Highlights•A social bird that breeds in kin neighbourhoods winters in flocks.•Kinship
positively affects flocking decisions and strength of social associations.•When birds switch …

Hypotheses about the mechanisms of community assembly suggest that biotic and abiotic
filters constrain species establishment through selection on their functional traits. It is unclear …

Animals regularly use information from others to shape their decisions. Yet, determining how
changes in social structure affect information flow and social learning strategies has …

Social foraging is thought to provide the possibility of information transmission between
individuals, but this advantage has been proved only in a handful of species and contexts …

A mixed-species aggregation refers to a group of individuals of different species attracted
together by an environmental factor. Although they are traditionally considered not as …

Communal signaling—wherein males and females collaborate to produce joint visual or
acoustic displays—is perhaps the most complex and least understood form of …

Early hominids searched for dispersed food sources in a patchy, uncertain environment, and
modern humans encounter equivalent spatial–temporal coordination problems on a daily …

I conducted feeding experiments to determine the effect of variations in food availability on
individual flocking behaviour and foraging efficiency in a social corvid, the alpine …

Investigations of collective movement and animal communication have often followed
distinct, though complementary, trajectories. Both subfields are deeply concerned with how …

Background Foraging in groups offers animals a number of advantages, such as increasing
their likelihood of finding food or detecting and avoiding predators. In order for a group to …