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A Nose for Death: Integrating Trophic and Informational Networks for Conservation and Management

scientific article published in 2016

A Systematic Review of Carrion Eaters' Adaptations to Avoid Sickness

scientific article published on 13 February 2017

A Test of the Multi-Predator Hypothesis: Rapid Loss of Antipredator Behavior after 130 years of Isolation

A Test of the Nonlinearity Hypothesis in Great-tailed Grackles (Quiscalus mexicanus)

A case for quantile regression in behavioral ecology: getting more out of flight initiation distance data

article by Simon Chamaillé-Jammes & Daniel T. Blumstein published 18 April 2012 in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

A clinical research pathway towards developing new insights into cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on 28 September 2015

A meta-analysis of the group-size effect on vigilance in mammals

scientific article published on 18 May 2021

A review of flight-initiation distances and their application to managing disturbance to Australian birds

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A study of the species-confidence hypothesis with Spiny-cheeked Honeyeaters (Acanthagenys rufogularis)

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A systematic survey of the integration of animal behavior into conservation.

scientific article

A test of the acoustic adaptation hypothesis in four species of marmots.

scientific article published on December 1998

A test of the multipredator hypothesis: yellow-bellied marmots respond fearfully to the sight of novel and extinct predators

article by Daniel T. Blumstein et al published October 2009 in Animal Behaviour

A test of the social cohesion hypothesis: interactive female marmots remain at home

scientific article published on 3 June 2009

A test of the species confidence hypothesis in dusky damselfish

scientific article published in 2023

A trait-based approach to understand the evolution of complex coalitions in male mammals

scientific article published in 2009

ALARM CALLING IN THREE SPECIES OF MARMOTS

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Acoustic monitoring in terrestrial environments using microphone arrays: applications, technological considerations and prospectus

scientific article published in 2011

Acoustic sequences in non-human animals: a tutorial review and prospectus

scientific article

Acoustic source localization using the acoustic ENSBox

Adaptive gene regulation in wild mammals exposed to high predator abundance

scientific article published in 2019

Age and sex influence marmot antipredator behavior during periods of heightened risk

scientific article

Age, state, environment, and season dependence of senescence in body mass.

scientific article published on 18 January 2018

American exceptionalism: population trends and flight initiation distances in birds from three continents

scientific article

An Empirical Study of Collaborative Acoustic Source Localization

scholarly article by Andreas Mantik Ali et al published 26 November 2008 in Journal of Signal Processing Systems

An Observation of Social Play in Bearded Vultures

scientific article published in 1990

An empirical study of collaborative acoustic source localization

An evolutionary framework for studying mechanisms of social behavior

scientific article

An experimental study of behavioural group size effects in tammar wallabies, Macropus eugenii.

scientific article published in August 1999

An in situ vertebrate bioassay helps identify potential matrices for a predator-based synthetic management tool

scientific article published in 2012

Animal Behavior: Social Learning by a Whisker

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Animal Social Network Theory Can Help Wildlife Conservation

scientific article

Anthropogenic noise affects risk assessment and attention: the distracted prey hypothesis

scientific article

Anthropogenic noise's first reverberation into community ecology

scientific article published on 25 April 2012

Anti-predator behavior along elevational and latitudinal gradients in dark-eyed juncos

scientific article published on 19 September 2019

Anti-predator behavior of Vancouver Island marmots: using congeners to evaluate abilities of a critically endangered mammal

Antipredator behaviour of red-necked pademelons: a factor contributing to species survival?

article

Applying Lanchester’s laws to the interspecific competition of coral reef fish

article

Applying the coalitionary-traits metric: sociality without cooperation in male yellow-bellied marmots

article

Archiving Primary Data: Solutions for Long-Term Studies

scientific article

Are blue land crabs (Cardisoma guanhumi) attracted to falling fruit?

