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Archerfish foraging success varies with immediate competition level but not group size. 箭鱼的觅食成功率随直接竞争水平而变化，但与群体大小无关。

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Behavioral Ecology Pub Date : 2024-05-21 eCollection Date: 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arae040

Dagmar der Weduwen, Nick A R Jones, Adèle Dubosque, Stefan Schuster, Keith T Sillar, Mike Webster, Luke Rendell

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Scope and adaptive value of modulating aggression over breeding stages in a competitive female bird 竞争性雌鸟在繁殖阶段调节攻击性的范围和适应价值

IF 2.4 3区环境科学与生态学

Behavioral Ecology Pub Date : 2024-05-20 DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arae042

Elizabeth M George, Abigail M Weber, Kimberly A Rosvall

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Relative telencephalon size does not affect collective motion in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata). 端脑的相对大小不会影响虹鳟（Poecilia reticulata）的集体运动。

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Behavioral Ecology Pub Date : 2024-05-03 eCollection Date: 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arae033

Annika Boussard, Mikaela Ahlkvist, Alberto Corral-López, Stephanie Fong, John Fitzpatrick, Niclas Kolm

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Does losing reduce the tendency to engage with rivals to reach mates? An experimental test 输掉比赛会降低与对手交配的倾向吗？实验测试

IF 2.4 3区环境科学与生态学

Behavioral Ecology Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arae037

Chenke Zang, Meng-Han Joseph Chung, Teresa Neeman, Lauren Harrison, Ivan M Vinogradov, Michael D Jennions

{"title":"Does losing reduce the tendency to engage with rivals to reach mates? An experimental test","authors":"Chenke Zang, Meng-Han Joseph Chung, Teresa Neeman, Lauren Harrison, Ivan M Vinogradov, Michael D Jennions","doi":"10.1093/beheco/arae037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arae037","url":null,"abstract":"Male-male contests for access to females or breeding resources is critical in determining male reproductive success. Larger males and those with more effective weaponry are more likely to win fights. However, even after controlling for such predictors of fighting ability, studies have reported a winner-loser effect: previous winners are more likely to win subsequent contests, while losers often suffer repeated defeats. While the effect of winning-losing is well-documented for the outcome of future fights, its effect on other behaviors (e.g., mating) remains poorly investigated. Here, we test whether a winning versus losing experience influenced subsequent behaviors of male mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) towards rivals and potential mates. We housed focal males with either a smaller or larger opponent for 24 hours to manipulate their fighting experience to become winners or losers, respectively. The focal males then underwent tests that required them to enter and swim through a narrow corridor to reach females, bypassing a cylinder that contained either a larger rival male (competitive scenario), a juvenile or was empty (non-competitive scenarios). The tests were repeated after one week. Winners were more likely to leave the start area and to reach the females, but only when a larger rival was presented, indicating higher levels of risk-taking behavior in aggressive interactions. This winner-loser effect persisted for at least one week. We suggest that male mosquitofish adjust their assessment of their own and/or their rival’s fighting ability following contests in ways whose detection by researchers depends on the social context.","PeriodicalId":8840,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Ecology","volume":"90 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140827724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Short-term heat waves have long-term consequences for parents and offspring in stickleback 短期热浪对竹节虫的亲代和子代具有长期影响

IF 2.4 3区环境科学与生态学

Behavioral Ecology Pub Date : 2024-04-27 DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arae036

Rachel Barrett, Laura R Stein

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Timing of egg-laying in relation to a female’s social environment in European starlings 欧洲椋鸟产卵时间与雌鸟社会环境的关系

IF 2.4 3区环境科学与生态学

Behavioral Ecology Pub Date : 2024-04-26 DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arae029

Kathryn M Leonard, Tony D Williams

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Maternal investment and early thermal conditions affect performance and antipredator responses 母性投资和早期热条件影响动物的表现和反捕食者反应

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Behavioral Ecology Pub Date : 2024-04-26 DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arae035

