Behavioral Ecology

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Volume 33, issue 6, 2022

Light received by embryos promotes postnatal junior phenotypes in a seabird (The evolution of social behavior) pp. 1047-1057

Francisco Ruiz-Raya, Jose C Noguera and Alberto Velando

On the strategic learning of signal associations (Fitting linear mixed-effects models using lme4) pp. 1058-1069

Thomas N Sherratt and James Voll

Monks relax sibling competition over parental resources in Tibetan populations (Cooperative breeding in birds: a comparative test of the life history hypothesis) pp. 1070-1079

Liqiong Zhou, Erhao Ge, Alberto J C Micheletti, Yuan Chen, Juan Du and Ruth Mace

Kin do not always help: testing multiple hypotheses on nest feeding in a cooperatively breeding bird (On the Existence of Maximum Likelihood Estimates in Logistic Regression Models) pp. 1080-1092

Laurence Cousseau, Dries Van de Loock, Beate Apfelbeck, Mwangi Githiru, Erik Matthysen and Luc Lens

Sexual selection for flight performance in hummingbirds (Daring females, devoted males, and reversed sexual size dimorphism in the sand-dwelling spider Allocosa brasiliensis (Araneae, Lycosidae)) pp. 1093-1106

Sean C Wilcox and Christopher J Clark

Chemical footprints mediate habitat selection in co-occurring aphids (Repellency and toxicity of the crude ethanolic extract of Limoniastrum guyonianum against Tribolium castaneum) pp. 1107-1114

Mitzy F Porras, Nathaniel McCartney, Günther Raspotnig and Edwin G Rajotte

Anthropogenic noise and light alter temporal but not spatial breeding behavior in a wild frog (Lack of consistent responses to aircraft noise in dawn song timing of bird populations near tropical airports) pp. 1115-1122

Andrew D Cronin, Judith A H Smit and Wouter Halfwerk

Triparental ageing in a laboratory population of an insect with maternal care (Male age alone predicts paternity success under sperm competition when effects of age and past mating effort are experimentally separated) pp. 1123-1132

Hilary Cope, Edward R Ivimey-Cook and Jacob Moorad

Habitat change alters the expression and efficiency of a female ornament (Does eutrophication-driven evolution change aquatic ecosystems?) pp. 1133-1140

Sini Bäckroos, Lea Ala-Ilomäki and Ulrika Candolin

Personality-mediated speed-accuracy tradeoffs in mating in a 17-year periodical cicada (Does perceived predation risk affect patterns of extra-pair paternity? A field experiment in a passerine bird) pp. 1141-1152

Allison M Roth, Sarah M Kent, Elizabeth A Hobson, Gene Kritsky and Shinichi Nakagawa

The mere presence of cuckoos in breeding area alters egg-ejection decisions in Daurian redstarts (Model cuckoo Cuculus canorus eggs accepted by Rufous bush chats Cercotrichas galactotes during the parasite’s absence from the breeding area) pp. 1153-1160

Jinggang Zhang, Peter Santema, Jianqiang Li, William E Feeney, Wenhong Deng and Bart Kempenaers

Jumping out of trouble: evidence for a cognitive map in guppies (Poecilia reticulata) (Animal navigation) pp. 1161-1169

Hannah De Waele, Catarina Vila Pouca, Dimphy van Boerdonk, Ewoud Luiten, Lisanne M Leenheer, David Mitchell, Regina Vega-Trejo and Alexander Kotrschal

Effects of resource availability on the web structure of female western black widows: is the web structure constrained by physiological trade-offs? (Predators that benefit prey and prey that harm predators: unusual effects of interacting foraging adaptation) pp. 1170-1179

Louis-Philippe Toupin, Tom Ratz and Pierre-Olivier Montiglio

Something in the wind: the influence of wind speed and direction on African lion movement behavior (The role of vibrissae in behavior: a status review) pp. 1180-1187

Matthew Wijers, Paul Trethowan, Byron du Preez, Andrew J Loveridge, Andrew Markham, David W Macdonald and Robert A Montgomery

Metabolic rate shapes differences in foraging efficiency among honeybee foragers (Life-history strategies of optimal foragers) pp. 1188-1195

Julian Cassano and Dhruba Naug

Black and orange coloration predict success during male–male competition in the guppy (Sexual selection, natural selection and quality advertisement) pp. 1196-1206

