Behavioral Ecology

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Volume 26, issue 6, 2015

Heritability and the evolution of cognitive traits pp. 1447-1459

R. Croston, C.L. Branch, D.Y. Kozlovsky, R. Dukas and V.V. Pravosudov

In search of the Darwinian Holy Trinity in cognitive evolution: a comment on Croston et al pp. 1460-1461

A. Thornton and A.J. Wilson

Interpreting measurements of heritability: a comment on Croston et al pp. 1461-1462

Tom V. Smulders

More data required: a comment on Croston et al pp. 1462

Susan D. Healy

The importance of heritability estimates for understanding the evolution of cognition: a response to comments on Croston etal pp. 1463-1464

R. Croston, C.L. Branch, D.Y. Kozlovsky, R. Dukas and V.V. Pravosudov

Using bacteria to study consistent variation in individual behavior pp. 1465-1469

Gunnar De Winter, James P. Stratford and Ben B. Chapman

Editor's choice Human perception of fighting ability: facial cues predict winners and losers in mixed martial arts fights pp. 1470-1475

Anthony C. Little, Vít Třebický, Jan Havlíček, S. Craig Roberts and Karel Kleisner

Costs of social dispersal in a polygynous mammal pp. 1476-1485

Lucie Debeffe, Emmanuelle Richard, Sarah A. Medill, Jordan N. Weisgerber and Philip D. McLoughlin

Adjustment of costly extra-group paternity according to inbreeding risk in a cooperative mammal pp. 1486-1494

Hazel J. Nichols, Michael A. Cant and Jennifer L. Sanderson

Saami reindeer herders cooperate with social group members and genetic kin pp. 1495-1501

Matthew G. Thomas, Marius Warg Næss, Bård-Jørgen Bårdsen and Ruth Mace

Diet affects ejaculate traits in a lizard with condition-dependent fertilization success pp. 1502-1511

Ariel F. Kahrl and Robert M. Cox

Egg-spot pattern and body size asymmetries influence male aggression in haplochromine cichlid fishes pp. 1512-1519

Anya Theis, Tania Bosia, Tobias Roth, Walter Salzburger and Bernd Egger

Individual flexibility in nocturnal activity reduces risk of road mortality for an urban carnivore pp. 1520-1527

Maureen H. Murray and Colleen Cassady St. Clair

The aggressive personality of an introduced fish affects foraging behavior in a polymorphic newt pp. 1528-1536

Laurane Winandy and Mathieu Denoël

Causes and consequences of variation in female mate search investment in a lekking bird pp. 1537-1547

E.H. DuVal and J.A. Kapoor

Get off my lawn: increased aggression in urban song sparrows is related to resource availability pp. 1548-1557

Sarah L. Foltz, Allen E. Ross, Brenton T. Laing, Ryan P. Rock, Kathryn E. Battle and Ignacio T. Moore

Context dependence of risk effects: wolves and tree logs create patches of fear in an old-growth forest pp. 1558-1568

Dries P.J. Kuijper, Jakub W. Bubnicki, Marcin Churski, Bjorn Mols and Pim van Hooft

Variation in nest relocation of harvester ants is affected by population density and food abundance pp. 1569-1576

Noa Pinter-Wollman and Mark J.F. Brown

Integrating network analysis, sensor tags, and observation to understand shark ecology and behavior pp. 1577-1586

Alexander D.M. Wilson, Jacob W. Brownscombe, Jens Krause, Stefan Krause, Lee F.G. Gutowsky, Edward J. Brooks and Steven J. Cooke

Disentangling the effect of parental care, food supply, and offspring decisions on the duration of the postfledging period pp. 1587-1596

Roberto Muriel, Miguel Ferrer, Javier Balbontín, Laura Cabrera and Cecilia P. Calabuig

Volume 26, issue 5, 2015

The chimeric embryo hypothesis as a mechanism of avian sex ratio manipulation? Comment on Tagirov and Rutkowska pp. e1-e3

Eszter Szász and Balázs Rosivall

The chimeric embryo hypothesis as a mechanism of avian sex ratio manipulation: a reply to Szász and Rosivall pp. e4-e5

Makhsud Tagirov

The spandrels of Santa Barbara? A new perspective on the peri-ovulation paradigm pp. 1249-1260

Jan Havliček, Kelly D. Cobey, Louise Barrett, Kateřina Klapilová and S. Craig Roberts

The many sides of the periovulational coin: comment on Havliček et al pp. 1261-1262

Janek S. Lobmaier, Wilhelm K. Klatt, Vanda Lory and Fabian Probst

Human sexuality and the menstrual cycle: comment on Havliček et al pp. 1261

Alan Dixson

Are within-cycle variations in women’s sexual interests mere by-products? A comment on Havliček et al pp. 1262-1263

Steven W. Gangestad and Nicholas M. Grebe

A new (or truly parsimonious) perspective? A comment on Havliček et al pp. 1263-1264

