Frontiers in Ethology

Volume 4 - 2025

Original Research

Published on 02 Jul 2025

Giants in tourism: captive conditions, industry trends, and animal welfare implications for Asian elephants in tourism from 2014 to 2020

Jennah Green
Jan Schmidt-Burbach
Lindsay Hartley-Backhouse

Frontiers in Ethology

doi 10.3389/fetho.2025.1532995

307 views

Systematic Review

Accepted on 01 Jul 2025

Advances in ethological approaches to explore rodent vocal communication

Ali Abud
Yihan Wang
Rechuma Hafter
Ehsan Tavakoli
Christina Wu
Senadee Atapattu
Ahmed Raza
Mohammad Ali
Ali Al-Hadi
Hamza Khalid

Frontiers in Ethology

doi 10.3389/fetho.2025.1563374

109 views

Original Research

Published on 23 May 2025

Street smarts: a remarkable adaptation in a city-wintering raptor

Vladimir Dinets

Frontiers in Ethology

doi 10.3389/fetho.2025.1539103

135,585 views

Original Research

Published on 01 Apr 2025

Behavior and physiology of boars housed in three different environments

Thiago Bernardino
Leandro Sabei
Marisol Parada Sarmiento
Denis Sato
Sharacely de Souza Farias
Tauana Maria Carlos Guimarães de Paula
Gabriela Rezende Marques
Adroaldo José Zanella

Frontiers in Ethology

doi 10.3389/fetho.2025.1540458

1,093 views

Original Research

Published on 20 Mar 2025

Over or under: new phylogenetic insights in the evolution of head scratching in birds

Cristián Gutiérrez-Ibáñez
Vivien C. Pellis
Andrew N. Iwaniuk
Sergio M. Pellis

Frontiers in Ethology

doi 10.3389/fetho.2025.1520935

1,398 views

Systematic Review

Published on 29 Jan 2025

What behavior is important behavior? A systematic review of how wild and zoo-housed animals differ in their time-activity budgets

Robert Kelly
Marianne Freeman
Paul Rose

Frontiers in Ethology

doi 10.3389/fetho.2025.1517294

4,493 views
2 citations

Volume 3 - 2024

Original Research

Published on 16 Jan 2025

Male bluegill vary in color and behavior relative to their position in a lek

Matthew Peroš
Lakshita Vij
Elana Anavian
Kevin Almeida Arteaga
Fatima Iya Haruna
Aliza Siegman
Wei Fang
Sebastian Gaston Alvarado

Frontiers in Ethology

doi 10.3389/fetho.2024.1513231

1,328 views

Perspective

Published on 07 Jan 2025

Chronobiology as compensation: can biological rhythms compensate for sexual signals?

Mary L. Westwood
E. Dale Broder
Gabrielle T. Welsh
Robin M. Tinghitella

Frontiers in Ethology

doi 10.3389/fetho.2024.1473358

972 views

Original Research

Published on 13 Dec 2024

Effect of social play deprivation on stress sensitivity in response to social and non-social challenges

E. J. Marijke Achterberg
Jose G. Lozeman-van ‘t Klooster
Tara C. Pimentel
Anastasija Aleksić
Judith C. M. J. Hendriks
Sanne Nijhof
C. Kors van der Ent
Heidi M. B. Lesscher

Frontiers in Ethology

doi 10.3389/fetho.2024.1458136

1,092 views

Brief Research Report

Published on 18 Nov 2024

The development of compensatory ability for a sexually-selected ornament in stalk-eyed flies

Jason T. Vance
John G. Swallow

Frontiers in Ethology

doi 10.3389/fetho.2024.1484454

772 views

Original Research

Published on 31 Oct 2024

Paternal behaviour is associated with high levels of OT in plasma and the presence OTR in the mPOA/BNST in the Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus)

Luis Romero-Morales
Brenda García-Saucedo
Agustín Carmona
Fernando A. Cervantes
Juana Luis

Frontiers in Ethology

doi 10.3389/fetho.2024.1475119

1,281 views

Brief Research Report

Published on 21 Oct 2024

Stalk-eyed flies carrying a driving X chromosome compensate by increasing fight intensity

Kimberly A. Paczolt
Macy E. Pritchard
Gabrielle T. Welsh
Gerald S. Wilkinson
Josephine A. Reinhardt

Frontiers in Ethology

doi 10.3389/fetho.2024.1461681

2,454 views

Brief Research Report

Published on 10 Oct 2024

Heat-absorbing sexual coloration co-adapts with increased heat tolerance in dragonflies

Noah T. Leith
Michael P. Moore

Frontiers in Ethology

doi 10.3389/fetho.2024.1447637

2,404 views

Original Research

Published on 10 Oct 2024

Counting the costs of expensive tissues: mating system, brain size, and IGF-1 affect the ecological costs of transport in mammals

Jerry F. Husak
Mahaut V. Sorlin
Simon P. Lailvaux

Frontiers in Ethology

doi 10.3389/fetho.2024.1464308

930 views
2 citations

Original Research

Published on 20 Sep 2024

Balancing welfare and habitat damage in pigs (Sus scrofa) under extensive farming: an ethological approach for determining the effects of group composition and environmental enrichment

Edoardo Collarini
Luca Capponcelli
Andrea Pierdomenico
Giada Cordoni
Ivan Norscia

Frontiers in Ethology

doi 10.3389/fetho.2024.1450585

1,031 views

Original Research

Published on 14 Aug 2024

Courtship performance, not ornamentation, predicts mating success in two sister-species of wolf spider with divergent phenotypes

Eileen A. Hebets
Mariela Oviedo-Diego
Abdallah Abdallah
Seth Griger
Rowan McGinley
James Starrett
Jason E. Bond
Mitch Bern

Frontiers in Ethology

doi 10.3389/fetho.2024.1460323

1,281 views