Animal Behaviour

Papers
(The TQCC of Animal Behaviour is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
The development of animal personality across ontogeny: a cross-species review60
Chimpanzees combine pant hoots with food calls into larger structures33
Innovation and decreased neophobia drive invasion success in a widespread avian invader33
Sex-specific foraging behaviour is affected by wind conditions in a sexually size dimorphic seabird31
Cognitive characteristics of 8- to 10-week-old assistance dog puppies31
Effects of multiple stressors on fish shoal collective motion are independent and vary with shoaling metric27
Comparing behavioural syndromes across time and ecological conditions in a free-ranging predator27
Is less more? A commentary on the practice of ‘metric hacking’ in animal social network analysis26
Interactions between social groups of colobus monkeys (Colobus vellerosus) explain similarities in their gut microbiomes26
Prosociality, social tolerance and partner choice facilitate mutually beneficial cooperation in common marmosets, Callithrix jacchus25
Linking animal personality to problem-solving performance in urban common brushtail possums25
Integration of physiology, behaviour and life history traits: personality and pace of life in a marine gastropod25
Social bonds predict dominance trajectories in adult male chimpanzees25
Bateman (1948): rise and fall of a paradigm?24
Facultative polyandry protects females from compromised male fertility caused by heatwave conditions24
When personality matters: personality and social structure in wild bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus24
The role of diversity in science: a case study of women advancing female birdsong research24
Novelty at second glance: a critical appraisal of the novel object paradigm based on meta-analysis24
Guidelines for the ethical treatment of nonhuman animals in behavioural research and teaching24
Does dispersal make the heart grow bolder? Avoidance of anthropogenic habitat elements across wolf life history24
Diversity and inclusion activisms in animal behaviour and the ABS: a historical view from the U.S.A.23
Low-amplitude noise elicits the Lombard effect in plainfin midshipman mating vocalizations in the wild23
Behavioural lateralization in a detour test is not repeatable in fishes23
The role of spatial accuracy and precision in hermit crab contests22
Yawn contagion promotes motor synchrony in wild lions, Panthera leo22
Patterns and mechanisms for larval aggregation in carrion beetle Necrodes littoralis (Coleoptera: Silphidae)22
Comparative analysis of noise effects on wild and captive freshwater fish behaviour21
Insights found in century-old writings on animal behaviour and some cautions for today21
Contingent parental responses are naturally associated with zebra finch song learning21
Virile crayfish escalate aggression according to body size instead of weapon size20
Guidelines for the treatment of animals in behavioural research and teaching20
Getting lost: the fungal hijacking of ant foraging behaviour in space and time20
Social network stability is impacted by removing a dominant male in replicate dominance hierarchies of a cichlid fish20
A primer on the relationship between group size and group performance20
The reliability of individual vocal signature varies across the bonobo's graded repertoire20
Vocal athletics – from birdsong production mechanisms to sexy songs19
Ultrasonic courtship vocalizations of male house mice contain distinct individual signatures19
Aggression and motivation to disperse in eusocial naked mole-rats, Heterocephalus glaber18
Complex interactions between temperature, sexual signals and mate choice in a desert-dwelling jumping spider18
The effect of individual learning on collective foraging in honey bees in differently structured landscapes18
Wind slows play: increasing wind speed reduces flower visiting rate in honey bees18
Animal size and sea water temperature, but not pH, influence a repeatable startle response behaviour in a wide-ranging marine mollusc18
Environmental context elicits behavioural modification of collective state in schooling fish18
Parasitism and host social behaviour: a meta-analysis of insights derived from social network analysis18
Predator exposure enhances the escape behaviour of a small marsupial, the burrowing bettong17
Behavioural correlations across multiple stages of the antipredator response: do animals that escape sooner hide longer?17
The representation of animal behaviour in the fossil record17
Do bumble bees play?17
Underwater noise impairs social communication during aggressive and reproductive encounters17
From ridge tops to ravines: landscape drivers of chimpanzee ranging patterns17