Are giant clams (Tridacna maxima) distractible? A multi-modal study

scientific article published on 05 October 2020

Are social attributes associated with alarm calling propensity?

scientific article published in 2015

Are white-crowned sparrow badges reliable signals?

article by Zachary M. Laubach et al published 10 January 2013 in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Assessing seasonal demographic covariation to understand environmental-change impacts on a hibernating mammal

scientific article published on 23 January 2020

Assessing the sensitivity of foraging and vigilance to internal state and environmental variables in yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris)

article by Helen E. Chmura et al published 23 August 2016 in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Asymmetric eavesdropping between common mynas and red-vented bulbuls

scientific article published in 2014

Attention, habituation, and antipredator behaviour

Attention, noise, and implications for wildlife conservation and management

article by Alvin Aaden Yim-Hol Chan & Daniel T. Blumstein published April 2011 in Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Auditory stimulation dishabituates anti-predator escape behavior in hermit crabs (Coenobita clypeatus).

scientific article published on 12 July 2011

Avian Risk Assessment: Effects of Perching Height and Detectability

article by Daniel T. Blumstein et al published April 2004 in Ethology

Avian responses to tourism in the biogeographically isolated high Córdoba Mountains, Argentina

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AvianBuffer: An interactive tool for characterising and managing wildlife fear responses

scientific article

BEHAVIOR:Enhanced: Selfish Sentinels

scientific article published in Science

Behavioral biology of marine mammal deterrents: A review and prospectus

article

Behavioral types as predictors of survival in Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata)

scientific article published in 2010

Biologically meaningful scents: a framework for understanding predator-prey research across disciplines

scientific article

Birds flush early and avoid the rush: an interspecific study

scientific article published on 23 March 2015

Birdsong tuned to the environment: green hylia song varies with elevation, tree cover, and noise

article by Alexander N. G. Kirschel et al published 2009 in Behavioral Ecology

Blue‐tailed skinks have predation‐dependent threat discrimination

scientific article published in 2022

Book Review

Brain size as a driver of avian escape strategy

scientific article

Can fear conditioning repel California sea lions from fishing activities?

article by Zachary A. Schakner et al published 30 January 2017 in Animal Conservation

Can individual variation in phenotypic plasticity enhance population viability?

scholarly article by Adriana A. Maldonado-Chaparro et al published May 2017 in Ecological Modelling

Can native predators be used as a stepping stone to reduce prey naivety to novel predators?

scientific article published in 2022

Can the acoustic adaptation hypothesis predict the structure of Australian birdsong?

article

Character displacement of song and morphology in African tinkerbirds

scientific article published on 6 May 2009

Choice or opportunity: are post-release social groupings influenced by familiarity or reintroduction protocols?

Constraints and flexibility in mammalian social behaviour: introduction and synthesis

scientific article (publication date: 19 May 2013)

Context and trade-offs characterize real-world threat detection systems: A review and comprehensive framework to improve research practice and resolve the translational crisis

scientific article published on 18 May 2020

Contextual influences on animal decision-making: Significance for behavior-based wildlife conservation and management

scientific article published on 8 September 2016

Contrasting effects of climate change on seasonal survival of a hibernating mammal

scientific article published on 06 July 2020

Cooperative Breeding in Marmots

scientific article published in 1999

Correction to: Social security: social relationship strength and connectedness influence how marmots respond to alarm calls

scientific article published in 2019

Correlates and Consequences of Dominance in a Social Rodent

Correlates of maternal glucocorticoid levels in a socially flexible rodent

scientific article published on 27 September 2019

Corrigendum to ‘Escape behavior: dynamic decisions and a growing consensus’ [Curr. Opin. Behav. Sci. 12 (2016) 24–29]

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Corrigendum to ‘Social security: less socially connected marmots produce noisier alarm calls’ [Animal Behaviour 154 (2019) 131–136]

