Behavioral Ecology

2002 - 2025

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Volume 29, issue 5, 2018

Responsible sharing of articles published in Behavioral Ecology pp. 1003-1003

Leigh W Simmons

Dear enemies or nasty neighbors? Causes and consequences of variation in the responses of group-living species to territorial intrusions pp. 1004-1013

Charlotte Christensen and Andrew N Radford

Where, who, and when? Key drivers of territorial responses: a comment on Christensen and Radford pp. 1014-1014

Peter K McGregor and Mark A Bee

Criteria for studies of dear enemy and nasty neighbor effects: a comment on Christensen and Radford pp. 1015-1016

Judy A Stamps

Dynamic conflict among heterogeneous groups: a comment on Christensen and Radford pp. 1016-1017

Faye J Thompson and Michael A Cant

Mating and/or social system to explain territorial responses: a comment on Christensen and Radford pp. 1017-1018

Bart Kranstauber and Marta B Manser

The importance of understanding costs and benefits: a comment on Christensen and Radford pp. 1018-1019

Amanda R Ridley and Melanie O Mirville

Variation in group territorial behavior: a response to comments on Christensen and Radford pp. 1019-1020

Andrew N Radford and Charlotte Christensen

Internal acoustic structuring in pied babbler recruitment cries specifies the form of recruitment pp. 1021-1030

Sabrina Engesser, Amanda R Ridley, Marta B Manser, Andri Manser and Simon W Townsend

High male density favors maintenance over reproduction in a butterfly pp. 1031-1037

Rina Geiger, Michaël Beaulieu, Kristin Franke and Klaus Fischer

Nest defensibility decreases home-range size in central place foragers pp. 1038-1045

Thomas K Lameris, Joel S Brown, Erik Kleyheeg, Patrick A Jansen and Frank van Langevelde

Context-specific learning and its implications for social learning pp. 1046-1055

Noa Truskanov, Rimon Shy and Arnon Lotem

Female ornamentation is associated with elevated aggression and testosterone in a tropical songbird pp. 1056-1066

Erik D Enbody, Jordan Boersma, Hubert Schwabl and Jordan Karubian

Competition decreases with relatedness and lek size in mole crickets: a role for kin selection? pp. 1067-1074

Kit T Keane, Warren Booth, Daniel R Howard, Timothy M J Golden and Peggy S M Hill

A chorus of color: hierarchical and graded information content of rapid color change signals in chameleons pp. 1075-1087

Russell A Ligon and Kevin J McGraw

Let the most motivated win: resource value components affect contest outcome in a parasitoid wasp pp. 1088-1095

Anthony G E Mathiron, Patrice Pottier and Marlène Goubault

Sexual selection across sensory modalities: female choice of male behavioral and gustatory displays pp. 1096-1104

Jacob D Berson and Leigh W Simmons

Organization enhances collective vigilance in the hovering guards of Tetragonisca angustula bees pp. 1105-1112

Kyle Shackleton, Denise A Alves and Francis L W Ratnieks

Quick-change artists: male guppies pay no cost to repeatedly adjust their sexual strategies pp. 1113-1123

Martina Magris, Gianluca Chimetto, Sofia Rizzi and Andrea Pilastro

Vegetation structure mediates a shift in predator avoidance behavior in a range-edge population pp. 1124-1131

Cora A Johnston and Rachel S Smith

Larval pheromones act as colony-wide regulators of collective foraging behavior in honeybees pp. 1132-1141

R Ma, G Villar, C M Grozinger and J Rangel

No evidence for parent–offspring competition in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides pp. 1142-1149

Francesca E Gray, Jon Richardson, Tom Ratz and Per T Smiseth

Mate-copying for a costly variant in Drosophila melanogaster females pp. 1150-1156

Sabine Nöbel, Etienne Danchin and Guillaume Isabel

Body stores persist as fitness correlate in a long-distance migrant released from food constraints pp. 1157-1166

Adriaan M Dokter, Wimke Fokkema, Steven K Bekker, Willem Bouten, Barwolt S Ebbinge, Gerard Müskens, Han Olff, Henk P van der Jeugd and Bart A Nolet

Genomic analysis of MHC-based mate choice in the monogamous California mouse pp. 1167-1180

Jesyka Meléndez-Rosa, Ke Bi and Eileen A Lacey

Effects of experimental anthropogenic noise on avian settlement patterns and reproductive success pp. 1181-1189