Martie G. Haselton

A between-women account of cycle-phase shifts is probably wrong: comment on Havliček et al pp. 1264-1265

James R. Roney, Aaron W. Lukaszewski, Zachary L. Simmons, Adar B. Eisenbruch and Rachel L. Grillot

Greater precision, not parsimony, is the key to testing the peri-ovulation spandrel hypothesis: a response to comments on Havliček et al. 2015 pp. 1265-1267

Jan Havliček, Kelly D. Cobey, Louise Barrett, Kateřina Klapilová and S. Craig Roberts

Item Response Trees: a recommended method for analyzing categorical data in behavioral studies pp. 1268-1273

Andrés López-Sepulcre, Sebastiano De Bona, Janne K. Valkonen, Kate D.L. Umbers and Johanna Mappes

Editor's choice Lab rearing environment perturbs social traits: a case study with Polistes wasps pp. 1274-1284

Jennifer M. Jandt, Jessica L. Thomson, Amy C. Geffre and Amy L. Toth

Temporally fluctuating selection on a personality trait in a wild rodent population pp. 1285-1291

Christie Le Cœur, Martin Thibault, Benoît Pisanu, Sophie Thibault, Jean-Louis Chapuis and Emmanuelle Baudry

Malaria parasites, immune challenge, MHC variability, and predator avoidance in a passerine bird pp. 1292-1302

László Zsolt Garamszegi, Magdalena Zagalska-Neubauer, David Canal, Gábor Markó, Eszter Szász, Sándor Zsebők, Eszter Szöllősi, Gábor Herczeg and János Török

The ideal free antelope: foraging dispersions pp. 1303-1313

Jack W. Bradbury, Sandra L. Vehrencamp and Kenneth E. Clifton

Personality affects mate choice: bolder males show stronger audience effects under high competition pp. 1314-1325

David Bierbach, Carolin Sommer-Trembo, Janina Hanisch, Max Wolf and Martin Plath

Thermal stress affects patch time allocation by preventing forgetting in a parasitoid wasp pp. 1326-1334

Paul K. Abram, Antonino Cusumano, Ezio Peri, Jacques Brodeur, Guy Boivin and Stefano Colazza

The value of information in floral cues: bumblebee learning of floral size cues pp. 1335-1344

Carla J. Essenberg, Rebekah A. Easter, Rachel A. Simmons and Daniel R. Papaj

Temporal shift in activity patterns of Himalayan marmots in relation to pastoralism pp. 1345-1351

Buddi S. Poudel, Peter G. Spooner and Alison Matthews

Group composition effects on aggressive interpack interactions of gray wolves in Yellowstone National Park pp. 1352-1360

Kira A. Cassidy, Daniel R. MacNulty, Daniel R. Stahler, Douglas W. Smith and L. David Mech

Different reactions to aposematic prey in 2 geographically distant populations of great tits pp. 1361-1370

Alice Exnerová, Dana Ježová, Pavel Štys, Lucia Doktorovová, Bibiana Rojas and Johanna Mappes

Smart and safe? Antipredator behavior and breeding success are related to head size in a wild bird pp. 1371-1378

Markus Öst and Kim Jaatinen

Attracting songbirds with conspecific playback: a community approach pp. 1379-1388

Leanna N. DeJong, Samuel D. Cowell, Thuy Nhi N. Nguyen and Darren S. Proppe

Hiding in plain sight: a study on camouflage and habitat selection in a slow-moving desert herbivore pp. 1389-1394

Melia G. Nafus, Jennifer M. Germano, Jeanette A. Perry, Brian D. Todd, Allyson Walsh and Ronald R. Swaisgood

Is a proactive mum a good mum? A mother’s coping style influences early fawn survival in roe deer pp. 1395-1403

Chloé Monestier, Nicolas Morellet, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Bruno Cargnelutti, Cécile Vanpé and A.J. Mark Hewison

Male extraterritorial behavior predicts extrapair paternity pattern in blue tits, Cyanistes caeruleus pp. 1404-1413

Lotte Schlicht, Mihai Valcu and Bart Kempenaers

Opposing effects of group size on reproduction and survival in African wild dogs pp. 1414-1422

Scott Creel and Nancy Marusha Creel

Do the benefits of polyandry scale with outbreeding? pp. 1423-1431

Emily R. Burdfield-Steel, Sam Auty and David M. Shuker

Differences in conspicuousness between alternative color morphs in a polychromatic lizard pp. 1432-1446

Guillem Pérez i de Lanuza and Enrique Font

Volume 26, issue 4, 2015

Genetic similarity between mates predicts extrapair paternity—a meta-analysis of bird studies pp. 959-968

Aneta Arct, Szymon M. Drobniak and Mariusz Cichoń

What can we really say about relatedness and extrapair paternity: a comment on Arct et al pp. 969-970

