Screenshot of article: Animal Behaviour Volume 230, December 2025, 123353 Temperature-driven plasticity in boldness, its predictability and learning in the beadlet anemone, Actinia equina Samantha Simpson, Dunia Gonzales, Mark Briff

🌸Anemones! 📈Plasticity! 😨Startle responses! 🌡️Temperature fluctuations!

Our December #ASABEditorsChoice for #AnimalBehaviourJournal: "Temperature-driven plasticity in boldness, its predictability and learning in the beadlet anemone, Actinia equina"

Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123353

Screenshot of article: Animal Behaviour Volume 229, November 2025, 123352 Effects of natural temperature variation on male perception of female scents in Drosophila melanogaster Roberto García-Roa, Almudena Castro, Enrique Font, Pau Carazo

🪰 Fruit flies! 🌡️ Temperature changes! 💋Mate attraction! 👃Pheromones!

Our November #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal:

"Effects of natural temperature variation on male perception of female scents in Drosophila melanogaster"

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Screenshot of an article: Animal Behaviour Volume 228, October 2025, 123329 Huisheng Wang, Guo Zhong, Longwu Wang, Canchao Yang, Wei Liang

🐦‍⬛Oriental magpie-robins!🪺Brood parasites!🥚Egg rejection!🗺️Geographic variation!

October #ASABEditorsChoice for #AnimalBehaviourJournal: 'Egg management strategies of a common cuckoo host in response to variable egg phenotypes across 3 geographical pop.’

Read: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123329

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Screenshot of an article: Animal Behaviour Volume 227, September 2025, 123288 Watchful of strangers: waxbills redirect aggression from unfamiliar to familiar individuals João R. Pacheco, Patrícia Beltrão, Sandra Trigo, Gonçalo C. Cardoso

🐦Waxbills! 🥡Food competition! 🕵️Strangers! 🤬Social aggression!

Our September #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal:

“Watchful of strangers: Waxbills redirect aggression from unfamiliar to familiar individuals”

Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123288

Screenshot of an article: Animal Behaviour Volume 226, August 2025, 123260 Javed Riaz, Ana Laura Machado-Gaye, Marianna Chimienti, Akiko Kato, Yan Ropert-Coudert, Nicolás Alegría, Andrés Barbosa, Alvaro Soutullo

🐧 Penguins! 🦐 Krill foraging! 🎧 Acoustic data! 🤿 Diving bouts!

Our August #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal: “Bout time for krill: contrasting Adélie penguin foraging behaviour during years of high and low krill availability”

Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123260

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This work was the July #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal 👏👏👏

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Screenshot of an article: Animal Behaviour Volume 225, July 2025, 123223 Deep learning approach to detect and visualize sexual dimorphism in monomorphic species Nicolas J. Silva, André C. Ferreira, Liliana R. Silva, Samuel Perret, Sonia Tieo, Julien P. Renoult, Rita Covas, Claire Doutrelant

🐦Sociable weavers! 🤖Deep learning! 👥Sexual monomorphism! 🕵️Cryptic differences!

Our July #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal:
“Deep learning approach to detect and visualize sexual dimorphism in monomorphic species”

Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123223

Screen shot of an article: Animal Behaviour Volume 224, June 2025, 123189 Predicting success of conservation translocations: prerelease screening tools for a threatened marsupial K.A. Cornelsen, A. Elphinstone , N.R. Jordan

🐰Bilbies! 😰Neophobia! 🏃Post-release success! 💻Screening tools!

Our June #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal:

“Predicting success of conservation translocations: prerelease screening tools for a threatened marsupial”

Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123189

Screen shot of an article: Animal Behaviour Volume 223, May 2025, 123122 Personality composition affects group cohesion of homing pigeons in response to novelty and predation threat Giulia Cerritelli, Dimitri Giunchi, Robert Musters, Irene Vertua, Lorenzo Vanni, Diego Rubolini, Anna Gagliardo, Claudio Carere

🐦Pigeons! 🙀Personality! 👥Flock cohesion! 🦅Predation threat!

