The bind of the burrow: trade-offs between refuge and foraging shape space use in Kalahari meerkats - Jack Thorley; Chris Duncan; Annika Herdtle; Marta Manser; Dominic Cram; Tim Clutton-Brock (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Background-matching patterns are attractive: support for a processing bias - Yseult Héjja-Brichard; Michel Raymond; Innes C. Cuthill; Tamra C. Mendelson; Julien P. Renoult (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Two decades of song evolution and revolution on a humpback whale migratory corridor - Athena S. Brown; Rochelle Constantine; Nan Hauser; Ellen C. Garland (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

How does domestication shape responses to communicative cues? Evidence from a novel marker task in dogs and dingoes - Ava Cahill; Molly Byrne; Shennai Palermo; Angie M. Johnston (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Ryukyu scops owl exhibits strong vocal responses to copulation calls produced by nonpartner individuals - Naoki Kanasugi; Akira Sawada; Haruka Nakamura; Ryuta Sasaki; Junpei Hosoe; Masaoki Takagi (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Begging for morsels: social context and sex shape begging in free-ranging dogs - Sourabh Biswas; Srijaya Nandi; Tuhin Subhra Pal; Aesha Lahiri; Anamitra Roy; Hindolii Gope; Kalyan Ghosh; Sumedha Touhid; Swarnali Ghosh; Anindita Bhadra (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Senescence of cognitive abilities in eastern mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki - I.M. Vinogradov; R.J. Fox; C. Fichtel; P.M. Kappeler; M.D. Jennions (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Old habits die hard: pigeons maintain route fidelity but reduce flight altitude when exposed to a raptor-like robot - Giulia Cerritelli; Luca Marinoni; Lorenzo Vanni; Claudio Carere; Robert Musters; Irene Vertua; Diego Rubolini; Anna Gagliardo; Dimitri Giunchi (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

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Ethologically informed enrichment improves behavioural and physiological indicators of welfare in a captive lizard - Alicia Bartolomé; Rupert Palme; Sabine Macho-Maschler; Pau Carazo; Enrique Font (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Isochronous rhythms signal male–male competition in an Asian langur - Yinshu Liu; Michael J. Lawes; Zhong Cao; Cyril C. Grueter; Qihai Zhou; Penglai Fan (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Signal transmission and function in the complex displays of Puerto Rican Anolis lizards - Jillian A. Sanderson; Zifang Xiong; Edita Folfas; Alejandro A. Laboy González; Zachary K. Lange; Alexander H. Murray; Efrén A. Ortiz Jiménez; Luke O. Frishkoff; Terry J. Ord; D. Luke Mahler (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Body size and reproductive senescence shape mating patterns in common toads - Daniel Breitenmoser; Kurt Grossenbacher; Silvia Zumbach; Beatrice Lüscher; Sarah Althaus; Marco Thoma; Daniela Schmocker; Helmut Recher; Arpat Ozgul; Benedikt R. Schmidt; Omar Lenzi (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Sex-based differences in social trade-offs in a wild bird society - George H.T. Rabin; Adelaide D. Abraham; Taylor Bi; Keith McMahon; Ben C. Sheldon; Josh A. Firth (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Functional multiple intelligences: the diversity and adaptive value of social insect cognition - James F.A. Traniello; Patrizia d’Ettorre; Aurore Avarguès-Weber (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Social bonds between nonkin are common, but less stable, in a mixed-related society - Zhuli Cheng; André S. Pereira; Susan Anton; Lauren Brent; James Higham; Melween Martinez; Amanda Melin; Michael Montague; Michael Platt; Jerome Sallet; Noah Snyder-Mackler; Josué E. Negron-Del Valle; et al. (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Substance over style: calf characteristics drive maternal care in Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins - Ellen Jacobs; Taylor Evans; Meredith MacQueeney; Vivienne Foroughirad; Janet Mann (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Sex-specific carryover effects of long-distance migration strategies in a sub-Arctic nesting shorebird - Leah Lynn Wright; Erica Nol; Laura McKinnon (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Development and social dynamics of stone tool use in wild white-faced capuchin monkeys - Zoë Goldsborough; Meredith K.W. Carlson; Leonie S. Reetz; Evelyn Del Rosario-Vargas; Margaret C. Crofoot; Brendan J. Barrett (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Testing mechanisms underlying vocal overlap during vocal exchange of signature whistles in common bottlenose dolphins - Tomoyoshi Terada; Alban Lemasson; Yuka Mishima; Tadamichi Morisaka; Hotaru Yuge; Hiroki Koda (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Too warm to play: temperature selectively constrains social behaviour in the Alpine marmot, Marmota marmota - Diego Rastelli; Maria Paniw; Achaz von Hardenberg; Caterina Ferrari (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Social selection redefined: distinguishing features of social selection and the potential for runaway social evolution - Riva J. Riley; Munir Siddiqui; Ethan Lac; Kimberly P. Little (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Evolutionary history and seasonal dynamics shape interspecific interactions between two sympatric desert fox species - Eli Geffen; Reuven Hefner; Michal Ucko; Noam Leader; Adi Barocas (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Beyond bias: building a more inclusive and rigorous research culture in animal behaviour - Claudia A.F. Wascher; Nicola Koyama; Vivek Nityananda (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Improving methods for identifying pair bonds in animal social networks - Roger Fusté; Diego Gil; Sonia Wandosell; Lorenzo Pérez-Rodríguez; Damien R. Farine (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Head–beam coordination in FM and CF-FM bats reveals distinct echolocation strategies during obstacle avoidance flight - Yota Aoki; Mayu Koga; Yu Teshima; Soshi Yoshida; Shizuko Hiryu (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Birds on fire: severe disturbance by fireworks in wintering gulls, waterbirds and passerines - Valentin Moser (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Sniffing out risk: effects of domestic dog scent on grey fox behaviour at the wildland–urban interface - Madeleine E. Zuercher; Debra M. Shier; Gregory F. Grether (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Pigs rely on spatial rather than numerical cues in an ordinal foraging task - Kimberly Brosche; Ariane Veit; Marianne Wondrak; Rosa Rugani (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Scientific publishing and diversity in science: geographical bias of articles published in Animal Behaviour - Edward W. Legg; Ljerka Ostojić (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Light and noise at night reduce sleep and alter vocal output in common mynas - Juliane Gaviraghi Mussoi; Rebecca A. MacQueen; Margaret C. Stanley; Kristal E. Cain (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Correction to “Social buffering in domestic hens, Gallus gallus domesticus: breed differences in reliance on conspecifics and humans” [Animal Behaviour 237 (2026) Article 123634] (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Effects of simulated high-magnitude floods on first-feeding salmonids at high density in a seminatural environment - Elorri Arevalo; Valérie Bolliet; Aitor Larrañaga; Stéphane Glise; François Gueraud; Emmanuel Huchet; Frédéric Lange; Pascale Coste; Jacques Rives; Agnès Bardonnet (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