Allison S Injaian, Lauren Y Poon and Gail L Patricelli

Experimental cross-fostering of eggs reveals effects of territory quality on reproductive allocation pp. 1190-1198

Dylan M Poorboy, E Keith Bowers, Scott K Sakaluk and Charles F Thompson

Volume 29, issue 4, 2018

When should receivers follow multiple signal components? A closer look at the “flag†model pp. e6-e8

Tom N Sherratt and Øistein H Holen

Reply to Sherratt and Holen: Goldilocks and the half-empty glass pp. e9-e10

David W Stephens

On the role of male competition in speciation: a review and research agenda pp. 783-797

Robin M Tinghitella, Alycia C R Lackey, Michael Martin, Peter D Dijkstra, Jonathan P Drury, Robert Heathcote, Jason Keagy, Elizabeth S C Scordato and Alexandra M Tyers

The research bias is unfortunate but also unsurprising: a comment on Tinghitella et al pp. 798-798

Erin L McCullough and Douglas J Emlen

What is the role of competition among pairs in speciation?: a comment on Tinghitella et al pp. 799-799

Topi K Lehtonen

Sperm competition, sexual conflict, and speciation: a comment on Tinghitella et al pp. 800-800

Leigh W Simmons

When does male competition foster speciation?: a comment on Tinghitella et al pp. 801-802

Janette W Boughman

Divergence is not speciation, or why we need females: a comment on Tinghitella et al pp. 801-801

Emily R Burdfield-Steel and David M Shuker

A major player need not be the only player in speciation: a response to comments on Tinghitella et al pp. 802-803

Robin M Tinghitella, Alycia C R Lackey, Michael D Martin, Peter D Dijkstra, Jonathan P Drury, Robert J P Heathcote, Jason Keagy, Elizabeth S C Scordato and Alexandra M Tyers

Macronutrient signature of dietary generalism in an ecologically diverse primate in the wild pp. 804-813

Zhen-Wei Cui, Zhen-Long Wang, Qi Shao, David Raubenheimer and Ji-Qi Lu

The influence of environmental variance on the evolution of signaling behavior pp. 814-820

Cody Koykka and Geoff Wild

Song recognition and heterospecific associations between 2 fairy-wren species (Maluridae) pp. 821-832

Allison E Johnson, Christina Masco and Stephen Pruett-Jones

Odor alters color preference in a foraging jumping spider pp. 833-839

Michael E Vickers and Lisa A Taylor

Elevation-related difference in serial reversal learning ability in a nonscatter hoarding passerine pp. 840-847

Ethan Hermer, Maxime Cauchoix, Alexis S Chaine and Julie Morand-Ferron

Aggressive spiders make the wrong decision in a difficult task pp. 848-854

Chia-chen Chang, Zhi Yun Lim, Danielle A Klomp, Yusoff Norma-Rashid and Daiqin Li

Does the presence of an odd individual affect group choice? pp. 855-861

Fausto G Quattrini, Redouan Bshary and Dominique G Roche

Niche separation, ontogeny, and heterospecific alarm responses in centrarchid sunfish pp. 862-868

Jigang Xia, Chris K Elvidge and Steven J Cooke

Social context alters host behavior and infection risk pp. 869-875

Carl N Keiser, Volker H W Rudolf, Elizabeth Sartain, Emma R Every and Julia B Saltz

Are females in good condition better able to cope with costly males? pp. 876-884

Maider Iglesias-Carrasco, Michael D Jennions, Susanne R K Zajitschek and Megan L Head

Statistically testing the role of individual learning and decision-making in trapline foraging pp. 885-893

Carolyn A Ayers, Paul R Armsworth and Berry J Brosi

Coloration of chicks modulates costly interactions among family members pp. 894-903

Judith Morales and Alberto Velando

Does multiple paternity explain phenotypic variation among offspring in wild boar? pp. 904-909

Marlène Gamelon, Thibault Gayet, Eric Baubet, Sébastien Devillard, Ludovic Say, Serge Brandt, Christophe Pélabon and Bernt-Erik Sæther

Evidence for personality conformity, not social niche specialization in social jays pp. 910-917

Kelsey McCune, Piotr Jablonski, Sang-im Lee and Renee Ha

Males mate with multiple females to increase offspring numbers in a nursery web spider pp. 918-924

Alissa G Anderson, Eileen A Hebets, Bridget M Bickner and J Colton Watts

Can mixed singing facilitate coexistence of closely related nightingale species? pp. 925-932

