Behavioral Ecology
@behavecol.bsky.social
Behavioral Ecology is the official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology (ISBE). Run by @birgitszabo.bsky.social #behavecol
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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
Check out all the great research that was published in September/ October:
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#AnimalBehavior #Ecology #Behaviour
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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.
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.
November 16, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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.
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...
Integrating space, time, and culture in animal conservation practice
#AnimalBehavior #AnimalCulture #ConservationInterventions
doi.org/10.1093/behe...
November 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
INVITED IDEA:
Integrating space, time, and culture in animal conservation practice
#AnimalBehavior #AnimalCulture #ConservationInterventions
doi.org/10.1093/behe...
Integrating space, time, and culture in animal conservation practice
#AnimalBehavior #AnimalCulture #ConservationInterventions
doi.org/10.1093/behe...
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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)
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)
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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)
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)
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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
tinyurl.com/3k3yahwy
November 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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
tinyurl.com/3k3yahwy
Have you checked out the Editors Choice for our newest issue yet?
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Maternal care shapes an aposematic display and provides lifelong protection against predators
#ParentalCare #PredatorPreyInteractions #Beetle #Insect
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#ParentalCare #PredatorPreyInteractions #Beetle #Insect
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November 23, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Have you checked out the Editors Choice for our newest issue yet?
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Complex dynamics of social learning in groups of wild Arabian babblers
#Bird #SocialCognition
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#Bird #SocialCognition
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November 21, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Complex dynamics of social learning in groups of wild Arabian babblers
#Bird #SocialCognition
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#Bird #SocialCognition
doi.org/10.1093/behe...
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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.
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.
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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.
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
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#ClimateChange #AntipredatorBehavior #Marmot
doi.org/10.1093/behe...
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November 20, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Does rainfall or temperature influence antipredator vigilance in a hibernating mammal?
#ClimateChange #AntipredatorBehavior #Marmot
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#ClimateChange #AntipredatorBehavior #Marmot
doi.org/10.1093/behe...
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TRAVEL AWARDS - Apply for a travel award to support your trip, accommodation and registration! Application guidelines on www.isbe2026.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:36 PM
TRAVEL AWARDS - Apply for a travel award to support your trip, accommodation and registration! Application guidelines on www.isbe2026.com
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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.
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.
October 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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.
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.
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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.
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.
October 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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.
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.
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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.
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.
October 28, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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.
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.
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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.
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.
November 6, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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.
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
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#Bird #TradeOff #PlaybackExperiment
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November 15, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Good guardian, bad parent: tradeoffs between territory defense and parental care in Darwin's finches
#Bird #TradeOff #PlaybackExperiment
doi.org/10.1093/behe...
#Bird #TradeOff #PlaybackExperiment
doi.org/10.1093/behe...
The last of us: social information enhances trappability in fruit flies
#Insect #SocialCognition #NovelConditions
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#Insect #SocialCognition #NovelConditions
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November 14, 2025 at 6:19 AM
The last of us: social information enhances trappability in fruit flies
#Insect #SocialCognition #NovelConditions
doi.org/10.1093/behe...
#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
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
📢 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
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...
#Insect #PredatorPreyInteraction
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a green praying mantis is sitting on a green leaf
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November 7, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Prey movement, size, and glossiness interact to impact praying mantid attack behaviors
#Insect #PredatorPreyInteraction
doi.org/10.1093/behe...
#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...
#UrbanWildlife #Mammal #Cognition
doi.org/10.1093/behe...
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November 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Impact of human presence and activity on urban Eurasian red squirrels’ innovative problem-solving
#UrbanWildlife #Mammal #Cognition
doi.org/10.1093/behe...
#UrbanWildlife #Mammal #Cognition
doi.org/10.1093/behe...
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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
tinyurl.com/bdfe9k3j
tinyurl.com/bdfe9k3j
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
academic.oup.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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
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...
#NoisePollution #SpeciesInteraction
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a boat is going through a body of water with the number 0 on the side
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October 31, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Boat noise alters individual behaviors but not communication between partners in a fish-shrimp mutualism
#NoisePollution #SpeciesInteraction
doi.org/10.1093/behe...
#NoisePollution #SpeciesInteraction
doi.org/10.1093/behe...
The influence of hunger and sex on the foraging decisions of frugivorous bats
#DecisionMaking #Cognition #bats
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#DecisionMaking #Cognition #bats
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a bat is eating a slice of watermelon with the words aussie crazy bat lady above it
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October 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The influence of hunger and sex on the foraging decisions of frugivorous bats
#DecisionMaking #Cognition #bats
doi.org/10.1093/behe...
#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
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#Development #Bird #Fitness
doi.org/10.1093/behe...
October 24, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Long-term fitness effects of the early-life environment in a wild bird population
#Development #Bird #Fitness
doi.org/10.1093/behe...
#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...
#ParentalCare #PredatorPreyInteractions #Beetle #Insect
doi.org/10.1093/behe...
October 22, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Maternal care shapes an aposematic display and provides lifelong protection against predators
#ParentalCare #PredatorPreyInteractions #Beetle #Insect
doi.org/10.1093/behe...
#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...
#Fish #PredatorPrey #Habitat
doi.org/10.1093/behe...
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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...
#Fish #PredatorPrey #Habitat
doi.org/10.1093/behe...