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Papers

(The median citation count of Animal Cognition is 6. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
“Cognition in marine mammals: the strength of flexibility in adapting to marine life”	87
Thinking about order: a review of common processing of magnitude and learned orders in animals	44
Does owner handedness influence paw preference in dogs?	40
Assessment of predation risk through conspecific cues by anuran larvae	38
Life is in motion (through a chick’s eye)	37
Pet dogs (Canis familiaris) re-engage humans after joint activity	30
Cognitive flexibility in a Tanganyikan bower-building cichlid, Aulonocranus dewindti	28
Grouping rule in tadpole: is quantity more or size assortment more important?	26
Injury shortens life expectancy in ants and affects some risk-related decisions of workers	24
Spot the odd one out: do snake pictures capture macaques’ attention more than other predators?	23
Horses discriminate between human facial and vocal expressions of sadness and joy	23
Sex differences in social buffering and social contagion of alarm responses in zebrafish	23
Both age and experience are important for successful problem solving in juvenile fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rats Melomys cervinipes	22
Learning and organization of within-session sequences by pigeons (Columba livia)	22
On being a Hydra with, and without, a nervous system: what do neurons add?	21
Lessons learned in animal acoustic cognition through comparisons with humans	21
Cognitive control of song production by humpback whales	20
The PROUST hypothesis: the embodiment of olfactory cognition	20
Penguins perceive variations of source- and filter-related vocal parameters of species-specific vocalisations	19
A comparative study of mirror self-recognition in three corvid species	19
Impact of exploration behavior, aptitude for pellet consumption, and the predation practice on the performance in consecutive live prey foraging tests in a piscivorous species	19
What drives horse success at following human-given cues? An investigation of handler familiarity and living conditions	19
Smart sharks: a review of chondrichthyan cognition	19
Left or right, that is the question: use of egocentric frame of reference and the right-eye advantage for understanding gestural signs in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)	17
Cue polarization and representation in mouse home base behaviors	16

Can rats and ants exchange information between the horizontal and vertical domains?	16
Orientation by environmental geometry and feature cues in the green and black poison frog (Dendrobates auratus)	16
Behavioral laterality is correlated with problem-solving performance in a songbird	16
Volumetric and connectivity assessment of the caudate nucleus in California sea lions and coyotes	15
Basal cognition: shifting the center of gravity (again)	15
Emulative learning of a two-step task in free-ranging domestic pigs	14
African jewel fish (Hemichromis bimaculatus) distinguish individual faces based on their unique iridophore patterns	14
Are you better than me? Social comparisons in carrion crows (Corvus corone)	14
Performance on inhibitory tasks does not relate to handedness in several small groups of Callitrichids	14
After 150 years of watching: is there a need for synthetic ethology?	14
The deterrent effects of individual monoterpene odours on the dietary decisions of African elephants	13
Tolerant macaque species are less impulsive and reactive	13
Visual perception of emotion cues in dogs: a critical review of methodologies	13
Varieties of visual navigation in insects	13
Novel object recognition in Octopus maya	13
Behavioural synchronization and social referencing of dogs and humans: walking in dyad vs in group	12
Social experience drives the development of holistic face processing in paper wasps	12
Repeated testing does not confound cognitive performance in the Western Australian magpie (Cracticus tibicen dorsalis)	12
First record of geophagy in Jungle Babbler (Turdoides striata) prior to egg-laying: an instinct for calcium supplement	12
Juvenile vervet monkeys rely on others when responding to danger	12
Nest box entrance hole size can influence nest site selection and nest defence behaviour in Japanese tits	12
Gender differences in animal cognition science	12
Slowly walking down to the more food: relative quantity discrimination in African spurred tortoises (Centrochelys sulcata)	11
Cognition of the manatee: past research and future developments	11
Visual categories and concepts in the avian brain	11
Meowing dogs: can dogs recognize cats in a cross-modal violation of expectancy task (Canis familiaris)?	11
Quantity discrimination by kittens of the domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus)	11
Active oscillations in microscale navigation	10
Innovative problem-solving in a small, wild canid	10
Correction: Do chimpanzees see a face on Mars? A search for face pareidolia in chimpanzees	10
Puppies in the problem-solving paradigm: quick males and social females	10
Context-effect bias in capuchin monkeys (Sapajus spp.): exploring decoy influences in a value-based food choice task	10
Interspecific differences in developmental mode determine early cognitive abilities in teleost fish	10
Orcas remember what to copy: a deferred and interference-resistant imitation study	9
Effects of predation risk on the sensory asymmetries and defensive strategies of Bufotes balearicus tadpoles	9
Color is necessary for face discrimination in the Northern paper wasp, Polistes fuscatus	9
Two-action task, testing imitative social learning in kea (Nestor notabilis)	9
Horses form cross-modal representations of adults and children	9
Grey wolves (Canis lupus) discriminate between familiar and unfamiliar human voices	9
Object use in communication of semi-wild chimpanzees	9
Oscillatory extraction behaviour suggests functional attributes of crows’ hooked-stick tools	9
The current state of carnivore cognition	9
A small step for rats alters spatial behavior: rats on a bi-level arena explore each level separately	8
Geckos differentiate self from other using both skin and faecal chemicals: evidence towards self-recognition?	8
First acoustic evidence of signature whistle production by spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris)	8
What is it like to be a choanoflagellate? Sensation, processing and behavior in the closest unicellular relatives of animals	8
Mice make temporal inferences about novel locations based on previously learned spatiotemporal contingencies	8
Vocal signals with different social or non-social contexts in two wild rodent species (Mus caroli and Rattus losea)	8
Social cognition and metacognition in great apes: a theory	7
Language preference in the domestic dog (Canis familiaris)	7