Heat stress inhibits cognitive performance in wild Western Australian magpies, Cracticus tibicen dorsalis17
Egg rejection changes with seasonal variation in risk of cuckoo parasitism in Daurian redstarts, Phoenicurus auroreus17
Predatory behaviour as a personality trait in a wild fish population16
Motivation, accuracy and positive feedback through experience explain innovative problem solving and its repeatability16
Bumble bees strategically use ground level linear features in navigation16
Herring gull aversion to gaze in urban and rural human settlements16
Stable social groups foster conformity and among-group differences16
The causes and consequences of yawning in animal groups16
Short-term impacts of daily feeding on the residency, distribution and energy expenditure of sharks16
Timing of mating, reproductive status and resource availability in relation to migration in the painted lady butterfly16
The history and impact of women in animal behaviour and the ABS: a North American perspective16
Mechanisms and constraints underlying acoustic variation in rodents16
Social exploitation of extensive, ephemeral, environmentally controlled prey patches by supergroups of rorqual whales15
Mate choice and the ‘opposite miss’ to Weber's law: proportional processing governs signal preferences in a treefrog15
Ontogeny of vocal learning in a hummingbird15
Urban birdsongs: higher minimum song frequency of an urban colonist persists in a common garden experiment15
Dynamic terminal investment in male burying beetles15
Pigeons remember visual landmarks after one release and rely upon them more if they are anosmic15
Urbanization predicts flight initiation distance in feral pigeons (Columba livia) across New York City15
City mice and country mice: innovative problem solving in rural and urban noncommensal rodents15
Plumage colour saturation predicts long-term, cross-seasonal social dominance in a mutually ornamented bird15
Bonobos and chimpanzees preferentially attend to familiar members of the dominant sex15
Polar bear foraging on common eider eggs: estimating the energetic consequences of a climate-mediated behavioural shift14
Good prospects: high-resolution telemetry data suggests novel brood site selection behaviour in waterfowl14
Complex distress calls sound frightening: the case of the weeping lizard14
How does individual variation in sociality influence fitness in prairie voles?14
Impacts of caudal autotomy on personality14
Consistent after all: behavioural repeatability in a long-lived lizard across a 6-year field study14
Social interactions and interaction partners in infant orang-utans of two wild populations14
Seasonal shifts in activity timing reduce heat loss of small mammals during winter14
A combination of rules govern fruit trait preference by frugivorous bat and bird species: nutrients, defence and size14
The function of chimpanzee greeting calls is modulated by their acoustic variation14
Fitness effects of seasonal birth timing in a long-lived social primate living in the equatorial forest13
Effects of prey colour on bird predation: an experiment in Mediterranean woodlands13
Variable use of polyadic grooming and its effect on access to social partners in wild chimpanzees and bonobos13
Bridging animal personality with space use and resource use in a free-ranging population of an asocial ground squirrel13
The genesis of giants: behavioural ontogeny of male northern elephant seals13
Claw size predicts dominance within and between invasive species of crayfish13
Analysis of female song provides insight into the evolution of sex differences in a widely studied songbird13
Ontogeny and personality affect inhibitory control in guppies, Poecilia reticulata13
Automating the analysis of fish grazing behaviour from videos using image classification and optical flow13
Experimental manipulation of mixed-species flocks reveals heterospecific audience effects on calling13
Collective behaviour of fish in the presence and absence of flow13
Relationship quality affects social stress buffering in dogs and wolves13
Play fighting in wild spotted hyaenas: like a bridge over the troubled water of a hierarchical society13
Colour morph predicts social behaviour and contest outcomes in a polymorphic lizard (Podarcis erhardii)12
Food availability reverses the effect of hunger state on copulation rate in Drosophila prolongata females12
Social connectedness and movements among communities of giraffes vary by sex and age class12
Personality shifts are inconsistent across two rapid range expansions of a non-native spider12
Negative frequency-dependent prey selection by wolves and its implications on predator–prey dynamics12
Balancing risk and reward: mating opportunity influences thermal refuge use in fiddler crabs12
