OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ethology 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

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Cooperative and Solitary Mobbing to Defend Offspring in Wild Gray Mouse Lemurs, Microcebus murinus	15
An Easy Method to Sample Headspace Pheromones in the Field	14
Animal Ethics in Behavioral Studies—Advocating a Differentiated View	13
Grouped and Vibrating: The Influence of Group Size, Triggering Stimuli, and Leg Loss in Bobbing in an Arachnid	13
Sneaky copulations by subordinate males suggest direct fitness benefits from male–male associations in spotted bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus maculatus)	12
Reflections on Konrad Lorenz	11
Cheek‐to‐cheek: Communal nesting in an ephemeral pool‐breeding frog	11
The Effects of Trial Number and Individual Differences in Exploration on Fish Performance in an Object Location Recognition Task	10
Is Paw Preference in Rats Influenced by Environmental Novelty?	10
Anti‐Snake Behavior and Snake Discrimination in Vervet Monkeys	9
Multi‐night territorial behavior, chorus attendance, and mating success in red‐eyed treefrogs	9
Does Microplastic Ingestion Affect Cognition and Brain Gene Expression in Zebrafish, Danio rerio ?	9
Deer Vigilance and Movement Behavior Are Affected by Edge Density and Connectivity	8
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Behaviour in a novel environment provides clues to the success of an invasive species	7
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How great tits respond to urgency‐based information in allopatric Southern house wren mobbing calls	6
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Third‐Party Affiliation in Domestic Dogs During and After a Human Conflict	6
Learning and innovation in urban yellow mongooses (Cynictis penicillata)	6
Cognitive and sensory capacity each contribute to the canine spatial bias	6
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Host size selection and progeny sex determination in Hymenoepimecis bicolor (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae)	6
Abdominal Spines on an Amazonian Spiny Spider (Micrathena schreibersi): A Defense Against Mud‐Dauber Wasps (Sceliphron spp.) Attack?	6
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Plastic Behavioral Responses to Ambient Relative Humidity Influence Aggregation in a Large Gregarious Insect	5
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Do Green Lynx Spiders ( Peucetia viridans ) Change Color in Response to Their Backgrounds?	5
Effects of Coffee on Drosophila melanogaster: Concentration‐Dependent Enhancement and Sleep Deprivation Recovery	5
A vocalization in male Japanese bush warblers in response to both predators and conspecific females	5
How important is temperature for strike success of ectotherms? Thermal effects on predator–prey interactions of free‐ranging pit vipers ( Gloydius blomhoffii	5
The effect of phenotypic heterogeneity on behaviours linked to invasive success	4
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Changes in Male Behavior in Response to Female Chemical Stimulus in an Understudied Arthropod Model	4
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Parasite‐mediated sexual selection in a damselfly	4
Defensive Behaviour in Intertidal Crabs	4
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A “feel‐free” format for ETHOLOGY	4
The perks of being in good conditions: How does female parasitism affect male mate choice in an orb‐web spider?	4
No Appeasement Through Vibrations: Male Vibratory Pre‐Copulatory Courtship in the Cursorial Spider Pisaura mirabilis Does Not Affect Female Predatory Res	4
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Behavioral response to chemical cues from injured conspecifics in the livebearing fish, Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora	4
Use of Social Information About Novel Food by Juvenile Solitary Forktongue Goby, Chaenogobius annularis	4
Evaluation of sensory modalities involved in finding food and foraging behaviour in light/dark conditions in tadpoles of the invasive species Lithobates catesbeianus	4
Sperm Strategies: Partner's Mating Status as a Driver of Last Male Success in Ladybirds	4
Invasive brown widow spiders disperse aerially under a broad range of environmental conditions	4
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Effects of human disturbance on risk‐taking behavior in painted turtles	4
Obituary: Professor Wolfgang Wickler (November 18, 1931– January 12, 2024)	4
Strategic Deployment of Secondary Defences in the Springbok Mantis (Miomantis Caffra)	4
Non‐lunge feeding behaviour of humpback whales associated with fishing boats in Norway	4
Correction to Decision Time Modulates Social Foraging Success in Wild Common Ravens Corvus corax	4
Male mate preference against tail‐elongated females in the barn swallow	4
Evasive Maneuvers of Mosquitoes Reveal Variability in Escape Success and Echolocation Plasticity of Myotis riparius (Vespertilionidae)	4
Policing is more effective against eggs of non‐natal versus natal workers at early colony stages in a bumblebee	4
Retaining memory after hibernation: Performance varies independently of activity levels in wild grey mouse lemurs	4
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Reciprocal altruism in Norway rats	3
Female great tits (Parus major) reproduce earlier when paired with a male they prefer	3
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Male Barbary macaques choose loyal coalition partners which may increase their coalition network betweenness	3
Females Guarded by Sneaker Males Experience Higher Predation in the Two‐Spotted Spider Mite	3
Complexity in Chick‐a‐Dee Calls of Mountain Chickadees (Poecile gambeli): Call Variation Associated With Flock Size and Flight	3
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Reciprocity versus pseudo‐reciprocity: A false dichotomy	3
