To receive the benefits of social living, individuals must make effective group decisions that
enable them to achieve behavioural coordination and maintain cohesion. However …

Social dominance encompasses winning dyadic contests and gaining priority access to
resources and reproduction. Dominance is influenced by environmental factors, particularly …

Shared-decision making is beneficial for the maintenance of group-living. However, little is
known about whether consensus decision-making follows similar processes across different …

Swarm Intelligence (SI) is a collective behavior that emerges from interaction between
individuals in a group. Typical SI includes fish schooling, ant foraging, bird migration, and so …

Ex-situ research in aquariums and zoological settings not only support scientific
advancement, they also provide opportunities for education, facilitating both mental and …

Group-living animals must coordinate their behaviour to maintain group cohesion.
Therefore, documenting when and how wild animals coordinate their behaviour in groups is …

Within (and often across) species, individuals have very similar demands for survival,
growth, and reproduction, and their combined demand for resources eventually exceeds …

Swarming behavior in systems of self-propelled particles, whether biological or artificial, has
received increased attention in recent years. Here, we show that even a small number of …

Highlights•We examined ecological drivers of stability of degu social foraging groups.•Food
availability, predation risk, opposite-sex ratio and season influenced stability.•Foraging …

Leading collective movements and arriving first at feeding sites may improve food
acquisition. Specifically, the first individual to discover and exploit a feeding site may gain a …