OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ethology 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
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Is Paw Preference in Rats Influenced by Environmental Novelty?	18
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Deer Vigilance and Movement Behavior Are Affected by Edge Density and Connectivity	14
Flies getting filthy: The precopulatory mating behaviours of three mud‐dwelling species of Australian Lispe (Diptera: Muscidae)	13
Cheek‐to‐cheek: Communal nesting in an ephemeral pool‐breeding frog	12
Multi‐night territorial behavior, chorus attendance, and mating success in red‐eyed treefrogs	9
Anti‐Snake Behavior and Snake Discrimination in Vervet Monkeys	9
Reflections on Konrad Lorenz	9
Grouped and Vibrating: The Influence of Group Size, Triggering Stimuli, and Leg Loss in Bobbing in an Arachnid	9
Sneaky copulations by subordinate males suggest direct fitness benefits from male–male associations in spotted bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus maculatus)	9
Cooperative and Solitary Mobbing to Defend Offspring in Wild Gray Mouse Lemurs, Microcebus murinus	9
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Animal Ethics in Behavioral Studies—Advocating a Differentiated View	8
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Third‐Party Affiliation in Domestic Dogs During and After a Human Conflict	7
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Behaviour in a novel environment provides clues to the success of an invasive species	7
How important is temperature for strike success of ectotherms? Thermal effects on predator–prey interactions of free‐ranging pit vipers (Gloydius blomhoffii)	7
How great tits respond to urgency‐based information in allopatric Southern house wren mobbing calls	7
Learning and innovation in urban yellow mongooses (Cynictis penicillata)	7

Cognitive and sensory capacity each contribute to the canine spatial bias	7
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Abdominal Spines on an Amazonian Spiny Spider (Micrathena schreibersi): A Defense Against Mud‐Dauber Wasps (Sceliphron spp.) Attack?	6
Retaining memory after hibernation: Performance varies independently of activity levels in wild grey mouse lemurs	6
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Do Green Lynx Spiders (Peucetia viridans) Change Color in Response to Their Backgrounds?	6
Testing a behavioral model for the maintenance of androdioecy as a result of sexual conflict in the clam shrimpEulimnadia dahli	6
Host size selection and progeny sex determination in Hymenoepimecis bicolor (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae)	6
An ambiguous function of an alarm pheromone in the collective displays of the Australian meat ant, Iridomyrmex purpureus	5
Testosterone, signal coloration, and signal color perception in male zebra finch contests	5
A vocalization in male Japanese bush warblers in response to both predators and conspecific females	5
Invasive brown widow spiders disperse aerially under a broad range of environmental conditions	5
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Effects of Coffee on Drosophila melanogaster: Concentration‐Dependent Enhancement and Sleep Deprivation Recovery	5
Policing is more effective against eggs of non‐natal versus natal workers at early colony stages in a bumblebee	5
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The effect of phenotypic heterogeneity on behaviours linked to invasive success	4
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Non‐lunge feeding behaviour of humpback whales associated with fishing boats in Norway	4
Eight‐legged swimmers: Behavioral responses to floods in two South American spiders	4
Correction to Decision Time Modulates Social Foraging Success in Wild Common Ravens Corvus corax	4
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Evasive Maneuvers of Mosquitoes Reveal Variability in Escape Success and Echolocation Plasticity of Myotis riparius (Vespertilionidae)	4
Male mate preference against tail‐elongated females in the barn swallow	4
Effects of human disturbance on risk‐taking behavior in painted turtles	4
The perks of being in good conditions: How does female parasitism affect male mate choice in an orb‐web spider?	4
Sperm Strategies: Partner's Mating Status as a Driver of Last Male Success in Ladybirds	4
Defensive Behaviour in Intertidal Crabs	4
Behavioral response to chemical cues from injured conspecifics in the livebearing fish, Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora	4
Evaluation of sensory modalities involved in finding food and foraging behaviour in light/dark conditions in tadpoles of the invasive species Lithobates catesbeianus	4
Strategic Deployment of Secondary Defences in the Springbok Mantis (Miomantis Caffra)	4
Parasite‐mediated sexual selection in a damselfly	4
A “feel‐free” format for ETHOLOGY	4
Obituary: Professor Wolfgang Wickler (November 18, 1931– January 12, 2024)	4
Characterization of social behavior in the spiny mouse, Acomys cahirinus	4
Use of Social Information About Novel Food by Juvenile Solitary Forktongue Goby, Chaenogobius annularis	4
Changes in Male Behavior in Response to Female Chemical Stimulus in an Understudied Arthropod Model	4
The strange occurrence of male cannibalism on adult females in snakes	3
Constructing composite scores for contemporaneous behaviors: A comparison of four approaches	3
