabel M. Smallegange and Jaap van der Meer

Testosterone increases UV reflectance of sexually selected crown plumage in male blue tits pp. 535-541

Mark L. Roberts, Erica Ras and Anne Peters

Interactive effect of starting distance and approach speed on escape behavior challenges theory pp. 542-546

William E. Cooper, Dror Hawlena and Valentín Pérez-Mellado

Mating behavior in the seed beetle Acanthoscelides obtectus selected for early and late reproduction pp. 547-552

Darka Šešlija, Jelica Lazarević, Boban Janković and Nikola Tucić

Condition-dependent resource value affects male--male competition in the blue--black grassquit pp. 553-559

Eduardo S.A. Santos, Rafael Maia and Regina H. Macedo

What decision rules might pink-footed geese use to depart on migration? An individual-based model pp. 560-569

Olivier Duriez, Silke Bauer, Anne Destin, Jesper Madsen, Bart A. Nolet, Richard A. Stillman and Marcel Klaassen

How important is sex for females of a haplodiploid species under local mate competition? pp. 570-574

Sven Steiner and Joachim Ruther

Why some species of birds do not avoid inbreeding: insights from New Zealand robins and saddlebacks pp. 575-584

Ian G. Jamieson, Sabrina S. Taylor, Lisa N. Tracy, Hanna Kokko and Doug P. Armstrong

Theory successfully predicts hiding time: new data for the lizard Sceloporus virgatus and a review pp. 585-592

William E. Cooper

Behavioral dominance between female color morphs of a Lake Victoria cichlid fish pp. 593-600

Peter D. Dijkstra, Sander van Dijk, Ton G.G. Groothuis, Michele E.R. Pierotti and Ole Seehausen

The cost of infidelity to female reed buntings pp. 601-608

Stefan M. Suter, Joanna Bielańska, Sabine Röthlin-Spillmann, Ludivine Strambini and Dietrich R. Meyer

Hotshots, hot spots, and female preference: exploring lek formation models with a bower-building cichlid fish pp. 609-615

Kyle A. Young, Martin J. Genner, Domino A. Joyce and Marcel P. Haesler

Long-term growth and movement in relation to food supply and social status in a stream fish pp. 616-623

Eric A. Hansen and Gerard P. Closs

A trait-based approach to understand the evolution of complex coalitions in male mammals pp. 624-632

Lucretia E. Olson and Daniel T. Blumstein

How site fidelity leads to individual differences in the foraging activity of harvester ants pp. 633-638

Blair D. Beverly, H. McLendon, S. Nacu, S. Holmes and D. M. Gordon

Sexual coercion in Panorpa scorpionflies?--The function of the notal organ reconsidered pp. 639-643

Dagmar Kock, Sierk Engels, Christiane Fritsche and Klaus P. Sauer

Sex allocation and mate choice of selfed and outcrossed Schistocephalus solidus (Cestoda) pp. 644-650

Solveig Schjørring

Conflict over parental care in house sparrows: do females use a negotiation rule? pp. 651-656

Ádám Z. Lendvai, Zoltán Barta and Olivier Chastel

Examining potential benefits of group living in a sawfly larva, Perga affinis pp. 657-664

Lynn E. Fletcher

Fleeing and hiding under simultaneous risks and costs pp. 665-671

William E. Cooper

Reproductive skew and the evolution of conflict resolution: a synthesis of transactional and tug-of-war models pp. 672-684

Peter M. Buston and Andrew G. Zink

Volume 20, issue 2, 2009

Boldness and behavioral syndromes in the bluegill sunfish, Lepomis macrochirus pp. 231-237

Alexander D.M. Wilson and Jean-Guy J. Godin

Nine-spined sticklebacks deploy a hill-climbing social learning strategy pp. 238-244

Jeremy R. Kendal, Luke Rendell, Thomas W. Pike and Kevin N. Laland

Family conflict and the evolution of sociality in reptiles pp. 245-250

Geoffrey M. While, Tobias Uller and Erik Wapstra

Living with the dead: when the body count rises, prey stick around pp. 251-257

Virgil Fievet, Pauline Le Guigo, Julianne Casquet, Denis Poinsot and Yannick Outreman

Armament under direct sexual selection does not exhibit positive allometry in an earwig pp. 258-264

Emile van Lieshout and Mark Adrian Elgar

Long-term effects of early parasite exposure on song duration and singing strategy in great tits pp. 265-270

Linda L. Bischoff, Barbara Tschirren and Heinz Richner

Intraguild predation, thermoregulation, and microhabitat selection by snakes pp. 271-277

Jonathan K. Webb, Robert M. Pringle and Richard Shine

Prudent male mate choice under perceived sperm competition risk in the eastern mosquito fish pp. 278-282