Jane M. Reid

Genetic similarity is broadly associated with genetic polyandry in birds: a comment on Arct et al pp. 970-971

Simon C. Griffith

Sugar-free extrapair mating: a comment on Arct et al pp. 971-972

Shinichi Nakagawa, Julia Schroeder and Terry Burke

Caution is needed when 90% of all possible estimates remain unpublished: a comment on Arct et al pp. 972-973

Wolfgang Forstmeier

Extrapair paternity and genetic similarity—we are not quite there yet: a response to comments on Arct et al pp. 973-974

Szymon M. Drobniak, Aneta Arct and Mariusz Cichoń

Editor's choice Dynamics of among-individual behavioral variation over adult lifespan in a wild insect pp. 975-985

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

Unrelated helpers neither signal contributions nor suffer retribution in chestnut-crowed babblers pp. 986-995

Fumiaki Y. Nomano, Lucy E. Browning, James L. Savage, Lee A. Rollins, Simon C. Griffith and Andrew F. Russell

Shifts in movement behavior of spawning fish under risk of predation by land-based consumers pp. 996-1004

Marc Pépino, Marco A. Rodríguez and Pierre Magnan

The role of serotonin in the modulation of cooperative behavior pp. 1005-1012

José R. Paula, João P. Messias, Alexandra S. Grutter, Redouan Bshary and Marta C. Soares

Coevolution of male courtship and sexual conflict characters in mosquitofish pp. 1013-1020

Silu Wang, Molly Cummings and Mark Kirkpatrick

Rival male chemical cues evoke changes in male pre- and post-copulatory investment in a flour beetle pp. 1021-1029

Sarah M. Lane, Joanna H. Solino, Christopher Mitchell, Jonathan D. Blount, Kensuke Okada, John Hunt and Clarissa M. House

Intrasexual competition and throat color evolution in female three-spined sticklebacks pp. 1030-1038

Lengxob Yong, Benjamin E. Woodall, Michele E.R. Pierotti and Jeffrey S. McKinnon

Hawk models, hawk mimics, and antipredator behavior of prey pp. 1039-1044

Anders Pape Møller, Bård G. Stokke and Diogo S.M. Samia

Energetic state regulates the exploration–exploitation trade-off in honeybees pp. 1045-1050

Keziah Katz and Dhruba Naug

Landscape heterogeneity and behavioral traits drive the evolution of lion group territoriality pp. 1051-1059

Anna A. Mosser, Margaret Kosmala and Craig Packer

Behavioral plasticity in nest residency compensates for inbreeding depression in male prairie voles pp. 1060-1070

Kristen E. Lucia-Simmons and Brian Keane

Adaptive personality calibration in a human society: effects of embodied capital on prosocial traits pp. 1071-1082

Christopher R. von Rueden, Aaron W. Lukaszewski and Michael Gurven

To boldly go where no goby has gone before: boldness, dispersal tendency, and metabolism at the invasion front pp. 1083-1090

Emelia Myles-Gonzalez, Gary Burness, Stan Yavno, Anna Rooke and Michael G. Fox

Effects of predation risk and group dynamics on white-tailed deer foraging behavior in a longleaf pine savanna pp. 1091-1099

Michael J. Cherry, L. Mike Conner and Robert J. Warren

Plumage color and pathogen-induced gene expression in a wild bird pp. 1100-1110

Susan L. Balenger, Camille Bonneaud, Stephen A. Sefick, Scott V. Edwards and Geoffrey E. Hill

Use of chorus sounds for location of breeding habitat in 2 species of anuran amphibians pp. 1111-1118

Valerie L. Buxton, Michael P. Ward and Jinelle H. Sperry

Sociospatial structuration of alternative breeding strategies in a color polymorphic raptor pp. 1119-1130

L. Gangoso, I. Afán, J.M. Grande and J. Figuerola

Green plants in nests reduce offspring recruitment rates in the spotless starling pp. 1131-1137

Vicente Polo, Juan G. Rubalcaba and José P. Veiga

Immunocompetence handicap hypothesis in tree frog: trade-off between sexual signals and immunity? pp. 1138-1146

Julia L. Desprat, Thierry Lengagne, Adeline Dumet, Emmanuel Desouhant and Nathalie Mondy

Paternity in eastern grey kangaroos: moderate skew despite strong sexual dimorphism pp. 1147-1155

Elise Rioux-Paquette, Dany Garant, Alexandre M. Martin, Graeme Coulson and Marco Festa-Bianchet

Females as mobile resources: communal roosts promote the adoption of lek breeding in a temperate bat pp. 1156-1163

Cory A. Toth, Todd E. Dennis, David E. Pattemore and Stuart Parsons

Habitat alteration influences male signalling effort in the Australian desert goby pp. 1164-1169

Marcus Michelangeli, Ulla Tuomainen, Ulrika Candolin and Bob B.M. Wong

Context-dependent relationships between multiple sexual pigments and paternal effort pp. 1170-1179

