Global urbanization processes have highlighted the importance of understanding the effects
of urban habitats on animal behavior. Behavioral changes are usually evaluated along an …

Wildlife are increasingly subject to perturbations, which can impact pathogen transmission
and lead to disease emergence. While a myriad of factors influence disease dynamics in …

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 …

Background Exploratory behaviour is one of the best-investigated behavioural traits.
However, little is known about how differences in familiarity, ie in the knowledge and …

Urbanization has a tremendous impact on the environment from landscape features to
distribution of food resources. Such drastic environmental changes can result in community …

Animal personality is defined as consistent individual differences in average behaviour. In a
social environment, such differences can be shaped by individual intrinsic attributes as well …

The performances of different social groups can depend on various characteristics, such as
familiarity among their members or the presence of individuals with specific traits. However …

The maintenance of behavioural variation among individuals in the same population,
exposed to the same selection pressures, remains puzzling to evolutionary biologists …

Several studies have investigated how individuals' social status or behavioural and
physiological traits affect social organisation in group-living species, but the potential role of …

The application of social network analysis in animals has facilitated research into dynamic
fission-fusion social systems. These have important implications for the evolution of …