Bob B. M. Wong and Miranda McCarthy

Social enviroment influences aphid production of alarm pheromone pp. 283-288

François J. Verheggen, Eric Haubruge, Consuelo M. De Moraes and Mark C. Mescher

When are vomiting males attractive? Sexual selection on condition-dependent nuptial feeding in Drosophila subobscura pp. 289-295

Elina Immonen, Anneli Hoikkala, Anahita J.N. Kazem and Michael G. Ritchie

The elusive paradox: owner--intruder roles, strategies, and outcomes in parasitoid contests pp. 296-304

Tom Bentley, Tristan T. Hull, Ian C.W. Hardy and Marlène Goubault

Extrapair paternity in an insular population of house sparrows after the experimental introduction of individuals from the mainland pp. 305-312

Nancy Ockendon, Simon C. Griffith and Terry Burke

Differential effects of structural complexity on predator foraging behavior pp. 313-317

Matt J. Michel and Melinda M. Adams

When predators become prey: flight decisions in jumping spiders pp. 318-327

Theodore Stankowich

Sperm precedence in monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) pp. 328-334

Michelle J. Solensky and Karen S. Oberhauser

Sex allocation in response to local resource competition over breeding territories pp. 335-339

Mårten B. Hjernquist, Katherine A. Thuman Hjernquist, Jukka T. Forsman and Lars Gustafsson

Correlation between exploration activity and use of social information in three-spined sticklebacks pp. 340-345

Shintaro Nomakuchi, Peter J. Park and Michael A. Bell

Temporal variability in a multicomponent trait: nuptial coloration of female two-spotted gobies pp. 346-353

P. Andreas Svensson, Christophe Pélabon, Jonathan D. Blount, Elisabet Forsgren, Bjørn Bjerkeng and Trond Amundsen

Do polyandrous pygmy grasshopper females obtain fitness benefits for their offspring? pp. 354-361

Sofia Caesar and Anders Forsman

Conspicuousness-dependent antipredatory behavior may counteract coloration differences in Iberian rock lizards pp. 362-370

Carlos Cabido, Pedro Galán, Pilar López and José Martín

Antipredator behavior in blackbirds: habituation complements risk allocation pp. 371-377

Iñaki Rodriguez-Prieto, Esteban Fernández-Juricic, José Martín and Yohana Regis

Caste-specific symbiont policing by workers of Acromyrmex fungus-growing ants pp. 378-384

Aniek B.F. Ivens, David R. Nash, Michael Poulsen and Jacobus J. Boomsma

Behavioral changes associated with a population density decline in the facultatively social red fox pp. 385-395

Graziella Iossa, Carl D. Soulsbury, Philip J. Baker, Keith J. Edwards and Stephen Harris

Do hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae) sound like the Hymenoptera they morphologically resemble? pp. 396-402

A. Rashed, M.I. Khan, J.W. Dawson, J.E. Yack and T.N. Sherratt

Competition and brood reduction: testing alternative models of clutch-size evolution in parasitoids pp. 403-409

John J. Pexton, Jetske G. de Boer, George E. Heimpel, Louise E.M. Vet, James B. Whitfield and Paul J. Ode

Lekking satin bowerbird males aggregate with relatives to mitigate aggression pp. 410-415

Sheila M. Reynolds, Mary C. Christman, J. Albert C. Uy, Gail L. Patricelli, Michael J. Braun and Gerald Borgia

Conclusions beyond support: overconfident estimates in mixed models pp. 416-420

Holger Schielzeth and Wolfgang Forstmeier

Group size effect caused by food competition in nutmeg mannikins (Lonchura punctulata) pp. 421-425

Guillaume Rieucau and Luc-Alain Giraldeau

Livestock grazing behavior and inter- versus intraspecific disease risk via the fecal--oral route pp. 426-432

Lesley A. Smith, Piran C.L. White, Glenn Marion and Michael R. Hutchings

Individual differences in protandry, sexual selection, and fitness pp. 433-440

Anders P. Møller, Javier Balbontín, José Javier Cuervo, Ignacio G. Hermosell and F. de Lope

Interactions between masculinity--femininity and apparent health in face preferences pp. 441-445

Finlay G. Smith, Benedict C. Jones, Lisa M. DeBruine and Anthony C. Little

Negotiation between parents over care: reversible compensation during incubation pp. 446-452

András Kosztolányi, Innes C. Cuthill and Tamás Székely

The social and genetic mating system in flickers linked to partially reversed sex roles pp. 453-458

Karen L. Wiebe and Bart Kempenaers

Volume 20, issue 1, 2009

Seeing red: behavioral evidence of trichromatic color vision in strepsirrhine primates pp. 1-12

S.D. Leonhardt, J. Tung, J.B. Camden, M. Leal and C.M. Drea

Dragonfly larvae and tadpole frog space use games in varied light conditions pp. 13-21