Movement tortuosity and speed reveal the trade-offs of crop raiding for African elephants12
Black widows on an urban heat island: extreme heat affects spider development and behaviour from egg to adulthood12
Contest competition for fruit and space among wild chimpanzees in relation to the vertical stratification of metabolizable energy12
Punishment controls helper defence against egg predators but not fish predators in cooperatively breeding cichlids12
Disentangling the importance of social and ecological information in goal-directed movements in a wild primate12
Vibratory communication in a black widow spider (Latrodectus hesperus): signal structure and signalling mechanisms12
The dark side of play: play fighting as a substitute for real fighting in domestic pigs, Sus scrofa12
Let's talk about sex roles: what affects perceptions of sex differences in animal behaviour?12
Costs, constraints and sexual trait elaboration11
Reactive and pre-emptive spatial cohesion in a social primate11
Spatially clustered resources increase male aggregation and mating duration in Drosophila melanogaster11
Environmental and life history factors, but not age, influence social learning about food: a meta-analysis11
Maternal stress during pregnancy affects activity, exploration and potential dispersal of daughters in an invasive fish11
Behavioural context shapes vocal sequences in two anuran species with different repertoire sizes11
The role of visual and olfactory cues in social decisions of guppies and zebrafish11
Intergroup lethal gang attacks in wild crested macaques, Macaca nigra11
Hive minded: like neurons, honey bees collectively integrate negative feedback to regulate decisions11
Birdsong learning is mutually beneficial for tutee and tutor in song sparrows11
Sex- and context-specific associations between personality and a measure of fitness but no link with life history traits11
Niche partitioning and individual specialization among age, breeding status and sex classes in a long-lived seabird11
Are all butterflies equal? Population-wise proboscis length variation predicts flower choice in a butterfly11
Complex trade-offs in oviposition site selection in a cannibalistic frog10
Sequential and network analyses to describe multiple signal use in captive mangabeys10
Vocal learning in Savannah sparrows: acoustic similarity to neighbours shapes song development and territorial aggression10
Do less or eat more: strategies to cope with costs of parental care in a pair-living monkey10
Cleaner fish and other wrasse match primates in their ability to delay gratification10
Love thy neighbour: behavioural and endocrine correlates of male strategies during intergroup encounters in bonobos10
Skilful mating? Insights from animal contest research10
Spawning-related movements in a salmonid appear timed to reduce exposure to visually oriented predators10
Genetic ancestry predicts male–female affiliation in a natural baboon hybrid zone10
Information use in foraging flocks of songbirds: no evidence for social transmission of patch quality10
Leptin regulates song effort in Neotropical singing mice (Scotinomys teguina)10
Disentangling female postmating responses induced by semen transfer components in a simultaneous hermaphrodite10
Bateman (1948): was it all wrong? A comment on Hoquet (2020)10
Evidence for the ‘behavioural character’ hypothesis: does boldness programme disparate antipredator strategies?10
The dance of the Cape gannet may contain social information on foraging behaviour10
Different as night and day: wild bats modify echolocation in complex environments when visual cues are present10
Filial egg cannibalism in the European earwig: its determinants and implications in the evolution of maternal egg care10
Measuring mimicry: methods for quantifying visual similarity10
Flipping the parental switch: from killing to caring in male mammals10
Plasticity and repeatability of activity patterns in free-living Arctic ground squirrels10
A study of tactical and sexual dimorphism in cognition with insights for sexual conflict10
Relationship quality underpins pair bond formation and subsequent reproductive performance10
Trade-offs of strategic sperm adjustments and their consequences under phenotype–environment mismatches in guppies10
Sharing spaces: niche differentiation in diet and substrate use among wild capuchin monkeys10
Content bias in the cultural evolution of house finch song10
Interacting effects of short-term and long-term noise exposure on antipredator behaviour in sand gobies10
Autumn migratory timing and pace are driven by breeding season carryover effects10
Trade-off between predation risk and behavioural thermoregulation drives resting behaviour in a cold-adapted mesocarnivore10
