Behavioral Ecology

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Volume 30, issue 6, 2019

Causes and consequences of intraspecific variation in animal responses to anthropogenic noise pp. 1501-1511

Harry R Harding, Timothy A C Gordon, Emma Eastcott, Stephen D Simpson, Andrew N Radford and Leigh Simmons

Avian ASMR and mammalian misophonia: a comment on Harding et al pp. 1512-1513

Jonathan N Pruitt and Leigh Simmons

Applying behavioral ecology: a comment on Harding et al pp. 1512-1512

Daniel T Blumstein and Leigh Simmons

Conservation behavior in action: a comment on Harding et al pp. 1513-1514

Graeme Shannon and Leigh Simmons

Intraspecific variation in animal responses to anthropogenic noise through long-term monitoring: a comment on Harding et al pp. 1514-1515

Yael Lehnardt, Bob Bm Wong, Oded Berger-Tal and Leigh Simmons

Why study intraspecific variation: a comment on Harding et al pp. 1515-1516

Ulrika Candolin and Leigh Simmons

In a noisy world, some animals are more equal than others: a response to comments on Harding et al pp. 1516-1517

Andrew N Radford, Harry R Harding, Timothy A C Gordon, Stephen D Simpson and Leigh Simmons

The problem of measuring trait-preference correlations without disrupting them pp. 1518-1521

David J Hosken, Alastair J Wilson and Leigh Simmons

Artificial selection on walking distance suggests a mobility-sperm competitiveness trade-off pp. 1522-1529

Kentarou Matsumura, C Ruth Archer, David J Hosken, Takahisa Miyatake and Luke Holman

Male social plasticity influences transient dynamics in the emergence of alternative mating systems in water striders pp. 1530-1538

Adrian Perez, Pierre-Olivio Montiglio, Tina W Wey, Andrew Sih and Michael Taborsky

Behavioral, energetic, and color trait integration in male guppies: testing the melanocortin hypothesis pp. 1539-1547

Francesca Santostefano, Kerry V Fanson, John A Endler, Peter A Biro and Andrea Griffin

Biological market effects predict cleaner fish strategic sophistication pp. 1548-1557

Zegni Triki, Sharon Wismer, Olivia Rey, Sandra Ann Binning, Elena Levorato, Redouan Bshary and Ulrika Candolin

Drought decreases cooperative sentinel behavior and affects vocal coordination in meerkats pp. 1558-1566

Ramona Rauber, Tim H Clutton-Brock, Marta B Manser and Andrea Griffin

Marriage stability in a pastoralist society pp. 1567-1574

Juan Du, Ruth Mace and B Louise

Retention of learned predator recognition in embryonic and juvenile rainbow trout pp. 1575-1582

Marianna E Horn, Maud C O Ferrari, Douglas P Chivers and Colette St Mary

Decreased vigilance or habituation to humans? Mechanisms on increased boldness in urban animals pp. 1583-1590

Kenta Uchida, Kei K Suzuki, Tatsuki Shimamoto, Hisashi Yanagawa, Itsuro Koizumi and Ulrika Candolin

Experimental traffic noise attracts birds during the breeding season pp. 1591-1601

Bronwen Hennigar, Jeffrey P Ethier, David R Wilson and Ulrika Candolin

Group size and social status affect scent marking in dispersing female meerkats pp. 1602-1610

Ana Morales-González, Héctor Ruíz-Villar, Arpat Ozgul, Nino Maag, Gabriele Cozzi and Amanda Ridley

Sexually opposite effects of testosterone on mating success in wild rock hyrax pp. 1611-1617

Lee Koren, Yishai Weissman, Inbar Schnitzer, Rosanne Beukeboom, Einat Bar Ziv, Vlad Demartsev, Adi Barocas, Amiyaal Ilany, Eli Geffen and Michael Taborsky

Pair bonds, reproductive success, and rise of alternate mating strategies in a social carnivore pp. 1618-1623

David E Ausband and Luke Holman

Females of a cannibalistic spider control mutilation of their genitalia by males pp. 1624-1631

Pierick Mouginot, Gabriele Uhl and Michael Taborsky

Quantifying human presence in a heterogeneous urban landscape pp. 1632-1641

Michela Corsini, Pascal Marrot, Marta Szulkin and Luke Holman

Winter corticosterone and body condition predict breeding investment in a nonmigratory bird pp. 1642-1652

Chloé Montreuil-Spencer, Kelsey Schoenemann, Ádám Z Lendvai, Frances Bonier and Louise Barrett

Why do females sing?—pair communication and other song functions in eastern bluebirds pp. 1653-1661

Evangeline M Rose, Derek A Coss, Casey D Haines, Sheridan A Danquah, Colin E Studds, Kevin E Omland and Amanda Ridley

Reproduction and maternal care increase oxidative stress in a mouthbrooding cichlid fish pp. 1662-1671

Jacob Sawecki, Emily Miros, Shana E Border, Peter D Dijkstra and Michael Taborsky

Consistent female preference for rare and unfamiliar male color patterns in wild guppy populations pp. 1672-1681

Jennifer J Valvo, F Helen Rodd, Kimberly A Hughes and Marie Herberstein

Sources of intraspecific variation in the collective tempo and synchrony of ant societies pp. 1682-1690

Grant Navid Doering, Kirsten A Sheehy, James L L Lichtenstein, Brian Drawert, Linda R Petzold, Jonathan N Pruitt and Luke Holman

