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#	Title	Journal	Year	Citations
1	Mating systems, philopatry and dispersal in birds and mammals	Animal Behaviour	1980	3,358
2	The logic of asymmetric contests	Animal Behaviour	1976	1,722
3	The repeatability of behaviour: a meta-analysis	Animal Behaviour	2009	1,651
4	Tests for emotionality in rats and mice: A review	Animal Behaviour	1973	1,412
5	The social behaviour of anuran amphibians	Animal Behaviour	1977	1,360
6	The evolution of polyandry: multiple mating and female fitness in insects	Animal Behaviour	2000	1,323
7	Do chimpanzees know what conspecifics know?	Animal Behaviour	2001	985
8	Parental investment: A prospective analysis	Animal Behaviour	1977	976
9	Stereotypies: a critical review	Animal Behaviour	1991	962
10	Vervet monkey alarm calls: Semantic communication in a free-ranging primate	Animal Behaviour	1980	936
11	Receiver psychology and the evolution of animal signals	Animal Behaviour	1991	929
12	Chimpanzees know what conspecifics do and do not see	Animal Behaviour	2000	904
13	Postnatal development of locomotion in the laboratory rat	Animal Behaviour	1975	787
14	Competition for mates and predominant juvenile male dispersal in mammals	Animal Behaviour	1982	769
15	A simple method for distinguishing within- versus between-subject effects using mixed models	Animal Behaviour	2009	767
16	Why individual vigilance declines as group size increases	Animal Behaviour	1996	756
17	Sexual coercion in animal societies	Animal Behaviour	1995	746
18	The logical stag: Adaptive aspects of fighting in red deer (Cervus elaphus L.)	Animal Behaviour	1979	713
19	A model for the evolution of despotic versus egalitarian societies	Animal Behaviour	1983	710
20	An empirical demonstration of risk-sensitive foraging preferences	Animal Behaviour	1980	685
21	Producers and scroungers: A general model and its application to captive flocks of house sparrows	Animal Behaviour	1981	683
22	The behaviour and ecology of wild orang-utans (Pongo pygmaeus)	Animal Behaviour	1974	681
23	Receiver psychology and the evolution of multicomponent signals	Animal Behaviour	1999	677
24	A comparison of association indices	Animal Behaviour	1987	669
25	Social network analysis of animal behaviour: a promising tool for the study of sociality	Animal Behaviour	2008	654
26	Repeatability and heritability of exploratory behaviour in great tits from the wild	Animal Behaviour	2002	649
27	Teaching among wild chimpanzees	Animal Behaviour	1991	644
28	A procedure for an automated measurement of song similarity	Animal Behaviour	2000	642
29	Reflex-ontogeny and behavioural development of the mouse	Animal Behaviour	1965	629
30	Cuckoos versus reed warblers: Adaptations and counteradaptations	Animal Behaviour	1988	627
31	Consistent individual differences in early exploratory behaviour of male great tits	Animal Behaviour	1994	621
32	Female mate choice in treefrogs: static and dynamic acoustic criteria	Animal Behaviour	1991	619
33	The mistreatment of covariate interaction terms in linear model analyses of behavioural and evolutionary ecology studies	Animal Behaviour	2005	609
34	Oddity and the ‘confusion effect’ in predation	Animal Behaviour	1986	598
35	Territorial defence in the speckled wood butterfly (Pararge aegeria): The resident always wins	Animal Behaviour	1978	596
36	Social influences on foraging in vertebrates: causal mechanisms and adaptive functions	Animal Behaviour	2001	592
37	Testing the immunocompetence handicap hypothesis: a review of the evidence	Animal Behaviour	2004	589
38	Assessment of fighting ability in animal contests	Animal Behaviour	2009	574
39	The echolocation of flying insects by bats	Animal Behaviour	1960	572
40	The role of neighbours in territorial systems: when are they 'dear enemies'?	Animal Behaviour	1994	572
41	Sexual selection in females	Animal Behaviour	2009	569
42	Inter-troop transfer and inbreeding avoidance in Papio anubis	Animal Behaviour	1979	562
43	Communal hunting and pack size in African wild dogs, Lycaon pictus	Animal Behaviour	1995	552
44	Rhythmical stereotypies in normal human infants	Animal Behaviour	1979	542
45	The ontogeny of behaviour in the albino rat	Animal Behaviour	1964	536
46	On the relation between social dynamics and social learning	Animal Behaviour	1995	535
47	An overview of the evolutionary causes and consequences of behavioural plasticity	Animal Behaviour	2013	533
48	Back to the basics of anti-predatory vigilance: the group-size effect	Animal Behaviour	1995	532
49	Behavioural flexibility and invasion success in birds	Animal Behaviour	2002	532
50	Roaring and numerical assessment in contests between groups of female lions, Panthera leo	Animal Behaviour	1994	530

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