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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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Musth and sexual selection in elephants: a review of signalling properties and potential fitness consequences	18
Submission signals in animal groups	16
Reinstating reptiles: from clueless creatures to esteemed models of cognitive biology	12
Conspecific scarring on wild belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) in Cunningham Inlet	12
Can animals develop depression? An overview and assessment of ‘depression-like’ states	11
Zoo-housed female chimpanzee adopts local female-specific tradition upon immigrating into a new group	10
Chemically mediated self-recognition in sibling juvenile common gartersnakes (Thamnophis sirtalis) reared on same or different diets: evidence for a chemical mirror?	9
Alternate without alternative: neither preference nor learning explains behaviour of C57BL/6J mice in the T-maze	9
Drop when the stakes are high: adaptive, flexible use of dropping behaviour by aphids	8
Dealing with the unexpected: the effect of environmental variability on behavioural flexibility in a Mediterranean lizard	8
Lizards as models to explore the ecological and neuroanatomical correlates of miniaturization	8
Sociosexual behaviour in wild chimpanzees occurs in variable contexts and is frequent between same-sex partners	8
Ecology and social behaviour of the Mongolian gerbil: a generalised review	8
Sex differences in response to environmental and social breeding cues in an amphibian	7
Prospective evolutionary drivers of allocare in wild belugas	7
Communication across multiple sensory modes: quantifying the rich behavioural repertoire of a Neotropical torrent frog	7
The effects of habituation on boldness of urban and rural song sparrows (Melospiza melodia)	6
Social facilitation in short-tailed fruit bats, Carollia perspicillata (Linnaeus)	5
Conspecific aggression strategies are conditioned by environmental, social and intrinsic variables in breeding blue tits Cyanistes caeruleus	5
Spontaneous ingestion of water by a free-ranging maned sloth, Bradypus torquatus, in the Ibura National Forest, northeastern Brazil	5
Who cares for the eggs? Analysis of egg attendance behaviour in Ranitomeya imitator, a poison frog with biparental care	5
The role of personality traits in pair bond formation: pairing is influenced by the trait of exploration	5
Sexual adaptation: is female–male mounting a supernormal courtship display in Japanese macaques?	5
Aggression towards neonates and possible infanticide in the boto, or Amazon river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis)	5
The link between animal personality and habitat selection in males of the Neotropical poison frog Allobates femoralis	5

The voices of an alleged mute: sound emissions in a Tropidurus lizard	5
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	4
A review of the behaviours of the Chondrichthyes: a multi-species ethogram for the chimaeras, sharks, and rays	4
Courtship rhythm in Nasonia vitripennis is affected by the clock gene period	4
The role of touch in captive and semi-captive Antillean manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus)	4
Age-dependent walking and feeding of the assassin bug Amphibolus venator	4
Nocturnal visual displays and call description of the cascade specialist glassfrog Sachatamia orejuela	4
High risk of predation suppresses behavioural differences among bold and shy social prey individuals	4
Body size, habitat quality, and territory defense in Bachman’s sparrow	4
Alarm calls of house wrens (Troglodytes aedon bonariae) elicit responses of conspecific and heterospecific species	4
Anatomy of avian distress calls: structure, variation, and complexity in two species of shorebird (Aves: Charadrii)	4
High incidence of leg autotomy in urban crickets	3
Fellatio among male sanctuary-living chimpanzees during a period of social tension	3
Reconciliation in human adults: a video-assisted naturalistic observational study of post conflict conciliatory behaviour in interpersonal aggression	3
Do long-tailed macaques avoid large heterospecific carcasses?	3
Use of landmarks for nest site choice and small-scale navigation to the nest in birds	3
An observation of attempted infanticide and female–female cooperation in wild plains zebras (Equus quagga)	3
Insights into insect cognition through mirror-induced behaviour in paper wasps	3
Quantifying shape similarity between prey and uninteresting models to study animal masquerade	3
Subordinate submissive responses are predicted by dominant behaviour in a cooperatively breeding fish	3
Constraints on population growth of blue monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis) in Kibale National Park, Uganda	3
Optimal foraging strategy to balance mixed diet by generalist consumers: a simulation model	3
