Behavioral Ecology

ARTICLES:

Esteban Fernández-Juricic, Steven Siller, and Alex Kacelnik

Flock density, social foraging, and scanning: an experiment with starlings
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 371-379; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh017 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Ken Kraaijeveld, John Gregurke, Carol Hall, Jan Komdeur, and Raoul A. Mulder

Mutual ornamentation, sexual selection, and social dominance in the black swan
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 380-389; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh023 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Judith Korb and Michael Lenz

Reproductive decision-making in the termite, Cryptotermes secundus (Kalotermitidae), under variable food conditions
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 390-395; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh033 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Barnaby Marsh, Cynthia Schuck-Paim, and Alex Kacelnik

Energetic state during learning affects foraging choices in starlings
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 396-399; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh034 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Winnie Eckardt and Klaus Zuberbühler

Cooperation and competition in two forest monkeys
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 400-411; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh032 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Cheryl A. Johnson, James W. A. Grant, and Luc-Alain Giraldeau

The effect of patch size and competitor number on aggression among foraging house sparrows
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 412-418; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh026 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Andra Thiel and Thomas S. Hoffmeister

Knowing your habitat: linking patch-encounter rate and patch exploitation in parasitoids
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 419-425; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh030 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Boris Baer and Jacobus J. Boomsma

Male reproductive investment and queen mating-frequency in fungus-growing ants
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 426-432; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh025 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

John L. Orrock, Brent J. Danielson, and R. Jory Brinkerhoff

Rodent foraging is affected by indirect, but not by direct, cues of predation risk
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 433-437; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh031 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Joanna M. Setchell and E. Jean Wickings

Sexual swelling in mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx): a test of the reliable indicator hypothesis
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 438-445; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh027 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Vanessa O. Ezenwa

Host social behavior and parasitic infection: a multifactorial approach
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 446-454; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh028 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Rebecca J. Safran and Kevin J. McGraw

Plumage coloration, not length or symmetry of tail-streamers, is a sexually selected trait in North American barn swallows
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 455-461; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh035 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Anders Pape Møller

Rapid temporal change in frequency of infanticide in a passerine bird associated with change in population density and body condition
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 462-468; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh036 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

James M. Yoder, Elizabeth A. Marschall, and David A. Swanson

The cost of dispersal: predation as a function of movement and site familiarity in ruffed grouse
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 469-476; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh037 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Sally Ward, Helene M. Lampe, and Peter J. B. Slater

Singing is not energetically demanding for pied flycatchers, Ficedula hypoleuca
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 477-484; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh038 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

J. Jordan Price and Scott M. Lanyon

Patterns of song evolution and sexual selection in the oropendolas and caciques
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 485-497; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh040 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary][Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Will Cresswell, S. Holt, J. M. Reid, D. P. Whitfield, R. J. Mellanby, D. Norton, and S. Waldron

The energetic costs of egg heating constrain incubation attendance but do not determine daily energy expenditure in the pectoral sandpiper
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 498-507; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh042 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

László Zsolt Garamszegi and Anders Pape Møller

Extrapair paternity and the evolution of bird song
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 508-519; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh041 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

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Tomasz Wesolowski

The origin of parental care in birds: a reassessment
Behavioral Ecology 2004 15: 520-523; doi:10.1093/beheco/arh039 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

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