Abel Souriau, Hana Kohoutová, Jiří Reif, Jana Vokurková, Adam Petrusek, Radka Reifová and Tereza Petrusková

Plover parents care more for young of the opposite sex pp. 933-938

Daniel Lees, Craig D H Sherman, Kristal Kostoglou, Laura X L Tan, Grainne S Maguire, Peter Dann and Michael A Weston

The costs of kleptoparasitism: a study of mixed-species seabird breeding colonies pp. 939-947

Davide Gaglio, Richard B Sherley, Timothée R Cook, Peter G Ryan and Tom Flower

Bidirectionality of hormone-behavior relationships and satellite-caller dynamics in green treefrogs pp. 948-957

Sarah P Crocker-Buta and Christopher J Leary

Habitat geometry and limited perceptual range affect habitat choice of a trap-building predator pp. 958-964

Noa Katz and Inon Scharf

Thick eggshells of brood parasitic cowbirds protect their eggs and damage host eggs during laying pp. 965-973

Analía V López, Vanina D Fiorini, Kevin Ellison and Brian D Peer

Context-dependent costs and benefits of a heterospecific nesting association pp. 974-983

Rose J Swift, Amanda D Rodewald and Nathan R Senner

Risk of cache pilferage determines hoarding behavior of rodents and seed fate pp. 984-991

Lin Cao, Bo Wang, Chuan Yan, Zhenyu Wang, Hongmao Zhang, Yuanzhao Geng, Jin Chen and Zhibin Zhang

Viability selection by invertebrate predators in the polyphenic black scavenger fly Sepsis thoracica pp. 992-1000

Juan Pablo Busso and Wolf U Blanckenhorn

Corrigendum: Reply to Sherratt and Holen: Goldilocks and the half-empty glass pp. 1001-1001

David W Stephens

Volume 29, issue 3, 2018

Can hosts tolerate avian brood parasites? An appraisal of mechanisms pp. 509-519

Jesús M Avilés

Applying the framework and concepts of parasitology to avian brood parasitism: a comment on Avilés pp. 520-521

Mikus Abolins-Abols and Mark E Hauber

Tolerance to brood parasitism: a comment on Avilés pp. 521-521

Juan J Soler

Conspecific brood parasites can also help us understand the evolution of tolerance: a comment on Avilés pp. 522-523

Bruce E Lyon, John M Eadie and Daizaburo Shizuka

Tolerance in hosts of brood parasites: a comment on Avilés pp. 523-524

Iliana Medina and Naomi E Langmore

The reliability of current evidence on tolerance by hosts of brood parasites and suggestions for studying it: a comment on Avilés pp. 524-525

Manuel Soler

When resistance is futile - tolerance in avian brood parasite hosts: a comment on Avilés pp. 525-526

Justin A Welbergen

Integrating mechanisms in the study of tolerance to brood parasites: a response to comments on Avilés pp. 526-527

Jesús M Avilés

Flash behavior increases prey survival pp. 528-533

Karl Loeffler-Henry, Changku Kang, Yolanda Yip, Tim Caro and Thomas N Sherratt

Roads elicit negative movement and habitat-selection responses by wolverines (Gulo gulo luscus) pp. 534-542

Matthew A Scrafford, Tal Avgar, Rick Heeres and Mark S Boyce

Male mate choice based on female coloration in a lizard: the role of a juvenile trait pp. 543-552

Josabel Belliure, Belén Fresnillo and José J Cuervo

Dominant and subordinate outside options alter help and eviction in a pay-to-stay negotiation model pp. 553-562

Jennifer K Hellmann and Ian M Hamilton

Isolation rearing does not constrain social plasticity in a family-living lizard pp. 563-573

Julia L Riley, Côme Guidou, Caroline Fryns, Johann Mourier, Stephan T Leu, Daniel W A Noble, Richard W Byrne and Martin J Whiting

Social and ecological drivers of reproductive seasonality in geladas pp. 574-588

Elizabeth Tinsley Johnson, Noah Snyder-Mackler, Amy Lu, Thore J Bergman and Jacinta C Beehner

A marker of biological ageing predicts adult risk preference in European starlings, Sturnus vulgaris pp. 589-597

Clare Andrews, Daniel Nettle, Sophie Reichert, Tom Bedford, Pat Monaghan and Melissa Bateson

Modeling nonhuman conventions: the behavioral ecology of arbitrary action pp. 598-608

