Animal Behaviour 2004 - Abstracts

Animal Behaviour 2004
TitleSubjectAuthors
Abnormal behaviors induced by chemical pollution: A review of the evidence and new challenges.Zoology and wildlife conservationSarah M. Zala, Dustin J. Penn
Absence of female conspecifics induces homosexual behavior in male guppies.Zoology and wildlife conservationThomas A. Waite, Kristin L. Field
A conceptual framework for nonkin food sharing: timing and currency of benefits.Zoology and wildlife conservationJeffrey R. Stevens, Ian C. Gilby
Acoustic communication in a duetting grasshopper: receiver response variability, male strategies and signal design.Zoology and wildlife conservationDagmar Von Helversen, Rohini Balakrishnan, Otto Von Helversen
Acoustic recognition in macaroni penguins: an original signature system.Zoology and wildlife conservationA. Searby, P. Jouventin, T. Aubin
Active choice, passive attraction and the cognitive machinery of acoustic preferences.Zoology and wildlife conservationSergio Castellano, Alessandra Rosso, Cristina Giacoma
Adaptation or random change? The evolutionary response of songs to substrate properties in lacewings (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae: Chrysoperla).Zoology and wildlife conservationCharles S. Henry, Marta Lucia Martinez Wells
Adaptive significance of antipredator behavior in artiodactyls.Zoology and wildlife conservationT. M. Caro, C. M. Graham, C. J. Stoner, J. K. Vargas
Adult male emigration and a female-based social organization in swift foxes, Vulpes velox.Zoology and wildlife conservationJ. F. Kamler, W. B. Ballard, E. M. Gese, R. L. Harrison, S. Karki, K. Mote
A fine-scale time budget of Cape gannets provides insights into the foraging strategies of coastal seabirds.Zoology and wildlife conservationYvon Le Maho, Peter G. Ryan, Yan Ropert-Coudert, David Gremillet, Akiko Kato, Yasuhiko Naito
Aggression and group is domesticated pigs, Sus scrofa: 'when the winner takes it all and the loser is standing small'.Zoology and wildlife conservationI.L. Andersen, E. Naevdal, M. Baken, K.E. Boe
Aggression and worker control of caste fate in a multiple-queen wasp, parachartegus colobopterus.Zoology and wildlife conservationDavid C. Queller, Thomas G. Platt, Jaon E. Strassmann
Aggression in females is also lateralized: Left-eye bias during aggressive courtship rejection in lizards.Zoology and wildlife conservationDiana K. Hews, Michael Castellano, Erina Hara
Allostatic load, social status and stress hormones: the costs of social status matter.Zoology and wildlife conservationWolfgang Goymann, John C. Wingfiels
Alpha male black howler monkey responses to loud calls: effect of numeric odds, male companion behaviour and reproductive investment.Zoology and wildlife conservationDawn M. Kitchen
Amphibious communication with sound in hippos, Hippopotamus amphibius.Zoology and wildlife conservationWilliam E. Barklow
An alternative hypothesis for the primary function of proposed mate assessment behavior in red-backed salamanders.Zoology and wildlife conservationDale M. Madison, Jeremiah M. Karuzas, John C. Maerz
Analysis of Spix's disc-winged bat association patterns and roosting home ranges reveal a novel social among bats.Zoology and wildlife conservationHal Whitehead, M. Brock Fenton, Maarten J. Vonhof
An experimental study of mate guarding and paternity in house wrens.Zoology and wildlife conservationLinda A. Whittingham, Alice M.Z. Brylawski
An experimental test of hypotheses explaining social segregation in dimorphic ungulates.Zoology and wildlife conservationRichard Bon, Vincent Fourcassie, Pablo Michelena, Pierre Marie Bouquet, Agnes Dissac, Jacques Lauga, Jean-Francois Gerard
An investigation of mate choice based on manipulation of multiple ornaments in Kentish plovers.Zoology and wildlife conservationT. Szekely, I.C. Cuthill, A.Z. Lendvai, J. Kis
An operating cost of learning in Drosophila melanogaster.Zoology and wildlife conservationFrederic Mery, Tadeusz J. Kawecki
Antipredatory behavior in lizards: interactions between group size and predation risk.Zoology and wildlife conservationSharon Downes, Anke Maria Hoeffr
Ants move to improve: Colonies of Leptothorax albipennis emigrate whenever they find a superior nest site.Zoology and wildlife conservationA. Dornhaus, N.R. Franks, R.M. Hawkins, H.N.S. Shere
Assessment of female reproductive status by male longtailed macaques, Macaca fascicularis, under natural conditions.Zoology and wildlife conservationMichael Heistermann, Antje Engelhardt, Jan-Boje Pfeifer, Carsten Niemitz, Jan A.R.A.M. Van Hooff, J. Keith Hodges
A test of information use by reproductive bumblebee workers.Zoology and wildlife conservationWilliam Chester Jordan, Andrew F.G. Bourke, Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde, J. Will Koning
A test of the 'challenge hypothesis' in cichlid fish: Simulated partner and territory intruder experiments.Zoology and wildlife conservationM. Taborsky, K. Hirschenhauser, T. Oliveira, A.V.M. Canario, R.F. Oliveira
Avian olfactory navigation: Its empirical foundation and conceptual state.Zoology and wildlife conservationHans G. Wallraff
Avoidance of intraspecific competition via host modification in a grazing, fruit-eating insect.Zoology and wildlife conservationJeremy N. McNeil, David Marchand
A waiting game between the black-bellied plover and its fiddler crab prey.Zoology and wildlife conservationDon M. Hugie
Barking in domestic dogs: Context specificity and individual identification.Zoology and wildlife conservationBrenda McCowan, Sophia Yin
Behavioral and genetic assessment of reproductive success in a spawning aggregation of the Australian giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama.Zoology and wildlife conservationRoger T. Hanlon, Marie-Jose Naud, Karina C. Hall
Behavioral responses to human disturbance: A matter of choice?Zoology and wildlife conservationPat Monaghan, Colin M. Beale
Behavioral tactics of breeders in cooperative meerkats.Zoology and wildlife conservationT.H. Clutton-Brock, L.L. Sharpe, A.F. Russell
