OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Ethology Ecology & Evolution is 1. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Cryptochrome 1a localisation in light- and dark-adapted retinae of several migratory and non-migratory bird species: no signs of light-dependent activation	29
Notes on a tree: reframing the relevance of primate choruses, duets, and solo songs	19
The language void 10 years on: multimodal primate communication research is still uncommon	16
Form follows function in human nonverbal vocalisations	15
Illuminating the nightlife of two Neotropical nightjars: vocal behavior over a year and monitoring recommendations	14
Towards a common terminology for arthropod spatial orientation	14
A socio-ecological perspective on the gestural communication of great ape species, individuals, and social units	14
Migratory orientation in inexperienced and experienced avian migrants	14
Female cuckoo calls elicit vigilance and escape responses from wild free-range chickens	13
How to recover after sea crossing: the importance of small islands for passerines during spring migration	12
Grey wolf may show signs of self-awareness with the sniff test of self-recognition	11
Tolerant to humans? Assessment of alert and flight initiation distances of two bird species in relation to sex, flock size, and environmental characteristics	11
Vocal activity of the Ferruginous pygmy-owl (Glaucidium brasilianum) is strongly correlated with moon phase and nocturnal temperature	11
Snake slough in birds’ nests acts as a nest predator deterrent	10
Urbanization levels are associated with the start of the dawn chorus in vermilion flycatchers in Colombia	10
Diel activity patterns and overlap between Eurasian red squirrels and Siberian chipmunks in native and introduced ranges	9
Addicted to the moon: vocal output and diel pattern of vocal activity in two Neotropical nightjars is related to moon phase	9
Not only pigeons: avian olfactory navigation studied by satellite telemetry	9
Animal linguistics in the making: the Urgency Principle and titi monkeys’ alarm system	8
Coping with mortality: responses of monkeys and great apes to collapsed, inanimate and dead conspecifics	8
Hemoparasites and their relation to body condition and plumage coloration of the White-necked thrush (Turdus albicollis)	8
From the mountains to the sea! Unusual swimming behavior in chamois Rupicapra spp.	7
A long-term population study of the Eurasian griffon (Gyps fulvus)in Serbia before and following the establishment of a supplementary feeding program	7
No country for native crayfish: importance of crustaceans in the diet of native and alien Northern raccoons	7
Attacked from above and below: new ethological evidence on the predation strategies of corvid and varanid on a cave-roosting bat	6

From diurnal to nocturnal activity: a case study of night-light niche expansion in Agama agama lizards	6
Snow leopard (Panthera uncia) predation and consumption of an adult yak in the Mongolian Altai	6
Playful interactions and facial mimicry in infant bonobos (Pan paniscus)	5
First documentation of long-distance travel by a Florida manatee to the Mexican Caribbean	5
Diet of terrestrial anurans in an ephemeral and simplified habitat during the dry season in the Brazilian Cerrado	5
Effect of supplemental feeding on habitat and crop selection by wild boar in Sweden	5
Vocal performance and the usage of song types in Pale-legged leaf-warbler Phylloscopus tenellipes: a contradictory study	4
What makes us apes? The emotional building blocks of intersubjectivity in hominids	4
Decoupling residents and dispersers from detection data improve habitat selection modelling: the case study of the wolf in a natural corridor	4
Temporal changes in the wolf Canis lupus diet in Wigry National Park (northeast Poland)	4
Four new anuran defence behaviours observed in the cane toad Rhinella marina	4
Escaping from predators: a review of Neotropical lizards defence traits	4
Parental status is related to homing motivation in males of the glassfrog Centrolene savagei	4
Neoichnology: why should we care about peck marks and dust baths?	4
Avian forebrain processing of magnetic intensity and inclination: hippocampus, anterior forebrain Wulst and an unexpected double-dissociation	4
Post-autotomy limb movement in the porcellanid crab Petrolisthes japonicus	4
