Courtship displays are behaviours aimed to facilitate attraction and mating with the opposite
sex and are very common across the animal kingdom. Most courtship displays are …

Investigations of collective movement and animal communication have often followed
distinct, though complementary, trajectories. Both subfields are deeply concerned with how …

Though it has long been known that animal communication is complex, recent years have
seen growing interest in understanding the extent to which animals give multicomponent …

Karl von Frisch's studies of bees' color vision and chemical senses opened a window into
the perceptual world of a species other than our own. A century of subsequent research on …

Insular organisms often evolve predictable phenotypes, like flightlessness, extreme body
sizes, or increased melanin deposition. The evolutionary forces and molecular targets …

Behavioral changes, such as those involved in mating, foraging, and migration, can
generate reproductive barriers between populations. Birds, in particular, are known for their …

Human activities by altering environmental conditions are influencing the mate choice of
animals. This is by impacts on:(i) the production and expression of traits evaluated by mate …

It is now widely accepted that the brunt of animal communication is conducted via several
modalities, eg acoustic and visual, either simultaneously or sequentially. This is a laudable …

The study of multimodal communication has become an active and vibrant field. This special
issue of Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology brings together new developments in this …

Given the availability of genomic data to identify separately evolving groups of organisms,
many researchers establish species limits based on assessments of the extent of gene flow …