Behavioral Ecology

2002 - 2025

Current editor(s): Louise Barrett

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Volume 31, issue 6, 2020

A meta-analysis of factors influencing the strength of mate-choice copying in animals pp. 1279-1290

Alice D Davies, Zenobia Lewis, Liam R Dougherty and Michael D Jennions

Two research avenues for future mate-choice copying studies: a comment on Davies et al pp. 1291-1292

Manuel Sapage and Susana A M Varela

First evidence for a significant effect of the regression to the mean fallacy in mate copying: a comment on Davies et al pp. 1292-1293

Etienne Danchin, Sabine Nöbel, Arnaud Pocheville and Guillaume Isabel

I’ll have what she’s having: a comment on Davies et al pp. 1293-1294

Emily H DuVal and Blake Carlton Jones

The imitation game: a comment on Davies et al pp. 1294-1294

Robert C Brooks

Addressing the taxonomic bias: a response to comments on Davies et al pp. 1295-1295

Liam R Dougherty, Zenobia Lewis, Alice D Davies and Leigh Simmons

Tracking sickness effects on social encounters via continuous proximity sensing in wild vampire bats pp. 1296-1302

Simon P Ripperger, Sebastian Stockmaier, Gerald G Carter and Noa Pinter-Wollman

Analysis of within-individual variation in extrapair paternity in blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) shows low repeatability and little effect of changes in neighborhood pp. 1303-1315

Kristina B Beck, Mihai Valcu, Bart Kempenaers and Marc Naguib

Environmentally driven escalation of host egg rejection decimates success of an avian brood parasite pp. 1316-1325

John M Eadie, Bruce E Lyon and Marc Naguib

Heat wave effects on the behavior and life-history traits of sedentary antlions pp. 1326-1333

Krzysztof Miler, Daniel Stec and Marcin Czarnoleski

Metabolic and behavioral adaptations of greater white-toothed shrews to urban conditions pp. 1334-1343

Flávio G Oliveira, Maria da Luz Mathias, Leszek Rychlik, Joaquim T Tapisso and Sophie von Merten

Identification of seminal proteins related to the inhibition of mate searching in female crickets pp. 1344-1352

Joe A Moschilla, Joseph L Tomkins, Leigh W Simmons and Per Smiseth

An experimental test to separate the effects of male age and mating history on female mate choice pp. 1353-1360

Upama Aich, Timothee Bonnet, Rebecca J Fox, Michael D Jennions and Ulrika Candolin

Built to change: dominance strategy changes with life stage in a primitively eusocial bee pp. 1361-1368

Margarita Orlova, Erin Treanore, Etya Amsalem and Marie Herberstein

Experimental predator intrusions in a cooperative breeder reveal threat-dependent task partitioning pp. 1369-1378

Dario Josi, Annika Freudiger, Michael Taborsky, Joachim G Frommen and Amanda Ridley

Comparing dominance hierarchy methods using a data-splitting approach with real-world data pp. 1379-1390

Chloé Vilette, Tyler Bonnell, Peter Henzi, Louise Barrett and John Quinn

Asymmetries affecting aggressive contests between solitary parasitoids: the effect of host species pp. 1391-1400

Eric Guerra-Grenier, Paul K Abram, Jacques Brodeur and Marie Herberstein

Flies improve the salience of iridescent sexual signals by orienting toward the sun pp. 1401-1409

Thomas E White, Tanya Latty and Emilie Snell-Rood

Context-dependent consequences of color biases in a social fish pp. 1410-1419

Brett M Culbert, Sanduni Talagala, James B Barnett, Emily Stanbrook, Parker Smale, Sigal Balshine and Marie Herberstein

Sensory ecology of the frog-eating bat, Trachops cirrhosus, from DNA metabarcoding and behavior pp. 1420-1428

Patricia L Jones, Timothy J Divoll, M May Dixon, Dineilys Aparicio, Gregg Cohen, Ulrich G Mueller, Michael J Ryan, Rachel A Page and Michael D Jennions

Laterality in foraging phalaropes promotes phenotypically assorted groups pp. 1429-1435