Maider Iglesias-Carrasco, Jiayu Zhang, Daniel W A Noble

{"title":"Maternal investment and early thermal conditions affect performance and antipredator responses","authors":"Maider Iglesias-Carrasco, Jiayu Zhang, Daniel W A Noble","doi":"10.1093/beheco/arae035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arae035","url":null,"abstract":"Exposure to increased temperatures during early development can lead to phenotypic plasticity in morphology, physiology, and behaviour across a range of ectothermic animals. In addition, maternal effects are known to be important contributors to phenotypic variation in offspring. Whether the two factors interact to shape offspring morphology and behaviour has been barely explored. This is critical since climate change is expected to impact both incubation temperature and maternal resource allocation and stress levels. Using a fully-factorial design, and Bayesian multivariate mixed models, we explored how the manipulation of early thermal environment and yolk-quantity in eggs affected the morphology, performance and antipredator behaviour of two sympatric Australian skink species (Lampropholis delicata and L. guichenoti). We found that juveniles from the hot treatment were larger than those on the cold treatment in L. guichenoti but not L. delicata. Using repeated behavioural measures for individual lizards, we found an interaction between incubation temperature and maternal investment in performance, with running speed being affected in a species-specific way by the treatment. We predicted that changes in performance should influence antipredator responses. In support of this prediction, we found that maternal investment impacted antipredator behaviour, with animals from the yolk-reduced and cold treatment resuming activity faster after a simulated predatory attack in L. delicata. However, the prediction was not supported in L. guichenoti. Our results highlight the importance of exploring the multifaceted role that environments play across generations to understand how different anthropogenic factors will impact wildlife in the future.","PeriodicalId":8840,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Ecology","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140798749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Sexual conflict and social networks in bed bugs: effects of social experience 臭虫的性冲突和社会网络：社会经验的影响

IF 2.4 3区环境科学与生态学

Behavioral Ecology Pub Date : 2024-04-17 DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arae030

Janice L Yan, Jack R Rosembaum, Selena Esteves, Maggie L Dobbin, Reuven Dukas

{"title":"Sexual conflict and social networks in bed bugs: effects of social experience","authors":"Janice L Yan, Jack R Rosembaum, Selena Esteves, Maggie L Dobbin, Reuven Dukas","doi":"10.1093/beheco/arae030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arae030","url":null,"abstract":"Living in groups can provide essential experience that improves sexual performance and reproductive success. While the effects of social experience have drawn considerable scientific interest, commonly used behavioural assays often do not capture the dynamic nature of interactions within a social group. Here, we conducted three experiments using a social network framework to test whether social experience during early adulthood improves the sexual competence of bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) when placed in a complex and competitive group environment. In each experiment, we observed replicate groups of bed bugs comprising previously socialized and previously isolated individuals of the same sex, along with an equal number of standardized individuals of the opposite sex. Regardless of whether we controlled for their insemination history, previously isolated males mounted and inseminated females at significantly higher rates than previously socialized males. However, we found no evidence of social experience influencing our other measures of sexual competence: proportion of mounts directed at females, ability to overcome female resistance, and strength of opposite-sex social associations. We similarly did not detect effects of social experience on our female sexual competence metrics: propensity to avoid mounts, rate of successfully avoiding mounts, opposite-sex social association strength, and rate of receiving inseminations. Our findings indicate that early social experience does not improve sexual competence in male and female bed bugs.","PeriodicalId":8840,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Ecology","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140617221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Explaining variation in the kinship composition of mammal groups 解释哺乳动物群体亲缘关系构成的变化

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Behavioral Ecology Pub Date : 2024-04-17 DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arae032

M Dyble

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Sexual Selection And Species Recognition Promote Complex Male Courtship Displays In Ungulates 性选择和物种识别促进有蹄类动物复杂的雄性求偶展示

IF 2.4 3区环境科学与生态学

Behavioral Ecology Pub Date : 2024-04-08 DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arae027

Giacomo D’Ammando, Jakob Bro-Jørgensen

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