OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Behaviour 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Musth and sexual selection in elephants: a review of signalling properties and potential fitness consequences	17
Avoidant social style among wild crested macaque males (Macaca nigra) in Tangkoko Nature Reserve, Sulawesi, Indonesia	15
Submission signals in animal groups	14
Conspecific scarring on wild belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) in Cunningham Inlet	12
Reinstating reptiles: from clueless creatures to esteemed models of cognitive biology	11
Can animals develop depression? An overview and assessment of ‘depression-like’ states	10
Look at me while having sex! Eye-to-eye contact affects homosexual behaviour in bonobo females	10
Long-term consistency despite cross-seasonal changes in personality traits of common waxbills	10
Zoo-housed female chimpanzee adopts local female-specific tradition upon immigrating into a new group	10
Chemically mediated self-recognition in sibling juvenile common gartersnakes (Thamnophis sirtalis) reared on same or different diets: evidence for a chemical mirror?	9
Drop when the stakes are high: adaptive, flexible use of dropping behaviour by aphids	8
Alternate without alternative: neither preference nor learning explains behaviour of C57BL/6J mice in the T-maze	8
The effect of group size on the speed of decision making depends on compromise and predation risk across populations in the guppy Poecilia reticulata	7
Dealing with the unexpected: the effect of environmental variability on behavioural flexibility in a Mediterranean lizard	7
Sociosexual behaviour in wild chimpanzees occurs in variable contexts and is frequent between same-sex partners	7
Predators learning to avoid toxic invasive prey: a study on individual variation among free-ranging lizards	7
Evolutionary loss of threat display in more social species: phylogenetic comparisons, natural interactions in the wild, and experiments with models	7
Prospective evolutionary drivers of allocare in wild belugas	7
Mothers and fathers improve immature baboon foraging success	6
Sex differences in response to environmental and social breeding cues in an amphibian	6
The behaviours of a female blonde capuchin (Sapajus flavius) towards her dead infant	6
Communication across multiple sensory modes: quantifying the rich behavioural repertoire of a Neotropical torrent frog	6
Lizards as models to explore the ecological and neuroanatomical correlates of miniaturization	6
Social facilitation in short-tailed fruit bats, Carollia perspicillata (Linnaeus)	5
Spontaneous ingestion of water by a free-ranging maned sloth, Bradypus torquatus, in the Ibura National Forest, northeastern Brazil	5

Locomotion and habituation to novel experimental environments in a social fish species	5
The effects of habituation on boldness of urban and rural song sparrows (Melospiza melodia)	5
The role of personality traits in pair bond formation: pairing is influenced by the trait of exploration	5
Female copulation calls vary with male ejaculation in captive olive baboons	5
Sex recognition and agonistic strategies of male and female crayfish	5
Who cares for the eggs? Analysis of egg attendance behaviour in Ranitomeya imitator, a poison frog with biparental care	5
Conspecific aggression strategies are conditioned by environmental, social and intrinsic variables in breeding blue tits Cyanistes caeruleus	5
Killing behaviour of adult brood parasites	5
The voices of an alleged mute: sound emissions in a Tropidurus lizard	4
Ecology and social behaviour of the Mongolian gerbil: a generalised review	4
The role of touch in captive and semi-captive Antillean manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus)	4
Adverse weather reduces the spatial use of an opportunistic gull	4
Sexual adaptation: is female–male mounting a supernormal courtship display in Japanese macaques?	4
Behavioural repeatability in the Big Brown Bat, Eptesicus fuscus	4
The life of Fabian, an Azara’s owl monkey (Aotus azarae) of the Argentinean Chaco	4
Body size, habitat quality, and territory defense in Bachman’s sparrow	4
Aggression towards neonates and possible infanticide in the boto, or Amazon river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis)	4
Nocturnal visual displays and call description of the cascade specialist glassfrog Sachatamia orejuela	4
Anatomy of avian distress calls: structure, variation, and complexity in two species of shorebird (Aves: Charadrii)	4
High risk of predation suppresses behavioural differences among bold and shy social prey individuals	4
Group-size preferences in a shoaling cichlid	4
Alarm calls of house wrens (Troglodytes aedon bonariae) elicit responses of conspecific and heterospecific species	4
Resource availability influences global social network properties in Gunnison’s prairie dogs (Cynomys gunnisoni)	3
Inter-individual differences of calling and exploratory behaviour in a lebinthine cricket species hint at different mate-finding strategies	3
Biparental negotiation or larval begging? Determinant of male provisioning in a burying beetle (Nicrophorus quadripunctatus)	3
The link between animal personality and habitat selection in males of the Neotropical poison frog Allobates femoralis	3