Andrea S. Grunst and Melissa L. Grunst

Attraction of migrating adult sockeye salmon to conspecifics in the absence of natal chemical cues pp. 1180-1187

Nolan N. Bett and Scott G. Hinch

Gammarus pulex show a grouping response to conspecific injury cues but not to predator kairomones pp. 1188-1195

Lynsey A. Smith and Mike M. Webster

Linking short-term behavior and personalities to feeding and mating rates in female water striders pp. 1196-1202

Tina W. Wey, Ann T. Chang, Pierre-Olivier Montiglio, Sean Fogarty and Andrew Sih

Exploring simultaneous allocation to mating effort, sperm production, and body growth in male guppies pp. 1203-1211

Alessandro Devigili, Victoria Doldán-Martelli and Andrea Pilastro

A receiver bias for red predates the convergent evolution of red color in widowbirds and bishops pp. 1212-1218

Calum E. Ninnes, Marius Adrion, Pim Edelaar, José L. Tella and Staffan Andersson

Flexible compensation of uniparental care: female poison frogs take over when males disappear pp. 1219-1225

Eva Ringler, Andrius Pašukonis, W. Tecumseh Fitch, Ludwig Huber, Walter Hödl and Max Ringler

An empirical test of 2-dimensional signal detection theory applied to Batesian mimicry pp. 1226-1235

David W. Kikuchi, Gaurav Malick, Richard J. Webster, Emilee Whissell and Thomas N. Sherratt

Ideal gas model adequately describes movement and school formation in a pelagic freshwater fish pp. 1236-1247

Derrick T. de Kerckhove, Scott Milne, Brian J. Shuter and Peter A. Abrams

Volume 26, issue 3, 2015

Behavioral responses to changing environments pp. 665-673

Bob B.M. Wong and Ulrika Candolin

Prioritizing conservation behavior research: a comment on Wong and Candolin pp. 674

Daniel T. Blumstein

Human responses to changing environments: a comment on Wong and Candolin pp. 675-676

Tim Caro

On connecting behavioral responses to HIREC to ecological outcomes: a comment on Wong and Candolin pp. 676-677

Andrew Sih, Sean Ehlman and Rebecca Halpin

Integrating behavior into life-history theory: a comment on Wong and Candolin pp. 677-678

Daniel Sol and Joan Maspons

Human-altered environments provide societal relevance and opportunities for outreach but also bring about a risk of populism: a comment on Wong and Candolin pp. 678-679

Hans Slabbekoorn

Lessons for a changing world: a response to comments on Wong and Candolin pp. 679-680

Bob B.M. Wong and Ulrika Candolin

Editor's choice Female transcriptomic response to male genetic and nongenetic ejaculate variation pp. 681-688

Oliver Otti, Paul R. Johnston, Gavin J. Horsburgh, Juan Galindo and Klaus Reinhardt

Asymmetric eavesdropping between common mynas and red-vented bulbuls pp. 689-696

Nicole E. Munoz, Gina Brandstetter, Laura Esgro, Wendy Greene and Daniel T. Blumstein

Low costs of allonursing in meerkats: mitigation by behavioral change? pp. 697-705

K.J. MacLeod and T.H. Clutton-Brock

Pigment-specific relationships between feather corticosterone concentrations and sexual coloration pp. 706-715

Melissa L. Grunst, Andrea S. Grunst, Clare E. Parker, L. Michael Romero and John T. Rotenberry

Interactive effects of fearfulness and geographical location on bird population trends pp. 716-721

Mario Díaz, José Javier Cuervo, Tomas Grim, Einar Flensted-Jensen, Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo, Jukka Jokimäki, Gábor Markó, Piotr Tryjanowski and Anders Pape Møller

Innovative problem solving in nonhuman animals: the effects of group size revisited pp. 722-734

Andrea S. Griffin and David Guez

Personality in the wild zebra finch: exploration, sociality, and reproduction pp. 735-746

Luke S.C. McCowan, Mark C. Mainwaring, Nora H. Prior and Simon C. Griffith

Oxidative status and reproductive effort of great tits in a handicapping experiment pp. 747-754

Michèle Wegmann, Beatrice Voegeli and Heinz Richner

Female sociality and kin discrimination in brood parasitism: unrelated females fight over egg laying pp. 755-762

Malte Andersson, Peter Waldeck, Sveinn A. Hanssen and Børge Moe

Male quality, dominance rank, and mating success in free-ranging rhesus macaques pp. 763-772

Alexander V. Georgiev, Michael P. Muehlenbein, Sean P. Prall, Melissa Emery Thompson and Dario Maestripieri

Bumblebees utilize floral cues differently on vertically and horizontally arranged flowers pp. 773-781

Stephan Wolf, Mark Roper and Lars Chittka

Mate choice and genetic monogamy in a biparental, colonial fish pp. 782-788

Franziska C. Schaedelin, Wouter F.D. van Dongen and Richard H. Wagner

Evolving through day and night: origin and diversification of activity pattern in modern primates pp. 789-796

