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This study shows that high-dose fluoxetine inhibits sexual receptivity in female cichlid fish, suggesting serotonin pathway disruption affects mating behavior and could impact aquatic ecosystems.

The paper shows that in queenless bumble bee colonies, workers show increased behavioral variation and take on influential roles, leading to a shift from centralized to decentralized social networks.

This study uses machine learning to analyze mosquito flight behavior around insecticide-treated nets, finding immediate disruption in flight patterns regardless of insecticide resistance.

This study examines how socio-ecological factors influence sexual selection and mating strategies in Drosophila prolongata, showing context-dependent shifts in competition modes and trait significance.

This study shows that capsaicin induces liking and disgust reactions in male mice through orofacial and bodily responses, similar to taste reactivity.

This study compares age-related decline and behavioral validity in C57BL/6 and CB6F1 mice, finding strain-specific differences in behavior, physiology, and organ pathology.

This study shows that the dentate gyrus supports cognitive flexibility in spatial navigation by enabling efficient adaptation to changing environments.

This study identifies genetic, natal, and spatial factors influencing social behaviors in wild great tits, finding small genetic effects and significant non-genetic influences.

This study tracks activity variation in ruffs from early life to maturity, finding strong sex differences but inconsistent morph-specific activity differences.

This study shows that cannabidiol reduces morphine-induced hyperalgesia and withdrawal signs in rats, with sex-dependent effects on withdrawal behaviors.

This study evaluates the antidepressant-like effects and safety of ketamine in adolescent rats, finding sex-dependent efficacy and safety concerns.

This study examines anti-snake behavior and snake classification in vervet monkeys through observational and experimental methods, finding that inspection duration varies with snake species but not size, and alarm calling is proximity-dependent.

This study compares changes in motivated behavior in male and female mice during and after chronic social stress, finding divergent effects where males increased motivation during stress and females decreased it during and after.

The study examines nest construction repeatability in House Wrens, finding that cup composition is repeatable but nest dimensions are cavity-driven and not linked to fitness.

PreyTouch is an automated touch-screen system for prey capture experiments that enables long-term studies of predator behavior, revealing prey preferences and learning dynamics in lizards.

This study assesses behavioral contagion in KM rats, an ASD model, and finds reduced social behavior compared to Wistar controls using an automated system.

The paper introduces iDOC, a platform for single-fly olfactory conditioning and memory assessment, showing spaced training promotes sleep while massed training induces anesthesia-resistant memory.

This study examines sex-dependent and anatomic differences in motor function decline in SOD1G93A mice, finding males show earlier and less localized onset, and distinct decline rates between sexes.

This study tracks longitudinal changes in exercise capacity and physical function in male and female mice using CFAB, finding sex-specific declines in function and body composition.

This study shows that social information from conspecific rivals influences oviposition decisions in Aedes aegypti, with effects varying by spatial scale and ecological context.

This study tests Osgood's model of learning by examining how stimulus and response similarity affect memory transfer and interference in bumble bees foraging on artificial flowers.

This study shows yellowjacket workers can learn and discriminate amino acids, with some generalization between essential and non-essential amino acids.

The paper shows that female mice have an innate sugar preference while male mice do not, challenging the assumption of universal innate sugar preference in animals.

This study shows that social isolation stress impairs safety memory and defensive behavior organization in both male and female mice during a thermal threat task.

This study examines cognitive and neuroinflammatory changes in rats after chemotherapy, finding that impairments in memory and processing speed occur acutely and sub-acute but improve chronically, with drug- and region-specific neuroinflammatory responses.

This study shows that humans, rats, and mice invest time based on statistical confidence, approaching optimal time allocation strategies under uncertainty.

This study compares peering behavior in wild and zoo-housed immature Sumatran orangutans, finding similar age-related patterns but differences in target selection and frequency.

This study examines nonadjacent dependencies in chimpanzee tool-use sequences, finding evidence of hierarchical structuring similar to human language.

This study compares the effects of SK609, a novel dopamine D3 receptor agonist and norepinephrine transporter blocker, with amphetamine and methylphenidate on risky choice behavior in a probabilistic discounting task.

This study quantifies male African elephant personality durability across social contexts, finding consistent behaviors and social influences on individual character.