Social interactions help group-living organisms cope with socio-environmental challenges
and are central to survival and reproductive success. Recent research has shown that social …

In the last decades, the assumption that complex social life is cognitively challenging, and
thus can drive mental evolution, has received much support from empirical studies in …

In long-lived social species, older individuals can provide fitness benefits to their
groupmates through the imparting of ecological knowledge. Research in this area has …

Male Asian elephants are known to adopt a high-risk high-gain foraging strategy by
venturing into agricultural areas and feeding on nutritious crops in order to improve their …

A variety of social systems have evolved as a consequence of competition and cooperation
among individuals. Giraffe (G iraffa camelopardalis sp.) societies are an anomaly because …

Human-elephant conflict (HEC) threatens the survival of endangered Asian elephants
(Elephas maximus). Translocating “problem-elephants” is an important HEC mitigation and …

Factors that influence learning and the spread of behavior in wild animal populations are
important for understanding species responses to changing environments and for species …

In long-lived organisms, experience can accumulate with age, such that older individuals
may act as repositories of ecological and social knowledge. Such knowledge is often …

Genetic tools are increasingly valuable for understanding the behaviour, evolution, and
conservation of social species. In African elephants, for instance, genetic data provide basic …

Until around 2000, giraffe Giraffa camelopardalis were believed to have no social structure.
Despite a resurgence of interest in giraffe behaviour in around 2010, most studies are of …