Behavioral Ecology

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Volume 27, issue 5, 2016

Shifting song frequencies in response to anthropogenic noise: a meta-analysis on birds and anurans pp. 1269-1274

Irene T. Roca, Louis Desrochers, Matteo Giacomazzo, Andrea Bertolo, Patricia Bolduc, Raphaël Deschesnes, Charles A. Martin, Vincent Rainville, Guillaume Rheault and Raphaël Proulx

The struggle to be heard in an increasingly noisy world: a comment on Roca et al pp. 1275-1276

Bob B.M. Wong and Helene Lowry

Moving beyond species-specific noise-induced changes in birdsong: a comment on Roca et al pp. 1276-1277

Andrew N. Radford

A meta-analytic castle built on sand? A comment on Roca et al pp. 1277-1278

Henrik Brumm and Mark Bee

Broadening the perspective on the acoustic masking effect: a response to comments on Roca et al pp. 1278-1279

Irene T. Roca, Louis Desrochers, Matteo Giacomazzo and Vincent Rainville

Editor's choice Maternal age at maturation underpins contrasting behavior in offspring pp. 1280-1287

Tim Burton, Grethe Robertsen, David C. Stewart, Simon McKelvey, John D. Armstrong and Neil B. Metcalfe

Selection on male physical performance during male–male competition and female choice pp. 1288-1295

Erin L. McCullough and Leigh W. Simmons

A general expression for the reproductive value of information pp. 1296-1303

Rebecca K. Pike, John M. McNamara and Alasdair I. Houston

Habituation to human disturbance is faster in urban than rural house sparrows pp. 1304-1313

Ernő Vincze, Sándor Papp, Bálint Preiszner, Gábor Seress, Veronika Bókony and András Liker

Brood parasitism and proximity to human habitation pp. 1314-1319

Anders Pape Møller, Mario Díaz and Wei Liang

Imperfect past and present progressive: beak color reflects early-life and adult exposure to antigen pp. 1320-1330

Loren Merrill, Madeleine F. Naylor and Jennifer L. Grindstaff

Mate choice plasticity in a coral reef fish pp. 1331-1342

Sebastian Wacker, Sara Östlund-Nilsson, Elisabet Forsgren, Cait Newport and Trond Amundsen

Not leaving home: grandmothers and male dispersal in a duolocal human society pp. 1343-1352

Qiao-Qiao He, Jia-Jia Wu, Ting Ji, Yi Tao and Ruth Mace

Individual differences in foraging decisions: information-gathering strategies or flexibility? pp. 1353-1361

Lisa K. Arvidsson and Erik Matthysen

Curse of the black spot: spotting negatively correlates with fitness in black grouse Lyrurus tetrix pp. 1362-1369

Carl D. Soulsbury, Matti Kervinen and Christophe Lebigre

Road noise causes earlier predator detection and flight response in a free-ranging mammal pp. 1370-1375

Graeme Shannon, Kevin R. Crooks, George Wittemyer, Kurt M. Fristrup and Lisa M. Angeloni

Pied flycatcher nestlings incur immunological but not growth begging costs pp. 1376-1385

Tomas Redondo, David Ochoa, Gregorio Moreno-Rueda and Jaime Potti

Socially induced reproductive synchrony in a salmonid: an approximate Bayesian computation approach pp. 1386-1396

Itsuro Koizumi and Ichiro K. Shimatani

Harsh vocal elements affect counter-singing dynamics in male rock hyrax pp. 1397-1404

Vlad Demartsev, Einat Bar Ziv, Uria Shani, Yael Goll, Lee Koren and Eli Geffen

Geographic variation in egg ejection rate by great tits across 2 continents pp. 1405-1412

Wei Liang, Anders Pape Møller, Bård Gunnar Stokke, Canchao Yang, Petr Kovařík, Haitao Wang, Cheng-Te Yao, Ping Ding, Xin Lu, Arne Moksnes, Eivin Røskaft and Tomáš Grim

Asymmetric song recognition between recently diverged subspecies of reed bunting pp. 1413-1423

Luís de Oliveira Gordinho, Dennis Hasselquist and Júlio Manuel Neto

Linking consistent individual differences in web structure and behavior in black widow spiders pp. 1424-1431

Nicholas DiRienzo and Pierre-Olivier Montiglio

Effects of experimental human approaches on escape behavior in Thomson’s gazelle (Eudorcas thomsonii) pp. 1432-1440