Behind closed doors: Use of visual cover by courting male three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus.Zoology and wildlife conservationWilliam J. Rowland, Teresa L. Dzieweczynski
Blindfolded dogs relocate a target through path integration.Zoology and wildlife conservationJennifer Cattet, Ariane S. Etienne
Breeding density, cuckoldry risk and copulation behaviour during the fertile period in raptors: a comparative analysis.Zoology and wildlife conservationFrancois Mougeot
Brood sorting by ants: Two phases and differential diffusion.Zoology and wildlife conservationNigel R. Franks, Ana B. Sendova-Franks, Samuel R. Scholes, Chris Melhuish
Calibration of song learning targets during vocal ontogeny in swamp sparrows, Melospiza georgiana.Zoology and wildlife conservationSusan Peters, Jefrey Podos, Stephen Nowick
Call-type matching in vocal exchanges of free-ranging resident killer whales, Orcinus orca.Zoology and wildlife conservationP.J.O. Miller, A.D. Shapiro, P.L. Tyack, A.R. Solow
Centrifugal waste disposal and the optimization of ant nest craters.Zoology and wildlife conservationNigel R. Franks, Ana B. Sendova-Franks, Nicholas F. Britton, A. Jay Denny, Edward L. Soans, Andrew P. Brown, Ruth E. Cole, Richard J. Havardi, Christine J. Griffiths, Sian R. Ellis
Chemically mediated avoidance of hemigrapsus nudus (Crustacea) by Littorina scutulata (Gastropoda): Effects of species coexistence and variable cues.Zoology and wildlife conservationElise Keppel, Ricardo Scrosati
Chemosensory cues allow male Tenebrio molitor beetles to access the reproductive status of potential mates.Zoology and wildlife conservationE. Sanchez, P. Carazo, E. Font, E. Desfilis
Chimpanzees are more skillful in competitive than in cooperative cognitive tasks.Zoology and wildlife conservationBrian Hare, Michael Tomasello
Cleaner fish, Labroides dimidiatus, diet preferences for different types of mucus and parasitic gnathiid isopods.Zoology and wildlife conservationAlexandra S. Grutter, Redouan Bshary
Cockroach aggregation based on strain odour recognition.Zoology and wildlife conservationJean-Louis Deneubourg, Colette Rivault, Jean-Marc Ame
Cognitive abilities related to tool use in the woodpecker finch, Cactospiza pallida.Zoology and wildlife conservationS. Tebbich, R. Bshary
Colony founding by pleometrosis in the semiclaustral seed-harvester ant Pogonomyrmex californicus.Zoology and wildlife conservationRobert A. Johnson
Communication in coral reef fish: The role of ultraviolet colour patterns in damselfish territorial behaviour.Zoology and wildlife conservationUlrike E. Siebeck
Comparative social cognition: what can dogs teach us?.Zoology and wildlife conservationA. Miklosi, J. Topal, V. Csanyi
Competing females and caring males. Sex steroids in African black coucals, Centropus grilliid.Zoology and wildlife conservationJohn C. Wingfield, Wolfgang Goymann
Conditions for landmark-based navigation in the house mouse, Mus musculus.Zoology and wildlife conservationSofyan H. Alyan
Conspecific sperm precedence in flour beetles.Zoology and wildlife conservationC. Fricke, G. Arnqvist
Context-dependent group size choice in fish.Zoology and wildlife conservationJ. Krause, D. J. Hoare, I. D. Couzin, J. -G. J. Godin
Coorelation between timing of juvenile moult and onset of migration in the blackcap, Sylvia atricapilla.Zoology and wildlife conservationFrancisco Pulido, Timothy Coppack
Correlated changes in male plumage coloration and female mate choice in cardueline finches.Zoology and wildlife conservationKevin J. McGraw, Geoffrey E. Hill
Costs increase as ritualized fighting progresses within and between phases in the sierra dome spider, Neriene litigiosa.Zoology and wildlife conservationPaul J. Watson, Tagide N. Decarvalho, Scott A. Field
Costs of acquiring and forgetting information affect spatial memory and its susceptibility to interference.Zoology and wildlife conservationMichael Mendl, Kirsty Laughlin
Courtship tactics in garter snakes: how do a male's morphology and behavior influence his mating success?.Zoology and wildlife conservationRobert T. Mason, Richard Shine, Tracy Langkilde
Cross-fostering as a means to study kin recognition.Zoology and wildlife conservationJill M. Mateo, Warren G. Holmes
Departure of migrating European robins, Erithacus rubecula, from a stop over site in relation to wind and rain.Zoology and wildlife conservationMichael Schaub, Felix Liechti, Lukas Jenni
Developmental and hair-coat determinants of grooming behaviour in goats and sheep.Zoology and wildlife conservationBenjamin L. Hart, Patricia A. Pryor
Development of behavioral differences between individuals and populations of sticklebacks, Gasterosteus aculeatus.Zoology and wildlife conservationJudy A. Stamps, Alison M. Bell
Development of spatial memory in occlusion-experienced domestic chicks.Zoology and wildlife conservationRafael Freire, Heng-Wei Cheng, Christine J. Nicol
Differences in nest mate recognition for drones and workers in the honeybee, Apis mellifera (L.).Zoology and wildlife conservationR.F.A. Moritz, P. Neumann
Differential assessment of environmental information in a migratory and a nonmigratory passerine.Zoology and wildlife conservationClaudia Mettke-Hofmann, Eberhard Gwinner
Differential responses of yellow-breasted chats, Icteria virens, to male and female conspecific model presentations.Zoology and wildlife conservationHerman L. Jr. Mays, Kevin R. Hoppert
Discrete dragline attachment induces aggregation in spiderlings of a solitary species.Zoology and wildlife conservationGuy Theraulaz, Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Raphael Jeanson
Division of labor in parental care behavior of a sex-role-reversed shorebird, the wattled jacana.Zoology and wildlife conservationStephen T. Emlen, Peter H. Wrege
Do house mice modify their foraging behaviour in response to predator odours and habitat?.Zoology and wildlife conservationF. Powell, P.S. Banks
Dominance, aggression and testosterone in wild chimpanzees: a test of the 'challenge hypothesis'.Zoology and wildlife conservationRichard W. Wrangham, Martin N. Muller
