Flocking behaviour is often presented as an example of a self-organized process, where
individuals continuously negotiate on the direction of travel and compromise by moving …

Simple Summary Horses are highly social animals that preferably live in stable social
groups and form long-term affiliative bonds. However, although their need for social …

Dominance hierarchies in horses primarily influence priority access to limited resources of
any kind, resulting in predictable contest outcomes that potentially minimize aggressive …

Multispecies ethnographic projects are venturing “beyond the human”(Kohn 2013), but how
far can they go and remain anthropological? The answer depends on whether such projects …

It is believed that domestic dogs rarely form packs with age-graded hierarchical structures
similar to those found in wolves. Dog-wolf comparisons in captivity suggest that human …

Understanding factors driving resource selection and habitat use of different species is an
important component of management and conservation. Feral horses (Equus caballus) are …

Understanding how groups of individuals with different motives come to daily decisions
about the exploitation of their environment is a key question in animal behaviour. While …

Highlights•We studied leadership during collective movements in European
bison.•Leadership is distributed but adult females have a greater influence.•The success of …

Spatial positioning of individuals in animal groups has been studied from numerous
perspectives. However, although many studies have focused on spatial position in flocks of …

Simple Summary As more and more horses are being kept in group housing, it is important
to take the horses' likes and dislikes of other group members (their social bonds) into …