Tomas Holmern, Trine Hay Setsaas, Claudia Melis, Jarle Tufto and Eivin Røskaft

Criteria for host selection in a brood parasite vary depending on parasitism rate pp. 1441-1448

Mercedes Molina-Morales, Juan Gabriel Martínez and Jesús M. Avilés

Unraveling the key to innovative problem solving: a test of learning versus persistence pp. 1449-1460

David Guez and Andrea S. Griffin

Sexually selected sentinels? Evidence of a role for intrasexual competition in sentinel behavior pp. 1461-1470

Lindsay A. Walker, Jenny E. York and Andrew J. Young

Partner fidelity and reciprocal investments in the mating system of a simultaneous hermaphrodite pp. 1471-1479

Mary K. Hart, Andrew W. Kratter and Philip H. Crowley

Insularization effects on acoustic signals of 2 suboscine Amazonian birds pp. 1480-1490

Thiago Bicudo, Marina Anciães, Maíra Benchimol, Carlos A. Peres and Pedro Ivo Simões

Habitat choice and complex decision making in a trap-building predator pp. 1491-1498

Shay Adar, Roi Dor and Inon Scharf

Species replacement reduces community participation in avian antipredator groups pp. 1499-1506

David Wheatcroft, Mario Gallego-Abenza and Anna Qvarnström

Impacts of direct and indirect paternity cues on paternal care in a singing toadfish pp. 1507-1514

Aneesh P.H. Bose, Henry H. Kou and Sigal Balshine

Selection for multicomponent mimicry: equal feature salience and variation in preferred traits pp. 1515-1521

David W. Kikuchi, Johanna Mappes, Thomas N. Sherratt and Janne K. Valkonen

Reproductive timing in a lekking mammal: male fallow deer getting ready for female estrus pp. 1522-1532

Simone Ciuti and Marco Apollonio

Parasite infection in a central sensory organ of fish does not affect host personality pp. 1533-1538

Ines Klemme, Raine Kortet and Anssi Karvonen

A multi-level approach to quantify speed-accuracy trade-offs in great tits (Parus major) pp. 1539-1546

Maria Moiron, Kimberley J. Mathot and Niels J. Dingemanse

Dazzle camouflage, target tracking, and the confusion effect pp. 1547-1551

Benedict G. Hogan, Innes C. Cuthill and Nicholas E. Scott-Samuel

Trade-offs between energy maximization and parental care in a central place forager, the sea otter pp. 1552-1566

N.M. Thometz, M.M. Staedler, J.A. Tomoleoni, J.L. Bodkin, G.B. Bentall and M.T. Tinker

Trade-offs in lactation and milk intake by competing siblings in a fluctuating environment pp. 1567-1578

Heribert Hofer, Sarah Benhaiem, Waltraud Golla and Marion L. East

Corrigendum to: ‘Shy trout grow faster: do personality traits predict fitness of brown trout in the wild?’ by Bart Adriaenssens and Jörgen I. Johnsson. 22:135–143 pp. e8

Bart Adriaenssens and Jörgen I. Johnsson

Volume 27, issue 4, 2016

Learning about aposematic prey pp. 955-964

John Skelhorn, Christina G. Halpin and Candy Rowe

State-dependent optimization: a comment on Skelhorn et al pp. 965

Tom N. Sherratt

Broadening the angle of view on aposematism: a comment on Skelhorn et al pp. 966-967

Sami Merilaita

When to attack defended prey? A comment on Skelhorn et al pp. 966

Martin Stevens

OFT reloaded? A comment on Skelhorn et al pp. 967-968

Innes C. Cuthill

What do predators do? A response to comments on Skelhorn et al pp. 968

John Skelhorn, Christina G. Halpin and Candy Rowe

Editor's choice Predicting survivors: animal temperament and translocation pp. 969-977

Tegan M. May, Manda J. Page and Patricia A. Fleming

Variable ecological conditions promote male helping by changing banded mongoose group composition pp. 978-987

Harry H. Marshall, Jennifer L. Sanderson, Francis Mwanghuya, Robert Businge, Solomon Kyabulima, Michelle C. Hares, Emma Inzani, Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Kenneth Mwesige, Faye J. Thompson, Emma I. K. Vitikainen and Michael A. Cant

Working the crowd: sociable vervets benefit by reducing exposure to risk pp. 988-994

