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 …

Earth's old animals are in decline. Despite this, emerging research is revealing the vital
contributions of older individuals to cultural transmission, population dynamics, and …

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 …

Sexual selection mediated by multimodal signals is common among polygynous species,
including seasonally breeding mammals. Indirect benefit models provide plausible …

Ageing affects many phenotypic traits, but its consequences for social behaviour have only
recently become apparent. Social networks emerge from associations between individuals …

Ageing affects almost all aspects of life and therefore is an important process across
societies, human and non-human animal alike. This article introduces new research …

Cohort effects, reflecting early adversity or advantage, have persisting consequences for
growth, reproductive onset, longevity, and lifetime reproductive success. In species with …

Group-living animals engage in coordinated vocalizations to depart from a location as a
group, and often, to come to a consensus about the direction of movement. Here, we …

We present a detailed study of male associations in the Asian elephant, using 6 years of
data on identified, non-musth males. Adult males spent greater proportions of their time …

Simple Summary The conservation of wild and zoo-housed Asian elephants partly depends
on developing our understanding of male elephant social behavior. Once thought to be …