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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Bringing animal behaviour into marine conservation: insights and future directions	30
Reproductive consequences of male interference in ladybird beetles	13
Osteophagy in Ozotoceros bezoarticus: a field observation from the Brazilian Cerrado	12
Ultrasonic distress calls and associated defensive behaviors in Neotropical frogs	12
Scared of the dark? Nychthemeral sociality in territorial black wildebeest (Connnochaetes gnou) bulls	9
First record of mutual allogrooming in wild northern red muntjac Muntiacus Vaginalis	8
Too young to be bold: Lack of personality in juvenile goby	8
Social behaviour of the crested porcupine in urban and rural areas	7
Record of Stiff-legged Defensive Behavior in Rhinella achavali (Anura: Bufonidae)	6
Copulation behaviour in the Southern Lapwing (Vanellus chilensis)	5
Mobbing behaviour of hosts and non-hosts towards cuckoo Cuculus canorus of different sex	5
Detrimental impact of a heatwave on male reproductive behaviour and fertility	4
Competition and sex-age class alter the effects of group size on vigilance in white-tailed deer Odocoileus virginianus	4
Blue-winged parrotlet Forpus xanthopterygius (Aves: Psittacidae), feeding over water in Southeast Brazil	4
Assessing the impact of engine and non-engine urban noises on the calls of urban frogs: a natural experiment	3
Halloween day! a molossid bat trapped in a communal spider web in the Paraná flooded savanna of eastern Argentina	3
Epimeletic behavior in a free-ranging female Risso’s dolphin (Grampus griseus)	3
Revisiting wildlife crop foraging: why don’t all individuals forage on crops?	3
Leg-interweaving as an antipredator display in Dendropsophus anceps (Amphibia: Anura), with notes on defensive behaviors in the genus	3
Reproductive behavior analysis in the annual killifish Austrolebias nigripinnis (Regan, 1912) (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae)	3
Females of the sailfin tetra prefer red illuminated environments	3
A conceptual framework for the analysis of animal behaviour: an hierarchical script-episodes-gestures structure	3
Female gibbons’ great calls change tempo in the presence of their offspring	3
Interaction between vasotocin and gonadal hormones in the regulation of reproductive behavior in a cichlid fish	3
The environment matters: season and female contact affect the behavior of captive Addax nasomaculatus male antelope	2

Parturition in the wild camel (Camelus ferus): the first in situ recorded observation	2
Correction to: A novel mode of bathing behavior of hummingbirds recorded in the Brazilian ruby Heliodoxa rubricauda and allies (Aves: Trochilidae)	2
Zebra finches increase social behavior in traffic noise: Implications for urban songbirds	2
Emergence and pre-emergence behavior of two species of solitary bees of the tribe Anthidiini in trap nests	2
Testing the environmental buffering hypothesis of cooperative breeding in the Seychelles warbler	2
Play behaviour in urban-dwelling adult yellow mongooses (Cynictis penicillata)	2
Occurrence of long-finned pilot whales (Globicephala melas) and killer whales (Orcinus orca) in Icelandic coastal waters and their interspecific interactions	2
The unique case of marking behaviour in juvenile lynx	2
Correction to: Copulation behaviour in the Southern Lapwing (Vanellus chilensis)	2
Intra-sexual selection in a North American annual killifish: does the color-polymorphism matter?	2
Simultaneous consumption of Liolaemus lizards by the raptor Geranoaetus polyosoma in south-central patagonia	2
Thanatosis in juvenile notolabrus celidotus, the New Zealand spotty wrasse	2
Alloparenting and family behaviours in leopards (Panthera pardus fusca)	1
The hornbill and the pitcher: a southern ground hornbill (Bucorvus leadbeateri) learns to solve the Aesop’s Fable task	1
Feeding behavior and prey of three migratory shorebirds (Aves: Charadriiformes) during the nonbreeding season in southern Brazil	1
Promiscuity in the Greater Rhea: a genetic approach	1
Unique spatial behavior of the Japanese serow (Capricornis crispus) in the open mountains of Mt. Fuji	1
Ontogenetic variation, plasticity, and the anti-predatory role of tonic immobility in a chrysomelid beetle	1
First evidence for active carnivorous predation in the European ground squirrel	1
First report of visual displays in the Neotropical treefrog Dendropsophus carnifex	1
Safe in the heights: trees as safer sites for female jaguars and their cubs in the Pantanal	1
Unkenreflex in anurans– new observations with a review of published records	1
Altruistic behavior in mother-calf pairs of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and the possible role of the social bond: a preliminary study	1
Role of cuticular hydrocarbons and social cues in mate recognition and copulatory behavior of ladybird beetle, Cheilomenes sexmaculata (Fabricius)	1
Fruit scent as an indicator of ripeness status in ‘bat fruits’ to attract ‘fruit bats’: chemical basis of chiropterochory	1
Unusual intra-specific aggression in striped hyena	1
Underground environment increases the differentiation of personality traits between male and female plateau zokors (Eospalax baileyi)	1
Cannibalism in common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus)	1