Alexa G Guerrera, M J Daniel and K A Hughes

Volume 33, issue 5, 2022

Can you hear/see me? Multisensory integration of signals does not always facilitate mate choice (Exact inference for categorical data: recent advances and continuing controversies) pp. 903-911

Derek A Coss, Michael J Ryan, Rachel A Page, Kimberly L Hunter and Ryan C Taylor

Female blue tits sing frequently: a sex comparison of occurrence, context, and structure of song (Ultraviolet sexual dimorphism and assortative mating in blue tits) pp. 912-925

Javier Sierro, Selvino R de Kort, Katharina Riebel and Ian R Hartley

Why does the complexity of functionally equivalent signals vary across closely related species? (Multiple receivers, multiple ornaments, and a trade-off between agonistic and epigamic signaling in a widowbird) pp. 926-936

Claire M V Nelson, William B Sherwin and Terry J Ord

Plasticity of snowy plover incubation behaviors in response to risks of nest predation (The influence of a hot environment on parental cooperation of a ground-nesting shorebird, the Kentish plover Charadrius alexandrinus) pp. 937-945

Kristen S Ellis, Randy T Larsen, Cameron K Ghalambor and David N Koons

Previous inter-sexual aggression increases female mating propensity in fruit flies (The evolution of polyandry: multiple mating and female fitness in insects) pp. 946-953

David C S Filice and Reuven Dukas

Resource-dependent investment in male sexual traits in a viviparous fish (Body size and its effect on male-male competition in Hylaeus alcyoneus (Hymenoptera: Colletidae)) pp. 954-966

Erika Fernlund Isaksson, Charel Reuland, Ariel F Kahrl, Alessandro Devigili and John L Fitzpatrick

Studying predator foraging mode and hunting success at the individual level with an online videogame (On the problem of predicting real world characteristics from virtual worlds) pp. 967-978

Maxime Fraser Franco, Francesca Santostefano, Clint D Kelly and Pierre-Olivier Montiglio

Failed despots and the equitable distribution of fitness in a subsidized species (Despotic distribution, unequal reproductive success, and population regulation in the jay Garrulus glandarius L) pp. 979-988

Kristin M Brunk, Elena H West, M Zachariah Peery and Anna Pidgeon

Predicting foraging dive outcomes in chinstrap penguins using biologging and animal-borne cameras (Pursuit of food versus pursuit of information in a Markovian perception-action loop model of foraging) pp. 989-998

Fabrizio Manco, Stephen D J Lang and Philip N Trathan

Environment and mate attractiveness in a wild insect (Female pied flycatchers choose territory quality and not male characteristics) pp. 999-1006

Tom Tregenza, Petri T Niemelä, Rolando Rodríguez-Muñoz and Paul E Hopwood

Patch quality and habitat fragmentation shape the foraging patterns of a specialist folivore (The effects of experimental habitat destruction and patch isolation on space use and fitness parameters in female root vole Microtus oeconomus) pp. 1007-1017

Mathew S Crowther, Adrian I Rus, Valentina S A Mella, Mark B Krockenberger, Jasmine Lindsay, Ben D Moore and Clare McArthur

Female fruit flies copy the acceptance, but not the rejection, of a mate (The evolutionary consequences of mate copying on male traits) pp. 1018-1024

Sabine Nöbel, Magdalena Monier, Laura Fargeot, Guillaume Lespagnol, Etienne Danchin and Guillaume Isabel

Neonate personality affects early-life resource acquisition in a large social mammal (An analysis of vigilance in the Spanish ibex (Capra pyrenaica)) pp. 1025-1035

Bawan Amin, Dómhnall J Jennings, Alison Norman, Andrew Ryan, Vasiliki Ioannidis, Alice Magee, Hayley-Anne Haughey, Amy Haigh and Simone Ciuti

Call combinations in chimpanzees: a social tool? (Semantic combinations in primate calls) pp. 1036-1043

Maël Leroux, Bosco Chandia, Alexandra B Bosshard, Klaus Zuberbühler and Simon W Townsend

Volume 33, issue 4, 2022

What is cultural evolution anyway? pp. 667-669

Alberto J C Micheletti, Eva Brandl and Ruth Mace

Captivating color: evidence for optimal stimulus design in a polymorphic prey lure pp. 670-678

