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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

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Grouped and Vibrating: The Influence of Group Size, Triggering Stimuli, and Leg Loss in Bobbing in an Arachnid	17
Does Microplastic Ingestion Affect Cognition and Brain Gene Expression in Zebrafish, Danio rerio ?	14
Animal Ethics in Behavioral Studies—Advocating a Differentiated View	14
Reflections on Konrad Lorenz	13
Cheek‐to‐cheek: Communal nesting in an ephemeral pool‐breeding frog	13
Anti‐Snake Behavior and Snake Discrimination in Vervet Monkeys	11
Multi‐night territorial behavior, chorus attendance, and mating success in red‐eyed treefrogs	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
Deer Vigilance and Movement Behavior Are Affected by Edge Density and Connectivity	9
Sneaky copulations by subordinate males suggest direct fitness benefits from male–male associations in spotted bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus maculatus)	9
Cooperative and Solitary Mobbing to Defend Offspring in Wild Gray Mouse Lemurs, Microcebus murinus	9
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An Easy Method to Sample Headspace Pheromones in the Field	8
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Behaviour in a novel environment provides clues to the success of an invasive species	7
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Third‐Party Affiliation in Domestic Dogs During and After a Human Conflict	7
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Plastic Behavioral Responses to Ambient Relative Humidity Influence Aggregation in a Large Gregarious Insect	6
Abdominal Spines on an Amazonian Spiny Spider (Micrathena schreibersi): A Defense Against Mud‐Dauber Wasps (Sceliphron spp.) Attack?	6

Learning and innovation in urban yellow mongooses (Cynictis penicillata)	6
How great tits respond to urgency‐based information in allopatric Southern house wren mobbing calls	6
Host size selection and progeny sex determination in Hymenoepimecis bicolor (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae)	6
Cognitive and sensory capacity each contribute to the canine spatial bias	6
Food, Affection and Gaze: Which Cues Do Free‐Ranging Dogs Prioritise for Engaging With Humans?	5
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Do Green Lynx Spiders ( Peucetia viridans ) Change Color in Response to Their Backgrounds?	5
Avian Scavengers Modify Vigilance Across Visits to Foraging Sites	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
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The effect of phenotypic heterogeneity on behaviours linked to invasive success	4
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Invasive brown widow spiders disperse aerially under a broad range of environmental conditions	4
Sperm Strategies: Partner's Mating Status as a Driver of Last Male Success in Ladybirds	4
No Appeasement Through Vibrations: Male Vibratory Pre‐Copulatory Courtship in the Cursorial Spider Pisaura mirabilis Does Not Affect Female Predatory Res	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
Parasite‐mediated sexual selection in a damselfly	4
Evasive Maneuvers of Mosquitoes Reveal Variability in Escape Success and Echolocation Plasticity of Myotis riparius (Vespertilionidae)	4
Obituary: Professor Wolfgang Wickler (November 18, 1931– January 12, 2024)	4
Effects of human disturbance on risk‐taking behavior in painted turtles	4
Effects of Coffee on Drosophila melanogaster: Concentration‐Dependent Enhancement and Sleep Deprivation Recovery	4
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Strategic Deployment of Secondary Defences in the Springbok Mantis (Miomantis Caffra)	4
Behavioral response to chemical cues from injured conspecifics in the livebearing fish, Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora	4
Defensive Behaviour in Intertidal Crabs	4
Male mate preference against tail‐elongated females in the barn swallow	4
Use of Social Information About Novel Food by Juvenile Solitary Forktongue Goby, Chaenogobius annularis	4
The perks of being in good conditions: How does female parasitism affect male mate choice in an orb‐web spider?	4
A “feel‐free” format for ETHOLOGY	4
Retaining memory after hibernation: Performance varies independently of activity levels in wild grey mouse lemurs	4
Policing is more effective against eggs of non‐natal versus natal workers at early colony stages in a bumblebee	4
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Pair‐Coordinated Calling: Eurasian Magpies Respond Differently to Simulated Intruder Pairs That Overlap or Alternate Their Calls	4
Changes in Male Behavior in Response to Female Chemical Stimulus in an Understudied Arthropod Model	4
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Evaluation of sensory modalities involved in finding food and foraging behaviour in light/dark conditions in tadpoles of the invasive species Lithobates catesbeianus	4
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Reciprocal altruism in Norway rats	3
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Social Drivers of Vocal Flexibility in Female Baboons	3