Species-specific resource availability as potential correlates of foraging strategy in Atlantic Forest edge-living common marmosets	4
Alien-dominated plant communities’ syntopic with seabird’s nests: evidence and possible implication from a Mediterranean insular ecosystem	4
Faster transport through slower runs: ant relocation dynamics in nature	4
Activity time budgets of ecologically relaxed groups of geladas (Theropithecus gelada) and mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx): what happens when time is no longer a constraint?	3
Interaction between nestling behaviour and nest-space use	3
A pilot study of calling patterns and vocal turn-taking in wild bonobos Pan paniscus	3
Competitive pressure by territorials promotes the utilization of unusual food source by subordinate ants in temperate European woodlands	3
Are feralization and domestication truly mirror processes?	3
Altitudinal body size variation inRana kukunoris: the effects of age and growth rate on the plateau brown frog from the eastern Tibetan Plateau	3
Potential role of sensory bias in plumage pattern evolution: termite-eating and polka-dots in estrildid finches	3
Differential autumn migration between sex and age groups in the Western marsh harrier: a longitudinal pattern analysis	3
On the gestural origins of language: what baboons’ gestures and brain have told us after 15 years of research	3
First assessment of ectoparasite prevalence in Apennine populations of Eurasian red squirrel: does habitat fragmentation affect parasite presence?	3
Nocturnal mother–juvenile offspring interaction at the beginning of the juvenile period in free-ranging spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi): a report on two cases	2
Dating on your level: assortative mating based on body condition in an amphibian	2
Possible impact of winter conditions and summer temperature on bank vole (Myodes glareolus) population fluctuations in Central Norway	2
Invisible or fearless: tadpole response to predator cues depends on color	2
Advancing onset of breeding dates in brood parasitic common cuckoos and their great reed warbler hosts over a 22-year period	2
Actual versus counterfactual fitness consequences of dispersal decisions in a cooperative breeder	2
New sniffing at New World primates: recent advances in the study of platyrrhine olfactory communication	2
The limits of olfactory perception in black vultures: a field experiment	2
Bedding behavior in goitered gazelles	2
Male mate choice in the annual killifish Millerichthys robustus and its relationship with female polymorphism, size and fecundity	2
Mechanisms of collateral damage: heterospecific neighbor density mediates parasitism by eavesdroppers on hourglass treefrogs	2
Neural basis of multi-sensory communication in primates	2
Urban junco flight initiation distances correlate with approach velocities of anthropogenic sounds	2
Microevolutionary change in mimicry? Potential erosion of rattling behaviour among nonvenomous snakes on islands lacking rattlesnakes	2
Evaluating vector navigation in green turtles migrating in a dynamic oceanic environment	2
Site fidelity and determinants of wintering decisions in the Dalmatian pelican (Pelecanus crispus)	2
Body condition of females during tadpole attendance and its potential costs in a Neotropical foam-nesting frog (Leptodactylus podicipinus)	2
Ecological responses of two shrimp populations (Palaemonidae) to seasonal abiotic factor variations in a Brazilian semiarid reservoir	2
Migratory restlessness and stopover duration in Wood sandpiper Tringa glareola	2
Downscaling hermit crab-gastropod network to demographic groups unveils recurrent patterns	2
Response to laboratory selection for darker and lighter body color phenotypes in Drosophila melanogaster: correlated changes for larval behavioral traits	2

Hissing calls of tits elicit vigilance in feeding squirrels	2
Foraging success is differently affected by local climate in two syntopic forest-dwelling salamanders	2
Water visitation patterns by Eleonora’s falcon at its breeding grounds: a case study using visual observations and camera traps	1
Juveniles are different: substrate selection in juvenile green lizards Lacerta bilineata	1
Body colour adjustment of the freshwater shrimp Macrobrachium jelskii (Miers 1877) in different background colours	1