Dominance hierarchies in group-living cleaning gobies: Causes and foraging consequences.Zoology and wildlife conservationIsabelle M. Cote, Elizabeth A. Whiteman
Do sperm whales share coda vocalizations? Insights into coda usage from acoustic size measurement.Zoology and wildlife conservationLuke Rendell, Hal Whitemead
Duet song and sex roles during territory defense in a tropical bird, the black-bellied wren, Thryothorus fasciatoventris.(Black-bellied wren)Zoology and wildlife conservationDavid M. Logue, David E. Gammon
Dunking behavior in Carib grackles.Zoology and wildlife conservationSimon M. Reader, Louis Lefebvre, Daniel Sol, Julie Morand-Ferron, Sandra Elvin
Early life predictors of the development of aggressive behavior in the domestic pig.Zoology and wildlife conservationAlistair B. Lawrence, Richard B. D'eath
Effect of body weight, antler length, resource value and experience on fight duration and intensity in fallow deer.Zoology and wildlife conservationDomhnall J. Jennings, Martin P. Gammell, Caitriona M. Carlin, Thomas J. Hayden
Effect of chemical immobilization on social status of bighorn rams.Zoology and wildlife conservationMarco Festa-Bianchet, John T. Hogg, Fanie Pelletier
Effect of watercourse characteristics on food-caching behaviour by European beaver, castor fiber.Zoology and wildlife conservationG. Hartman, A. Axelsson
Effects of environmental stability and demonstrator age on social learning of food preferences by young Norway rats.Zoology and wildlife conservationElaine E. Whiskin, Bennett G. Galef
Effects of ice cover on the behavioural patterns of aquatic-mating male bearded seals.Zoology and wildlife conservationSofie M. Van Parijs, Christian Lydersen, Kit M. Kovacs
Egg distribution, mate-guarding intensity and offspring characteristics in dragonflies (Odonata).Zoology and wildlife conservationKamilla Schenk, Frank Suhling, Andreas Martens
Emergence of individual recognition in young macaques.Zoology and wildlife conservationJ. Fischer
Emigration to new habitats by voles: The cost of dispersal paradox.Zoology and wildlife conservationY. Kirk Lin, George O. Batzli
Endogenous control of migration and calendar effects in an intratropical migrant, the yellow-green vireo.Zoology and wildlife conservationPeter Berthold, W. Douglas Robinson, John D. Styrsky
Estimates of extreme sperm production: morphological and experimental evidence from reproductively promiscuous fairy-wrens (Malurus).Zoology and wildlife conservationElaina M. Tuttle, Stephens Pruette-Jones
Evaluating the function of the male harbour seal, Phoca vitulina, roar through playback experiments.Zoology and wildlife conservationDaniel P. Costa, Burney J. Le Boeuf, Sean A. Hayes, Anurag Kumar, David K. Mellinger, James T. Harvey, Brandon L. Southall
Exploratory and antipredator behaviors differ between territorial and nonteritorial male lizards.Zoology and wildlife conservationJessica Stapley, J. Scott Keogh
Extrapair paternity and offspring immunocompetence in the reed bunting, Emberiza schoeniclus.Zoology and wildlife conservationJan T. Lifjeld, Oddmund Kleven
Extrapair paternity in the common sandpiper, Actitis hypoleucos, revealed by DNA finger printing.Zoology and wildlife conservationTerry Burke, Allan Mee, D. Philip Whitfield, Desmond B. A. Thompson
Facultative sex ratio adjustment by western bluebird mothers with stay-at-home helpers-at-the-nest.Zoology and wildlife conservationJanis L. Dickinson
FAD: Fish aggregating device or fish attracting device? A new analysis of yellowfin tuna movements around floating objects.Zoology and wildlife conservationSimon Benhamou, Charlotte Girard, Laurent Dagorn
Female American mink, Mustela vison, mate multiply in a free-choice environment.Zoology and wildlife conservationGeorgia J. Mason, David W. MacDonald, Michael D. Thom, Vivi Pedersen, Paul J. Johnson
Female big brown bats, Eptesicus fuscus, recognize sex from a caller's echolocation signals.Zoology and wildlife conservationKarry A. Kazial, W. Mitchell Masters
Female call preferences in tree-hole frogs: Why are there so many unattractive males?Zoology and wildlife conservationBjorn Lardner, Marklarin B. Lakim
Female choice for song characteristics in the house finch.Zoology and wildlife conservationGeoffrey E. Hill, Paul M. Nolan
Female colour and male choice in sockeye salmon: implications for the phenotypic convergence of anadromous and nonanadromous morphs.Zoology and wildlife conservationChris J. Foote, Gayle S. Brown, Craig W. Hawryshyn
Female control in yellow-legged gulls: Trading paternity assurance for food.Zoology and wildlife conservationAlberto Velando
Female mouthbrooders adjust incubation duration to perceived risk of predation.Zoology and wildlife conservationKatharina Foerster, Barbara Taborsky
Female ornamentation and male mate choice in dark-eyed juncos.Zoology and wildlife conservationEllen D. Ketterson, Val Nolan Jr., Wendy L. Wolf, Joseph M. Casto
Female preferences for socially variable call characters in the cricket frog, Acris crepitans.Zoology and wildlife conservationMichael J. Ryan, Nicole M. Kime, Sabrina S. Burmeister
Female resistance to male seduction in zebra finches.Zoology and wildlife conservationWolfgang Forstmeier
Female weight predicts the timing of forced copulation attempts in stitchbirds, Notiomystis cincta.Zoology and wildlife conservationMathew Low
Female zebra finches require early song exposure to prefer high-quality song as adults.Zoology and wildlife conservationElizabeth Adkins-Regan, Christine Lauay, Nicole M. Gerlach, Timothy J. Devoogd
Fertility signalling and reproductive skew in queenless ants.Zoology and wildlife conservationAlain Lenoir, Virginie Cuvillier-Hot, Robin Crewe, Christian Malosse, Christian Peeters
Fertilized female quail avoid conspecific males: Female tactics when potential benefits of new sexual encounters are reduced.Zoology and wildlife conservationBennett G. Galef Jr., Kamini N. Persaud
Field experiments on foraging in free-ranging water snakes Enhydris polylepis (homalopsinae).Zoology and wildlife conservationR. Shine, G.P. Brown, M.J. Elphick