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From calls to communities: acoustic monitoring of contact calls indicates spatial structure in endangered belugas - Jaclyn A. Aubin; Daniel J. Mennill; Marie-Ana Mikus; Robert Michaud; Valeria Vergara (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Singing softly at the edge: vocal amplitude and performance limits in star finch courtship - Hana Goto; Masayo Soma (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Book Review - Dustin R. Rubenstein (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Better safe than sorry: antipredatory response of female ibex under multiple reproductive and environmental constraints - Paola Semenzato; Nicolas Morellet; Maurizio Ramanzin; Federico Ossi; Enrico Sturaro; Francesca Cagnacci (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Drivers of range shifts in female wild eastern chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii, following female death events - Abigail R. McClain; Steffen Foerster; Joseph T. Feldblum; Kara K. Walker; Deus Mjungu; Anne E. Pusey; Carson M. Murray (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Feather nest decoration decreases conspecific brood parasitism rate in spotless starlings, Sturnus unicolor - Alaïs Liénard; Alexia Ladouce; Raquel Monclús (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

How can multilayer networks expand our understanding of sexual selection and mate choice? - Noa Pinter-Wollman; Gil Rosenthal (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Using the STRANGE framework to improve replicability in animal behaviour research and allied fields - Mike M. Webster; Catherine Hobaiter; Ellis J.G. Langley; Graeme Ruxton; Bernhard Voelkl; Hanno Würbel; Christian Rutz (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

The ecosystem within: A meta-analysis on the role of the microbiome on the behaviour of animals - Cristiano Schetini de Azevedo; Ivana Gabriela Schork; Luiza Figueiredo Passos; Ian Goodhead; Robert John Young (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Wild Tibetan macaques employ a social sleep strategy to balance sleep needs and ecological pressures - Pei-pei Yang; Pritish Chakravarty; Wen-bo Li; Zi-tan Song; Xi Wang; Margaret C. Crofoot; Jin-hua Li (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Breeding experience and pair bond duration both increase reproductive success in an avian cooperative breeder - Guy Beauchamp; Tori D. Bakley; John W. Fitzpatrick; Sahas Barve (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Facial width-to-height ratio predicts aggression and contest outcomes in wild golden snub-nosed monkeys - Pei Zhang; Yan-Ni La; Fei Niu; Jin-Bang Zhang; Paul A. Garber; Derek W. Dunn; Ru-Liang Pan; Kang Huang; Bao-Guo Li (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Time in the city: long-term urban exposure predicts greater exploration and problem solving in wild red foxes - F. Blake Morton; Dylan Thompson-Jones; Kristy A. Adaway; Koko M. Sutter; Catia Matos; Georgia B. Freer; Georgia A.A. Fletcher; Carl D. Soulsbury (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Habituation, den defence and predatory opportunism appear to have contributed to coyote aggression in an urban park - Nathan C. Lewis; Colleen Cassady St. Clair; William L. Harrower; Sarah Benson-Amram (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

