Ethology

Papers
(The median citation count of Ethology is 0. 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.)
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Female sex pheromone emission is affected by body condition, but not immune system function, in the orb‐web spider Argiope bruennichi29
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Behavioral Syndromes Across Time and Space in a Long‐Lived Turtle14
No evidence for general intelligence in a fish13
Animal Ethics in Behavioral Studies—Advocating a Differentiated View13
Siblings matter: Family heterogeneity improves associative learning later in life13
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Infection influences vibratory signal components in a wolf spider12
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Group chorusing as an intragroup signal in the greater ani, a communally breeding bird10
Black‐headed gulls synchronize vigilance with their nearest neighbor irrespective of the neighbor's relative position10
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Reflections on Konrad Lorenz9
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Ethology now publishes Registered Reports9
Through a glass darkly? Divergent reactions of eight Lake Tanganyika cichlid species towards their mirror image in their natural environment9
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Cheek‐to‐cheek: Communal nesting in an ephemeral pool‐breeding frog8
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Male‐specific nocturnal song functions similarly to day song in a diurnal bird species8
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Great white pelicans (Pelecanus onocrotalus) fail to use tools flexibly in problem‐solving tasks7
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Effects of short‐ and long‐term enrichment on brain and behavior in Trinidadian guppies7
Expanding the concept of social behavior to interspecific interactions7
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On closer inspection: Reviewing the debate on whether fish cooperate to inspect predators6
Males of a Neotropical spider adjust prey‐gift construction but not mate search in response to sperm competition6
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Body size and predator cues structure variation in defensive displays of Neotropical calico snakes (Oxyrhopus spp.)6
How context influences primates' decisions about reciprocity6
Loss of complex female song but not duetting in the ancestors of Carolina wrens6
Fully flexible analysis of behavioural sequences based on parametric survival models with frailties—A tutorial6
Level of local human disturbance and feeding state determines escape behaviour in Eurasian Oystercatchers6
Diving behavior in a Neotropical spider (Trechalea extensa) as a potential antipredator tactic6
Hidden black and yellow thigh color acts as an aposematic signal in the Eastern Gray Treefrog (Hyla versicolor)6
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Juvenile hormone and temperature effects in the postzygotic parental investment of male waterbug Abedus ovatus (Belostomatidae)6
Sneaky copulations by subordinate males suggest direct fitness benefits from male–male associations in spotted bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus maculatus)6
Tool use and tooling in ravens (Corvus corax): A review and novel observations5
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The Evolution of Social Behaviour5
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Does the type of task affect prey discrimination learning in avian predators?5
Parasitism of Neoconocephalus katydids by the parasitoid fly, Ormia lineifrons5
Free‐ranging male northern map turtles use public information when interacting with potential mates5
Multi‐night territorial behavior, chorus attendance, and mating success in red‐eyed treefrogs5
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Should I stay or should I fly: Aerial dispersal in a funnel‐web wolf spider from the grasslands of southern South America5
A little on the nose: A mosquito targets the nostrils of tree frogs for a blood meal5
Stable individual differences in the frequency of chin‐marking behavior across development in the domestic rabbit5
Anti‐Snake Behavior and Snake Discrimination in Vervet Monkeys4
Females Guarded by Sneaker Males Experience Higher Predation in the Two‐Spotted Spider Mite4
Social dominance does not increase oxidative stress in a female dominance hierarchy of an African cichlid fish4
Cooperative and Solitary Mobbing to Defend Offspring in Wild Gray Mouse Lemurs, Microcebus murinus4
A comparison of low‐cost behavioral observation software applications for handheld computers and recommendations for use4
Risk‐Taking in Bluebirds After Exposure to a Nest Predator Relates to Parental Roles and Shows Little Cooperation Between Partners4
Flies getting filthy: The precopulatory mating behaviours of three mud‐dwelling species of Australian Lispe (Diptera: Muscidae)4
Adult poison dart frogs avoid potential heterospecific competitors using their sense of smell4
