Behavioral Ecology

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Volume 28, issue 5, 2017

Obituary: Amotz Zahavi 1928–2017 pp. 1195-1197

Tim Clutton-Brock and Amanda Ridley

Male genital titillators and the intensity of post-copulatory sexual selection across bushcrickets pp. 1198-1205

Gerlind U.C Lehmann, James DJ Gilbert, Karim Vahed and Arne W Lehmann

Food abundance, prey morphology, and diet specialization influence individual sea otter tool use pp. 1206-1216

Jessica A Fujii, Katherine Ralls and M Tim Tinker

Do prevailing environmental factors influence human preferences for facial morphology? pp. 1217-1227

Barnaby JW Dixson, Anthony C Little, Henry GW Dixson and Robert C Brooks

Effects of individual-based preferences for colour-banded mates on sex allocation in zebra finches pp. 1228-1235

Zitan Song, Yao Liu, Isobel Booksmythe and Changqing Ding

Seasonal variation in behavioral thermoregulation and predator avoidance in a small mammal pp. 1236-1247

Charlotte R Milling, Janet L Rachlow, Timothy R Johnson, Jennifer S Forbey and Lisa A Shipley

Camouflaging moving objects: crypsis and masquerade pp. 1248-1255

Joanna R Hall, Roland Baddeley, Nicholas E Scott-Samuel, Adam J Shohet and Innes C Cuthill

Duetting behavior varies with sex, season, and singing role in a tropical oriole (Icterus icterus) pp. 1256-1265

Karan J Odom, David M Logue, Colin E Studds, Michelle K Monroe, Susanna K Campbell and Kevin E Omland

Early to rise, early to breed: a role for daily rhythms in seasonal reproduction pp. 1266-1271

Jessica L Graham, Natalie J Cook, Katie B Needham, Michaela Hau and Timothy J Greives

Why does the rate of signal production in ectotherms vary with temperature? pp. 1272-1282

Terry J Ord and Judy A Stamps

Marginal predation: do encounter or confusion effects explain the targeting of prey group edges? pp. 1283-1292

Callum Duffield and Christos C Ioannou

Wild dwarf mongooses produce general alert and predator-specific alarm calls pp. 1293-1301

Katie Collier, Andrew N Radford, Simon W Townsend and Marta B Manser

Dominance, gender, and season influence food patch use in a group-living, solitary foraging canid pp. 1302-1313

Jo Dorning and Stephen Harris

Aquatic prey use countershading camouflage to match the visual background pp. 1314-1322

Jennifer L Kelley, Ian Taylor, Nathan S Hart and Julian C Partridge

Female anoles display less but attack more quickly than males in response to territorial intrusions pp. 1323-1328

Aaron M Reedy, Brandon D Pope, Nicholas M Kiriazis, Cara L Giordano, Cheyenne L Sams, Daniel A Warner and Robert M Cox

Stomatopods detect and assess achromatic cues in contests pp. 1329-1336

Amanda M Franklin, Matthew B Applegate, Sara M Lewis and Fiorenzo G Omenetto

A comparative analysis of the behavioral response to fishing boats in two albatross species pp. 1337-1347

Julien Collet, Samantha C Patrick and Henri Weimerskirch

Leopard distribution and abundance is unaffected by interference competition with lions pp. 1348-1358

Guy A Balme, Ross T Pitman, Hugh S Robinson, Jennie R B Miller, Paul J Funston and Luke T B Hunter

Mutual plumage ornamentation and biparental care: consequences for success in different environments pp. 1359-1368

Miklós Laczi, Dóra Kötél, János Török and Gergely Hegyi

Nest decoration as social signals by males and females: greenery and feathers in starling colonies pp. 1369-1375

Juan G Rubalcaba, Daniel Fuentes, José P Veiga and Vicente Polo

Prior information and social experience influence male reproductive decisions pp. 1376-1383

Jesse Balaban-Feld and Thomas J Valone

Crowding leads to fitness benefits and reduced dispersal in a colonial spider pp. 1384-1392

