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Causal evidence for the adaptive benefits of social foraging in the wild
Sociality is a fundamental organizing principle across taxa, thought to come with a suite of adaptive benefits. However, making causal inferences...
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Great ape cognition is structured by stable cognitive abilities and predicted by developmental conditions
Great ape cognition is used as a reference point to specify the evolutionary origins of complex cognitive abilities, including in humans. This...
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Genomic tools reveal complex social organization of an invasive large mammal (Sus scrofa)
A comprehensive understanding of sociality in wildlife is vital to optimizing conservation and management efforts. However, sociality is complicated,...
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Evolution of Longevity as a Species-Specific Trait in Mammals
AbstractFrom the evolutionary point of view, the priority problem for an individual is not longevity, but adaptation to the environment associated...
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Relationship between the Social Structure and Potential Reproductive Success in Muroid Rodents (Rodentia, Myomorpha)
AbstractIn many systematic groups of mammalian species, the evolution of sociality leads to the formation of large social groups (group-size...
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How city traits affect taxonomic and functional diversity of urban wild bee communities: insights from a worldwide analysis
Land-use change, including urbanization, is known to affect wild bee (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) diversity. However, while previous studies have focused...
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Gregariousness is associated with parasite species richness in a community of wild chimpanzees
AbstractIncreased risk of pathogen transmission through proximity and contact is a well-documented cost of sociality. Affiliative social contact,...
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Social interaction, and not group size, predicts parasite burden in mammals
Although parasitism is often considered a cost of sociality, the evidence is mixed, possibly because sociality is multivariate. Here we contrast the...
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Variation of social strategies within and between individual black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) during the reproductive season
AbstractSociality describes the tendency for members of a species to associate in a group based on social attraction. To balance the trade-offs of...
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Growing into adulthood—a review on sex differences in the development of sociality across macaques
Preferential affiliative relationships, or social bonds, play a crucial role in primate social life, but little is known about their development....
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The importance of familiarity, relatedness, and vision in social recognition in wild and laboratory populations of a selfing, hermaphroditic mangrove fish
AbstractSociality in animals depends on identification and recognition of conspecifics and social interactions can be a key driving force in...
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After the smoke has cleared: Extended low fruit productivity following forest fires decreased gregariousness and social tolerance among wild female Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii)
As climate change continues to fundamentally alter resource landscapes, the ability to flexibly respond to spatio-temporal changes in the...
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Spatiotemporal variation in cognitive phenotype, social network position, and distribution of social associations in a food-caching bird
AbstractPhenotypic variation may influence social structure if animals associate nonrandomly based on phenotypic traits. For animals that rely on...
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Social and sexual behaviors predict immune system activation, but not adrenocortical activation, in male rhesus macaques
AbstractSocial interactions are well known to influence fitness in social animals, but the physiological processes that connect the two remain...
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Convergent and complementary selection shaped gains and losses of eusociality in sweat bees
Sweat bees have repeatedly gained and lost eusociality, a transition from individual to group reproduction. Here we generate chromosome-length genome...
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Everyone matters: identification with facial wrinkles allows more accurate inference of elephant social dynamics
Reliable identification of individuals plays an important role in behavioural studies of free-ranging animal populations. In field studies of...
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Wild and captive immature orangutans differ in their non-vocal communication with others, but not with their mothers
AbstractIn many group-living species, individuals are required to flexibly modify their communicative behaviour in response to current social...
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Studying the evolution of social behaviour in one of Darwin’s Dreamponds: a case for the Lamprologine shell-dwelling cichlids
The link between the evolution of advanced sociality and cognition has been an important concept across fields and taxonomic boundaries. However, in...
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Two common bee-sampling methods reflect different assemblages of the bee (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) community in mixed-grass prairie systems and are dependent on surrounding floral resource availability
AbstractInsect communities with diverse life histories and morphologies, such as bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), are difficult to representatively...
