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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

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Animal Ethics in Behavioral Studies—Advocating a Differentiated View	16
Reflections on Konrad Lorenz	15
An Easy Method to Sample Headspace Pheromones in the Field	15
Cooperative and Solitary Mobbing to Defend Offspring in Wild Gray Mouse Lemurs, Microcebus murinus	15
Sneaky copulations by subordinate males suggest direct fitness benefits from male–male associations in spotted bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus maculatus)	12
Anti‐Snake Behavior and Snake Discrimination in Vervet Monkeys	11
Does Microplastic Ingestion Affect Cognition and Brain Gene Expression in Zebrafish, Danio rerio ?	11
The Effects of Trial Number and Individual Differences in Exploration on Fish Performance in an Object Location Recognition Task	11
Grouped and Vibrating: The Influence of Group Size, Triggering Stimuli, and Leg Loss in Bobbing in an Arachnid	10
Deer Vigilance and Movement Behavior Are Affected by Edge Density and Connectivity	9
Moonlight Duration and Intensity Favour Nocturnal Activity in a Diurnal Desert Bird	9
Is Paw Preference in Rats Influenced by Environmental Novelty?	8
Cheek‐to‐cheek: Communal nesting in an ephemeral pool‐breeding frog	8
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Behaviour in a novel environment provides clues to the success of an invasive species	7
How great tits respond to urgency‐based information in allopatric Southern house wren mobbing calls	7
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Host size selection and progeny sex determination in Hymenoepimecis bicolor (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae)	6
Third‐Party Affiliation in Domestic Dogs During and After a Human Conflict	6
Urban Bats: City Lovers or Refugees?	6
Learning and innovation in urban yellow mongooses (Cynictis penicillata)	6

Plastic Behavioral Responses to Ambient Relative Humidity Influence Aggregation in a Large Gregarious Insect	6
Do Green Lynx Spiders ( Peucetia viridans ) Change Color in Response to Their Backgrounds?	6
How important is temperature for strike success of ectotherms? Thermal effects on predator–prey interactions of free‐ranging pit vipers ( Gloydius blomhoffii	6
Cognitive and sensory capacity each contribute to the canine spatial bias	6
Food, Affection and Gaze: Which Cues Do Free‐Ranging Dogs Prioritise for Engaging With Humans?	6
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A vocalization in male Japanese bush warblers in response to both predators and conspecific females	5
Abdominal Spines on an Amazonian Spiny Spider ( Micrathena schreibersi ): A Defense Against Mud‐Dauber Wasps ( Sceliphron	5
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Retaining memory after hibernation: Performance varies independently of activity levels in wild grey mouse lemurs	5
Effects of Coffee on Drosophila melanogaster: Concentration‐Dependent Enhancement and Sleep Deprivation Recovery	5
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Avian Scavengers Modify Vigilance Across Visits to Foraging Sites	5
No Appeasement Through Vibrations: Male Vibratory Pre‐Copulatory Courtship in the Cursorial Spider Pisaura mirabilis Does Not Affect Female Predatory Res	5
Policing is more effective against eggs of non‐natal versus natal workers at early colony stages in a bumblebee	5
Antipredatory Strategies of Anurans: An Updated Conceptual Review	5
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Peep, Squeal and Claim: Complex Territorial Call Emission Across Social Contexts in a Neotropical Torrent Frog	5
Behavioral response to chemical cues from injured conspecifics in the livebearing fish, Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora	4
Evasive Maneuvers of Mosquitoes Reveal Variability in Escape Success and Echolocation Plasticity of Myotis riparius (Vespertilionidae)	4
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The perks of being in good conditions: How does female parasitism affect male mate choice in an orb‐web spider?	4
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Obituary: Professor Wolfgang Wickler (November 18, 1931– January 12, 2024)	4
Changes in Male Behavior in Response to Female Chemical Stimulus in an Understudied Arthropod Model	4
Among‐individual behavioral responses to predation risk are invariant within two species of freshwater snails	4
Just Hang On: Australian Gall Midges Suspend Themselves on Spider Silk Without Becoming Entangled	4
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Non‐lunge feeding behaviour of humpback whales associated with fishing boats in Norway	4
Male mate preference against tail‐elongated females in the barn swallow	4
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The effect of phenotypic heterogeneity on behaviours linked to invasive success	4
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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
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Defensive Behaviour in Intertidal Crabs	4
Sublethal effects of kleptoparasitism on experimental social spider colonies	4
Strategic Deployment of Secondary Defences in the Springbok Mantis ( Miomantis Caffra )	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
Sperm Strategies: Partner's Mating Status as a Driver of Last Male Success in Ladybirds	4
Effects of human disturbance on risk‐taking behavior in painted turtles	4
Consistent Intra‐Individual Seed Preferences, Yet No Dietary Conservatism in a Granivorous Songbird	4
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Reciprocity versus pseudo‐reciprocity: A false dichotomy	4
