bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition

Learning and Memory Performance in a Rat Model of Perigestational Opioid Exposure https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.08.693053v1

Occipital tACS does not modulate manual performance but fixation variability under visuo-proprioceptive conflict https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.08.693038v1

Persistent Cognitive Impairment and Bone Health Following Helium (4He) Ion Exposure: Implications for Space Travel https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.08.692986v1

Domestic goats can follow the direction of human voices to solve a hidden-object task https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.08.692563v1

Closed-loop real-virtual interactions validate 3D model of social coordination in fish https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.07.692829v1

Beliefs about a widely popularised human-wildlife conflict are largely unreflective of local experiences and ecological data in wild red foxes, Vulpes vulpes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.06.692778v1

Minimizing inferential bias in the theory and design of nutritional experiments through the application of the equilateral mixture triangle https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.06.692245v1

Validating the Nordic Thingy:53 as an Accessible Tool for Equine Behavioural Analysis using Edge AI https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.05.692598v1

Mapping Minds to Manage the Tiger of Rivers: A Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping Approach to Understanding Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives on Mahseer Conservation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.07.692881v1

Temporal patterns of dominance in a hummingbird assemblage https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.05.692456v1

Speed-controlled visual stimuli modulate fish collective dynamics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.05.692523v1

Song length competence: evidence for a new fitness indicator in birdsong https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.05.692489v1

Zebrafish facility report on implementation of artificial plants as structural enrichment https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.04.692061v1

Seeing from the inside out: Intrinsic neural dynamics explain individual differences in movie watching https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.03.692223v1

Behavioral Opportunism and Altered Dopamine Dynamics in Mice Exposed to Early Life Adversity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.03.692237v1

Effects of human stress on horse behavior and interaction quality https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.03.692157v1

Behavioral ontogeny in a pelagic tunicate reveals the deep origins of chordate behavioral developmental plasticity. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.03.692109v1

Goats who stare at wolves - identifying natural response stimuli for an affect-driven attention bias test in small ruminants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.03.692016v1

Environmental Enrichment Attenuates Fentanyl-Seeking Behavior and Protects Against Stress-Induced Reinstatement in Both Male and Female Rats https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.02.691896v1

Antlion larvae follow optimality rules in body orientation during sand-tossing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.02.691593v1

Territory proximity influences aggression and modulates the relationship between social dominance and oxidative stress in a highly social African cichlid fish https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.03.692096v1

Modeling missing parents in single-step test-day SNP-BLUP evaluation of dairy cattle https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.02.691779v1

The common kestrel Falco tinnunculus is attracted to the scent of voles https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.02.690931v1

Three-dimensional shape cues affect human and artificial recognition systems differently https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.01.691716v1

Variation in cultural attitude, knowledge and individual motivational factors impact engagement and tool use in a field experiment in wild chimpanzees https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.01.691567v1

Individual bounded rationality destabilizes cooperative dynamics in human-AI groups https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.11.30.691459v1

Social and ecological factors associated with innovation in urban sulphur-crested cockatoos (Cacatua galerita) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.11.30.691464v1

Pessimistic and optimistic cognitive biases in cockroaches https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.01.691180v1

Beta-Blocking Pavlov's Bells: Propranolol Attenuates Compound Extinction in an Error-Dependent Manner https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.11.29.691323v1

Damselflies Overcome Color Saturation Barriers of Photonic Glasses via Structural Dispersion and Pigment Loading https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.11.29.691096v1