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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Ethology is 0. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Reviewers of the Journal of Ethology for 2021	11
Costs of size increase prior to oceanic migration inferred from predation-caused wounds in an anadromous fish	9
Behavioural interactions between a threatened native killifish and the alien invasive Eastern mosquitofish	9
Observations of flipper rubbing in mother–calf pairs of captive bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) suggest a body-surface care function	8
Does a roosting flock of migratory birds also echelon in high winds?	7
Temporary division of roles in group hunting for fish eggs by a coral reef fish	7
Collective movements during visits to water bodies in wild Asian elephants	6
Social parasitism behavior between two species of edible wasps in China	6
Day-after impact of simulated rival encounter in the common cuckoo	5
Number matters: effect of the number of models on mate-choice copying in female guppies	5
Variation of vibratory performance during courtship of a cursorial spider	4
Risk-taking behavior in birds foraging along interurban roads	4
Stone handling in geladas (Theropithecus gelada): implications for spontaneous drawing-like activity as a playful behavior	4
Risk-taking behavior of birds in urban environment: assessment using flight initiation distance in Tokyo, Japan	4
Reviewers of the Journal of Ethology for 2022	4
Polyandry works as bet-hedging in the field cricket Gryllus bimaculatus, even after eliminating females in poor condition that cannot accept remating	4
Lack of discrimination of sex and maturity of conspecifics in the copulation attempts of the male stalk-eyed fly, Sphyracephala detrahens (Diptera: Diopsidae)	4
Season does not influence the response of great tits (Parus major) to allopatric mobbing calls	4
In between the web and the ground: sexual encounters in the South American wolf spider Aglaoctenus oblongus	4
Correction: Cooperative den maintenance between male Japanese badgers that are delayed dispersers and their mothers	4
Social play and affiliation as possible coping strategies in a group of Maremmana beef cattle	4
Responses to artificial selection of dispersal activity in the circadian rhythm of the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum	3
Association between visual cues and time of day in an ant	3
Differences in mating tactics performed by males of two local populations of the Japanese scorpionfly Panorpa japonica	3
Onset of estivation in western sand lance Ammodytes japonicus is not solely triggered by elevating water temperature	3

Reduced fitness in losers of leg-biting male combat compared to uncontested males in Zophobas atratus	3
Geotropic, hydrokinetic and random walking differ between sympatric tick species: the deer tick Ixodes scapularis and the lone star tick Ambylomma americanum	3
Host preference of a symbiotic flatworm and its response to conspecific and host mucus	3
Snake herders: novel anti-predator behavior by black-tailed prairie dogs in response to prairie rattlesnakes	3
Diet color affects female preference for mate color in the guppy Poecilia reticulata	3
Sweet mama: affiliative interactions are related to the reproductive success of dominant female Alpine marmots (Marmota marmota)	3
Fight outcome influences male mating success in Drosophila prolongata	3
Relationships of wingtip shape, song-flight and mating success in male black-headed buntings Emberiza melanocephala	3
Effect of diet quality on food consumption and body mass in Microtus pennsylvanicus	3
The origination events of gametic sexual reproduction and anisogamy	3
Correction to: Encounter with heavier females changes courtship and fighting efforts of male field crickets Gryllus bimaculatus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)	2
Vole hunting: novel predatory and carnivorous behavior by California ground squirrels	2
Correction: Fish yawn: the state-change hypothesis in juvenile white-spotted char Salvelinus leucomaenis	2
Behavioral patterns that determine the mating rates in a wing dimorphic riffle bug, Microvelia horvathi Lundblad, 1933 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Veliidae)	2
Squirting ink may play a role in the copulation of the pygmy squid	2
Correction: Diet color affects female preference for mate color in the guppy Poecilia reticulata	2
Mating behavior in the Japanese badger Meles anakuma	2
Do body size and habitat shape call frequencies of Brazilian hylids (Amphibia: Anura)?	2
Learned associations are retained over extended periods and memory performance is influenced by social rank and age in chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus)	2
Paternal care in the redhead goby, Elacatinus puncticulatus	2
Beyond noise playback: the effect of an audible and visible sound source on bird flushing behavior	2
Observation of tandem running behavior in dealates of Asian dampwood termite, Hodotermopsis sjostedti	2
Sneaking around: is a dammed environment capable of influencing echolocation behavioral patterns of river dolphins?	2
