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Papers

(The median citation count of Animal Cognition is 6. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Pet dogs (Canis familiaris) re-engage humans after joint activity	82
Correction to: If horses had toes: demonstrating mirror self recognition at group level in Equus caballus	41
“Cognition in marine mammals: the strength of flexibility in adapting to marine life”	36
Nest sanitation as an effective defence against brood parasitism	33
Life is in motion (through a chick’s eye)	30
Assessment of predation risk through conspecific cues by anuran larvae	29
Does owner handedness influence paw preference in dogs?	25
Thinking about order: a review of common processing of magnitude and learned orders in animals	23
Grouping rule in tadpole: is quantity more or size assortment more important?	23
Cognitive flexibility in a Tanganyikan bower-building cichlid, Aulonocranus dewindti	22
Horses discriminate between human facial and vocal expressions of sadness and joy	21
Injury shortens life expectancy in ants and affects some risk-related decisions of workers	21
Spot the odd one out: do snake pictures capture macaques’ attention more than other predators?	21
Sex differences in social buffering and social contagion of alarm responses in zebrafish	21
The PROUST hypothesis: the embodiment of olfactory cognition	19
On being a Hydra with, and without, a nervous system: what do neurons add?	19
Learning and organization of within-session sequences by pigeons (Columba livia)	19
Cognitive control of song production by humpback whales	18
Lessons learned in animal acoustic cognition through comparisons with humans	18
A comparative study of mirror self-recognition in three corvid species	18
Both age and experience are important for successful problem solving in juvenile fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rats Melomys cervinipes	18
Penguins perceive variations of source- and filter-related vocal parameters of species-specific vocalisations	17
What drives horse success at following human-given cues? An investigation of handler familiarity and living conditions	17
Impact of exploration behavior, aptitude for pellet consumption, and the predation practice on the performance in consecutive live prey foraging tests in a piscivorous species	16
Left or right, that is the question: use of egocentric frame of reference and the right-eye advantage for understanding gestural signs in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)	16

Smart sharks: a review of chondrichthyan cognition	16
Behavioral laterality is correlated with problem-solving performance in a songbird	15
Orientation by environmental geometry and feature cues in the green and black poison frog (Dendrobates auratus)	15
Volumetric and connectivity assessment of the caudate nucleus in California sea lions and coyotes	14
Can rats and ants exchange information between the horizontal and vertical domains?	14
African jewel fish (Hemichromis bimaculatus) distinguish individual faces based on their unique iridophore patterns	13
Novel object recognition in Octopus maya	13
Are you better than me? Social comparisons in carrion crows (Corvus corone)	13
Basal cognition: shifting the center of gravity (again)	13
Plasticity for the kin and conspecific preferences in the frog tadpoles (Rana ornativentris)	13
Emulative learning of a two-step task in free-ranging domestic pigs	13
Cue polarization and representation in mouse home base behaviors	13
Performance on inhibitory tasks does not relate to handedness in several small groups of Callitrichids	13
After 150 years of watching: is there a need for synthetic ethology?	13
Repeated testing does not confound cognitive performance in the Western Australian magpie (Cracticus tibicen dorsalis)	12
Varieties of visual navigation in insects	12
Tolerant macaque species are less impulsive and reactive	12
Behavioural synchronization and social referencing of dogs and humans: walking in dyad vs in group	12
Visual perception of emotion cues in dogs: a critical review of methodologies	12
Nest box entrance hole size can influence nest site selection and nest defence behaviour in Japanese tits	12
The deterrent effects of individual monoterpene odours on the dietary decisions of African elephants	12
Cognition of the manatee: past research and future developments	11
First record of geophagy in Jungle Babbler (Turdoides striata) prior to egg-laying: an instinct for calcium supplement	11
Social experience drives the development of holistic face processing in paper wasps	11
Gender differences in animal cognition science	11
Quantity discrimination by kittens of the domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus)	11
Count-based decision-making in mice: numerosity vs. stimulus control	11
Visual categories and concepts in the avian brain	10
Context-effect bias in capuchin monkeys (Sapajus spp.): exploring decoy influences in a value-based food choice task	10
Innovative problem-solving in a small, wild canid	10
Slowly walking down to the more food: relative quantity discrimination in African spurred tortoises (Centrochelys sulcata)	10
Puppies in the problem-solving paradigm: quick males and social females	10
Meowing dogs: can dogs recognize cats in a cross-modal violation of expectancy task (Canis familiaris)?	10
Juvenile vervet monkeys rely on others when responding to danger	10
Interspecific differences in developmental mode determine early cognitive abilities in teleost fish	10
Two-action task, testing imitative social learning in kea (Nestor notabilis)	9
Grey wolves (Canis lupus) discriminate between familiar and unfamiliar human voices	9
Object use in communication of semi-wild chimpanzees	9
Orcas remember what to copy: a deferred and interference-resistant imitation study	9
Correction: Do chimpanzees see a face on Mars? A search for face pareidolia in chimpanzees	9
Active oscillations in microscale navigation	9
When should we ascribe sentience to animals? A commentary on “Hermit crabs, shells and sentience” (Elwood 2022)	9
What is it like to be a choanoflagellate? Sensation, processing and behavior in the closest unicellular relatives of animals	8
Horses form cross-modal representations of adults and children	8
An investigation on the olfactory capabilities of domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris)	8
Mice make temporal inferences about novel locations based on previously learned spatiotemporal contingencies	8
Color is necessary for face discrimination in the Northern paper wasp, Polistes fuscatus	8
The current state of carnivore cognition	8
A small step for rats alters spatial behavior: rats on a bi-level arena explore each level separately	8
Geckos differentiate self from other using both skin and faecal chemicals: evidence towards self-recognition?	8

