OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ethology is 3. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Ethology adopts the STRANGE framework for animal behaviour research, to improve reporting standards	24
Keeping up with environmental change: The importance of sociality	23
Naked mole‐rats (Heterocephalus glaber) do not specialise in cooperative tasks	18
Expanding the concept of social behavior to interspecific interactions	17
A positive feedback loop between sociality and social competence	16
Male anti‐predation services in primates as costly signalling? A comparative analysis and review	14
Female common cuckoo calls dampen the mobbing intensity of great reed warbler hosts	14
Evolutionary origins of cooperative and communal breeding: Lessons from the crotophagine cuckoos	13
Measuring personality traits in Eurasian red squirrels: A critical comparison of different methods	13
No evidence for general intelligence in a fish	12
Best of a bad job or masters of illusion: Do nest light conditions make the eggs of brood parasitic brown‐headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater) more similar to the eggs of their hosts?	12
Great tits (Parus major) adequately respond to both allopatric combinatorial mobbing calls and their isolated parts	12
Analysis of central place foraging behaviour of wolves using hidden Markov models	11
Importance of vision in tandem running during colony relocation in an Indian ant	11
Group‐level variation in co‐feeding tolerance between two sanctuary‐housed communities of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)	11
Inherit the kingdom or storm the castle? Breeding strategies in a social carnivore	10
The effects of exposure to predators on personality and plasticity	10
Urban fox squirrels exhibit tolerance to humans but respond to stimuli from natural predators	10
Co‐option and the evolution of food sharing in vampire bats	10
Characterization of social behavior in the spiny mouse, Acomys cahirinus	10
A behavioral logic underlying aggression in an African cichlid fish	10
Exploration influences problem solving in the fawn‐footed mosaic‐tailed rat (Melomys cervinipes)	9
Passive traps and sampling bias: Social effects and personality affect trap entry by sticklebacks	9
Responses of a pair‐living, sexually monogamous primate to the simulated presence of solitary individuals: A field playback experiment	9
A comparison of low‐cost behavioral observation software applications for handheld computers and recommendations for use	9

The effect of temperature on the spatial learning rate of zebrafish (Danio rerio)	9
Siblings matter: Family heterogeneity improves associative learning later in life	9
Field studies need to report essential information on social organisation – independent of the study focus	8
Do monkeys use sex toys? Evidence of stone tool‐assisted masturbation in free‐ranging long‐tailed macaques	8
Interspecific aggression and defence of extra nest sites in two species of songbirds	8
Pairing status moderates both the production of and responses to anti‐parasitic referential alarm calls in male yellow warblers	8
The curious case of great ape curiosity and how it is shaped by sociality	8
Mobbing responses of great tits (Parus major) do not depend on the number of heterospecific callers	8
Vervet monkeys socialize more when time budget constraints are experimentally reduced	7
Effects of a COVID‐19 lockdown‐induced pause and resumption of artificial provisioning on blacktip reef sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus) and pink whiprays (Pateobatis fai) in French Po	7
Female Western Australian magpies discriminate between familiar and unfamiliar human voices	7
Wild narrow‐striped mongooses use social information to enhance behavioural flexibility	7
An ambiguous function of an alarm pheromone in the collective displays of the Australian meat ant, Iridomyrmex purpureus	7
Norway rats help social partners in need in response to ultrasonic begging signals	7
Does the presence of a conspecific increase or decrease fear? Neophobia and habituation in zebra finches	7
Shoaling behaviour in the European cuttlefishSepia officinalis	7
Yellow‐breasted Boubous (Laniarius atroflavus) jointly defend territories with male‐led duets against stranger pairs, males and females	7
Invasive brown widow spiders disperse aerially under a broad range of environmental conditions	6
Deciphering choreographies of elaborate courtship displays of golden‐collared manakins using markerless motion capture	6
Sex differences in social odor discrimination by southern giant pouched rats (Cricetomys ansorgei)	6
Stability and change in gartersnake social networks across ontogeny	6
Large female song repertoires and within‐pair song type sharing in a temperate breeding songbird	6
Repeatability of alert and flight initiation distances in king penguins: Effects of colony, approach speed, and weather	6
Cooperative intentions and their implications on reciprocal cooperation in Norway rats	6
Female preference for artificial song dialects in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)	6
Tactile stimuli induce deimatic antipredator displays in ringneck snakes	6
Sexual selection in a tropical toad: Do female toads choose brighter males in a species with rapid colour change?	6
Odd one in: Oddity within mixed‐species shoals does not affect shoal preference by vagrant tropical damselfish in the presence or absence of a predator	6
How great tits respond to urgency‐based information in allopatric Southern house wren mobbing calls	6
Social dominance does not increase oxidative stress in a female dominance hierarchy of an African cichlid fish	6
On the importance of defendable resources for social evolution: Applying new techniques to a long‐standing question	6
Dominant females have brighter ornamentation in a sexually dimorphic lekking species	5
Visual lateralization in flight: Lateral preferences in parent‐offspring relative positions in geese	5
Visual and chemical signals provide different information in Polistes fuscatus wasps	5
Interactions between oxidative stress and attractiveness to mates and individual mate choice in the beetle Tenebrio molitor	5
Breeder aggression does not predict current or future cooperative group formation in a cooperatively breeding bird	5
Fully flexible analysis of behavioural sequences based on parametric survival models with frailties—A tutorial	5
The American robin (Turdus migratorius): A focal species for anti‐parasitic egg rejection studies among hosts of the brown‐headed cowbird (Molothrus ater)	5
