期刊: ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, 2021; 179 ()
While the proximate and ultimate causes of sexual segregation have been well studied over the past 30 years, most of the research has focused on speci......
期刊: ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, 2021; 174 ()
Many social networks exhibit community structure, where individuals form discrete subgroups. The composition of such groupings is important for numero......
期刊: ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, 2021; 175 ()
Episodic memory of scatter-hoarding animals involves encoding and storage of memories of cached food items, in conjunction with subsequent retrieval o......
期刊: ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, 2021; 175 ()
Size-assortative mating and sexual selection on size are common across species. Since both may be a result of mate choice, mate choice based on size s......
期刊: ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, 2021; 177 ()
In socially living mammals, females often form highly differentiated and stable social relationships, commonly with genetically related individuals, w......
期刊: ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, 2021; 179 ()
A primary approach to establishing hierarchy is through contests, in which conflicts are settled using various behavioural patterns. Although dominanc......
期刊: ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, 2021; 179 ()
Consistent interindividual differences in behaviour (i.e. personality) and intraindividual variability in behaviour (higher intraindividual variabilit......
期刊: ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, 2021; 175 ()
Egg rejection behaviour is a host strategy adopted by birds against brood parasitism. The optimal acceptance threshold hypothesis predicts that, when ......
期刊: ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, 2021; 177 ()
Sexual conflict over parental investment is widespread among species with biparental care. Studies have indicated that a high degree of behavioural si......
期刊: ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, 2021; 173 ()
Prey increase vigilance to maximize predator detection, but this comes at the expense of foraging depending on the vigilance type: (1) intense vigilan......
期刊: ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, 2021; 172 ()
The role of risk in behavioural choices leading to cooperation in attacking a prey or a host has proven to be difficult to assess in most systems beca......
期刊: ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, 2020; 169 ()
Negative patterning discrimination is considered a nonelemental form of learning, and has been extensively investigated across taxa. Several insect sp......
期刊: ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, 2020; 159 ()
Polyandry has been a central topic in the study of animal behaviour. Yet, it is still not clear how the body weight of each sex affects the probabilit......
期刊: ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, 2020; 160 ()
The study of vocal communication in nonhuman primates, especially apes, offers critical insight into the origins of human language. Although human lan......
期刊: ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, 2020; 161 ()
In mammals characterized by a mating system in which a single male monopolizes reproduction, infanticide is reported to occur following a male take-ov......