OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Behaviour is 1. 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.)

Article	Citations
Musth and sexual selection in elephants: a review of signalling properties and potential fitness consequences	16
Avoidant social style among wild crested macaque males (Macaca nigra) in Tangkoko Nature Reserve, Sulawesi, Indonesia	15
Submission signals in animal groups	13
Conspecific scarring on wild belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) in Cunningham Inlet	11
Reinstating reptiles: from clueless creatures to esteemed models of cognitive biology	10
Look at me while having sex! Eye-to-eye contact affects homosexual behaviour in bonobo females	10
Long-term consistency despite cross-seasonal changes in personality traits of common waxbills	10
Zoo-housed female chimpanzee adopts local female-specific tradition upon immigrating into a new group	9
Can animals develop depression? An overview and assessment of ‘depression-like’ states	9
Chemically mediated self-recognition in sibling juvenile common gartersnakes (Thamnophis sirtalis) reared on same or different diets: evidence for a chemical mirror?	8
Evolutionary loss of threat display in more social species: phylogenetic comparisons, natural interactions in the wild, and experiments with models	7
Dealing with the unexpected: the effect of environmental variability on behavioural flexibility in a Mediterranean lizard	7
The effect of group size on the speed of decision making depends on compromise and predation risk across populations in the guppy Poecilia reticulata	7
Alternate without alternative: neither preference nor learning explains behaviour of C57BL/6J mice in the T-maze	7
Predators learning to avoid toxic invasive prey: a study on individual variation among free-ranging lizards	7
Prospective evolutionary drivers of allocare in wild belugas	7
Mothers and fathers improve immature baboon foraging success	6
Lizards as models to explore the ecological and neuroanatomical correlates of miniaturization	6
Sociosexual behaviour in wild chimpanzees occurs in variable contexts and is frequent between same-sex partners	6
Drop when the stakes are high: adaptive, flexible use of dropping behaviour by aphids	6
The behaviours of a female blonde capuchin (Sapajus flavius) towards her dead infant	6
Sex differences in response to environmental and social breeding cues in an amphibian	6
Social facilitation in short-tailed fruit bats, Carollia perspicillata (Linnaeus)	5
Female copulation calls vary with male ejaculation in captive olive baboons	5
Communication across multiple sensory modes: quantifying the rich behavioural repertoire of a Neotropical torrent frog	5

Conspecific aggression strategies are conditioned by environmental, social and intrinsic variables in breeding blue tits Cyanistes caeruleus	5
Sex recognition and agonistic strategies of male and female crayfish	5
Who cares for the eggs? Analysis of egg attendance behaviour in Ranitomeya imitator, a poison frog with biparental care	5
Spontaneous ingestion of water by a free-ranging maned sloth, Bradypus torquatus, in the Ibura National Forest, northeastern Brazil	5
Locomotion and habituation to novel experimental environments in a social fish species	5
Alarm calls of house wrens (Troglodytes aedon bonariae) elicit responses of conspecific and heterospecific species	4
Nocturnal visual displays and call description of the cascade specialist glassfrog Sachatamia orejuela	4
Anatomy of avian distress calls: structure, variation, and complexity in two species of shorebird (Aves: Charadrii)	4
Group-size preferences in a shoaling cichlid	4
Adverse weather reduces the spatial use of an opportunistic gull	4
Sexual adaptation: is female–male mounting a supernormal courtship display in Japanese macaques?	4
The voices of an alleged mute: sound emissions in a Tropidurus lizard	4
The life of Fabian, an Azara’s owl monkey (Aotus azarae) of the Argentinean Chaco	4
The role of touch in captive and semi-captive Antillean manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus)	4
Aggression towards neonates and possible infanticide in the boto, or Amazon river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis)	4
Killing behaviour of adult brood parasites	4
Behavioural repeatability in the Big Brown Bat, Eptesicus fuscus	4
Body size, habitat quality, and territory defense in Bachman’s sparrow	4
The role of personality traits in pair bond formation: pairing is influenced by the trait of exploration	4
Responses to a poached conspecific in wild forest elephants (Loxodonta africana cyclotis)	3
Effect of infant pelage colour on infant caring by other group members: a case study of wild Javan lutungs (Trachypithecus auratus)	3
Who’s there? Third parties affect social interactions between spider monkey males	3
The link between animal personality and habitat selection in males of the Neotropical poison frog Allobates femoralis	3
Courtship rhythm in Nasonia vitripennis is affected by the clock gene period	3
Ecology and social behaviour of the Mongolian gerbil: a generalised review	3
Nothobranchius furzeri as an emerging model for mate choice: female choice revealed by animations	3
