期刊: BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY, 2021; 75 (6)
Acoustic signals are one of the reproductive isolation mechanisms that can be a driving force for speciation. Evidence that geographic variation in ma......
期刊: BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY, 2021; 75 (5)
Behavioural time budgets of organisms reflect their reaction norms to environmental conditions and, as such, indicate their behavioural plasticity. In......
期刊: BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY, 2021; 75 (8)
Understanding the information content of animal displays is crucial for studying signal function and evolution. Previous works focused largely on disp......
期刊: BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY, 2021; 75 (5)
Two mechanisms have been proposed to explain why scramble competition can increase the travel requirements of individuals within larger groups. Firstl......
期刊: BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY, 2021; 75 (1)
It has often been observed that birds sing at a higher pitch in cities and other areas that are polluted with intense low-frequency noise. How this pa......
期刊: BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY, 2021; 75 (4)
Parents are expected to make fine-tuned decisions by weighing the benefits of providing care to increase offspring survival against that of deserting ......
期刊: BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY, 2021; 75 (1)
Parasites often manipulate host behaviors to achieve their own selfish fitness goals. However, the efficiency with which parasitic begging calls solic......
期刊: BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY, 2021; 75 (1)
In species with flexible grouping dynamics (i.e., fission-fusion), party (or subgroup) size is often shaped by available resources. Food resources are......
期刊: BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY, 2020; 74 (12)
Predator odors are natural stressors that induce anti-predator defensive responses, which have developed under evolutionary pressures to maximize the ......
期刊: BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY, 2020; 74 (10)
Coexisting plant species often share the same animal mutualists and enemies. The selection preference of an animal on a focal individual is not only d......
期刊: BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY, 2020; 74 (10)
The effective detection of both prey and predators is pivotal for the survival of mesopredators. However, the condition of being a mesopredator is str......
期刊: BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY, 2020; 74 (8)
When resources are limited and defensible, inter-group encounters in animals are often of aggressive nature. Individuals can participate in inter-grou......
期刊: BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY, 2019; 73 (1)
Pastoralists rely on networks of cooperating households containing relatives and others to help with production and various other daily activities. To......
期刊: BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY, 2019; 73 (2)
In muroid rodents, urine-borne volatile compounds and major urinary proteins (MUPs) constitute the key male pheromones that shape the sexual attractiv......
期刊: BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY, 2019; 73 (4)
Agonistic interactions in animals are often settled based on the rules of an assessment strategy. We tested the predictions of evolutionary game theor......