The resident effect dominates over previous winner/loser experience in surface fish of the Mexican tetra - Julian Navarro-Pagan; Paola Figueroa-Colon; Alexander Figueroa-Negron; Luis Perez-Fabregat; Antonio Morales-Cintrón; Jean Mendoza-Anduce; Alondra Ortiz-Franco; Robert A. Kozol; Roberto Rodriguez-Morales (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

The animal behaviour collective: building confidence and breaking barriers through community - Delphine De Moor; Stotra Chakrabarti; Diana da Silva; Catherine Hobaiter; Nicola Khan; Emma Suvi McEwen; Hella Péter; Zakhiya Pulukkol Cheriyandintakath; Sharmi Sen; Ashwin Suryanarayanan; Chelsea J. Thompson; Jessica E.M. van der Wal; et al. (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Location over voice: cues used by cat mothers to return to their kittens - Péter Szenczi; Tamás Faragó; Andrea Urrutia; Robyn Hudson; Oxána Bánszegi (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Shadow effects of competing stimuli on rescue and foraging behaviour in desert ants - Adi Bar; Neri Blas; Or Shoshani; Ofir Faust; Susanne Foitzik; Inon Scharf (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Mammals among buildings: red squirrel personality variation along an urbanization gradient - Claudia Tranquillo; Maria Vittoria Mazzamuto; Francesca Santicchia; Francesco Bisi; Damiano Preatoni; Adriano Martinoli; Martina Spada; Rosa Maria Di Biase; Sara Franceschi; Marzia Marcheselli; Caterina Pisani; Sandro Bertolino; et al. (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Linking body condition and vocal signals: how little auk, Alle alle, chicks communicate their needs to parents - Dorota Kidawa; Mateusz Barcikowski; Dariusz Jakubas; Katarzyna Ściborska; Paulina Koriat; Katarzyna Wojczulanis-Jakubas (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Monopolization and cooperation: number of locations affects cooperation and partner preference in long-tailed macaques - Jeroen S. Zewald; Nina van Oordt; Lisette M. van den Berg; Elisabeth H.M. Sterck (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Communication networks of wild zebra finches, Taeniopygia castanotis - K. Hagedoorn; N. Tschirren; E. ter Avest; C. Tyson; L. Snijders; S.C. Griffith; M. Naguib; H. Loning (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Can caffeine improve the survival of the ant Formica fusca under pathogenic infection by the fungus Beauveria bassiana? - Danae Nyckees; Christoph Hahn; Heikki Helanterä; Dalial Freitak (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Strong negative reinforcement interferes with visual learning in a solitary pollinator - Anupama Nayak Manel; James Jonathan Foster; Anna Stöckl (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Personality variation is linked to environmental differences between edge and core habitats in a flightless insect - Michael Grant; Claudia Drees; Gerardo Fracasso; Wiebke Schuett (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

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Skilful attacking trades off with defensive ability in hermit crabs - Joshua Le Pla; Sarah M. Lane; Mark Briffa (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

The ecology and evolution of cues and signals in animal interspecies cooperation - K. Dunkley; M. Cantor; A.I. Afan; D.S. Ahlibi; S.J. Allen; J. Amphaeris; S. Atkins; M.C. Attwood; K. Bankhead; C.J. Blair; J.L. Bronstein; Y.R.R. Camargo; et al. (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Social buffering in domestic hens, Gallus gallus domesticus: breed differences in reliance on conspecifics and humans - Lucille Dumontier; Constance Demion; Auriane Foreau; Maxime Quentin; Maryse Guinebretière; Vanessa Guesdon; Michèle Tixier-Boichard; Léa Lansade; Ludovic Calandreau; Vitor Hugo Bessa Ferreira (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

A conservation behaviour approach to the mitigation hierarchy for anthropogenic stressors - Kathleen D.W. Church; Brett M. Seymoure; Shannon Crossen; Kasey D. Fowler-Finn; Matthew K. LeFauve; Jennifer N. Phillips; Bruce A. Schulte (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Faces reveal accurate information about overhand throwing ability in men - Andrew C. Gallup; Sonja Windhager; Omar Tonsi Eldakar (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Animal personality is a class of variation not a set of traits - Denis Réale; Sasha R.X. Dall; Niels J. Dingemanse (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

A novel framework for identifying sequential and temporal structure of mutual displays: an application to crane dances - Kohei F. Takeda; Hisashi Ohtsuki; Mariko Hiraiwa-Hasegawa; Nobuyuki Kutsukake (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Size discrimination in the Mexican axolotl: evidence for quantitative abilities in an understudied amphibian - Oxána Bánszegi; Marcos Rosetti; Santiago Trujillo Carreño; Natalia Serrano Torres; Jessica Cristina Marín-Llera; Jesús Chimal-Monroy; Péter Szenczi (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Mutual visual displays and female signals underpin mating success in Rhagoletis pomonella flies - Sophia C. Anner; Rowan G. Ward; Brianna Neubacher; Alycia C.R. Lackey (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Experimental study of social signalling through delayed plumage maturation in a colony-nesting seabird - Molly M. Hill; Sarah L. Dobney; Liliane K. Fanburg; Daniel J. Mennill; Liam U. Taylor (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