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Corrigendum to “Social security: less socially connected marmots produce noisier alarm calls” [Animal Behaviour 154 (2019) 131–136]

scientific article

Coupled dynamics of body mass and population growth in response to environmental change

scientific article published in July 2010

Coyotes, deer, and wildflowers: diverse evidence points to a trophic cascade

scientific article published on 13 April 2014

Cumulative reproductive costs on current reproduction in a wild polytocous mammal

scientific article published in 2018

Darwinian decision making: putting the adaptive into adaptive management.

scientific article published in April 2007

Database of Bird Flight Initiation Distances to Assist in Estimating Effects from Human Disturbance and Delineating Buffer Areas

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Decentralize, adapt and cooperate

scientific article

Deep evolutionary experience explains mammalian responses to predators

article

Defensive and social aggression: repeatable but independent

scientific article published in 2012

Designer prey: Can controlled predation accelerate selection for anti-predator traits in naïve populations?

scholarly article by K.E. Moseby et al published January 2018 in Biological Conservation

Developing an evolutionary ecology of fear: how life history and natural history traits affect disturbance tolerance in birds

article by Daniel T. Blumstein published February 2006 in Animal Behaviour

Developing effective tools for conservation behaviorists: reply to Greggor et al.

scientific article published on 22 October 2014

Development of boldness and docility in yellow-bellied marmots

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Discrimination of introduced predators by ontogenetically naïve prey scales with duration of shared evolutionary history

scholarly article by Lisa A. Steindler et al published March 2018 in Animal Behaviour

Diverse cressdnaviruses and an anellovirus identified in the fecal samples of yellow-bellied marmots

scientific article published on 30 December 2020

Do Yellow-Bellied Marmots Perceive Enhanced Predation Risk When they are Farther from safety? An experimental study

article by Raquel Monclús et al published 14 May 2015 in Ethology

Do animals generally flush early and avoid the rush? A meta-analysis

scientific article published on 20 February 2013

Do birds differentiate between white noise and deterministic chaos?

Do fences protect birds from human disturbance?

Do film soundtracks contain nonlinear analogues to influence emotion?

scientific article

Do marmots display a ‘dear enemy phenomenon’ in response to anal gland secretions?

Do yellow-bellied marmots respond to predator vocalizations?

article by Daniel T. Blumstein et al published 19 September 2007 in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Does Feeding Competition Influence Tammar Wallaby Time Allocation?

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Does Locomotor Ability Influence Flight Initiation Distance in Yellow-Bellied Marmots?

article by Daniel T. Blumstein et al published 13 January 2015 in Ethology

Does Sociality Drive The Evolution Of Communicative Complexity? A Comparative Test With Ground‐Dwelling Sciurid Alarm Calls

scientific article published on 01 August 1997

Does agriculture drive predator-mediated behavioral effects on prey?

scholarly article by Daniel T. Blumstein published February 2008 in Animal Conservation

Does habituation to humans influence predator discrimination in Gunther's dik-diks (Madoqua guentheri)?

scientific article

Does information of predators influence general wariness?

scientific article published in 2006

Downsizing for downtown: Limb lengths, toe lengths, and scale counts decrease with urbanization in western fence lizards (Sceloporus occidentalis)

scientific article published on 27 July 2019

Early play may predict later dominance relationships in yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris).

scientific article

Effect of predation risk on the presence and persistence of yellow-bellied marmot (Marmota flaviventris) colonies

article by Daniel T. Blumstein et al published 18 May 2006 in Journal of Zoology

Effect of visibility on time allocation and escape decisions in crimson rosellas

scientific article published in 2006

Effective Conservation

scientific article published on 14 August 2020

Effects of patch quality and network structure on patch occupancy dynamics of a yellow-bellied marmot metapopulation

scientific article published in January 2006

Energetics of hibernating yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris)

scientific article published on 01 January 2003

Environmental education: a time of change, a time for change

scientific article

Environmental, social, morphological, and behavioral constraints on opportunistic multiple paternity

scientific article published in 2014

Environmentally induced phenotypic variation in wild yellow-bellied marmots

article by Adriana A. Maldonado-Chaparro et al published 25 April 2015 in Journal of Mammalogy