Luca Santini, Danny Rojas and Giuseppe Donati

Individual variation in predator behavior and demographics affects consumption of non-native prey pp. 797-804

Lauren M. Pintor and James E. Byers

Family living: an overlooked but pivotal social system to understand the evolution of cooperative breeding pp. 805-811

Szymon M. Drobniak, Gretchen Wagner, Emeline Mourocq and Michael Griesser

Traplining in hummingbirds: flying short-distance sequences among several locations pp. 812-819

Maria Cristina Tello-Ramos, T. Andrew Hurly and Susan D. Healy

Ice cover alters the behavior and stress level of brown trout Salmo trutta pp. 820-827

Johan Watz, Eva Bergman, Olle Calles, Åsa Enefalk, Stina Gustafsson, Anna Hagelin, P. Anders Nilsson, Johnny R. Norrgård, Daniel Nyqvist, E. Martin Österling, John J. Piccolo, Lea D. Schneider, Larry Greenberg and Bror Jonsson

Effects of human activity on physiological and behavioral responses of an endangered steppe bird pp. 828-838

Rocío Tarjuelo, Isabel Barja, Manuel B. Morales, Juan Traba, Ana Benítez-López, Fabián Casas, Beatriz Arroyo, M. Paula Delgado and Francois Mougeot

Cicadas impact bird communication in a noisy tropical rainforest pp. 839-842

Patrick J. Hart, Robert Hall, William Ray, Angela Beck and James Zook

Singing in the city: high song frequencies are no guarantee for urban success in birds pp. 843-850

Maria Moiron, Cesar González-Lagos, Hans Slabbekoorn and Daniel Sol

Mate detection in a territorial butterfly—the effect of background and luminance contrast pp. 851-860

Martin Bergman, Nicolas Lessios, Brett M. Seymoure and Ronald L. Rutowski

Urban habitats and feeders both contribute to flight initiation distance reduction in birds pp. 861-865

Anders Pape Møller, Piotr Tryjanowski, Mario Díaz, Zbigniew Kwieciński, Piotr Indykiewicz, Cezary Mitrus, Artur Goławski and Michał Polakowski

Who swarms with whom? Group dynamics of Myotis bats during autumn swarming pp. 866-876

Lynne E. Burns and Hugh G. Broders

Linking lab activity with growth and movement in the wild: explaining pace-of-life in a trout stream pp. 877-884

Libor Závorka, David Aldvén, Joacim Näslund, Johan Höjesjö and Jörgen I. Johnsson

How do biparental species optimally provision young when begging is honest? pp. 885-899

Masahiro Ogawa, Tatsuya Shiozaki, Masaki Shirai, Martina S. Müller, Maki Yamamoto and Ken Yoda

Boldness–exploration behavioral syndrome: interfamily variability and repeatability of personality traits in the young of the convict cichlid (Amatitlania siquia) pp. 900-908

Geoffrey P.F. Mazué, François-Xavier Dechaume-Moncharmont and Jean-Guy J. Godin

Group size affects social relationships in yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris) pp. 909-915

Adriana A. Maldonado-Chaparro, Lilah Hubbard and Daniel T. Blumstein

Identifying the selective pressures underlying offspring sex-ratio adjustments: a case study in a wild seabird pp. 916-925

Thomas Merkling, Jorg Welcker, A.J. Mark Hewison, Scott A. Hatch, Alexander S. Kitaysky, John R. Speakman, Etienne Danchin and Pierrick Blanchard

Effects of egg attendance on male mating success in a harvestman with exclusive paternal care pp. 926-935

Gustavo S. Requena and Glauco Machado

Personality-related survival and sampling bias in wild cricket nymphs pp. 936-946

Petri T. Niemelä, Ella Z. Lattenkamp and Niels J. Dingemanse

Temperature-dependent resolution of conflict over rank within a size-based dominance hierarchy pp. 947-958

Samuel A. Matthews and Marian Y.L. Wong

Volume 26, issue 2, 2015

The description of mate choice pp. 301-310

Dominic A. Edward

The effect of experimental design on the measurement of mate choice: a meta-analysis pp. 311-319

Liam R. Dougherty and David M. Shuker

Describing mate choice in a biased world: comments on Edward and Dougherty & Shuker pp. 320-321

Hanna Kokko and Michael D. Jennions

The multiple components of mate choice: a comment on Edward and Dougherty & Shuker pp. 321-322

Courtney L. Fitzpatrick and Maria R. Servedio

Variation and selection on preference functions: a comment on Edward pp. 322-323

Stephen F. Chenoweth and Thomas P. Gosden

Measures of mate choice: a comment on Dougherty & Shuker pp. 323-324

Michael J. Ryan and Ryan C. Taylor

Two faces of environmental effects on mate choice: a comment on Dougherty & Shuker pp. 324

