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EXPRESSION OF CONCERN: Precopulatory Sexual Cannibalism Causes Increase Egg Case Production, Hatching Success, and Female Attractiveness to Males 关注的表达:交配前的性同类相食会增加产卵量、孵化成功率和雌性对雄性的吸引力
IF 1.3 4区 生物学
Ethology Pub Date : 2025-03-26 DOI: 10.1111/eth.13567
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EXPRESSION OF CONCERN: Temperature Mediates Shifts in Individual Aggressiveness, Activity Level, and Social Behavior in a Spider 关注的表达:温度调节蜘蛛个体攻击性、活动水平和社会行为的变化
IF 1.3 4区 生物学
Ethology Pub Date : 2025-03-26 DOI: 10.1111/eth.13565
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EXPRESSION OF CONCERN: Assessing the Effects of Rearing Environment, Natural Selection, and Developmental Stage on the Emergence of a Behavioral Syndrome 关注的表达:评估饲养环境、自然选择和发育阶段对行为综合症出现的影响
IF 1.3 4区 生物学
Ethology Pub Date : 2025-03-26 DOI: 10.1111/eth.13566
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In the Shadow of Man: Behavioral Changes in Japanese Pika (Ochotona hyperborea yesoensis) due to Human Presence at Mount Highashi-Nupukaushi-Nupuri, Hokkaido, Japan 在人类的阴影下:人类在日本北海道高桥-努普考斯-努普里山对日本鼠兔行为的影响
IF 1.3 4区 生物学
Ethology Pub Date : 2025-03-13 DOI: 10.1111/eth.13562
Fatima Chaudhary, Teiji Watanabe, Rehan Ul Haq
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On Publication Ethics—Journals, Please Get Rid of Wording Restrictions That Include Citations 论出版伦理——期刊,请摆脱包括引文在内的措辞限制
IF 1.3 4区 生物学
Ethology Pub Date : 2025-03-11 DOI: 10.1111/eth.13550
Wolfgang Goymann
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Behavioral Syndromes Across Time and Space in a Long-Lived Turtle 一只长寿龟的跨时空行为综合症
IF 1.3 4区 生物学
Ethology Pub Date : 2025-03-10 DOI: 10.1111/eth.13561
Daniel F. Hughes, Kaylyn Hobelman, Abigail Trautman, Samantha Kim, Katie Brighton, Aubrey Gauntt, Samuel Wagner, Madison Schwenka, Amelia Weller, Shelby Bloom, Colin Nelson, Farah Suboh, Cameron Kolthoff, Sangai Dukuly, Benjamin M. Reed
{"title":"Behavioral Syndromes Across Time and Space in a Long-Lived Turtle","authors":"Daniel F. Hughes,&nbsp;Kaylyn Hobelman,&nbsp;Abigail Trautman,&nbsp;Samantha Kim,&nbsp;Katie Brighton,&nbsp;Aubrey Gauntt,&nbsp;Samuel Wagner,&nbsp;Madison Schwenka,&nbsp;Amelia Weller,&nbsp;Shelby Bloom,&nbsp;Colin Nelson,&nbsp;Farah Suboh,&nbsp;Cameron Kolthoff,&nbsp;Sangai Dukuly,&nbsp;Benjamin M. Reed","doi":"10.1111/eth.13561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.13561","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Behavioral syndromes are correlated behaviors across different contexts and are critical for understanding processes in the ecology and evolution of animal personality. To aid in this endeavor, there is a need to study syndromes in wild animals from understudied species over long timescales. We investigated behavioral syndromes in wild ornate box turtles (<i>Terrapene ornata</i>) across four distinct populations over four different years. We measured three behavioral traits (boldness, activity, and exploration) in controlled trials using standardized 10-min assays on 174 different turtles 314 times. Overall, turtles demonstrated consistent correlations between behavioral traits, indicating conserved behavioral syndromes in this species. A behavioral syndrome between activity and exploration was detected in every population in every year except for one in 2016, suggesting a strong conserved basis for these traits to covary. Correlations with boldness and other behavioral traits were also consistent, but their magnitude varied. At least two populations did not exhibit relationships in two different years, one population's syndrome strength changed from 1 year to the next, and another population exhibited a relationship in 1 year only. Boldness and activity were fully decoupled in one population, underscoring the significance of syndromes in coping with environmental variability for a long-lived ectothermic vertebrate. This is the first study to document behavioral syndromes along the boldness, activity, and exploration axes in a wild terrestrial turtle. Our results emphasize the need to preserve behavioral diversity while maintaining syndrome integrity alongside genetic and ecological diversity, which together will promote the conservation of ornate box turtles.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":50494,"journal":{"name":"Ethology","volume":"131 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143938986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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No Effect of Note Order on the Response of Coal Tits to Conspecific, Heterospecific and Artificial Mobbing Calls 笔记顺序对煤山雀对同种、异种和人工鸣叫的响应无影响
IF 1.3 4区 生物学
Ethology Pub Date : 2025-02-27 DOI: 10.1111/eth.13557
Ambre Salis, Axel Molina, Laura Mephane-Montel, Alexis Chaine, Philippe Schlenker, Emmanuel Chemla
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Just Hang On: Australian Gall Midges Suspend Themselves on Spider Silk Without Becoming Entangled 只要坚持下去:澳大利亚瘿蚊将自己悬挂在蜘蛛丝上而不会被缠绕
IF 1.3 4区 生物学
Ethology Pub Date : 2025-02-25 DOI: 10.1111/eth.13560
John Gould, Luke Reynolds
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Animal Ethics in Behavioral Studies—Advocating a Differentiated View 行为研究中的动物伦理学——提倡一种差异化的观点
IF 1.3 4区 生物学
Ethology Pub Date : 2025-02-25 DOI: 10.1111/eth.13559
Hanja B. Brandl, Fritz Trillmich
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Do Green Lynx Spiders (Peucetia viridans) Change Color in Response to Their Backgrounds? 绿山猫蜘蛛(Peucetia viridans)会根据它们的背景改变颜色吗?
IF 1.3 4区 生物学
Ethology Pub Date : 2025-02-24 DOI: 10.1111/eth.13558
Michael E. Vickers, Madison L. Heisey, Lisa A. Taylor
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