Epidemiological models to control the spread of information in marine mammals

scientific article published in December 2016

Epizootics of sudden death in tammar wallabies (Macropus eugenii) associated with an orbivirus infection

scientific article published on 24 September 2012

Escape behavior: dynamic decisions and a growing consensus

article

Estimating the effect of temporally autocorrelated environments on the demography of density-independent age-structured populations

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Evaluating methods to quantify anthropogenic stressors on wild animals

article by Elisa M. Tarlow & Daniel T. Blumstein published February 2007 in Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Evaluating temporal and spatial margins of safety in galahs

Evaluating where and how habitat restoration is undertaken for animals

scientific article published on 25 April 2019

Evolutionary dynamics in the Anthropocene: Life history and intensity of human contact shape antipredator responses

scientific article published on 22 September 2020

Evolving communicative complexity: insights from rodents and beyond

scientific article

FEAR, Spontaneity, and Artifact in Economic Escape Theory: A Review and Prospectus

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Faecal glucocorticoid metabolites and alarm calling in free-living yellow-bellied marmots

scientific article

Familiarity breeds contempt: kangaroos persistently avoid areas with experimentally deployed dingo scents

scientific article

Fear in animals: a meta-analysis and review of risk assessment

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Fear no colors? Observer clothing color influences lizard escape behavior

scientific article

Featured Articles in This Month's Animal Behaviour

Featured Articles in this Month's Animal Behaviour

Featured Articles in this Month's Animal Behaviour

Fecal glucocorticoid metabolites in wild yellow-bellied marmots: experimental validation, individual differences and ecological correlates

scientific article

Feeling Vulnerable? Indirect Risk Cues Differently Influence How Two Marsupials Respond to Novel Dingo Urine

Feeling the heat: ground squirrels heat their tails to discourage rattlesnake attack

scientific article

Female preferences and effective population size

Female preferences and effective population size

Fifty years of chasing lizards: new insights advance optimal escape theory

scientific article

Fitness and hormonal correlates of social and ecological stressors of female yellow-bellied marmots

article by Daniel T. Blumstein et al published February 2016 in Animal Behaviour

Fitness consequences of personality: a meta-analysis

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Flight initiation distances in relation to sexual dichromatism and body size in birds from three continents

Flush early and avoid the rush: a general rule of antipredator behavior?

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Food-associated vocalizations in mammals and birds: what do these calls really mean?

Foraging behavior of three Tasmanian macropodid marsupials in response to present and historical predation threat

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Foraging for foundations in decision neuroscience: insights from ethology

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Funding Should Come to Those Who Wait

scientific article published in Science

GROUP SIZE BUT NOT DISTANCE TO COVER INFLUENCES AGILE WALLABY (MACROPUS AGILIS) TIME ALLOCATION

article published in 2003

Gastrointestinal dysbiosis

scientific article published on 20 November 2014

Gene expression shifts in yellow-bellied marmots prior to natal dispersal

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Genetic basis of between-individual and within-individual variance of docility

scientific article

Giant clams discriminate threats along a risk gradient and display varying habituation rates to different stimuli

Glaucoma through Animal's Eyes: Insights from the Evolution of Intraocular Pressure in Mammals and Birds

Global trends on reef fishes' ecology of fear: Flight initiation distance for conservation

scientific article published on 12 February 2018

Golden-marmot Alarm Calls. II. Asymmetrical Production and Perception of Situationally Specific Vocalizations?