First records of oceanic dive profiles for leatherback turtles, Dermochelys coriacea, indicate behavioural plasticity associated with long-distance migration.Zoology and wildlife conservationG.C. Hays, J.D.R. Houghton, C. Isaacs, R.S. King, C. Lloyd, P. Lovell
Flexible foraging patterns under different time constraints in tropical boobies.Zoology and wildlife conservationK.C. Hamer, S. Lewis, S. Wanless, E.A. Schreiber, G.A. Schenk, F. Daunt
Fortress repair in the social aphid species Pemphigus spyrothecae.Zoology and wildlife conservationNathan Pike, William Foster
Function of male song in the greater white-lined bat, Saccopteryx bilineata.Zoology and wildlife conservationGerald S. Wilkinson, Susan M. Davidson
Functions and qualifications of play behaviour in juvenile Belding's ground squirrels.Zoology and wildlife conservationScott Nunes, Eva-Maria Muecke, Lesley T. Lancaster, Nathan A. Miller, Marie A. Mueller, Jennifer Muelhaus, Lina Castro
Genetic variation and task specialization in the desert leaf-cutter ant, Acromyrex versicolor.Zoology and wildlife conservationJennifer H. Fewell, Glennis E. Julian
Genotype-environment interaction and the reliability of mating signals.Zoology and wildlife conservationMichael D. Greenfield, Rafael L. Rodriguez
Genotypic variation in calling song and female preferences of the field cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus.Zoology and wildlife conservationLeigh W. Simmons
Great frigatebirds, Fregata minor, choose mates that are genetically similar.Zoology and wildlife conservationDonald C. Dearborn, Loren B. Cohen
Green nesting material has a function in mate attraction in the European starling.Zoology and wildlife conservationJan Komdeur, Lyanne Brouwer
Grooming as a reward? social function of grooming between females in cooperatively breeding marmosets.Zoology and wildlife conservationC. Lazaro-Perea, M. de Fatima Arruda, C.T. Snowdon
Group courtship, mating behavior and siphon sac function in the whitetip reef shark, Triaenodon obesus.Zoology and wildlife conservationNicholas M. Whitney, Harold L. Pratt Jr., Jeffrey C. Carrier
Guidelines for the treatment of animals in behavioural research and teaching.Zoology and wildlife conservation 
Habitat-related aggressive behaviour between neighbouring colonies of the polydomous wood ant Formica aquilonia.Zoology and wildlife conservationHarri Hakkarainen, Jouni Sorvari
Head raising during foraging and pausing during intermittent locomotion as components of antipredator vigilance in chipmunks.Zoology and wildlife conservationD.L. Kramer, W. Trouilloud, A. Delisle
Host plant influence on the mating success of male Mediterranean fruit flies: Variable effects within and between individual plants.Zoology and wildlife conservationTodd E. Shelly, Ethel M. Villalobos
How do bumblebees first find flowers? Unlearned approach responses and habituation.Zoology and wildlife conservationVirginia Simonds, C.M.S. Plowright
How food type and brood influence foraging decisions of Lasius niger scouts.Zoology and wildlife conservationJean-Louis Deneubourg, Claire Detrain, Stephane Portha
How long do females really listen? Assessment time for female mate choice in the grey treefrog, Hyla versicolor.Zoology and wildlife conservationJoshua J. Schwartz, Kenneth Huth, Timothy Hutchin
How should behavioral ecologists interpret measurements of immunity?Zoology and wildlife conservationShelley A. Adamo
Human sperm competition: Testis size, sperm production and rates of extrapair copulations.Zoology and wildlife conservationGillian Rhodes, Leigh W. Simmons, Renee C. Firman, Marianne Peters
Immaculate tits: Head plumage pattern as an indicator of quality in birds.Zoology and wildlife conservationPeter N. Ferns, Shelley A. Hinsley
Increasing frequency of bite wounds with increasing population density in Eurasian badgers, Meles meles.Zoology and wildlife conservationP.J. Johnson, C. Newman, D.W. Macdonald, B.J. Harmsen
Individual decisions and group dynamics: why pholcid spiders join and leave groups.Zoology and wildlife conservationElizabeth M. Jakob
Individuality in harp seal, Phoca groenlandica, pup vocalizations.Zoology and wildlife conservationSofie M. Van Parijs, Ilse C. Van Opzeeland
Infanticide and control of reproduction in cooperative and communal breeders.Zoology and wildlife conservationRufus A. Johnstone, Reinmar Hager
Influence of predation risk on individual competitive ability and growth in Eurasian perch, Perca fluviatilis.Zoology and wildlife conservationMagdalena Westerberg, Fia Staffan, Carin Magnhagen
In situ evidence for ectoparasites as a proximate cause of cleaning interactions in reef fish.Zoology and wildlife conservationKaren L. Cheney, Isabelle M. Cote, Paul C. Sikkel
Interactions between patch size and predation risk affect competitive aggression and size variation in juvenile convict cichlids.Zoology and wildlife conservationGrant E. Brown, James W.A. Grant, Jae-woo Kim
Interspecific responses to distress calls in bats (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae): a function for convergence in call design?Zoology and wildlife conservationG. Jones, J.M. Russ, P.A. Racey, J. Mackie
Is he all he says he is? Intersexual eavesdropping in the domestic canary, Serinus canaria.Zoology and wildlife conservationGerard Leboucher, Katie Pallot
Is there a fish alarm cue? affirming evidence from a wild study.(antipredator responses )Zoology and wildlife conservationBrian D. Wiseden, Jason L. Brown, Keith A. Vollbrecht
Large-scale patterns of signal evolution: An interspecific study of Liolaemus lizard headbob displays.Zoology and wildlife conservationEmilia P. Martins, Antonieta Labra, Minique Halloy, Julie Tolman Thompson
Lateralized eye use in Octopus vulgaris shows antisymmetrical distribution.Zoology and wildlife conservationRuth A. Byrne, Michael J. Kuba, Daniela V. Meisel
Lateralized prey-catching responses in the cane toad, Bufo marinus: Analysis of complex visual stimuli.Zoology and wildlife conservationAndrew Robins, Lesley J. Rogers
Lateralized tool use in wild New Caledonian crows.Zoology and wildlife conservationRobb Rutledge
