Simple Summary Monitoring the welfare of cattle and sheep in large pastures can be time-
consuming, especially if the animals are scattered over large areas in semi-natural pastures …

Methods for collecting animal behaviour data in natural environments, such as direct
observation and biologging, are typically limited in spatiotemporal resolution, the number of …

Studying animal societies needs detailed observation of many individuals, but technological
advances offer new opportunities in this field. Here, we present a state-of-the-art drone …

Simple Summary Multilevel societies are the most complex social structures in animals.
They are social structures with nested levels of social organization, where stable “core units” …

Investigating affiliative behaviors (eg proximity, grooming, cooperative behaviors) is
essential to understand group cohesion and stability in animal societies, as they may foster …

The study of non-human multilevel societies can give us insights into how group-level
relationships function and are maintained in a social system, but their mechanisms are still …

In this letter, we present a distributed approach to automatically collect a flock with a group of
robots. This collecting problem is challenging due to the fact that the flock size is usually …

This article presents a distributed control strategy for herding groups of evaders toward a
predefined goal region using a team of robotic herders. In herding problems, evaders tend to …

Feral horses form relatively stable harems over time that are characterized by long-lasting
bonds among their members, a characteristic that makes them an exceptional case of a …

The benefits of sociality are not equitably shared among members of a social group. The
position individuals occupy in social networks is key to maximizing their fitness and …