Jorge S Gutiérrez, Andrea Soriano-Redondo and Noa Pinter-Wollman

Volume 31, issue 5, 2020

Kalahari skinks eavesdrop on sociable weavers to manage predation by pygmy falcons and expand their realized niche pp. 1094-1102

Anthony M Lowney, Tom P Flower, Robert L Thomson and Marc Naguib

Socially foraging bats discriminate between group members based on search-phase echolocation calls pp. 1103-1112

Jenna E Kohles, Gerald G Carter, Rachel A Page, Dina K N Dechmann and Marc Naguib

Colony size affects breeding density, but not spatial distribution type, in a seabird pp. 1113-1119

Sandra Bouwhuis, Felix Ballani, Marie Bourgeois, Dietrich Stoyan and John Quinn

Acorn woodpeckers vocally discriminate current and former group members from nongroup members pp. 1120-1128

Michael A Pardo, Casey E Hayes, Eric L Walters, Walter D Koenig and Amanda Ridley

Neighborhood bully: no difference in territorial response toward neighbors or strangers in marmots pp. 1129-1141

Mariona Ferrandiz-Rovira, Timothée Zidat, Pierre Dupont, Vérane Berger, Célia Rézouki, Aurélie Cohas and Louise Barrett

Contrasting parental color morphs increase regularity of prey deliveries in an African raptor pp. 1142-1149

Carina Nebel, Petra Sumasgutner, Shane C McPherson, Gareth J Tate, Arjun Amar and Ulrika Candolin

Social context and noise affect within and between male song adjustments in a common passerine pp. 1150-1158

Erin E Grabarczyk, Maarten J Vonhof, Sharon A Gill and Marc Naguib

Juvenile social dynamics reflect adult reproductive strategies in bottlenose dolphins pp. 1159-1171

Allison A Galezo, Vivienne Foroughirad, Ewa Krzyszczyk, Céline H Frère, Janet Mann and Michael Taborsky

Polyandry and paternity affect disease resistance in eusocial wasps pp. 1172-1179

Tatsuya Saga, Masaki Okuno, Kevin J Loope, Koji Tsuchida, Kako Ohbayashi, Masakazu Shimada, Yasukazu Okada and Marie Herberstein

Hidden leks in a migratory songbird: mating advantages for earlier and more attractive males pp. 1180-1191

Lilian T Manica, Jeff A Graves, Jeffrey Podos, Regina H Macedo and Michael D Jennions

Contingent trade-off decisions with feedbacks in cyclical environments: testing alternative theories pp. 1192-1206

Steven F Railsback, Bret C Harvey, Daniel Ayllón and John Quinn

Maternal predation risk increases offspring’s exploration but does not affect schooling behavior pp. 1207-1217

Silvia Cattelan, James Herbert-Read, Paolo Panizzon, Alessandro Devigili, Matteo Griggio, Andrea Pilastro, Chiara Morosinotto and Colette St Mary

Cost of an elaborate trait: a trade-off between attracting females and maintaining a clean ornament pp. 1218-1223

Erin L McCullough, Chun-Chia Chou, Patricia R Y Backwell and Per Smiseth

Variance in lifetime reproductive success of male polar bears pp. 1224-1232

Evan S Richardson, Corey Davis, Ian Stirling, Andrew E Derocher, Nicholas J Lunn, René M Malenfant and Colette St Mary

Testosterone induces plumage ornamentation followed by enhanced territoriality in a female songbird pp. 1233-1241

Jordan Boersma, Erik D Enbody, John Anthony Jones, Doka Nason, Elisa Lopez-Contreras, Jordan Karubian and Hubert Schwabl

Foraging behavior and extended phenotype independently affect foraging success in spiders pp. 1242-1249

N DiRienzo, H A Schraft, P O Montiglio, C T Bradley, A Dornhaus and Marie Herberstein

Offspring beg more toward larger females in a burying beetle pp. 1250-1256

Tom Ratz, Sophie Stenson, Per T Smiseth and Emilie Snell-Rood

Experimental evidence that acorn woodpeckers recognize relationships among third parties no longer living together pp. 1257-1265

Michael A Pardo, Eric L Walters, Walter D Koenig and Amanda Ridley

The performance of permutations and exponential random graph models when analyzing animal networks pp. 1266-1276