Defensive posture in a terrestrial salamander deflects predatory strikes irrespective of body size pp. 1691-1699

Alexander L Myette, Thomas J Hossie, Dennis L Murray and Marc Naguib

The costs and benefits of decentralization and centralization of ant colonies pp. 1700-1706

Dominic D R Burns, Jon W Pitchford, Catherine L Parr, Daniel W Franks, Elva J H Robinson and Luke Holman

Natal conditions, lifespan and lifetime reproductive success of European blackbirds pp. 1707-1714

Dariusz Wysocki, Łukasz Jankowiak, Marta Cholewa, Dawid Zyskowski and Andrea Griffin

Flexible polyandry in female flies is an adaptive response to infertile males pp. 1715-1724

Andreas Sutter, Laura M Travers, Keiko Oku, Kynan L. Delaney, Stefan J. Store, Tom A R Price, Nina Wedell and Luke Holman

Revisiting the functional response in habitat selection for large herbivores: a matter of spatial variation in resource distribution? pp. 1725-1733

Antoine Duparc, Mathieu Garel, Pascal Marchand, Dominique Dubray, Daniel Maillard, Anne Loison and John Quinn

Evidence for differing trajectories of songs in urban and rural populations pp. 1734-1742

Dana L Moseley, Jennifer N Phillips, Elizabeth P Derryberry, David A Luther and Ulrika Candolin

Reproductive conflict resolution in cooperative breeders pp. 1743-1750

Dominic L Cram, Arne Jungwirth, Helen Spence-Jones, Tim Clutton-Brock and Louise Barrett

Human recreation reduces clutch size in great tits Parus major regardless of risk-taking personality pp. 1751-1760

A Hutfluss, N J Dingemanse and Ulrika Candolin

Full life course analysis of birdsong reveals maturation and senescence of highly repeatable song characteristics pp. 1761-1768

Matthew N Zipple, Stephen Nowicki, William A Searcy, Susan Peters and Marc Naguib

Male spacing and female choice in a fiddler crab pp. 1769-1774

Daniela M Perez, Patricia R Y Backwell and Niels Dingemanse

Does bat response to traffic noise support the misleading cue hypothesis? pp. 1775-1781

Inga Geipel, Bawan Amin, Rachel A Page, Wouter Halfwerk and Ulrika Candolin

Partner’s age, not social environment, predicts extrapair paternity in wild great tits (Parus major) pp. 1782-1793

Allison M Roth, Josh A Firth, Samantha C Patrick, Ella F Cole, Ben C Sheldon and Colette St Mary

Corrigendum to: ‘Demographic processes in animal networks are a question of time: a comment on Shizuka and Johnson’ by Adriana A. Maldonado-Chaparro and Damien R. Farine pp. 1794-1794

Adriana A Maldonado-Chaparro and Damien R Farine

Volume 30, issue 5, 2019

Further mismeasures of animal contests: a new framework for assessment strategies pp. 1177-1185

Kenneth James Chapin, Paulo Enrique Cardoso Peixoto, Mark Briffa and Leigh Simmons

Squaring the information triangle: a comment on Chapin et al pp. 1187-1187

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons and Leigh Simmons

So we all choose our own assessment rules?: a comment on Chapin et al pp. 1188-1188

Geoff A Parker and Leigh Simmons

Simplifying our understanding of contests: a comment on Chapin et al pp. 1189-1190

Michael M Kasumovic

Problems with repeated contests: a comment on Chapin et al pp. 1189-1189

Robert W Elwood and Leigh Simmons

Game theory models of animal contests: are we at a standstill?: a comment on Chapin et al pp. 1190-1191

Olof Leimar and Leigh Simmons

The point of the triangle and utility of repeated measures: a response to comments on Chapin et al pp. 1191-1192

Kenneth James Chapin, Paulo Enrique Cardoso Peixoto, Mark Briffa and Leigh Simmons

What have we recently learned about song learning and social interactions? pp. 1193-1195

Natalia C García and Leigh Simmons

MHC-associated mate choice under competitive conditions in captive versus wild Tasmanian devils pp. 1196-1204

Jenna Day, Rebecca M Gooley, Carolyn J Hogg, Katherine Belov, Camilla M Whittington, Catherine E Grueber and Luke Holman

Symmetrical discrimination despite weak song differentiation in 2 suboscine bird sister species pp. 1205-1215

Gabriel Macedo, Marco Silva, Fábio Raposo do Amaral, Marcos Maldonado-Coelho and Luke Holman

Innovative consumers: ecological, behavioral, and physiological predictors of responses to novel food pp. 1216-1225

Sanjay Prasher, Megan J Thompson, Julian C Evans, Michael El-Nachef, Frances Bonier, Julie Morand-Ferron and John Skelhorn

Alternative reproductive tactics shape within-species variation in behavioral syndromes pp. 1234-1241

Chang S Han, Piotr G Jablonski and Michael Taborsky

Better safe than sorry: spider societies mitigate risk by prioritizing caution pp. 1234-1241

Colin M Wright, James L L Lichtenstein, Lauren P Luscuskie, Graham A Montgomery, Noa Pinter-Wollman, Jonathan N Pruitt and Michael Taborsky

The costs of competition: injury patterns in 2 Asian colobine monkeys pp. 1242-1253

Jacob A Feder, Amy Lu, Andreas Koenig, Carola Borries and Louise Barrett

Socio-ecological conditions and female infidelity in the Seychelles warbler pp. 1254-1264