Our May #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal: “Personality composition affects group cohesion of homing pigeons in response to novelty and predation threat”

Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123122

Screen shot of an article: Animal Behaviour Volume 222, April 2025, 123125 Visual learning, route formation and the choreography of looking back in desert ants, Melophorus bagoti Cody A. Freas, Ken Cheng

🐜Desert ants! 👀Lookbacks!📍Route formation! 👁️Visual learning!

Our April #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal:

“Visual learning, route formation and the choreography of looking back in desert ants, Melophorus bagoti”

Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123125

Screenshot of an article: Animal Behaviour Volume 221, March 2025, 123080 Syntactically aberrant vocalization in cuckoos disrupts communication but triggers host responses Piotr Tryjanowski, Łukasz Jankowiak, Peter Mikula, Tomasz S. Osiejuk

🐦Cuckoos! 📻 Playback experiment! 🔊Aberrant vocalizations! 🪺Brood parasitism!

Our March #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal:

“Syntactically aberrant vocalization in cuckoos disrupts communication but triggers host responses”

Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123080

Screen shot of an article: Animal Behaviour “The older the bolder: common goldeneye antipredator behaviour based on long-term individual data” Farshad S. Vakili, Hannu Pöysä, Océane Liehrmann, Pentti Runko, Stefan Björkman, Céline Arzel

🦆Goldeneyes! ⏱️ Longitudinal study! 💪 Boldness! 🪺 Nesting!

Our February #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal:

“The older the bolder: Common goldeneye antipredator behaviour based on long-term individual data”

Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.12.002

Facing the heat: nestlings of a cavity-nesting raptor trade safety for food when exposed to high nest temperatures Increasing temperatures due to climate warming may expose many species to thermally dangerous conditions, especially during less mobile phases of thei…

🦅Kestrels! 🪹Nest heat!🪶Premature fledging! 🌆Climate change!

Our January #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal: “Facing the heat: Nestlings of a cavity-nesting raptor trade safety for food when exposed to high nest temperatures”

Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.10.020

Screen shot of an article: Animal Behaviour Volume 218, December 2024, Pages 95-108 Social information use for spatial decision in the common lizard, Zootoca vivipara Mathieu Brevet, Staffan Jacob, Alexis Rutschmann, Murielle Richard, Julien Cote, Jean Clobert

🦎Lizards! 👯‍♂️Social info! 🦗Resource availability! 🚖Movement decisions!

Our December #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal: "Social information use for spatial decision in the common lizard, Zootoca vivipara” by Brevet et al. Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

Screen shot of an article: Animal Behaviour Volume 217, November 2024, Pages 13-20. The impact of acoustic signalling on offspring performance varies among three biparentally caring species. Taina Conrad, Magdalena M. Mair, Julia Müller, Peter Richter, Sophie Schödel, Ann-Kathrin Wezstein, Sandra Steiger

🪲Beetles!🧑‍🍼Parental care! 🔇Acoustic signals! 🐛Larvae!

Our November #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal: "The impact of acoustic signalling on offspring performance varies among three biparentally caring species" by Conrad et al.

Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.08.014

Animal Behaviour Volume 216, October 2024, Pages 131-139 Low food stores affect dance communication and health-related gene expression in honey bees Yongqiang Wu, Tianfei Peng, Florian Menzel, Christoph Grüter https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.07.017 Highlights •The amount of honey stored in hives affected dance communication in honey bees. Dance frequency increased and followers per dance decreased in honey-depleted hives. • Bees in honey-depleted hives expressed the immunity gene Defensin 1 more. •Six days of honey depletion did not affect body fat content.

🐝 Bees! 🍯 Honey! 💃 Dance! 🧬 Genes!

Our October #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal: "Low food stores affect dance communication and health-related gene expression in honey bees" by Wu et al.

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