Vigilance allows animals to monitor their surroundings for signs of danger associated with
predators or rivals. As vigilance is costly, models predict that it should increase when the risk …

Behavioural responses are widely held to allow animals to cope with human-induced
environmental changes. Less often appreciated is that the absence of behavioural response …

Using social information can benefit individuals in many ways. Responding to alarm signals
can, for instance, maximize survival under predation risk. However, foraging individuals …

Animals often interact aggressively when competing over limited resources. Aggressive
decisions can be complex and may result from multiple sources of behavioral variation. The …

Male sexually selected signals can indicate competitive ability by honestly signaling fitness-
relevant traits such as condition or performance. However, behavior can also influence …

Highlights•Mothers need to respond to different types of risks to protect offspring.•Mothers
increase vigilance and protective behaviour when infanticide risk is higher.•Dingo calls did …

Conspicuousness increases the risk of predation. One strategy to reduce this risk is to
increase vigilance. We investigated the frequency of head movements as a measure of …

When captured, many prey respond by biting the predator or struggling to get free. However,
one indirect escape option is death feigning (DF), in which complete immobility supposedly …

Breeding nest site selection is often the first defense against nest predation risk. To be
effective, this mechanism requires site‐specific spatial heterogeneity in predator abundance …

To effectively balance the need to forage against the need to avoid predation, animals
should utilize information from both their physical and social environments. However, most …