More opportunities to peck for identical food availability increases foraging efficiency in pigeons	3
Effect of infant pelage colour on infant caring by other group members: a case study of wild Javan lutungs (Trachypithecus auratus)	3
On the applicability of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) as an intervention in dogs with fear and anxiety disorders after a traumatic event	3
Does the presence of conspecifics facilitate exploratory behaviour in a cichlid fish (Etroplus suratensis)?	3
Anecdotic observations of homosexual behaviour among male capuchin monkeys (Sapajus sp.)	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
Resource availability influences global social network properties in Gunnison’s prairie dogs (Cynomys gunnisoni)	3
Do male Boana goiana (Lutz, 1968) (Anura: Hylidae) discriminate between the calls of neighbours and strangers?	3
Facultative male investment in prolonged mate-guarding in a butterfly	2
Pattern biases, but not positional cues, influence learning in the little brown skink, Scincella lateralis	2
White-edged cowards: high-pitched treefrogs will be attacked by those with orange legs	2
Problem-solving performance in wild Steller’s jays using a string-pulling task	2
Extent of encounter with an embedded food influences how it is processed by an urbanizing macaque species	2
Innate response to first feeding in Octopus berrima hatchlings despite embryonic food imprinting	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
Attention-getting in a white-cheeked gibbon by means of a novel vocalization?	2
Tools and food on heat lamps: pyrocognitive sparks in New Caledonian crows?	2
Educating dog owners: how owner–dog interactions can benefit from addressing the human caregiving system and dog-directed parenting styles	2
Effects of conspecific density on tadpole risk assessment and defensive behaviour	2
Parasites differentially impact crayfish personality in different contexts	2
Insight into manta ray behaviour using animal-borne Crittercams	2
Zebrafish (Danio rerio) behavioural response to an odorant mixture containing attracting and repelling odorants	2
Spontaneous nocturnal erections and masturbation in captive male chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)	2
Does anthropogenic noise promotes advertisement call adjustments in the rubí poison frog Andinobates bombetes?	2
Shifting incubation rhythms in response to predation risk and the length of the response in mountain bluebirds	2
Insightful behaviour in arthropods?	2

Open water grouping behaviour in harbour seals (Phoca vitulina richardii) of the Salish Sea	2
Ontogeny of scent marking behaviours in an apex carnivore	2
Ring a bell? Variable recognition of a multicomponent auditory stimulus associated with predation risk by zebrafish responding to full and partial matches	2
Spider monkey use of natural and artificial terrestrial water sources in Calakmul, Mexico	2
From nestling to adult: personality traits are consistent within but not across life stages in a wild songbird	2
Swimming and diving as social play in juvenile rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)	2
Size-assortative mating in explosive breeders: a case study of adaptive male mate choice in anurans	2
When can cropping rate compensate for increased vigilance?	2
Autopreening behaviour may convey information about internal social state in Arabian babbler (Turdoides squamiceps) allopreening dyads	2
Habitat use and body temperature influence push-up display rate in the tree lizard, Urosaurus ornatus	2
Active sharing of a novel, arbitrary innovation in captive cotton-top tamarins?	2
Context-specific cue use in the Eastern painted turtle (Chrysemys picta) and its effects on decision making	2
Copulations with a nestling by an adult care-giver in a kin-living bird	2
Vocal complexity in Antillean manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus)	2
Active space of grasshopper mouse vocalizations (Onychomys) in relation to woody plant encroachment	2
Female social structure influences, and is influenced by, male introduction and integration success among captive rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)	2
Evidence of infanticide in the Cape mountain zebra (Equus zebra zebra)	2
Multiple cues guarantee successful predation by a Neotropical wasp	1
Opposing effects of vigilance and foraging on escape behaviour in hooded crows	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
Parental reactions to a dying marmoset infant: conditional investment by the mother, but not the father	1
Dynamic object–fruit combinations by introduced Tanimbar corellas (Cacatua goffiniana) in Singapore	1
Female preferences for discrete and continuous male colour expression may help reinforce colour polymorphism in a desert lizard	1
Urban-nesting mountain chickadees have a reduced response to a simulated predator	1