Lior Ventura, Deborah R Smith and Yael Lubin

Volume 28, issue 4, 2017

What’s flexible in behavioral flexibility? pp. 943-947

Jean-Nicolas Audet and Louis Lefebvre

Avoiding the misuse of BLUP in behavioural ecology pp. 948-952

Thomas M. Houslay and Alastair J. Wilson

Mate choice in sticklebacks reveals that immunogenes can drive ecological speciation pp. 953-961

Demetra Andreou, Christophe Eizaguirre, Thomas Boehm and Manfred Milinski

Female Soay sheep do not adjust their maternal care behaviour to the quality of their home range pp. 962-973

Charlotte E. Regan, Jill G. Pilkington and Per T. Smiseth

Natural and anthropogenic sounds reduce song performance: insights from two emberizid species pp. 974-982

Benjamin M. Davidson, Gabriela Antonova, Haven Dlott, Jesse R. Barber and Clinton D. Francis

Implications of fidelity and philopatry for the population structure of female black-tailed deer pp. 983-990

Samhita Bose, Tavis D. Forrester, Jennifer L. Brazeal, Benjamin N. Sacks, David S. Casady and Heiko U. Wittmer

How a generalist bee achieves high efficiency of pollen collection on diverse floral resources pp. 991-1003

Avery L. Russell, Stephen L. Buchmann and Daniel R. Papaj

Age-graded dominance hierarchies and social tolerance in packs of free-ranging dogs pp. 1004-1020

Roberto Bonanni, Simona Cafazzo, Arianna Abis, Emanuela Barillari, Paola Valsecchi and Eugenia Natoli

Macronutrient selection of free-ranging urban Australian white ibis (Threskiornis moluccus) pp. 1021-1029

Sean C.P. Coogan, Gabriel E. Machovsky-Capuska, Alistair M. Senior, John M. Martin, Richard E. Major and David Raubenheimer

Male spiders reduce pre- and postmating sexual investment in response to sperm competition risk pp. 1030-1036

Cristina Tuni, Sabrina Weber, Trine Bilde and Gabriele Uhl

Coping with strong variations in winter severity: plastic habitat selection of deer at high density pp. 1037-1046

Nicolas Courbin, Christian Dussault, Alexandre Veillette, Marie-Andrée Giroux and Steeve D. Côté

Cut your losses: self-amputation of injured limbs increases survival pp. 1047-1054

Zachary Emberts, Christine W. Miller, Daniel Kiehl and Colette M. St. Mary

No fitness benefits of early molt in a fairy-wren: relaxed sexual selection under genetic monogamy? pp. 1055-1067

Marie Fan, Michelle L. Hall, Sjouke A. Kingma, Lisa M. Mandeltort, Nataly Hidalgo Aranzamendi, Kaspar Delhey and Anne Peters

Effects of the group’s mix of sizes and personalities on the emergence of alternative mating systems in water striders pp. 1068-1074

Pierre-Olivier Montiglio, Tina W. Wey and Andrew Sih

Predicting translocation outcomes with personality for desert tortoises pp. 1075-1084

Jennifer M. Germano, Melia G. Nafus, Jeanette A. Perry, Derek B. Hall and Ronald R. Swaisgood

Geographic patterns of song variation reveal timing of song acquisition in a wild avian population pp. 1085-1092

Louis Ranjard, Sarah J. Withers, Dianne H. Brunton, Stuart Parsons and Howard A. Ross

Resource availability, but not polyandry, influences sibling conflict in a burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides pp. 1093-1100

Thomas Botterill-James, Lucy Ford, Geoffrey M. While and Per T. Smiseth

Superb fairy-wrens respond more to alarm calls from mate and kin compared to unrelated individuals pp. 1101-1112

Diane Colombelli-Négrel and Christine Evans

Differential dispersal costs and sex-biased dispersal distance in a cooperatively breeding bird pp. 1113-1121

Sjouke A. Kingma, Jan Komdeur, Terry Burke and David S. Richardson

Differential predation drives the geographical divergence in multiple traits in aposematic frogs pp. 1122-1130

Changku Kang, Thomas N. Sherratt, Ye Eun Kim, Yujin Shin, Jongyeol Moon, Uhram Song, Jae Yeon Kang, Kyungmin Kim and Yikweon Jang

Social conflict and costs of cooperation in meerkats are reflected in measures of stress hormones pp. 1131-1141

