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📢 JUST OUT: Volume 36, Issue 5 of 2025 of Behavioral Ecology 📢

Check out all the great research that was published in September/ October:
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#AnimalBehavior #Ecology #Behaviour
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📢 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
November 11, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Prey movement, size, and glossiness interact to impact praying mantid attack behaviors
#Insect #PredatorPreyInteraction

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November 7, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Impact of human presence and activity on urban Eurasian red squirrels’ innovative problem-solving
#UrbanWildlife #Mammal #Cognition

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November 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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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
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Integrating space, time, and culture in animal conservation practice
Recent theoretical integration of the spatiotemporal and cultural elements of animal behavior has led to increasing calls to incorporate animal culture int
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November 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Boat noise alters individual behaviors but not communication between partners in a fish-shrimp mutualism
#NoisePollution #SpeciesInteraction

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October 31, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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The influence of hunger and sex on the foraging decisions of frugivorous bats
#DecisionMaking #Cognition #bats

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October 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Long-term fitness effects of the early-life environment in a wild bird population
#Development #Bird #Fitness

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October 24, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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Maternal care shapes an aposematic display and provides lifelong protection against predators
#ParentalCare #PredatorPreyInteractions #Beetle #Insect

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October 22, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Site-level variation in field of view is associated with altered anti-predator responses in farming damselfish
#Fish #PredatorPrey #Habitat

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October 17, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Predator activity and scent cues influence white-tailed deer behavior in a multi-predator landscape
#ChemicalCommunication #Mammal #Fear

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October 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Foraging flight strategy varies with species identity of co-occurring individuals in bats
#InformationTransfer #Bats #Foraging

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October 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Effects of danger cues on mating interactions are size dependent in freshwater crayfish
#Macroinvertebrate #PredatorPrey #Reproduction

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October 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Age-dependent changes in reproductive behavior and success in a long-lived beetle (Bolitotherus cornutus)
#Insect #Reproduction #MatingBehaviour

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October 2, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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#ISBE2026 Call for Abstracts is now open! Submit your abstract by 15 December 2025 on www.isbe2026.com

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September 30, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Response to intruder number is related to spontaneous quantity discrimination performance in a wild bird
#bird #Cognition #NumberSense

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September 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Divergent alternative mating tactics in convergent male reproductive morphs
#AlternativeReproductiveTactic #Insect #Bioacoustics

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September 29, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Corticosterone-implanted chicks transmit stress to parents and neighbors in a colonial seabird
#bird #Sociality #StressHormone

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September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Species cumulative impacts to mixed assemblages of Neotropical parrots
#MixedSpeciesAggregations #Foraging #BrainSize

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September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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📢 Find out more about the exciting research we published in our July/ August issue here:
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#Behaviour #Behavior #Ecology
September 19, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Color variation and visual modeling provide no support for adaptive coloration in a blue crayfish
#ColSci #SexDifference #SizeDifference

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September 19, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Within-flock heterogeneity in exploration affects flock behavior in a highly gregarious bird
#AnimalPersonality #Bird #Starling

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September 12, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Risk allocation in a freshwater gastropod
#RiskAllocationHypothesis #ChemicalCommunication #Snail

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September 9, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Interannual variation in foraging decisions in chick-rearing black-legged kittiwakes
#Bird #DecisionMaking #TradeOff #Tracking

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September 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Heterogeneous responsiveness to environmental stimuli
#EvolutionarilyStableStrategy #modelling

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September 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Too hot to reason? Experimental heatwaves affect cognitive traits in male guppies
#Fish #Learning #Inhibition #ClimateChange

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August 28, 2025 at 7:34 AM