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Grabner JV, Pigmans E, Mircheva M, Knoester JM, Baumgartner R, Pomper U et al. Common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) do not differentiate between familiar and unfamiliar conspecifics based on pitch contour information. 2025 Oct 27. doi: 10.1101/2025.10.27.684793

Haba Y, PipPop Consortium‡. Ancient origin of an urban underground mosquito. Science (New York, N.Y.). 2025 Oct 23;390(6771):eady4515. doi: 10.1126/science.ady4515

Chen SC, Buchanan EM, Kekecs Z, Miller JK, Szabelska A, Aczel B et al. Investigating object orientation effects across 18 languages. Current Psychology. 2025 Oct 22;44(24):19148-19174. doi: 10.1007/s12144-025-08304-x

Nemeth M, Jost T, Millesi E, Siutz C. Effects of walnut oil on long-term memory of rats in a multiple-T-maze. Physiology and Behavior. 2025 Oct 15;300:115035. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2025.115035

ManyBirds Project. A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia. PLoS Biology. 2025 Oct 14. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3003394

Slezacek J, Kostner B, Agabiti C, Cardinale M, Fusani L. Berries to Go: Distinct Passerine Spring Migration Frugivory at a Main Mediterranean Stopover Site. Ecology and Evolution. 2025 Oct;15(10):e72239. doi: 10.1002/ece3.72239

Behringer V, Deimel C. Neopterin as a Tool for Primate Ecoimmunology: Current Knowledge, Practical Application, and New Directions From Captivity to the Wild. American Journal of Primatology. 2025 Oct;87(10):e70081. doi: 10.1002/ajp.70081

Stückler S, Donnachie E, Fuxjager MJ, Gururaja KV, Hegde G, Wampula T et al. Dynamic Sexual Dichromatism Promotes Rapid Mate Recognition in an Explosive Breeding Toad. Ichthyology & Herpetology. 2025 Sept 2;113(3):517-526. doi: 10.1643/h2024105

Arbon JJ, Truskanov N, Stott E, McIvor GE, Thornton A. Wild jackdaws learn to tolerate juveniles to exploit new foraging opportunities. Biology Letters. 2025 Aug 20;21(8):20250179. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2025.0179

Balboni I, Rampinini A, Kepinska O, Berthele R, Golestani N. Brain activation for language and its relationship to cognitive and linguistic measures. Cerebral Cortex. 2025 Aug 1;35(8):bhaf231. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhaf231

Kölzsch A, Safi K, Armfield MM, Beaupre C, Bennitt E, Böck M et al. Citizen scientists for MoveApps: Innovations and insights from volunteer coders in wildlife conservation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 2025 Aug;16(8):1550-1563. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.70101

Shaw AK, Fouda L, Mezzini S, Kim D, Chatterjee N, Wolfson D et al. Perceived and observed biases within scientific communities: a case study in movement ecology. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2025 Jul 23;292(2051):20250679. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2025.0679

Boucherie PH, Murari G, Svitil EA, Bugnyar T. Rearing group size in young ravens: stress load or social opportunity? Royal Society Open Science. 2025 Jul 23;12(7):250479. Epub 2025 Jul 23. doi: 10.1098/rsos.250479

Common L, Albán Morales K, Katsis A, Kleindorfer S. Personality in the parasitic avian vampire fly (Philornis downsi). Behaviour: an international journal of behaviourial biology. 2025 Jul 14;162(6-8):545 - 568. Epub 2025. doi: 10.1163/1568539X-bja10317

Eleuteri V, Bates L, Nyaradzo Masarira Y, Plotnik JM, Hobaiter C, Stoeger A. Investigating intentionality in elephant gestural communication. The Royal Society Open Science. 2025 Jul 9;12(7):242203. doi: 10.1098/rsos.242203

Santacà M, Wilkinson A, Stancher G, Sovrano VA, Bisazza A. Lizards and tortoises show evidence of low inhibitory control. Scientific Reports. 2025 Jul 2;15(1):23446. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-08373-9

de Jong ME, Slettenhaar AJ, Fokkema RW, Leh M, Verhoeven MA, Griffin LR et al. Diel rhythmicity of activity and corticosterone metabolites in Arctic barnacle geese during breeding. Behavioral Ecology. 2025 Jul 1;36(4):araf071. doi: 10.1093/beheco/araf071

Halloway AH, Rust N, Deimel C, Quigley C, Anon. Disability in ecology and evolution. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 2025 Jul;40(7):613-618. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2025.05.005