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 …

Research on the ecology and biology of marine mammal populations is necessary to
understand ecosystem dynamics and to support conservation management. Emerging …

Vocal interactions are intrinsic features of social groups and can play a pivotal role in social
bonding. 1, 2 Dunbar's social bonding hypothesis posits that vocal exchanges evolved to" …

It has long been recognized that the patterning of social interactions within a group can give
rise to a social structure that holds very different places for different individuals. Such within …

Social bonds enhance fitness in many group-living animals, generating interest in the
processes that create individual variation in sociality. Previous work on female baboons …

Age-related changes in the patterns of local relatedness (kinship dynamics) can be a
significant selective force shaping the evolution of life history and social behaviour. In …

Animal social networks are often constructed from point estimates of edge weights. In many
contexts, edge weights are inferred from observational data, and the uncertainty around …

The age of individuals has consequences not only for their fitness and behaviour but also for
the functioning of the groups they form. Because social behaviour often changes with age …

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 …

Individual differences in social behaviour can result in fine-scale variation in spatial
distribution and, hence, in the social environment experienced. Given the expected fitness …