Locke Rowe and Göran Arnqvist

The shape of preference functions and what shapes them: a comment on Edward pp. 325

Göran Arnqvist and Locke Rowe

The many facets of mate choice: a response to comments on Edward pp. 325-326

Dominic A. Edward

Mate choice and mating decisions: a response to comments on Dougherty & Shuker pp. 326-327

Liam R. Dougherty and David M. Shuker

Toward a broader characterization of anthropogenic noise and its effects on wildlife pp. 328-333

Sharon A. Gill, Jacob R. Job, Kyle Myers, Koorosh Naghshineh and Maarten J. Vonhof

Bright nights and social interactions: a neglected issue pp. 334-339

Ralf H.J.M. Kurvers and Franz Hölker

Editor's choice Populations, pools, and peccaries: simulating the impact of ecosystem engineers on rainforest frogs pp. 340-349

Max Ringler, Walter Hödl and Eva Ringler

Pairs of cleaner fish prolong interaction duration with client reef fish by increasing service quality pp. 350-358

Simon Gingins and Redouan Bshary

Males do not always switch females when presented with a better reproductive option pp. 359-366

Matthias Galipaud, Loïc Bollache, Abderrahim Oughadou and François-Xavier Dechaume-Moncharmont

A practical framework to analyze variation in animal colors using visual models pp. 367-375

Kaspar Delhey, Valdemar Delhey, Bart Kempenaers and Anne Peters

Male mate preference for female eyespan and fecundity in the stalk-eyed fly, Teleopsis dalmanni pp. 376-385

Alison J. Cotton, Samuel Cotton, Jennifer Small and Andrew Pomiankowski

Testing for cryptic female choice in monarch butterflies pp. 386-395

Andrew J. Mongue, Maaz Z. Ahmed, Michelle V. Tsai and Jacobus C. de Roode

Threat detection: contextual recognition and response to parasites by ants pp. 396-405

Christopher Tranter, Lauren LeFevre, Sophie E.F. Evison and William O.H. Hughes

Deficiency in egg rejection in a host species as a response to the absence of brood parasitism pp. 406-415

Canchao Yang, Longwu Wang, Shun-Jen Cheng, Yu-Cheng Hsu, Bård G. Stokke, Eivin Røskaft, Arne Moksnes, Wei Liang and Anders Pape Møller

Mobility and mating frequency in the scramble competition polygyny of a chrysomelid beetle pp. 416-424

Martha Lucía Baena and Rogelio Macías-Ordóñez

Male skin color signals direct and indirect benefits in a species with biparental care pp. 425-434

Bibiana Montoya and Roxana Torres

Birds living near airports advance their dawn chorus and reduce overlap with aircraft noise pp. 435-443

Diego Gil, Mariam Honarmand, Javier Pascual, Eneider Pérez-Mena and Constantino Macías Garcia

Wealth and the opportunity for sexual selection in men and women pp. 444-451

Gine Roll Skjærvø and Eivin Røskaft

Predicting multiple behaviors from GPS radiocollar cluster data pp. 452-464

Bogdan Cristescu, Gordon B. Stenhouse and Mark S. Boyce

Effects of increased begging and vitamin E supplements on oxidative stress and fledging probability pp. 465-471

Lea Maronde and Heinz Richner

Sex-specific adjustments in habitat selection contribute to buffer mouflon against summer conditions pp. 472-482

Pascal Marchand, Mathieu Garel, Gilles Bourgoin, Dominique Dubray, Daniel Maillard and Anne Loison

Personality-dependent spatial ecology occurs independently from dispersal in wild burbot (Lota lota) pp. 483-492

Philip M. Harrison, Lee Frank Gordon Gutowsky, Eduardo G. Martins, David A. Patterson, Steven J. Cooke and Michael Power

Within-group vocal differentiation of individuals in the cooperatively breeding apostlebird pp. 493-501

Miyako H. Warrington, Paul G. McDonald and Simon C. Griffith

Female Callosobruchus maculatus can maximize long-term fitness through polyandry pp. 502-509

Carly J. Wilson and Joseph L. Tomkins

Visual mutual assessment of size in male Lyssomanes viridis jumping spider contests pp. 510-518

Cynthia Tedore and Sönke Johnsen

Ecological drivers of variation in tool-use frequency across sea otter populations pp. 519-526

Jessica A. Fujii, Katherine Ralls and Martin Tim Tinker

A larger brain confers a benefit in a spatial mate search learning task in male guppies pp. 527-532

Alexander Kotrschal, Alberto Corral-Lopez, Mirjam Amcoff and Niclas Kolm

A trade-off between natural and sexual selection underlies diversification of a sexual signal pp. 533-542

Justa L. Heinen-Kay, Kirstin E. Morris, Nicole A. Ryan, Samantha L. Byerley, Rebecca E. Venezia, M. Nils Peterson and R. Brian Langerhans