The three-morph problem: Male trimorphism and alternative reproductive tactics in a Neotropical arachnid - Wellen Cristina Alves Bezerra; Glauco Machado (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Observation methods in animal behaviour: a simulation study of performance - Alexander Mielke; Camille Testard; Alba Motes-Rodrigo; Lauren J.N. Brent; Delphine De Moor (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Maternal care and early rearing environment influence puppy behaviour and cognition - Emily E. Bray; Laura E.L.C. Douglas; Kerinne M. Levy; Gitanjali E. Gnanadesikan; Daniel J. Horschler; Brenda S. Kennedy; Evan L. MacLean (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Permanent and temporary mate switching in a long-lived seabird: insights from a 64-year study - Ingrid L. Pollet; Liam U. Taylor; Robert A. Mauck; Charles E. Huntington; Patricia L. Jones (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Adaptive value of habitat-dependent male provisioning behaviour under predation risk in a sexually dichromatic species - Facundo Fernandez-Duque; Abby Stiefvater; Saieshwar Chikoti; Erika Y. Huerta; Jules Chabain; Thomas J. Benson; Mark E. Hauber (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Book Review - Elizabeth S. Paul (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Effect of sibling competition on a carotenoid-based begging signal in a songbird - Pablo Melero-Romero; Enrique González-Bernardo; Jorge Garrido-Bautista; Lorenzo Pérez-Rodríguez; Gregorio Moreno-Rueda (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Multimodal yawns signal emotional arousal in geladas - Luca Pedruzzi; Martina Francesconi; Alice Galotti; Alberto Quartesan; Paolo Oliveri; Sheleme A. Gamessa; Bezawork A. Bogale; Valentina Serra; Giulio Petroni; Elisabetta Palagi; Alban Lemasson (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Does the weekend matter? Hunting affects the relationship between periodic changes in deer and human activity - Mingzhang Liu; Cheng Chen (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Behavioural and molecular evidence of GABAergic modulation of nocifensive behaviours in Bombus terrestris - Elisa Pasquini; David Baracchi; Andrea Messina; Elisa Frasnelli (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Trait-specific responses to repeated stressor exposure reveal context-dependent learning in wild crickets - Emily Gilford; Ruonan Li; Rolando Rodríguez-Muñoz; Tom Tregenza; Bram Kuijper (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

The role of intentional communication in monkeys: evidence from gestural signalling in common marmosets in the wild - Vinícius da Cunha Melo; Filipa Abreu; Simone Pika; Antonio Souto; Nicola Schiel (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Elevated ambient temperature reduces parental contact and alters caregiving posture in biparental prairie voles - Rikki S. Laser; Alexander G. Ophir (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Personality, age and sex differences in wild and zoo-housed Japanese macaques, Macaca fuscata - Joléne van der Mescht; Miho Inoue-Murayama; Takafumi Suzumura; Lydia M. Hopper; Bonaventura Majolo; Andrew J.J. MacIntosh; Drew M. Altschul; Alexander Weiss (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Diet as a potential mechanism of habitat selection: Evidence from sympatric Peromyscus species - Madeline K. Strom; Karen E. Mabry (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Pair bond status is influenced by male incubation effort in a translocated population of North Island brown kiwi - Eliana Ramos; Gillian Gibb; Isabel Castro (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

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Compensation of labour by noncompetitive individuals mitigates costs of aggressive succession contest in a social wasp - Owen R. Corbett; Stephanie Dreier; Thibault Lengronne; Solenn Patalano; Max Reuter; Seirian Sumner (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

You can't bask with us: Does urbanization affect response to invasive and native competitors in lizards? - Emily R. Urquidi; Breanna J. Putman (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Challenging horses' hierarchy of needs: less food from a friendly human is preferred - Rebecca Turco; Rachele Malavasi; Maria Elena Miletto Petrazzini (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Plasticity rather than genetic effects explains nest site selection in urban European blackbirds - Piotr Minias; Marta Cholewa; Dariusz Wysocki (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Biological and methodological pitfalls of meta-analyses in ecology and evolution: lessons from eyespot function studies - Ayumi Mizuno; Pietro Pollo; Malgorzata Lagisz; Masayo Soma; Shinichi Nakagawa (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

The interplay between multilayer social embeddedness and dynamic dominance rank in rhesus macaques, Macaca mulatta - Rosemary A. Blersch; Alexander J. Pritchard; Jessica J. Vandeleest; Brianne A. Beisner; Brenda McCowan (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

