Unrevealing components of risk assessment: escape behaviour and refuge use in a web-building spider
Publication date: January 2024
Source: Animal Behaviour, Volume 207
Author(s): Rafael Rios Moura, Paulo Inacio Prado, João Vasconcellos-Neto
Snake herders: novel anti-predator behavior by black-tailed prairie dogs in response to prairie rattlesnakes
Abstract We describe a case of a unique antipredator behavior sequence in response to rattlesnakes in a population of black-tailed prairie dogs in Fort Collins, Colorado. Our analysis revealed individuals …
Where the fiddlers sing: fiddler crabs change their tunes depending on the context
Publication date: January 2024
Source: Animal Behaviour, Volume 207
Author(s): Minju Kim, Seojeong Park, Hye Min Lee, Taewon Kim
Age mediates access to landfill food resources and foraging proficiency in a long-lived bird species
Publication date: January 2024
Source: Animal Behaviour, Volume 207
Author(s): Bruno Herlander Martins, Andrea Soriano-Redondo, Aldina M.A. Franco, Inês Catry
African penguins utilize their ventral dot patterns for individual recognition
Publication date: January 2024
Source: Animal Behaviour, Volume 207
Author(s): Luigi Baciadonna, Cwyn Solvi, Francesca Terranova, Camilla Godi, Cristina Pilenga, Livio Favaro
Rise and fall: increasing temperatures have nonlinear effects on aggression in a tropical fish
Publication date: January 2024
Source: Animal Behaviour, Volume 207
Author(s): Nick A.R. Jones, Jade Newton-Youens, Joachim G. Frommen
Effects of human approach directness and path use on small mammal risk perception
Abstract Prey effectively avoid predation by dynamically assessing their risk and responding accordingly. Various aspects of the predator’s approach (e.g., eye contact, approach directness, speed, path presence, etc.) can strongly …
Labidochromis caeruleus cichlid preference for background colour varied between individuals and groups but did not vary for body colour of other fish
Abstract Investigations of colour-related behaviours, e.g. the context dependence of colour preferences in animal species are fundamental for understanding colour discrimination mechanisms and evolution of colour patterns. In this study, …
Response to competing conspecific cues depends on social context in the honey bee Apis mellifera
Publication date: December 2023
Source: Animal Behaviour, Volume 206
Author(s): Rebecca R. Westwick, Gavin P. Brackett, Cameron E. Brown, Bethany J. Ison, Clare C. Rittschof