Darrell J Kemp, Will Edwards and Thomas E White

Female countertactics to male feticide and infanticide in a multilevel primate society pp. 679-687

Zuofu Xiang, Yang Yu, Hui Yao, Qinglang Hu, Wanji Yang and Ming Li

Risky business: males choose more receptive adults over safer subadults in a cannibalistic spider pp. 688-697

Lenka Sentenská, Catherine Scott, Pierick Mouginot and Maydianne C B Andrade

Individuals with larger head volume have better learning ability in wild chestnut thrushes pp. 698-704

Yingqiang Lou, Yuqi Zou, Yun Fang, Jon E Swenson, Anders Pape Møller and Yuehua Sun

Short-term social dynamics following anthropogenic and natural disturbances in a free-living mammal pp. 705-720

Gabriella E C Gall, Julian C Evans, Matthew J Silk, Chelsea A Ortiz-Jimenez and Jennifer E Smith

Factors influencing dispersal initiation and timing in a facultative cooperative breeder pp. 721-730

Samantha L Dietz, Emily H DuVal and James A Cox

Anthropogenic light and noise affect the life histories of female Gryllus veletis field crickets pp. 731-739

Darren Rebar, Corey Bishop and Allysa C Hallett

Maximum performance expression is affected by octopamine and antennae removal in Acheta domesticus pp. 740-744

Andrew Bubak, John Swallow, Fadeke Adeola and Simon P Lailvaux

Heterogeneity in resource competition covaries with individual variation in long-term social relationships pp. 745-757

Alexis L Levengood, Kasha Strickland, Vivienne Foroughirad, Janet Mann, Romane H Cristescu, Ewa Krzyszczyk and Céline H Frère

Shoaling in the Trinidadian guppy: costs, benefits, and plasticity in response to an ambush predator pp. 758-766

Anna Li, Jean M L Richardson and F Helen Rodd

The role of behavioral type composition on resource use and growth of a juvenile predator pp. 767-774

Michael A Nannini, Joseph J Parkos and David Wahl

Once an optimist, always an optimist? Studying cognitive judgment bias in mice pp. 775-788

Marko Bračić, Lena Bohn, Viktoria Siewert, Vanessa T von Kortzfleisch, Holger Schielzeth, Sylvia Kaiser, Norbert Sachser and S Helene Richter

Hierarchy of fear: experimentally testing ungulate reactions to lion, African wild dog and cheetah pp. 789-797

Noa L A Rigoudy, Michael Clinchy, Mike J S Peel, Sarah Huebner, Craig Packer and Liana Y Zanette

Ecological adaptation and birdsong: how body and bill sizes affect passerine sound frequencies pp. 798-806

Jakob Isager Friis, Joana Sabino, Pedro Santos, Torben Dabelsteen and Gonçalo C Cardoso

Social integration predicts survival in female white-faced capuchin monkeys pp. 807-815

Kotrina Kajokaite, Andrew Whalen, Jeremy Koster and Susan Perry

Exposure to elevated temperature during development affects bumblebee foraging behavior pp. 816-824

Maxence Gérard, Bérénice Cariou, Maxime Henrion, Charlotte Descamps and Emily Baird

Social information use about novel aposematic prey depends on the intensity of the observed cue pp. 825-832

Clelia Mulà, Rose Thorogood and Liisa Hämäläinen

Mating traits are phenotypically but not genetically correlated to fitness pp. 833-843

Julie M Collet and Jacqueline L Sztepanacz

Coordination of care by breeders and helpers in the cooperatively breeding long-tailed tit pp. 844-858

Chay Halliwell, Andrew P Beckerman, Marion Germain, Samantha C Patrick, Amy E Leedale and Ben J Hatchwell

Varied female and male courtship behavior facilitated the evolution of a novel sexual signal pp. 859-867

Sophia L Fitzgerald, Sophia C Anner and Robin M Tinghitella

Site fidelity increases reproductive success by increasing foraging efficiency in a marine predator pp. 868-875

Ginger A Rebstock, Briana Abrahms and P Dee Boersma

Multisensory integration facilitates perceptual restoration of an interrupted call in a species of frog pp. 876-883

Bicheng Zhu, Yue Yang, Ya Zhou, Ke Deng, Tongliang Wang, Jichao Wang, Yezhong Tang, Michael J Ryan and Jianguo Cui