Nathan Josephs, Tyler Bonnell, Marcus Dostie, Louise Barrett and S. Peter Henzi

Silent listeners: can preferences of eavesdropping midges predict their hosts’ parasitism risk? pp. 995-1003

Ivonne Meuche, Alexander Keller, Hanyrol H. Ahmad Sah, Norhayati Ahmad and T. Ulmar Grafe

Feeding habitat quality and behavioral trade-offs in chimpanzees: a case for species distribution models pp. 1004-1016

Steffen Foerster, Ying Zhong, Lilian Pintea, Carson M. Murray, Michael L. Wilson, Deus C. Mjungu and Anne E. Pusey

Gone with the wind: short- and long-term responses of leaf-cutting ants to the negative effect of wind on their foraging activity pp. 1017-1024

Andrea Marina Alma, Alejandro G. Farji-Brener and Luciana Elizalde

Temporal habitat shift of a polymorphic newt species under predation risk pp. 1025-1032

Laurane Winandy, Mélanie Colin and Mathieu Denoël

The effect of social information on the collective choices of ant colonies pp. 1033-1040

Dominic D.R. Burns, Ana B. Sendova-Franks and Nigel R. Franks

Behavioral coexistence and feeding efficiency drive niche partitioning in European avian scavengers pp. 1041-1052

Rubén Moreno-Opo, Ana Trujillano and Antoni Margalida

Sentinel dominance status influences forager use of social information pp. 1053-1060

Julie M. Kern, Seirian Sumner and Andrew N. Radford

Drivers and fitness consequences of dispersive migration in a pelagic seabird pp. 1061-1072

Annette L. Fayet, Robin Freeman, Akiko Shoji, Dave Boyle, Holly L. Kirk, Ben J. Dean, Chris M. Perrins and Tim Guilford

Zebra reduce predation risk in mixed-species herds by eavesdropping on cues from giraffe pp. 1073-1077

Melissa H. Schmitt, Keenan Stears and Adrian M. Shrader

Effects of load-lightening and delayed extrapair benefits on the fitness consequences of helping behavior pp. 1078-1086

Caitlin A. Stern and Janis L. Dickinson

Costs of long-term carrying of extra mass in a songbird pp. 1087-1096

Els Atema, Arie J. van Noordwijk, Jelle J. Boonekamp and Simon Verhulst

Drivers of synchronized vigilance in wild boar groups pp. 1097-1103

Tomasz Podgórski, Sanne de Jong, Jakub W. Bubnicki, Dries P.J. Kuijper, Marcin Churski and Bogumiła Jędrzejewska

Aposematic signals in North American black widows are more conspicuous to predators than to prey pp. 1104-1112

Nicholas Brandley, Matthew Johnson and Sönke Johnsen

Paroxetine exposure skews litter sex ratios in mice suggesting a Trivers–Willard process pp. 1113-1121

Shannon Marie Gaukler, James Steven Ruff and Wayne K. Potts

Wind drift explains the reoriented morning flights of songbirds pp. 1122-1131

Benjamin M. Van Doren, Kyle G. Horton, Phillip M. Stepanian, David S. Mizrahi and Andrew Farnsworth

A hierarchical analysis of incest avoidance in a cooperative breeder pp. 1132-1140

Janis L. Dickinson, Çağlar Akçay, Elise Ferree and Caitlin Stern

Attendance, but not performance, predicts good genes in a lek-breeding treefrog pp. 1141-1148

Valentina Botto and Sergio Castellano

Social interactions generate mutually reinforcing selection for male aggression in Lake Eyre dragons pp. 1149-1157

Claire A. McLean, Rita Chan, Ashton L. Dickerson, Adnan Moussalli and Devi Stuart-Fox

Consequences of natal philopatry for reproductive success and mate choice in an Alpine rodent pp. 1158-1166

Vicente García-Navas, Timothée Bonnet, Dominique Waldvogel, Glauco Camenisch and Erik Postma

Does antiparasite behavior improve with experience? An experimental test of the priming hypothesis pp. 1167-1171

Scott M. Villa, Heidi E. Campbell, Sarah E. Bush and Dale H. Clayton

Mothers teach daughters because daughters teach granddaughters: the evolution of sex-biased transmission pp. 1172-1181

Matthew R. Zefferman

The importance of being yellow: visual over chemical cues in gender recognition in a social wasp pp. 1182-1189