Julian C Evans, David N Fisher, Matthew J Silk and Amanda Ridley

Corrigendum to: “Siring success in kangaroos: size matters for those in the right place at the right time” (2020) 31: 750–760. doi:10.1093/beheco/araa020 pp. 1277-1277

Luca Montana, François Rousseu, Dany Garant and Marco Festa-Bianchet

Volume 31, issue 3, 2020

Male harassment leads to fitness costs for females by disrupting oviposition site preferences pp. 611-617

Elisabeth Bacon, Flavia Barbosa and Luke Holman

Strong sexual selection despite spatial constraints on extrapair paternity pp. 618-626

Emily R A Cramer, Emma I Greig, Sara A Kaiser and Niels Dingemanse

Physical and social cues shape nest-site preference and prey capture behavior in social spiders pp. 627-632

Gabriella M Najm, Angelika Pe, Jonathan N Pruitt, Noa Pinter-Wollman and Marie Herberstein

Dietary vitamin D in female rock lizards induces condition-transfer effects in their offspring pp. 633-640

Gonzalo Rodríguez-Ruiz, Pilar López, José Martín and Marc Naguib

Maternity uncertainty in cobreeding beetles: females lay more and larger eggs and provide less care pp. 641-650

Jon Richardson, Per T Smiseth and Marie Herberstein

Sex, synchrony, and skin contact: integrating multiple behaviors to assess pathogen transmission risk pp. 651-660

Stephan T Leu, Pratha Sah, Ewa Krzyszczyk, Ann-Marie Jacoby, Janet Mann, Shweta Bansal and Louise Barrett

Allee effects drive the coevolution of cooperation and group size in high reproductive skew groups pp. 661-671

Brian A Lerch, Karen C Abbott and Amanda RidleyEditor

Individual variation in migratory behavior in a subarctic partial migrant shorebird pp. 672-679

Verónica Méndez, José A Alves, Böðvar Þórisson, Alina Marca, Tómas G Gunnarsson, Jennifer A Gill and Andrea Griffin

Intrapopulation variation in the behavioral responses of dwarf mongooses to anthropogenic noise pp. 680-691

Emma Eastcott, Julie M Kern, Amy Morris-Drake, Andrew N Radford and Ulrika Candolin

Investigating social and environmental predictors of natal dispersal in a cooperative breeding bird pp. 692-701

Young Ha Suh, Mario B Pesendorfer, Angela Tringali, Reed Bowman, John W Fitzpatrick and Amanda Ridley

Contrasting multilevel relationships between behavior and body mass in blue tit nestlings pp. 702-710

Barbara Class, Jon Brommer and Niels Dingemanse

Benefits of cooperation in captive Damaraland mole-rats pp. 711-718

Thomas M Houslay, Philippe Vullioud, Markus Zöttl, Tim H Clutton-Brock and Louise Barrett

Risk exposure trade-offs in the ontogeny of sexual segregation in Antarctic fur seal pups pp. 719-730

Kayleigh A Jones, Hannah Wood, Jonathan P Ashburner, Jaume Forcada, Norman Ratcliffe, Stephen C Votier, Iain J Staniland and Louise BarrettEditor

Presence of same-sex kin promotes explorative behavior in subadult cichlid fish pp. 731-738

Simon Vitt, Iris Madge Pimentel, Timo Thünken and Michael TaborskyEditor

On the use of private versus social information in oviposition site choice decisions by Drosophila melanogaster females pp. 739-749

Heather L Malek, Tristan A F Long and Luke HolmanEditor

Siring success in kangaroos: size matters for those in the right place at the right time pp. 750-760

Luca Montana, François Rousseu, Dany Garant, Marco Festa-Bianchet and Louise BarrettEditor

Predator defense is shaped by risk, brood value and social group benefits in a cooperative breeder pp. 761-771

Niki Teunissen, Sjouke A Kingma, Anne Peters and Amanda Ridley

Exploration profiles drive activity patterns and temporal niche specialization in a wild rodent pp. 772-783

Elouana Gharnit, Patrick Bergeron, Dany Garant, Denis Réale and John QuinnEditor

The role of signaling constraints in defining optimal marginal costs of reliable signals pp. 784-791