Learned mate recognition and reproductive isolation in guppies.Zoology and wildlife conservationAnne E. Magurran, Indar W. Ramnarine
Learning to suppress responses to the larger of two rewards in two species of lemurs, Eulemur fulvus and E. macaco.Zoology and wildlife conservationEmilie Genty, Catherine Palmier, Jean-Jacques Roeder
Leptin and social environment influence the risk-taking and feeding behavior of Asian blue quail.Zoology and wildlife conservationMare Lohmus, Fredrik Sundstrom
Local traditions of bower decoration by spotted bowerbirds in a single population.Zoology and wildlife conservationRebecca L. Coe, Joah R. Madden, Tamsin J. Lowe, Hannah V. Fuler, Kanchon K. Dasmahapatra
Locomotor performance and social dominance in male Anolis cristatellus.Zoology and wildlife conservationTheodore Garland Jr., Gad Perry, Kate Levering, Isabelle Girard
Long-range visibility of greater sage grouse leks: a GIS-based analysis.Zoology and wildlife conservationAndrea S. Asbury, Robert M. Gibson
Loss of body mass under predation risk: cost of antipredatory behavior or adaptive fit-for-escape?.Zoology and wildlife conservationJavier Perez-Tris, Jose A. Diaz, Jose Luis Telleria
Loyalty pays: Potential life history consequences of fidelity to marine foraging regions by southern elephant seals.Zoology and wildlife conservationMark A. Hindell, Cory J.A. Bradshaw, Michael D. Sumner, Kelvin J. Michael
Male age, mating status and nuptial gift quality in a bushcricket.(E. ephippiger )Zoology and wildlife conservationMichael G. Ritchie, Nina Wedell
Male combat favours female-biased sex ratios under environmental sex determination.Zoology and wildlife conservationMichael J. Wade, Steven Freedberg
Male dispersal patterns in white-faced capuchins, Cebus capucinus. Part 1: patterns and causes of natal emigration.Zoology and wildlife conservationK.M. Jack, L. Fedigan
Male dispersal patterns in white-faced capuchins, Cebus capucinus. Part 1: patterns and causes of secondary dispersal.Zoology and wildlife conservationK.M. Jack, L. Fedigan
Male life history and the unusual adult sex ratios of redfronted lemur, Eulemur fulvus rufus, groups.Zoology and wildlife conservationPeter M. Kappeler, Julia Ostner
Male - male vocal interactions and the adjustment of song amplitude in a territorial bird.Zoology and wildlife conservationHenrik Brumm, Dietmar Todt
Male mate choice, male availabilty and egg production as limitations on polyandry in the red-necked phalarope.Zoology and wildlife conservationDavid B. Lank, Douglas Schamel, Diane M. Tracy
Male red-sided garter snakes, Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis, determine female mating status from pheromone trails.Zoology and wildlife conservationRobert T. Mason, Richard Shine, Ryan P. O'Donnell, Neil B. Ford
Males achieve greater reproductive success through multiple broods than through extrapair mating in house wrens.Zoology and wildlife conservationLinda A. Whittingham, Peter O. Dunn, Nicole E. Poirier
Mate attractiveness and primary resource allocation in the zebra finch.Zoology and wildlife conservationP.J.B. Slater, A.N. Rutstein, L. Gilbert, J.A. Graves
Mate choice in a hermaphrodite: You won't score with a spermatophore.Zoology and wildlife conservationMartin Haase, Anna Karlsson
Maternal food restriction delays weaning in the guinea pig, Cavia porcellus.Zoology and wildlife conservationFritz Trillmich, Claudia Laurien-Kehnen
Mating behavior in the endangered Sonoran topminnow: Speciation in action.Zoology and wildlife conservationC. R. Hurt, S. Stears - Ellis, K. A. Huges, P. W. Hedrick
Mouthbrooding and biparental care: An unexpected combination, but male brood care pays.Zoology and wildlife conservationBarbara Taborsky, Christoph Gruter
Multiple mating and repeated copulations: effects on male reproductive success in red flour beetles.Zoology and wildlife conservationS.M. Lewis
Multiple ornaments correlate with aspects of condition and behaviour in female northen cardinals, Cardinalis cardinalis.Zoology and wildlife conservationJodie M. Jawor, Nick Gray, Sara M. Beall, Randall Breitwisch
Navigation in a cup: Chick positioning in great tit, Parus major, nests.Zoology and wildlife conservationMathias Kolliker, Heinz Richner
Neighboring male spotted bowerbirds are not related, but do maraud each other.Zoology and wildlife conservationWilliam Amos, Rebecca L. Coe, Joah R. Madden, Tamsin J. Olwe, Hannah V. Fuller, Francine Jury, Kanchon K. Dasmahapatre
Nepotistic alarm calling in the Siberian jay, Perisoreus infaustus.Zoology and wildlife conservationJan Ekman, Michael Griesser
Nest site fidelity of leatherback turtles at Playa Grande, Costa Rica.Zoology and wildlife conservationJames R. Spotila, Richard D. Reina, Eric D. Nordmoe, Annette E. Sieg, Paul R. Sotherland, Frank V. Paladinos
Nest site selection in leatherbacks, Dermochelys coriacea: Individual patterns and their consequences.Zoology and wildlife conservationN. Mrosovsky, Stephanie Jill Kamel
Noninvasive endocrine data for behavioural studies: the importance of validation.Zoology and wildlife conservationArthur R. Goldsmith, Katherine L. Buchanan
Novel strategies of subordinate fish competing for food: Learning when to fold.Zoology and wildlife conservationK.L. Hollis, K.S. Langworthy-Lam, L.A. Blouin, M.C. Romano
Observer gender and observation bias in animal behavior research: Experimental tests with red-backed salamanders.Zoology and wildlife conservationDavid M. Marsh, Teresa J. Hanlon
Olfactory information processing in honeybee, Apis mellifera, nestmate recognition.Zoology and wildlife conservationMichael D. Breed, Patrick H. Diaz, Kristine D. Lucero
Onset of plural cooperative breeding in common marmoset families following replacement of the breeding male.Zoology and wildlife conservationDavid H. Abbott, Wendy Saltzman, Rebecca R. Pick, Orrie J. Salper, Kimber J. Liedl
On the functional design of mate preferences and receiver biases.Zoology and wildlife conservationRafael L. Rodriguez, W. Andrew Snedden
Ontogenetic isolation favors sibling cannibalism in mites.Zoology and wildlife conservationPeter Schausberger