Federico Cappa, Laura Beani and Rita Cervo

The "strength of weak ties" and helminth parasitism in giraffe social networks pp. 1190-1197

Kimberly L. VanderWaal, Vincent Obanda, George P. Omondi, Brenda McCowan, Hui Wang, Hsieh Fushing and Lynne A. Isbell

Nestling sex and plumage color predict food allocation by barn swallow parents pp. 1198-1205

Andrea Romano, Gaia Bazzi, Manuela Caprioli, Margherita Corti, Alessandra Costanzo, Diego Rubolini and Nicola Saino

A prison effect in a wild population: a scarcity of females induces homosexual behaviors in males pp. 1206-1215

Xavier Bonnet, Ana Golubović, Dragan Arsovski, Sonja Dorđević, Jean-Marie Ballouard, Bogoljub Sterijovski, Rastko Ajtić, Christophe Barbraud and Liljana Tomović

Evidence for comparative decision making in female crickets pp. 1216-1222

Eileen Gabel and R. Matthias Hennig

Effectiveness of social information used by seabirds searching for unpredictable and ephemeral prey pp. 1223-1234

Charlotte Boyd, Daniel Grünbaum, George L. Hunt, André E. Punt, Henri Weimerskirch and Sophie Bertrand

Interacting with the enemy: indirect effects of personality on conspecific aggression in crickets pp. 1235-1246

Francesca Santostefano, Alastair J. Wilson, Yimen G. Araya-Ajoy and Niels J. Dingemanse

Manipulating carer number versus brood size: complementary but not equivalent ways of quantifying carer effects on offspring pp. 1247-1254

A.L. Liebl, L.E. Browning and A.F. Russell

Breeding experience, but not mate retention, determines the breeding performance in a passerine bird pp. 1255-1262

Lei Lv, Jan Komdeur, Jianqiang Li, Isabella B.R. Scheiber and Zhengwang Zhang

Wherever I may roam: social viscosity and kin affiliation in a wild population despite natal dispersal pp. 1263-1268

Ada M. Grabowska-Zhang, Camilla A. Hinde, Colin J. Garroway and Ben C. Sheldon

Volume 27, issue 3, 2016

Evidence for conditional cooperation in biparental care systems? A comment on Johnstone et al pp. e2-e5

Emmi Schlicht, Peter Santema, Robert Schlicht and Bart Kempenaers

Evidence for conditional cooperation: a response to Schlicht et al pp. e6-e7

Rufus A. Johnstone, Andrea Manica, Annette L. Fayet, Mary Caswell Stoddard, Miguel A. Rodriguez-Gironés and Camilla A. Hinde

Maternal effects as a mechanism for manipulating male care and resolving sexual conflict over care pp. 685-694

Matthieu Paquet and Per T. Smiseth

An empiricists’ guide to sexual conflict over parental investment: a comment on Paquet and Smiseth pp. 695-696

Rebecca M. Kilner

Maternal effects likely coevolve with plasticity in male care: a comment on Paquet and Smiseth pp. 696-697

Suzanne H. Alonzo

Expanding investigations of manipulation via maternal effects: a comment on Paquet and Smiseth pp. 696-696

Kyle Summers

Constraints and clutch size: a comment on Paquet and Smiseth pp. 697-698

Nick J. Royle

Maternal effects and female manipulation: a response to comments on Paquet and Smiseth pp. 698-699

Matthieu Paquet and Per T. Smiseth

Locomotory mimicry in ant-like spiders pp. 700-707

Ximena J. Nelson and Ashley Card

Immediate and carry-over effects of perceived predation risk on communication behavior in wild birds pp. 708-716

Robin N. Abbey-Lee, Aurélien Kaiser, Alexia Mouchet and Niels J. Dingemanse

Thermal tolerance may cause sexual segregation in sexually dimorphic species living in hot environments pp. 717-724

Juan C. Alonso, Iván Salgado and Carlos Palacín

Bitter tastes can influence birds’ dietary expansion strategies pp. 725-730

John Skelhorn

Bees learn preferences for plant species that offer only pollen as a reward pp. 731-740

Avery L. Russell, Rebekah E. Golden, Anne S. Leonard and Daniel R. Papaj

Roads are no barrier for dispersing red squirrels in an urban environment pp. 741-747

