Advances in the Study of Behavior, Volume 41

Advances in the Study of Behavior was initiated over 40 years ago to serve the increasing number of scientists engaged in the study of animal behavior. That number is still expanding. This volume makes another important "contribution to the development of the field" by presenting theoretical ideas and research to those studying animal behavior and to their colleagues in neighboring fields. Advances in the Study of Behavior is now available online at ScienceDirect full-text online from volume 30 onward.

Dr. H. Jane Brockmann is professor of zoology at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Her research interests include ethology, behavioral ecology; the evolution and economics of behavior; nesting and mating behavior of horseshoe crabs and solitary wasps; and alternative strategies, conflict evolution of social behavior and sex ratios. Professor Tim Roper has a Personal Chair in Animal Behaviour at the University of Sussex. He has been Secretary of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour, a Council Member of the International Society for Behavioural Ecology and both European Editor and Executive Editor of Animal Behaviour. His research interest is in the behavioral ecology of social mammals, especially badgers. Marc Naguib is professor in Behavioural Ecology at the Animal Sciences Department of Wageningen University, The Netherlands. He studied biology at the Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany and received his PhD (1995) at UNC Chapel Hill, NC in the US. After his PhD held positions at the Freie Universitaet Berlin (1995-1999) and Bielefeld University (2000-2007) in Germany, and at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (2008-2011), until he was appointed in 2011 as Chair of the Behavioural Ecology Group at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. He is specialized in vocal communication, social behaviour, animal personality and the effects of conditions experienced during early development on behaviour and life history traits, mainly using song birds as model. His research group is also involved in animal welfare research using farm animals. He has served for many years on the council of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) and of the Ethologische Gesellschaft. He published > 80 scientific publications and has been Editor for Advances in the Study of Behaviour since 2003. Since 2014 he is Executive Editor.

- The cognition of caching and recovery in food-storing birdsRaby, C.R. and Clayton, N.S - The Evolution of Mate Preferences, Sensory Biases and Indicator TraitsGREGORY F. GRETHER - Age-Related Changes in Birds' Singing Styles: on Fresh Tunes and Fading Voices?SILKE KIPPER1 and SARAH KIEFER - Tonic Commmunication in the Antipredator Behavior of Ground SquirrelsDonald H. Owings - Parasite manipulation of host behavior: an update and frequently asked questionsRobert Poulin - Calling in the Face of Danger? How Predation Risk Affects Acoustic Communication by Parent Birds and Their OffspringROBERT D. MAGRATH, TONYA M. HAFF, ANDREW G. HORN, MARTY L. LEONARD - Confounding variables in mouse models of neurodegenerative diseases and how to control themHeather M. Schellinck, David P. Cyr and Richard E. Brown