Optimal foraging when regulating intake of multiple nutrients.Zoology and wildlife conservationStephen J. Simpson, Spencer T. Behmer, David Raubenheimer, Richard M. Sibly, Kwang Pum Lee
Out of sight but not out of mind: modulation of recruitment according to home range marking in ants.Zoology and wildlife conservationClaire Detrain, Cedric Devigne, Ares J. Renon
Overlapping and matching in the song contests of black-capped chickadees.Zoology and wildlife conservationDaniel J. Mennill, Laurene M. Ratcliffe
Parasite-induced change in host behaviour and susceptibility to predation in an eye fluke-fish interaction.Zoology and wildlife conservationOtto Seppala, Anssi Karvonen, Tellervo Valtonen
Parasitoid foraging decisions mediated by artificial vibrations.Zoology and wildlife conservationImen Djemai, Jerome Casas, Christelle Magal
Parental care protects against infanticide in the lizard Egernia saxatilis (Scincidae).Zoology and wildlife conservationDavid E. O'Connor
Parental fish change their cannibalistic behavior in response to the cost-to-benefit ratio of parental care.Zoology and wildlife conservationAndrea Manica
Parental genetic characteristics and hatching success in the spotless starling, sturnus unicolor.Zoology and wildlife conservationP.J. Cordero, J.M. Aparicio, J.P. Veiga
Patterns of coalition formation by adult female baboons in Amboseli, Kenya.Zoology and wildlife conservationJoan B. Silk, Susan C. Alberts, Jeanne Altmann
Perception of geographical variation in song by male Puget Sound white-crowned sparrows, Zonotrichia leucophrys pugetensis.Zoology and wildlife conservationDouglas A. Nelson, Jill A. Soha
Physiological dependence on copulation in parthenogenetic females can reduce the cost of sex.Zoology and wildlife conservationM. Neiman
Pocket Observer 2.0.(Product/Service Evaluation)Zoology and wildlife conservationGillian Eckhardt
Polymorphic signals of harassed female odonates and the males that learn them support a novel frequency-dependent model.Zoology and wildlife conservationOla M. Fincke
Precopulatory mate guarding affects predation risk in two freshwater amphipod species.Zoology and wildlife conservationRickey D. Cothran
Predation risk on incubating adults constrains the choice of thermally favorable nest sites in a plover.Zoology and wildlife conservationJose A. Masero, Juan A. Amat
Predator - induced plasticity in web - building behavior.Zoology and wildlife conservationDaiqin Li, Wan She Lee
Predatory wasps learn to overcome the shelter defences of their larval prey.Zoology and wildlife conservationMartha R. Weiss, Erin E. Wilson, Ignacio Castellanos
Prenatal light exposure affects early feather-pecking behavior in the domestic chick.Zoology and wildlife conservationB. Riedstra, T.G.G. Groothuis
Prey attraction as a possible function of discoid stabilimenta of juvenile orb-spinning spiders.Zoology and wildlife conservationDaiqin Li, Matthew L.M. Lim, Wee Khee Seah, Su Ling Tay
Prior oviposition, female receptivity and last-male sperm precedence in the cosmopolitan pest Callosobruchus maculatus (Coleoptera: Bruchidae).Zoology and wildlife conservationPaul E. Eady, Paul Rugman-Jones, Denise V. Brown
Prospecting in the collared flycatcher: gathering public information for future breeding habitat selection?.Zoology and wildlife conservationTomas Part, Etienne Danchin, Blandine Doligez
Prudent sperm allocation in Norway rats, Rattus norvegicus: A mammalian model of adaptive ejaculate adjustment.Zoology and wildlife conservationMatthew J.G. Gage, Nicholas Pound
Rapid taste aversion learning in adult cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis.Zoology and wildlife conservationAnne-Sophie Darmaillacq, Ludovic Dickel, Marie-Paule Chichery, Veronique Agin, Raymond Chichery
Raven scavenging favours group foraging in wolves .Zoology and wildlife conservationJohn A. Vucetich, Thomas A. Waite, Rolf O. Peterson
Recognition of burrow's olfactory signature in blue petrels, Halobaena caerulea: An efficient discrimination mechanism in the dark.Zoology and wildlife conservationP. Jouventin, F. Bonadonna, M. Villafane, C. Bajzak
Reduced source defence in an uncertain world: an experimental test using captive nutmeg mannikins.Zoology and wildlife conservationFrederique Dubois, Luc-Alain Giraldeau
Regulation of incubation shifts near hatching by giant petrels: a timed mechanism, embryonic signalling or food availability?.Zoology and wildlife conservationJ. Gonzalez-Solis
Rejection of parasitic eggs in relation to egg appearance in magpies.Zoology and wildlife conservationJesus M. Aviles, Juan J. Soler, Manuel Soler, Andreas P. Moller
Relatedness and the evolution of conspecific brood parasitism: parameterizing a model with data for a precocial species.Zoology and wildlife conservationH. Poysa
Reliability and the value of information.Zoology and wildlife conservationMarten A. Koops
Removing the confound of time in investigating the regulation of serial behaviors: testosterone, prolactin and the transition from sexual to parental .Zoology and wildlife conservationHubert Schwabl, Keith W. Sockman, Peter J. Sharp
Repeatability of mate choice in the zebra finch: Consistency within and between females.Zoology and wildlife conservationWolfgang Forstmeier
Repeated decrease in vocal repertoire size in Streptopelia doves.Zoology and wildlife conservationCarel Ten Cate, Selvino R. De Kort
Reproductive compensation for offspring viability deficits by female mallards, Anas platyrhynchos.Zoology and wildlife conservationPatricia Adair Gowaty, Cynthia K. Bluhm
Reproductive decisions are sensitive to cues of life expectancy: The case of a moth.Zoology and wildlife conservationToomas Tammaru, Juhan Javois
Response to topography in a hilltopping butterfly and implications for modeling nonrandom dispersal.Zoology and wildlife conservationDavid Saltz, Guy Pe'er, Hans-Hermann Thulke, Uzi Motro
Reverse lateralization of visual discrimination abilities in the European starling.Zoology and wildlife conservationJ.J. Templeton, D.P. Gonzalez
Roost switching, roost sharing and social cohesion: Forest-dwelling big brown bats, Eptesicus fuscus, conform to the fission-fusion model.Zoology and wildlife conservationR. Mark Brigham, Craig K.R. Willis