Nest construction, ambient temperature and reproductive success in a cavity-nesting bird10
Collective close calling mediates group cohesion in foraging meerkats via spatially determined differences in call rates9
Plumage manipulation alters associations between behaviour, physiology, the internal microbiome and fitness9
Assessing animal welfare: a triangulation of preference, judgement bias and other candidate welfare indicators9
Task-dependent reversal learning dynamics challenge the reversal paradigm of measuring cognitive flexibility9
Autumn southward migration of dragonflies along the Baltic coast and the influence of weather on flight behaviour9
Female helpers signal their contribution to chick provisioning in a cooperatively breeding bird9
Geographical variation of social calls and vocal discrimination in male Himalayan leaf-nosed bats9
‘Hangry’ Drosophila: food deprivation increases male aggression9
Long-term repeatability and age-related plasticity of female behaviour in a free-living passerine9
Do different food amounts gradually promote personality variation throughout the life stage in a clonal gecko species?9
Do reproductive constraints or experience drive age-dependent space use in two large herbivores?9
Analysing age structure, residency and relatedness uncovers social network structure in aggregations of young birds9
Winner effects and switching assessment strategies facilitate fast and frugal decisions in territorial contests9
Size variation does not act as insurance in bumble bees; instead, workers add weight in an unpredictable environment9
Social environment affects inhibitory control via developmental plasticity in a fish9
The form and function of chimpanzee buttress drumming9
Animal territoriality, property and access: a collaborative exchange between animal behaviour and the social sciences9
Producer–scrounger relationships in yellow-bellied marmots9
Precise cache detection by olfaction in a scatter-hoarder bird9
Females don't always sing in response to male song, but when they do, they sing to males with higher-pitched songs9
Physiological innovation and the evolutionary elaboration of courtship behaviour9
Phenotype networks reveal differences between practice and courtship displays in swallow-tailed manakins9
Protective coloration of European vipers throughout the predation sequence9
The effect of predation risk on group behaviour and information flow during repeated collective decisions9
A reproductive heir has a central position in multilayer social networks of paper wasps8
Odour-based social recognition in Damaraland mole-rats, Fukomys damarensis8
High temperatures reduce song production and alter signal salience in songbirds8
Wood warblers learn to recognize mobbing calls of an unfamiliar species from heterospecific tutors8
Risk in one is not risk in all: snails show differential decision making under high- and low-risk environments8
Why do nestling birds fledge early in the day?8
Behavioural flexibility in the courtship dance of golden-collared manakins, Manacus vitellinus8
There's no place like home: tropical overwintering sites may have a fundamental role in shaping migratory strategies8
Aggressive males are more attractive to females and more likely to win contests in jumping spiders8
Cooperative nest building in wild jackdaw pairs8
A test of the win-stay–lose-shift foraging strategy and its adaptive value in albatrosses8
Cognitive phenotypes and their functional differences in the honey bee, Apis mellifera8
Detectable but unseen: imperfect crypsis protects crab spiders from predators8
Effects of a group-living experience on the antipredator responses of individual tadpoles8
Niko Tinbergen and questions of instinct8
The interacting effects of total light intensity and chromatic contrast on visual signal visibility in an Anolis lizard8
Moonlight triggers nocturnal display in a diurnal bird8
Conservation practices and the formation of vocal dialects in the endangered Puerto Rican parrot, Amazona vittata8
Individual differences in task participation in wild chacma baboons8
Animal personality can modulate sexual conflict over offspring provisioning8
Differential effect of aircraft noise on the spectral-temporal acoustic characteristics of frog species8
Extrapair paternity in a sequentially polyandrous shorebird: limited evidence for the sperm storage hypothesis8
Rival assessment by territorial southern white rhinoceros males via eavesdropping on the contact and courtship calls8
Living with low environmental complexity increases fear indicators in Nile tilapia8
Honey bees adjust colour preferences in response to concurrent social information from conspecifics and heterospecifics8
Using ternary plots to investigate continuous variation in animal contest strategies8
