Conflicts of interest about where to go and what to do are a primary challenge of group
living. However, it remains unclear how consensus is achieved in stable groups with …

Understanding the functional links between social structure and population processes is a
central aim of evolutionary ecology. Multiple types of interactions can be represented by …

Highlights•Indirect connections are heritable and predictors of fitness in some
species.•Some animals recognize and may strategically manipulate third-party …

• Key assumptions exist in our data and analytical techniques.• Proximity networks are often
used as a proxy for interaction networks.• The validity of this assumption is rarely empirically …

Highlights•We tested Gouldian finch personality in an asocial and social setting.•Our
experiments show birds' behaviour changes according to their partners' identity.•Shy birds …

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 …

When group members possess differing information about the environment, they may
disagree on the best movement decision. Such conflicts result in group break‐ups, and are …

Gregarious animals need to make collective decisions in order to keep their cohesiveness.
Several species of them live in multilevel societies, and form herds composed of smaller …

Moving in a group while avoiding collisions with group members causes internal dynamics
in the group. Although these dynamics have recently been measured quantitatively in …