Iridescence untwined: honey bees can separate hue variations in space and time pp. 884-891

Leslie Ng, Laura Ospina-Rozo, Jair E Garcia, Adrian G Dyer and Devi Stuart-Fox

Mating competition and adult sex ratio in wild Trinidadian guppies pp. 892-900

Pierre J C Chuard, James W A Grant and Grant E Brown

Correction to: Female-biased sex ratios in urban centers create a “fertility trap” in post-war Finland pp. 901-901

Jenni E Pettay, Virpi Lummaa, Robert Lynch and John Loehr

Volume 33, issue 3, 2022

Spatial personalities: a meta-analysis of consistent individual differences in spatial behavior pp. 477-486

Erica F Stuber, Ben S Carlson and Brett R Jesmer

Repeatability is the first step in a broader hypothesis test: a comment on Stuber et al pp. 487-488

Eric Vander Wal, Quinn M R Webber and Michel P Laforge

Moving away from repeatability: a comment on Stuber et al pp. 488-489

Niels J Dingemanse, Anne G Hertel and Raphael Royauté

Dissecting how behavior and environment shape spatial personalities: a comment on Stuber et al pp. 489-491

Orr Spiegel and Noa Pinter-Wollman

The development of spatial personalities: a comment on Stuber et al pp. 491-492

Karen E Mabry

Many avenues for spatial personality research: a response to comments on Stuber et al. (2022) pp. 492-493

Erica F Stuber, Ben S Carlson and Brett R Jesmer

Made-up mouths with preen oil reveal genetic and phenotypic conditions of starling nestlings pp. 494-503

Juan José Soler, Ester Martínez-Renau, Manuel Azcárate-García, Cristina Ruiz-Castellano, José Martín and Manuel Martín-Vivaldi

The oxidative cost of helping and its minimization in a cooperative breeder pp. 504-517

XRita Covas, Sophie Lardy, Liliana R Silva, Benjamin Rey, André C Ferreira, Franck Theron, Arnaud Tognetti, Bruno Faivre and Claire Doutrelant

Tradeoffs associated with autotomy and regeneration and their potential role in the evolution of regenerative abilities pp. 518-525

Tara Prestholdt, Tai White-Toney, Katie Bates, Kara Termulo, Sawyer Reid, Katy Kennedy, Zach Turley, Clayton Steed, Ryan Kain, Matt Ortman, Tim Luethke, Spencer Degerstedt and Masis Isikbay

Familiarity, dominance, sex and season shape common waxbill social networks pp. 526-540

Ana Cristina R Gomes, Patrícia Beltrão, Neeltje J Boogert and Gonçalo C Cardoso

Living in mixed-sex groups limits sexual selection as a driver of pelage dimorphism in bovids pp. 541-548

Giacomo D’Ammando, Daniel W Franks and Jakob Bro-Jørgensen

Brood as booty: the effect of colony size and resource value in social insect contests pp. 549-555

Kenneth James Chapin, Victor Alexander Paat and Anna Dornhaus

Wild zebra finches are attracted towards acoustic cues from conspecific social groups pp. 556-564

Corinna Adrian, Simon C Griffith, Marc Naguib and Wiebke Schuett

Differential parasitism of native and invasive widow spider egg sacs pp. 565-572

Monica A Mowery, Valeria Arabesky, Yael Lubin and Michal Segoli

Environmental variability as a predictor of behavioral flexibility in urban environments pp. 573-581

Reut Vardi and Oded Berger-Tal

Size-dependent aggression towards kin in a cannibalistic species pp. 582-591

Chloe A Fouilloux, Lutz Fromhage, Janne K Valkonen and Bibiana Rojas

Breeding site fidelity is lower in polygamous shorebirds and male-biased in monogamous species pp. 592-605

Eunbi Kwon, 2Mihai Valcu, Margherita Cragnolini, Martin Bulla, Bruce Lyon and Bart Kempenaers

Temporal dissonance between group size and its benefits requires whole-of-lifecycle measurements pp. 606-614

Lucas R Hearn, Ben A Parslow, Mark I Stevens and Michael P Schwarz

Habitat choice versus habitat transformation in a nest-building fish: which matters most? pp. 615-623

Marius Dhamelincourt, Jacques Rives, Frédéric Lange, Arturo Elosegi and Cédric Tentelier

No signs of behavioral evolution of threespine stickleback following northern pike invasion pp. 624-633

