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1. Movement and diet of brown boobies in a remote protected area suggest temporal variations in foraging strategies

   • Fiorella Vilela
   • Júlia Jacoby
   • Guilherme Tavares Nunes

   in Marine Biology

   Article Open access 12 August 2026

   

2. Effects of sibling competition and physiological and behavioural differences on problem-solving of wild cavies (Cavia aperea)

   • Sabine Kraus
   • Anja Guenther

   in Animal Cognition

   Article Open access 11 August 2026

   

3. Courtship at reaching-range in the túngara frog

   • Olivia R. Chung
   • Marcos Gridi-Papp

   in Journal of Comparative Physiology A

   Article Open access 10 August 2026

   

4. Group resting of raccoon dogs (Nyctereutes procyonoides) during winter and early breeding season in an urban area

   • Sumin Jeon
   • Yeon Woo Lee
   • Jong Koo Lee

   in Mammal Research

   Article 08 August 2026

   

5. Pre- and post-hatching effects on nestling growth and brood reduction

   • Juan J Soler
   • María D Barón
   • Manuel Martín-Vivaldi

   in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

   Article Open access 08 August 2026

   

6. Technical note: examining the response of a large carnivore (Panthera leo) to dummy prey

   • Anna Rouviere
   • Julius Muge
   • Robert A. Montgomery

   in European Journal of Wildlife Research

   Article Open access 08 August 2026

   

7. Ecology of dholes (Cuon alpinus) in human-modified landscapes: pack dynamics, home range, activity patterns and implications for conservation

   • Shuta Sawaguri
   • Raman Sukumar
   • Shiro Kohshima

   in European Journal of Wildlife Research

   Article 07 August 2026

   

8. Song variation across space and time in Anna’s Hummingbird (Calypte anna)

   • Ayala N. Berger
   • Trinh Kondo
   • Polly Campbell

   in Journal of Ornithology

   Article 07 August 2026

   

9. Linking rumen physiology to deer ecology: impact of season and wildlife feeding activity on ruminal urea transporters in fallow deer

   • Gavin O’Shea
   • Deirdre McLaughlin
   • Gavin Stewart

   in Mammalian Biology

   Article 07 August 2026

   

10. Metabarcoding reveals the dietary diversity and food web structure of spider functional guilds in a highly diverse subtropical forest

    • Jingting Chen
    • Mingqiang Wang
    • Chaodong Zhu

    in Oecologia

    Article Open access 07 August 2026

    

11. Maternal carryover drives post-weaning survival of juveniles in a long-lived mammal

    • Tayler N. LaSharr
    • Rhiannon P. Jakopak
    • Kevin L. Monteith

    in Oecologia

    Article Open access 07 August 2026

    

12. Olfactory cognition

    • Jeffrey S. Katz
    • Lucia Lazarowski

    in Animal Cognition

    Article Open access 07 August 2026

13. Free-ranging dog’s effects on temporal activity pattern of prey species in areas of Cerrado and Atlantic Forest, Brazil

    • Letícia Rodrigues Moretto
    • Bárbara Mitsuko Zukeram Fujioka
    • Rita Bianchi

    in Biodiversity and Conservation

    Article Open access 06 August 2026

    

14. Stay calm and keep grooming: exploring the link between vigilance and self-grooming in wild fallow deer under wolf predation risk

    • Bruno Esattore
    • Niccolò Fattorini
    • Laura Saggiomo

    in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

    Article Open access 06 August 2026

    

15. Pumas are drivers’ guardian angels

    in Nature

    Article 06 August 2026

    

16. Convergent carnivores or divergent dasyurids? Inferring predation and locomotor strategies of extant and extinct carnivorous marsupials from locomotor shape

    • Joshua L. Gaschk
    • Robert L. Cieri
    • Christofer J. Clemente

    in BMC Ecology and Evolution

    Article Open access 04 August 2026

    

17. Rapid trajectory learning in mice and agents

    • Luis A. Mejia

    in Nature Neuroscience

    Article 03 August 2026

18. Vocalizations modulate collective movement patterns in western gorillas

    • Lara Nellissen
    • Benjamin Robira
    • Shelly Masi

    in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

    Article Open access 03 August 2026

    

19. The impact of preincubation time and incubation temperature on growth, carcass, and welfare traits of broiler chickens

    • Nasir Abdallah
    • Mikail Baylan

    in Tropical Animal Health and Production

    Article 03 August 2026

20. Analysis of Behavior in Rodents: From Classic Tests to Long-Term Monitoring and Multidimensional Profiling

    • J. V. Borodacheva
    • I. D. Shamsiev
    • I. G. Shalaginova

    in Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology

    Article 03 August 2026

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