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Behavioral Ecology is the official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology (ISBE). Run by @birgitszabo.bsky.social #behavecol
Plan ahead, or wing it? How storm-petrel parents adjust food delivery to young chicks
#Bird #ParentalCare #Provisioning
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We are happy to announce that registration for ISBE2026 is now open! We encourage you to register as soon as possible to take advantage of reduced fees and to plan your trip and accommodation in advance.
Please read the information on www.isbe2026.com before proceeding with your registration.
Make sure you don’t miss our key dates for abstract submission and registration!
01.12.2025 15:24 — 👍 16 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 4
Conflict and cooperation in male–male partnerships alter paternal care behavior in the ocellated wrasse
#Fish #Reproduction #Sociality
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Larger frogs are better mimics but are more risk-averse in a nontoxic poison frog
#Aposematism #WarningSignals #Ampibian
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Cognitive tasks could be biased towards generalists: a lesson from wild non-eusocial #bees. In this work, led by Tovah Kashetsky, specialist 🐝s were more hesitant to continue interacting with novel stimuli. Check out the #OA paper in @behavecol.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/behe... #ProudCoSupervisor
02.12.2025 21:22 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Double brooding in house wrens is repeatable but constrained by time-of-season
#Bird #Reproduction
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Its very exciting to see this paper out in @behavecol.bsky.social. These conversations, expertly led by @delphinedemoor.bsky.social, have really shaped how I now think about working with social network data. Check out Delphine's thread to learn more!
26.11.2025 16:37 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Meet our Plenary Speaker Daniela Rößler
Fueled by curiosity and a deep love of natural history Daniela discovered a REM-like sleep state in spiders and uses integrative field, lab and comparative approaches to investigate the function, ecology, and evolution of sleep across the spider tree of life.
INVITED IDEA:
Integrating space, time, and culture in animal conservation practice
#AnimalBehavior #AnimalCulture #ConservationInterventions
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New paper out in @behavecol.bsky.social!
Multiple studies show that sexually selected traits such as colours can reflect the presence of pathogens/parasites, but, can defensive coloration do the same? L. Schlippe Justicia, @carodittrich.bsky.social, O. Nokelainen & I tackled that question (1/3)
Excited to introduce the Latent Layers Framework – now out in @behavecol.bsky.social – to help think through when and why network differences confound inference in (comparative) social network analysis! 🧵
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Have you checked out the Editors Choice for our newest issue yet?
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Complex dynamics of social learning in groups of wild Arabian babblers
#Bird #SocialCognition
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Honored to announce the Hamilton Lecture 2026!
Leigh Simmons, Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Western Australia has made an outstanding contribution to the field of sexual selection acting from the whole organism to its gametes, and to our Society.
Does rainfall or temperature influence antipredator vigilance in a hibernating mammal?
#ClimateChange #AntipredatorBehavior #Marmot
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TRAVEL AWARDS - Apply for a travel award to support your trip, accommodation and registration! Application guidelines on www.isbe2026.com
30.09.2025 19:36 — 👍 25 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 3
Meet our plenary speaker Renata Sousa-Lima!
Professor at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil), Renata ‘s research focuses on bioacoustics of aquatic mammals and has pioneered the field of ecoacoustics and soundscape ecology in Brazil.
Meet our plenary speaker Eva Ringler!
Professor at the University of Bern, Eva Ringler and her research group are interested in understanding variation in animal behaviour from an ecological and evolutionary perspective focusing on Neotropical poison frogs and glassfrogs.
Meet our plenary speaker Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi
Director of the India Program for the Snow Leopard Trust working on snow leopards and human-wildlife coexistence in the high Himalaya. His work focuses on the interactions between large carnivores, their wild prey, and farming communities.
Meet our plenary speaker Felicity Muth!
Assistant professor at the University of California Davis, her lab group are broadly interested in cognition, especially aspects of learning and memory that have a clear function in the natural world, focusing on captive and wild bumblebees.
Good guardian, bad parent: tradeoffs between territory defense and parental care in Darwin's finches
#Bird #TradeOff #PlaybackExperiment
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The last of us: social information enhances trappability in fruit flies
#Insect #SocialCognition #NovelConditions
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📢 JUST OUT: Volume 36, Issue 5 of 2025 of Behavioral Ecology 📢
Check out all the great research that was published in September/ October:
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#AnimalBehavior #Ecology #Behaviour
Prey movement, size, and glossiness interact to impact praying mantid attack behaviors
#Insect #PredatorPreyInteraction
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Impact of human presence and activity on urban Eurasian red squirrels’ innovative problem-solving
#UrbanWildlife #Mammal #Cognition
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What role(s) can non-human animal culture play in conservation? Much has been written on this topic in recent years, but Dawn Barlow, Taylor Hersh, & I offer some new perspectives: "Integrating space, time, and culture in animal conservation practice" @behavecol.bsky.social
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