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1. Alternative strategies in avian scavengers: how subordinate species foil the despotic distribution

Author:
Kendall, Corinne J.
Source:
Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 2013 v.67 no.3 pp. 383-393
ISSN:
0340-5443
Subject:
eagles; habitats; human settlements; social dominance; Kenya
Abstract:
... Trade-offs in species’ traits can mediate competition and enable coexistence. A key challenge in ecology is understanding the role of species’ trade-offs in maintaining diversity, and evolutionary trade-offs between the abilities of competing species are best understood by considering how competitive advantages change along an environmental gradient. Previous studies of such trade-offs are general ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00265-012-1458-5

2. Are white-crowned sparrow badges reliable signals?

Author:
Laubach, Zachary M.; Blumstein, Daniel T.; Romero, L. Michael; Sampson, Greg; Foufopoulos, Johannes
Source:
Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 2013 v.67 no.3 pp. 481-492
ISSN:
0340-5443
Subject:
birds; blood; body size; breeding season; corticosterone; experimental design; males; plumage
Abstract:
... Status badges, such as crown plumage, mediate intraspecific interactions. The reliability of crown morphology as a status badge in male mountain white-crowned sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys oriantha) is uncertain. We examined morphological and physiological correlates of the proportion of crown that was white (“crown-white”) in 178 male mountain white-crowned sparrows during the 2008–2009 breedi ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00265-012-1468-3

3. Bright turquoise as an intraspecific signal in the chameleon grasshopper (Kosciuscola tristis)

Author:
Umbers, Kate D. L.; Tatarnic, Nikolai J.; Holwell, Gregory I.; Herberstein, Marie E.
Source:
Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 2013 v.67 no.3 pp. 439-447
ISSN:
0340-5443
Subject:
body temperature; females; grasshoppers; males
Abstract:
... Bright colours often communicate important information between conspecifics. In sexually dichromatic species where males exhibit bright colours, two hypotheses are often invoked to explain the function of the colour. First, if a male’s bright colour contains information about his quality, females may prefer brighter males. Equally, male colour may reliably provide other males with information abou ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00265-012-1464-7

4. Consequences of paternal care on pectoral fin allometry in a desert-dwelling fish

Author:
van Lieshout, Emile; Svensson, P. Andreas; Wong, Bob B. M.
Source:
Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 2013 v.67 no.3 pp. 513-518
ISSN:
0340-5443
Subject:
Gobiidae; allometry; anaerobic conditions; body size; females; fins; fish; head; males; sexual dimorphism; sexual selection
Abstract:
... Positive static allometry is a scaling relationship where the relative size of traits covaries with adult body size. Traditionally, positive allometry is thought to result from either altered physiological requirements at larger body size or from strongly condition-dependent allocation under sexual selection. Yet, there are no theoretical reasons why positive allometry cannot evolve in fitness-rel ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00265-012-1470-9

5. Denning behaviour of the European badger (Meles meles) correlates with bovine tuberculosis infection status

Author:
Weber, Nicola; Bearhop, Stuart; Dall, Sasha R. X.; Delahay, Richard J.; McDonald, Robbie A.; Carter, Stephen P.
Source:
Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 2013 v.67 no.3 pp. 471-479
ISSN:
0340-5443
Subject:
Meles meles; badgers; bovine tuberculosis; cattle; control methods; disease transmission; ecology; models; radio telemetry; wildlife; Ireland; United Kingdom
Abstract:
... Heterogeneities in behaviours of individuals may underpin important processes in evolutionary biology and ecology, including the spread of disease. Modelling approaches can sometimes fail to predict disease spread, which may partly be due to the number of unknown sources of variation in host behaviour. The European badger is a wildlife reservoir for bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in Britain and Ireland ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00265-012-1467-4
PubMed:
32214614
PubMed Central:
PMC7080146

6. Environmental and social determinants of anuran lekking behavior: intraspecific variation in populations at thermal extremes

Author:
Llusia, Diego; Márquez, Rafael; Beltrán, Juan Francisco; Moreira, Catarina; do Amaral, José Pedro
Source:
Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 2013 v.67 no.3 pp. 493-511
ISSN:
0340-5443
Subject:
Hyla; air temperature; climatic factors; relative humidity; social facilitation
Abstract:
... Environmental and social factors are critical to determine the timing and duration of lekking behavior since they provide species with signs to maximize benefits over costs in sexual displays. However, these factors have rarely been studied under different environmental conditions, and thus, it remains unclear whether exogenous factors affecting group displays show a general species-specific patte ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00265-012-1469-2

