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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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Cheek‐to‐cheek: Communal nesting in an ephemeral pool‐breeding frog	25
Reflections on Konrad Lorenz	24
Flies getting filthy: The precopulatory mating behaviours of three mud‐dwelling species of Australian Lispe (Diptera: Muscidae)	23
Sneaky copulations by subordinate males suggest direct fitness benefits from male–male associations in spotted bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus maculatus)	18
Cooperative and Solitary Mobbing to Defend Offspring in Wild Gray Mouse Lemurs, Microcebus murinus	16
Multi‐night territorial behavior, chorus attendance, and mating success in red‐eyed treefrogs	16
Is Paw Preference in Rats Influenced by Environmental Novelty?	14
Animal Ethics in Behavioral Studies—Advocating a Differentiated View	14
Anti‐Snake Behavior and Snake Discrimination in Vervet Monkeys	14
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Deer Vigilance and Movement Behavior Are Affected by Edge Density and Connectivity	12
Grouped and Vibrating: The Influence of Group Size, Triggering Stimuli, and Leg Loss in Bobbing in an Arachnid	12
Learning and innovation in urban yellow mongooses (Cynictis penicillata)	9
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Behaviour in a novel environment provides clues to the success of an invasive species	9
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How great tits respond to urgency‐based information in allopatric Southern house wren mobbing calls	9
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Do Green Lynx Spiders (Peucetia viridans) Change Color in Response to Their Backgrounds?	8
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How important is temperature for strike success of ectotherms? Thermal effects on predator–prey interactions of free‐ranging pit vipers (Gloydius blomhoffii)	8
Host size selection and progeny sex determination in Hymenoepimecis bicolor (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae)	8

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Using remote seminars to teach animal behavior	8
Cognitive and sensory capacity each contribute to the canine spatial bias	8
Third‐Party Affiliation in Domestic Dogs During and After a Human Conflict	8
Abdominal Spines on an Amazonian Spiny Spider (Micrathena schreibersi): A Defense Against Mud‐Dauber Wasps (Sceliphron spp.) Attack?	8
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Testing a behavioral model for the maintenance of androdioecy as a result of sexual conflict in the clam shrimpEulimnadia dahli	7
Shoaling behaviour in the European cuttlefishSepia officinalis	7
Invasive brown widow spiders disperse aerially under a broad range of environmental conditions	7
An ambiguous function of an alarm pheromone in the collective displays of the Australian meat ant, Iridomyrmex purpureus	7
Retaining memory after hibernation: Performance varies independently of activity levels in wild grey mouse lemurs	7
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A vocalization in male Japanese bush warblers in response to both predators and conspecific females	7
Policing is more effective against eggs of non‐natal versus natal workers at early colony stages in a bumblebee	7
Testosterone, signal coloration, and signal color perception in male zebra finch contests	7
Effects of Coffee on Drosophila melanogaster: Concentration‐Dependent Enhancement and Sleep Deprivation Recovery	7
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The effect of phenotypic heterogeneity on behaviours linked to invasive success	6
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Characterization of social behavior in the spiny mouse, Acomys cahirinus	6
The perks of being in good conditions: How does female parasitism affect male mate choice in an orb‐web spider?	6
A positive feedback loop between sociality and social competence	6
Effects of human disturbance on risk‐taking behavior in painted turtles	6
A “feel‐free” format for ETHOLOGY	6
Strategic Deployment of Secondary Defences in the Springbok Mantis (Miomantis Caffra)	5
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Behavioral response to chemical cues from injured conspecifics in the livebearing fish, Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora	5
Obituary: Professor Wolfgang Wickler (November 18, 1931– January 12, 2024)	5
On the importance of defendable resources for social evolution: Applying new techniques to a long‐standing question	5
Evasive Maneuvers of Mosquitoes Reveal Variability in Escape Success and Echolocation Plasticity of Myotis riparius (Vespertilionidae)	5
Eight‐legged swimmers: Behavioral responses to floods in two South American spiders	5
Non‐lunge feeding behaviour of humpback whales associated with fishing boats in Norway	5
Parasite‐mediated sexual selection in a damselfly	5
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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	5
Defensive Behaviour in Intertidal Crabs	5
Sperm Strategies: Partner's Mating Status as a Driver of Last Male Success in Ladybirds	5
Male mate preference against tail‐elongated females in the barn swallow	5
Changes in Male Behavior in Response to Female Chemical Stimulus in an Understudied Arthropod Model	4
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Sublethal effects of kleptoparasitism on experimental social spider colonies	4
Just Hang On: Australian Gall Midges Suspend Themselves on Spider Silk Without Becoming Entangled	4
Reciprocity versus pseudo‐reciprocity: A false dichotomy	4
Use of Social Information About Novel Food by Juvenile Solitary Forktongue Goby, Chaenogobius annularis	4
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Female choice and male aggression in the polymorphic lizard Sceloporus minor	4
Reciprocal altruism in Norway rats	4
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Female great tits (Parus major) reproduce earlier when paired with a male they prefer	4