Inter-individual differences of calling and exploratory behaviour in a lebinthine cricket species hint at different mate-finding strategies	3
Biparental negotiation or larval begging? Determinant of male provisioning in a burying beetle (Nicrophorus quadripunctatus)	3
High incidence of leg autotomy in urban crickets	3
Anecdotes in animal behaviour	3
Constraints on population growth of blue monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis) in Kibale National Park, Uganda	3
The effect of food preference, landmarks, and maze shift on maze-solving time in desert ants	3
An observation of attempted infanticide and female–female cooperation in wild plains zebras (Equus quagga)	3
Do male Boana goiana (Lutz, 1968) (Anura: Hylidae) discriminate between the calls of neighbours and strangers?	3
The effects of habituation on boldness of urban and rural song sparrows (Melospiza melodia)	3
Does the presence of conspecifics facilitate exploratory behaviour in a cichlid fish (Etroplus suratensis)?	3
Context-dependent agonistic response to neighbours along territory boundaries in a cichlid fish	3
Do long-tailed macaques avoid large heterospecific carcasses?	3
Optimal foraging strategy to balance mixed diet by generalist consumers: a simulation model	3
Vocal complexity in Antillean manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus)	2
Tools and food on heat lamps: pyrocognitive sparks in New Caledonian crows?	2
On the applicability of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) as an intervention in dogs with fear and anxiety disorders after a traumatic event	2
Insights into insect cognition through mirror-induced behaviour in paper wasps	2
Autopreening behaviour may convey information about internal social state in Arabian babbler (Turdoides squamiceps) allopreening dyads	2
Does anthropogenic noise promotes advertisement call adjustments in the rubí poison frog Andinobates bombetes?	2
The effect of social odour context on the amount of time male meadow voles, Microtus pennsylvanicus, self-groom	2
Educating dog owners: how owner–dog interactions can benefit from addressing the human caregiving system and dog-directed parenting styles	2
Resource availability influences global social network properties in Gunnison’s prairie dogs (Cynomys gunnisoni)	2
Reconciliation in human adults: a video-assisted naturalistic observational study of post conflict conciliatory behaviour in interpersonal aggression	2
Attention-getting in a white-cheeked gibbon by means of a novel vocalization?	2

Ring a bell? Variable recognition of a multicomponent auditory stimulus associated with predation risk by zebrafish responding to full and partial matches	2
Context-specific cue use in the Eastern painted turtle (Chrysemys picta) and its effects on decision making	2
Size-assortative mating in explosive breeders: a case study of adaptive male mate choice in anurans	2
Swimming and diving as social play in juvenile rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)	2
Pattern biases, but not positional cues, influence learning in the little brown skink, Scincella lateralis	2
High risk of predation suppresses behavioural differences among bold and shy social prey individuals	2
Spontaneous nocturnal erections and masturbation in captive male chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)	2
Spider monkey use of natural and artificial terrestrial water sources in Calakmul, Mexico	2
Active sharing of a novel, arbitrary innovation in captive cotton-top tamarins?	2
Female social structure influences, and is influenced by, male introduction and integration success among captive rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)	2
Feeding competition inferred from patch depletion in a supergroup of Rwenzori black-and-white colobus monkeys (Colobus angolensis ruwenzorii) in Rwanda	2
Pharmacotherapeutics in clinical ethology: treatment efficacy, clinical pathology and outcome	2
Gregariousness and intraspecific aggression in Iberian bullfinches (Pyrrhula pyrrhula iberiae) throughout the year	2
Host plant acceptance in a generalist insect: threshold, feedback or choice?	2
Facultative male investment in prolonged mate-guarding in a butterfly	2
Parasites differentially impact crayfish personality in different contexts	2
Age-dependent walking and feeding of the assassin bug Amphibolus venator	2
Use of landmarks for nest site choice and small-scale navigation to the nest in birds	2
Extent of encounter with an embedded food influences how it is processed by an urbanizing macaque species	2
More opportunities to peck for identical food availability increases foraging efficiency in pigeons	2
Colour vision in sengis (Macroscelidea, Afrotheria, Mammalia): choice experiments indicate dichromatism	2
Anecdotic observations of homosexual behaviour among male capuchin monkeys (Sapajus sp.)	2
Overturning and rolling avoidance by gecko when challenged with inclines	2
No evidence that songbirds use odour cues to avoid malaria-infected conspecifics	1
Birds using artificial plants as nesting material	1
Why do males stay in biparental burying beetles?	1
White-edged cowards: high-pitched treefrogs will be attacked by those with orange legs	1