Sibling cannibalism in the false widow spider is dependent on spiderling density and the reliable availability of fresh prey	3
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Reciprocity versus pseudo‐reciprocity: A false dichotomy	3
Among‐individual behavioral responses to predation risk are invariant within two species of freshwater snails	3
Females Guarded by Sneaker Males Experience Higher Predation in the Two‐Spotted Spider Mite	3
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Successful predatory‐avoidance behaviour to lion auditory cues during soft‐release from captivity in cheetah	3

Contrasting sex roles in two species with stable biparental care	3
Male–Male Competition Affects Color Phenotype Expression and Color‐Dependent Oxidative Stress Levels in a Polymorphic Cichlid Fish	3
Reciprocal altruism in Norway rats	3
Pair‐Coordinated Calling: Eurasian Magpies Respond Differently to Simulated Intruder Pairs That Overlap or Alternate Their Calls	3
Sublethal effects of kleptoparasitism on experimental social spider colonies	3
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Diving behavior in a Neotropical spider (Trechalea extensa) as a potential antipredator tactic	3
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Male Barbary macaques choose loyal coalition partners which may increase their coalition network betweenness	3
Callosobruchus larval competition and its consequences for male and female adults	3
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Just Hang On: Australian Gall Midges Suspend Themselves on Spider Silk Without Becoming Entangled	3
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Female great tits (Parus major) reproduce earlier when paired with a male they prefer	3
Stable individual differences in the frequency of chin‐marking behavior across development in the domestic rabbit	3
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Graded‐risk sensitivity in northern European mixed‐species flocks of tit and nuthatch species	3
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Movement in 3D: Novel Opportunities for Understanding Animal Behaviour and Space Use	2
Aggressive vocalizations during intergroup interactions in roost defense in the Spix's disk‐winged bat	2
Grooming reciprocation in Himalayan tahr and the cognitive constraint hypothesis	2
EXPRESSION OF CONCERN: Precopulatory Sexual Cannibalism Causes Increase Egg Case Production, Hatching Success, and Female Attractiveness to Males	2
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Effects of a past contest on the future winning probability in a hyper‐aggressive fruit fly	2
Aggression‐based social learning in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)	2
Adaptive Significance of Long Mating With Repeated Intromissions in Zygogramma bicolorata	2
Mate finding in a mimetic termitophile amidst its host termites	2
Of hormones (well, not really!), behavior, and observer bias	2
Phenotype predicts interspecific dominance hierarchies in a cloud‐forest hummingbird guild	2
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Walk or swim: The substrate for movement affects female treefrog mate choice behaviors but has little effect on their preferences	2
Who Is Likely to Cheat? Linking Personality to Worthless Gift Production in a Spider	2
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Interactive effects of increased nestbox temperature and vitamin E on nestling growth are attenuated by plasticity in female incubation effort	2
Do reproductive characteristics of the species explain differences in the investment in weapon size present in males?	2
Correction to Successful Predatory‐Avoidance Behaviour to Lion Auditory Cues During Soft‐Release From Captivity in Cheetah	2
Artificial selections for death‐feigning behavior in beetles show correlated responses in amplitude of circadian rhythms, but the period of the rhythm does not	2
Heterospecific interference modulates the reproductive traits of a ladybird beetle	2
EXPRESSION OF CONCERN: Temperature Mediates Shifts in Individual Aggressiveness, Activity Level, and Social Behavior in a Spider	2
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Visual lateralization in flight: Lateral preferences in parent‐offspring relative positions in geese	2
Non‐Lethally Produced Chemical Risk Cues Elicit Antipredator Responses in a Common Canadian Minnow	2
Dominant females have brighter ornamentation in a sexually dimorphic lekking species	2
Western black widow spiders (Latrodectus hesperus) remember prey capture location and size, but only alter behavior for prey caught at particular sites	2
Aggression, but Not Familiar Recognition, Occurs During Cohabitation in Females of a Hermit Crab	2
Tadpole plasticity shapes the potential benefits of egg feeding to poison frog parents	2
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Variation in escape response of Himalayan marmots (Marmota himalayana) under different human disturbances	2
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Video evidence of mountings by female‐plumaged birds of paradise (Aves: Paradisaeidae) in the wild: Is there evidence of alternative mating tactics?	2
Thanks to repetition, dustbathing detection can be automated combining accelerometry and wavelet analysis	2
Complexity in Chick‐a‐Dee Calls of Mountain Chickadees (Poecile gambeli): Call Variation Associated With Flock Size and Flight	2
No Effect of Note Order on the Response of Coal Tits to Conspecific, Heterospecific and Artificial Mobbing Calls	2