Double brooding in house wrens is repeatable but constrained by time-of-season #Bird #Reproduction doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Its very exciting to see this paper out in @behavecol.bsky.social. These conversations, expertly led by @delphinedemoor.bsky.social, have really shaped how I now think about working with social network data. Check out Delphine's thread to learn more!

Meet our Plenary Speaker Daniela Rößler Fueled by curiosity and a deep love of natural history Daniela discovered a REM-like sleep state in spiders and uses integrative field, lab and comparative approaches to investigate the function, ecology, and evolution of sleep across the spider tree of life.

INVITED IDEA: Integrating space, time, and culture in animal conservation practice #AnimalBehavior #AnimalCulture #ConservationInterventions doi.org/10.1093/behe...

New paper out in @behavecol.bsky.social! Multiple studies show that sexually selected traits such as colours can reflect the presence of pathogens/parasites, but, can defensive coloration do the same? L. Schlippe Justicia, @carodittrich.bsky.social, O. Nokelainen & I tackled that question (1/3)

Excited to introduce the Latent Layers Framework – now out in @behavecol.bsky.social – to help think through when and why network differences confound inference in (comparative) social network analysis! 🧵 tinyurl.com/3k3yahwy

Have you checked out the Editors Choice for our newest issue yet? ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Complex dynamics of social learning in groups of wild Arabian babblers #Bird #SocialCognition doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Honored to announce the Hamilton Lecture 2026! Leigh Simmons, Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Western Australia has made an outstanding contribution to the field of sexual selection acting from the whole organism to its gametes, and to our Society.

Does rainfall or temperature influence antipredator vigilance in a hibernating mammal? #ClimateChange #AntipredatorBehavior #Marmot doi.org/10.1093/behe...

TRAVEL AWARDS - Apply for a travel award to support your trip, accommodation and registration! Application guidelines on www.isbe2026.com

Meet our plenary speaker Renata Sousa-Lima! Professor at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil), Renata ‘s research focuses on bioacoustics of aquatic mammals and has pioneered the field of ecoacoustics and soundscape ecology in Brazil.

Meet our plenary speaker Eva Ringler! Professor at the University of Bern, Eva Ringler and her research group are interested in understanding variation in animal behaviour from an ecological and evolutionary perspective focusing on Neotropical poison frogs and glassfrogs.

Meet our plenary speaker Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi Director of the India Program for the Snow Leopard Trust working on snow leopards and human-wildlife coexistence in the high Himalaya. His work focuses on the interactions between large carnivores, their wild prey, and farming communities.

Meet our plenary speaker Felicity Muth! Assistant professor at the University of California Davis, her lab group are broadly interested in cognition, especially aspects of learning and memory that have a clear function in the natural world, focusing on captive and wild bumblebees.

Good guardian, bad parent: tradeoffs between territory defense and parental care in Darwin's finches #Bird #TradeOff #PlaybackExperiment doi.org/10.1093/behe...

The last of us: social information enhances trappability in fruit flies #Insect #SocialCognition #NovelConditions doi.org/10.1093/behe...

📢 JUST OUT: Volume 36, Issue 5 of 2025 of Behavioral Ecology 📢 Check out all the great research that was published in September/ October: academic.oup.com/beheco/issue... #AnimalBehavior #Ecology #Behaviour

Prey movement, size, and glossiness interact to impact praying mantid attack behaviors #Insect #PredatorPreyInteraction doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Impact of human presence and activity on urban Eurasian red squirrels’ innovative problem-solving #UrbanWildlife #Mammal #Cognition doi.org/10.1093/behe...

What role(s) can non-human animal culture play in conservation? Much has been written on this topic in recent years, but Dawn Barlow, Taylor Hersh, & I offer some new perspectives: "Integrating space, time, and culture in animal conservation practice" @behavecol.bsky.social tinyurl.com/bdfe9k3j

Boat noise alters individual behaviors but not communication between partners in a fish-shrimp mutualism #NoisePollution #SpeciesInteraction doi.org/10.1093/behe...