Grouped and Vibrating: The Influence of Group Size, Triggering Stimuli, and Leg Loss in Bobbing in an Arachnid4
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Effects of group behavior in the predatory raid on damselfish nests by the false cleanerfishAspidontus taeniatus4
Are scientific journals delaying doctoral theses?4
Recognizing interspecific dominance signals? Blue tits adjust nest defence based on great tit's black bib size3
The strange occurrence of male cannibalism on adult females in snakes3
Long‐Term Behavioural Syndrome in Subadult Indian Social Spiders But Not Over the Short‐Term or in Juveniles3
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Shaped by you: The effect of social partner on cortisol and behavior during adolescence in a female rodent3
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The frequency and position of stable associations offset their transitivity in a diversity of vertebrate social networks3
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RETRACTION: Non‐conceptive sexual behavior in spiders: A form of play associated with body condition, personality type, and male intrasexual selection3
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Pattern, function and constraint of infant handling in wild Japanese macaques3
Do Green Lynx Spiders (Peucetia viridans) Change Color in Response to Their Backgrounds?3
Cognitive and sensory capacity each contribute to the canine spatial bias3
From individuals to populations: How homo‐ and heterospecific interactions influence habitat selection in a sit‐and‐wait predator3
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The wolf spider Pardosa milvina varies silk deposition in response to self and same‐sex conspecific silk3
Learning and innovation in urban yellow mongooses (Cynictis penicillata)3
On Publication Ethics—Journals, Please Get Rid of Wording Restrictions That Include Citations3
Helping those who help others: The roles of indirect reciprocity and relatedness3
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The females' response to male attractiveness: Mate choice, larvae production and differential brain protein expression3
Context‐sensitive dance–vocal displays affect song patterns and partner responses in a socially monogamous songbird3
Chronic acetamiprid exposure moderately affects the foraging behaviour of buff‐tailed bumblebees (Bombus terrestris)3
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Male Barbary macaques choose loyal coalition partners which may increase their coalition network betweenness3
Male and female age affects the reproductive potential of two tephritid flies2
Social buffering of behavioural stress response in two fish species, Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) and koi carp (Cyprinus carpio)2
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Constructing composite scores for contemporaneous behaviors: A comparison of four approaches2
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Uncoupled Evolutionary Patterns in Spectral and Temporal Components of Acoustic Signals in Anurans Associated With Streams2
Callosobruchus larval competition and its consequences for male and female adults2
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Behaviour in a novel environment provides clues to the success of an invasive species2
Personality may modulate learning and memory differences in two taxa of the African striped mouse genus Rhabdomys2
Response to heterospecific calls in non‐passerine species: can two Rallidae species recognise each other based on their vocalisations?2
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Female Western Australian magpies discriminate between familiar and unfamiliar human voices2
Aversive reactions of two invertebrate predators to European red–black insects2
Successful predatory‐avoidance behaviour to lion auditory cues during soft‐release from captivity in cheetah2
Contrasting sex roles in two species with stable biparental care2
Predicting breeding systems to guide conservation strategies: A kiwi example2
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Response of the emerald‐spotted wood‐dove to the song of conspecific males and sympatric congeners2
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Tap dancing frogs: Posterior toe tapping and feeding in Dendrobates tinctorius2
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Unraveling female mate choice in Schizocosa mccooki: The interplay of male mass and vibratory courtship2
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A proposal to enhance data quality and FAIRness2
Norway rats help social partners in need in response to ultrasonic begging signals2
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Using remote seminars to teach animal behavior2
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Steps into a Small World: First glimpses on everyday moment‐to‐moment decision making in an ecologically meaningful multi‐choice system for assessing animal preferences2
Temporal non‐independence of foraging dive and surface duration sequences in the European shag Gulosus aristotelis2