Oscillatory extraction behaviour suggests functional attributes of crows’ hooked-stick tools	8
Effects of predation risk on the sensory asymmetries and defensive strategies of Bufotes balearicus tadpoles	8
Vocal signals with different social or non-social contexts in two wild rodent species (Mus caroli and Rattus losea)	8
Prior experience modifies acquisition trajectories via response–strategy sampling	7
Social cognition and metacognition in great apes: a theory	7
The influence of visual illusion perception on numerosity estimation could be evolutionarily conserved: exploring the numerical Delboeuf illusion in humans (Homo sapiens) and fish (Poecilia reticulata	7
First acoustic evidence of signature whistle production by spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris)	7
Stepwise learning of compound multidimensional visual stimuli by sorting out the dimensions of which they are composed in pigeons	7
A comparison of personality traits of gifted word learner and typical border collies	6
Frog embryos use multiple levels of temporal pattern in risk assessment for vibration-cued escape hatching	6
Mother–pup recognition mechanisms in Australia sea lion (Neophoca cinerea) using uni- and multi-modal approaches	6
Use of the sun compass by monocularly occluded homing pigeons in a food localisation task in an outdoor arena	6
On the role of training in delay of gratification paradigms: a reply to Pepperberg 2022	6
Well-developed spatial reversal learning abilities in harbor seals (Phoca vitulina)	6
Congratulations to Animal Cognition on its 50th birthday! Some thoughts on the last 50 years of animal cognition research	6
Animal cognition, past present and future, a 25th anniversary special issue	6
Bioelectric networks: the cognitive glue enabling evolutionary scaling from physiology to mind	6
Why an animal needs a brain	6
Use of anvils by the Great Kiskadee (Aves, Tyrannidae): a description based on citizen science data	6
The use of an intermittent schedule of reinforcement to evaluate detection dogs’ generalization from smokeless-powder	6
Does social motivation mitigate fear caused by a sudden sound in horses?	6
Structural environmental enrichment and the way it is offered influence cognitive judgement bias and anxiety-like behaviours in zebrafish	6
Under pressure: the interaction between high-stakes contexts and individual differences in decision-making in humans and non-human species	6
Heterospecific eavesdropping on disturbance cues of a treefrog	6
Language preference in the domestic dog (Canis familiaris)	6
“The song remains the same”: not really! Vocal flexibility in the song of the indris	6
Llamas use social information from conspecifics and humans to solve a spatial detour task	6
Stressfulness of the design influences consistency of cognitive measures and their correlation with animal personality traits in wild mice (Mus musculus)	6