Highlights•Animal communication research must embrace multiple dimensions of
complexity.•New developments help to quantify and conceptualize individual variability in …

Across the animal kingdom, social interactions rely on sound production and perception.
From simple cricket chirps to more elaborate bird songs, animals go to great lengths to …

Brains are optimized for processing ethologically relevant sensory signals. However, few
studies have characterized the neural coding mechanisms that underlie the transformation …

Harvester ant colonies adjust their foraging activity to day-to-day changes in food availability
and hour-to-hour changes in environmental conditions. This collective behavior is regulated …

One of the most notable aspects of the behavior of individuals with Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is increased variability in many aspects of their behavior …

How neural networks evolved to generate the diversity of species-specific communication
signals is unknown. For receivers of the signals, one hypothesis is that novel recognition …

For decades, acoustic insects have been used as model organisms for behavioural
neurobiologists to understand mate choice or predator avoidance, because behaviour can …

Understanding the genetics of speciation and the processes that drive it is a central goal of
evolutionary biology. Grasshoppers of the Chorthippus species group differ strongly in …

The sexual ornamentation of animals typically consists of multiple distinct traits. The
classical research approach focuses on differences among these traits, but this approach …

The sensory bias hypothesis proposes that female preferences for male sexual signalling
traits evolved in contexts other than mating. Individuals of both sexes may experience similar …