Marc Naguib is professor in Behavioural Ecology at the Animal Sciences Department of Wageningen University, The Netherlands. He studied biology at the Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany and received his PhD (1995) at UNC Chapel Hill, NC in the US. After his PhD held positions at the Freie Universitaet Berlin (1995-1999) and Bielefeld University (2000-2007) in Germany, and at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (2008-2011), until he was appointed in 2011 as Chair of the Behavioural Ecology Group at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. He is specialized in vocal communication, social behaviour, animal personality and the effects of conditions experienced during early development on behaviour and life history traits, mainly using song birds as model. His research group is also involved in animal welfare research using farm animals. He has served for many years on the council of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) and of the Ethologische Gesellschaft. He published > 80 scientific publications and has been Editor for Advances in the Study of Behaviour since 2003. Since 2014 he is Executive Editor.

• PrefaceMarc Naguib1. Countersinging in birdsDavid M. Logue2. Do hosts of avian brood parasites discriminate parasitic vs. predatory threats? A meta-analysisShelby L. Lawson, Janice K. Enos, Nicholas D. Antonson, Sharon A. Gill and Mark E. Hauber3. Dogs’ (Canis lupus familiaris) behavioral adaptations to a human-dominated niche: A review and novel hypothesisClive D. L. Wynne4. The evolution of delayed dispersal and different routes to breeding in social birdsSjouke A. Kingma , Kat Bebbington, Niki Teunissen, Anne Peters and Jan Komdeur5. Understanding the potential impact of climate change on the behaviour and demography of social species: The pied babbler (Turdoides bicolor) as a case studyAmanda R. Ridley, Elizabeth M. Wiley, Amanda R. Bourne, Susan J. Cunningham and Martha J Nelson-Flower