Karen Fey, Suvi Hämäläinen and Vesa Selonen

Paying the energetic costs of reproduction: reliance on postpartum foraging and stored reserves pp. 748-756

Heiko G. Rödel, Teresa G. Valencak, Alexandra Handrek and Raquel Monclús

Resource-defense polygyny and self-limitation of population density in free-ranging guanacos pp. 757-765

Andrea Marino, Victoria Rodríguez and Gustavo Pazos

Causes, mechanisms, and consequences of contest competition among female mountain gorillas in Rwanda pp. 766-776

Cyril C. Grueter, Andrew M. Robbins, Didier Abavandimwe, Veronica Vecellio, Felix Ndagijimana, Sylvia Ortmann, Tara S. Stoinski and Martha M. Robbins

Heterogeneity in reproductive success explained by individual differences in bite rate and mass change pp. 777-783

Uriel Gélin, Graeme Coulson and Marco Festa-Bianchet

Do molt-migrant songbirds optimize migration routes based on primary productivity? pp. 784-792

Eli S. Bridge, Jeremy D. Ross, Andrea J. Contina and Jeffrey F. Kelly

Spoils of war and peace: enemy adoption and queen-right colony fusion follow costly intraspecific conflict in acacia ants pp. 793-802

Kathleen P. Rudolph and Jay P. McEntee

Site-specific flight speeds of nonbreeding Pacific dunlins as a measure of the quality of a foraging habitat pp. 803-809

Florian Reurink, Nathan Hentze, Jay Rourke and Ron Ydenberg

Female sea lamprey shift orientation toward a conspecific chemical cue to escape a sensory trap pp. 810-819

Cory O. Brant, Nicholas S. Johnson, Ke Li, Tyler J. Buchinger and Weiming Li

Social behavior and activity are decoupled in larval and adult fruit flies pp. 820-828

Blake B. Anderson, Andrew Scott and Reuven Dukas

Do individual breeding experience and parental effort affect breeding season length in blackbirds? pp. 829-834

Łukasz Jankowiak and Dariusz Wysocki

Plaintive cuckoos do not select tailorbird hosts that match the phenotypes of their own eggs pp. 835-841

Canchao Yang, Qiuli Huang, Longwu Wang, Aiwu Jiang, Bård G. Stokke, Frode Fossøy, Odd Helge Tunheim, Eivin Røskaft, Wei Liang and Anders P. Møller

Environmental complexity favors the evolution of learning pp. 842-850

Slimane Dridi and Laurent Lehmann

Sexual cannibalism in a facultative parthenogen: the springbok mantis (Miomantis caffra) pp. 851-856

Leilani A. Walker and Gregory I. Holwell

Behavioral and morphological responses to perceived predation risk: a field experiment in passerines pp. 857-864

Robin N. Abbey-Lee, Kimberley J. Mathot and Niels J. Dingemanse

Assessing vector navigation in long-distance migrating birds pp. 865-875

Susanne Åkesson and Giuseppe Bianco

Cautious versus desperado males: predation risk affects courtship intensity but not female choice in a wolf spider pp. 876-885

Ann L. Rypstra, Sean E. Walker and Matthew H. Persons

Fluctuating sexual selection and the evolution of a courtship strategy pp. 886-894

Chang S. Han, Robert C. Brooks and Piotr G. Jablonski

Contact pheromones of 2 sympatric beetles are modified by the host plant and affect mate choice pp. 895-902

Huai-Jun Xue, Jia-Ning Wei, Sara Magalhães, Bin Zhang, Ke-Qing Song, Jie Liu, Wen-Zhu Li and Xing-Ke Yang

Nutritional complexity and the structure of bee foraging bouts pp. 903-911

Jacob S. Francis, Felicity Muth, Daniel R. Papaj and Anne S. Leonard

Comparing pre- and post-copulatory mate competition using social network analysis in wild crickets pp. 912-919

David N. Fisher, Rolando Rodríguez-Muñoz and Tom Tregenza

Do crab spiders perceive Batesian mimicry in hoverflies? pp. 920-931

Rohanna L. Morris and Tom Reader

To sing or not to sing: seasonal changes in singing vary with personality in wild great tits pp. 932-938

Marc Naguib, Erica P. van Rooij, Lysanne Snijders and Kees van Oers

The effect of temporally variable environmental stimuli and group size on emergence behavior pp. 939-945

