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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Spontaneous behavior predicts colony membership, individual identity, and rank in naked mole-rat societies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sociality shapes context-dependent stress responses to anthropogenic disturbance in African elephants www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Impact of opioid-based versus opioid-free anaesthesia on postoperative recovery, circulating inflammatory cytokines and brain-derived neurotrophic factor. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Validation of behavioural tests for personality assessment in tie-stall dairy cows www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Bottlenose whales are more socially connected when in poor body condition www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Homecage-Like Monitoring Reveals Domain-Specific Rescue of Central SPTAN1 R1098Q Phenotypes by Wild-Type Partner Co-Housing www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Schrodinger's mouse: human observation erases a drug-induced behavioral phenotype www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The development of navigation and attentional abilities shapes how children explore naturalistic environments www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Automated pup-level analysis reveals distinct effects of prenatal CBD and THC exposure on maternal retrieval www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A comparison of female competitive traits: Female aggression peaks at nest building but female song spans multiple contexts in a temperate songbird www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Temporal dynamics of grooming reciprocity in crested macaques: do social bonds affect exchange? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Daily locomotor rhythms and ecdysial stage-dependent behaviors in the tardigrade Hypsibius exemplaris www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Xenon improves autism-like behaviors in mice through potentiation of PVT-CeA glutamatergic neurotransmission www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Evaluating home-cage-activity metrics for detecting postprocedural pain in a plantar incision mouse model www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Big-team science reveals that patterns of inhibitory control variation in teleost fishes differ from those in mammals and birds www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tracking human foragers and their prey reveals adaptive predator-prey dynamics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

4-Dimensional Chess: Acoustic Localisation Reveals Nested Spatio-temporal Strategies in an Arboreal Communication Network www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Postnatal maternal separation alters caregiving patterns but fails to promote anxiety- and depressive-like behaviour in C57BL/6N mouse dams www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Increased Demographic Turnover and Isolation Precede Social Fragmentation in Asian Elephants www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Salt sweetens the deal: bumble bees prefer sodium-enriched nectar when its sugar concentration is low www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

AMADEUS: Annotation-free multi-animal direction estimation using self-supervised learning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Can't win, don't try: handling time costs affect foraging choices and vigilance in wild vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Phenotype-dependent schooling behaviour across hierarchical levels in three-spined sticklebacks www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Beyond the glass: testing visitor effects on the behavior of captive teleost fish in public aquaria www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Fixed Players, Fluid Moves: Refining Strategy While Preserving Identity in Free-Ranging Dogs www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The building blocks of social structure: simulating constraints of social network analysis for inference about group-level properties www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Convergent activity but divergent anxiety dimensions in male and female C57BL/6 mice across the open field and elevated plus maze www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Beyond compliance: evaluating the impact of assent-based training on equine behavior and the human-horse relationship. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Juvenile behavioral alterations and sex-dependent deficits in hippocampal neurogenesis following early-life stress in rats www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

zAcademy: an open-source programmable conditioning arena reveals sex- and genotype-dependent avoidance learning in adult zebrafish www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Risky bait: capture experience alters feeding mode toward angling gear in red sea bream www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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bioRxiv Animal Behavior and Cognition @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

roostR: An R package to examine diel activity patterns from Motus radio telemetry data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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