Playing dead: lizards show tonic immobility without human handling	1
Visual displays in a nocturnal rhacophorid frog (Buergeria japonica)	1
Tool-assisted water scooping in Balinese long-tailed macaques	1
Characterization of fever and sickness behavior regulated by cytokines during infection	1
From nestling to adult: personality traits are consistent within but not across life stages in a wild songbird	1
The development of tactile social interactions in Corydoras aeneus larvae	1
Dynamic object–fruit combinations by introduced Tanimbar corellas (Cacatua goffiniana) in Singapore	1
An observation of intergroup infanticide in grey-cheeked mangabeys (Lophocebus albigena)	1
The neurobiology of environmentally induced stereotypic behaviours in captive animals: assessing the basal ganglia pathways and cortico-striatal-thalamo-cortical circuitry hypotheses	1
Colour, location and movement: what do models tell us about predation on colour morphs of a poison frog from eastern Amazonia?	1
Evidence of infanticide in the Cape mountain zebra (Equus zebra zebra)	1
The effect of crowd support: home advantage in football is reduced during the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic	1
Matriphagy in five species of the genus Anelosimus (Araneae: Theridiidae)	1
Subordinate submissive responses are predicted by dominant behaviour in a cooperatively breeding fish	1
Problem-solving performance in wild Steller’s jays using a string-pulling task	1
Observations of daytime activity in the nocturnal northern giant mouse lemur (Mirza zaza)	1
Habitat use and body temperature influence push-up display rate in the tree lizard, Urosaurus ornatus	1
Space use and parental care behaviour in Andinobates claudiae (Dendrobatidae)	1
Adult sex ratios affect mating behaviour in the common housefly Musca domestica L. (Diptera; Muscidae)	1
Within-population song evolution in white-throated sparrows (Zonotrichia albicollis)	1
Innate response to first feeding in Octopus berrima hatchlings despite embryonic food imprinting	1
A case of male infanticide in captive sika deer (Cervus nippon)	1
Multiple cues guarantee successful predation by a Neotropical wasp	1
European-native vocalizing: sex and age-class acoustic variation in the Central European red deer (Cervus elaphus)	1
Vocal behaviour reveals asymmetries in neighbour relationships in a semi-colonial raptor, the Eurasian Scops Owl Otus scops	1
An anecdotal observation of anti-predatory tool use in a New Zealand parrot	1
When the penny drops: sharks outsmart cichlids in serial reversal learning	1
Parental reactions to a dying marmoset infant: conditional investment by the mother, but not the father	1
Kleptoparasitic interactions by bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) during marine mammal foraging events	1
Meows of captive feral domestic cats (Felis silvestris catus) in the mating season: acoustic correlates of caller identity and sex	1
The squeaking vocalization of grey wolves (Canis lupus): individuality in a close-range affiliative mammalian vocalisation	1
Active space of grasshopper mouse vocalizations (Onychomys) in relation to woody plant encroachment	1
Zebrafish (Danio rerio) behavioural response to an odorant mixture containing attracting and repelling odorants	1
Testing the differential cost assumption of the handicap hypothesis with a tropical jumping spider	1
Preliminary evidence of tool use in an Australian magpie?	1
Brood size manipulation reveals cost on the size of the second clutch in the earwig Anisolabis maritime	1
Fellatio among male sanctuary-living chimpanzees during a period of social tension	1
Maternal care and secretive behaviour of neonates in the highly social lizard Liolaemus leopardinus (Squamata: Liolaemidae) from the central Chilean Andes may relate to size-specific bird predation	1
The vocal repertoire of an African colobine, Colobus angolensis ruwenzorii: a multi-level society compared to congeners in stable groups	1
Dietary choices in a generalist herbivore, the eastern cottontail Sylvilagus floridanus, in urban landscapes	1
Insightful behaviour in arthropods?	1
Effects of conspecific density on tadpole risk assessment and defensive behaviour	1
Larger is not better: no mate preference by European common frog (Rana temporaria) males	1
Female preferences for high vocal effort in singing mice	1
Ontogeny of scent marking behaviours in an apex carnivore	1
Intersexual differences in the exploratory behaviour of blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus)	1
Contrary to vertebrates, less aggressive and more consistent individuals are common in disturbed habitats in the colonial spider Metabus gravidus (Araneae: Araneidae)	1
Quantifying shape similarity between prey and uninteresting models to study animal masquerade	1
Behavioural interactions between sika deer and Japanese serows: are larger and gregarious ungulates dominant?	1
Invader’s success: behavioural and reproductive plasticity of interacting exotic dung beetles	1
Truncated power-law distribution of group sizes in antelope	1
Mobbing behaviour in non-breeding flocks of a passerine bird in northern Patagonia	1
Task division in a facultative cooperative breeder bird: do males take out the trash?	1