| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | AIC model selection and multimodel inference in behavioral ecology: some background, observations, and comparisons | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 2011 | 2,965 |
| 2 | A brief guide to model selection, multimodel inference and model averaging in behavioural ecology using Akaike’s information criterion | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 2011 | 1,856 |
| 3 | The bottlenose dolphin community of Doubtful Sound features a large proportion of long-lasting associations | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 2003 | 1,831 |
| 4 | Patch use as an indicator of habitat preference, predation risk, and competition | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1988 | 1,103 |
| 5 | The evolution of female social relationships in nonhuman primates | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1997 | 1,073 |
| 6 | Physical constraints on acoustic communication in the atmosphere: Implications for the evolution of animal vocalizations | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1978 | 991 |
| 7 | Complex signal function: developing a framework of testable hypotheses | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 2005 | 819 |
| 8 | Cryptic multiple hypotheses testing in linear models: overestimated effect sizes and the winner's curse | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 2011 | 813 |
| 9 | Biological markets: supply and demand determine the effect of partner choice in cooperation, mutualism and mating | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1994 | 798 |
| 10 | Reconciliation and consolation among chimpanzees | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1979 | 741 |
| 11 | Why have birds got multiple sexual ornaments? | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1993 | 711 |
| 12 | Sound transmission and its significance for animal vocalization | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1977 | 626 |
| 13 | Investigation of potential gene flow limitation of behavioral adaptation in an aridlands spider | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1993 | 612 |
| 14 | Adaptive significance of the age polyethism schedule in honeybee colonies | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1982 | 607 |
| 15 | SOCPROG programs: analysing animal social structures | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 2009 | 602 |
| 16 | Ecological constraints on group size: an analysis of spider monkey and chimpanzee subgroups | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1995 | 558 |
| 17 | The enemies within: intergenomic conflict, interlocus contest evolution (ICE), and the intraspecific Red Queen | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1997 | 554 |
| 18 | Threat-sensitive predator avoidance in damselfish-trumpetfish interactions | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1989 | 519 |
| 19 | Strategies of female mate choice: A theoretical analysis | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1980 | 500 |
| 20 | Eigenbehaviors: identifying structure in routine | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 2009 | 488 |
| 21 | Collective decision-making in honey bees: how colonies choose among nectar sources | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1991 | 467 |
| 22 | Territorial defence in the great tit (Parus major): Do residents always win? | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1982 | 465 |
| 23 | Fish in larger shoals find food faster | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1982 | 464 |
| 24 | The mating system of the prairie vole, Microtus ochrogaster: Field and laboratory evidence for pair-bonding | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1981 | 443 |
| 25 | Regulation of honey bee division of labor by colony age demography | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1996 | 439 |
| 26 | Complexity of seminal fluid: a review | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 2006 | 428 |
| 27 | Model selection and model averaging in behavioural ecology: the utility of the IT-AIC framework | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 2011 | 426 |
| 28 | L�vy walk patterns in the foraging movements of spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 2004 | 412 |
| 29 | Mating patterns and reproductive strategies in a community of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1979 | 411 |
| 30 | Carnivore home-range size, metabolic needs and ecology | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1982 | 409 |
| 31 | Density and extra-pair fertilizations in birds: a comparative analysis | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1997 | 406 |
| 32 | Comparative feeding ecology of felids in a neotropical rainforest | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1987 | 401 |
| 33 | Quorum sensing, recruitment, and collective decision-making during colony emigration by the ant Leptothorax albipennis | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 2002 | 381 |
| 34 | Social network theory in the behavioural sciences: potential applications | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 2007 | 379 |
| 35 | Time: a hidden constraint on the behavioural ecology of baboons | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1992 | 372 |
| 36 | The effect of male coloration on female mate choice in closely related Lake Victoria cichlids ( Haplochromis nyererei complex) | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1998 | 371 |
| 37 | Dietary carotenoids and male mating success in the guppy: an environmental component to female choice | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1989 | 364 |
| 38 | Social relationships among adult female baboons (papio cynocephalus) I. Variation in the strength of social bonds | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 2006 | 364 |
| 39 | Alternative reproductive tactics and male-dimorphism in the horned beetle Onthophagus acuminatus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1997 | 363 |
| 40 | Recruitment behavior, home range orientation and territoriality in harvester ants, Pogonomyrmex | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1976 | 354 |
| 41 | The hunting handicap: costly signaling in human foraging strategies | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 2001 | 354 |
| 42 | Meta-analysis of foraging and predation risk trade-offs in terrestrial systems | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 2006 | 354 |
| 43 | Caste and division of labor in leaf-cutter ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Atta) | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1980 | 347 |
| 44 | Evolutionary costs of aggression revealed by testosterone manipulations in free-living male lizards | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1988 | 346 |
| 45 | Sound transmission and its significance for animal vocalization | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1977 | 343 |
| 46 | Aggresive competition and individual food consumption in wild brown capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1985 | 343 |
| 47 | Plasticity in echolocation signals of European pipistrelle bats in search flight: implications for habitat use and prey detection | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1993 | 343 |
| 48 | Genetic parentage in the indigo bunting: a study using DNA fingerprinting | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1990 | 339 |
| 49 | Honeybees maximize efficiency by not filling their crop | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1985 | 332 |
| 50 | A review of hypotheses for the functions of avian duetting | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 2004 | 326 |