Stepwise learning of compound multidimensional visual stimuli by sorting out the dimensions of which they are composed in pigeons	7
Use of the sun compass by monocularly occluded homing pigeons in a food localisation task in an outdoor arena	7
The influence of visual illusion perception on numerosity estimation could be evolutionarily conserved: exploring the numerical Delboeuf illusion in humans (Homo sapiens) and fish (Poecilia reticulata	7
Prior experience modifies acquisition trajectories via response–strategy sampling	7
Bioelectric networks: the cognitive glue enabling evolutionary scaling from physiology to mind	7
“The song remains the same”: not really! Vocal flexibility in the song of the indris	6
A comparison of personality traits of gifted word learner and typical border collies	6
Heterospecific eavesdropping on disturbance cues of a treefrog	6
Naïve chicks do not prefer objects with stable body orientation, though they may prefer behavioural variability	6
Does social motivation mitigate fear caused by a sudden sound in horses?	6
Navigational roots of spatial and temporal memory structure	6
Stressfulness of the design influences consistency of cognitive measures and their correlation with animal personality traits in wild mice (Mus musculus)	6
On the role of training in delay of gratification paradigms: a reply to Pepperberg 2022	6
Animal cognition, past present and future, a 25th anniversary special issue	6
Llamas use social information from conspecifics and humans to solve a spatial detour task	6
Spontaneous object recognition in capuchin monkeys: assessing the effects of sex, familiarization phase and retention delay	6
Structural environmental enrichment and the way it is offered influence cognitive judgement bias and anxiety-like behaviours in zebrafish	6
Why an animal needs a brain	6
Use of anvils by the Great Kiskadee (Aves, Tyrannidae): a description based on citizen science data	6
Under pressure: the interaction between high-stakes contexts and individual differences in decision-making in humans and non-human species	6
Congratulations to Animal Cognition on its 50th birthday! Some thoughts on the last 50 years of animal cognition research	6
Do you see what I see? Testing horses’ ability to recognise real-life objects from 2D computer projections	6