Matthew J. Hansen, Lesley J. Morrell and Ashley J.W. Ward

Effects of juvenile infection on adult immunity and secondary sexual characters in a wolf spider pp. 946-954

Rachel Gilbert, Richard D. Karp and George W. Uetz

Volume 27, issue 2, 2016

Stress and sexual signaling: a systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 363-371

Fhionna R. Moore, David M. Shuker and Liam Dougherty

Sex and stress: a comment on Moore et al pp. 372

Anders Pape Møller and Nicola Saino

Is stress sexy? A comment on Moore et al pp. 373-374

Christopher J. Leary

Stress and sexual traits: why are there no clear relationships? A comment on Moore et al pp. 374

Katherine L. Buchanan, Mylene M. Mariette and Ondi L. Crino

A response to comments on stress and sexual signaling: a systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 375-376

Fhionna R. Moore, David M. Shuker and Liam Dougherty

When limited availability of data meets with a thorough meta-analysis: a comment on Moore et al pp. 375

László Zsolt Garamszegi

Editor's choice Timing of extrapair fertilizations: within-pair fertilization trade-offs or pair synchrony spillovers? pp. 377-384

Yimen G. Araya-Ajoy, Niels J. Dingemanse and Bart Kempenaers

Resource availability and life-history origin affect competitive behavior in territorial disputes pp. 385-392

Travis E. Van Leeuwen, Martin R. Hughes, Jennifer A. Dodd, Colin E. Adams and Neil B. Metcalfe

The blessing of having younger nestmates: the case of the Arabian babbler pp. 393-400

Roni Ostreiher and Aviad Heifetz

Age-specific foraging performance and reproduction in tool-using wild bottlenose dolphins pp. 401-410

Eric M. Patterson, Ewa Krzyszczyk and Janet Mann

Does sensory expansion benefit asexual species? An olfactory discrimination test in Amazon mollies pp. 411-418

Luke Reding and Molly E. Cummings

Benefits of kin shoaling in a cichlid fish: familiar and related juveniles show better growth pp. 419-425

Timo Thünken, Saskia Hesse, Theo C.M. Bakker and Sebastian A. Baldauf

Niche segregation between immature and adult seabirds: does progressive maturation play a role? pp. 426-433

Letizia Campioni, José Pedro Granadeiro and Paulo Catry

Acoustic experience influences male and female pre- and postcopulatory behaviors in a bushcricket pp. 434-443

Darren Rebar, Flavia Barbosa and Michael D. Greenfield

Differential genotypic effects of sexual trait size on offspring mating success and viability pp. 444-451

Michal Polak, Kerry V. Fanson, Phillip W. Taylor and Sarsha Yap

Effect of competitive cues on reproductive morphology and behavioral plasticity in male fruitflies pp. 452-461

Amanda Bretman, Claudia Fricke, James D. Westmancoat and Tracey Chapman

Temperature can shape a cline in polyandry, but only genetic variation can sustain it over time pp. 462-469

Michelle L. Taylor, Tom A.R. Price, Alison Skeats and Nina Wedell

Predation shapes the movement of a well-defended species, the North American porcupine, even when nutritionally stressed pp. 470-475

John W. Pokallus and Jonathan N. Pauli

Parental care is beneficial for offspring, costly for mothers, and limited by family size in an egg-feeding frog pp. 476-483

Matthew B. Dugas, Caitlin N. Wamelink, Allison M. Killius and Corinne L. Richards-Zawacki

The ontogeny of personality traits in the red junglefowl, Gallus gallus pp. 484-493

Anna Favati, Josefina Zidar, Hanne Thorpe, Per Jensen and Hanne Løvlie

Maternal condition determines offspring behavior toward family members in the European earwig pp. 494-500

Jos Kramer and Joël Meunier

The shifting roles of intrinsic traits in determining seasonal feeding flock composition in seabirds pp. 501-511

Cristóbal Anguita and Alejandro Simeone

A lover or a fighter? Opposing sexual selection pressures on men’s vocal pitch and facial hair pp. 512-519

Tamsin K. Saxton, Lauren L. Mackey, Kristofor McCarty and Nick Neave

Flexible color learning in an invertebrate predator: Habronattus jumping spiders can learn to prefer or avoid red during foraging pp. 520-529

Lisa A. Taylor, Zarreen Amin, Emily B. Maier, Kevin J. Byrne and Nathan I. Morehouse

