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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
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Cooperative and Solitary Mobbing to Defend Offspring in Wild Gray Mouse Lemurs, Microcebus murinus	22
Anti‐Snake Behavior and Snake Discrimination in Vervet Monkeys	21
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Grouped and Vibrating: The Influence of Group Size, Triggering Stimuli, and Leg Loss in Bobbing in an Arachnid	18
Flies getting filthy: The precopulatory mating behaviours of three mud‐dwelling species of Australian Lispe (Diptera: Muscidae)	15
Multi‐night territorial behavior, chorus attendance, and mating success in red‐eyed treefrogs	15
Males of a Neotropical spider adjust prey‐gift construction but not mate search in response to sperm competition	14
Cheek‐to‐cheek: Communal nesting in an ephemeral pool‐breeding frog	14
Reflections on Konrad Lorenz	13
Sneaky copulations by subordinate males suggest direct fitness benefits from male–male associations in spotted bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus maculatus)	12
Is Paw Preference in Rats Influenced by Environmental Novelty?	12
Animal Ethics in Behavioral Studies—Advocating a Differentiated View	12
Deer Vigilance and Movement Behavior Are Affected by Edge Density and Connectivity	12
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Cognitive and sensory capacity each contribute to the canine spatial bias	9
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Abdominal Spines on an Amazonian Spiny Spider (Micrathena schreibersi): A Defense Against Mud‐Dauber Wasps (Sceliphron spp.) Attack?	9
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Behaviour in a novel environment provides clues to the success of an invasive species	9
Using remote seminars to teach animal behavior	8
Host size selection and progeny sex determination in Hymenoepimecis bicolor (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae)	8

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How great tits respond to urgency‐based information in allopatric Southern house wren mobbing calls	8
Do Green Lynx Spiders (Peucetia viridans) Change Color in Response to Their Backgrounds?	8
Third‐Party Affiliation in Domestic Dogs During and After a Human Conflict	8
Learning and innovation in urban yellow mongooses (Cynictis penicillata)	8
How important is temperature for strike success of ectotherms? Thermal effects on predator–prey interactions of free‐ranging pit vipers (Gloydius blomhoffii)	8
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Invasive brown widow spiders disperse aerially under a broad range of environmental conditions	7
Policing is more effective against eggs of non‐natal versus natal workers at early colony stages in a bumblebee	7
Shoaling behaviour in the European cuttlefishSepia officinalis	7
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Retaining memory after hibernation: Performance varies independently of activity levels in wild grey mouse lemurs	7
An ambiguous function of an alarm pheromone in the collective displays of the Australian meat ant, Iridomyrmex purpureus	7
Testosterone, signal coloration, and signal color perception in male zebra finch contests	7
Testing a behavioral model for the maintenance of androdioecy as a result of sexual conflict in the clam shrimpEulimnadia dahli	7
A vocalization in male Japanese bush warblers in response to both predators and conspecific females	7
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Evasive Maneuvers of Mosquitoes Reveal Variability in Escape Success and Echolocation Plasticity of Myotis riparius (Vespertilionidae)	6
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Strategic Deployment of Secondary Defences in the Springbok Mantis (Miomantis Caffra)	6
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Sperm Strategies: Partner's Mating Status as a Driver of Last Male Success in Ladybirds	6
Effects of human disturbance on risk‐taking behavior in painted turtles	5
Parasite‐mediated sexual selection in a damselfly	5
On the importance of defendable resources for social evolution: Applying new techniques to a long‐standing question	5
Changes in Male Behavior in Response to Female Chemical Stimulus in an Understudied Arthropod Model	5
Obituary: Professor Wolfgang Wickler (November 18, 1931– January 12, 2024)	5
The perks of being in good conditions: How does female parasitism affect male mate choice in an orb‐web spider?	5
A positive feedback loop between sociality and social competence	5
A “feel‐free” format for ETHOLOGY	5
Evaluation of sensory modalities involved in finding food and foraging behaviour in light/dark conditions in tadpoles of the invasive species Lithobates catesbeianus	5
Defensive Behaviour in Intertidal Crabs	5
The effect of phenotypic heterogeneity on behaviours linked to invasive success	5
Characterization of social behavior in the spiny mouse, Acomys cahirinus	5
Male mate preference against tail‐elongated females in the barn swallow	5
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Correction to Decision Time Modulates Social Foraging Success in Wild Common Ravens Corvus corax	5
Reciprocal altruism in Norway rats	4
Reciprocity versus pseudo‐reciprocity: A false dichotomy	4
Use of Social Information About Novel Food by Juvenile Solitary Forktongue Goby, Chaenogobius annularis	4
Non‐lunge feeding behaviour of humpback whales associated with fishing boats in Norway	4
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Female choice and male aggression in the polymorphic lizard Sceloporus minor	4
Sublethal effects of kleptoparasitism on experimental social spider colonies	4