Reduction in site fidelity with smaller spatial scale may suggest scale-dependent information use pp. 543-549

Stephen M. Heap, Devi Stuart-Fox and Phillip G. Byrne

Competition between wild herbivores: reintroduced red deer and Apennine chamois pp. 550-559

Francesco Ferretti, Marcello Corazza, Ilaria Campana, Venusta Pietrocini, Claudia Brunetti, Davide Scornavacca and Sandro Lovari

A multifunctional warning signal behaves as an agonistic status signal in a poison frog pp. 560-568

Laura R. Crothers and Molly E. Cummings

Impact of chronic noise exposure on antipredator behavior: an experiment in breeding house sparrows pp. 569-577

Alizée Meillère, François Brischoux and Frédéric Angelier

Shelter availability alters diel activity and space use in a stream fish pp. 578-586

Nicolas Larranaga and Stefán Ó. Steingrímsson

Are social attributes associated with alarm calling propensity? pp. 587-592

Holly Fuong, Adrianna Maldonado-Chaparro and Daniel T. Blumstein

Why fledge early in the day? Examining the role of predation risk in explaining fledging behavior pp. 593-600

Scott J. Chiavacci, Michael P. Ward and Thomas J. Benson

Avoiding predators in a fluctuating environment: responses of the wood warbler to pulsed resources pp. 601-608

Jakub Szymkowiak and Lechosław Kuczyński

The evolutionary loss of a badge of status alters male competition in three-spine stickleback pp. 609-616

Robin M. Tinghitella, Whitley R. Lehto and Ross Minter

The complexity of male reproductive success: effects of nutrition, morphology, and experience pp. 617-624

Claudia Fricke, Margo I. Adler, Robert C. Brooks and Russell Bonduriansky

Collective action and the intensity of between-group competition in nonhuman primates pp. 625-631

Erik P. Willems and Carel P. van Schaik

Heterospecific nonalarm vocalizations enhance risk assessment in common mynas pp. 632-638

Lilah Hubbard, William King, Anmy Vu and Daniel T. Blumstein

Shy female kangaroos seek safety in numbers and have fewer preferred friendships pp. 639-646

Emily C. Best, Simon P. Blomberg and Anne W. Goldizen

Novel mate preference through mate-choice copying in zebra finches: sexes differ pp. 647-655

Nina Kniel, Clarissa Dürler, Ines Hecht, Veronika Heinbach, Lilia Zimmermann and Klaudia Witte

The art of choice: predation risk changes interspecific competition between freshwater amphipods pp. 656-664

Łukasz Jermacz, Anna Dzierżyńska, Tomasz Kakareko, Małgorzata Poznańska and Jarosław Kobak

Volume 26, issue 1, 2015

Proteomics in behavioral ecology pp. 1-15

Cristina-Maria Valcu and Bart Kempenaers

Making the complex simple: a comment on Valcu and Kempenaers pp. 16

Steven A. Ramm

Ask not (only) what proteomics can do for behavior, but (also) what behavior can do for proteomes: a comment on Valcu and Kempenaers pp. 17

Laura King Sirot

Embracing the chaos of behavioral proteomics: a comment on Valcu and Kempenaers pp. 18-19

Nathan W. Bailey and Tony Ly

Finding one’s way through the proteome: a response to comments on Valcu and Kempenaers pp. 19-20

Cristina-Maria Valcu and Bart Kempenaers

Editor's choice Bills as daggers? A test for sexually dimorphic weapons in a lekking hummingbird pp. 21-29

Alejandro Rico-Guevara and Marcelo Araya-Salas

Biparental incubation-scheduling: no experimental evidence for major energetic constraints pp. 30-37

Martin Bulla, Will Cresswell, Anne L. Rutten, Mihai Valcu and Bart Kempenaers

Hidden in plain orange: aposematic coloration is cryptic to a colorblind insect predator pp. 38-44

Scott A. Fabricant and Marie E. Herberstein

Camouflage through behavior in moths: the role of background matching and disruptive coloration pp. 45-54

Changku Kang, Martin Stevens, Jong-yeol Moon, Sang-Im Lee and Piotr G. Jablonski

The use and relative importance of intraspecific and interspecific social information in a bird community pp. 55-64

Tuomo Jaakkonen, Sami M. Kivelä, Christoph M. Meier and Jukka T. Forsman

Telemetric and video assessment of female response to male vocal performance in a lek-mating manakin pp. 65-74

Dugan F. Maynard, Kara-Anne A. Ward, Stéphanie M. Doucet and Daniel J. Mennill

Landscape and anthropogenic features influence the use of auditory vigilance by mule deer pp. 75-82

Emma Lynch, Joseph M. Northrup, Megan F. McKenna, Charles R. Anderson, Lisa Angeloni and George Wittemyer

Rates of signal evolution are associated with the nature of interspecific communication pp. 83-90