Sara Raj Pant, Jan Komdeur, Terry A Burke, Hannah L Dugdale, David S Richardson and Andrea Griffin

Flirting with danger: predation risk interacts with male condition to influence sexual display pp. 1265-1272

Pedro Z de Moraes, Pedro Diniz, Esteban Fernandez-Juricic, Regina H Macedo and Luke Holman

Dietary carotenoids affect the development of individual differences and behavioral plasticity pp. 1273-1282

Shannon R Kelleher, Aimee J Silla, Petri T Niemelä, Niels J Dingemanse, Phillip G Byrne and Ulrika Candolin

Playback of predator calls inhibits and delays dawn singing in a songbird community pp. 1283-1288

Peter Santema, Mihai Valcu, Michael Clinchy, Liana Zanette, Bart Kempenaers and Marc Naguib

Individual differences exceed species differences in the movements of a river fish community pp. 1289-1297

Philip M Harrison, Rachel A Keeler, David Robichaud, Brent Mossop, Michael Power, Steven J Cooke and John Quinn

Effects of ovarian fluid on sperm traits and its implications for cryptic female choice in zebrafish pp. 1298-1305

Federica Poli, Simone Immler, Clelia Gasparini and Michael Taborsky

Egg discrimination is mediated by individual differences in queen olfactory responsiveness and boldness pp. 1306-1313

Colin M Wright, Brendan L McEwen, David N Fisher, James L L Lichtenstein, Angelle Antoun, Elizabeth A Tibbetts, Jonathan N Pruitt and Luke Holman

It’s a trap! Invasive common mynas learn socially about control-related cues pp. 1314-1323

Marie C Diquelou, Andrea S Griffin and Ulrika Candolin

Mesopredators change temporal activity in response to a recolonizing apex predator pp. 1324-1335

Carolyn R Shores, Justin A Dellinger, Eric S Newkirk, Shannon M Kachel, Aaron J Wirsing and John Quinn

Perceived threat to paternity reduces likelihood of paternal provisioning in house wrens pp. 1336-1343

Rachael A DiSciullo, Charles FThompson, Scott K Sakaluk and Louise Barrett

Competitively mediated changes in male toad calls can depend on call structure pp. 1344-1350

Rebecca Stirman, Karin S Pfennig and Jonathan Pruitt

The relationship of body condition, superoxide dismutase, and superoxide with sperm performance pp. 1351-1363

Christopher R Friesen, Simon P de Graaf, Mats Olsson and John Quinn

Acoustic community structure and seasonal turnover in tropical South Asian birds pp. 1364-1374

Anand Krishnan and Amanda Ridley

Generalization of learned preferences covaries with behavioral flexibility in red junglefowl chicks pp. 1375-1381

Josefina Zidar, Alexandra C V Balogh, Olof Leimar, Hanne Løvlie and Marc Naguib

A link between heritable parasite resistance and mate choice in dung beetles pp. 1382-1387

Bruno A Buzatto, Janne S Kotiaho, Larissa A F Assis, Leigh W Simmons and Per Smiseth

The evolution of two types of play pp. 1388-1397

Paul E Smaldino, Elisabetta Palagi, Gordon M Burghardt, Sergio M Pellis and John Quinn

The effects of microhabitat specialization on mating communication in a wolf spider pp. 1398-1405

Malcolm F Rosenthal, Eileen A Hebets, Benji Kessler, Rowan McGinley, Damian O Elias and Rebecca C Fuller

Presence of kin-biased social associations in a lizard with no parental care: the eastern water dragon (Intellagama lesueurii) pp. 1406-1415

Carme Piza-Roca, Kasha Strickland, Nicola Kent, Celine H Frere and Jonathan Pruitt

High background risk induces risk allocation rather than generalized neophobia in the fathead minnow pp. 1416-1424

Denis Meuthen, Maud C O Ferrari, Taylor Lane, Douglas P Chivers and Ulrika Candolin

Experimental field evidence that out-group threats influence within-group behavior pp. 1425-1435

Amy Morris-Drake, Charlotte Christensen, Julie M Kern, Andrew N Radford and Louise Barrett

Attractiveness is positively related to World Cup performance in male, but not female, biathletes pp. 1436-1442

Tim W Fawcett, Jack Ewans, Alice Lawrence, Andrew N Radford and Louise Barrett

Parental care buffers against effects of ambient temperature on offspring performance in an insect pp. 1443-1450

Richard Grew, Tom Ratz, Jon Richardson, Per T Smiseth and Amanda Ridley

Pipefish embryo oxygenation, survival, and development: egg size, male size, and temperature effects pp. 1451-1460

Malin Nygård, Charlotta Kvarnemo, Ingrid Ahnesjö, Ines Braga Goncalves and Colette St Mary

Enough for all: no mating effort adjustment to varying mate availability in a gift-giving spider pp. 1461-1468

Martina Magris, Cristina Tuni and Per Smiseth

Self-deception in nonhuman animals: weak crayfish escalated aggression as if they were strong pp. 1469-1476

Michael J AngillettaJr, Gregory Kubitz, Robbie S Wilson and John Quinn

Food deprivation affects egg laying and maternal care but not offspring performance in a beetle pp. 1477-1487

Jon Richardson, Jennifer Ross, Per T Smiseth and Marie Herberstein

Risk assessment and the use of novel shortcuts in spatial detouring tasks in jumping spiders pp. 1488-1498