Dietary habits of the European brown hare: summary of knowledge and management relapses	1
Animal behaviour on the cover: layout cover patterns of ethological journals	1
Repeatability of foraging behavior following a simulated predation attempt depends on color morph, sex, and foraging metric in Red-backed salamanders (Plethodon cinereus)	1
Effects of floral display and abiotic environment on the foraging activity of bees on Kallstroemia pubescens (Zygophyllaceae)	1
Seasonally variable effects of spiders on herbivory and seed production of Chamaecrista neesiana (Leguminosae Caesalpinioideae)	1
Offspring mortality factors and parental care efficiency of the spider Manogea porracea (Araneidae) in the Brazilian savanna	1
Trunk structural complexity determines the diversity of bark-dwelling spiders in a tropical forest	1
Population abundance, structure and movements of the European pond turtle, Emys orbicularis (Linnaeus 1758) based on capture-recapture data in a Venice Lagoon wetland area, Italy	1
Seasonal and intra-populational diet variation in the Colombian Swamp frogPseudopaludicola pusilla(Anura Leptodactylidae)	1
Web building behavior in a wall spider (Oecobiidae) suggests a close relationship with orb-weavers	1
Antlion allometry suggests a greater importance of prey capture among first larval instars	1
Male validation factor for three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) mate choice likely evolutionarily conserved since 50 thousand years	1
Behavioural repertory of juveniles of the freshwater crabPoppiana dentata(Randall 1840) under laboratory conditions	1
The role of epigynal setae in mate choice in the orb-weaver Leucauge argyra	1
Acoustic analysis of wolf howls recorded in Apennine areas with different vegetation covers	1
The functional morphology of species-specific male structures and lack of female coevolution in Lytta (Adicolytta) eucera (Chevrolat 1834) (Coleoptera Meloidae)	1
Association patterns in a high-elevation chimpanzee community in Rwanda	1
Cheliped function in the porcellanid crabPetrolisthes japonicus: autotomy as an effective antipredator defence mechanism	1
Under what conditions is brood reduction effective?	1
Forget the toad and eat the frog: no associational protection against fish from a chemically defended toad to a later-breeding anuran species	1
Body size correlations with female aggression and physiology suggest pre-adult effects on caste in an independent-founding eusocial paper wasp (Mischocyttarus pallidipectus, Hymenoptera Vespida	1
The defense repertoire of males of Leptodactylus vastus Lutz 1930 in a fragment of the Atlantic Forest in northeastern Brazil	1
Reaching versus catching: flexible hand preference in ring-tailed lemurs	1
Carnivory in the Alpine marmot (Marmota marmota): An underestimated phenomenon?	1
Phytophagous consumption by frogs inhabiting bromeliads from Atlantic Forest	1
The homing pigeons’ olfactory map is affected by geographical barriers	1
The opportunity for and intensity of sexual selection in a seed bug depend on host plant dispersion	1
How aggressive calls of a Neotropical treefrog vary among different levels of social tension?	1
Perceived mate competition risk influences the female mate choice and increases the reproductive effort in the annual killifish Millerichthys robustus	1
Current status of Brazilian scientific production on non-native species	1
Do pied tamarins increase scent-marking in response to urban noise?	1
Alarm reaction depends on multiple chemical cues in tadpoles of the cane toad (Rhinella marina)	1
Activity overlap between mesocarnivores and prey in the Central Mongolian steppe	1
Temporal and spatial overlap in the behaviors of a native and invasive tree squirrel in southern California	1
Strategic ejaculate adjustments and mismatches: are males paying sperm senescence costs?	1
Jungle cat (Felis chaus) in farmlands: potential benefits of coexistence and human-wildlife conflicts in West Bengal, India	1
Interacting primates: the biological roots of human communication	1
The role of the antennae in the compass-based orientation of the equatorial sandhopperTalorchestia martensiiWeber (Crustacea Amphipoda)	1
Living in a mosaic of Brazilian Atlantic Forest and plantations: spatial ecology of five bushmaster Lachesis muta (Viperidae Crotalinae)	1