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Behavioral Ecology
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Behavioral Ecology is the official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology (ISBE). Run by @birgitszabo.bsky.social #behavecol
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Behavioral Ecology @behavecol.bsky.social · 19d
📢 Find out more about the exciting research we published in our July/ August issue here:
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#Behaviour #Behavior #Ecology
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Behavioral Ecology @behavecol.bsky.social · 1d
Effects of danger cues on mating interactions are size dependent in freshwater crayfish
#Macroinvertebrate #PredatorPrey #Reproduction

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Behavioral Ecology @behavecol.bsky.social · 6d
Age-dependent changes in reproductive behavior and success in a long-lived beetle (Bolitotherus cornutus)
#Insect #Reproduction #MatingBehaviour

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ISBE2026 @isbe2026.bsky.social · 8d
#ISBE2026 Call for Abstracts is now open! Submit your abstract by 15 December 2025 on www.isbe2026.com

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Behavioral Ecology @behavecol.bsky.social · 8d
Response to intruder number is related to spontaneous quantity discrimination performance in a wild bird
#bird #Cognition #NumberSense

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Behavioral Ecology @behavecol.bsky.social · 9d
Divergent alternative mating tactics in convergent male reproductive morphs
#AlternativeReproductiveTactic #Insect #Bioacoustics

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Behavioral Ecology @behavecol.bsky.social · 14d
Corticosterone-implanted chicks transmit stress to parents and neighbors in a colonial seabird
#bird #Sociality #StressHormone

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Behavioral Ecology @behavecol.bsky.social · 14d
Species cumulative impacts to mixed assemblages of Neotropical parrots
#MixedSpeciesAggregations #Foraging #BrainSize

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Behavioral Ecology @behavecol.bsky.social · 19d
📢 Find out more about the exciting research we published in our July/ August issue here:
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#Behaviour #Behavior #Ecology
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Behavioral Ecology @behavecol.bsky.social · 19d
Color variation and visual modeling provide no support for adaptive coloration in a blue crayfish
#ColSci #SexDifference #SizeDifference

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Behavioral Ecology @behavecol.bsky.social · 26d
Within-flock heterogeneity in exploration affects flock behavior in a highly gregarious bird
#AnimalPersonality #Bird #Starling

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Behavioral Ecology @behavecol.bsky.social · 29d
Risk allocation in a freshwater gastropod
#RiskAllocationHypothesis #ChemicalCommunication #Snail

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Behavioral Ecology @behavecol.bsky.social · Sep 5
Interannual variation in foraging decisions in chick-rearing black-legged kittiwakes
#Bird #DecisionMaking #TradeOff #Tracking

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Behavioral Ecology @behavecol.bsky.social · Sep 2
Heterogeneous responsiveness to environmental stimuli
#EvolutionarilyStableStrategy #modelling

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Behavioral Ecology @behavecol.bsky.social · Aug 28
Too hot to reason? Experimental heatwaves affect cognitive traits in male guppies
#Fish #Learning #Inhibition #ClimateChange

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Behavioral Ecology @behavecol.bsky.social · Aug 26
Cognitive tasks could be biased towards generalists: a lesson from wild non-eusocial bees
#Insect #Cognition #bias

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Behavioral Ecology @behavecol.bsky.social · Aug 25
No evidence for kin selection as an explanation for social group formation in clown anemonefish
#Fish #Sociality #SocialEvolution

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Shana Caro @shanacaro.bsky.social · Aug 21
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
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Parental control: ecology drives plasticity in parental response to offspring signals
Parents control food distribution in a flexible manner, even when it seems like offspring run the show. New experimental research in great tits reveals wid
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Behavioral Ecology @behavecol.bsky.social · Aug 21
Feeding status impacts thermoregulation and its repeatability across day and night in a diurnal lizard
#Reptile #Lizard #Personality #Ectotherm

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Jon Richardson @jonrichardson.bsky.social · Aug 20
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...
A Goldilocks definition of sexual selection: a comment on Janicke
Sexual selection has been a contentious topic since its proposal, so it is unsurprising that debate continues over its definition. Janicke (2024) offers a
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Behavioral Ecology @behavecol.bsky.social · Aug 15
Volume 36 📢 EDITORS CHOICE 📢

Sensory exploitation of insect face cues by courting male peacock spiders: a test using computer vision
#Cortship #Spider #PredatorMimic

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Behavioral Ecology @behavecol.bsky.social · Aug 14
Cognitive processes are robust to early environmental conditions in two lizard species
#Reptile #Learning #DevelopmentalPlasticity

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Behavioral Ecology @behavecol.bsky.social · Aug 12
Urbanization enhances ornament expression in a common waterbird
#Bird #Communication #Coot

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ISBE2026 @isbe2026.bsky.social · Aug 9
Visit our website and learn more about the @behavecol.bsky.social conference venue, host city and schedule!

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Behavioral Ecology @behavecol.bsky.social · Aug 8
A family history: effects of parental age on offspring life-history traits in bighorn sheep
#Mammal #ParentalEffects #Fitness

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Behavioral Ecology @behavecol.bsky.social · Aug 5
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Behavior across time and space – how large scale “trait-based” approaches can shape behavioral ecology
#ComparativeScience #LargeScale #Review

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Behavior across time and space – how large scale “trait-based” approaches can shape behavioral ecology
Behavioural ecology is a young and vibrant field of research that is based on a very strong theoretical framework. Here we discuss the largely untapped opp
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