1. The past and the future of the Journal of Ethology: a message from the new editor-in-chief

   • Kensuke Nakata

   Editorial 28 November 2016 Pages: 1 - 2

2. Agonistic display or courtship behavior? A review of contests over mating opportunity in butterflies

   • Tsuyoshi Takeuchi

   Invited Review Open access 05 September 2016 Pages: 3 - 12

   

3. The scent of your enemy is my friend? The acquisition of large carnivore scent by a smaller carnivore

   • Maximilian L. Allen
   • Micaela S. Gunther
   • Christopher C. Wilmers

   Video Article 07 September 2016 Pages: 13 - 19

   

4. First come, first served: the first-emerging queen monopolizes reproduction in the ant Cardiocondyla “argyrotricha”

   • Christine V. Schmidt
   • Andreas Heimbucher
   • Jürgen Heinze

   Article 02 August 2016 Pages: 21 - 27

   

5. Trail-following behavior by males of the wolf spider, Schizocosa ocreata (Hentz)

   • Ryan D. Bell
   • J. Andrew Roberts

   Article 08 August 2016 Pages: 29 - 36

   

6. Space use and social ecology of coyotes (Canis latrans) in a high-elevation ecosystem: relative stability in a changing environment

   • Suzanne J. Gifford
   • Eric M. Gese
   • Robert R. Parmenter

   Article 12 August 2016 Pages: 37 - 49

   

7. Male Siamese fighting fish use gill flaring as the first display towards territorial intruders

   • Mohammad Navid Forsatkar
   • Mohammad Ali Nematollahi
   • Culum Brown

   Article 16 August 2016 Pages: 51 - 59

   

8. The effect of social learning in a small population facing environmental change: an agent-based simulation

   • Daniel Romero-Mujalli
   • José Cappelletto
   • Zaida Tárano

   Article 27 August 2016 Pages: 61 - 73

   

9. The relationship between different types of genetically defined aggressive behavior

   • Tatiana V. Ilchibaeva
   • Anton S. Tsybko
   • Vladimir S. Naumenko

   Article 14 September 2016 Pages: 75 - 81

   

10. Spatial expectation of food location in an ant on basis of previous food locations (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

    • Marie-Claire Cammaerts
    • Roger Cammaerts

    Article 22 September 2016 Pages: 83 - 91

    

11. The effect of audience on intrasexual interaction in the male fiddler crab, Uca maracoani (Latreille 1802–1803, Decapoda, Ocypodidae)

    • Luana Carla dos Santos
    • Fúlvio Aurélio de Morais Freire
    • Ana Carolina Luchiari

    Article 21 September 2016 Pages: 93 - 100

    

12. Personality and urbanization: behavioural traits and DRD4 SNP830 polymorphisms in great tits in Barcelona city

    • Sepand Riyahi
    • Mats Björklund
    • Juan Carlos Senar

    Article 03 October 2016 Pages: 101 - 108

    

13. Social plasticity in non-territorial male African cichlid fish Astatotilapia burtoni

    • Andrew G. Fulmer
    • H. Neumeister
    • T. Preuss

    Article 27 October 2016 Pages: 109 - 119

    

14. Monogamous mating system and sexuality in the gobiid fish, Trimma marinae (Actinopterygii: Gobiidae)

    • Kazuya Fukuda
    • Hisaya Manabe
    • Tomoki Sunobe

    Article 13 October 2016 Pages: 121 - 130

    

15. Breeding records of kelp gulls in areas newly exposed by glacier retreat on King George Island, Antarctica

    • Won Young Lee
    • Hyun-Cheol Kim
    • Jeong-Hoon Kim

    Article 15 October 2016 Pages: 131 - 135

    

16. Sex differences in intrasexual aggression among sex-role-reversed, cooperatively breeding cichlid fish Julidochromis regani

    • Munehiko H. Ito
    • Motoomi Yamaguchi
    • Nobuyuki Kutsukake

    Article 02 November 2016 Pages: 137 - 144

    

17. Are mantas self aware or simply social? A response to Ari and D’Agostino 2016

    • Joshua D. Stewart
    • Guy M. W. Stevens
    • Kyler Abernathy

    Comment 04 October 2016 Pages: 145 - 147

    

18. Understanding the behavior of manta rays: answer to a critique

    • Csilla Ari
    • Keller Laros
    • Dominic P. DAgostino

    Reply 04 October 2016 Pages: 149 - 152