David Wheatcroft and Trevor D. Price

Bolder stickleback fish make faster decisions, but they are not less accurate pp. 91-96

Diamanto Mamuneas, Andrew J. Spence, Andrea Manica and Andrew J. King

Differences in neophobia between cane toads from introduced and native populations pp. 97-104

Sarah Candler and Ximena E. Bernal

Interindividual variability in habitat use: evidence for a risk management syndrome in roe deer? pp. 105-114

Nadège Bonnot, Hélène Verheyden, Pierrick Blanchard, Julien Cote, Lucie Debeffe, Bruno Cargnelutti, François Klein, A.J. Mark Hewison and Nicolas Morellet

Eliciting an immune response reduces sprint speed in a lizard pp. 115-120

Francisco Javier Zamora-Camacho, Senda Reguera, María Virtudes Rubiño-Hispán and Gregorio Moreno-Rueda

A sexual network approach to sperm competition in a species with alternative mating tactics pp. 121-129

Danilo G. Muniz, Paulo R. Guimarães, Bruno A. Buzatto and Glauco Machado

Hamilton’s rule predicts anticipated social support in humans pp. 130-137

Maxwell N. Burton-Chellew and Robin I.M. Dunbar

Sociality increases juvenile survival after a catastrophic event in the feral horse (Equus caballus) pp. 138-147

Cassandra M.V. Nuñez, James S. Adelman and Daniel I. Rubenstein

Using mixed hidden Markov models to examine behavioral states in a cooperatively breeding bird pp. 148-157

Ann E. McKellar, Roland Langrock, Jeffrey R. Walters and Dylan C. Kesler

The meaning of melanin, carotenoid, and pterin pigments in the bluefin killifish, Lucania goodei pp. 158-167

Ashley M. Johnson and Rebecca C. Fuller

How acoustic signals scale with individual body size: common trends across diverse taxa pp. 168-177

Rafael L. Rodríguez, Marcelo Araya-Salas, David A. Gray, Michael S. Reichert, Laurel B. Symes, Matthew R. Wilkins, Rebecca J. Safran and Gerlinde Höbel

Cue choice and spatial learning ability are affected by habitat complexity in intertidal gobies pp. 178-184

Gemma E. White and Culum Brown

The fear of unseen predators: ground squirrel tail flagging in the absence of snakes signals vigilance pp. 185-193

Breanna J. Putman and Rulon W. Clark

Habitat selection in a deceptive predator: maximizing resource availability and signal efficacy pp. 194-199

J.C. O’Hanlon, M.E. Herberstein and G.I. Holwell

Male size predicts extrapair paternity in a socially monogamous bird with extreme sexual size dimorphism pp. 200-206

Sarah J. Wells, Weihong Ji, James Dale, Beatrix Jones and Dianne Gleeson

Social foraging strategies and acquisition of novel foraging skills in cooperatively breeding Arabian babblers pp. 207-214

Oded Keynan, Amanda R. Ridley and Arnon Lotem

African ungulates recognize a locally extinct native predator pp. 215-222

Fredrik Dalerum and Lydia Belton

Ants build transportation networks that optimize cost and efficiency at the expense of robustness pp. 223-231

Guénaël Cabanes, Ellen van Wilgenburg, Madeleine Beekman and Tanya Latty

Effects of age, size, and mating history on sex role decision of a simultaneous hermaphrodite pp. 232-241

Yumi Nakadera, Elferra M. Swart, Jeroen P.A. Maas, Kora Montagne-Wajer, Andries Ter Maat and Joris M. Koene

Prey body size mediates the predation risk associated with being “odd” pp. 242-246

Gwendolen M. Rodgers, Beatrice Downing and Lesley J. Morrell

Nowhere to hide: pumas, black bears, and competition refuges pp. 247-254

L. Mark Elbroch, Patrick E. Lendrum, Maximilian L. Allen and Heiko U. Wittmer

Brown-headed cowbirds exploit a host’s compensatory behavioral response to fecundity reduction pp. 255-261

Matthew I. M. Louder, Wendy M. Schelsky, Thomas J. Benson and Jeffrey P. Hoover

Mortal combat and competition for oviposition sites in female pollinating fig wasps pp. 262-268

Derek W. Dunn, K. Charlotte Jandér, Anayra G. Lamas and Rodrigo A. S. Pereira

Cortisol in mother’s milk across lactation reflects maternal life history and predicts infant temperament pp. 269-281

Katie Hinde, Amy L. Skibiel, Alison B. Foster, Laura Del Rosso, Sally P. Mendoza and John P. Capitanio

Bayes’ rule and bias roles in the evolution of decision making pp. 282-292

Sergio Castellano

Sociality across species: spatial proximity of newborn bats promotes heterospecific social bonding pp. 293-299

Leonardo Ancillotto, Claudia Allegrini, Maria Tiziana Serangeli, Gareth Jones and Danilo Russo