Keith D Harris, Yair Daon, Vidyanand Nanjundiah and John QuinnEditor

Sexual size dimorphism and sexual selection in artiodactyls pp. 792-797

Marcelo H Cassini and Michael Taborsky

Heritability and correlations among learning and inhibitory control traits pp. 798-806

Ellis J G Langley, Gracie Adams, Christine E Beardsworth, Deborah A Dawson, Philippa R Laker, Jayden O van Horik, Mark A Whiteside, Alastair J Wilson, Joah R Madden and Niels Dingemanse

Song overlapping, noise, and territorial aggression in great tits pp. 807-814

Çağlar Akçay, Y Kağan Porsuk, Alican Avşar, Dilan Çabuk, C Can Bilgin and Marc Naguib

First explorations: ontogeny of central place foraging directions in two tropical seabirds pp. 815-825

Julien Collet, Aurélien Prudor, Alexandre Corbeau, Loriane Mendez, Henri Weimerskirch and John Quinn

Age and location influence the costs of compensatory and accelerated growth in a hibernating mammal pp. 826-833

Sarah Heissenberger, Gabriela Medeiros de Pinho, Julien G A Martin, Daniel T Blumstein and Leigh Simmons

Full spectra coloration and condition-dependent signaling in a skin-based carotenoid sexual ornament pp. 834-843

Sarah Harris, Matti Kervinen, Christophe Lebigre, Thomas W Pike, Carl D Soulsbury and Marie Herberstein

Defense against predators incurs high reproductive costs for the aposematic moth Arctia plantaginis pp. 844-850

Carita Lindstedt, Kaisa Suisto, Emily Burdfield-Steel, Anne E Winters, Johanna Mappes and Per Smiseth

An invasive amphibian drives antipredator responses in two prey at different trophic positions pp. 851-857

Jean Secondi, Fanny Raux and Andrea GriffinEditor

Volume 31, issue 1, 2020

How demographic processes shape animal social networks pp. 1-11

Daizaburo Shizuka, Allison E Johnson and Leigh Simmons

Demographic processes in animal networks are a question of time: a comment on Shizuka and Johnson pp. 12-13

Adriana A Maldonado-Chaparro, Damien R Farine and Leigh Simmons

Complex societies, simple processes: a comment on Shizuka and Johnson pp. 13-13

Amiyaal Ilany and Leigh Simmons

Placing the effects of demography on networks in ecological context: a comment on Shizuka and Johnson pp. 14-15

Orr Spiegel, Noa Pinter-Wollman and Leigh Simmons

Individual differences can affect how networks respond to demography: a comment on Shizuka and Johnson pp. 15-16

Ipek G Kulahci and Leigh Simmons

Density dependence and eco-evolutionary dynamics of animal social networks: a comment on Shizuka and Johnson pp. 16-18

Eric Vander Wal, Quinn M R Webber and Leigh Simmons

On assessing the importance of demographic change for social structure: a comment on Shizuka and Johnson pp. 18-19

Daniel I Rubenstein and Leigh Simmons

The long view on demographic effects on social networks: a response to comments on Shizuka and Johnson pp. 19-20

Daizaburo Shizuka, Allison E Johnson and Leigh Simmons

Age differences in the temporal stability of a male African elephant (Loxodonta africana) social network pp. 21-31

Derek Murphy, Hannah S Mumby, Michelle D Henley and Andrea Griffin

Game of webs: species and web structure influence contest outcome in black widow spiders pp. 32-42

Cameron Jones, Lea Pollack, Nicholas DiRienzo and Andrea Griffin

What makes motion dazzle markings effective against predation? pp. 43-53

Ullasa Kodandaramaiah, Shuaib Palathingal, Gayathri Bindu Kurup, Gopal Murali and Per Smiseth

Variation in chick-a-dee call sequences, not in the fine structure of chick-a-dee calls, influences mobbing behaviour in mixed-species flocks pp. 54-62

Blaine Landsborough, David R Wilson, Daniel J Mennill and Marc Naguib

Male mate choice for large gravid spots in a livebearing fish pp. 63-72

Hannah J P Ogden, Raïssa A de Boer, Alessandro Devigili, Charel Reuland, Ariel F Kahrl, John L Fitzpatrick and Marie Herberstein