Correction to Decision Time Modulates Social Foraging Success in Wild Common Ravens Corvus corax	4
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Among‐individual behavioral responses to predation risk are invariant within two species of freshwater snails	4
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Sibling cannibalism in the false widow spider is dependent on spiderling density and the reliable availability of fresh prey	4
Thanks to repetition, dustbathing detection can be automated combining accelerometry and wavelet analysis	3
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Male–Male Competition Affects Color Phenotype Expression and Color‐Dependent Oxidative Stress Levels in a Polymorphic Cichlid Fish	3
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Siblings matter: Family heterogeneity improves associative learning later in life	3
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Constructing composite scores for contemporaneous behaviors: A comparison of four approaches	3
Successful predatory‐avoidance behaviour to lion auditory cues during soft‐release from captivity in cheetah	3
Phenotype predicts interspecific dominance hierarchies in a cloud‐forest hummingbird guild	3
Callosobruchus larval competition and its consequences for male and female adults	3
EXPRESSION OF CONCERN: Temperature Mediates Shifts in Individual Aggressiveness, Activity Level, and Social Behavior in a Spider	3
Pair‐Coordinated Calling: Eurasian Magpies Respond Differently to Simulated Intruder Pairs That Overlap or Alternate Their Calls	3
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Stable individual differences in the frequency of chin‐marking behavior across development in the domestic rabbit	3
Heterospecific interference modulates the reproductive traits of a ladybird beetle	3
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Contrasting sex roles in two species with stable biparental care	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?	3
Complexity in Chick‐a‐Dee Calls of Mountain Chickadees (Poecile gambeli): Call Variation Associated With Flock Size and Flight	3
The strange occurrence of male cannibalism on adult females in snakes	3
Graded‐risk sensitivity in northern European mixed‐species flocks of tit and nuthatch species	3
Females Guarded by Sneaker Males Experience Higher Predation in the Two‐Spotted Spider Mite	3
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Diving behavior in a Neotropical spider (Trechalea extensa) as a potential antipredator tactic	3
Male Barbary macaques choose loyal coalition partners which may increase their coalition network betweenness	3
Of hormones (well, not really!), behavior, and observer bias	3
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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
Movement in 3D: Novel Opportunities for Understanding Animal Behaviour and Space Use	2
The Relevance of Flash Coloration Against Avian Predation in a Morpho Butterfly: A Field Experiment in a Tropical Rainforest	2
Tadpole plasticity shapes the potential benefits of egg feeding to poison frog parents	2
Variation in escape response of Himalayan marmots (Marmota himalayana) under different human disturbances	2
Mate finding in a mimetic termitophile amidst its host termites	2
Effects of a past contest on the future winning probability in a hyper‐aggressive fruit fly	2
Aggression, but Not Familiar Recognition, Occurs During Cohabitation in Females of a Hermit Crab	2
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Non‐Lethally Produced Chemical Risk Cues Elicit Antipredator Responses in a Common Canadian Minnow	2
Walk or swim: The substrate for movement affects female treefrog mate choice behaviors but has little effect on their preferences	2
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Western black widow spiders (Latrodectus hesperus) remember prey capture location and size, but only alter behavior for prey caught at particular sites	2
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Aggression‐based social learning in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)	2
Visual lateralization in flight: Lateral preferences in parent‐offspring relative positions in geese	2
Responses of a pair‐living, sexually monogamous primate to the simulated presence of solitary individuals: A field playback experiment	2
Does the type of task affect prey discrimination learning in avian predators?	2
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Keeping up with environmental change: The importance of sociality	2
Male‐specific nocturnal song functions similarly to day song in a diurnal bird species	2
Dominant females have brighter ornamentation in a sexually dimorphic lekking species	2
Herbicide changes the role of body condition in mating interactions of a wolf spider but courtship is primarily affected by female immunity	2
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Nest defense, personality, and fitness of a locally endangered island passerine	2
No Effect of Note Order on the Response of Coal Tits to Conspecific, Heterospecific and Artificial Mobbing Calls	2
Do reproductive characteristics of the species explain differences in the investment in weapon size present in males?	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
Observations of multiple reproductive females in groups of smooth‐coated otters	2
EXPRESSION OF CONCERN: Precopulatory Sexual Cannibalism Causes Increase Egg Case Production, Hatching Success, and Female Attractiveness to Males	2
Harvesters (Arachnida: Opiliones) mate more at cooler temperatures, but the effect of temperature on mating varies across years	2
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Grooming reciprocation in Himalayan tahr and the cognitive constraint hypothesis	2
Aggressive vocalizations during intergroup interactions in roost defense in the Spix's disk‐winged bat	2
Adaptive Significance of Long Mating With Repeated Intromissions in Zygogramma bicolorata	2