On the role of ecology in mating systems: freeing the study of sexual behaviour from bias - Eleanor H.Z. Gourevitch; Thomas Green; David M. Shuker (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Rolling into a ball (volvation) provides an antipredatory benefit - Mason W. Lough; Zachary Emberts (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Vocal development and patterns of vocal variation inform conservation of a critically endangered macaw - Alexander G. Allison; Mario Jimenez; Timothy F. Wright (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

A spatial approach to duet function in Adelaide's warbler, Setophaga adelaidae - Samantha W. Krause; Tyler R. Bonnell; Marcus J. Dostie; Samantha I. Booth; Peter C. Mower; David M. Logue (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Consistent individual differences in threat response in tessellated darters, Etheostoma olmstedi - Georgie D. Puffer; Aicha Louriqate; Tamra C. Mendelson (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Solitary dolphins in Spain and recommendations for their management - Laetitia Nunny; Mónica González; Alfredo López; Pablo Covelo; Jose Antonio Martínez-Cedeira; Xabier Pin; Uxía Vázquez; María Macías González; Paula San Martín Lorén; Mark P. Simmonds (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Timing and behavioural situation of social interactions affect the relationship between sociality and fitness - Emily C. Laub; Elizabeth A. Tibbetts; Noa Pinter-Wollman (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Linking individual behaviour to dispersal distance of translocated beavers - Christine Sandbach; Julie K. Young; Phaedra Budy (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Behavioural state determines male responses to conspecific male calls in a tree cricket - Debarpita Das; Mohammed Aamir Sadiq; Natarajan Mathimaran; Rohini Balakrishnan (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Human-influenced environmental changes can impact foraging and social behaviour of wild bottlenose dolphins - Kyra Bankhead; Katherine McHugh; Randall S. Wells; Mauricio Cantor (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Social structure in northern bottlenose whales: stable relationships without stable groups - Sam F. Walmsley; Laura J. Feyrer; Hal Whitehead (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Seasonal changes in host ant aggressiveness towards social parasites of different types - Fanni Pécsy; Gábor Lőrinczi; Kata Anna Bán; Ádám Lőrincz; Bonita Ratkai; Wojciech Czechowski; István Elek Maák (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Higher-order interactions facilitate food dissemination in ant colonies - Emily Surrell; Julie S. Miller; Nina H. Fefferman; Noa Pinter-Wollman (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

The interplay between resources, body size and neighbours in competition over nesting opportunities in sand gobies - Topi K. Lehtonen; Natarsha L. Babic; Bob B.M. Wong (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Ungeneralizable generalizations? A meta-meta-analysis of the influence of taxonomic bias on the study of behaviour - Ned A. Dochtermann; M.A. Sekhar; S. Nakagawa (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Can lizards count? Testing numerosity in an Australian skink using spontaneous quantity discrimination - K.N. Rachel Wong; Simon Jeni; Benjamin J. Ashton; Culum Brown; Martin J. Whiting (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

The scientific impact of gender in behaviour, ecology and evolution: authorship and citation performance - Marina Papadopoulou; Andrea Afruni (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Networking under pressure: Environment and population density shape fish grouping structures - Benedikt Merk; Martin H. Larsen; Henrik Baktoft; Nicolas A. Schnedler-Meyer; Jakob Brodersen; Martin Søndergaard; Christian Skov (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Plasticity in social foraging is a matter of age in great tits - Thomas Crouchet; Maxime Cauchoix; Philipp Heeb; Alexis S. Chaine (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Exposure to artificial light at night in the wild leads to behavioural shifts in a freshwater fish (Gambusia holbrooki) - Matthew R. Jenkins; R. Brian Langerhans (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

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Chronic exposure to elevated nitrate concentrations alters behaviour in the swordtail fish, Xiphophorus hellerii - Meredith Fitschen-Brown; Shasta Kamara; Madison Parker; Kelsey Daniels; Anthony L. Gilbert; Molly R. Morris (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Hard to handle: infected house finches do not prefer easier-to-consume food - Francis E. Tillman; James S. Adelman (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Genetic influence on the dynamics of social group formation - Reuven Dukas (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

The effects of social and foraging experiences across cognitive domains in Polistes fuscatus - Juanita Pardo-Sanchez; An Na Vi; Fiona Corcoran; William Kimber; Joseph A. Caldwell; Elizabeth A. Tibbetts (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