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Among‐individual behavioral responses to predation risk are invariant within two species of freshwater snails	3
Phenotype predicts interspecific dominance hierarchies in a cloud‐forest hummingbird guild	3
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
Reversible Plasticity in the Communication System of the Cricket Gryllus rubens	3
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Females Guarded by Sneaker Males Experience Higher Predation in the Two‐Spotted Spider Mite	3
A Newly Reported Tactile Gesture for Grooming Initiation in Japanese Macaques ( Macaca fuscata ) at Awajishima, Japan	3
Male Barbary macaques choose loyal coalition partners which may increase their coalition network betweenness	3
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Complexity in Chick‐a‐Dee Calls of Mountain Chickadees (Poecile gambeli): Call Variation Associated With Flock Size and Flight	3
Just Hang On: Australian Gall Midges Suspend Themselves on Spider Silk Without Becoming Entangled	3
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Impact of Female Mating Status on Male Courtship Behaviour in a Sexually Cannibalistic New Zealand Fishing Spider	3
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Do Toxin‐Sequestering Snakes Recognize Their Own Nuchal Gland Toxin Reserve? Insights From Rhabdophis subminiatus	3
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Male–Male Competition Affects Color Phenotype Expression and Color‐Dependent Oxidative Stress Levels in a Polymorphic Cichlid Fish	3
Reciprocity versus pseudo‐reciprocity: A false dichotomy	3
Callosobruchus larval competition and its consequences for male and female adults	3
Female great tits (Parus major) reproduce earlier when paired with a male they prefer	3
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Sublethal effects of kleptoparasitism on experimental social spider colonies	3
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Constructing composite scores for contemporaneous behaviors: A comparison of four approaches	3
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EXPRESSION OF CONCERN : Precopulatory Sexual Cannibalism Causes Increase Egg Case Production, Hatching Success, and Female Attractiveness to Males	2
Aggression, but Not Familiar Recognition, Occurs During Cohabitation in Females of a Hermit Crab	2
No Effect of Note Order on the Response of Coal Tits to Conspecific, Heterospecific and Artificial Mobbing Calls	2
Aggressive vocalizations during intergroup interactions in roost defense in the Spix's disk‐winged bat	2
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Of hormones (well, not really!), behavior, and observer bias	2
Do reproductive characteristics of the species explain differences in the investment in weapon size present in males?	2
Exposure to the Oestrogenic Pollutant 17α‐Ethinyl Estradiol ( EE2 ) Does Not Alter the Behaviour of a Coastal Marine Fish, Cri	2
Tadpole plasticity shapes the potential benefits of egg feeding to poison frog parents	2
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Grooming reciprocation in Himalayan tahr and the cognitive constraint hypothesis	2
The Relevance of Flash Coloration Against Avian Predation in a Morpho Butterfly: A Field Experiment in a Tropical Rainforest	2
The Effect of Background Colour on Behaviour and Development of Golden Mantella ( Mantella aurantiaca ) Tadpoles	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
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Non‐Lethally Produced Chemical Risk Cues Elicit Antipredator Responses in a Common Canadian Minnow	2
EXPRESSION OF CONCERN : Temperature Mediates Shifts in Individual Aggressiveness, Activity Level, and Social Behavior in a Spider	2
Movement in 3D: Novel Opportunities for Understanding Animal Behaviour and Space Use	2
Heterospecific interference modulates the reproductive traits of a ladybird beetle	2
Condition‐Dependent Responses to Risk in a Small Mammal	2
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Are Reversal Learning and Inhibitory Control Related? Evidence From Urban Kelp Gulls (Larus dominicanus)	2
Herbicide changes the role of body condition in mating interactions of a wolf spider but courtship is primarily affected by female immunity	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
Correction to Successful Predatory‐Avoidance Behaviour to Lion Auditory Cues During Soft‐Release From Captivity in Cheetah	2
Who Is Likely to Cheat? Linking Personality to Worthless Gift Production in a Spider	2
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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
Behavioral Responses of Two Common Woodland Salamanders to Novel Urban Stimuli	2
Effects of a past contest on the future winning probability in a hyper‐aggressive fruit fly	2
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Adaptive Significance of Long Mating With Repeated Intromissions in Zygogramma bicolorata	2
Interactive effects of increased nestbox temperature and vitamin E on nestling growth are attenuated by plasticity in female incubation effort	2