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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
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Sneaky copulations by subordinate males suggest direct fitness benefits from male–male associations in spotted bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus maculatus)	18
Does Microplastic Ingestion Affect Cognition and Brain Gene Expression in Zebrafish, Danio rerio ?	14
Anti‐Snake Behavior and Snake Discrimination in Vervet Monkeys	13
Multi‐night territorial behavior, chorus attendance, and mating success in red‐eyed treefrogs	12
Grouped and Vibrating: The Influence of Group Size, Triggering Stimuli, and Leg Loss in Bobbing in an Arachnid	11
Cooperative and Solitary Mobbing to Defend Offspring in Wild Gray Mouse Lemurs, Microcebus murinus	10
Issue Information	9
Deer Vigilance and Movement Behavior Are Affected by Edge Density and Connectivity	9
Cheek‐to‐cheek: Communal nesting in an ephemeral pool‐breeding frog	9
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Is Paw Preference in Rats Influenced by Environmental Novelty?	9
Animal Ethics in Behavioral Studies—Advocating a Differentiated View	9
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Reflections on Konrad Lorenz	9
Learning and innovation in urban yellow mongooses (Cynictis penicillata)	8
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Behaviour in a novel environment provides clues to the success of an invasive species	8
Third‐Party Affiliation in Domestic Dogs During and After a Human Conflict	7
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How great tits respond to urgency‐based information in allopatric Southern house wren mobbing calls	7
Host size selection and progeny sex determination in Hymenoepimecis bicolor (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae)	7
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Abdominal Spines on an Amazonian Spiny Spider (Micrathena schreibersi): A Defense Against Mud‐Dauber Wasps (Sceliphron spp.) Attack?	6
Do Green Lynx Spiders (Peucetia viridans) Change Color in Response to Their Backgrounds?	6
Issue Information	6
Cognitive and sensory capacity each contribute to the canine spatial bias	6
Plastic Behavioral Responses to Ambient Relative Humidity Influence Aggregation in a Large Gregarious Insect	6
How important is temperature for strike success of ectotherms? Thermal effects on predator–prey interactions of free‐ranging pit vipers (Gloydius blomhoffii)	6
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A vocalization in male Japanese bush warblers in response to both predators and conspecific females	5
Effects of Coffee on Drosophila melanogaster: Concentration‐Dependent Enhancement and Sleep Deprivation Recovery	5
A “feel‐free” format for ETHOLOGY	5
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Retaining memory after hibernation: Performance varies independently of activity levels in wild grey mouse lemurs	5
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Invasive brown widow spiders disperse aerially under a broad range of environmental conditions	5
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Policing is more effective against eggs of non‐natal versus natal workers at early colony stages in a bumblebee	5
Testing a behavioral model for the maintenance of androdioecy as a result of sexual conflict in the clam shrimpEulimnadia dahli	5
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Testosterone, signal coloration, and signal color perception in male zebra finch contests	5
Use of Social Information About Novel Food by Juvenile Solitary Forktongue Goby, Chaenogobius annularis	4
Correction to Decision Time Modulates Social Foraging Success in Wild Common Ravens Corvus corax	4
Behavioral response to chemical cues from injured conspecifics in the livebearing fish, Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora	4
The effect of phenotypic heterogeneity on behaviours linked to invasive success	4
Male mate preference against tail‐elongated females in the barn swallow	4
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Evaluation of sensory modalities involved in finding food and foraging behaviour in light/dark conditions in tadpoles of the invasive species Lithobates catesbeianus	4
Defensive Behaviour in Intertidal Crabs	4
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Issue Information	4
The perks of being in good conditions: How does female parasitism affect male mate choice in an orb‐web spider?	4
Obituary: Professor Wolfgang Wickler (November 18, 1931– January 12, 2024)	4
Strategic Deployment of Secondary Defences in the Springbok Mantis (Miomantis Caffra)	4
Non‐lunge feeding behaviour of humpback whales associated with fishing boats in Norway	4