The role of personality in movement and reproductive differentiation in the termite Reticulitermes labralis - Yihang Xie; Chao Wang; Rui-Wu Wang; Zhuang-Dong Bai (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Multimodal coordination of group departures in western gorillas - Lara Nellissen; Terence Fuh; Shelly Masi; Klaus Zuberbühler (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Cuckoos overcome cavity-nesting host defences with alternative egg deposition modes - Michal Kysučan; Jere Tolvanen; Peter Samaš; Ryan Miller; Jarkko Rutila; Robert L. Thomson; Tomáš Grim (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Natal versus breeding dispersal: behavioural tactics in first-time breeder roe deer females during mating - Agathe Culioli; Jean-François Lemaitre; Nicolas Morellet; Jean-Michel Gaillard; Maryline Pellerin; Arnaud Bonnet; Yannick Chaval; A.J. Mark Hewison (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Sexual coercion dominates mating behaviour in the South American livebearing fish genus Pseudopoecilia (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae) - Callen Inman; Maxximus Ramsaroop; Jyotishko Koley; Leonardo Ávila; Dillan Burbano; Micaela Pozo; Jingping Graber; Justin Yeager (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Effects of bias when using ‘black box’ models: re-evaluating the evidence for the use of name-like calls by elephants - Guha Dharmarajan (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Yellowhammer males sing using individual isochronous rhythms and maximize rhythmic dissimilarity with neighbours - Anna N. Osiecka; Marcos Q. Oliva; Jan Kouřil; Tereza Petrusková; Lara S. Burchardt (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Beyond the Serengeti lion: addressing ecological and systemic biases in behavioural research through horizontal comparison - Stotra Chakrabarti; Genevieve E. Finerty; Natalia Borrego; Venkata Naga Sai Niharika Marella; Joseph K. Bump; Margaret C. Crofoot (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Do survival predictors change over time? Investigating temporal dynamics in founder screening for reintroduction - Shoshana Rapley; Maldwyn J. Evans; Heather M. McGinness; Iain J. Gordon; Robert Heinsohn; Adrian D. Manning (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Multilayer contagions in animal groups - Matthew J. Silk; Nina H. Fefferman (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Born to aggressive mothers: are certain chicks more susceptible to early-life exposure to aggression? - Clara Garcia-Co; Ian van Riel; Frederick Verbruggen; Judith Morales; Wendt Müller (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Individual effort, social strategies and cognitive skills influence nest-prospecting decisions in brown-headed cowbirds - Hayden B. Davies; Ammon Perkes; Gregory M. Kohn; David J. White (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Comparing behavioural flexibility in the solitary red mason bee and eusocial honey bee - Hugo Vey-Payre; Emma Hardel; Jean-Marc Devaud; Raphaël Jeanson (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Alternative reproductive tactics affect spatial cognition and innovative problem solving in male house mice - Anustup Bandyopadhyay; Fragkiskos Darmis; Anja Guenther; Alexandros Vezyrakis (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Response to individual variation in protest calls by Brazilian free-tailed bats, Tadarida brasiliensis - Brian T. Springall; Michael Smotherman; Erin Gillam (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Infection stress and mate assessment in wolf spiders: female mate choice varies with sensory mode of male courtship - Olivia Bauer-Nilsen; George Uetz (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Behavioural effects of a supergene controlling social organization in Alpine silver ants - Marina Choppin; Céline Stoffel; Michel Chapuisat (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Corrigendum to “Tempted yet cautious: how described odds lower risk aversion in capuchins” [Anim Behav 231 (2026) 123422] - Anthony Roig; Arianna Ferretti; Serena Gastaldi; Helene Meunier; Elsa Addessi (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Pole position: social influences on discounting behaviour in wild grey squirrels - Y.L. Burnham; A.D. Higginson; T.W. Fawcett; S.A. Rands; L.A. Leaver (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Subordinate largemouth bass increase aggression towards high-intake dominants showing reduced locomotion - Yanci Wen; Ruiji Mahe; Ze Zhu; Daxiong Ji; Bin Ma; Zhangying Ye; Songming Zhu; Ying Liu; Jian Zhao (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Reactive phenotype–social environment correlation, favouring winners over losers, and the magnification of inequality - Noah M.T. Smith; Reuven Dukas (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

‘Small’ sample size scenarios in animal behaviour: alternatives to the use of null hypothesis significance testing - Alba Garcia de la Chica; Eduardo Fernández-Duque; Esteban Fernández-Juricic (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

