Ethology

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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Cheek‐to‐cheek: Communal nesting in an ephemeral pool‐breeding frog27
Reflections on Konrad Lorenz24
Flies getting filthy: The precopulatory mating behaviours of three mud‐dwelling species of Australian Lispe (Diptera: Muscidae)23
Cooperative and Solitary Mobbing to Defend Offspring in Wild Gray Mouse Lemurs, Microcebus murinus18
Anti‐Snake Behavior and Snake Discrimination in Vervet Monkeys17
Animal Ethics in Behavioral Studies—Advocating a Differentiated View16
Deer Vigilance and Movement Behavior Are Affected by Edge Density and Connectivity15
Sneaky copulations by subordinate males suggest direct fitness benefits from male–male associations in spotted bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus maculatus)14
Grouped and Vibrating: The Influence of Group Size, Triggering Stimuli, and Leg Loss in Bobbing in an Arachnid14
Multi‐night territorial behavior, chorus attendance, and mating success in red‐eyed treefrogs12
Is Paw Preference in Rats Influenced by Environmental Novelty?12
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How great tits respond to urgency‐based information in allopatric Southern house wren mobbing calls9
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Third‐Party Affiliation in Domestic Dogs During and After a Human Conflict9
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Abdominal Spines on an Amazonian Spiny Spider (Micrathena schreibersi): A Defense Against Mud‐Dauber Wasps (Sceliphron spp.) Attack?8
Host size selection and progeny sex determination in Hymenoepimecis bicolor (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae)8
Behaviour in a novel environment provides clues to the success of an invasive species8
Cognitive and sensory capacity each contribute to the canine spatial bias8
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Do Green Lynx Spiders (Peucetia viridans) Change Color in Response to Their Backgrounds?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
Testosterone, signal coloration, and signal color perception in male zebra finch contests7
Retaining memory after hibernation: Performance varies independently of activity levels in wild grey mouse lemurs7
Invasive brown widow spiders disperse aerially under a broad range of environmental conditions7
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Testing a behavioral model for the maintenance of androdioecy as a result of sexual conflict in the clam shrimpEulimnadia dahli7
A vocalization in male Japanese bush warblers in response to both predators and conspecific females7
Shoaling behaviour in the European cuttlefishSepia officinalis7
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Policing is more effective against eggs of non‐natal versus natal workers at early colony stages in a bumblebee7
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Effects of Coffee on Drosophila melanogaster: Concentration‐Dependent Enhancement and Sleep Deprivation Recovery6
The perks of being in good conditions: How does female parasitism affect male mate choice in an orb‐web spider?6
A “feel‐free” format for ETHOLOGY6
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Effects of human disturbance on risk‐taking behavior in painted turtles6
An ambiguous function of an alarm pheromone in the collective displays of the Australian meat ant, Iridomyrmex purpureus6
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The effect of phenotypic heterogeneity on behaviours linked to invasive success6
A positive feedback loop between sociality and social competence5
Strategic Deployment of Secondary Defences in the Springbok Mantis (Miomantis Caffra)5
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On the importance of defendable resources for social evolution: Applying new techniques to a long‐standing question5
Sperm Strategies: Partner's Mating Status as a Driver of Last Male Success in Ladybirds5
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Parasite‐mediated sexual selection in a damselfly5
Characterization of social behavior in the spiny mouse, Acomys cahirinus5
Evasive Maneuvers of Mosquitoes Reveal Variability in Escape Success and Echolocation Plasticity of Myotis riparius (Vespertilionidae)5
Obituary: Professor Wolfgang Wickler (November 18, 1931– January 12, 2024)5
Male mate preference against tail‐elongated females in the barn swallow5
Eight‐legged swimmers: Behavioral responses to floods in two South American spiders4
Use of Social Information About Novel Food by Juvenile Solitary Forktongue Goby, Chaenogobius annularis4
Behavioral response to chemical cues from injured conspecifics in the livebearing fish, Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora4
Female great tits (Parus major) reproduce earlier when paired with a male they prefer4
Sublethal effects of kleptoparasitism on experimental social spider colonies4
Reciprocal altruism in Norway rats4
Just Hang On: Australian Gall Midges Suspend Themselves on Spider Silk Without Becoming Entangled4
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Defensive Behaviour in Intertidal Crabs4
Correction to Decision Time Modulates Social Foraging Success in Wild Common Ravens Corvus corax4
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Among‐individual behavioral responses to predation risk are invariant within two species of freshwater snails4
Sibling cannibalism in the false widow spider is dependent on spiderling density and the reliable availability of fresh prey4
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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 catesbeianus4
Non‐lunge feeding behaviour of humpback whales associated with fishing boats in Norway4
Changes in Male Behavior in Response to Female Chemical Stimulus in an Understudied Arthropod Model4
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Female choice and male aggression in the polymorphic lizard Sceloporus minor4
Reciprocity versus pseudo‐reciprocity: A false dichotomy4