David W Stephens and Virginia K Heinen

Social interactions predict genetic diversification: an experimental manipulation in shorebirds pp. 609-618

Charles Cunningham, Jorge E Parra, Lucy Coals, Marcela Beltrán, Sama Zefania and Tamás Székely

Body condition and food shapes group dispersal but not solitary dispersal in a social spider pp. 619-627

Bharat Parthasarathy and Hema Somanathan

Highly masculinized and younger males attain higher reproductive success in a social rodent pp. 628-636

Loreto A Correa, Cecilia León, Juan Ramírez-Estrada, à lvaro Ly-Prieto, Sebastián Abades, Loren D Hayes, Mauricio Soto-Gamboa and Luis A Ebensperger

Two ways to display: male hummingbirds show different color-display tactics based on sun orientation pp. 637-648

Richard K Simpson and Kevin J McGraw

Comparing colors using visual models pp. 649-659

Rafael Maia and Thomas E White

Lion population dynamics: do nomadic males matter? pp. 660-666

Natalia Borrego, Arpat Ozgul, Rob Slotow and Craig Packer

American black bears perceive the risks of crossing roads pp. 667-675

Mark A Ditmer, Spencer J Rettler, John R Fieberg, Paul A Iaizzo, Timothy G Laske, Karen V Noyce and David L Garshelis

Evolution of patterned plumage as a sexual signal in estrildid finches pp. 676-685

Masayo Soma and László Zsolt Garamszegi

Salamander climbing behavior varies among species and is correlated with community composition pp. 686-692

Tori D Mezebish, August Blackman and Alexander J Novarro

Olfactory cues of habitats facilitate learning about landscapes of fear pp. 693-700

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

Parental response to intruder females altered by ornamentation and mate quality in a biparental fish pp. 701-710

Ashley R Robart and Barry Sinervo

Immigrant song: males and females learn songs after dispersal in a tropical bird pp. 711-723

Brendan A Graham, Daniel D Heath, Ryan P Walter and Daniel J Mennill

Evidence for nonconsumptive effects from a large predator in an ungulate prey? pp. 724-735

Benedikt Gehr, Elizabeth J Hofer, Andreas Ryser, Eric Vimercati, Kristina Vogt and Lukas F Keller

Odor is linked to adrenocortical function and male ornament size in a colonial seabird pp. 736-744

Hector D DouglasIII, Alexander S Kitaysky and Evgenia V Kitaiskaia

Mechanisms of reciprocity and diversity in social networks: a modeling and comparative approach pp. 745-760

Ivan Puga-Gonzalez, Julia Ostner, Oliver Schülke, Sebastian Sosa, Bernard Thierry and Cedric Sueur

Threat sensitive adjustment of aggression by males and females in a biparental cichlid pp. 761-768

Will Sowersby, Topi K Lehtonen and Bob B M Wong

Disruptive sexual selection on male body size in the polyphenic black scavenger fly Sepsis thoracica pp. 769-777

Juan Pablo Busso and Wolf U Blanckenhorn

Corrigendum: Women’s emotional and sexual attraction to men across the menstrual cycle pp. 779-779

Rei Shimoda, Anne CampbellDeceased and Robert A Barton

Corrigendum: Body condition and food shapes group dispersal but not solitary dispersal in a social spider pp. 780-780

Bharat Parthasarathy and Hema Somanathan

Erratum to: ‘Dominant and subordinate outside options alter help and eviction in a pay-to-stay negotiation model’ by Jennifer K. Hellmann and Ian M. Hamilton pp. 781-781

Jennifer K Hellmann and Ian M Hamilton

Volume 29, issue 2, 2018

Chromatic and achromatic vision: parameter choice and limitations for reliable model predictions pp. 273-282

Peter Olsson, Olle Lind, Almut Kelber and Leigh Simmons

Principles and application of the receptor noise model of color discrimination: a comment on Olsson et al pp. 283-284

Daniel Osorio, Misha Vorobyev and Leigh Simmons

Receptor noise models: time to consider alternatives?: a comment on Olsson et al pp. 284-285

Trevor Price, Kristina Fialko and Leigh Simmons

Opening the “black box†of modeling animal color vision: a comment on Olsson et al pp. 284-284

Devi Stuart-Fox and Leigh Simmons

Color discrimination is not just limited by photoreceptor noise: a comment on Olsson et al pp. 285-286

