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

Article	Citations
Dominance hierarchy and social network in a captive group of white-lipped peccary males: what happens after the alpha male leaves?	22
Bringing animal behaviour into marine conservation: insights and future directions	19
Limited effects of traffic noise on behavioural responses to conspecific mating calls in the eastern sedge frog Litoria fallax	13
Ultrasonic distress calls and associated defensive behaviors in Neotropical frogs	10
First record of mutual allogrooming in wild northern red muntjac Muntiacus Vaginalis	8
Social behaviour of the crested porcupine in urban and rural areas	7
Scared of the dark? Nychthemeral sociality in territorial black wildebeest (Connnochaetes gnou) bulls	7
Can contrasting habitats influence predatory behavior in tropical forest scorpions?	6
Mobbing behaviour of hosts and non-hosts towards cuckoo Cuculus canorus of different sex	5
Interspecific nest destruction in the Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus: kleptoparasitism or competition?	5
Competition and sex-age class alter the effects of group size on vigilance in white-tailed deer Odocoileus virginianus	5
Copulation behaviour in the Southern Lapwing (Vanellus chilensis)	5
Differences in social-space–time behaviour of two red deer herds (Cervus elaphus)	4
Detrimental impact of a heatwave on male reproductive behaviour and fertility	4
Using predator feces as a repellent for free-ranging urban capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris)	4
Blue-winged parrotlet Forpus xanthopterygius (Aves: Psittacidae), feeding over water in Southeast Brazil	3
Epimeletic behavior in a free-ranging female Risso’s dolphin (Grampus griseus)	3
Interaction between vasotocin and gonadal hormones in the regulation of reproductive behavior in a cichlid fish	3
A conceptual framework for the analysis of animal behaviour: an hierarchical script-episodes-gestures structure	3
Primary nectar robbing by Apis mellifera (Apidae) on Pyrostegia venusta (Bignoniaceae): behavior, pillaging rate, and its consequences	3
Females of the sailfin tetra prefer red illuminated environments	3
The underground system of Clyomys laticeps changes in structure and composition according to climatic and vegetation variations	3
Reproductive behavior analysis in the annual killifish Austrolebias nigripinnis (Regan, 1912) (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae)	3
Assessing the impact of engine and non-engine urban noises on the calls of urban frogs: a natural experiment	2
The unique case of marking behaviour in juvenile lynx	2

Testing the environmental buffering hypothesis of cooperative breeding in the Seychelles warbler	2
Invasive Italian wall lizards outcompete native congeneric species in finding food in a Y-maze	2
Halloween day! a molossid bat trapped in a communal spider web in the Paraná flooded savanna of eastern Argentina	2
What do we know about flamingo behaviors? A systematic review of the ethological research on the Phoenicopteridae (1978–2020)	2
Emergence and pre-emergence behavior of two species of solitary bees of the tribe Anthidiini in trap nests	2
Correction to: Invasive Italian wall lizards outcompete native congeneric species in finding food in a Y‑maze	2
The environment matters: season and female contact affect the behavior of captive Addax nasomaculatus male antelope	2
Correction to: Copulation behaviour in the Southern Lapwing (Vanellus chilensis)	2
Hide and flirt: observed behavior of female jaguars (Panthera onca) to protect their young cubs from adult males	1
Correction to: A novel mode of bathing behavior of hummingbirds recorded in the Brazilian ruby Heliodoxa rubricauda and allies (Aves: Trochilidae)	1
Fear of the dark: substrate preference in Amazonian tadpoles	1
Thanatosis in juvenile notolabrus celidotus, the New Zealand spotty wrasse	1
First report of visual displays in the Neotropical treefrog Dendropsophus carnifex	1
Intra-sexual selection in a North American annual killifish: does the color-polymorphism matter?	1
Occurrence of long-finned pilot whales (Globicephala melas) and killer whales (Orcinus orca) in Icelandic coastal waters and their interspecific interactions	1
Unusual intra-specific aggression in striped hyena	1
First evidence for active carnivorous predation in the European ground squirrel	1
Underground environment increases the differentiation of personality traits between male and female plateau zokors (Eospalax baileyi)	1
Alloparenting and family behaviours in leopards (Panthera pardus fusca)	1
Heterospecific eavesdropping of jays (Garrulus glandarius) on blackbird (Turdus merula) mobbing calls	1
Zebra finches increase social behavior in traffic noise: Implications for urban songbirds	1
Time-activity budget of urban-adapted free-ranging dogs	1
Fruit scent as an indicator of ripeness status in ‘bat fruits’ to attract ‘fruit bats’: chemical basis of chiropterochory	1
Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) color morphs do not differ in aggressiveness	1