Samuel Aguilar-Argüello, Daniel Gerhard, Ximena J Nelson and Marie Herberstein

Erratum to: ‘Symmetrical discrimination despite weak song differentiation in 2 suboscine bird sister species’ by Gabriel Macedo, Marco Silva, Fábio Raposo do Amaral, and Marcos Maldonado-Coelho pp. 1499-1499

Gabriel Macedo, Marco Silva, Fábio Raposo do Amaral and Marcos Maldonado-Coelho

Volume 30, issue 4, 2019

Conception risk affects in-pair and extrapair desire similarly: a comment on Shimoda et al. (2018) pp. e6-e7

Talia N Shirazi, Benedict C Jones, James R Roney, Lisa M DeBruine and David A Puts

Distinguishing explanations for cycle shifts: a response to Shirazi et al pp. e8-e8

Rei Shimoda and Robert A Barton

Manipulated sex ratios alter group structure and cooperation in the brown-headed nuthatch pp. 883-893

James A Cox, Jessica A Cusick and Emily H DuVal

Personality and social foraging tactic use in free-living Eurasian tree sparrows (Passer montanus) pp. 894-903

Attila Fülöp, Zoltán Németh, Bianka Kocsis, Bettina Deák-Molnár, Tímea Bozsoky and Zoltán Barta

Plastic expression of seminal fluid protein genes in a simultaneously hermaphroditic snail pp. 904-913

Yumi Nakadera, Athina Giannakara and Steven A Ramm

Assortative interactions revealed in a fission–fusion society of Australian humpback dolphins pp. 914-927

Tim N Hunt, Simon J Allen, Lars Bejder and Guido J Parra

Female choice for related males in wild red-backed toadlets (Pseudophryne coriacea) pp. 928-937

Daniel M O’Brien, J Scott Keogh, Aimee J Silla and Phillip G Byrne

Behavioral responses vary with prey species in the social spider, Stegodyphus sarasinorum pp. 938-947

Bharat Parthasarathy and Hema Somanathan

Genetic relatedness delineates the social structure of southern Australian bottlenose dolphins pp. 948-959

Fernando Diaz-Aguirre, Guido J Parra, Cecilia Passadore and Luciana Möller

Disrupting information alters the behavioral response to a mutual signal trait in both sexes of Nicrophorus (Coleoptera: Silphidae) burying beetles pp. 960-967

Jillian D Wormington and Barney Luttbeg

Conformity in the collective: differences in hunger affect individual and group behavior in a shoaling fish pp. 968-974

Alexander D M Wilson, Alicia L J Burns, Emanuele Crosato, Joseph Lizier, Mikhail Prokopenko, Timothy M Schaerf and Ashley J W Ward

Context-dependent strategies of food allocation among offspring in a facultative cooperative breeder pp. 975-985

Jianqiang Li, Yong Wang, Lei Lv, Pengcheng Wang, Ben J Hatchwell and Zhengwang Zhang

Experimentally induced antipredator responses are mediated by social and environmental factors pp. 986-992

Frank Groenewoud, Sjouke A Kingma, Kat Bebbington, David S Richardson and Jan Komdeur

Maintenance of deceptive gifts in a natural spider population: ecological and demographic factors pp. 993-1000

Maria J Albo, Valentina Franco-Trecu, Filip J Wojciechowski, Søren Toft and Trine Bilde

Behavioral diversity is maintained by a conditional strategy in a freshwater zooplankton pp. 1001-1011

G Adam Meyer and William A Nelson

Social experiences shape behavioral individuality and within-individual stability pp. 1012-1019

Heidi Y Jäger, Chang S Han and Niels J Dingemanse

No immediate or future extra costs of raising a virulent brood parasite chick pp. 1020-1029

Peter Samaš, Tomáš Grim, Václav Jelínek, Marek M Abraham, Michal Šulc and Marcel Honza

The effects of stress and glucocorticoids on vocalizations: a test in North American red squirrels pp. 1030-1040

Matt Sehrsweeney, David R Wilson, Maggie Bain, Stan Boutin, Jeffrey E Lane, Andrew G McAdam and Ben Dantzer

Changing of the guard: mixed specialization and flexibility in nest defense (Tetragonisca angustula) pp. 1041-1049

Kaitlin M Baudier, Madeleine M Ostwald, Christoph Grüter, Francisca H I D Segers, David W Roubik, Theodore P Pavlic, Stephen C Pratt and Jennifer H Fewell

Battle of the sexes: a multi-male mating strategy helps lionesses win the gender war of fitness pp. 1050-1061

Stotra Chakrabarti and Yadvendradev V Jhala

Sharing the burden: on the division of parental care and vocalizations during incubation pp. 1062-1068

Marwa M Kavelaars, Luc Lens and Wendt Müller

Invasive shrubs modify rodent activity timing, revealing a consistent behavioral rule governing diel activity pp. 1069-1075

Peter W Guiden and John L Orrock

A superb solo, or a deviant duet? Overlapping songs in superb fairy-wrens pp. 1076-1086

Claire J Taylor, Michelle L Hall, Kristal E Cain and Naomi E Langmore

Rate of intersexual interactions affects injury likelihood in Tasmanian devil contact networks pp. 1087-1095

David G Hamilton, Menna E Jones, Elissa Z Cameron, Hamish McCallum, Andrew Storfer, Paul A Hohenlohe and Rodrigo K Hamede