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

Allopreening in birds is associated with parental cooperation over offspring care and stable pair bonds across years pp. 1142-1148

Elspeth Kenny, Tim R. Birkhead and Jonathan P. Green

Pace-of-life in a social insect: behavioral syndromes in ants shift along a climatic gradient pp. 1149-1159

Udi Segev, Lars Burkert, Barbara Feldmeyer and Susanne Foitzik

Predation cost of a sexual signal in the threespine stickleback pp. 1160-1165

Sini Johnson and Ulrika Candolin

The interface of ecological novelty and behavioral context in the formation of ecological traps pp. 1166-1175

Bruce A. Robertson, Desi-Rae Campbell, Colyer Durovich, Ian Hetterich, Julia Les and Gábor Horváth

Parental care mitigates carry-over effects of poor early conditions on offspring growth pp. 1176-1182

Sonya K. Auer and Thomas E. Martin

Male biased sex ratio reduces the fecundity of one of three female morphs in a polymorphic damselfly pp. 1183-1194

Ivette Galicia-Mendoza, Iago Sanmartín-Villar, Carlos Espinosa-Soto and Adolfo Cordero-Rivera

Volume 28, issue 3, 2017

Does the field of animal personality provide any new insights for behavioral ecology? pp. 617-623

Madeleine Beekman and L. Alex Jordan

The role of personality research in contemporary behavioral ecology: a comment on Beekman and Jordan pp. 624-625

Niels J. Dingemanse

Abandoning animal personality would cause obfuscation: a comment on Beekman and Jordan pp. 625-626

Mark Briffa

There is no special sauce: a comment on Beekman and Jordan pp. 626-627

Alison M. Bell

Insights for behavioral ecology from behavioral syndromes: a comment on Beekman and Jordan pp. 627-628

Andrew Sih

Are personality researchers painting the roses red? Maybe: a comment on Beekman and Jordan pp. 628-629

Jonathan N. Pruitt

Animal personalities: an empty placeholder feigning understanding: a comment on Beekman and Jordan pp. 629-630

Arne Jungwirth, Nina Wedell, Redouan Bshary and Manfred Milinski

Altered physical and social conditions produce rapidly reversible mating systems in water striders pp. 632-639

Andrew Sih, Pierre-Oliver Montiglio, Tina W. Wey and Sean Fogarty

Time perception-based decision making in a parasitoid wasp pp. 640-644

Jean-Philippe Parent, Keiji Takasu, Jacques Brodeur and Guy Boivin

Acoustic communication in zebra finches signals when mates will take turns with parental duties pp. 645-656

Ingrid C.A. Boucaud, Emilie C. Perez, Lauriane S. Ramos, Simon C. Griffith and Clémentine Vignal

Why is the giant panda black and white? pp. 657-667

Tim Caro, Hannah Walker, Zoe Rossman, Megan Hendrix and Theodore Stankowich

Repeatable and heritable behavioural variation in a wild cooperative breeder pp. 668-676

Hannah A. Edwards, Terry Burke and Hannah L. Dugdale

What makes a multimodal signal attractive? A preference function approach pp. 677-687

Kelly L. Ronald, Ruiyu Zeng, David J. White, Esteban Fernández-Juricic and Jeffrey R. Lucas

Food availability modulates differences in parental effort between dispersing and philopatric birds pp. 688-697

Charlotte Récapet, Pierre Bize and Blandine Doligez

Background colour matching increases with risk of predation in a colour-changing grasshopper pp. 698-705

Pim Edelaar, Adrián Baños-Villalba, Graciela Escudero and Consuelo Rodríguez-Bernal

Physiological conditions and genetic controls of phaeomelanin pigmentation in nestling barn swallows pp. 706-716

Emi Arai, Masaru Hasegawa, Takashi Makino, Akihiko Hagino, Yusuke Sakai, Hajime Ohtsuki, Kazumasa Wakamatsu and Masakado Kawata

Rearing conditions have long-term sex-specific fitness consequences in the collared flycatcher pp. 717-723

Eszter Szász, Eszter Szöllősi, Gergely Hegyi, János Török and Balázs Rosivall

Alarm calls of a cooperative bird are referential and elicit context-specific antipredator behavior pp. 724-731

