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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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Personality variation in a marine snail and heterogeneous selection in natural populations
#AnimalPersonality #Invertebrate #NaturalSelection

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February 13, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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📢 Check out the most recent Issue in Volume 36 of Behavioral Ecology here: academic.oup.com/beheco/issue...

#AnimalBehavior #Ecology #Behaviour
February 11, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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Territoriality, sociality and male weaponry shape horn investment in female bovids
#Competition #Mammal

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February 10, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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Duration of nest-building in passerine birds: the roles of latitude, nest size, and nest type
#AvianBreeding #Birds #Evolution

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February 5, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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Far-reaching consequences of trait preferences for animal social network structure and function
#Sociality #BiologicalModelling

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February 3, 2026 at 7:56 AM
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Banded mongooses discriminate relatedness and MHC diversity in unfamiliar conspecifics
#SocialCommunication #Olfaction #Recognition

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January 30, 2026 at 7:21 AM
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A field cricket's solutions to the cocktail party problem in conspecific choruses
#Bioacoustics #Insect #CocktailPartyProblem

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January 27, 2026 at 8:37 AM
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Optimal diving: patch quality, depth, and marginal value
#Foraging #EnvironmentalQuality #Modelling

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January 22, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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Causes and consequences of lifetime fitness variation in male Collared Lizards displaying alternative social ontogenies
#TerritorialLongevity #MaleFitness #Lizard #Reptile

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January 21, 2026 at 6:31 AM
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Long-term evaluation of the association between dominance, bib size, sex and age
#DominanceStatus #PasserineBird

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January 13, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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Collective self-assessment in banded mongoose intergroup contests
#Contest #Competition #Mammal

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January 8, 2026 at 10:09 AM
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Breaking bonds: maternal and offspring states relate to constraint-based brood donation in a seaduck
#Alloparenting #Ducks #ParentalCare

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January 6, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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The interplay between satiation and temptation drives cleaner fish Labroides dimidiatus foraging behavior and service quality toward client reef fish
#Fish #CleaningMutualism

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December 26, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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High spatial pair cohesion during and after breeding in a socially monogamous territorial passerine
#Bird #SocialMonogamy #MatingSystem

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December 23, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Perch choice and substrate matching to the dorsal patterns of Amphibolurus muricatus lizards
#Reptile #Camouflage #JackyDragon

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December 11, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Plan ahead, or wing it? How storm-petrel parents adjust food delivery to young chicks
#Bird #ParentalCare #Provisioning

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December 9, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Conflict and cooperation in male–male partnerships alter paternal care behavior in the ocellated wrasse
#Fish #Reproduction #Sociality

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December 5, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Larger frogs are better mimics but are more risk-averse in a nontoxic poison frog
#Aposematism #WarningSignals #Ampibian

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December 3, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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INVITED IDEA:
Integrating space, time, and culture in animal conservation practice
#AnimalBehavior #AnimalCulture #ConservationInterventions

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November 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Complex dynamics of social learning in groups of wild Arabian babblers
#Bird #SocialCognition

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November 21, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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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
November 11, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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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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📢 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