Heterospecific interference modulates the reproductive traits of a ladybird beetle	3
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Impact of Female Mating Status on Male Courtship Behaviour in a Sexually Cannibalistic New Zealand Fishing Spider	3
Constructing composite scores for contemporaneous behaviors: A comparison of four approaches	3
Pair‐Coordinated Calling: Eurasian Magpies Respond Differently to Simulated Intruder Pairs That Overlap or Alternate Their Calls	3
Social Drivers of Vocal Flexibility in Female Baboons	3
Male–Male Competition Affects Color Phenotype Expression and Color‐Dependent Oxidative Stress Levels in a Polymorphic Cichlid Fish	3
Callosobruchus larval competition and its consequences for male and female adults	3
A Newly Reported Tactile Gesture for Grooming Initiation in Japanese Macaques ( Macaca fuscata ) at Awajishima, Japan	3
Phenotype predicts interspecific dominance hierarchies in a cloud‐forest hummingbird guild	3
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Sublethal effects of kleptoparasitism on experimental social spider colonies	3
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Reversible Plasticity in the Communication System of the Cricket Gryllus rubens	3
Just Hang On: Australian Gall Midges Suspend Themselves on Spider Silk Without Becoming Entangled	3
Among‐individual behavioral responses to predation risk are invariant within two species of freshwater snails	3
Do Toxin‐Sequestering Snakes Recognize Their Own Nuchal Gland Toxin Reserve? Insights From Rhabdophis subminiatus	3
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Stable individual differences in the frequency of chin‐marking behavior across development in the domestic rabbit	3
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Sibling cannibalism in the false widow spider is dependent on spiderling density and the reliable availability of fresh prey	3
Correction to “Video evidence of mountings by female‐plumaged birds of paradise (Aves: Paradisaeidae) in the wild: Is there evidence of alternative mating tactics?”	3
Contrasting sex roles in two species with stable biparental care	3
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Non‐Lethally Produced Chemical Risk Cues Elicit Antipredator Responses in a Common Canadian Minnow	2
Who Is Likely to Cheat? Linking Personality to Worthless Gift Production in a Spider	2
EXPRESSION OF CONCERN : Temperature Mediates Shifts in Individual Aggressiveness, Activity Level, and Social Behavior in a Spider	2
Tadpole plasticity shapes the potential benefits of egg feeding to poison frog parents	2
Exposure to the Oestrogenic Pollutant 17α‐Ethinyl Estradiol ( EE2 ) Does Not Alter the Behaviour of a Coastal Marine Fish, Cri	2
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Western black widow spiders (Latrodectus hesperus) remember prey capture location and size, but only alter behavior for prey caught at particular sites	2
Does the type of task affect prey discrimination learning in avian predators?	2
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Interactive effects of increased nestbox temperature and vitamin E on nestling growth are attenuated by plasticity in female incubation effort	2
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The Effect of Background Colour on Behaviour and Development of Golden Mantella ( Mantella aurantiaca ) Tadpoles	2
Correction to Successful Predatory‐Avoidance Behaviour to Lion Auditory Cues During Soft‐Release From Captivity in Cheetah	2
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Are Reversal Learning and Inhibitory Control Related? Evidence From Urban Kelp Gulls (Larus dominicanus)	2
Do reproductive characteristics of the species explain differences in the investment in weapon size present in males?	2
Video evidence of mountings by female‐plumaged birds of paradise (Aves: Paradisaeidae) in the wild: Is there evidence of alternative mating tactics?	2
Thanks to repetition, dustbathing detection can be automated combining accelerometry and wavelet analysis	2
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Aggression, but Not Familiar Recognition, Occurs During Cohabitation in Females of a Hermit Crab	2
Male‐specific nocturnal song functions similarly to day song in a diurnal bird species	2
Grooming reciprocation in Himalayan tahr and the cognitive constraint hypothesis	2
Adaptive Significance of Long Mating With Repeated Intromissions in Zygogramma bicolorata	2
Movement in 3D: Novel Opportunities for Understanding Animal Behaviour and Space Use	2
EXPRESSION OF CONCERN : Precopulatory Sexual Cannibalism Causes Increase Egg Case Production, Hatching Success, and Female Attractiveness to Males	2
Effects of a past contest on the future winning probability in a hyper‐aggressive fruit fly	2
Aggressive vocalizations during intergroup interactions in roost defense in the Spix's disk‐winged bat	2
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The Relevance of Flash Coloration Against Avian Predation in a Morpho Butterfly: A Field Experiment in a Tropical Rainforest	2
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Of hormones (well, not really!), behavior, and observer bias	2
Behavioral Responses of Two Common Woodland Salamanders to Novel Urban Stimuli	2
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Walk or swim: The substrate for movement affects female treefrog mate choice behaviors but has little effect on their preferences	2
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Herbicide changes the role of body condition in mating interactions of a wolf spider but courtship is primarily affected by female immunity	2
Condition‐Dependent Responses to Risk in a Small Mammal	2
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No Effect of Note Order on the Response of Coal Tits to Conspecific, Heterospecific and Artificial Mobbing Calls	2
Harvesters (Arachnida: Opiliones) mate more at cooler temperatures, but the effect of temperature on mating varies across years	2