Lucy F. Farrow, Samantha J. Doohan and Paul G. McDonald

Foraging sparrows exhibit individual differences but not a syndrome when responding to multiple kinds of novelty pp. 732-743

David E. Moldoff and David F. Westneat

Silk wrapping of nuptial gifts aids cheating behaviour in male spiders pp. 744-749

Paolo Giovanni Ghislandi, Michelle Beyer, Patricia Velado and Cristina Tuni

Kinship and association in a highly social apex predator population, killer whales at Marion Island pp. 750-759

Ryan R. Reisinger, Charlene Beukes, A. Rus Hoelzel and P.J. Nico de Bruyn

Relatedness and age reduce aggressive male interactions over mating in domestic fowl pp. 760-766

Charlotte Roshera, Anna Favati, Rebecca Dean and Hanne Løvlie

Interspecific social information use in habitat selection decisions among migrant songbirds pp. 767-775

Jakub Szymkowiak, Robert L. Thomson and Lechosław Kuczyński

Steller’s jays assess and communicate about predator risk using detection cues and identity pp. 776-783

Alexis C. Billings, Erick Greene and Dylan MacArthur-Waltzb

Male zebra finches have limited ability to identify high-fecundity females pp. 784-792

Daiping Wang, Nele Kempenaers, Bart Kempenaers and Wolfgang Forstmeier

Nest-box temperature affects clutch size, incubation initiation, and nestling health in great tits pp. 793-802

Josefa Bleu, Simon Agostini and Clotilde Biard

Large brains and groups associated with high rates of agonism in primates pp. 803-810

Veronica B. Cowl and Susanne Shultz

Acoustic cues from within the egg do not heighten depredation risk to shorebird clutches pp. 811-817

Kristal Kostoglou, Wouter F.D. van Dongen, Daniel Lees, Grainne S. Maguire and Michael A. Weston

Early life nutritional quality effects on adult memory retention in a parasitic wasp pp. 818-826

Hossein Kishani Farahani, Ahmad Ashouri, Arash Zibaee, Pouria Abroon, Lucy Alford, Jean-Sebastien Pierre and Joan van Baaren

Baltic pipefish females need twice as many males as they get pp. 827-832

Anders Berglund, Josefin Sundin and Gunilla Rosenqvist

Early social experience shapes female mate choice in guppies pp. 833-843

Alessandro Macario, Darren P. Croft, John A. Endler and Safi K. Darden

The signal in noise: acoustic information for soundscape orientation in two North American tree frogs pp. 844-853

Alejandro Vélez, Noah M. Gordon and Mark A. Bee

Get smart: native mammal develops toad-smart behavior in response to a toxic invader pp. 854-858

Ella Kelly and Ben L. Phillips

How cuckoos find and choose host nests for parasitism pp. 859-865

Canchao Yang, Longwu Wang, Wei Liang and Anders Pape Møller

Bill morphology and neutral genetic structure both predict variation in acoustic signals within a bird population pp. 866-873

Kathryn M. Langin, T. Scott Sillett, Scott A. Morrison and Cameron K. Ghalambor

Individual aggression, but not winner–loser effects, predicts social rank in male domestic fowl pp. 874-882

Anna Favati, Hanne Løvlie and Olof Leimar

Replacing bold individuals has a smaller impact on group performance than replacing shy individuals pp. 883-889

Noa Pinter-Wollmana, Brian Mi and Jonathan N. Pruitt

Specialists and generalists coexist within a population of spider-hunting mud dauber wasps pp. 890-898

Erin C. Powell and Lisa A. Taylor

Asynchronous hatching in a nonavian species: a test of the hurry-up hypothesis pp. 899-907

Lucy E. Ford and Per T. Smiseth

The behavioral trade-off between thermoregulation and foraging in a heat-sensitive species pp. 908-918

Tom H.E. Mason, Francesca Brivio, Philip A. Stephens, Marco Apollonio and Stefano Grignolio

Collective decision making in guppies: a cross-population comparison study in the wild pp. 919-924

Romain J.G. Clément, Julián Vicente-Page, Richard P. Mann, Ashley J.W. Ward, Ralf H.J.M. Kurvers, Indar W. Ramnarine, Gonzalo G. de Polavieja and Jens Krause