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Dominant capuchin monkeys donate to socially close and similarly ranked group members in a group service paradigm - Matthew H. Babb; Sarah F. Brosnan (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Multi-interaction: a new open-access approach for studying multimodal communication and interactions across species - L. Habib-Dassetto; P. Best; J. Cauzinille; A. Marques; M. Adet; C. Portes; A. Lemasson; M. Montant (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Here am I, where are you? Contact calls carry identity signatures in greylag geese - Jonas Lesigang; Lauren K. Common; Pia Fröschl; Anna Sophie Liebisch; Andrew C. Katsis; Sonia Kleindorfer (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Nesting in bushes and burrows: potential climate responses in the gopher tortoise - Meghan Craft; George L. Heinrich; Jeff Goessling; Matt Dallas; Deby Cassill; J. Sean Doody (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Solo songs, duets and territory defence across seasons in female Galápagos yellow warblers, Setophaga petechia aureola - Alper Yelimlieş; Katherine Albán Morales; Çağlar Akçay; Sonia Kleindorfer (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Song type sharing, song type matching and collective themes in a dawn chorus communication network - David M. Logue; Juleyska Vazquez-Cardona; Samantha Huang; Heath R. Petkau; Karla Vilches Castaño; Kenneth X. Rodríguez-Rivera; Pablo Sosa-Negrón; Juhi D. Patel; Lamisa; Oluwatosin Ogundimu; Jade Nelson; Rylie Mooney; et al. (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Rolling in the deep: drivers of social preferences and social interactions within a bull shark aggregation in Fiji - Natasha D. Marosi; Samuel Ellis; David M.P. Jacoby; Juerg M. Brunnschweiler; Darren P. Croft (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Behavioural flexibility facilitates similar energetic outcomes across habitats in a dietary specialist - Nina Beeby; Rakotonjatovo Justin; Sabo Roger; Lahitsara Jean Pierre; Randriamanantena Francois; Tombotiana Aime Victor; Lantoniaina Eddy Francois; Razafindraibe Faustin Jean Guy; Mamiarilala Jocelyn Antonio; Charline Rasoanarimalala; Mihary F. Rasoavolandrainy; Amanda N. Mancini; et al. (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Associative learning in bumble bees is disrupted by high trace metal concentrations - Antoine Gekière; Lauralyne Paulet; Maïlys Paulet; Dimitri Evrard; Maxence Gérard (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Repeatable differences in male care and sexual conflict resolution during biparental care in a subsocial insect - Maximilian Körner; Lena Zywucki; Marlena Reinbold; Sandra Steiger (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Hunger affects cleaning, signalling and signal reliability in the cleaner shrimp Ancylomenes pedersoni - Miya L. Ball; Benjamin M. Titus; Dan A. Exton; Eleanor M. Caves (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

The influence of the relationship between male suckers and female hindlegs on mating in the diving beetle Eretes griseus - Kentarou Matsumura; Seita Takeuchi; Yuto Yamamoto (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Vocal and display differences in an island form of a lekking species with an acrobatic dance routine - Ioana Chiver; Maykol E. Miller; Alicia Ibáñez (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Social tolerance mediates social learning in wild red-fronted lemurs, Eulemur rufifrons, and ring-tailed lemurs, Lemur catta - Sandro Sehner; Fanomezana Ratsoavina; Claudia Fichtel (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Orang-utans and chimpanzees cooperate strategically based on the partner’s incentives - Christoph J. Völter; Elisa Felsche; Josep Call; Federico Rossano (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Rethinking self-awareness: insights and biases from self-recognition research - Afrika Priestley; Claudia A.F. Wascher (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Raccoons optimally forage for information: exploration–exploitation trade-offs in innovation - Hannah J. Griebling; Shylo R. Johnson; Sarah Benson-Amram (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Managing personalities: effects of forestry on North American red squirrel personality distributions and activity - Brigit R. Humphreys; Allison M. Brehm; Alessio Mortelliti (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Take it or leaf it: bees learn leaf shape as a cue when flower colour is easily learned - Anthony Moth T. Castagna; Jenny K. Burrow; Ciara G. Stewart; Avery L. Russell (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Songbird brood sex ratio varies in response to male attractiveness and rearing conditions - Simone Santoro; María Losada; David Canal; Carlos Camacho; Jesús Martínez-Padilla; Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar; Jaime Potti (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Simulating waggle dance electric fields: a tool for studying honey bee communication - Matthew Aniagu; Desmond Lagace; Declan McKelvy; Byron N. Van Nest (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Prey depletion and the effect of group size on cooperative hunting in African wild dogs - Scott Creel; Ben Goodheart; Johnathan Reyes de Merkle; James Redcliffe; Henry Mwape; Stephani Matsushima; Chase Dart; Kachama Banda; Bridget Mayani; Anna Kusler; Johane Njobvu; Reuben Kabungo; et al. (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

The combined effects of elevated within-group aggression and intergroup threat on dwarf mongoose behaviour - Josh J. Arbon; Amy Morris-Drake; Julie M. Kern; Andrew N. Radford (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Locomotory behaviour of a wild ground beetle is consistent within individuals and dependent on temperature and humidity - Stanley A. Edwards; Elisabeth Yarwood; Alexa Bonhagen; Jeremy E. Niven; Claudia Drees; Wiebke Schuett (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Vocal interactions between singing humpback whales, Megaptera novaeangliae - Julia Hyland Bruno; Eduardo Mercado; Niko Tietjen; Isabel Levin; Mary Ryan (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