The behaviour of infected guppies depends on social context, parasite tolerance and host sex8
Exploration and spatial cognition show long-term repeatability but no heritability in the Aegean wall lizard8
Objective and subjective components of resource value in lethal fights between male entomopathogenic nematodes8
Combining social information use and comfort seeking for nest site selection in a cavity-nesting raptor8
Reproductive skew in quasisocial parasitoids: how egalitarian is cooperative brooding?8
Rearing enrichments differentially modified hen personality traits and reduced prediction of range use8
Behavioural flexibility in a heat-sensitive endotherm: the role of bed sites as thermal refuges8
The interplay between winner–loser effects and social rank in cooperatively breeding vertebrates8
Mass-nesting events in olive ridley sea turtles: environmental predictors of timing and size8
The angle of attack: rapping technique predicts skill in hermit crab contests8
Individual foraging site fidelity increases from incubation to nestling rearing in a colonial bird8
The role of behavioural flexibility in primate diversification8
Anthropogenic noise alters the perception of a predator in a local community of great tits8
Visual displays enhance vocal duet production and the perception of coordination despite spatial separation of partners8
Experimental manipulation of food distribution alters social networks and information transmission across environments in a food-caching bird8
Defection on the bounty? Kinship and cooperative exploitation of a rich, essential but dangerous resource8
Alliance-specific habitat selection by male Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay, Western Australia8
Shifting balances in the weighting of sensory modalities are predicted by divergence in brain morphology in incipient species of Heliconius butterflies8
Waste management by ants: the enhancing role of larvae8
Effects of site fidelity, group size and age on food-caching behaviour of common ravens, Corvus corax7
The choice of euthanasia techniques can affect experimental results in aquatic behavioural studies7
My way is the highway: the role of plasticity in learning complex migration routes7
Biting and binding: an exclusive coercive mating strategy of males in a philodromid spider7
The male swallowtail butterfly, Papilio polytes, uses cuticular hydrocarbons for mate discrimination7
Males and females differ in how their behaviour changes with age in wild crickets7
Heritability of dispersal in a rapidly spreading invasive spider7
Benefits of multiple mating in a sexually dimorphic polygynandrous insect7
Entry and aggregation at a Central African bai reveal social patterns in the elusive forest elephant Loxodonta cyclotis7
Jumping spiders attend to information from multiple modalities when preparing to jump7
Mortality risk promotes cooperation of wasps when paralysing hosts7
Referential gestures are not ubiquitous in wild chimpanzees: alternative functions for exaggerated loud scratch gestures7
Reciprocal plasticity and the diversification of communication systems7
Female demographic changes contribute to the maintenance of social stability within a primate multilevel society7
Male superb lyrebirds mimic functionally distinct heterospecific vocalizations during different modes of sexual display7
Zebrafish cooperate while inspecting predators: experimental evidence for conditional approach7
Impulsivity is affected by cognitive enrichment and links to brain gene expression in red junglefowl chicks7
Ontogeny of an interactive call-and-response system in Spix's disc-winged bats7
Urban populations of shrews show larger behavioural differences among individuals than rural populations7
Nest site selection in a terrestrial breeding frog: interrelationships between nest moisture, pH and male advertisement7
Temperature-driven changes in behavioural unpredictability and personality in the beadlet sea anemone, Actinia equina7
Beyond thermal melanism: association of wing melanization with fitness and flight behaviour in a butterfly7
State-dependent learning influences foraging behaviour in an acoustic predator7
Individual personality does not predict learning performance in a foraging context in female guppies, Poecilia reticulata7
Ethology and animal behaviour in Latin America7
Experimental evidence for female mate choice in a noctuid moth7
Herring gulls target profitable Atlantic puffins during kleptoparasitic attack7
Thermoenergetic challenges and daytime behavioural patterns of a wild cathemeral mammal7
Individual vocal signatures show reduced complexity following invasion7
Client fish traits underlying variation in service quality in a marine cleaning mutualism7
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