Dale R StevensII, Christina I Bardjis, John A Baker, Susan A Foster and Matthew A Wund

Should I stay or should I go? Behavioral adjustments of fur seals related to foraging success pp. 634-643

Mathilde Chevallay, Christophe Guinet and Tiphaine Jeanniard-Du-Dot

Harvester ant nest architecture is more strongly affected by intrinsic than extrinsic factors pp. 644-653

Sean O’Fallon, Eva Sofia Horna Lowell, Doug Daniels and Noa Pinter-Wollman

Social drivers of maturation age in female geladas pp. 654-664

Jacob A Feder, Jacinta C Beehner, Alice Baniel, Thore J Bergman, Noah Snyder-Mackler and Amy Lu

Corrigendum to: Males perceive honest information from female released sex pheromone in a moth pp. 665-665

Adrea Gonzalez-Karlsson, Yftach Golov, Hadass Steinitz, Aviad Moncaz, Eyal Halon, A Rami Horowitz, Inna Goldenberg, Roi Gurka, Alexander Liberzon, Victoria Soroker, Russell Jurenka and Ally R Harari

Volume 33, issue 2, 2022

Pollinators adjust their behavior to presence of pollinator-transmitted pathogen in plant population pp. 319-328

Klára Koupilová, Jakub Štenc and Zdeněk Janovský

Fighting over defense chemicals disrupts mating behavior pp. 329-335

Sarah Catherine Paul and Caroline Müller

Post-fledging behavioral ecology of migratory songbirds: how do fledgling activity rates vary across species? pp. 336-342

Todd M Jones and Michael P Ward

Influence of rainfall on foraging behavior of a tropical seabird pp. 343-351

Federico De Pascalis, Rhiannon E Austin, Jonathan A Green, John P Y Arnould, Simona Imperio, Maurizio Maugeri, Jane Haakonsson, Jacopo G Cecere and Diego Rubolini

Structural equation modeling reveals determinants of fitness in a cooperatively breeding bird pp. 352-363

Michela Busana, Franz J Weissing, Martijn Hammers, Joke Bakker, Hannah L Dugdale, Sara Raj Pant, David S Richardson, Terrence A Burke and Jan Komdeur

Spoiled for choice: number of signalers constrains mate choice based on acoustic signals pp. 364-375

Jessie C Tanner and Leigh W Simmons

Moonlight influence on quality of nestlings of scops owls depends on paternal coloration pp. 376-385

Jesús M Avilés, Ángel Cruz-Miralles and Deseada Parejo

Optimal distributions of central-place foragers: honey bee foraging in a mass flowering crop pp. 386-397

Samuel V J Robinson, Shelley E Hoover, Stephen F Pernal and Ralph V Cartar

Immigrant males’ knowledge influences baboon troop movements to reduce home range overlap and mating competition pp. 398-407

Julien Collet, Nathalie Pettorelli, Alice Baniel, Alecia J Carter, Elise Huchard, Andrew J King, Alexander E G Lee, Harry H Marshall and Guy Cowlishaw

Cohort consequences of drought and family disruption for male and female African elephants pp. 408-418

Phyllis C Lee, Cynthia J Moss, Norah Njiraini, Joyce H Poole, Katito Sayialel and Vicki L Fishlock

Cold winters have morph-specific effects on natal dispersal distance in a wild raptor pp. 419-427

Arianna Passarotto, Chiara Morosinotto, Jon E Brommer, Esa Aaltonen, Kari Ahola, Teuvo Karstinen and Patrik Karell

Mesopredators retain their fear of humans across a development gradient pp. 428-435

Chloe M Reilly, Justin P Suraci, Justine A Smith, Yiwei Wang and Christopher C Wilmers

Dehydrated males are less likely to dive into the mating pool pp. 436-445

Christopher R Friesen, Emily J Uhrig and Robert T Mason

Behavioral flexibility facilitates the use of spatial and temporal refugia during variable winter weather pp. 446-454

Neil A Gilbert, Jennifer L Stenglein, Timothy R Van Deelen, Philip A Townsend and Benjamin Zuckerberg

Territoriality modifies the effects of habitat complexity on animal behavior: a meta-analysis pp. 455-466

Kathleen D W Church, Jean-Michel Matte and James W A Grant

Ecology of fear and its effect on seed dispersal by a neotropical rodent pp. 467-473

