Fear generalization and behavioral responses to multiple dangers

A Sih, HJ Chung, I Neylan, C Ortiz-Jimenez… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2023 - cell.com
Animals often exhibit consistent-individual differences (CIDs) in boldness/fearfulness,
typically studied in the context of predation risk. We focus here on fear generalization, where …

Extensive behavioral data contained within existing ecological datasets

AM Brehm, JL Orrock - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2023 - cell.com
Long-term ecological datasets contain vast behavioral data, enabling the quantification of
among-individual behavioral variation at unprecedented spatiotemporal scales. We detail …

Diverse communication strategies in bees as a window into adaptations to an unpredictable world

DA Alves, EA George, R Kaur… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Communication is a fundamental feature of animal societies and helps their members to
solve the challenges they encounter, from exploiting food sources to fighting enemies or …

Integrating sensory ecology and predator‐prey theory to understand animal responses to fire

A Michel, JR Johnson, R Szeligowski… - Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Fire regimes are changing dramatically worldwide due to climate change, habitat
conversion, and the suppression of Indigenous landscape management. Although there has …

Population and community consequences of perceived risk from humans in wildlife

JA Smith, ME McDaniels, SD Peacor, EC Bolas… - Ecology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Human activities catalyse risk avoidance behaviours in wildlife across taxa and systems.
However, the broader ecological significance of human‐induced risk perception remains …

How can we apply decision‐making theories to wild animal behavior? Predictions arising from dual process theory and Bayesian decision theory

JA Teichroeb, EA Smeltzer, V Mathur… - American Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Our understanding of decision‐making processes and cognitive biases is ever increasing,
thanks to an accumulation of testable models and a large body of research over the last …

Collective synchrony of mating signals modulated by ecological cues and social signals in bioluminescent sea fireflies

NM Hensley, TJ Rivers, GA Gerrish… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Individuals often employ simple rules that can emergently synchronize behaviour. Some
collective behaviours are intuitively beneficial, but others like mate signalling in leks occur …

Variation in plastic consumption: social group size enhances individual susceptibility to an evolutionary trap

L Pollack, A Munson, E Zepeda, M Culshaw-Maurer… - Animal Behaviour, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•We examined group size effects on mosquitofish behaviour across multiple
contexts.•Fish in larger groups recovered more quickly following a predator cue.•Fish in …

Evolutionary history mediates population response to rapid environmental change through within-generational and transgenerational plasticity

DT Clement, IP Neylan, NJ Roberts… - The American …, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
Rapid environmental change is affecting many organisms; some are coping well, but many
species are in decline. A key mechanism for facilitating success following environmental …

Parent-specific transgenerational immune priming enhances offspring defense-unless heat-stress negates it all

RF Schneider, A Dubin, SM Marten, O Roth - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Trans-generational immune priming (TGIP) adjusts offspring immune responses based on
parental immunological experiences-a form of trans-generational plasticity predicted to be …