Context-dependent agonistic response to neighbours along territory boundaries in a cichlid fish	3
Nothobranchius furzeri as an emerging model for mate choice: female choice revealed by animations	3
Do long-tailed macaques avoid large heterospecific carcasses?	3
An observation of attempted infanticide and female–female cooperation in wild plains zebras (Equus quagga)	3
Do male Boana goiana (Lutz, 1968) (Anura: Hylidae) discriminate between the calls of neighbours and strangers?	3
High incidence of leg autotomy in urban crickets	3
Does the presence of conspecifics facilitate exploratory behaviour in a cichlid fish (Etroplus suratensis)?	3
Courtship rhythm in Nasonia vitripennis is affected by the clock gene period	3
Optimal foraging strategy to balance mixed diet by generalist consumers: a simulation model	3
Responses to a poached conspecific in wild forest elephants (Loxodonta africana cyclotis)	3
Effect of infant pelage colour on infant caring by other group members: a case study of wild Javan lutungs (Trachypithecus auratus)	3
Who’s there? Third parties affect social interactions between spider monkey males	3
Anecdotes in animal behaviour	3
Constraints on population growth of blue monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis) in Kibale National Park, Uganda	3
The effect of food preference, landmarks, and maze shift on maze-solving time in desert ants	3
Vocal complexity in Antillean manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus)	2
Does anthropogenic noise promotes advertisement call adjustments in the rubí poison frog Andinobates bombetes?	2
Educating dog owners: how owner–dog interactions can benefit from addressing the human caregiving system and dog-directed parenting styles	2
Colour vision in sengis (Macroscelidea, Afrotheria, Mammalia): choice experiments indicate dichromatism	2
Facultative male investment in prolonged mate-guarding in a butterfly	2
Fellatio among male sanctuary-living chimpanzees during a period of social tension	2
Parasites differentially impact crayfish personality in different contexts	2
Age-dependent walking and feeding of the assassin bug Amphibolus venator	2
The effect of social odour context on the amount of time male meadow voles, Microtus pennsylvanicus, self-groom	2

Reconciliation in human adults: a video-assisted naturalistic observational study of post conflict conciliatory behaviour in interpersonal aggression	2
Ontogeny of scent marking behaviours in an apex carnivore	2
Attention-getting in a white-cheeked gibbon by means of a novel vocalization?	2
Tools and food on heat lamps: pyrocognitive sparks in New Caledonian crows?	2
Spider monkey use of natural and artificial terrestrial water sources in Calakmul, Mexico	2
Use of landmarks for nest site choice and small-scale navigation to the nest in birds	2
Feeding competition inferred from patch depletion in a supergroup of Rwenzori black-and-white colobus monkeys (Colobus angolensis ruwenzorii) in Rwanda	2
Size-assortative mating in explosive breeders: a case study of adaptive male mate choice in anurans	2
On the applicability of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) as an intervention in dogs with fear and anxiety disorders after a traumatic event	2
Spontaneous nocturnal erections and masturbation in captive male chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)	2
Insights into insect cognition through mirror-induced behaviour in paper wasps	2
Autopreening behaviour may convey information about internal social state in Arabian babbler (Turdoides squamiceps) allopreening dyads	2
Active sharing of a novel, arbitrary innovation in captive cotton-top tamarins?	2
Pharmacotherapeutics in clinical ethology: treatment efficacy, clinical pathology and outcome	2
Gregariousness and intraspecific aggression in Iberian bullfinches (Pyrrhula pyrrhula iberiae) throughout the year	2
Host plant acceptance in a generalist insect: threshold, feedback or choice?	2
Context-specific cue use in the Eastern painted turtle (Chrysemys picta) and its effects on decision making	2
More opportunities to peck for identical food availability increases foraging efficiency in pigeons	2
Female social structure influences, and is influenced by, male introduction and integration success among captive rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)	2
From nestling to adult: personality traits are consistent within but not across life stages in a wild songbird	2
Pattern biases, but not positional cues, influence learning in the little brown skink, Scincella lateralis	2
Swimming and diving as social play in juvenile rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)	2
Subordinate submissive responses are predicted by dominant behaviour in a cooperatively breeding fish	2
Extent of encounter with an embedded food influences how it is processed by an urbanizing macaque species	2
Anecdotic observations of homosexual behaviour among male capuchin monkeys (Sapajus sp.)	2
Overturning and rolling avoidance by gecko when challenged with inclines	2
Ring a bell? Variable recognition of a multicomponent auditory stimulus associated with predation risk by zebrafish responding to full and partial matches	2