Dumas Gálvez and Marisol Hernández

Erratum to: Dying to cooperate: the role of environmental harshness in human collaboration pp. 474-474

Paul Ibbotson, Cristian Jimenez-Romero and Karen M Page

Corrigendum to: Mesopredators retain their fear of humans across a development gradient pp. 475-475

Chloe M Reilly, Justin P Suraci, Justine A Smith, Yiwei Wang and Christopher C Wilmers

Volume 33, issue 1, 2022

The nature of privilege: intergenerational wealth in animal societies (Intergenerational wealth transmission and the dynamics of inequality in small-scale societies) pp. 1-6

Jennifer E Smith, B Natterson-Horowitz and Michael E Alfaro

Effects of chronic and acute predation risk on sexual ornamentation and mating preferences (Effects of perceived predation risk and social environment on the development of three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) morphology) pp. 7-16

Joachim G Frommen, Timo Thünken, Francesca Santostefano, Valentina Balzarini and Attila Hettyey

Evidence for morph-specific substrate choice in a green-brown polymorphic grasshopper (Differential habitat selection by pygmy grasshopper color morphs; interactive effects of temperature and predator avoidance) pp. 17-26

Pauline Heinze, Petra Dieker, Hannah M Rowland and Holger Schielzeth

Conditional natal dispersal provides a mechanism for populations tracking resource pulses after fire (Correcting biased estimates of dispersal and survival due to limited study area: theory and an application using wrentits) pp. 27-36

Andrew N Stillman, Teresa J Lorenz, Rodney B Siegel, Robert L Wilkerson, Matthew Johnson and Morgan W Tingley

Zebra finch song is a very short-range signal in the wild: evidence from an integrated approach (Song and aggressive signaling in Bachman’s Sparrow) pp. 37-46

Hugo Loning, Simon C Griffith and Marc Naguib

Emergence and repeatability of leadership and coordinated motion in fish shoals (The continuous wavelet transform: moving beyond uni- and bivariate analysis) pp. 47-54

Dimitra G Georgopoulou, Andrew J King, Rowan M Brown and Ines Fürtbauer

Postcopulatory sexual selection is associated with sperm aggregate quality in Peromyscus mice (Fitting linear mixed-effects models using lme4) pp. 55-64

Kristin A Hook, W David Weber and Heidi S Fisher

Social status does not predict in-camp integration among egalitarian hunter-gatherer men (Socioeconomic inequalities in health. No easy solution) pp. 65-76

Piotr Fedurek, Athena Aktipis, Lee Cronk, E Jerryson Makambi, Ibrahim Mabulla, J Colette Berbesque and Julia Lehmann

Context-dependent coloration of prey and predator decision making in contrasting light environments (Color contrast and stability as key elements for effective warning signals) pp. 77-86

Ossi Nokelainen, Francisko de Moraes Rezende, Janne K Valkonen and Johanna Mappes

Song varies with latitude, climate, and species richness in a Neotropical bird (Bird bioacoustic surveys – developing a standard protocol) pp. 87-100

Edvaldo F Silva-Jr, Pedro Diniz and Regina H Macedo

An evolutionary model of sensitive periods when the reliability of cues varies across ontogeny (Transgenerational induction of defences in animals and plants) pp. 101-114

Nicole Walasek, Willem E Frankenhuis and Karthik Panchanathan

Marmot mass gain rates relate to their group’s social structure (Postweaning mass gain in juvenile alpine marmots Marmota marmota) pp. 115-125

Conner S Philson, Sophia M Todorov and Daniel T Blumstein

Mechanisms of reduced interspecific interference between territorial species (An assessment of marking techniques for odonates in the family Calopterygidae) pp. 126-136

Shawn McEachin, Jonathan P Drury, Christopher N Anderson and Gregory F Grether

Social environment shapes female settlement decisions in a solitary carnivore (Social barriers in ecological landscapes: the social resistance hypothesis) pp. 137-146

J E Hansen, A G Hertel, S C Frank, J Kindberg and A Zedrosser

Does developmental environment affect sexual conflict? An experimental test in the seed beetle (Postinsemination associations between males and females in insects: the mate-guarding hypothesis) pp. 147-155

Zhuzhi Zhang and 1Megan L Head

Crocodile social environments dictated by male philopatry (Unifying spatial and social network analysis in disease ecology) pp. 156-166