Agonistic behavior and feeding competition in the largest piranha species, Pygocentrus piraya, in a zoo	2
A message from new editor-in-chief	2
Perception and discrimination of chemical and visual stimuli in Antillean manatees under human care	1
Routine metabolic rate correlates with swimming speed in medaka	1
2022 editor’s choice award and editor’s choice articles	1
Video Insights, a new category of paper	1
Effect of artificial light on activity in frugivorous bats (Pteropodidae)	1
Reproductive behavior of endangered spined loach Cobitis magnostriata in the field	1
Effects of reproductive status and experience on sexual motivation and mate preference in female guppies	1
Large-scale spatial pattern of bird responses to a potential predator suggests that predator-specific mobbing is a plastic trait	1
Cryptic bachelor sex change in haremic colonial groups of the coral-dwelling damselfish Dascyllus reticulatus	1
Correction: Optimal pit site selection in antlion larvae: the relationship between prey availability and pit maintenance costs	1
Bigger male Eurasian nuthatches (Sitta europaea) behave more aggressively in playback-simulated territorial intrusion	1
Correction: Squirting ink may play a role in the copulation of the pygmy squid	1
Effects of human approach directness and path use on small mammal risk perception	1
Fish yawn: the state-change hypothesis in juvenile white-spotted char Salvelinus leucomaenis	1
Correction: Polyandry works as bet-hedging in the field cricket Gryllus bimaculatus, even after eliminating females in poor condition that cannot accept remating	1
Mite dilemma: molting to acquire sexual maturity or not molting to ensure durability and dispersal ability in Phorytocarpais fimetorum (Parasitiformes; Gamasida; Parasitidae)	1
Extreme herding behavior in adult male sub-Antarctic fur seals	1
Ritualized male–male combat resulting from intraspecific food competition in three Agkistrodon species	1
Male guarding behavior of Trypoxylon opacum (Hymenoptera; Crabronidae): an adaptation to maximize its paternity?	1
Multiple vs. single predator effects: differing experimental responses by the spotted fringe-fingered lizard (Acanthodactylus maculatus) facing aerial and terrestrial predators	1
Video evidence of unusual antler-gnawing behavior of sika deer (Cervus nippon) in central Japan	1
Nest-relief behaviors and usage of call types in the Kentish plover (Charadrius alexandrinus)	0
Correction: Mite dilemma: molting to acquire sexual maturity or not molting to ensure durability and dispersal ability in Phorytocarpais fimetorum (Parasitiformes; Gamasida; Parasitidae)	0
Correction: Symbiotic cleaning relationship between a sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) and remoras (Remora osteochir)	0
Locomotion and flow speed preferences in natural habitats by large water striders, Ptilomera tigrina, with micro-morphological adaptations for rowing	0

A theory of spawning habitat selection in anurans	0
Comparison of mortality and feeding behavior of the false cleanerfish Aspidontus taeniatus and the lance blenny A. dussumieri regarding the effects of mimicry	0
Female-mimicking spawning by subordinate males of the coral-dwelling damselfish Dascyllus reticulatus—a possible sneaking tactic observed in wild groups	0
Correction: Mate search or predation avoidance? Sex pheromone interrupts death feigning of males in the sweet potato weevil Cylas formicarius	0
Dispersal of oviposition sites by females is not associated with increased offspring number in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum	0
Subterranean to submarine: stress-induced locomotor repertoire expansion and aquatic escape in the Anatolian mole rat (Nannospalax xanthodon) under risk of predation	0
Contest competition and injury in adult male sub-Antarctic fur seals	0
Incomplete genital mutilation ensures nearly perfect paternity in an orb-web spider	0
Behavioral responses of the Japanese freshwater crab, Geothelphusa dehaani, to the leech, Myxobdella sinanensis	0
The relationship of activity patterns between brown bears and humans in eastern Hokkaido	0
Encounter with heavier females changes courtship and fighting efforts of male field crickets Gryllus bimaculatus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)	0
Great tits alter incubation behaviour in noisy environments	0
Left-handed mating: lateralized mating behavior in a termite-associated rove beetle	0
Temporal swimming impairment during estivation in western sand lance Ammodytes japonicus	0
2025 editor’s choice award and editor’s choice articles	0
Ants’ capability of associating odors with time periods of the day	0
Chemical compounds of a Neotropical plant constrain the anti-predator behaviour of sympatric tadpoles	0
Why was he murdered? The first report of the motive for conspecific killing in a flock of captive tree sparrows (Passer montanus) through direct video surveillance	0
Cost of defensive spraying by larval Osmylus hyalinatus (Neuroptera: Osmylidae) for post-larval development	0
Aggregation pheromone interrupts death feigning in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum	0
Labidochromis caeruleus cichlid preference for background colour varied between individuals and groups but did not vary for body colour of other fish	0