Ecological context determines the choice between prey of different salinities pp. 530-537

Jorge S. Gutiérrez and Theunis Piersma

Herring perform stronger collective evasive reactions when previously exposed to killer whales calls pp. 538-544

Guillaume Rieucau, Lise Doksæter Sivle and Nils Olav Handegard

Turbidity weakens selection for assortment in body size in groups pp. 545-552

Helen S. Kimbell and Lesley J. Morrell

Intraspecific variation in collective behaviors drives interspecific contests in acorn ants pp. 553-559

James L.L. Lichtenstein, Jonathan N. Pruitt and Andreas P. Modlmeier

Dyadic associations and individual sociality in bighorn ewes pp. 560-566

Eric Vander Wal, Audrey Gagné-Delorme, Marco Festa-Bianchet and Fanie Pelletier

The effects of wind and fuel stores on stopover departure behavior across a migratory barrier pp. 567-574

Bryant C. Dossman, Greg W. Mitchell, D. Ryan Norris, Philip D. Taylor, Christopher G. Guglielmo, Stephen N. Matthews and Paul G. Rodewald

Extreme ecology and mating system: discriminating among direct benefits models in red flour beetles pp. 575-583

Elizabeth M. Droge-Young, John M. Belote, Anjalika Eeswara and Scott Pitnick

The role of motor diversity in foraging innovations: a cross-species comparison in urban birds pp. 584-591

Marie C. Diquelou, Andrea S. Griffin and Daniel Sol

Polygyny affects paternal care, but not survival, pair stability, and group tenure in a cooperative cichlid pp. 592-600

Arne Jungwirth, Pierpaolo F. Brena, Isabel Keller and Michael Taborsky

The sparrow and the hawk: aggressive signaling under risk of predation pp. 601-607

Çağlar Akçay, Allie Clay, S. Elizabeth Campbell and Michael D. Beecher

Urban-associated drivers of song variation along a rural–urban gradient pp. 608-616

Desirée L. Narango and Amanda D. Rodewald

An experimental conflict of interest between parasites reveals the mechanism of host manipulation pp. 617-627

Nina Hafer and Manfred Milinski

Cannibalism, competition, and costly care in the plainfin midshipman fish, Porichthys notatus pp. 628-636

Aneesh P.H. Bose, Grant B. McClelland and Sigal Balshine

The town bird and the country bird: problem solving and immunocompetence vary with urbanization pp. 637-644

Jean-Nicolas Audet, Simon Ducatez and Louis Lefebvre

"Parasite-induced aposematism" protects entomopathogenic nematode parasites against invertebrate enemies pp. 645-651

Rebecca S. Jones, Andy Fenton and Michael P. Speed

Coordinated parental provisioning is related to feeding rate and reproductive success in a songbird pp. 652-659

Kat Bebbington and Ben J. Hatchwell

Internest food sharing within wood ant colonies: resource redistribution behavior in a complex system pp. 660-668

Samuel Ellis and Elva J.H. Robinson

Vocal responses to noise reveal the presence of the Lombard effect in a frog pp. 669-676

W. Halfwerk, A.M. Lea, M.A. Guerra, R.A. Page and M.J. Ryan

Birds use eggshell UV reflectance when recognizing non-mimetic parasitic eggs pp. 677-684

Michal Šulc, Petr Procházka, Miroslav Capek and Marcel Honza

Volume 27, issue 1, 2016

Mandatory data archiving in Behavioral Ecology pp. 1

Leigh W. Simmons

Is there an evolutionary trade-off between quality signaling and social recognition? pp. 2-13

Michael J. Sheehan and Thore J. Bergman

Is information from both quality signaling and social recognition really redundant? A comment on Sheehan and Bergman pp. 14-15

Amanda R. Ridley, David J. Humphries and Elizabeth M. Wiley

Quality signals may be common in species with social recognition: a comment on Sheehan and Bergman pp. 15-16

James Dale

The evolution of signaling complexity: a comment on Sheehan and Bergman pp. 16-17

Susanne Shultz and Andrew S. Gersick

Understanding antagonism: a comment on Sheehan and Bergman pp. 17-18

Louise Barrett and S. Peter Henzi

A quality signaling–recognition trade-off at the level of the type of interaction not species: a response to comments on Sheehan and Bergman pp. 18-19

Michael J. Sheehan and Thore J. Bergman

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