Sex-specific pace-of-life syndromes pp. 1096-1105

Joe A Moschilla, Joseph L Tomkins and Leigh W Simmons

Juvenile plumage whiteness is associated with the evolution of clutch size in passerines pp. 1106-1112

Judith Morales, José Javier Cuervo, Juan Moreno and Juan José Soler

Facing death together: heterospecific aggregations of blowfly larvae evince mutual benefits pp. 1113-1122

Larissa Komo, Quentin Scanvion, Valéry Hedouin and Damien Charabidze

Effects of manipulated levels of predation threat on parental provisioning and nestling begging pp. 1123-1135

Ariane Mutzel, Anne-Lise Olsen, Kimberley J Mathot, Yimen G Araya-Ajoy, Marion Nicolaus, Jan J Wijmenga, Jonathan Wright, Bart Kempenaers and Niels J Dingemanse

Necessity creates opportunities for chimpanzee tool use pp. 1136-1144

Charlotte Grund, Christof Neumann, Klaus Zuberbühler and Thibaud Gruber

Gone with the rain: negative effects of rainfall on male reproductive success in a nest-building arachnid pp. 1145-1156

Andrés Rojas, Diego Solano-Brenes, Danilo G Muniz and Glauco Machado

Distracted decision makers: ship noise and predation risk change shell choice in hermit crabs pp. 1157-1167

Svenja Tidau and Mark Briffa

A benefit to providing information? Flower size cues, plant attractiveness, and plant visit length pp. 1168-1175

Carla J Essenberg, Paige E Guevarra, Hadley M Moreau, Cody J Jordan and Talia Zisman

Volume 30, issue 3, 2019

Calling in the heat: the zebra finch incubation call depends on heat AND reproductive stage—a comment on McDiarmid et al. 2018 pp. e1-e3

Mylene M Mariette and Katherine L Buchanan

Zebra finch v-calls and the evidence for a signal: a response to comments on McDiarmid et al pp. e4-e5

Callum S McDiarmid, Marc Naguib and Simon C Griffith

Thermodynamic constraints and the evolution of parental provisioning in vertebrates pp. 583-591

Madeleine Beekman, Michael Thompson and Marko Jusup

On the link between endothermy, energy budget, and parental care: a comment on Beekman et al pp. 592-593

Joël Meunier

Metabolism and parental care in ectotherms: a comment on Beekman et al pp. 593-594

Kyle Summers

Why is ecotherm parental care so cold? a comment on Beekman et al pp. 594-595

Geoffrey M While

Too cool to care: a comment on Beekman et al pp. 595-596

Per Smiseth

Ectothermic vertebrates are too cool to care: a response to comments on Beekman et al pp. 596-597

Madeleine Beekman, Michael Thompson and Marko Jusup

Anthropogenic increases in nutrients alter sexual selection dynamics: a case study in butterflies pp. 598-608

Anne Espeset, Megan E Kobiela, Kristin L Sikkink, Tiffany Pan, Colton Roy and Emilie C Snell-Rood

Do zombie ant fungi turn their hosts into light seekers? pp. 609-616

Fernando Sarti Andriolli, Noemia Kazue Ishikawa, Ruby Vargas-Isla, Tiara Sousa Cabral, Charissa de Bekker and Fabricio Beggiato Baccaro

Functional relations between body mass and risk-taking behavior in wild great tits pp. 617-623

Maria Moiron, Yimen G Araya-Ajoy, Kimberley J Mathot, Alexia Mouchet and Niels J Dingemanse

Little to fear: largest lizard predator induces weak defense responses in ungulate prey pp. 624-636

Tim S Jessop, Achmad Ariefiandy, Deni Purwandana, Yunias Jackson Benu, Matthew Hyatt and Mike Letnic

Great spotted cuckoos disregard information on conspecific breeding success while parasitizing magpie hosts pp. 637-645

Mercedes Molina-Morales, Marta Precioso, Jesús M Avilés, Juan G Martínez and Deseada Parejo

Female preference for novel males constrains the contemporary evolution of assortative mating in guppies pp. 646-657

Felipe Dargent, Lisa Chen, Gregor F Fussmann, Cameron K Ghalambor and Andrew P Hendry

Fitness costs of mating with preferred females in a scramble mating system pp. 658-665

Lindsey Swierk and Tracy Langkilde

Variation in the condition-dependence of individual sexual traits in male eastern mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki pp. 666-674

Rebecca J Fox, Ellen E Gearing, Michael D Jennions and Megan L Head

Multiple mating is linked to social setting and benefits the males in a communally rearing mammal pp. 675-687

Luis A Ebensperger, Loreto A Correa, Álvaro Ly Prieto, Felipe Pérez de Arce, Sebastian Abades and Loren D Hayes

Fighting in rounds: males of a neotropical cricket switch assessment strategies during contests pp. 688-696

Gabriel Lobregat, Thiago Gechel Kloss, Paulo Enrique Cardoso Peixoto and Carlos Frankl Sperber

How size and conspicuousness affect the efficacy of flash coloration pp. 697-702

Sangryong Bae, Doyeon Kim, Thomas N Sherratt, Tim Caro and Changku Kang

Cleaner personality and client identity have joint consequences on cleaning interaction dynamics pp. 703-712

Katie Dunkley, Christos C Ioannou, Kathryn E Whittey, Jo Cable and Sarah E Perkins

Contest dynamics and assessment strategies in combatant monkey beetles (Scarabaeidae: Hopliini) pp. 713-723

