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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Construction of nest mound and preference for it during relocation in an Indian ant Diacamma indicum	20
Context-specific cue use in the Eastern painted turtle (Chrysemys picta) and its effects on decision making	20
Place your bets: small prey faces large predators	14
Anatomy of avian distress calls: structure, variation, and complexity in two species of shorebird (Aves: Charadrii)	13
Tools and food on heat lamps: pyrocognitive sparks in New Caledonian crows?	12
Moving vs still prey: do common wall lizards show any preference?	11
Evidence of honest signalling in a suboscine bird: Southwestern willow flycatcher song frequency is positively related to apparent reproductive success	10
Increase of coastal shark bite frequency linked to the COVID-19 lockdown reveals a territoriality-dominance behaviour toward humans	9
Numerical discrimination in domestic horses: a spontaneous binary choice test	9
A historical approach to describing the complex behaviour of a large species of predatory shark — Case study 2: the white shark, Carcharodon carcharias	8
Post-rut aggression in caribou: limited evidence for interference competition but strong evidence for male harassment	7
Territorial behaviour and conflict management in a semi-social cichlid fish, Neolamprologus caudopunctatus	7
European-native vocalizing: sex and age-class acoustic variation in the Central European red deer (Cervus elaphus)	7
Larger is not better: no mate preference by European common frog (Rana temporaria) males	6
Commentary on emotion in sharks	6
Open water grouping behaviour in harbour seals (Phoca vitulina richardii) of the Salish Sea	5
Colour, location and movement: what do models tell us about predation on colour morphs of a poison frog from eastern Amazonia?	5
Examining causes and characteristics of egg ejection behaviour in the American robin (Turdus migratorius)	5
Vocal complexity in Antillean manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus)	5
Do ruminants and hindgut fermenters differ in their activity? Comparison of syntopic black wildebeest and Cape mountain zebra	5
Copulations with a nestling by an adult care-giver in a kin-living bird	5
Optimal foraging strategy to balance mixed diet by generalist consumers: a simulation model	5
Contents Index	5
The influence of conspecific and heterospecific neighbours on avian reproductive success	5
A test for basic animal consciousness through distraction by inward-directed attention, and a case study with black widow spiders	4

Impact of food availability and predator cues on meadow vole response to social vs. non-social odorants	4
Prey size preference in the tokay gecko (Gekko gecko)	4
Effects of snow leopards (Panthera uncia) on olfactory communication of Pallas’s cats (Otocolobus manul) in the Altai Mountains, Mongolia	4
Alternate without alternative: neither preference nor learning explains behaviour of C57BL/6J mice in the T-maze	4
Opposing effects of vigilance and foraging on escape behaviour in hooded crows	4
Ethogram of non-verbal behaviours associated with emotional regulation and stress response in children and adolescents with complex trauma	3
Parental reactions to a dying marmoset infant: conditional investment by the mother, but not the father	3
Patch use and departure rules by gull-billed tern Gelochelidon nilotica	3
Dealing with the unexpected: the effect of environmental variability on behavioural flexibility in a Mediterranean lizard	3
Ontogeny of sleeping behaviour in four solitary species of Anolis lizard	3
The voices of an alleged mute: sound emissions in a Tropidurus lizard	3
Ring a bell? Variable recognition of a multicomponent auditory stimulus associated with predation risk by zebrafish responding to full and partial matches	3
Ontogeny of scent marking behaviours in an apex carnivore	3
Prospective evolutionary drivers of allocare in wild belugas	3
Ecology and social behaviour of the Mongolian gerbil: a generalised review	3
Trichromatic vision in toads: evidence from preference for colour objects during mate choice	3
Breeding behaviour of ectotherms at high latitudes: the case of the natterjack toad Epidalea calamita at its northern range limit	3
Gregariousness and intraspecific aggression in Iberian bullfinches (Pyrrhula pyrrhula iberiae) throughout the year	3
A non-invasive method during routine handling indicates docility in a wild, crevice-nesting seabird	3
Meadow voles differentiate between scents of different sources	3
The ‘Mistaken Identity Hypothesis’ for shark bites on humans is an anthropomorphic fallacy	3
Fighters and friends: female dominance hierarchy and male territoriality in a multicoloured poisonous frog	2
Could convulsive body shuddering of a white shark near a shark cage be an element of a threat display?	2
Within-population song evolution in white-throated sparrows (Zonotrichia albicollis)	2
Twig-assisted masturbation in Balinese long-tailed macaques	2
Do bolder parents make better parents in anthropogenically disturbed environments?	2
Courtship rhythm in Nasonia vitripennis is affected by the clock gene period	2
Does recent experience affect large male advantage in a sequentially-mating fish?	2
Stone-tool-assisted hunting by a wild monkey (Macaca fascicularis aurea)	2
Submission signals in animal groups	2
Comparative exploratory movements of two terrestrial isopods (suborder: Oniscidea), in response to humidity and availability of food	2
Constraints on population growth of blue monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis) in Kibale National Park, Uganda	2
Feeding and condition shifts after encountering a pathogen	2
Rosy-faced lovebirds’, Agapornis roseicollis (Aves: Psittaciformes), response to their own image reveals self-recognition behaviour	2
Examining individual behavioural variation in wild adult bull sharks (Carcharhinus leucas) suggests divergent personalities	2
Reinstating reptiles: from clueless creatures to esteemed models of cognitive biology	2
Social fish use different submission signals depending on spatial position	2
Introduction to the special issue on Clinical ethology	2
Shifting incubation rhythms in response to predation risk and the length of the response in mountain bluebirds	2
Sex-dependent growth regulation in monogamous pairs of a cichlid fish	2
An anecdotal observation of anti-predatory tool use in a New Zealand parrot	2
Front matter	2
Classifying animal migration patterns using small-shuffle surrogate and PCA evaluating short-term trends	2
Pair formation in Enchenopa treehoppers (Hemiptera: Membracidae) involves complex male–female duetting, and three stages of female mate choice	2
Coastal dolphins provide foraging opportunities to benthic-feeding seabirds in a tropical seagrass ecosystem	2
Functional traits including interspecific sociality affect mobbing behaviour in a bird community of southern China	2
Back matter	2
In their own language: cues guiding sticky spiral placement by Micrathena duodecimspinosa (Araneae: Araneidae)	2
Good fences make good neighbours: territorial male Cape fur seals use spatial acoustic map of neighbours	2
A case of male infanticide in captive sika deer (Cervus nippon)	2

The divergence of mobility and activity associated with anti-predator adaptations in land snails	2
Don’t listen to mom: no maternal influence on consistent nest and latrine site choice by their offspring in meadow voles	2
Contents	2
Social buffering reduces hair cortisol content in black-tailed prairie dogs during reproduction	2