OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Behaviour is 2. 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
Can animals develop depression? An overview and assessment of ‘depression-like’ states	9
Zoo-housed female chimpanzee adopts local female-specific tradition upon immigrating into a new group	9
Chemically mediated self-recognition in sibling juvenile common gartersnakes (Thamnophis sirtalis) reared on same or different diets: evidence for a chemical mirror?	8
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
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
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
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
Locomotion and habituation to novel experimental environments in a social fish species	5
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
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
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
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
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
Facultative male investment in prolonged mate-guarding in a butterfly	2
Parasites differentially impact crayfish personality in different contexts	2
Use of landmarks for nest site choice and small-scale navigation to the nest in birds	2
Age-dependent walking and feeding of the assassin bug Amphibolus venator	2
More opportunities to peck for identical food availability increases foraging efficiency in pigeons	2
Extent of encounter with an embedded food influences how it is processed by an urbanizing macaque species	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
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
Does anthropogenic noise promotes advertisement call adjustments in the rubí poison frog Andinobates bombetes?	2
Autopreening behaviour may convey information about internal social state in Arabian babbler (Turdoides squamiceps) allopreening dyads	2
Educating dog owners: how owner–dog interactions can benefit from addressing the human caregiving system and dog-directed parenting styles	2
The effect of social odour context on the amount of time male meadow voles, Microtus pennsylvanicus, self-groom	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
Spider monkey use of natural and artificial terrestrial water sources in Calakmul, Mexico	2
Spontaneous nocturnal erections and masturbation in captive male chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)	2
Female social structure influences, and is influenced by, male introduction and integration success among captive rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)	2
Active sharing of a novel, arbitrary innovation in captive cotton-top tamarins?	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