Ariella N Rink, Res Altwegg, Shelley Edwards, Rauri C K Bowie and Jonathan F Colville

Environmental constraints on size-dependent signaling affects mating and rival interactions pp. 724-732

Judith A H Smit, Hugo Loning, Michael J Ryan and Wouter Halfwerk

Achromatic plumage brightness predicts stress resilience and social interactions in tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) pp. 733-745

Conor C Taff, Cedric Zimmer and Maren N Vitousek

Associative learning of flowers by generalist bumble bees can be mediated by microbes on the petals pp. 746-755

Avery L Russell and Tia-Lynn Ashman

Love them all: mothers provide care to foreign eggs in the European earwig Forficula auricularia pp. 756-762

Sophie Van Meyel, Séverine Devers and Joël Meunier

Breeding success but not mate choice is phenotype- and context-dependent in a color polymorphic raptor pp. 763-769

Laura Gangoso and Jordi Figuerola

Gender-related behaviors: evidence for a trade-off between sexual functions in a hermaphrodite pp. 770-784

Laura Picchi and Maria Cristina Lorenzi

Night reveals individuality in a shoaling fish pp. 785-791

Laura Härkönen, Nico Alioravainen, Anssi Vainikka and Pekka Hyvärinen

Specialization reduces foraging effort and improves breeding performance in a generalist bird pp. 792-800

Merijn van den Bosch, Jan M Baert, Wendt Müller, Luc Lens and Eric W M Stienen

Collective responses to heterospecifics emerge from individual differences in aggression pp. 801-808

Kevin M Neumann and Noa Pinter-Wollman

Differences in combinatorial calls among the 3 elephant species cannot be explained by phylogeny pp. 809-820

Michael A Pardo, Joyce H Poole, Angela S Stoeger, Peter H Wrege, Caitlin E O’Connell-Rodwell, Udaha Kapugedara Padmalal and Shermin de Silva

Behavioral responses by an apex predator to urbanization pp. 821-829

E Hance Ellington and Stanley D Gehrt

Early life and transgenerational stressors impact secondary sexual traits and fitness pp. 830-842

Kerianne M Wilson, Andrey Tatarenkov and Nancy Tyler Burley

Natal habitat and sex-specific survival rates result in a male-biased adult sex ratio pp. 843-851

A H Jelle Loonstra, Mo A Verhoeven, Nathan R Senner, Jos C E W Hooijmeijer, Theunis Piersma and Rosemarie Kentie

Adult nutritional stress decreases oviposition choosiness and fecundity in female butterflies pp. 852-863

Sarah Jaumann and Emilie C Snell-Rood

An avian equivalent of selective abortion: postlaying clutch reduction under resource limitation pp. 864-871

Janusz Kloskowski

Disentangling the costs of male harassment and the benefits of polyandry for females pp. 872-881

Rebecca J Fox, Megan L Head and Michael D Jennions

Corrigendum: A mathematical model of aggressive mimicry pp. 882-882

Carl T Kloock and Thomas Getty

Volume 30, issue 2, 2019

Gene expression shifts in yellow-bellied marmots prior to natal dispersal pp. 267-277

Tiffany C Armenta, Steve W Cole, Daniel H Geschwind, Daniel T Blumstein and Robert K Wayne

Extrapair mating and the strength of sexual selection: insights from a polymorphic species pp. 278-290

Andrea S Grunst, Melissa L Grunst, Marisa L Korody, Lindsay M Forrette, Rusty A Gonser and Elaine M Tuttle

“Hot deals at sea”: responses of a top predator (Bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus) to human-induced changes in the coastal ecosystem pp. 291-300

Bruno Díaz López

Individual variation and the source-sink group dynamics of extra-group paternity in a social mammal pp. 301-312

Paula H Marjamäki, Hannah L Dugdale, Deborah A Dawson, Robbie A McDonald, Richard Delahay, Terry Burke and Alastair J Wilson

Equivalent effect of UV coloration and vibratory signal on mating success in a jumping spider pp. 313-321

Hua Zeng, Samantha S E Wee, Christina J Painting, Shichang Zhang and Daiqin Li

Physiological and social consequences of gastrointestinal nematode infection in a nonhuman primate pp. 322-335

Nadine Müller-Klein, Michael Heistermann, Christina Strube, Zina M Morbach, Navina Lilie, Mathias Franz, Oliver Schülke and Julia Ostner

Territorial defense in a network: audiences only matter to male fiddler crabs primed for confrontation pp. 336-340

Safi K Darden, Maggie K May, Natasha K Boyland and Torben Dabelsteen

Resource variation generates positive correlations between pre- and postcopulatory sexual traits pp. 341-347

K Supriya, Trevor D Price and Melissah Rowe

Multiple environmental cues impact habitat choice during nocturnal homing of specialized reef shrimp pp. 348-355

Molly M Ashur and Danielle L Dixson

Condition-dependent foraging strategies in a coastal seabird: evidence for the rich get richer hypothesis pp. 356-363

Brock Geary, Scott T Walter, Paul L Leberg and Jordan Karubian

Testes size increases with sperm competition risk and intensity in bony fish and sharks pp. 364-371

Amy G Rowley, Toby S Daly-Engel and John L Fitzpatrick

Horizontal partner exchange does not preclude stable mutualism in fungus-growing ants pp. 372-382

Jack Howe, Morten Schiøtt and Jacobus J Boomsma

Social context affects thermoregulation but not activity level during avian immune response pp. 383-392