Parental coordination with respect to color polymorphism in a crater lake fish pp. 925-933

Topi K. Lehtonen

A new method for statistical detection of directional and stabilizing mating preference pp. 934-942

Derek A. Roff, Daphne J. Fairbairn and Alexandra Prokuda

Volume 28, issue 2, 2017

Guidelines for Transparency and Openness (TOP) pp. 347-347

Leigh W. Simmons

Striving for transparent and credible research: practical guidelines for behavioral ecologists pp. 348-354

Malika Ihle, Isabel S. Winney, Anna Krystalli and Michael Croucher

Research credibility: the devil is in the details: a comment on Ihle et al pp. 355-355

Daniel T. Blumstein

Practical models for publishing replications in behavioral ecology: a comment on Ihle et al pp. 355-357

Timothy H. Parker and Shinichi Nakagawa

Long-term data as infrastructure: a comment on Ihle et al pp. 357-357

Andrew Cockburn

Preregister now for an upgrade to Behavioral Ecology 2.0: a comment on Ihle et al pp. 358-359

Wolfgang Forstmeier

Striving for science that is transparent, credible—and enjoyable: a comment on Ihle et al pp. 358-358

Walter D. Koenig

Replication in behavioural ecology: a comment on Ihle et al pp. 360-360

Ben J. Hatchwell

Transparent and credible practices under the microscope: a response to comments on Ihle et al pp. 360-361

Isabel S. Winney and Malika Ihle

Male mate choice in the Trinidadian guppy is influenced by the phenotype of audience sexual rivals pp. 362-372

Heather L. Auld, Indar W. Ramnarine and Jean-Guy J. Godin

Stripes for warning and stripes for hiding: spatial frequency and detection distance pp. 373-381

James B. Barnett, Annabelle S. Redfern, Robin Bhattacharyya-Dickson, Olivia Clifton, Thomas Courty, Thien Ho, Annabel Hopes, Thomas McPhee, Kaitlin Merrison, Robert Owen, Nicholas E. Scott-Samuel and Innes C. Cuthill

Using playback of territorial calls to investigate mechanisms of kin discrimination in red squirrels pp. 382-390

Julia Shonfield, Jamieson C. Gorrellb, David W. Coltman, Stan Boutin, Murray M. Humphries, David R. Wilson and Andrew G. McAdam

The relative response of songbirds to shifts in song amplitude and song minimum frequency pp. 391-397

David A. Luther, Ray Danner, Julie Danner, Katherine Gentry and Elizabeth P. Derryberry

Dominance rank and boldness predict social attraction in great tits pp. 398-406

Lysanne Snijders, Marc Naguib and Kees van Oers

Consequences of sibling rivalry vary across life in a passerine bird pp. 407-418

Kat Bebbington, Sjouke A. Kingma, Eleanor A. Fairfield, Lewis G. Spurgin, Jan Komdeur and David S. Richardson

Individual shifts toward safety explain age-related foraging distribution in a gregarious shorebird pp. 419-428

Piet J. van den Hout, Theunis Piersma, Job ten Horn, Bernard Spaans and Tamar Lok

Guppies occupy consistent positions in social networks: mechanisms and consequences pp. 429-438

Stefan Krause, Alexander D.M. Wilson, Indar W. Ramnarine, James E. Herbert-Read, Romain J.G. Clément and Jens Krause

Fearlessness towards extirpated large carnivores may exacerbate the impacts of naïve mesocarnivores pp. 439-447

Justin P. Suraci, Devin J. Roberts, Michael Clinchy and Liana Y. Zanette

Environmental heterogeneity and population differences in blue tits personality traits pp. 448-459

Gabrielle Dubuc-Messier, Denis Réale, Philippe Perret and Anne Charmantier

Which traits do observers use to distinguish Batesian mimics from their models? pp. 460-470

Christopher H. Taylor, Jonathan Warrin, Francis Gilbert and Tom Reader

When should I be aggressive? A state-dependent foraging game between competitors pp. 471-478

Ling-Ying Shuai, Zhi-Rong Zhang and Zhi-Gao Zeng

Aggressive jumping spiders make quicker decisions for preferred prey but not at the cost of accuracy pp. 479-484