Does habitat complexity and prior residency influence aggression between invasive and native freshwater crayfish?	5
Landscape features causing the local congregation of honeybee males (Apismellifera L.)	5
Exploring a novel substrate‐borne vibratory signal in the wolf spider Schizocosa floridana	5
Black‐headed gulls synchronize vigilance with their nearest neighbor irrespective of the neighbor's relative position	5
Through a glass darkly? Divergent reactions of eight Lake Tanganyika cichlid species towards their mirror image in their natural environment	5
Observations of multiple reproductive females in groups of smooth‐coated otters	5
The handsome liar: Male spiders offering worthless gifts can benefit increasing mating duration	5
Parasite‐mediated sexual selection in a damselfly	5
Calling activity determines male mating success in a territorial frog with parental care	5
Direct reciprocity among humans	5
Pattern, function and constraint of infant handling in wild Japanese macaques	5
Sneaky copulations by subordinate males suggest direct fitness benefits from male–male associations in spotted bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus maculatus)	5

Alarm calls of southern house wrens, Troglodytes aedon bonariae, convey information about the level of risk	4
Hauling up a hefty meal: Long‐Jawed spider (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) uses silk lines to transport large prey vertically through the air in the absence of a web	4
Dragline silk reveals female developmental stage and mediates male vibratory courtship in the nuptial gift‐giving spider Pisaura mirabilis	4
Group orientation and social order versus disorder: Perspective of outsiders toward experimental chains of social hermit crabs	4
Collective defence and behavioural homogeneity during simulated territorial intrusions in banded mongooses (Mungos mungo)	4
Resource selection in nasute termite: The role of social information	4
Advertising sex and individual identity by long‐distance chirps in wild‐living mature cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus)	4
Social network analysis of small social groups: Application of a hurdle GLMM approach in the Alpine marmot (Marmota marmota)	4
Tool use and tooling in ravens (Corvus corax): A review and novel observations	4
Female bird song rates do not covary with population density in a North American species	4
The generalist parasitoid Nasonia vitripennis shows more behavioural plasticity in host preference than its three specialist sister species	4
House sparrows exhibit individual differences in generalization when confronted with different novel stimuli	4
No evidence for contribution of sexually monomorphic wing pigmentation pattern to mate choice in Drosophila guttifera	4
Sparring dynamics and individual laterality in male South African giraffes	4
Reciprocity versus pseudo‐reciprocity: A false dichotomy	4
Innate and learned predator recognition across populations of Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar	4
Acoustic features of long‐distance calls of wild cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) are linked to the caller age from newborns to adults	3
Host size selection and progeny sex determination in Hymenoepimecis bicolor (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae)	3
Context‐sensitive dance–vocal displays affect song patterns and partner responses in a socially monogamous songbird	3
Hidden black and yellow thigh color acts as an aposematic signal in the Eastern Gray Treefrog (Hyla versicolor)	3
Among‐individual behavioral responses to predation risk are invariant within two species of freshwater snails	3
Level of local human disturbance and feeding state determines escape behaviour in Eurasian Oystercatchers	3
Nest defense, personality, and fitness of a locally endangered island passerine	3
Effects of a past contest on the future winning probability in a hyper‐aggressive fruit fly	3
Spatial behavior of northern flying squirrels in the same social network	3
Automatic individual recognition of Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) from sequential images	3
Adjustment of egg laying by both hosts and intraspecific brood parasites in a beetle	3
Boldness and exploration vary between shell morphs but not environmental contexts in the snail Cepaea nemoralis	3
Testosterone, signal coloration, and signal color perception in male zebra finch contests	3
A proposal to enhance data quality and FAIRness	3
In search of the perfect web? Males of the golden silk orb‐web spider trichonephila clavipes do not aggregate in webs of high‐quality females	3
Effects of group behavior in the predatory raid on damselfish nests by the false cleanerfishAspidontus taeniatus	3
Reciprocal altruism in Norway rats	3
Female sex pheromone emission is affected by body condition, but not immune system function, in the orb‐web spider Argiope bruennichi	3
Revisiting the components of Macroscelidea social systems: Evidence for variable social organization, including pair‐living, but not for a monogamous mating system	3
Reproductive behaviours in male parasitoids: From mating system to pairing pattern	3
Heads up! Variation in the vigilance of foraging chipmunks in response to experimental manipulation of perceived risk	3
Effects of human disturbance on risk‐taking behavior in painted turtles	3
Darwin’s finches habitually anoint their feathers with leaves of the endemic treePsidium galapageiumduring the non‐breeding season	3
Nest‐site selection in a neotropical arachnid with exclusive male care: Proximate cues and adaptive meaning	3
Social relationships among captive female Himalayan tahr	3
Learning and innovation in urban yellow mongooses (Cynictis penicillata)	3
Mutual wing‐eating between female and male within mating pairs in wood‐feeding cockroach	3
Flies getting filthy: The precopulatory mating behaviours of three mud‐dwelling species of Australian Lispe (Diptera: Muscidae)	3
Female great tits (Parus major) reproduce earlier when paired with a male they prefer	3
Mate choice in a promiscuous poison frog	3
Female choice and male aggression in the polymorphic lizard Sceloporus minor	3
Artificial light affects the foraging behavior in greater white‐toothed shrews (CROCIDURA RUSSULA)	3
“Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise”: Indiscriminate male care in a neotropical spider	3
Mate finding in a mimetic termitophile amidst its host termites	3
Use of conditional prey attack strategies in two generalist ground spider species	3