Grace J Vaziri, Manju M Johny, Petruţa C Caragea and James S Adelman

Behavioral syndromes vary among geographically distinct populations in a reptile pp. 393-401

Marcus Michelangeli, David G Chapple, Celine T Goulet, Michael G Bertram and Bob B M Wong

Predictable gene expression related to behavioral variation in parenting pp. 402-407

Kyle M Benowitz, Elizabeth C McKinney, Christopher B Cunningham and Allen J Moore

Communal and efficient movement routines can develop spontaneously through public information use pp. 408-416

Louise Riotte-Lambert and Jason Matthiopoulos

Local mate competition modifies the costs of mating in a mostly monandrous parasitoid wasp pp. 417-425

Rebecca A Boulton, Nicola Cook, E V (Ginny) Greenway, Georgina L Glaser, Jade Green and David M Shuker

Applying Lanchester’s laws to the interspecific competition of coral reef fish pp. 426-433

David Černý, Kristen Lee, Jocelyn Medal and Daniel T Blumstein

Modeling the functional link between movement, feeding activity, and condition in a marine predator pp. 434-445

Enrico Pirotta, Lisa K Schwarz, Daniel P Costa, Patrick W Robinson and Leslie New

Better the devil you know? How familiarity and kinship affect prey responses to disturbance cues pp. 446-454

Kevin R Bairos-Novak, Adam L Crane, Douglas P Chivers and Maud C O Ferrari

Juvenile social experience generates differences in behavioral variation but not averages pp. 455-464

Nicholas DiRienzo, J Chadwick Johnson and Anna Dornhaus

Male phenotypic diversity experienced during ontogeny mediates female mate choice in guppies pp. 465-473

Alessandro Macario, Darren P Croft and Safi K Darden

Alternative reproductive tactics and lifetime reproductive success in a polygynandrous mammal pp. 474-482

Adele Balmer, Bertram Zinner, Jamieson C Gorrell, David W Coltman, Shirley Raveh and F Stephen Dobson

Arena size modulates functional responses via behavioral mechanisms pp. 483-489

Stella F Uiterwaal, Anthony I Dell and John P DeLong

Social rank, color morph, and social network metrics predict oxidative stress in a cichlid fish pp. 490-499

Shana E Border, Gabriela M DeOliveira, Hannah M Janeski, Taylor J Piefke, Tayler J Brown and Peter D Dijkstra

Choice in a floral marketplace: the role of complexity in bumble bee decision-making pp. 500-508

Matthew W Austin, Patricia Horack and Aimee S Dunlap

Silver spoon effects of hatching order in an asynchronous hatching bird pp. 509-517

Zitan Song, Yuqi Zou, Canshi Hu, Yuanxing Ye, Chao Wang, Baoping Qing, Jan Komdeur and Changqing Ding

Incubation temperature and social context affect the nest exodus of precocial ducklings pp. 518-527

Sydney F Hope, Robert A Kennamer, Schuyler G van Montfrans and William A Hopkins

Temporal plasticity in habitat selection criteria explains patterns of animal dispersal pp. 528-540

Casey C Day, Nicholas P McCann, Patrick A Zollner, Jonathan H Gilbert and David M MacFarland

Interspecific aggression among parapatric and sympatric songbirds on a tropical elevational gradient pp. 541-547

Andy J Boyce and Thomas E Martin

Long-term dynamics of phenotype-dependent dispersal within a wild bird population pp. 548-556

Carlos Camacho, Jesús Martínez-Padilla, David Canal and Jaime Potti

The behavioral origins of novelty: did increased aggression lead to scale-eating in pupfishes? pp. 557-569

Michelle E St. John, Joseph A McGirr and Christopher H Martin

Do wolf spiders’ egg-sacs emit tactochemical signals perceived by mothers? pp. 570-581

Fanny Ruhland, Stefan Schulz, Maxime R Hervé and Marie Trabalon

Corrigendum to: ‘Rate maximization and hyperbolic discounting in human experiential intertemporal decision making’ by Maayke Suzanne Seinstra, Manuela Sellitto and Tobias Kalenscher pp. 582-582

Maayke Suzanne Seinstra, Manuela Sellitto and Tobias Kalenscher

Volume 30, issue 1, 2019

Systematic reviews and maps as tools for applying behavioral ecology to management and policy pp. 1-8

Oded Berger-Tal, Alison L Greggor, Biljana Macura, Carrie Ann Adams, Arden Blumenthal, Amos Bouskila, Ulrika Candolin, Carolina Doran, Esteban Fernández-Juricic, Kiyoko M Gotanda, Catherine Price, Breanna J Putman, Michal Segoli, Lysanne Snijders, Bob B M Wong and Daniel T Blumstein

Meta-science urgently needed across the environmental nexus: a comment on Berger-Tal et al pp. 9-10

Gavin Stewart and Jessica Ward

Will systematic reviews facilitate translational behavioral ecology? With a few conditions: a comment on Berger-Tal et al pp. 10-11

Andrea S Griffin and Matt W Hayward

Who reads nowadays?: a comment on Berger-Tal et al pp. 11-12

Tim Caro

On using conceptual frameworks to guide a systematic review: a comment on Berger-Tal et al pp. 12-13

Andrew Sih, Lea Pollack and Emily Zepeda

How good does our map of knowledge have to be?: a comment on Berger-Tal et al pp. 13-14