Cameron J Baker, Céline H Frère, Craig E Franklin, Hamish A Campbell, Terri R Irwin and Ross G Dwyer

Habitat fragmentation induces rapid divergence of migratory and isolated sticklebacks (Evidence for trade-off between defensive morphology and startle-response performance in the brook stickleback (Culaea inconstans)) pp. 167-177

Aparajitha Ramesh, Ton G G Groothuis, Franz J Weissing and Marion Nicolaus

Group intrusions by a brood parasitic fish are not cooperative (Nest predation by cowbirds and its consequences for passerine demography) pp. 178-183

Radim Blažek, Matěj Polačik and Martin Reichard

Efficiency of antlion trap design and larval behavior in capture success (Habitat choice and complex decision making in a trap-building predator) pp. 184-189

Vesna Klokočovnik and Dušan Devetak

Dying to cooperate: the role of environmental harshness in human collaboration (Games among relatives revisited) pp. 190-201

Paul Ibbotson, Cristian Jimenez-Romero and Karen M Page

Allo-preening is linked to vocal signature development in a wild parrot (Grooming-at-a-distance by exchanging calls in non-human primates) pp. 202-212

Caleb M M Arellano, Nurialby Viloria Canelón, Soraya Delgado and Karl S Berg

Condition- and context-dependent alternative reproductive tactic in Drosophila prolongata (Contribution of larval nutrition to adult reproduction in Drosophila melanogaster) pp. 213-221

Jhoniel Perdigón Ferreira and Stefan Lüpold

Family dynamics reveal that female house mice preferentially breed in their maternal community (Proximate causes of natal dispersal in female yellow-bellied marmots, Marmota flaviventris) pp. 222-232

Julian C Evans, Anna K Lindholm and Barbara König

Testing hormonal responses to real and simulated social challenges in a competitive female bird (Not one hormone or another: aggression differentially affects progesterone and testosterone in a South American ovenbird) pp. 233-244

Elizabeth M George, Sarah E Wolf, Alexandra B Bentz and Kimberly A Rosvall

MHC-II distance between parents predicts sex allocation decisions in a genetically monogamous bird (The effect of parental and maternal-fetal histocompatibility at MHC on sex ratio in offspring) pp. 245-251

Maxime Pineaux, Thomas Merkling, Etienne Danchin, Scott A Hatch, Sarah Leclaire and Pierrick Blanchard

Female preference for color-enhanced males: a test of the sensory bias model in medaka, a drab fish (A new system for marking hatchling turtles using visible implant elastomer) pp. 252-262

Benjamin M B Downer-Bartholomew and F Helen Rodd

Resource predictability drives interannual variation in migratory behavior in a long-lived bird (Climate mediates the success of migration strategies in a marine predator) pp. 263-270

Jan M Baert, Eric W M Stienen, 9Frederick Verbruggen, Nico Van de Weghe, Luc Lens and Wendt Müller

Adult sex ratio and male body condition affect alternative reproductive tactics in a spider (Sperm storage mediated by cryptic female choice for nuptial gifts) pp. 271-279

Daniel Heimerl, Pavla Dudová, Karoline Wacker, Elisa Schenkel, Garance Despréaux and Cristina Tuni

Male courtship reduces the risk of female aggression in web-building spiders but varies in structure (Sexual selection for male sacrifice in the Australian redback spider) pp. 280-287

Anne E Wignall and Marie E Herberstein

Natural and anthropogenic noise increase vigilance and decrease foraging behaviors in song sparrows (Variance inflation factor: as a condition for the inclusion of suppressor variable(s) in regression analysis) pp. 288-297

K A Sweet, B P Sweet, D G E Gomes, C D Francis and J R Barber

Chronic predation risk affects prey escape abilities through behavioral and physiological changes (Combined effects of predator cues and competition define habitat choice and food consumption of amphipod mesograzers) pp. 298-306

Łukasz Jermacz, Hanna Kletkiewicz, Małgorzata Poznańska-Kakareko, Maciej Klimiuk and Jarosław Kobak

Habitat complexity and complex signal function – exploring the role of ornamentation (Pillar building in the fiddler crab Uca beebei: evidence for a condition-dependent ornament) pp. 307-317

Dustin J Wilgers, J Colton Watts and Eileen A Hebets