1. 2023 Editor’s Choice Award and Editor’s Choice articles

   • Takeshi Takegaki

   Announcement 17 December 2023 Pages: 1 - 1

2. Snake herders: novel anti-predator behavior by black-tailed prairie dogs in response to prairie rattlesnakes

   • J. L. Verdolin
   • Ellen K. Bledsoe

   Video Article 13 November 2023 Pages: 3 - 8

   

3. Labidochromis caeruleus cichlid preference for background colour varied between individuals and groups but did not vary for body colour of other fish

   • Hao-Xiang Zhao
   • Jiu-Hong Zhang
   • Shi-Jian Fu

   Article 04 November 2023 Pages: 9 - 18

   

4. Effects of human approach directness and path use on small mammal risk perception

   • Hannah Rabitoy
   • Theodore Stankowich

   Article 10 November 2023 Pages: 19 - 29

   

5. Relationships of wingtip shape, song-flight and mating success in male black-headed buntings Emberiza melanocephala

   • Sanja Barišić
   • Jelena Kralj
   • Herbert Hoi

   Article 21 November 2023 Pages: 31 - 40

   

6. Social play and affiliation as possible coping strategies in a group of Maremmana beef cattle

   • Martina Francesconi
   • Luca Pedruzzi
   • Elisabetta Palagi

   Article 15 December 2023 Pages: 41 - 52

   

7. Host preference of a symbiotic flatworm and its response to conspecific and host mucus

   • Wakana Sakata
   • Masanori Tatani
   • Osamu Kagawa

   Article 23 December 2023 Pages: 53 - 59

   

8. Polyandry works as bet-hedging in the field cricket Gryllus bimaculatus, even after eliminating females in poor condition that cannot accept remating

   • Yuto Yamamoto
   • Yukio Yasui

   Article 16 December 2023 Pages: 61 - 69

   

9. Aggregation pheromone interrupts death feigning in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum

   • Motoya Ishikawa
   • Kentarou Matsumura
   • Takahisa Miyatake

   Short Communication Open access 13 September 2023 Pages: 71 - 75

   

10. Correction: Mite dilemma: molting to acquire sexual maturity or not molting to ensure durability and dispersal ability in Phorytocarpais fimetorum (Parasitiformes; Gamasida; Parasitidae)

    • Yukio Yasui

    Correction Open access 14 November 2023 Pages: 77 - 77

11. Correction: Optimal pit site selection in antlion larvae: the relationship between prey availability and pit maintenance costs

    • Taka Hayashi
    • Kina Hayashi
    • Fumio Hayashi

    Correction Open access 25 November 2023 Pages: 79 - 79

12. Correction: Fish yawn: the state-change hypothesis in juvenile white-spotted char Salvelinus leucomaenis

    • Hiroyuki Yamada
    • Satoshi Wada

    Correction Open access 25 November 2023 Pages: 81 - 81