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Group size affects social relationships in yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris)

article by Adriana A. Maldonado-Chaparro et al published 2015 in Behavioral Ecology

Group size effects in quokkas

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Habituation and sensitization: new thoughts about old ideas

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Harnessing knowledge of animal behavior to improve habitat restoration outcomes

scientific article published on 09 April 2020

Harnessing natural selection to tackle the problem of prey naïveté

scientific article

Heritability and genetic correlations of personality traits in a wild population of yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris).

scientific article published on 27 July 2015

Heritability of anti-predatory traits: vigilance and locomotor performance in marmots

scientific article

Heritable victimization and the benefits of agonistic relationships

scientific article

Hermit crab response to a visual threat is sensitive to looming cues

scientific article published on 30 November 2017

Heterospecific alarm call eavesdropping in nonvocal, white-bellied copper-striped skinks, Emoia cyanura

article by Holly Fuong et al published September 2014 in Animal Behaviour

Heterospecific eavesdropping in a nonsocial species

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Heterospecific nonalarm vocalizations enhance risk assessment in common mynas

scientific article published in 2015

Hibernation slows epigenetic ageing in yellow-bellied marmots

scientific article published on 07 March 2022

Hidden ethical costs of conservation

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

High human disturbance decreases individual variability in skink escape behavior

scientific article published on 21 May 2019

How Much Does Social Group Size Influence Golden Marmot Vigilance?

scientific article (publication date: 1996)

How Nature-Based Tourism Might Increase Prey Vulnerability to Predators

scientific article published on 13 October 2015

How does the presence of predators influence the persistence of antipredator behavior?

scientific article published on 15 September 2005

How life history influences population dynamics in fluctuating environments

scientific article

Immune system activation affects song and territorial defense

article by Nicole E. Munoz et al published 2010 in Behavioral Ecology

In situ predator conditioning of naive prey prior to reintroduction

scientific article published on 29 July 2019

Increased amplitude and duration of acoustic stimuli enhance distraction

Increased tolerance to humans among disturbed wildlife

scientific article

Individual, age and sex-specific information is contained in yellow-bellied marmot alarm calls

article by Daniel T. Blumstein & Olivier Munos published February 2005 in Animal Behaviour

Infanticide among golden marmots (Marmota caudata aurea)

scientific article published in 1997

Influence of local demography on asymptotic and transient dynamics of a yellow-bellied marmot metapopulation

scientific article published in April 2009

Insular tammar wallabies (Macropus eugenii) respond to visual but not acoustic cues from predators

scientific article published in 2000

Integrating behaviour into wildlife conservation: the multiple ways that behaviour can reduce Ne

Inter- and Intraspecific Variation in the Acoustic Habitats of Three Marmot Species

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Intrasexual selection predicts the evolution of signal complexity in lizards

scientific article published on 01 April 2001

Introduction to the special column: communication, cooperation, and cognition in predators

scientific article published on 25 April 2017

Is alarm calling risky? Marmots avoid calling from risky places

scientific article

Is sociality associated with high longevity in North American birds?

scientific article

Is the propensity to emit alarm calls associated with health status?

scientific article published on 08 May 2020

Kin Discrimination in a Macropod Marsupial

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Learning specificity in acquired predator recognition

Leveraging AI to improve evidence synthesis in conservation

scientific article published in May 2024

Litter sex composition affects life-history traits in yellow-bellied marmots.

scientific article published on 29 July 2011

Locomotor Ability and Wariness in Yellow-Bellied Marmots

article by Daniel T. Blumstein et al published August 2004 in Ethology

Long-term effects of litter sex ratio on female reproduction in two iteroparous mammals

scientific article published in 2014

Macroalgal Mats in a Eutrophic Estuary Obscure Visual Foraging Cues and Increase Variability in Prey Availability for Some Shorebirds

Management implications of capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) social behavior

Marmots do not consistently use their left eye to respond to an approaching threat but those that did fled sooner

scientific article published in 2018

Masculinized female yellow-bellied marmots initiate more social interactions

scientific article published on 31 August 2011

Maternal effects on anogenital distance in a wild marmot population.

scientific article

Mechanisms of heterospecific recognition in avian mobbing calls

scientific article published in 2003

Microbial Genomes as Extension Packs for Macroorganismal Diversity: A Reply to Morimoto and Baltrus

scientific article published on 24 January 2019

Mixed support for state maintaining risky personality traits in yellow-bellied marmots

article by Matthew B. Petelle et al published April 2019 in Animal Behaviour

Moving to suburbia: ontogenetic and evolutionary consequences of life on predator-free islands

Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) respond to yellow-bellied marmot (Marmota flaviventris) alarm calls

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Multimodal communication and spatial binding in pied currawongs (Strepera graculina).

scientific article

Multisensory perception in uncertain environments

scientific article published in 2012

Nature-Based Tourism and Prey Vulnerability to Predators: A Reply to Fitzgerald and Stronza

scientific article published on 30 November 2015

No evidence of inbreeding avoidance despite demonstrated survival costs in a polygynous rodent.

scientific article published on 7 December 2011

Noise robust bird song detection using syllable pattern-based hidden Markov models

scholarly article published May 2011

Novel effects of monitoring predators on costs of fleeing and not fleeing explain flushing early in economic escape theory

scientific article published in 2013

Novel use for a predator scent: preliminary data suggest that wombats avoid recolonising collapsed burrows following application of dingo scent

scientific article published in 2016

Older mothers follow conservative strategies under predator pressure: the adaptive role of maternal glucocorticoids in yellow-bellied marmots.

scientific article published on 9 September 2011

Older mothers produce more successful daughters

scientific article published on 18 February 2020

Olfactory Predator Discrimination in Yellow-Bellied Marmots

article by Daniel T. Blumstein et al published November 2008 in Ethology

Olfactory predator recognition: wallabies may have to learn to be wary

Ontogenetic and Sex Differences Influence Alarm Call Responses in Mammals: a Meta-Analysis

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Ontogenetic shifts in perceptions of safety along structural complexity gradients in a territorial damselfish

scientific article published on 03 December 2018

Ontogenetic variation of heritability and maternal effects in yellow-bellied marmot alarm calls

scientific article (publication date: 7 May 2013)

Ontogeny and symmetry of social partner choice among free-living yellow-bellied marmots

article by Jennifer E. Smith et al published April 2013 in Animal Behaviour

Opinion: Urban Biodiversity and the Importance of Scale

scientific article published on 06 November 2020

Oxytocin Experiments Shed Light on Mechanisms Shaping Prosocial and Antisocial Behaviors in Non-human Mammals

scientific article published in September 2017

Parasites Are Associated With Noisy Alarm Calls

scientific article published in 2019

Patterns of parasite prevalence and individual infection in yellow-bellied marmots

article by J. Lopez et al published 28 November 2013 in Journal of Zoology: Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London

Perch exposure and predation risk: a comparative study in passerines

scientific article

Peripheral obstructions influence marmot vigilance: integrating observational and experimental results

scientific article published in 2009

Persistence of antipredator behavior in an island population of California quail

Personality and habitat segregation in giant sea anemones (Condylactis gigantea)

scientific article published in 2012

Pets at ecotourism destinations: cute mascot or trojan horse?

Phi index: a new metric to test the flush early and avoid the rush hypothesis

scientific article

Physiology, behavior, and conservation

scientific article published on 07 June 2013

Pied Currawongs and the decline of native birds

Pigeons home faster through polluted air

scientific article published on 5 January 2016

Pre-screening acoustic and other natural signatures for use in noninvasive individual identification

scientific article published in 2010

Predator discrimination and 'personality' in captive Vancouver Island marmots (Marmota vancouverensis)

Predator exposure improves anti-predator responses in a threatened mammal

article

Predicted fitness consequences of threat-sensitive hiding behavior

scientific article published in 2007

Predicting Predator Recognition in a Changing World.

scientific article published on 10 November 2017

Predicting bird song from space

scientific article

Prey Responses to Predator's Sounds: A Review and Empirical Study

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Prey Under Stochastic Conditions Should Probably Overestimate Predation Risk: A Reply to Abrams

scholarly article by Amos Bouskila et al published June 1995 in The American Naturalist

