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23/07/2025

** New issue published **

Two articles and comments/reflections “A case of thanatosis in domestic sheep” by Janko Skok et al. are available in in the latest issue of Behaviour (Vol. 162, No. 6-8). View the full issue here: https://brill.com/view/journals/beh/162/6-8/beh.162.issue-6-8.xml

Table of Contents
Regular articles
Integrating knowledge of results with observed motor information enhances sensitive motor adjustment: exploring observational motor learning by the concept of schema
Tsubasa Wakatsuki, Kento Nakajima, Hiroki Murakami, and Norimasa Yamada

( ) Chimpanzees socially learn non-instrumental behaviour from conspecifics
Edwin J.C. van Leeuwen, Emile Bryon, Alex Rogers, Aurore Balaran, Peggy Motsch, and Jake S. Brooker

Neonatal oxytocin exposure influences oestrous cycle, oestrogen receptor-alpha and oxytocin expression, and cocaine-induced behavioural responses in female mice
Xikai Lin, Guangchao Cheng, Xiangyao Ju, and Jianli Wang

Dynamic landscapes of fear and safety alter prey refuge use in freshwater habitats
Madison J. Alexander and Paul A. Moore

The direct social benefits of friendships between female plains zebras (Equus quagga)
Anqi Shi and Severine B.S.W. Hex

( ) Personality in the parasitic avian vampire fly (Philornis downsi)
Lauren K. Common, Katherine Albán Morales, Andrew C. Katsis, and Sonia Kleindorfer

Comments/Reflections
( ) A case of thanatosis in domestic sheep
Janko Skok, Maja Prevolnik Povše, and Dejan Škorjanc

22/07/2025

* New Issue *

One of the articles in the latest issue of Nematology (Vol. 27, No. 6) is “Aphelenchoides epiphyticus n. sp. (Tylenchomorpha: Aphelenchoididae) isolated from figs of Ficus septica in Japan” by Natsumi Kanzaki and Ryusei Tanaka. You can find the complete issue here: https://brill.com/view/journals/nemy/27/6/nemy.27.issue-6.xml

Table of Contents
Articles
Characterisation of a new dorylaim, Crassolabium asiaticum n. sp. (Nematoda: Qudsianematidae) from Korea with remarks on its phylogenetic relationships
Abraham Okki Mwamula, Chang-Hwan Bae, Yi Seul Kim, and D**g Woon Lee

Redescription of Macrolaimus somniorum Andrássy, 1984 (Rhabditida, Panagrolaimidae) from a coastal dune in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula
María-Cristina Robles and Joaquín Abolafia

Description of Bursaphelenchus betulae sp. n. and Bursaphelenchus ophiostomae sp. n. (Tylenchina: Aphelenchoididae) associated with the Scolytus spp. in Poland
Jianfeng Gu, Marek Tomalak, Anna Filipiak, Xinxin Ma, and Yiwu Fang

Pristionchus kravanhensis n. sp., the first Pristionchus species reported from Cambodia
Penghieng Theam, Natsumi Kanzaki, Matthias Herrmann, Christian Weiler, Christian Rödelsperger, and Ralf J. Sommer

Re-isolation of Lenisaphelenchus ulomae Kanzaki & Hamaguchi, 2020 (Aphelenchoididae) from Uloma bonzica (Tenebrionidae) from Kyoto, Japan, with some notes on its typological characters
Yuta Fujimori and Natsumi Kanzaki

Distribution and diversity of plant-parasitic nematodes associated with soybean (Glycine max L.) in southwest Ethiopia
Sihen Getachew, Marjolein Couvreur, Beira H. Meressa, Abebe W. Aseffa, Misghina G. Teklu, and Wim Bert

Aphelenchoides epiphyticus n. sp. (Tylenchomorpha: Aphelenchoididae) isolated from figs of Ficus septica in Japan
Natsumi Kanzaki and Ryusei Tanaka

Book review
Ralf-Udo Ehlers

22/07/2025

17/07/2025

📣 Call for Papers for Special Issue Behaviour

Behaviour is looking for contributions to a special issue on “Maternal Behaviour, Mother-Young and Sibling Relations in the Felidae. Commonalities and Contrasts” guest edited by Anastasia L. Antonevich and Robyn E. Hudson. See full details here:https://brill.com/fileasset/downloads_products/8582_BEH_SI_Felidae_CfP.pdf