Observations of daytime activity in the nocturnal northern giant mouse lemur (Mirza zaza)	1
The effect of crowd support: home advantage in football is reduced during the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic	1
Tongue-flicking: an idiosyncratic displacement behaviour in a free-ranging and urban-dwelling population of Balinese long-tailed macaques	1
Birds using artificial plants as nesting material	1
Matriphagy in five species of the genus Anelosimus (Araneae: Theridiidae)	1
Functional traits including interspecific sociality affect mobbing behaviour in a bird community of southern China	1
Brood size manipulation reveals cost on the size of the second clutch in the earwig Anisolabis maritime	1
Social buffering reduces hair cortisol content in black-tailed prairie dogs during reproduction	1
Eyes over stomach: companion dogs choose the larger quantity by sight, irrespective of the actual reward eaten	1
Breeding behaviour of ectotherms at high latitudes: the case of the natterjack toad Epidalea calamita at its northern range limit	1
Colour, location and movement: what do models tell us about predation on colour morphs of a poison frog from eastern Amazonia?	1
Effects of cross-fostering experience on emotion in adolescent Kunming mice	1
An anecdotal observation of anti-predatory tool use in a New Zealand parrot	1
The neurobiology of environmentally induced stereotypic behaviours in captive animals: assessing the basal ganglia pathways and cortico-striatal-thalamo-cortical circuitry hypotheses	1
Effects of snow leopards (Panthera uncia) on olfactory communication of Pallas’s cats (Otocolobus manul) in the Altai Mountains, Mongolia	1
When the penny drops: sharks outsmart cichlids in serial reversal learning	1
Intra- and interspecific behavioural ecology within and between Mollienesia males (sailfin molly Poecilia velifera and shortfin molly P. mexicana) in mangroves of the Yucatán peninsula	1
Western Australian magpies respond to urgency information contained in conspecific alarm calls	1
Meows of captive feral domestic cats (Felis silvestris catus) in the mating season: acoustic correlates of caller identity and sex	1
Evidence of long-lasting memory of a free-ranging top marine predator, the bull shark Carcharhinus leucas	1
Task division in a facultative cooperative breeder bird: do males take out the trash?	1
Mobbing behaviour in non-breeding flocks of a passerine bird in northern Patagonia	1
Space use and parental care behaviour in Andinobates claudiae (Dendrobatidae)	1
Why do males stay in biparental burying beetles?	1
Visual displays in a nocturnal rhacophorid frog (Buergeria japonica)	1
Playing dead: lizards show tonic immobility without human handling	1
Within-population song evolution in white-throated sparrows (Zonotrichia albicollis)	1
Tool-assisted water scooping in Balinese long-tailed macaques	1
Do ruminants and hindgut fermenters differ in their activity? Comparison of syntopic black wildebeest and Cape mountain zebra	1
European-native vocalizing: sex and age-class acoustic variation in the Central European red deer (Cervus elaphus)	1
The role of donor and receiver size in the response to public cues in Hart’s rivulus, Anablepsoides hartii	1
The influence of operational sex ratio on reproductive success in male sheepshead minnow (Cyprinodon variegatus)	1
Kleptoparasitic interactions by bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) during marine mammal foraging events	1
Contrary to vertebrates, less aggressive and more consistent individuals are common in disturbed habitats in the colonial spider Metabus gravidus (Araneae: Araneidae)	1
Vocal behaviour reveals asymmetries in neighbour relationships in a semi-colonial raptor, the Eurasian Scops Owl Otus scops	1
Intersexual differences in the exploratory behaviour of blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus)	1
Behavioural interactions between sika deer and Japanese serows: are larger and gregarious ungulates dominant?	1
The squeaking vocalization of grey wolves (Canis lupus): individuality in a close-range affiliative mammalian vocalisation	1
Invader’s success: behavioural and reproductive plasticity of interacting exotic dung beetles	1
Preliminary evidence of tool use in an Australian magpie?	1
An exploratory study of cooperation: food-sharing behaviour in wild varied white-fronted capuchin monkeys (Cebus versicolor) in Central Colombia	1
Good fences make good neighbours: territorial male Cape fur seals use spatial acoustic map of neighbours	1
Adult sex ratios affect mating behaviour in the common housefly Musca domestica L. (Diptera; Muscidae)	1
A case of male infanticide in captive sika deer (Cervus nippon)	1
Dietary choices in a generalist herbivore, the eastern cottontail Sylvilagus floridanus, in urban landscapes	1
Introduction to the special issue on Clinical ethology	1