Vera Vasas, Joanna S Brebner, Lars Chittka and Leigh Simmons

Do not be distracted by pretty colors: a comment on Olsson et al pp. 286-287

Justin Marshall and Leigh Simmons

Models for a colorful reality?: a response to comments on Olsson et al pp. 287-288

Peter Olsson, Olle Lind, Almut Kelber and Leigh Simmons

Pervasive indirect genetic effects on behavioral development in polymorphic eastern mosquitofish pp. 289-300

Brittany Kraft, Valerie A Lemakos, Joseph Travis, Kimberly A Hughes and John FitzpatrickHandling Editor

Nest predation risk explains variation in avian clutch size pp. 301-311

Kristen G Dillon, Courtney J Conway and John SkelhornHandling Editor

Personality remains: no effect of 3-week social status experience on personality in male fowl pp. 312-320

Anna Favati, Eva Udén, Olof Leimar, Hanne Løvlie and Jonathan PruittHandling Editor

Despite reproductive interference, the net outcome of reproductive interactions among spider mite species is not necessarily costly pp. 321-327

Salomé H Clemente, Inês Santos, Rita Ponce, Leonor R Rodrigues, Susana A M Varela, Sara Magalhães and Luke HolmanHandling Editor

Host provisioning behavior favors mimetic begging calls in a brood-parasitic cowbird pp. 328-332

Cynthia A Ursino, Ros Gloag, Juan C Reboreda, María C De Mársico and Naomi LangmoreHandling Editor

Effects of female reproductive competition on birth rate and reproductive scheduling in a historical human population pp. 333-341

Jenni E Pettay, Mirkka Lahdenperä, Anna Rotkirch, Virpi Lummaa and Jonathan PruittHandling Editor

Division of labor as a bipartite network pp. 342-352

Cristian Pasquaretta, Raphaël Jeanson and Luke HolmanHandling Editor

Impacts of mussel invasions on the prey preference of two native predators pp. 353-359

Lisa Skein, Tamara B Robinson, Mhairi E Alexander and Andrea GriffinHandling Editor

A context-dependent induction of natal habitat preference in a generalist herbivorous insect pp. 360-367

Patrick Lhomme, David Carrasco, Mattias Larsson, Bill Hansson, Peter Anderson and Dan PapajHandling Editor

Primates adjust movement strategies due to changing food availability pp. 368-376

Rafael Reyna-Hurtado, Julie A Teichroeb, Tyler R Bonnell, Raul Uriel Hernández-Sarabia, Sofia M Vickers, Juan Carlos Serio-Silva, Pascale Sicotte, Colin A Chapman and David StephensHandling Editor

Sexual segregation in Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins is driven by female avoidance of males pp. 377-386

Allison A Galezo, Ewa Krzyszczyk, Janet Mann and Louise BarrettHandling Editor

Host species of a sexual-parasite do not differentiate between clones of Amazon mollies pp. 387-392

Amber M Makowicz, Darrshini S Muthurajah, Ingo Schlupp and John FitzpatrickHandling Editor

Spontaneous nongenetic variation of group size creates cheater-free groups of social microbes pp. 393-403

Michaela Amherd, Gregory J Velicer, Olaya Rendueles and Luke HolmanHandling Editor

Positioning behavior according to individual color variation improves camouflage in novel habitats pp. 404-410

Adrián Baños-Villalba, David P Quevedo, Pim Edelaar and John SkelhornHandling Editor

Multimodal coordination enhances the responses to an avian duet pp. 411-417

Paweł Ręk and Bob WongHandling Editor

Temporal migration patterns and mating tactics influence size-assortative mating in Rana temporaria pp. 418-428

Carolin Dittrich, Ariel Rodríguez, Ori Segev, Sanja Drakulić, Heike Feldhaar, Miguel Vences, Mark-Oliver Rödel and Michael TaborskyHandling Editor

Differential persistence favors habitat preferences that determine the distribution of a reef fish pp. 429-439

John E Majoris, Cassidy C D’Aloia, Robin K Francis, Peter M Buston and Michael TaborskyHandling Editor

Adult social environment alters female reproductive investment in the cricket Gryllus firmus pp. 440-447

Lauren P Conroy, Derek A Roff and Michael TaborskyHandling Editor

Dominance and the initiation of group feeding events: the modifying effect of sociality pp. 448-458

Julian C Evans, Teri B Jones, Julie Morand-Ferron and Jonathan PruittHandling Editor

