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...

Urbanization enhances ornament expression in a common waterbird #Bird #Communication #Coot doi.org/10.1093/behe...

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A family history: effects of parental age on offspring life-history traits in bighorn sheep #Mammal #ParentalEffects #Fitness doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Invited Idea Behavior across time and space – how large scale “trait-based” approaches can shape behavioral ecology #ComparativeScience #LargeScale #Review doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Passive debris cloaking in beetles provides non-visual camouflage against predatory ants #Insect #PredatorDefense doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Turns out it's very unlikely Nemo and Marlin lived in the same anemone.. Just out in Behavioral Ecology! with Pete Buston, Steve Bogdanowicz, Tina Barbasch @behavecol.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social @bostonu.bsky.social

Resource availability, competitor abundance and specialization affect competition among bumblebees #Bee #Insect #Multispecies #SpeciesInteractions doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Elevated temperatures have sex-specific effects on nuptial gift behavior #Reproduction #Fruitfly #HeatStress #Fertility doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Adaptive benefits of group fission: evidence from blue monkeys #NonHumanPrimate #Sociality #GroupDynamics doi.org/10.1093/behe...

🔴New #trumpetfish content!🔴 This species is colour #polymorphic so we dove (pun intended) into how the relative abundance and saliency of each morph influences the #behaviour of their prey. Find out more via the link below! 🎺🐠 🔗 tinyurl.com/39vn5skp #behavioralecology

🚨New paper alert! If you want to know more about #trumpetfish and how their colours affect the behaviour of their prey, check out our new paper in @behavecol.bsky.social #BehavioralEcology. 🎺🐠➡️🟤🔵🟡➡️🐟👀🏃

Geographic differences in individual recognition linked with social but not nonsocial cognition #Sociality #Cognition #SocialCognition #Insect #Wasp doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Consistent inter-individual variability in movement traits shapes the wild boar movement syndrome #Mammal #Pig #Personality #Movement doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Risking infanticide or losing precious time? Delay of reproduction in a short-lived mammal #Mammal #TradeOff #ReproductiveSuccess doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Fish experienced with predation take fewer risks and enhance foraging success of naïve conspecifics: a benefit of sociality #Fish #RiskTaking #Predation #Foraging #Sociality doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Protocalliphora larvae: moderate but lasting carry-over effects on yearling and mother coloration #Bird #Parasites #ColSci #LongTermStudy doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Multigenerational fitness outcomes of double-brooding: a 30-year study of a migratory songbird #bird #LongTermStudy #ReproductiveSuccess doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Decoding the chaffinch “rain” call: a female-directed alarm call? #bird #bioacoustics #AntiPredator doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Short-term increases in rival number improves single mating productivity in male Drosophila #Competition #Insect #FruitFly #ReproductiveBehavior doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Too much information: subordinate species disadvantaged by greater release of volatiles from resources #Insect #Beetle #ChemicalCommunication doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Inter-sexual phenotypic divergence is correlated with habitat structure in an invasive lizard #Reptile #Lizard #InvasiveSpecies doi.org/10.1093/behe...

📢📢Our May/June issue is now complete! Have a look at all the exciting research here: academic.oup.com/beheco/issue... #AnimalBehavior #AnimalBehaviour #Ecology

Not all who wander are lost: prospecting and settlement of male floaters in the spotless starling #Bird #Dispersal #AnimalMovement doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Declining food availability alters vocal behavior of a nomadic finch #BirdSong #Foraging #Bird doi.org/10.1093/behe...

How animals discriminate between stimulus magnitudes: a meta-analysis #NumericalCognition #WebersLaw doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Check out the 📢 Editor's Choice 📢 article for our May/June issue here: doi.org/10.1093/behe... John Endler asks: What should we be doing as behavioural ecologists?

Cooperative breeding in birds increases the within-year fecundity mean without increasing the variance: A potential mechanism to buffer environmental uncertainty #Birds #Sociality #Fitness doi.org/10.1093/behe...

🌧️📱 rain calls 📱🌧️ Cool study in @behavecol.bsky.social from Framond et al. (Brumm lab, @mpiforbi.bsky.social) of a poorly understood chaffinch call type Based on playbacks + field studies they conclude these are female-directed alarm calls academic.oup.com/beheco/artic... #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics