OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ethology is 3. 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
Criteria for acceptable studies of animal personality and behavioural syndromes	72
Environmental effects on the covariation among pace‐of‐life traits	23
Potential short‐term earthquake forecasting by farm animal monitoring	21
Ethology adopts the STRANGE framework for animal behaviour research, to improve reporting standards	21
Naked mole‐rats (Heterocephalus glaber) do not specialise in cooperative tasks	15
Keeping up with environmental change: The importance of sociality	14
Expanding the concept of social behavior to interspecific interactions	14
Long‐term repeatability of behaviours in zebrafish (Danio rerio)	14
Strong behavioural defensive responses of endemic Rana latastei tadpoles induced by a native predator's odour	14
Cheetah behaviour at scent‐marking sites indicates differential use by sex and social rank	13
Temperature‐related breakdowns in the coordination of mating in Enchenopa binotata treehoppers (Hemiptera: Membracidae)	13
A positive feedback loop between sociality and social competence	13
Female common cuckoo calls dampen the mobbing intensity of great reed warbler hosts	13
Evolutionary origins of cooperative and communal breeding: Lessons from the crotophagine cuckoos	13
The evolution of reversed sex roles and classical polyandry: Insights from coucals and other animals	13
Best of a bad job or masters of illusion: Do nest light conditions make the eggs of brood parasitic brown‐headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater) more similar to the eggs of their hosts?	12
An insight into natural koala drinking behaviour	12
Male anti‐predation services in primates as costly signalling? A comparative analysis and review	11
Great tits (Parus major) adequately respond to both allopatric combinatorial mobbing calls and their isolated parts	11
Measuring personality traits in Eurasian red squirrels: A critical comparison of different methods	11
Group‐level variation in co‐feeding tolerance between two sanctuary‐housed communities of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)	10
A behavioral logic underlying aggression in an African cichlid fish	10
Analysis of central place foraging behaviour of wolves using hidden Markov models	10
What influences aggression and foraging activity in social birds? Measuring individual, group and environmental characteristics	10
Exploration influences problem solving in the fawn‐footed mosaic‐tailed rat (Melomys cervinipes)	9

The effects of exposure to predators on personality and plasticity	9
Do monkeys use sex toys? Evidence of stone tool‐assisted masturbation in free‐ranging long‐tailed macaques	8
No evidence for general intelligence in a fish	8
Teaching animal behavior online: A primer for the pandemic and beyond	8
Responses of a pair‐living, sexually monogamous primate to the simulated presence of solitary individuals: A field playback experiment	8
There is no place like home: Larval habitat type and size affect risk‐taking behaviour in fire salamander larvae (Salamandra salamandra)	8
Co‐option and the evolution of food sharing in vampire bats	8
Mobbing responses of great tits (Parus major) do not depend on the number of heterospecific callers	8
Long‐term repeatability and stability of three personality traits in meadow voles	8
Inherit the kingdom or storm the castle? Breeding strategies in a social carnivore	8
Pairing status moderates both the production of and responses to anti‐parasitic referential alarm calls in male yellow warblers	8
Disadvantages of living in a populous neighborhood for sit‐and‐wait predators: Competition for space reduces pit‐trap size in antlion larvae	8
Field studies need to report essential information on social organisation – independent of the study focus	8
Passive traps and sampling bias: Social effects and personality affect trap entry by sticklebacks	8
The effect of temperature on the spatial learning rate of zebrafish (Danio rerio)	7
Wild narrow‐striped mongooses use social information to enhance behavioural flexibility	7
Norway rats help social partners in need in response to ultrasonic begging signals	7
Siblings matter: Family heterogeneity improves associative learning later in life	7
Importance of vision in tandem running during colony relocation in an Indian ant	7
Illusion susceptibility in domestic dogs	7
Female Western Australian magpies discriminate between familiar and unfamiliar human voices	7
Yellow‐breasted Boubous (Laniarius atroflavus) jointly defend territories with male‐led duets against stranger pairs, males and females	7
Urban fox squirrels exhibit tolerance to humans but respond to stimuli from natural predators	7
Characterization of social behavior in the spiny mouse, Acomys cahirinus	7
An ambiguous function of an alarm pheromone in the collective displays of the Australian meat ant, Iridomyrmex purpureus	7
A comparison of low‐cost behavioral observation software applications for handheld computers and recommendations for use	7
Large female song repertoires and within‐pair song type sharing in a temperate breeding songbird	6
Invasive brown widow spiders disperse aerially under a broad range of environmental conditions	6
Seasonal and diel plasticity of song type use in individual ovenbirds (Seiurus aurocapilla)	6
Cooperative intentions and their implications on reciprocal cooperation in Norway rats	6
Vervet monkeys socialize more when time budget constraints are experimentally reduced	6
Does the presence of a conspecific increase or decrease fear? Neophobia and habituation in zebra finches	6
Sexual selection in a tropical toad: Do female toads choose brighter males in a species with rapid colour change?	6
Female preference for artificial song dialects in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)	6
Prior residence effect determines success of male–male territorial competition in a color polymorphic poison frog	6
Tactile stimuli induce deimatic antipredator displays in ringneck snakes	6
On the importance of defendable resources for social evolution: Applying new techniques to a long‐standing question	6
Shoaling behaviour in the European cuttlefishSepia officinalis	6
Odd one in: Oddity within mixed‐species shoals does not affect shoal preference by vagrant tropical damselfish in the presence or absence of a predator	6
Social dominance does not increase oxidative stress in a female dominance hierarchy of an African cichlid fish	5
Observations of multiple reproductive females in groups of smooth‐coated otters	5
The curious case of great ape curiosity and how it is shaped by sociality	5
Interspecific aggression and defence of extra nest sites in two species of songbirds	5
Landscape features causing the local congregation of honeybee males (Apismellifera L.)	5
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 Po	5
Flush early and avoid the rush? It may depend on where you stand	5
How great tits respond to urgency‐based information in allopatric Southern house wren mobbing calls	5
Stability and change in gartersnake social networks across ontogeny	5
The American robin (Turdus migratorius): A focal species for anti‐parasitic egg rejection studies among hosts of the brown‐headed cowbird (Molothrus ater)	5
Visual and chemical signals provide different information in Polistes fuscatus wasps	5

Are northern mockingbirds classic open‐ended song learners?	5
Anthropogenic noise affects female, not male house wren response to change in signaling network	5
Sex differences in social odor discrimination by southern giant pouched rats (Cricetomys ansorgei)	5
Breeder aggression does not predict current or future cooperative group formation in a cooperatively breeding bird	5
Dominant females have brighter ornamentation in a sexually dimorphic lekking species	5
Eavesdropping of an African ground squirrel on the heterospecific alarm calls of a noisy ground‐nesting bird	5
Lifetime low behavioural plasticity of personality traits in the common vole (Microtus arvalis) under laboratory conditions	5
Calling activity determines male mating success in a territorial frog with parental care	5
Parasite‐mediated sexual selection in a damselfly	5
Selection on ultrasonic call rate in neonatal rats affects low frequency, but not ultrasonic, vocalizations in adults	5
Deciphering choreographies of elaborate courtship displays of golden‐collared manakins using markerless motion capture	5
Environmental and social factors influencing wolf (Canis lupus) howling behavior	4
Fully flexible analysis of behavioural sequences based on parametric survival models with frailties—A tutorial	4
Does individual personality predict male mating preference for female body size in the Trinidadian guppy?	4
Resource selection in nasute termite: The role of social information	4
Exploring a novel substrate‐borne vibratory signal in the wolf spider Schizocosa floridana	4
Tool use and tooling in ravens (Corvus corax): A review and novel observations	4
Through a glass darkly? Divergent reactions of eight Lake Tanganyika cichlid species towards their mirror image in their natural environment	4
No behavioral syndromes or sex‐specific personality differences in the southern rainforest sunskink (Lampropholis similis)	4
Innate and learned predator recognition across populations of Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar	4
Experimental tests of a seasonally changing visual preference for habitat in a long‐distance migratory shorebird	4
Dragline silk reveals female developmental stage and mediates male vibratory courtship in the nuptial gift‐giving spider Pisaura mirabilis	4
Male aggressiveness in a polygynous ungulate varies with social and ecological context	4
Under adverse conditions, older small tree finch males (Camarhynchus parvulus) produce more offspring than younger males	4
Alarm calls of southern house wrens, Troglodytes aedon bonariae, convey information about the level of risk	4
Mate finding in a mimetic termitophile amidst its host termites	3
Use of conditional prey attack strategies in two generalist ground spider species	3
Social paper wasp (Agelaia pallipes) predates songbird nestling	3
What the Corona (SARS‐CoV 2) pandemic, climate change, and the biodiversity crisis teach us about human nature	3
Acoustic features of long‐distance calls of wild cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) are linked to the caller age from newborns to adults	3
Sparring dynamics and individual laterality in male South African giraffes	3
Sex differences in olfactory social recognition memory in meadow voles, Microtus pennsylvanicus	3
Pattern, function and constraint of infant handling in wild Japanese macaques	3
Mate choice in a promiscuous poison frog	3
Level of local human disturbance and feeding state determines escape behaviour in Eurasian Oystercatchers	3
The handsome liar: Male spiders offering worthless gifts can benefit increasing mating duration	3
Female bird song rates do not covary with population density in a North American species	3
Interactions between oxidative stress and attractiveness to mates and individual mate choice in the beetle Tenebrio molitor	3
Darwin’s finches habitually anoint their feathers with leaves of the endemic tree Psidium galapageium during the non‐breeding season	3
The generalist parasitoid Nasonia vitripennis shows more behavioural plasticity in host preference than its three specialist sister species	3
Advertising sex and individual identity by long‐distance chirps in wild‐living mature cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus)	3
Song matching in a long‐lived, sedentary bird with a low song rate: The importance of song type, song duration and intrusion	3
Repeatability of alert and flight initiation distances in king penguins: Effects of colony, approach speed, and weather	3
Mutual wing‐eating between female and male within mating pairs in wood‐feeding cockroach	3
Revisiting the components of Macroscelidea social systems: Evidence for variable social organization, including pair‐living, but not for a monogamous mating system	3
Female sex pheromone emission is affected by body condition, but not immune system function, in the orb‐web spider Argiope bruennichi	3
Nest defense, personality, and fitness of a locally endangered island passerine	3
Egg sac damage and previous egg sac production influence truncated parental investment in the wolf spider, Pardosa milvina	3
Collective defence and behavioural homogeneity during simulated territorial intrusions in banded mongooses (Mungos mungo)	3
Cost of mating in male Menochilus sexmaculatus (Fabricius) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)	3
Boldness and exploration vary between shell morphs but not environmental contexts in the snail Cepaea nemoralis	3
Phenotypic plasticity related to temperature induces song variation in the field cricket Gryllus rubens	3
Social relationships among captive female Himalayan tahr	3
No evidence for contribution of sexually monomorphic wing pigmentation pattern to mate choice in Drosophila guttifera	3
Testosterone, signal coloration, and signal color perception in male zebra finch contests	3
In search of the perfect web? Males of the golden silk orb‐web spider trichonephila clavipes do not aggregate in webs of high‐quality females	3
Hauling up a hefty meal: Long‐Jawed spider (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) uses silk lines to transport large prey vertically through the air in the absence of a web	3
Group orientation and social order versus disorder: Perspective of outsiders toward experimental chains of social hermit crabs	3
Flies getting filthy: The precopulatory mating behaviours of three mud‐dwelling species of Australian Lispe (Diptera: Muscidae)	3
Artificial light affects the foraging behavior in greater white‐toothed shrews (CROCIDURA RUSSULA)	3
“Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise”: Indiscriminate male care in a neotropical spider	3
Does habitat complexity and prior residency influence aggression between invasive and native freshwater crayfish?	3