OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Acta Ethologica is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Invasive Italian wall lizards outcompete native congeneric species in finding food in a Y-maze	21
Social and environmental cues drive the intra-population variation in courtship behavior of a neotropical lekking bird	18
Thanatosis in juvenile notolabrus celidotus, the New Zealand spotty wrasse	13
Water turbidity–induced alterations in coloration and courtship behavior of male guppies (Poecilia reticulata)	9
Time-activity budget of urban-adapted free-ranging dogs	7
Conspecific agonistic behaviour in the Mediterranean parrotfish	7
Differences in locomotor performances between two sympatric species of freshwater turtles	6
First record of crab-eating mongoose (Herpestes urva formosanus) in coastal forest and use of anvils during predation on land hermit crabs in Taiwan	6
Primary nectar robbing by Apis mellifera (Apidae) on Pyrostegia venusta (Bignoniaceae): behavior, pillaging rate, and its consequences	6
Fear of the dark: substrate preference in Amazonian tadpoles	5
Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) color morphs do not differ in aggressiveness	5
Dominance hierarchy and social network in a captive group of white-lipped peccary males: what happens after the alpha male leaves?	5
First evidence for active carnivorous predation in the European ground squirrel	4
Unique spatial behavior of the Japanese serow (Capricornis crispus) in the open mountains of Mt. Fuji	4
Cannibalism in common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus)	4
Reproductive behavior analysis in the annual killifish Austrolebias nigripinnis (Regan, 1912) (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae)	4
Embracing behavior of Japanese macaques on Shodoshima Island	3
The environment matters: season and female contact affect the behavior of captive Addax nasomaculatus male antelope	3
Do it like the otter—data on the amphibian skinning behaviour in the Eurasian badger (Meles meles L., 1758)	3
European breeding phenology of the invasive common waxbill, a sub-Saharan opportunistic breeder	3
Alloparenting and family behaviours in leopards (Panthera pardus fusca)	3
Correction to: Invasive Italian wall lizards outcompete native congeneric species in finding food in a Y‑maze	3
Use of crowdsourced images for determining 2D:4D and relationship to pro-environmental variables	2
Ultrasonic distress calls and associated defensive behaviors in Neotropical frogs	2
Individual features influence the choice to attack in the southern lapwing Vanellus chilensis, but the opponent type dictates how the interaction goes	2

Halloween day! a molossid bat trapped in a communal spider web in the Paraná flooded savanna of eastern Argentina	2
Fruit scent as an indicator of ripeness status in ‘bat fruits’ to attract ‘fruit bats’: chemical basis of chiropterochory	2
A possibility of tool use in a Japanese marten, Martes melampus	2
Correction to: Thanatological behavior of a female Leopard (Panthera pardus fusca)	2
Thanatological behavior in striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena)	2
Altruistic behavior in mother-calf pairs of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and the possible role of the social bond: a preliminary study	2
Limited effects of traffic noise on behavioural responses to conspecific mating calls in the eastern sedge frog Litoria fallax	2
The unique case of marking behaviour in juvenile lynx	1
Ethologists assemble - macrobehaviour needs you	1
Can contrasting habitats influence predatory behavior in tropical forest scorpions?	1
Effect of parental age on developmental rate polymorphism of the ladybird beetle, Propylea dissecta	1
First record of mutual allogrooming in wild northern red muntjac Muntiacus Vaginalis	1
First report of visual displays in the Neotropical treefrog Dendropsophus carnifex	1
Non-aggressive inter-group interactions in wild Northern Gray gibbons (Hylobates funereus)	1
What do we know about flamingo behaviors? A systematic review of the ethological research on the Phoenicopteridae (1978–2020)	1
Vigilance levels of sika deer in nonhunting areas with moderate human activity	1
Effects of the fungicide carbendazim on the behaviour of the zebrafish Danio rerio (Cypriniformes, Cyprinidae)	1
Testing the environmental buffering hypothesis of cooperative breeding in the Seychelles warbler	1
Behavioral ecology in co-occurring territorial males of the pupfishes, Garmanella pulchra and Cyprinodon artifrons, at reciprocally asymmetric densities in a mangrove floodplain	1
Assessing the impact of engine and non-engine urban noises on the calls of urban frogs: a natural experiment	1
Poison frog social behaviour under global change: potential impacts and future challenges	1
Time budget of a mallard duck population residing in an urban park in northern Portugal during courtship and nesting period	1
Correction to: Copulation behaviour in the Southern Lapwing (Vanellus chilensis)	1
Scared of the dark? Nychthemeral sociality in territorial black wildebeest (Connnochaetes gnou) bulls	1