Just Hang On: Australian Gall Midges Suspend Themselves on Spider Silk Without Becoming Entangled	4
Eight‐legged swimmers: Behavioral responses to floods in two South American spiders	4
Behavioral response to chemical cues from injured conspecifics in the livebearing fish, Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora	4

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Pair‐Coordinated Calling: Eurasian Magpies Respond Differently to Simulated Intruder Pairs That Overlap or Alternate Their Calls	4
Sibling cannibalism in the false widow spider is dependent on spiderling density and the reliable availability of fresh prey	4
Among‐individual behavioral responses to predation risk are invariant within two species of freshwater snails	4
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Structure and dynamics of mixed‐species choruses in a tropical anuran assemblage: insights from network analysis	4
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Female great tits (Parus major) reproduce earlier when paired with a male they prefer	4
Females Guarded by Sneaker Males Experience Higher Predation in the Two‐Spotted Spider Mite	3
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Contrasting sex roles in two species with stable biparental care	3
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Male secondary sexual traits do not predict female preference in Caribbean livebearing fishes (Limia)	3
Male Barbary macaques choose loyal coalition partners which may increase their coalition network betweenness	3
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Siblings matter: Family heterogeneity improves associative learning later in life	3
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Successful predatory‐avoidance behaviour to lion auditory cues during soft‐release from captivity in cheetah	3
Callosobruchus larval competition and its consequences for male and female adults	3
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Response to heterospecific calls in non‐passerine species: can two Rallidae species recognise each other based on their vocalisations?	3
Stable individual differences in the frequency of chin‐marking behavior across development in the domestic rabbit	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
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Constructing composite scores for contemporaneous behaviors: A comparison of four approaches	3
The strange occurrence of male cannibalism on adult females in snakes	3
Diving behavior in a Neotropical spider (Trechalea extensa) as a potential antipredator tactic	3
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Thanks to repetition, dustbathing detection can be automated combining accelerometry and wavelet analysis	2
EXPRESSION OF CONCERN: Temperature Mediates Shifts in Individual Aggressiveness, Activity Level, and Social Behavior in a Spider	2
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EXPRESSION OF CONCERN: Precopulatory Sexual Cannibalism Causes Increase Egg Case Production, Hatching Success, and Female Attractiveness to Males	2
No Effect of Note Order on the Response of Coal Tits to Conspecific, Heterospecific and Artificial Mobbing Calls	2
Movement in 3D: Novel Opportunities for Understanding Animal Behaviour and Space Use	2
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Of hormones (well, not really!), behavior, and observer bias	2
Mate finding in a mimetic termitophile amidst its host termites	2
Do reproductive characteristics of the species explain differences in the investment in weapon size present in males?	2
Mating preference is mating system and relatedness dependent in the ladybird beetle, Menochilus sexmaculatus	2
Heterospecific interference modulates the reproductive traits of a ladybird beetle	2
Variation in escape response of Himalayan marmots (Marmota himalayana) under different human disturbances	2
Observations of multiple reproductive females in groups of smooth‐coated otters	2
Interactive effects of increased nestbox temperature and vitamin E on nestling growth are attenuated by plasticity in female incubation effort	2
Adaptive Significance of Long Mating With Repeated Intromissions in Zygogramma bicolorata	2
Effects of a past contest on the future winning probability in a hyper‐aggressive fruit fly	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
Visual lateralization in flight: Lateral preferences in parent‐offspring relative positions in geese	2
Graded‐risk sensitivity in northern European mixed‐species flocks of tit and nuthatch species	2
Phenotype predicts interspecific dominance hierarchies in a cloud‐forest hummingbird guild	2
Aggression‐based social learning in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)	2
Dominant females have brighter ornamentation in a sexually dimorphic lekking species	2
Walk or swim: The substrate for movement affects female treefrog mate choice behaviors but has little effect on their preferences	2
Grooming reciprocation in Himalayan tahr and the cognitive constraint hypothesis	2
Herbicide changes the role of body condition in mating interactions of a wolf spider but courtship is primarily affected by female immunity	2
Non‐Lethally Produced Chemical Risk Cues Elicit Antipredator Responses in a Common Canadian Minnow	2
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Adjustment of egg laying by both hosts and intraspecific brood parasites in a beetle	2
Tadpole plasticity shapes the potential benefits of egg feeding to poison frog parents	2
Artificial selections for death‐feigning behavior in beetles show correlated responses in amplitude of circadian rhythms, but the period of the rhythm does not	2