7. Fitness benefits of coalitionary aggression in male chimpanzees

Author:
Gilby, Ian C.; Brent, Lauren J. N.; Wroblewski, Emily E.; Rudicell, Rebecca S.; Hahn, Beatrice H.; Goodall, Jane; Pusey, Anne E.
Source:
Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 2013 v.67 no.3 pp. 373-381
ISSN:
0340-5443
Subject:
Pan troglodytes; aggression; evolution; males; national parks; progeny; reproductive performance; ungulates; Tanzania
Abstract:
... Coalitionary aggression occurs when at least two individuals jointly direct aggression at one or more conspecific targets. Scientists have long argued that this common form of cooperation has positive fitness consequences. Nevertheless, despite evidence that social bond strength (which is thought to promote coalition formation) is correlated with fitness in primates, cetaceans, and ungulates, few ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00265-012-1457-6
PubMed:
23459197
PubMed Central:
PMC3582680

8. High degree of paternity loss in a species with alternative reproductive tactics

Author:
Cogliati, Karen M.; Neff, Bryan D.; Balshine, Sigal
Source:
Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 2013 v.67 no.3 pp. 399-408
ISSN:
0340-5443
Subject:
body size; breeding season; courtship; energy; fish; males; mating systems; microsatellite repeats; nests; paternity; phenotype; spermatozoa
Abstract:
... In many mating systems, males adopt alternative reproductive tactics (ARTs) to maximize reproductive success. In fishes, guarding males often invest more energy into courtship, defense, and paternal care, whereas cuckolding males forego such costs and steal fertilizations by releasing their sperm in the nest of a guarding male. These two tactics have been documented in the plainfin midshipman fish ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00265-012-1460-y

9. Long-lasting effects of yolk androgens on phenotype in the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca)

Author:
Ruuskanen, Suvi; Lehikoinen, Esa; Nikinmaa, Mikko; Siitari, Heli; Waser, Wolfgang; Laaksonen, Toni
Source:
Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 2013 v.67 no.3 pp. 361-372
ISSN:
0340-5443
Subject:
adulthood; androgens; birds; captive animals; color; early development; eggs; females; humoral immunity; long term effects; males; melanin; molting; phenotype; plumage; progeny
Abstract:
... The hormonal environment during early development, such as maternally derived androgens in bird eggs, shapes the development of the offspring in ways that may have important long-term consequences for phenotype and behavior and, ultimately, fitness. We studied the long-term effects of yolk androgens on several phenotypic and physiological traits in male and female pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypole ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00265-012-1456-7

10. Male control of sperm transfer dynamics in a spermatophore-donating bushcricket

Author:
Reinhold, Klaus; Ramm, Steven A.
Source:
Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 2013 v.67 no.3 pp. 395-398
ISSN:
0340-5443
Subject:
Poecilimon; experimental design; females; insemination; males; reciprocal crosses; spermatophores; spermatozoa
Abstract:
... In many animal species, male and female interests often differ when it comes to decisions over mating and fertilization. However, it is intrinsically difficult to determine the degree to which males and females exert control over the various processes that determine the outcome of reproductive interactions, and thus to predict how such conflicts will be resolved. For example, in species where sper ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00265-012-1459-4

11. Mate availability accelerates male filial cannibalism in a nest brooding fish: effects of number and fecundity of females

Author:
Takeyama, Tomohiro; Namizaki, Naoko; Kohda, Masanori
Source:
Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 2013 v.67 no.3 pp. 421-428
ISSN:
0340-5443
Subject:
Gobiidae; cages; cannibalism; fecundity; fish; gravid females; males; nests; sex ratio; spawning
Abstract:
... Theoretical models predict that increased mate availability accelerates filial cannibalism by the parental male, but we do not yet fully understand how the various aspects of mate availability contribute to this effect. We examined the effects of two elements of mate availability—female fecundity and sex ratio—on filial cannibalism by the lizard goby, Rhinogobius flumineus, which is a paternal nes ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00265-012-1462-9