Dropping of apple snails (Pomacea canaliculata) by carrion crows (Corvus corone)	0
Fish yawn: interpopulation variation in yawning characteristics of juvenile white-spotted char Salvelinus leucomaenis	0
Breeding spatial behavior of an Iberian dimorphic raptor (Circus cyaneus) based on GPS tracking	0
Trophic ecology and feeding behavior comparisons between two pelagic juvenile fish species inhabiting the same microhabitat in an Amazonian estuary	0
Reviewers of the Journal of Ethology for 2024	0
Tales from the tail: unravelling the role of the tail in the emblematic giant anteater	0
Predation strategy of the brown widow spider Latrodectus geometricus Koch, 1841 against prey with different defensive mechanisms	0
Nestling retrieval behavior in two bunting hosts of the common cuckoo	0
Monogamy and protandry caused by exclusion of the same sex and random pairing in anemonefishes: a simulation model and aquarium experiments	0
Unveiling anti-predator responses of river lapwing, Vanellus duvaucelii (Lesson, 1826)	0
Reviewers of the Journal of Ethology for 2023	0
Acoustic interactions between free-living mother–calf Antillean manatees, Trichechus manatus manatus	0
Communication sounds produced by captive narrow-ridged finless porpoises (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis)	0
Group definition for underwater observation of wild Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins	0
Correction: Effects of reproductive status and experience on sexual motivation and mate preference in female guppies	0
Interspecific variability of the external female genital mutilation rate and its relationship with female aggression and sexual cannibalism in Cyclosa spiders	0
Is an individual recognition immutable? Subordinate hermit crabs fight with a familiar but weaponless dominant	0
Black-headed gulls are more wary of people dressed in red: a test of the concealment color hypothesis	0
2023 Editor’s Choice Award and Editor’s Choice articles	0
Mate search or predation avoidance? Sex pheromone interrupts death feigning of males in the sweet potato weevil Cylas formicarius	0
Antibiotics affect migratory restlessness orientation	0
Cockroach social network position does not influence exploration tendency	0
Plasticity in sex roles for parental care in the goby Lubricogobius exiguus, revealed by field observations	0
Optimal pit site selection in antlion larvae: the relationship between prey availability and pit maintenance costs	0
Correction: Vole hunting: novel predatory and carnivorous behavior by California ground squirrels	0
Complex object manipulations in an innovative extractive foraging of coconut by an adult male long-tailed macaque Macaca fascicularis (Raffles, 1821) in Southern Philippines	0
2024 Editor’s Choice Award and Editor’s Choice Articles	0
Female preference for exaggerated waving signals in the dotillid crab Ilyoplax pusilla: a conflict between sexual selection and species recognition	0
Behavioral manipulation in a cobweb spider: insights from comparisons between parasitized and healthy spiders	0
European badger's mating activities associated with moon phase	0
Protectors, enablers, or signallers? Investigating the effects of Chilean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus chilensis) flocks on accompanying avifauna in a key wetland area	0
Symbiotic cleaning relationship between a sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) and remoras (Remora osteochir)	0
Small-scale migratory behavior of three facultative soaring raptors approaching a water body: a radar study investigating the effect of weather, topography and flock size	0
Observation of group courtship/copulating behavior for free-living Indo-Pacific Leopard sharks, Stegostoma tigrinum	0
Nocturnal light-specific temporal partitioning facilitates coexistence for a small mesopredator, the eastern spotted skunk	0
Correction: Reddish male swallows have short sperm	0
Communal roosting in the Japanese toad Bufo japonicus	0
Correction: Sexual horn dimorphism predicts the expression of active personality trait: males perform better only in the sexually horn dimorphic Onthophagus dung beetle	0
Behavioral response of bed Bugs (Hemiptera: Cimicidae) to wet surfaces	0
Leg-biting fights reduce the number of sperm transferred by the loser and in draws in Zophobas atratus	0
Henpecked husbands: parental roles in the monogamous social fish Amphiprion clarkii depend on sex rather than relative size differences within pairs	0
Sexual horn dimorphism predicts the expression of active personality trait: males perform better only in the sexually horn dimorphic Onthophagus dung beetle	0
Circadian rhythms of locomotor activity in the New World tarantula Neoholothele incei (Araneae: Theraphosidae)	0
Correction: Lack of discrimination of sex and maturity of conspecifics in the copulation attempts of the male stalk-eyed fly, Sphyracephala detrahens (Diptera: Diopsidae)	0
The social environment and female mate choice	0
Male ejaculate volume is adjusted according to sperm stock and not influenced by female reproductive potential or mating status in Japanese pygmy squid	0