Plumage color manipulation has no effect on social dominance or fitness in zebra finches pp. 459-467

Sofia Jerónimo, Mehdi Khadraoui, Daiping Wang, Katrin Martin, John A Lesku, Kylie A Robert, Emmi Schlicht, Wolfgang Forstmeier, Bart Kempenaers and Naomi LangmoreHandling Editor

Direct fitness benefits and kinship of social foraging groups in an Old World tropical babbler pp. 468-478

Sara A Kaiser, Thomas E Martin, Juan C Oteyza, Connor Armstad, Robert C Fleischer and Michael TaborskyHandling Editor

Maternal programming of offspring antipredator behavior in a seabird pp. 479-485

Judith Morales, Alberto Lucas, Alberto Velando and John SkelhornHandling Editor

Specialization and accuracy of host-searching butterflies in complex and simple environments pp. 486-495

Meredith K Steck, Emilie C Snell-Rood and Dan PapajHandling Editor

Phenotypic traits and resource quality as factors affecting male reproductive success in a toadfish pp. 496-507

Aneesh P H Bose, Karen M Cogliati, Nick Luymes, Andrew H Bass, Margaret A Marchaterre, Joseph A Sisneros, Benjamin M Bolker, Sigal Balshine and Michael TaborskyHandling Editor

Volume 29, issue 1, 2018

Indirect genetic effects in behavioral ecology: does behavior play a special role in evolution? pp. 1-11

Nathan W Bailey, Lucas Marie-Orleach, Allen J Moore and Leigh SimmonsEditor-in-Chief

Misinterpreting “cost†in the classification of animal teaching pp. e1-e2

Maximilian Benjamin Louis Cordony and Leigh SimmonsEditor-in-Chief

Teaching behavior is responsive and costly in fairy-wrens though the time course needs to be defined pp. e3-e4

Sonia Kleindorfer, Mark E Hauber, Diane Colombelli-Négrel and Leigh SimmonsEditor-in-Chief

Corrigendum: Social conflict and costs of cooperation in meerkats are reflected in measures of stress hormones pp. e5-e5

Ben Dantzer, Nigel C Bennett and Tim H Clutton-Brock

Indirect genetic effects—everything is special, everything is important: a comment on Bailey et al pp. 12-18

Francisco Garcia-Gonzalez and Leigh SimmonsEditor-in-Chief

The challenge of estimating indirect genetic effects on behavior: a comment on Bailey et al pp. 13-14

Loeske E B Kruuk, Alastair J Wilson and Leigh SimmonsEditor-in-Chief

Are indirect genetic effects in behavioral ecology important? A comment on Bailey et al pp. 14-15

Derek A Roff and Leigh SimmonsEditor-in-Chief

“Why†and “How†behavior evolves: a comment on Bailey et al pp. 15-16

Ben J M Jarrett, Rebecca M Kilner and Leigh SimmonsEditor-in-Chief

Allowing nature to be nurture: a comment on Bailey et al pp. 16-17

Stephen F Chenoweth, John Hunt and Leigh SimmonsEditor-in-Chief

If everything is special, is anything special? A response to comments on Bailey et al pp. 17-18

Nathan W Bailey, Lucas Marie-Orleach, Allen J Moore and Leigh SimmonsForum Editor

Do wild ungulates experience higher stress with humans than with large carnivores? pp. 19-30

Adam Zbyryt, Jakub W Bubnicki, Dries P J Kuijper, Martin Dehnhard, Marcin Churski, Krzysztof Schmidt and Bob WongHandling Editor

Boldness-aggression syndromes can reduce population density: behavior and demographic heterogeneity pp. 31-41

Bruce E Kendall, Gordon A Fox, Joseph P Stover and Shinichi NakagawaHandling Editor

Species divergence in offspring begging and parental provisioning is linked to nutritional dependency pp. 42-50

Alexandra Capodeanu-Nägler, Anne-Katrin Eggert, Heiko Vogel, Scott K Sakaluk, Sandra Steiger and Luke HolmanHandling Editor

Women’s emotional and sexual attraction to men across the menstrual cycle pp. 51-59

Rei Shimoda, Anne CampbellDeceased, Robert A Barton and Louise BarrettHandling Editor

A game-theoretical model of kleptoparasitic behavior in an urban gull (Laridae) population pp. 60-78