Chia-Chen Chang, Pangilinan J. Ng and Daiqin Li

Are 2D space-use analyses adapted to animals living in 3D environments? A case study on a fish shoal pp. 485-493

Aurélien Vivancos, Gerry Closs and Cédric Tentelier

Overlapping vocalizations produce far-reaching choruses: a test of the signal enhancement hypothesis pp. 494-499

Nicolas Rehberg-Besler, Stéphanie M. Doucet and Daniel J. Mennill

A multilevel society of herring-eating killer whales indicates adaptation to prey characteristics pp. 500-514

Sara B. Tavares, Filipa I.P. Samarra and Patrick J.O. Miller

Habitat saturation promotes delayed dispersal in a social reptile pp. 515-522

Ben Halliwell, Tobias Uller, David G. Chapple, Michael G. Gardner, Erik Wapstra and Geoffrey M. While

Adult sex ratio and operational sex ratio exhibit different temporal dynamics in the wild pp. 523-532

María Cristina Carmona-Isunza, Sergio Ancona, Tamás Székely, Alfonso P. Ramallo-González, Medardo Cruz-López, Martín Alejandro Serrano-Meneses and Clemens Küpper

Social call divergence in bats: a comparative analysis pp. 533-540

Bo Luo, Xiaobin Huang, Yuanyuan Li, Guanjun Lu, Jianlun Zhao, Kangkang Zhang, Hanbo Zhao, Ying Liu and Jiang Feng

Male risk-taking is related to number of mates in a polygynous bird pp. 541-548

Bobby Habig, Patrick I. Chiyo and David C. Lahti

Redder isn’t always better: cost of carotenoids in Chinook salmon eggs pp. 549-555

Sarah J. Lehnert, Robert H. Devlin, Trevor E. Pitcher, Christina A.D. Semeniuk and Daniel D. Heath

Relative advantages of dichromatic and trichromatic color vision in camouflage breaking pp. 556-564

Jolyon Troscianko, Jared Wilson-Aggarwal, David Griffiths, Claire N. Spottiswoode and Martin Stevens

Food-sharing vampire bats are more nepotistic under conditions of perceived risk pp. 565-569

Gerald G. Carter, Gerald S. Wilkinson and Rachel A. Page

The carotenoid beta-carotene enhances facial color, attractiveness and perceived health, but not actual health, in humans pp. 570-578

Yong Zhi Foo, Gillian Rhodes and Leigh W. Simmons

Innovative females are more promiscuous in great tits (Parus major) pp. 579-588

Veronika Bókony, Ivett Pipoly, Krisztián Szabó, Bálint Preiszner, Ernő Vincze, Sándor Papp, Gábor Seress, Tamás Hammer and András Liker

Rain, predators, and spider sociality: a manipulative experiment pp. 589-596

Catherine R. Hoffman and Leticia Avilés

Color pattern facilitates species recognition but not signal detection: a field test using robots pp. 597-606

Danielle A. Klomp, Devi Stuart-Fox, Elizabeth J. Cassidy, Norhayati Ahmad and Terry J. Ord

Discrimination behavior mediates foraging quality versus quantity trade-offs: nut choice in wild rodents pp. 607-616

Wenwen Chen, Ze Zhang, Christina D. Buesching, Chris Newman, David W. Macdonald, Zongqiang Xie, Shucun Sun and Youbing Zhou

Volume 28, issue 1, 2017

The spatial distribution of foragers and food patches can influence antipredator vigilance pp. 304-311

Guy Beauchamp

Experience with predators shapes learning rules in larval amphibians pp. 312-318

Adam L. Crane, Brandon S. Demuth and Maud C.O. Ferrari

Task switching is associated with temporal delays in Temnothorax rugatulus ants pp. 319-327

Gavin M. Leighton, Daniel Charbonneau and Anna Dornhaus

Weaponry and defenses in fighting animals: how allometry can alter predictions from contest theory pp. 328-336

Alexandre V. Palaoro and Mark Briffa

When the mean no longer matters: developmental diet affects behavioral variation but not population averages in the house cricket (Acheta domesticus) pp. 337-345

Raphaël Royauté and Ned A. Dochtermann