Parental responses to increasing levels of handicapping in a burying beetle pp. 73-80

Tom Ratz, Thomas W Nichol, Per T Smiseth and Amanda Ridley

Gustatory cues to kinship among males moderate the productivity of females pp. 81-89

Samuel J Lymbery, Leigh W Simmons and Marie Herberstein

Experience modulates an insect’s response to anthropogenic noise pp. 90-96

Mario Gallego-Abenza, Nicolas Mathevon, David Wheatcroft and Ulrika Candolin

Individual foraging variation drives social organization in bottlenose dolphins pp. 97-106

Séverine Methion, Bruno Díaz López and Amanda Ridley

Do vampire bats groom others based on need? pp. 107-113

Hugo Narizano, Gerald G Carter and Louise Barrett

Linking genetic merit to sparse behavioral data: behavior and genetic effects on lamb growth in Soay sheep pp. 114-122

Charlotte E Regan, Josephine M Pemberton, Jill G Pilkington, Per T Smiseth, Alastair J Wilson and Colette St Mary

Does city life reduce neophobia? A study on wild black-capped chickadees pp. 123-131

Catherine Jarjour, Julian C Evans, Mélanie Routh, Julie Morand-Ferron and Ulrika Candolin

High and dry: Trade-off in arboreal calling in a treefrog mediated by local environment pp. 132-139

Amanda S Cicchino, Nicholas A Cairns, Grégory Bulté, Stephen C Lougheed and Michael Taborsky

Carry-over effects of resource competition and social environment on aggression pp. 140-151

R J Kilgour, D R Norris, A G McAdam and John Quinn

Females prefer the calls of better fathers in a Neotropical frog with biparental care pp. 152-163

Beth A Pettitt, Godfrey R Bourne, Mark A Bee and Per Smiseth

Linking men's voice pitch to actual and perceived trustworthiness across domains pp. 164-175

Christoph Schild, Julia Stern, Ingo Zettler and Louise Barrett

Computerized stimuli for studying oddity effects pp. 176-183

Khia E Dobbinson, Paul A Skarratt, Lesley J Morrell and Amanda Ridley

Optimal multisensory integration pp. 184-193

Nicole E Munoz, Daniel T Blumstein and LeighSimmons

Does meiotic drive alter male mate preference? pp. 194-201

Sam Ronan Finnegan, Leslie Nitsche, Matteo Mondani, M Florencia Camus, Kevin Fowler, Andrew Pomiankowski and Per Smiseth

Effects of condition and sperm competition risk on sperm allocation and storage in neriid flies pp. 202-212

Zachariah Wylde, Angela Crean, Russell Bonduriansky and Luke Holman

Are signals of aggressive intent less honest in urban habitats? pp. 213-221

Çağlar Akçay, Michelle L Beck, Kendra B Sewall and Niels Dingemanse

Temporal autocorrelation: a neglected factor in the study of behavioral repeatability and plasticity pp. 222-231

David J Mitchell, Antoine M Dujon, Christa Beckmann, Peter A Biro and Niels Dingemanse

Interindividual spacing affects the finder’s share in ring-tailed coatis (Nasua nasua) pp. 232-238

Ben T Hirsch, Erica Malpass, Yamil E Di Blanco and Andrea Griffins

Heightened perception of competition hastens courtship pp. 239-246

Claudia Santori, Luc F Bussière, Thomas M Houslay and Luke Holman

Genetic monogamy despite frequent extrapair copulations in “strictly monogamous” wild jackdaws pp. 247-260

Lisa F Gill, Jaap van Schaik, Auguste M P von Bayern, Manfred L Gahr and Amanda Ridley

Microhabitat complexity influences fear acquisition in fathead minnows pp. 261-266

Adam L Crane, Maud C O Ferrari, Ita A E Rivera-Hernández, Grant E Brown and Ulrika Candolin

Innate antipredator behavior can promote infection in fish even in the absence of predators pp. 267-276

Victor N Mikheev, Anna F Pasternak, Andrew Yu Morozov, Jouni Taskinen and Ulrika Candolin

Corrigendum to: ‘No relationship between female emergence time from the roosting place and extrapair paternity’. (2014) 25:650–659, doi:10.1093/beheco/aru035 pp. 277-278

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