Reciprocal altruism in Norway rats	4
Pair‐Coordinated Calling: Eurasian Magpies Respond Differently to Simulated Intruder Pairs That Overlap or Alternate Their Calls	4
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Sibling cannibalism in the false widow spider is dependent on spiderling density and the reliable availability of fresh prey	3
Reversible Plasticity in the Communication System of the Cricket Gryllus rubens	3
Do Toxin‐Sequestering Snakes Recognize Their Own Nuchal Gland Toxin Reserve? Insights From Rhabdophis subminiatus	3
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Do reproductive characteristics of the species explain differences in the investment in weapon size present in males?	3
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Thanks to repetition, dustbathing detection can be automated combining accelerometry and wavelet analysis	3
Load Lightening in the Cooperatively Breeding Acorn Woodpecker Depends on the Analysis	3
Impact of Female Mating Status on Male Courtship Behaviour in a Sexually Cannibalistic New Zealand Fishing Spider	3
Correction to “Video evidence of mountings by female‐plumaged birds of paradise (Aves: Paradisaeidae) in the wild: Is there evidence of alternative mating tactics?”	3
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Constructing composite scores for contemporaneous behaviors: A comparison of four approaches	3
Male Barbary macaques choose loyal coalition partners which may increase their coalition network betweenness	3
Female great tits (Parus major) reproduce earlier when paired with a male they prefer	3
Females Guarded by Sneaker Males Experience Higher Predation in the Two‐Spotted Spider Mite	3
Of hormones (well, not really!), behavior, and observer bias	3
To Shimmer or Not to Shimmer: Collective Defensive Display in the Asian Giant Honeybee, Apis dorsata	3
Heterospecific interference modulates the reproductive traits of a ladybird beetle	3
A Newly Reported Tactile Gesture for Grooming Initiation in Japanese Macaques ( Macaca fuscata ) at Awajishima, Japan	3
Complexity in Chick‐a‐Dee Calls of Mountain Chickadees (Poecile gambeli): Call Variation Associated With Flock Size and Flight	3
Phenotype predicts interspecific dominance hierarchies in a cloud‐forest hummingbird guild	3
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Callosobruchus larval competition and its consequences for male and female adults	3
Social Drivers of Vocal Flexibility in Female Baboons	3
Video evidence of mountings by female‐plumaged birds of paradise (Aves: Paradisaeidae) in the wild: Is there evidence of alternative mating tactics?	3
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Exposure to the Oestrogenic Pollutant 17α‐Ethinyl Estradiol ( EE2 ) Does Not Alter the Behaviour of a Coastal Marine Fish, Cri	3
Male–Male Competition Affects Color Phenotype Expression and Color‐Dependent Oxidative Stress Levels in a Polymorphic Cichlid Fish	3
Behavioral Responses of Two Common Woodland Salamanders to Novel Urban Stimuli	3
Aggression, but Not Familiar Recognition, Occurs During Cohabitation in Females of a Hermit Crab	2
Interactive effects of increased nestbox temperature and vitamin E on nestling growth are attenuated by plasticity in female incubation effort	2
Grooming reciprocation in Himalayan tahr and the cognitive constraint hypothesis	2
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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No Effect of Note Order on the Response of Coal Tits to Conspecific, Heterospecific and Artificial Mobbing Calls	2
Non‐Lethally Produced Chemical Risk Cues Elicit Antipredator Responses in a Common Canadian Minnow	2
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EXPRESSION OF CONCERN : Temperature Mediates Shifts in Individual Aggressiveness, Activity Level, and Social Behavior in a Spider	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
Experimental Evidence on the Signalling Role of UV ‐Blue Colouration in Male European Wall Lizards (	2
Herbicide changes the role of body condition in mating interactions of a wolf spider but courtship is primarily affected by female immunity	2
The Effect of Background Colour on Behaviour and Development of Golden Mantella ( Mantella aurantiaca ) Tadpoles	2
Who Is Likely to Cheat? Linking Personality to Worthless Gift Production in a Spider	2
Effects of a past contest on the future winning probability in a hyper‐aggressive fruit fly	2
Correction to Successful Predatory‐Avoidance Behaviour to Lion Auditory Cues During Soft‐Release From Captivity in Cheetah	2
Tadpole plasticity shapes the potential benefits of egg feeding to poison frog parents	2
Do Cuttlefish Dream of Electric Shrimp? A Natural History Note on Behavioral Quiescence Strategies in Wild European Cuttlefish ( Sepia officinalis )	2
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Are Reversal Learning and Inhibitory Control Related? Evidence From Urban Kelp Gulls (Larus dominicanus)	2
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The Relevance of Flash Coloration Against Avian Predation in a Morpho Butterfly: A Field Experiment in a Tropical Rainforest	2
Aggressive vocalizations during intergroup interactions in roost defense in the Spix's disk‐winged bat	2
EXPRESSION OF CONCERN : Precopulatory Sexual Cannibalism Causes Increase Egg Case Production, Hatching Success, and Female Attractiveness to Males	2
Adaptive Significance of Long Mating With Repeated Intromissions in Zygogramma bicolorata	2
Movement in 3D : Novel Opportunities for Understanding Animal Behaviour and Space Use	2
Condition‐Dependent Responses to Risk in a Small Mammal	2
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