Shinichi Nakagawa and Malgorzata Lagisz

Systematic evidence synthesis as part of a larger process: a response to comments on Berger-Tal et al pp. 14-15

Oded Berger-Tal, Alison L Greggor, Biljana Macura, Carrie Ann Adams, Arden Blumenthal, Amos Bouskila, Ulrika Candolin, Carolina Doran, Esteban Fernández-Juricic, Kiyoko M Gotanda, Catherine Price, Breanna J Putman, Michal Segoli, Lysanne Snijders, Bob B M Wong and Daniel T Blumstein

Sequential choices using signal detection theory can reverse classical predictions pp. 16-19

John M McNamara and Pete C Trimmer

Pale by comparison: competitive interactions between signaling female glow-worms pp. 20-26

Anna-Maria Borshagovski, Gautier Baudry, Juhani Hopkins and Arja Kaitala

Complex male mate choice in the brush-legged wolf spider Schizocosa ocreata (Hentz) pp. 27-38

Timothy B Meyer and George W Uetz

Collective behavior and colony persistence of social spiders depends on their physical environment pp. 39-47

Ambika Kamath, Skylar D Primavera, Colin M Wright, Grant N Doering, Kirsten A Sheehy, Noa Pinter-Wollman and Jonathan N Pruitt

Nestling and adult sparrows respond differently to conspecific dialects pp. 48-56

Emily Jane Hudson, Matthew Hahn and Daizaburo Shizuka

Counting crows: population structure and group size variation in an urban population of crows pp. 57-67

Florian Uhl, Max Ringler, Rachael Miller, Sarah A Deventer, Thomas Bugnyar and Christine Schwab

Assessing reliance on vector navigation in the long-distance oceanic migrations of green sea turtles pp. 68-79

Giulia Cerritelli, Giuseppe Bianco, Giacomo Santini, Annette C Broderick, Brendan J Godley, Graeme C Hays, Paolo Luschi and Susanne Åkesson

Within-individual variation in sexual displays: signal or noise? pp. 80-91

Jessie C Tanner and Mark A Bee

The effects of experimental design on mating preferences and reproductive isolation in killifish pp. 92-100

Michelle E St. John and Rebecca C Fuller

Uncoordinated dances associated with high reproductive success in a crane pp. 101-106

Kohei F Takeda, Mariko Hiraiwa-Hasegawa and Nobuyuki Kutsukake

Australian house geckos are more aggressive than a globally successful invasive Asian house gecko pp. 107-113

Adam Cisterne, Lin Schwarzkopf and David A Pike

Diet and provisioning rate differ predictably between dispersing and philopatric pied flycatchers pp. 114-124

Marion Nicolaus, Solange C Y Barrault and Christiaan Both

Offspring dispersal ability covaries with nest-site choice pp. 125-133

David M Delaney and Fredric J Janzen

A mathematical model of aggressive mimicry pp. 134-141

Carl T Kloock and Thomas Getty

Selective attention by priming in host search behavior of 2 generalist butterflies pp. 142-149

Gabriella Gamberale-Stille, Alexander Schäpers, Niklas Janz and Sören Nylin

Influence of preexisting preference for color on sampling and tracking behavior in bumble bees pp. 150-158

Gyanpriya Maharaj, Patricia Horack, Marisa Yoder and Aimee S Dunlap

Size and contrast increase the divertive effect of eyespots pp. 159-165

Karin Kjernsmo, Miranda Grönholm and Sami Merilaita

Immune challenge induces terminal investment at an early breeding stage in female zebra finches pp. 166-171

Sandra Sköld-Chiriac, Jan-Åke Nilsson and Dennis Hasselquist

Temporal activity patterns of predators and prey across broad geographic scales pp. 172-180

Stephen D J Lang, Richard P Mann and Damien R Farine

Evidence for dominant males but not choosy females in an insular rock iguana pp. 181-193

Jeanette B Moss, Glenn P Gerber, Aumbriel Schwirian, Anna C Jackson and Mark E Welch

Kin selection and allocare in sperm whales pp. 194-201

Christine M Konrad, Timothy R Frasier, Hal Whitehead and Shane Gero

Optimal foraging or surplus killing: selective consumption and discarding of salmon by brown bears pp. 202-212

Alexandra E Lincoln and Thomas P Quinn

Floral community predicts pollinators’ color preference: implications for Batesian floral mimicry pp. 213-222

Michael R Whitehead, Anne C Gaskett and Steven D Johnson

Acoustic stability in hyrax snorts: vocal tightrope-walkers or wrathful verbal assailants? pp. 223-230

Yishai A Weissman, Vlad Demartsev, Amiyaal Ilany, Adi Barocas, Einat Bar-Ziv, Inbar Shnitzer, Eli Geffen and Lee Koren

Male courtship behaviors and female choice reduced during experimental starvation stress pp. 231-239

Alexis C Billings, Katherine E Schultz, Eddy A Hernandez, W Elizabeth Jones and Donald K Price

The significance of prey avoidance behavior for the maintenance of a predator color polymorphism pp. 240-248

Helena Ajuria Ibarra, Michael Kinahan, Julien Marcetteau, Andrew J R Mehigan, Ross O Ziegelmeier and Tom Reader

Familiarity mediates equitable social associations in guppies pp. 249-255

Silvia Cattelan, Tyrone Lucon-Xiccato, Andrea Pilastro and Matteo Griggio

The nutritional ecology of maturation in a carnivorous insect pp. 256-266

Ekhlas Al Shareefi and Sheena C Cotter