Prey naïveté and the anti-predator responses of a vulnerable marsupial prey to known and novel predators

article

Prioritizing conservation behavior research: a comment on Wong and Candolin

scientific article published in 2014

Quantifying human disturbance on antipredator behavior and flush initiation distance in yellow-bellied marmots

article by Chunwang Li et al published January 2011 in Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Quantifying personality in the terrestrial hermit crab: different measures, different inferences

scientific article published on 3 July 2012

Relaxed selection in the wild

scientific article published on 06 June 2009

Reliability and the adaptive utility of discrimination among alarm callers

scientific article published in September 2004

Reliability of public information: predators provide more information about risk than conspecifics

Research Priorities from Animal Behaviour for Maximising Conservation Progress

scientific article

Research credibility: the devil is in the details: a comment on Ihle et al

scientific article published in 2017

Reversing the effects of evolutionary prey naiveté through controlled predator exposure

scientific article published in 2019

Rodent sociality and parasite diversity

scientific article

Rural-Urban Differences in Escape Behavior of European Birds across a Latitudinal Gradient

scientific article published in 2017

Safety Cues Can Give Prey More Valuable Information Than Danger Cues

scientific article published on 13 February 2020

Scared and less noisy: glucocorticoids are associated with alarm call entropy

scientific article

Sea anemones modify their hiding time based on their commensal damselfish

scientific article

Searching for an effective pre-release screening tool for translocations: can trap temperament predict behaviour and survival in the wild?

Selective Learning in a Marsupial

article published in 2002

Sensitive plant (Mimosa pudica) hiding time depends on individual and state

scientific article published on 31 July 2017

Sensitivity of wildlife to spatial patterns of recreationist behavior: A critical assessment of minimum approaching distances and buffer areas for grassland birds

Sex differences in lizard escape decisions vary with latitude, but not sexual dimorphism

scientific article published in April 2015

Shift down, look up: A test of the non-linearity and fear hypothesis in a non-vocal skink

article by Kaylee M. Yan et al published 11 February 2019 in Ethology

Signalling behaviour is influenced by transient social context in a spontaneously ovulating mammal

Situational Specificity in Alpine-marmot Alarm Communication

article by Daniel T. Blumstein & Walter Arnold published 26 April 2010 in Ethology

Skiing for science

scientific article

Social Effects on Emergence from Hibernation in Yellow-Bellied Marmots: Table 1

article by Daniel T. Blumstein published 15 October 2009 in Journal of Mammalogy

Social associations between California sea lions influence the use of a novel foraging ground

scientific article

Social attributes and associated performance measures in marmots: bigger male bullies and weakly affiliating females have higher annual reproductive success

scientific article published in 2012

Social behaviour

scholarly article published in 2012

Social behaviour in conservation

Social cohesion in yellow-bellied marmots is established through age and kin structuring

article by Tina W Wey & Daniel T. Blumstein published June 2010 in Animal Behaviour

Social group size predicts the evolution of individuality

scientific article published on 17 February 2011

Social mating system and sex-biased dispersal in mammals and birds: a phylogenetic analysis

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Social network analysis of animal behaviour: a promising tool for the study of sociality

article

Social position indirectly influences the traits yellow-bellied marmots use to solve problems

scientific article published on 09 February 2021

Social security: are socially connected individuals less vigilant?

article by Rachael P. Mady & Daniel T. Blumstein published December 2017 in Animal Behaviour

Social security: less socially connected marmots produce noisier alarm calls

article by Holly Fuong & Daniel T. Blumstein published August 2019 in Animal Behaviour

Social security: social relationship strength and connectedness influence how marmots respond to alarm calls

scientific article published in 2017

Social skew as a measure of the costs and benefits of group living in marmots

Social trajectories and the evolution of social behavior

scientific article published in 2002

Sociality in New World hystricognath rodents is linked to predators and burrow digging

scientific article published in 2006

Solutions for Archiving Data in Long-Term Studies: A Reply to Whitlock et al.