Pair‐Coordinated Calling: Eurasian Magpies Respond Differently to Simulated Intruder Pairs That Overlap or Alternate Their Calls4
Video evidence of mountings by female‐plumaged birds of paradise (Aves: Paradisaeidae) in the wild: Is there evidence of alternative mating tactics?3
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Callosobruchus larval competition and its consequences for male and female adults3
Thanks to repetition, dustbathing detection can be automated combining accelerometry and wavelet analysis3
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Diving behavior in a Neotropical spider (Trechalea extensa) as a potential antipredator tactic3
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Contrasting sex roles in two species with stable biparental care3
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Of hormones (well, not really!), behavior, and observer bias3
Graded‐risk sensitivity in northern European mixed‐species flocks of tit and nuthatch species3
Heterospecific interference modulates the reproductive traits of a ladybird beetle3
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The strange occurrence of male cannibalism on adult females in snakes3
Females Guarded by Sneaker Males Experience Higher Predation in the Two‐Spotted Spider Mite3
Male–Male Competition Affects Color Phenotype Expression and Color‐Dependent Oxidative Stress Levels in a Polymorphic Cichlid Fish3
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Siblings matter: Family heterogeneity improves associative learning later in life3
Successful predatory‐avoidance behaviour to lion auditory cues during soft‐release from captivity in cheetah3
EXPRESSION OF CONCERN: Temperature Mediates Shifts in Individual Aggressiveness, Activity Level, and Social Behavior in a Spider3
Phenotype predicts interspecific dominance hierarchies in a cloud‐forest hummingbird guild3
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Stable individual differences in the frequency of chin‐marking behavior across development in the domestic rabbit3
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Constructing composite scores for contemporaneous behaviors: A comparison of four approaches3
Male Barbary macaques choose loyal coalition partners which may increase their coalition network betweenness3
Complexity in Chick‐a‐Dee Calls of Mountain Chickadees (Poecile gambeli): Call Variation Associated With Flock Size and Flight3
Aggression, but Not Familiar Recognition, Occurs During Cohabitation in Females of a Hermit Crab2
Aggressive vocalizations during intergroup interactions in roost defense in the Spix's disk‐winged bat2
Walk or swim: The substrate for movement affects female treefrog mate choice behaviors but has little effect on their preferences2
Non‐Lethally Produced Chemical Risk Cues Elicit Antipredator Responses in a Common Canadian Minnow2
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Visual lateralization in flight: Lateral preferences in parent‐offspring relative positions in geese2
Artificial selections for death‐feigning behavior in beetles show correlated responses in amplitude of circadian rhythms, but the period of the rhythm does not2
Harvesters (Arachnida: Opiliones) mate more at cooler temperatures, but the effect of temperature on mating varies across years2
Western black widow spiders (Latrodectus hesperus) remember prey capture location and size, but only alter behavior for prey caught at particular sites2
Does the type of task affect prey discrimination learning in avian predators?2
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Keeping up with environmental change: The importance of sociality2
Observations of multiple reproductive females in groups of smooth‐coated otters2
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Adaptive Significance of Long Mating With Repeated Intromissions in Zygogramma bicolorata2
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Movement in 3D: Novel Opportunities for Understanding Animal Behaviour and Space Use2
Tadpole plasticity shapes the potential benefits of egg feeding to poison frog parents2
Variation in escape response of Himalayan marmots (Marmota himalayana) under different human disturbances2
Mate finding in a mimetic termitophile amidst its host termites2
Effects of a past contest on the future winning probability in a hyper‐aggressive fruit fly2
Interactive effects of increased nestbox temperature and vitamin E on nestling growth are attenuated by plasticity in female incubation effort2
EXPRESSION OF CONCERN: Precopulatory Sexual Cannibalism Causes Increase Egg Case Production, Hatching Success, and Female Attractiveness to Males2
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Dominant females have brighter ornamentation in a sexually dimorphic lekking species2
Herbicide changes the role of body condition in mating interactions of a wolf spider but courtship is primarily affected by female immunity2
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Grooming reciprocation in Himalayan tahr and the cognitive constraint hypothesis2
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Nest defense, personality, and fitness of a locally endangered island passerine2
No Effect of Note Order on the Response of Coal Tits to Conspecific, Heterospecific and Artificial Mobbing Calls2
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Aggression‐based social learning in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)2
Do reproductive characteristics of the species explain differences in the investment in weapon size present in males?2
The Relevance of Flash Coloration Against Avian Predation in a Morpho Butterfly: A Field Experiment in a Tropical Rainforest2
Hidden black and yellow thigh color acts as an aposematic signal in the Eastern Gray Treefrog (Hyla versicolor)2
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Male‐specific nocturnal song functions similarly to day song in a diurnal bird species2
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