Barney Luttbeg, John I. Hammond and Andrew Sih

Vigilance and its complex synchrony in the red-necked pademelon, Thylogale thetis pp. 22-29

Olivier Pays, Anne-Laure Dubot, Peter J. Jarman, Patrice Loisel and Anne W. Goldizen

Behavioral syndrome over the boundaries of life--carryovers from larvae to adult damselfly pp. 30-37

Tomas Brodin

Sperm length evolution in the fungus-growing ants pp. 38-45

Boris Baer, Michiel B. Dijkstra, Ulrich G. Mueller, David R. Nash and Jacobus J. Boomsma

Kin recognition via cuticular hydrocarbons shapes cockroach social life pp. 46-53

Mathieu Lihoreau and Colette Rivault

An intimidating ornament in a female pipefish pp. 54-59

Anders Berglund and Gunilla Rosenqvist

Female-biased natal dispersal in the Siberian flying squirrel pp. 60-67

Ilpo K. Hanski and Vesa Selonen

Previous experiences shape adaptive mate preferences pp. 68-78

Tim W. Fawcett and Colin Bleay

Female grooming markets in a population of gray-cheeked mangabeys (Lophocebus albigena) pp. 79-86

Rebecca L. Chancellor and Lynne A. Isbell

Postsettlement movement patterns and homing in a coral-associated fish pp. 87-95

Marlene Wall and Jürgen Herler

The protective value of conspicuous signals is not impaired by shape, size, or position asymmetry pp. 96-102

Martin Stevens, Sarah A. Castor-Perry and Jessica R.F. Price

The development of foraging microhabitat preferences in meerkats pp. 103-110

Alex Thornton and Sarah J. Hodge

Chick-a-dee call variation in Carolina chickadees and recruiting flockmates to food pp. 111-116

Ellen J. Mahurin and Todd M. Freeberg

Fecundity compromises attractiveness when pigments are scarce pp. 117-123

Judith Morales, Alberto Velando and Roxana Torres

Caribbean damselfish with varying territory quality: correlated behaviors but not a syndrome pp. 124-130

Jennifer L. Snekser, Joseph Leese, Alexandra Ganim and Murray Itzkowitz

Food availability and parasite infection influence mating tactics in guppies (Poecilia reticulata) pp. 131-137

Gita R. Kolluru, Gregory F. Grether, Eric Dunlop and Sandra H. South

Color polymorphism and intrasexual competition in assemblages of cichlid fish pp. 138-144

Peter D. Dijkstra, Charlotte Hemelrijk, Ole Seehausen and Ton G.G. Groothuis

Effects of group size and personality on social foraging: the distribution of sheep across patches pp. 145-152

Pablo Michelena, Angela M. Sibbald, Hans W. Erhard and James E. McLeod

Experience does not alter alternative mating tactics in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides pp. 153-159

Craig A. Walling, Clare E. Stamper, Claire L. Salisbury and Allen J. Moore

Mate choice, operational sex ratio, and social promiscuity in a wild population of the long-snouted seahorse Hippocampus guttulatus pp. 160-164

Marie-José Naud, Janelle M.R. Curtis, Lucy C. Woodall and Miguel B. Gaspar

Shoal composition determines foraging success in the guppy pp. 165-171

John R.G. Dyer, Darren P. Croft, Lesley J. Morrell and Jens Krause

Manipulation of male attractiveness induces rapid changes in avian maternal yolk androgen deposition pp. 172-179

Sjouke A. Kingma, Jan Komdeur, Oscar Vedder, Nikolaus von Engelhardt, Peter Korsten and Ton G.G. Groothuis

Aggression and fitness differences between plumage morphs in the common buzzard (Buteo buteo) pp. 180-185

M. Boerner and O. Krüger

Effect of predation risk, body size, and habitat characteristics on emigration decisions in mallards pp. 186-194

Pierre Legagneux, Pablo Inchausti, François Bourguemestre, Franck Latraube and Vincent Bretagnolle

Females decide whether size matters: plastic mate preferences tuned to the intensity of male--male competition pp. 195-199

Topi K. Lehtonen and Kai Lindström

The deterrent effect of bird song in territory defense pp. 200-206

Selvino R. de Kort, Erin R. B. Eldermire, Emily R. A. Cramer and Sandra L. Vehrencamp

Experimental evaluation of sex differences in territory acquisition in a cooperatively breeding bird pp. 207-214

Cas Eikenaar, David S. Richardson, Lyanne Brouwer, Rachel Bristol and Jan Komdeur

Begging and cowbirds: brood parasites make hosts scream louder pp. 215-221

Giuseppe Boncoraglio, Nicola Saino and László Z. Garamszegi

Do male paternity guards ensure female fidelity in a duetting fairy-wren? pp. 222-228

Michelle L. Hall and Anne Peters