scientific article published on 6 January 2016

Sounds scary? Lack of habituation following the presentation of novel sounds

scientific article

Spatiotemporal Variation in Survival of Male Yellow-bellied Marmots

article by Natalia Borrego et al published April 2008 in Journal of Mammalogy

Spatiotemporal variation in reproductive parameters of yellow-bellied marmots

scientific article published on 9 August 2007

Spatiotemporal variation in survival rates: implications for population dynamics of yellow-bellied marmots

scientific article published in April 2006

Spearfishing-induced behavioral changes of an unharvested species inside and outside a marine protected area

scientific article published on 10 February 2016

Stimulus concordance and risk-assessment in hermit crabs (Coenobita clypeatus): implications for attention

scientific article

Stress hormone metabolites predict overwinter survival in yellow-bellied marmots

Strong social relationships are associated with decreased longevity in a facultatively social mammal

scientific article published in January 2018

Structural consistency of behavioural syndromes: does predator training lead to multi-contextual behavioural change?

scholarly article by Brian R. Smith & Daniel T. Blumstein published 1 January 2012 in Behaviour

Systematic evidence synthesis as part of a larger process: a response to comments on Berger-Tal et al

scientific article published in 2018

Systematic reviews and maps as tools for applying behavioral ecology to management and policy

scholarly article by Oded Berger-Tal et al published 8 October 2018 in Behavioral Ecology

Tactical deception reduces predation on birds’ eggs

scientific article published on October 18, 2012

Taking note of Tinbergen, or: the promise of a biology of behaviour

scientific article published on 8 April 2013

Tammar wallabies (Macropus eugenii) associate safety with higher levels of nocturnal illumination

scientific article published in 2003

Taxon matters: promoting integrative studies of social behavior: NESCent Working Group on Integrative Models of Vertebrate Sociality: Evolution, Mechanisms, and Emergent Properties

scientific article published on 2 February 2015

Testing a key assumption of wildlife buffer zones: is flight initiation distance a species-specific trait?

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Testing alternative hypotheses for evolutionary diversification in an African songbird: rainforest refugia versus ecological gradients.

scientific article published on 20 September 2011

The Costs of Conspecifics: Are Social Distractions or Environmental Distractions More Salient?

The Effect of Hemosporidian Infections on White-Crowned Sparrow Singing Behavior

article by Sarah E. Gilman et al published May 2007 in Ethology

The Effect of Human Presence and Human Activity on Risk Assessment and Flight Initiation Distance in Skinks

The Evolution, Function, and Meaning of Marmot Alarm Communication

article by Daniel T. Blumstein published 2007 in Advances in the study of behavior

The Extended Genotype: Microbially Mediated Olfactory Communication

scientific article published on 14 September 2018

The Fixed Slope Rule: An Inter-Specific Study

The Great Mismatch

The Multipredator Hypothesis and the Evolutionary Persistence of Antipredator Behavior

article published in 2006

The Sound of Arousal: The Addition of Novel Non-linearities Increases Responsiveness in Marmot Alarm Calls

article

The bigger they are the better they taste: size predicts predation risk and anti-predator behavior in giant clams

The effect of body size and habitat on the evolution of alarm vocalizations in rodents

The effect of maternal glucocorticoid levels on juvenile docility in yellow-bellied marmots

scientific article published on 3 January 2017

The evolution of capture myopathy in hooved mammals: a model for human stress cardiomyopathy?

scientific article

The evolution of error: error management, cognitive constraints, and adaptive decision-making biases

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Why do yellow-bellied marmots call?

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Yellow-Footed Rock-Wallaby Group Size Effects Reflect A Trade-Off

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Yellow-bellied Marmots (Marmota flaviventris) Hibernate Socially

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Yellow-bellied marmot hiding time is sensitive to variation in costs

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Yellow-bellied marmots discriminate between the alarm calls of individuals and are more responsive to calls from juveniles

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Yellow-bellied marmots do not compensate for a late start: the role of maternal allocation in shaping life-history trajectories

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