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Acoustic features of long‐distance calls of wild cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) are linked to the caller age from newborns to adults1
Direct reciprocity among humans1
Testosterone, signal coloration, and signal color perception in male zebra finch contests1
The paradox of learned song in a semi‐solitary mammal1
House sparrows exhibit individual differences in generalization when confronted with different novel stimuli1
Dynamic table‐visiting behavior of birds at outdoor restaurants and cafés1
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Male secondary sexual traits do not predict female preference in Caribbean livebearing fishes (Limia)1
Infection‐related sexual conflict in mating behaviors of wolf spiders1
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Canada jays (Perisoreus canadensis) identify and exploit coniferous cache locations using visual cues1
Random mating for body size despite fitness benefits of size‐assortative mating in a treefrog1
Do monkeys use sex toys? Evidence of stone tool‐assisted masturbation in free‐ranging long‐tailed macaques1
Third‐Party Affiliation in Domestic Dogs During and After a Human Conflict1
Thermal Plasticity Changes Competitive Ability Across a Woodland Salamander Hybrid System1
Discrimination Against Non‐Nestmates Functions to Exclude Socially Parasitic Conspecifics in an Ant1
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Sex and Morph Variation in Activity From Early Ontogeny to Maturity in Ruffs (Calidris pugnax)1
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 Po1
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Correction to “How important is temperature for strike success of ectotherms? Thermal effects on predator–prey interactions of free‐ranging pit vipers (Gloydius blomhoffii)”1
Testing a behavioral model for the maintenance of androdioecy as a result of sexual conflict in the clam shrimpEulimnadia dahli1
Single‐species and multi‐species playbacks elicit asymmetrical responses within mixed‐species chickadee, titmouse, and nuthatch flocks1
Male anti‐predation services in primates as costly signalling? A comparative analysis and review1
Sparring dynamics and individual laterality in male South African giraffes1
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Deciphering choreographies of elaborate courtship displays of golden‐collared manakins using markerless motion capture1
Nocturnal parental care and the role of parents in hatching their eggs in the clown anemonefish1
Bill color is dynamic across the breeding season but not condition‐dependent in Atlantic puffins1
Anuran juveniles avoid preying on aggressive ant species1
A behavioral logic underlying aggression in an African cichlid fish1
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Retaining memory after hibernation: Performance varies independently of activity levels in wild grey mouse lemurs1
Instrumental helping and short‐term reciprocity in chimpanzees and human children1
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Do Rearing Group‐Size and Social Rank Influence the Affective State of a Cooperatively‐Breeding Cichlid Fish?1
How great tits respond to urgency‐based information in allopatric Southern house wren mobbing calls1
Abdominal Spines on an Amazonian Spiny Spider (Micrathena schreibersi): A Defense Against Mud‐Dauber Wasps (Sceliphron spp.) Attack?1
Phenotype predicts interspecific dominance hierarchies in a cloud‐forest hummingbird guild1
Repeatability of alert and flight initiation distances in king penguins: Effects of colony, approach speed, and weather1
A vocalization in male Japanese bush warblers in response to both predators and conspecific females1
Do captive fish need cognitive enrichment? A test with a puzzle feeder in guppies1
Experience of social density during early life is associated with attraction to conspecific odour in the common vole (Microtus arvalis)1
Conflicting cognitive decisions: Does egg retrieval modify egg rejection in a host of an obligate brood parasite?1
Advertising sex and individual identity by long‐distance chirps in wild‐living mature cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus)1
Host size selection and progeny sex determination in Hymenoepimecis bicolor (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae)1
Linking male reproductive success to effort within and among nests in a co‐breeding stream fish1
Minimizing observer bias in animal behavior studies revisited: Improvement, but a long way to go1
Policing is more effective against eggs of non‐natal versus natal workers at early colony stages in a bumblebee1
Does a niche construction strategy adaptation really exist in brown‐headed cowbirds?1
Cooperative intentions and their implications on reciprocal cooperation in Norway rats1
Are male meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus) influenced by social odor context with regard to scent marking behaviors?1
How important is temperature for strike success of ectotherms? Thermal effects on predator–prey interactions of free‐ranging pit vipers (Gloydius blomhoffii)1
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Invasive brown widow spiders disperse aerially under a broad range of environmental conditions1
Take a Look: Naturalistic Composition of the Maternal Nest in the European Rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus Contributes to Offspring Growth and Survival1
Sex differences in social odor discrimination by southern giant pouched rats (Cricetomys ansorgei)1
Graded‐risk sensitivity in northern European mixed‐species flocks of tit and nuthatch species1
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Nuptial pad (“breeding gland”) morphology is related to non‐random mating in wild male common frogs (Rana temporaria)1
Female preference for artificial song dialects in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)1
Social relationships among captive female Himalayan tahr1
Influence of Food Distribution and Relatedness on Social Interactions in a Colony of Free‐Ranging Domestic Cats (Felis catus)1
Heterospecific interference modulates the reproductive traits of a ladybird beetle1
Vervet monkeys socialize more when time budget constraints are experimentally reduced0
Mate choice in a promiscuous poison frog0
Structure and dynamics of mixed‐species choruses in a tropical anuran assemblage: insights from network analysis0
Automatic individual recognition of Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) from sequential images0
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Condition‐Dependent Female Aggression and Its Effects on Mating Success and Sexual Cannibalism in Jumping Spiders0
Song overlapping and matching during low‐arousal singing and their relation to visual ornaments, parental care and breeding success in the great tit (Parus major)0
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Movement in 3D: Novel Opportunities for Understanding Animal Behaviour and Space Use0
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Reproductive behaviours in male parasitoids: From mating system to pairing pattern0
Unreplicable state‐dependent effects on start‐box emergence latency in wild‐origin sticklebacks0
Are whole‐organism performance and thermal preference linked to endo‐ and ectoparasites in a short‐lived lizard?0
Polistes dominula spatial learning abilities while foraging0
Western black widow spiders (Latrodectus hesperus) remember prey capture location and size, but only alter behavior for prey caught at particular sites0
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Grooming reciprocation in Himalayan tahr and the cognitive constraint hypothesis0
Unconditional adoption rules out the need for parent–offspring recognition in a single‐brooded colonial seabird0
Female bird song rates do not covary with population density in a North American species0
The handsome liar: Male spiders offering worthless gifts can benefit increasing mating duration0
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The effect of temperature on the spatial learning rate of zebrafish (Danio rerio)0
Non‐Lethally Produced Chemical Risk Cues Elicit Antipredator Responses in a Common Canadian Minnow0
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Gut parasites infection increases mate rejection in a species with indirect sperm transfer0
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Collective defence and behavioural homogeneity during simulated territorial intrusions in banded mongooses (Mungos mungo)0
Intra‐individual modulations and inter‐individual variations of female signals in the domestic canary (Serinus canaria)0
Idiosyncrasy in Multimodal Gestural Communication: A Case Study of Hand‐Clapping in a Barbary Macaque (Macaca sylvanus)0
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Close bonds and social rank similarities favor non‐random mating in captive stump‐tailed macaques (Macaca arctoides)0
The impact of prior and current information of a new nest on relocation dynamics in an Indian ant0
Ratcheting up tool innovation in Goffin's cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana): The effect of contextually diverse prior experience0
Female great tits (Parus major) reproduce earlier when paired with a male they prefer0
Familiarity and social relationships in degus (Octodon degus)0
A new touchscreen for behavioural research on bees0
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Acoustic Features, Syllable Usage, and Song Rates of Male and Female Songs in a Tropical Island Songbird, the Puerto Rican Oriole0
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Non‐lunge feeding behaviour of humpback whales associated with fishing boats in Norway0
Prey Capture Outside of the Web? Observational Evidence of a Novel Form of Prey Capture in a Cave Orb Web Spider0
Behavioral response to chemical cues from injured conspecifics in the livebearing fish, Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora0
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Female choice and male aggression in the polymorphic lizard Sceloporus minor0
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