12. Predator guild does not influence orangutan alarm call rates and combinations

Author:
Lameira, Adriano R.; de Vries, Han; Hardus, Madeleine E.; Hall, Cedric P. A.; Mitra-Setia, Tatang; Spruijt, Berry M.; Kershenbaum, Arik; Sterck, Elisabeth H. M.; van Noordwijk, Maria; van Schaik, Carel; Wich, Serge A.
Source:
Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 2013 v.67 no.3 pp. 519-528
ISSN:
0340-5443
Subject:
Panthera tigris; Pongo pygmaeus; algorithms; evolution; humans; islands; models; monkeys; predation; predators; Borneo
Abstract:
... Monkey alarm calls have shown that in the primate clade, combinatorial rules in acoustic communication are not exclusive to humans. A recent hypothesis suggests that the number of different call combinations in monkeys increases with increased number of predator species. However, the existence of combinatorial rules in great ape alarm calls remains largely unstudied, despite its obvious relevance ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00265-012-1471-8

13. Predicting leadership using nutrient requirements and dominance rank of group members

Author:
Sueur, Cédric; MacIntosh, Andrew J. J.; Jacobs, Armand T.; Watanabe, Kunio; Petit, Odile
Source:
Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 2013 v.67 no.3 pp. 457-470
ISSN:
0340-5443
Subject:
animal husbandry; animals; models; nutrient requirements; prediction
Abstract:
... Group members must decide collectively when and where to go despite their different nutrient requirements. One mechanism underlying consensus decisions is the proposition by one individual to move. The individual frequently initiating movements is often named a “leader”, and this individual may be the most dominant, the oldest or may have the greatest physiological needs. However, high-ranking ind ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00265-012-1466-5

14. Rising costs of care make spiny chromis discerning parents

Author:
Jordan, Lyndon Alexander; Herbert-Read, James Edward; Ward, Ashley J. W.
Source:
Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 2013 v.67 no.3 pp. 449-455
ISSN:
0340-5443
Subject:
marine fish; parents; progeny
Abstract:
... When the costs of parental care do not scale with the number of offspring being cared for, inclusion of non-descendant young into broods can be advantageous, leading to systems of alloparental care. However, if the cost of care scales with the number of offspring, selection may act against misdirected parental care. The spiny chromis, Acanthochromis polyacanthus, is a marine fish with extended bip ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00265-012-1465-6

15. Seasonal changes in the structure of rhesus macaque social networks

Author:
Brent, Lauren J. N.; MacLarnon, Ann; Platt, Michael L.; Semple, Stuart
Source:
Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 2013 v.67 no.3 pp. 349-359
ISSN:
0340-5443
Subject:
Macaca mulatta; animal behavior; animal characteristics; females; parturition; population structure; seasonal variation
Abstract:
... Social structure emerges from the patterning of interactions between individuals and plays a critical role in shaping some of the main characteristics of animal populations. The topological features of social structure, such as the extent to which individuals interact in clusters, can influence many biologically important factors, including the persistence of cooperation, and the rate of spread of ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00265-012-1455-8
PubMed:
23565026
PubMed Central:
PMC3613995

16. Socioecological correlates of inter-individual variation in orangutan diets at Ketambe, Sumatra

Author:
Hardus, Madeleine E.; de Vries, Han; Dellatore, David F.; Lameira, Adriano R.; Menken, Steph B. J.; Wich, Serge A.
Source:
Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 2013 v.67 no.3 pp. 429-437
ISSN:
0340-5443
Subject:
Pongo pygmaeus; diet; felling; females; figs; seasonal variation; trees; Indonesia
Abstract:
... The diet of great apes consists of several hundred plant species. The factors determining diet differences have been examined between populations but not within a population, probably due to the confounding effect of seasonal fluctuations on fruit availability. In Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii), fruit availability appears to be sufficiently high year round to have little influence on diet comp ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00265-012-1463-8

17. Trill performance components vary with age, season, and motivation in the banded wren

Author:
Vehrencamp, S. L.; Yantachka, J.; Hall, M. L.; de Kort, S. R.
Source:
Behavioral ecology and sociobiology 2013 v.67 no.3 pp. 409-419
ISSN:
0340-5443
Subject:
aggression; breeding; breeding season; correlation; motivation; seasonal variation; sexual selection; sounds
Abstract:
... Acoustic displays with difficult-to-execute sounds are often subject to strong sexual selection because performance levels are related to the sender’s condition or genetic quality. Performance may also vary with age, breeding stage, and motivation related to social context. We focused on within-male variation in four components of trill performance in banded wren (Thryophilus pleurostictus) songs: ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00265-012-1461-x
PubMed:
23543812
PubMed Central:
PMC3608479