African elephant, Loxodonta africana, behaviours across levels of tourism in Zambezi National Park, Zimbabwe - Brigit Rooney; Bruce A. Schulte (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Escape tendency and mobility behaviour of four alpine rodents do not change with altitude - Ilaria Melcore; Valentina La Morgia; Noemi Gargano; Zbyszek Boratyński; Jacopo Cerri; Sandro Bertolino (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Book Review - Wayne Marcus Getz (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Dopamine is a key regulator of the sexual receptivity switch in female Nasonia vitripennis - Jian-Qiu Cheng; Yi-Zhen Xu; Zi Wang; Peng-Cheng Liu; Ting Tang; Gen Zhang; Guan-Hong Wang; Hao-Yuan Hu (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Factors determining the timing of host response towards parasitic eggs: a meta-analytical approach - José Ignacio Huertas-Gómez; Marcel Honza; Francisco Ruiz-Raya; Manuel Soler; Peter Samaš (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Larger eggs are more attractive? Parental preference trapped in the brood parasitism strategy - Jinmei Liu; Fangfang Zhang; Yuran Liu; Yidong Wei; Wei Liang (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

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Effects of habitat structure and individual variation in a simulated acoustic communication network - Michael S. Reichert (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Direction and expressivity of faces impact third-party social attention in rhesus macaques - Olivia O’Callaghan; J. Whitehouse; K. Rees; B.M. Waller (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Group composition influences diffusion dynamics via impacts on behavioural production - Matthew J. Hasenjager; Mark M. Bailey; Nina H. Fefferman (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Microbial endolithic symbionts shape the behaviour of intertidal mussels: a multispecies perspective - Sarah Bollina; Gerardo I. Zardi; Virginie Cuvillier; Laurent Seuront; Katy R. Nicastro (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Tactile behaviour in a marine producer–scrounger feeding aggregation - Myriam Knöpfle; Alex Jordan (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Hushed disputes between noisy neighbours: ovenbirds vary song amplitude during conflicts with territorial rivals - Connor S. Acorn; Jennifer R. Foote; Daniel J. Mennill (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Stress is not one-size-fits-all: stressor-specific effects on learning and memory in a molluscan model - Veronica Rivi; Anuradha Batabyal; Jasper Hollings; Jillian Kitt; Fabio Tascedda; Johanna Maria Catharina Blom; Cristina Benatti; Ken Lukowiak (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Long-term stability of dominance hierarchies in a wild parrot with fission–fusion dynamics - Julia Penndorf; Damien Farine; John Martin; Lucy Aplin (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Erratum to “A call for CARE in animal behaviour: an holistic ethical research framework” [Animal Behaviour 231 (2026) 123428] - Gal Badihi; Jennifer Taylor-O’Connor; Gabriela Bezerra de Melo Daly; Viola Komeda; Sophia Daoudi-Simison; Evelina D. Rodrigues; Michael M. Webster; Drew M. Altschul; Catherine Hobaiter; Charlotte Wiltshire; Harmonie Klein; Elodie Freymann; et al. (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Creatures of habit: similar but more repeatable behaviours in insular compared with mainland lizards - Ioanna Gavriilidi; Simon Baeckens; Panayiotis Pafilis; Raoul Van Damme (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Responses of elephants to tourism reflect sex, age and reproductive state: implications for conservation and wellbeing - Chase A. LaDue; K.H. Darshika L. Jayarathna; A.G.S. Malsha Warnapura; Rebecca J. Snyder; Rajnish P.G. Vandercone (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Dogs’ behaviour is more similar to that of children than to that of cats in a prosocial problem situation - Melitta Csepregi; Anna Ágnes Moravcsik; Ádám Miklósi; Márta Gácsi (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Male great bowerbirds upregulate multiple sexual signals following bower wall removal - Caitlin F. Evans; Laura A. Kelley (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Sperm storage ability is associated with oviposition but not mating behaviour differences in macrobiotid tardigrades - Justine Chartrain; K. Emily Knott; Łukasz Michalczyk; Sara Calhim (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Bamboozling interactions: interspecific associations within mixed-species bird flocks in bamboo in the Eastern Himalaya - Sidharth Srinivasan; Aman Biswakarma; D.K. Pradhan; Shambu Rai; Umesh Srinivasan (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Unlearned responses of chicks, Gallus gallus domesticus, towards aposematic insect-like stimuli - Christopher H. Taylor; David J.G. Watson; Francis Gilbert; David J. Pritchard; John Skelhorn; Tom Reader (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Signal compression associated with Menzerath’s law affects the reproductive success of male frogs - Ke Deng; Yan-Mei Liu; Tong-Liang Wang; Ji-Chao Wang; Jian-Guo Cui (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Body size drives male reproductive success through nest competition and paternal care in the toad Leptobrachium boringii - Raziya Abliz; Wei Zhang; Shuang Liu; Rufeng Xiong; Chunhua Huang; Jun Li; Mian Zhao; Zhirong Gu; Man Su; Wei Liu; Hua Wu (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Dear enemy phenomenon in fiddler crabs: escalation of fights with unfamiliar individuals rather than familiar neighbours - Fumio Takeshita; Chiaki I. Yasuda (Animal Behaviour, 2026)

Background colour and surface topography elicit different responses to moving and immobile prey from a salticid predator - Kelly J. Greig; Thomas R. Buckley; Richard A.B. Leschen; Gregory I. Holwell (Animal Behaviour, 2026)