Changes in Male Behavior in Response to Female Chemical Stimulus in an Understudied Arthropod Model	4
Evasive Maneuvers of Mosquitoes Reveal Variability in Escape Success and Echolocation Plasticity of Myotis riparius (Vespertilionidae)	4
Effects of human disturbance on risk‐taking behavior in painted turtles	4
Parasite‐mediated sexual selection in a damselfly	4
Sperm Strategies: Partner's Mating Status as a Driver of Last Male Success in Ladybirds	4
Among‐individual behavioral responses to predation risk are invariant within two species of freshwater snails	3
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Male–Male Competition Affects Color Phenotype Expression and Color‐Dependent Oxidative Stress Levels in a Polymorphic Cichlid Fish	3
Thanks to repetition, dustbathing detection can be automated combining accelerometry and wavelet analysis	3
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Heterospecific interference modulates the reproductive traits of a ladybird beetle	3
Contrasting sex roles in two species with stable biparental care	3
Successful predatory‐avoidance behaviour to lion auditory cues during soft‐release from captivity in cheetah	3
Diving behavior in a Neotropical spider (Trechalea extensa) as a potential antipredator tactic	3
Issue Information	3
Reciprocity versus pseudo‐reciprocity: A false dichotomy	3
Pair‐Coordinated Calling: Eurasian Magpies Respond Differently to Simulated Intruder Pairs That Overlap or Alternate Their Calls	3

Sibling cannibalism in the false widow spider is dependent on spiderling density and the reliable availability of fresh prey	3
Issue Information	3
Females Guarded by Sneaker Males Experience Higher Predation in the Two‐Spotted Spider Mite	3
Complexity in Chick‐a‐Dee Calls of Mountain Chickadees (Poecile gambeli): Call Variation Associated With Flock Size and Flight	3
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Constructing composite scores for contemporaneous behaviors: A comparison of four approaches	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
Sublethal effects of kleptoparasitism on experimental social spider colonies	3
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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Male Barbary macaques choose loyal coalition partners which may increase their coalition network betweenness	3
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Reciprocal altruism in Norway rats	3
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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
Variation in escape response of Himalayan marmots (Marmota himalayana) under different human disturbances	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
Correction to Successful Predatory‐Avoidance Behaviour to Lion Auditory Cues During Soft‐Release From Captivity in Cheetah	2
Adaptive Significance of Long Mating With Repeated Intromissions in Zygogramma bicolorata	2
Observations of multiple reproductive females in groups of smooth‐coated otters	2
Condition‐Dependent Responses to Risk in a Small Mammal	2
No Effect of Note Order on the Response of Coal Tits to Conspecific, Heterospecific and Artificial Mobbing Calls	2
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Graded‐risk sensitivity in northern European mixed‐species flocks of tit and nuthatch species	2
Of hormones (well, not really!), behavior, and observer bias	2
Mate finding in a mimetic termitophile amidst its host termites	2
Aggression‐based social learning in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)	2
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Non‐Lethally Produced Chemical Risk Cues Elicit Antipredator Responses in a Common Canadian Minnow	2
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Do reproductive characteristics of the species explain differences in the investment in weapon size present in males?	2
Visual lateralization in flight: Lateral preferences in parent‐offspring relative positions in geese	2
Tadpole plasticity shapes the potential benefits of egg feeding to poison frog parents	2
EXPRESSION OF CONCERN: Temperature Mediates Shifts in Individual Aggressiveness, Activity Level, and Social Behavior in a Spider	2
Movement in 3D: Novel Opportunities for Understanding Animal Behaviour and Space Use	2
Western black widow spiders (Latrodectus hesperus) remember prey capture location and size, but only alter behavior for prey caught at particular sites	2
Who Is Likely to Cheat? Linking Personality to Worthless Gift Production in a Spider	2
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Effects of a past contest on the future winning probability in a hyper‐aggressive fruit fly	2
Phenotype predicts interspecific dominance hierarchies in a cloud‐forest hummingbird guild	2