Searching strategy of the painted turtle Chrysemys picta across spatial scales.Zoology and wildlife conservationDavid R. Bowne, Heather R. White
Seasonal polyphenism and leaf mimicry in the comma butterfly.Zoology and wildlife conservationBirgitta S. Tullberg, Christer Wiklund
Sensory biases underlie sex differences in tamarin long call structure.Zoology and wildlife conservationMarc D. Hauser, Cory T. Miller, Judith Scarl
Seoul virus infection increases aggressive behavior in male Norway rats.Zoology and wildlife conservationSabra L. Klein, M. Christine Zink, Gregory E. Glass
Sex differences in provisioning rules and honest signaling of need in Manx shearwaters, Puffinus puffinus.Zoology and wildlife conservationKeith C. Hamer, Petra Quillfeldt, Juan F. Masello
Sexual coercion in a territorial salamander: females punish socially polygynous male partners.Zoology and wildlife conservationRobert G. Jaeger, Ethan D. Prosen, Danielle R. Lee
Sexual conflict and parental care in magnificent frigatebirds: Full compensation by deserted females.Zoology and wildlife conservationJose Luis Osorno, Tamas Szekely
Sexual experience can affect use of public information in mate choice.Zoology and wildlife conservationBennett G. Galef Jr., Alexander G. Ophir
Sexual motivation suppresses paternal behaviour of male gerbils during their mates' postpartum oestrus.Zoology and wildlife conservationMertice M. Clark, Bennett G. Galef, Jeanine Johnson
Sexual segregation in childhood: A review of evidence for two hypotheses.Zoology and wildlife conservationA.D. Pellegrini
Sexual selection and variation: A multivariate approach to species-specific calls and preferences.Zoology and wildlife conservationLaura A. Higgins, Robin D. Waugaman
Sexual selection for increased male body size and protandry in a spider.Zoology and wildlife conservationAlexei A. Maklakov, Yael Lubin, Trine Bilde
Signalling of hunger when offspring forage by both begging and self-feeding.Zoology and wildlife conservationPer T. Smiseth, Allen J. Moore
Significance of social parameters on differential nutrient investment in guira cuckoo, Guira guira, eggs.Zoology and wildlife conservationRegina H.F. Macedo, Mariana O. Cariello, Angela M. Pacheo, Hubert G. Schwabl
Size and stripes: how fish clients recognize cleaners.Zoology and wildlife conservationIsabelle M. Cote, Laura E. Stummer, Jennifer A. Weller, Magnus L. Johnson
Size-assortative mating in salmonids: Negative evidence for pink salmon in natural conditions.Zoology and wildlife conservationMary F. Willson, Thomas P. Quinn, Bobette R. Dickerson, Paul Bentzen
Size matters: A test of boldness in eight populations of the poeciliid Brachyraphis episcopi.Zoology and wildlife conservationCulum Brown, Victoria A. Braithwaite
Social constraints on female mate preferences in mallards, Anas platyrhynchos, decrease offspring viability and mother productivity.Zoology and wildlife conservationCynthia K. Bluhm, Particia Adair Gowaty
Social dominance, aggression and faecal glucocorticoid levels in a wild population of wolves, Canis lupus.Zoology and wildlife conservationScott Creel, Jennifer Sands
Social mediation of vocal amplitude in a songbird, Taeniopygia guttata.Zoology and wildlife conservationJeffrey Cynx, Christy Gell
Song repertoire and duetting behaviour of the tropical boubou, Laniarius aethiopicus.Zoology and wildlife conservationT. Ulmar Grafe, Johannes H. Bitz, Michael Wink
Song repertoire evolution and acoustic divergence in a population of black-capped chickadees, poecile atricapillus.Zoology and wildlife conservationMyron C. Baker, David E. Gammon
Song repertoire size predicts initial mating success in male song sparrows, Melospiza melodia.Zoology and wildlife conservationPhilip K. Stoddard, Jane M. Reid, Peter Arcese, Alice L.E.V. Cassidy, Sara M. Hieberts, James N.M. Smith, Lukas F. Keller, Amy B. Marr
Spacing pattern in a social group of stray cats: effects on male reproductive success.Zoology and wildlife conservationLudovic Say, Dominique Pontier
Spatial parameters encoded in the spatial map of the blind Mexican cave fish, Astyanax fasciatus.Zoology and wildlife conservationTheresa Burt De Perera
Spatial representation of shelter locations in meerkats, Suricata suricatta.Zoology and wildlife conservationMarta B. Manser, Matthew B. Bell
Speckled warblers break cooperative rules: absence of helping in a group-living member of the Pardalotidae.Zoology and wildlife conservationJ.L. Gardner, R. D. Magrath, P.D. OIsen
Stereotyped temporal patterns in electrical communication.Zoology and wildlife conservationBruce A. Carlson, Carl D. Hopkins
Substrate discrimination and preference in foraging fish.Zoology and wildlife conservationMichael M. Webster, Paul J.B. Hart
Superior fighters make mediocre fathers in the Pacific blue-eye fish.Zoology and wildlife conservationBob B.M. Wong
Tactical use of unimodal and bimodal communication by chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes.Zoology and wildlife conservationWilliam D. Hopkins, David A. Leavens, Autumn B. Hostetter, Michael J. Wesley
Temporally fluctuating prey and interfering predators: a positive feedback.Zoology and wildlife conservationGraeme D. Ruxton, P. Anders Nilsson
Temporal stability and change in microgeographical pattern of song variation in the rufous-collared sparrow.Zoology and wildlife conservationPaul Handford, Cicilia Kopuchian, Dario Alejandro Lijtmaer, Pablo Luis Tubaro
Territorial and mating success of dragonflies that vary in muscle power output and presence of gregarine gut parasites.Zoology and wildlife conservationJames H. Marden, Jason R. Cobb
Territorial breakdown of black-capped chickadees, Poecile atricapillus, in disturbed habitats?Zoology and wildlife conservationKevin T. Fort, Ken A. Otter
Territoriality and testosterone in an equatorial population of rufous-collared sparrows, Zonotrichia capensis.Zoology and wildlife conservationIgnacio T. Moore, Haruka Wada, Nicole Perfito, D. Shallin Busch, Hahn, Thomas P.; Wingfield, John C.
