New cover image for Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Starting with the January issue, BES has a new cover image showing Angolan giraffes. King (in the middle), an adult male desert-dwelling Angolan giraffe, joins a group of females and calves in the Hoarusib River valley in the northern Namib Desert, Namibia. A seasonal reduction in sexual segregation in this population may help to explain an adaptive seasonal birth pulse. Photo credit: Andreas Fernbrant

For more information see Hart EE et al. (2021) Seasonal shifts in sociosexual behaviour and reproductive phenology in giraffe. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 75:15.