bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition

Auditory regularity detection in the ferret https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.04.668417v1

Uncovering variation in social tolerance among wild vervet monkeys through a novel co-feeding paradigm https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.03.668336v1

Impact of Repeated Heavy Ethanol Intoxication During Early Adolescence on Adult Anxiety-Like, Exploratory, Risk Assessment, and Drinking Behaviors in Mice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.03.668331v1

Reliability and precision of thermal imaging measurements to study animal behaviour and welfare https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.31.668027v1

Effects of sex and pre-exposure on Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) vapor self-administration in rats https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.01.668172v1

Linguistic Rules of Syntax and Sharing in the Complex Songs of a Tropical Passerine https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.31.666818v1

Behavioral response of bed bugs (Hemiptera: Cimicidae) to wet surfaces https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.31.667989v1

Computer Vision for Lesser Egyptian Jerboa (Jaculus jaculus) Behavioral Analysis and Animal Care Refinement https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.30.667603v1

Disparate social structures are underpinned by distinct social rules across a primate radiation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.31.667759v1

Assessing fish welfare in small-scale commercial fixed-net fisheries off the southern Portuguese coast https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.27.667075v1

Thermal Refuges as Extended Phenotypes: Lodge Construction by Bush Karoo Rats https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.28.667257v1

Running the distance: robustness of embodied distance measurement despite social interference in fiddler crabs https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.27.666470v1

Whole-body Loss of FSP27 Impairs Cognitive Function via Disruption of Neuro-Metabolic Pathways https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.28.667235v1

Environmental enrichment accelerates cortical memory consolidation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.28.667332v1

Human Strategy Adaptation in Reinforcement Learning Resembles Policy Gradient Ascent https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.28.667308v1

Acute stress modulates early visual perception and decision-making speed in bees without compromising accuracy https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.31.667877v1

Perceptual predictions track subjective, over objective, statistical structure https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.30.667172v1

Hybrid Neural-Cognitive Models Reveal Flexible Context-Dependent Information Processing in Reversal Learning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.31.667923v1

Overcoming distortion in multidimensional predictive representation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.29.667463v1

Dynamic membership drives long-term persistence of sparrow winter social communities https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.25.666472v1

Drosophila Video-assisted Activity Monitor (DrosoVAM): a versatile method for behavior monitoring https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.29.667363v1

Human escape follows a structured movement pattern shaped by threat and context https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.27.662958v1

Acoustic markers of negative arousal in lambs: evidence from behavioural and eye thermal profiles https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.29.667358v1

Collective Behavior in Medaka Fish Depends on Discrete Kinematic States of Swimming Behavior https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.25.666863v1

Cognitive ethology of nest building in a shell-dwelling cichlid https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.27.659443v1

Age and Sex Influence Diurnal Memory Oscillations, Circadian Rhythmicity, and Per1 Expression https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.24.666612v1

Sex, not familiarity, shapes social interactions in adult tortoises (Testudo hermanni) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.23.666358v1

Winter Foraging Selectivity of Blackbuck in Semi-Arid Agricultural Landscapes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.27.666993v1

What is memorable across the Pacific Ocean shows evidence of prior learning on the memorability of new visual inputs https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.23.666320v1

Best-of-n decision making by human groups https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.23.666271v1