The influence of hunger and sex on the foraging decisions of frugivorous bats #DecisionMaking #Cognition #bats doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Long-term fitness effects of the early-life environment in a wild bird population #Development #Bird #Fitness doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Maternal care shapes an aposematic display and provides lifelong protection against predators #ParentalCare #PredatorPreyInteractions #Beetle #Insect doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Site-level variation in field of view is associated with altered anti-predator responses in farming damselfish #Fish #PredatorPrey #Habitat doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Predator activity and scent cues influence white-tailed deer behavior in a multi-predator landscape #ChemicalCommunication #Mammal #Fear doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Foraging flight strategy varies with species identity of co-occurring individuals in bats #InformationTransfer #Bats #Foraging doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Effects of danger cues on mating interactions are size dependent in freshwater crayfish #Macroinvertebrate #PredatorPrey #Reproduction doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Age-dependent changes in reproductive behavior and success in a long-lived beetle (Bolitotherus cornutus) #Insect #Reproduction #MatingBehaviour doi.org/10.1093/behe...

#ISBE2026 Call for Abstracts is now open! Submit your abstract by 15 December 2025 on www.isbe2026.com @behavecol.bsky.social

Response to intruder number is related to spontaneous quantity discrimination performance in a wild bird #bird #Cognition #NumberSense doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Divergent alternative mating tactics in convergent male reproductive morphs #AlternativeReproductiveTactic #Insect #Bioacoustics doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Corticosterone-implanted chicks transmit stress to parents and neighbors in a colonial seabird #bird #Sociality #StressHormone doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Species cumulative impacts to mixed assemblages of Neotropical parrots #MixedSpeciesAggregations #Foraging #BrainSize doi.org/10.1093/behe...

📢 Find out more about the exciting research we published in our July/ August issue here: academic.oup.com/beheco/issue... #Behaviour #Behavior #Ecology

Color variation and visual modeling provide no support for adaptive coloration in a blue crayfish #ColSci #SexDifference #SizeDifference doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Within-flock heterogeneity in exploration affects flock behavior in a highly gregarious bird #AnimalPersonality #Bird #Starling doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Risk allocation in a freshwater gastropod #RiskAllocationHypothesis #ChemicalCommunication #Snail doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Interannual variation in foraging decisions in chick-rearing black-legged kittiwakes #Bird #DecisionMaking #TradeOff #Tracking doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Heterogeneous responsiveness to environmental stimuli #EvolutionarilyStableStrategy #modelling doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Too hot to reason? Experimental heatwaves affect cognitive traits in male guppies #Fish #Learning #Inhibition #ClimateChange doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Cognitive tasks could be biased towards generalists: a lesson from wild non-eusocial bees #Insect #Cognition #bias doi.org/10.1093/behe...

No evidence for kin selection as an explanation for social group formation in clown anemonefish #Fish #Sociality #SocialEvolution doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Our new @behavecol.bsky.social experimental paper is out! Parent great tits control food distribution in a flexible manner, even when it seems like offspring run the show. Who and what parents pay attention to depends on recently experienced environmental quality #begging tinyurl.com/47udmwhu

Feeding status impacts thermoregulation and its repeatability across day and night in a diurnal lizard #Reptile #Lizard #Personality #Ectotherm doi.org/10.1093/behe...

I've been slacking on posting research updates so here are some recently published papers I've been involved in 1️⃣I wrote a commentary on a thought-provoking paper by Tim Janicke in @behavecol.bsky.social. Here are my thoughts on defining sexual selection academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

Volume 36 📢 EDITORS CHOICE 📢 Sensory exploitation of insect face cues by courting male peacock spiders: a test using computer vision #Cortship #Spider #PredatorMimic doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Cognitive processes are robust to early environmental conditions in two lizard species #Reptile #Learning #DevelopmentalPlasticity doi.org/10.1093/behe...