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Get checked abstract Annika M. Felton, Adam Felton, David Raubenheimer, Stephen J. Simpson, William J. Foley, Jeff T. Wood, Ian R. Wallis, and David B. Lindenmayer

Protein content of diets dictates the daily energy intake of a free-ranging primate
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on May 19, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 685-690; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp021 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Bill M. Strausberger and Stephen I. Rothstein

Parasitic cowbirds may defeat host defense by causing rejecters to misimprint on cowbird eggs
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on May 6, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 691-699; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp042 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Johannes Peter Lomborg and Søren Toft

Nutritional enrichment increases courtship intensity and improves mating success in male spiders
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on June 1, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 700-708; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp044 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Michael Griesser and Magdalena Nystrand

Vigilance and predation of a forest-living bird species depend on large-scale habitat structure
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on April 27, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 709-715; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp045 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Misha L. Donohoe, William von Hippel, and Robert C. Brooks

Beyond waist–hip ratio: experimental multivariate evidence that average women's torsos are most attractive
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on May 21, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 716-721; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp051 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Robin M. Tinghitella, Jeffrey M. Wang, and Marlene Zuk

Preexisting behavior renders a mutation adaptive: flexibility in male phonotaxis behavior and the loss of singing ability in the field cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on April 9, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 722-728; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp052 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Sarah J. Hodge, Matthew B.V. Bell, Francis Mwanguhya, Solomon Kyabulima, Ruth C. Waldick, and Andy F. Russell

Maternal weight, offspring competitive ability, and the evolution of communal breeding
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on May 11, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 729-735; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp053 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Allert I. Bijleveld and Ralf H.E. Mullers

Reproductive effort in biparental care: an experimental study in long-lived Cape gannets
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on May 19, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 736-744; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp054 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Robert D. Magrath, Benjamin J. Pitcher, and Janet L. Gardner

An avian eavesdropping network: alarm signal reliability and heterospecific response
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on June 1, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 745-752; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp055 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Michal Polak and Leigh W. Simmons

Secondary sexual trait size reveals competitive fertilization success in Drosophila bipectinata Duda
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on April 13, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 753-760; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp056 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Michal Segoli, Ally R. Harari, Amos Bouskila, and Tamar Keasar

Brood size in a polyembryonic parasitoid wasp is affected by relatedness among competing larvae
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on April 22, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 761-767; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp057 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract K. Silva, V.C. Almada, M.N. Vieira, and N.M. Monteiro

Female reproductive tactics in a sex-role reversed pipefish: scanning for male quality and number
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on May 6, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 768-772; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp058 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Lorenzo Zanette and Jeremy Field

Cues, concessions, and inheritance: dominance hierarchies in the paper wasp Polistes dominulus
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on May 6, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 773-780; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp060 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract David M. Logue, Sandeep Mishra, David McCaffrey, Deborah Ball, and William H. Cade

A behavioral syndrome linking courtship behavior toward males and females predicts reproductive success from a single mating in the hissing cockroach, Gromphadorhina portentosa
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on May 6, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 781-788; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp061 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Pekka Kontiainen, Hannu Pietiäinen, Kalle Huttunen, Patrik Karell, Heikki Kolunen, and Jon E. Brommer

Aggressive Ural owl mothers recruit more offspring
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on May 6, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 789-796; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp062 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Julia Schroeder, Pedro M. Lourenço, Jos C.E.W. Hooijmeijer, Christiaan Both, and Theunis Piersma

A possible case of contemporary selection leading to a decrease in sexual plumage dimorphism in a grassland-breeding shorebird
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on May 14, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 797-807; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp063 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Chun-Min Fan, En-Cheng Yang, and I-Min Tso

Hunting efficiency and predation risk shapes the color-associated foraging traits of a predator
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on May 14, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 808-816; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp064 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Nadine C. Chapman, Piyamas Nanork, Rosalyn S. Gloag, Wandee Wattanachaiyingcharoen, Madeleine Beekman, and Benjamin P. Oldroyd

Queenless colonies of the Asian red dwarf honey bee (Apis florea) are infiltrated by workers from other queenless colonies
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on May 4, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 817-820; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp065 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Paul G. McDonald, David R. Wilson, and Christopher S. Evans

Nestling begging increases predation risk, regardless of spectral characteristics or avian mobbing
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on May 14, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 821-829; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp066 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jeroen Minderman, Jane M. Reid, Peter G.H. Evans, and Mark J. Whittingham

Personality traits in wild starlings: exploration behavior and environmental sensitivity
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on May 14, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 830-837; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp067 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Shane Gero, Dan Engelhaupt, Luke Rendell, and Hal Whitehead

Who Cares? Between-group variation in alloparental caregiving in sperm whales
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on May 19, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 838-843; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp068 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Mark Broom, Andreas Koenig, and Carola Borries

Variation in dominance hierarchies among group-living animals: modeling stability and the likelihood of coalitions
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on June 22, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 844-855; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp069 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Debbie Eraly, Frederik Hendrickx, and Luc Lens

Condition-dependent mate choice and its implications for population differentiation in the wolf spider Pirata piraticus
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on June 8, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 856-863; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp072 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract David Luther

The influence of the acoustic community on songs of birds in a neotropical rain forest
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on June 8, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 864-871; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp074 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract David P. Padilla and Manuel Nogales

Behavior of kestrels feeding on frugivorous lizards: implications for secondary seed dispersal
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on June 8, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 872-877; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp075 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Michaël Beaulieu, Anne-Mathilde Thierry, Thierry Raclot, Yvon Le Maho, Yan Ropert-Coudert, Hélène Gachot-Neveu, and André Ancel

Sex-specific parental strategies according to the sex of offspring in the Adélie penguin
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on June 8, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 878-883; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp076 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Karin Hohberg and Walter Traunspurger

Foraging theory and partial consumption in a tardigrade–nematode system
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on June 15, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 884-890; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp077 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Dustin J. Wilgers, Amy C. Nicholas, David H. Reed, Gail E. Stratton, and Eileen A. Hebets

Condition-dependent alternative mating tactics in a sexually cannibalistic wolf spider
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on June 22, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 891-900; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp078 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Gonçalo C. Cardoso, Jonathan W. Atwell, Ellen D. Ketterson, and Trevor D. Price

Song types, song performance, and the use of repertoires in dark-eyed juncos (Junco hyemalis)
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on June 15, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 901-907; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp079 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

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Antonios Vakirtzis and S. Craig Roberts

Mate choice copying and mate quality bias: different processes, different species
Behavioral Ecology Advance Access published on June 4, 2009
Behav. Ecol. 2009 20: 908-911; doi:10.1093/beheco/arp073 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Lay Summary] [Request Permissions]  

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