Territorial vocal rallying in the green woodhoopoe: Factors affecting contest length and outcome.(Green woodhoopoe)Zoology and wildlife conservationAndrew N. Radford, Morne A. Du Plessis
Testing the immunocompetence handicap hypothesis: A review of the evidence.Zoology and wildlife conservationM.L. Roberts, K.L. Buchanan, M.R. Evans
The effect of neighbours and females on dawn and daytime singing behaviours by male chipping sparrows.Zoology and wildlife conservationWan-Chun Liu
The effects of novel odour and color cues on food acceptance by the zebra finch, Taeniopygia guttata.Zoology and wildlife conservationDavid J. Kelly, Nicola M. Marples
The effects of predation risk on the use social foraging tactics.Zoology and wildlife conservationAndras Liker, Zoltan Barta, Ferenc Monus
The evolution of conformity-enforcing behaviour in cultural communication system.Zoology and wildlife conservationP.J.B. Slater, R.F. Lachlan, V.M. Janik
The function food-associated calls in white-faced capuchin monkeys, Cebus capucinus, from the perspective of the signaller.Zoology and wildlife conservationJulie Gros-Louis
The functions of multiple singing modes: experimental tests in yellow warblers, Dendroica petechia.Zoology and wildlife conservationMartin D. Beebee
The influence of free interactions and partner familiarity on social transmission in the young canary.Zoology and wildlife conservationN. Cadieu, J.C. Cadieu
The motivation of group-housed laboratory mice, Mus musculus, for additional space.Zoology and wildlife conservationC. M. Sherwin
The Observer Video-Pro 4.1 and 5.0 software package.(Product/Service Evaluation)Zoology and wildlife conservationGillian Eckhardt, Jane Waterman
The role of animal behavior in the study of endocrine-disrupting chemicals.(Endocrine-disrupting chemicals )Zoology and wildlife conservationAlison M. Bell, Ethan D. Clotfelter, Kate Levering
The role of courtship song in sexual selection and species recognition by female Drosophila melanogaster.Zoology and wildlife conservationBecky C. Talyn, Harold B. Dowse
The role of olfactory cues in the discrimination of agemates by lambs.Zoology and wildlife conservationSeverine Ligout, Richard H. Porter, Matthieu Keller
The vocal sac as a visual cue in anuran communication: an experimental analysis using video playback.Zoology and wildlife conservationMichael J. Ryan, A. Stanley Rand, Gil G. Rosenthal
Time constraints and trade-offs among parental care behaviors: Effects of brood size, sex and loss of mate.Zoology and wildlife conservationAllen J. Moore, Claudia M. Rauter
Time-matched grooming in female primates? New analyses from two species.Zoology and wildlife conservationJoan B. Silk, Susan Perry, Joseph H. Manson, C. David Navarrete
Ultrasonic vocalizations and social learning of food preferences by female Norway rats.Zoology and wildlife conservationBennett G. Galef Jr., Samira Jeimy
Using the cross point of demand functions to assess animal priorities.Zoology and wildlife conservationDorte Bratbo Sorensen, Jan Ladewig, Annette Kjer Ersboll, Lindsay Matthews
Variation between and within the sexes in body size preferences.Zoology and wildlife conservationAlexandra L. Basolo
Variation in mating system and group structure in two populations of swift foxes, Vulpes velox.Zoology and wildlife conservationWarren B. Ballard, Jan F. Kamler, Kevin Mote, Patrick R. Lemons
Visual marks learned by the solitary bee Megachile rotundata for localizing its nest.Zoology and wildlife conservationKarine Fauria, Raymond Campan, Anne Grimal
Vocal communication between male Xenopus laevis.Zoology and wildlife conservationMartha L. Tobias, Candace Barnard, Robert O' Hagan, Sam H. Horng, Masha Rand, Darcy B. Kelley
Wall lizards combine and visual cues of ambush snake predators to avoid overestimating risk inside refuges.Zoology and wildlife conservationJ. Martin, L. Amo, P. Lopez
Wars of attrition: Colony size determines competitive outcomes in a guild of African acacia ants.Zoology and wildlife conservationTodd M. Palmer
Wasp sex ratios when females on a patch are related.Zoology and wildlife conservationStuart A. West, David M. Shuker, Sarah E. Reece, Jon A.L. Taylor
What do Diana monkeys know about the focus of attention of a conspecific?Zoology and wildlife conservationRichard W. Byrne, Gaia Scerif, Juan-Carlos Gomez
What, if anything, is the adaptive function of countershading?Zoology and wildlife conservationMichael P. Speed, David J. Kelly, Graeme D. Ruxton
White-faced capuchin monkeys show triadic awareness in their choice of allies.Zoology and wildlife conservationSusan Perry, Joseph H. Manson, Clark H. Barrett
Who do male chimpanzees defend a group range?Zoology and wildlife conservationAnne E. Pusey, Jennifer M. Williams, Gary W. Oehlert, John V. Carlis
Why do river otters scent-mark? An experimental test of several hypotheses.Zoology and wildlife conservationJan A. Randall, Merav Ben-David, Regan R. Rostain, Pamela Groves
Why fight? Socially dominant jackdaws, Corvus monedula, have low fitness.Zoology and wildlife conservationSimon Verhulst, H. Martijn Salomons
Working for food under conditions of varying motivation in broilers.Zoology and wildlife conservationB.M. Spruijt, E.A.M. Bokkers, P. Koene, T.B. Rodenburg, P.H. Zimmerman
Yellow-bellied marmots discriminate between the alarm calls of individuals and are more responsive to calls from juveniles.Zoology and wildlife conservationDaniel T. Blumstein, Janice C. Daniel
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