Robert Spencer, Mark Broom and David StephensHandling Editor

Body size and evolution of motion dazzle coloration in lizards pp. 79-86

Gopal Murali, Ullasa Kodandaramaiah and John FitzpatrickHandling Editor

Discrimination of signal carotenoid content using multidimensional chromatic information pp. 87-92

Thomas W Pike and Anna LindholmHandling Editor

Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer caffer) social dynamics in a flood-pulsed environment pp. 93-105

Emily Bennitt, Mpaphi Casper Bonyongo, Stephen Harris and Louise BarrettHandling Editor

Parental investment in Tibetan populations does not reflect stated cultural norms pp. 106-116

Juan Du, Ruth Mace and Louise BarrettHandling Editor

Evaluation of sex differences in the stopover behavior and postdeparture movements of wood-warblers pp. 117-127

Yolanda E Morbey, Christopher G Guglielmo, Philip D Taylor, Ivan Maggini, Jessica Deakin, Stuart A Mackenzie, J Morgan Brown, Lin Zhao and David StephensHandling Editor

Surrounding pathogens shape maternal egg care but not egg production in the European earwig pp. 128-136

Janina M C Diehl, Joël Meunier and Luke Holman Dr.Handling Editor

Nest material preferences by spotless starlings pp. 137-144

Cristina Ruiz-Castellano, Gustavo Tomás, Magdalena Ruiz-Rodríguez, Juan J Soler and Michael TaborskyHandling Editor

Group size differences may mask underlying similarities in social structure: a comparison of female elephant societies pp. 145-159

S Nandini, P Keerthipriya, T N C Vidya and Louise BarrettHandling Editor

The influence of wind selectivity on migratory behavioral strategies pp. 160-168

Jennifer D McCabe, Brian J Olsen, Bipush Osti, Peter O Koons and David StephensHandling Editor

Joint care can outweigh costs of nonkin competition in communal breeders pp. 169-178

Kat Bebbington, Eleanor A Fairfield, Lewis G Spurgin, Sjouke A Kingma, Hannah Dugdale, Jan Komdeur, David S Richardson and Anna LindholmHandling Editor

Shelter availability mediates decorating in the majoid crab, Camposcia retusa pp. 179-185

Rohan M Brooker, Enid C Muñoz Ruiz, Tiffany L Sih, Danielle L Dixson and Luke HolmanHandling Editor

Foraging bumblebees use social cues more when the task is difficult pp. 186-192

David Baracchi, Vera Vasas, Soha Jamshed Iqbal, Sylvain Alem and Dan PapajHandling Editor

Rate maximization and hyperbolic discounting in human experiential intertemporal decision making pp. 193-203

Maayke Suzanne Seinstra, Manuela Sellitto and Tobias Kalenscher

The price of insurance: costs and benefits of worker production in a facultatively social bee pp. 204-211

Wyatt A Shell, Sandra M Rehan and Luke HolmanHandling Editor

Signaler and receiver boldness influence response to alarm calls in eastern chipmunks pp. 212-220

Charline Couchoux, Jeanne Clermont, Dany Garant, Denis Réale and Jonathan PruittHandling Editor

Task-dependent workload adjustment of female breeders in a cooperatively breeding fish pp. 221-229

Hirokazu Tanaka, Joachim G Frommen, Leif Engqvist, Masanori Kohda and Michael TaborskyHandling Editor

Fledgling adoption in European Blackbirds: an unrecognized phenomenon in a well-known species pp. 230-235

Dariusz Wysocki, Marta Cholewa, Å ukasz Jankowiak and Andrea GriffinHandling Editor

Predictable males and unpredictable females: repeatability of sociability in eastern water dragons pp. 236-243

Kasha Strickland, Céline H Frère and Michael TaborskyHandling Editor

Extra-pair paternity is not driven by inbreeding avoidance and does not affect provisioning rates in a cooperatively breeding bird, the noisy miner (Manorina melanocephala) pp. 244-252

Ahmad Barati, Rose L Andrew, Jamieson C Gorrell, Paul G McDonald and Andrea GriffinHandling Editor

Sperm blocking is not a male adaptation to sperm competition in a parasitoid wasp pp. 253-263

Rebecca A Boulton, Nicola Cook, Jade Green, Elisabeth V (Ginny) Greenway, David M Shuker and Luke HolmanHandling Editor

Colony personality and plant health in the Azteca-Cecropia mutualism pp. 264-271

Peter R Marting, William T Wcislo, Stephen C Pratt and Jonathan PruittHandling Editor