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 …
The ability to learn through imitation is thought to be the basis of cultural transmission and was long considered a distinctive characteristic of humans. There is now evidence that both …
Covering diverse species from garter snakes to Komodo dragons, this book delves into the evolutionary origins and fascinating details of the mysterious social lives of reptiles. Reptiles …
Animals exhibit considerable and consistent among-individual variation in cognitive abilities, even within a population. Recent studies have attempted to address this variation using …
MJ Whiting, GM While - Comparative social evolution, 2017 - books.google.com
Lizards, snakes and amphisbaenians (worm lizards) form a monophyletic group (the squamate reptiles), which contains 9,712 species (Uetz & Hošek, 2015) in 61 families …
Species that are able to solve novel problems through social learning from either a conspecific or a heterospecific may gain a significant advantage in new environments. We …
Highlights•Nonsocial, juvenile Port Jackson sharks learnt faster with trained demonstrators.• Acquisition occurred between training bouts.•Social living is not a prerequisite for social …
V Roatti, G Cowlishaw… - Royal Society Open …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Immatures' social development may be fundamental to understand important biological processes, such as social information transmission through groups, that can vary with age …
PC Arena, C Warwick - Health and welfare of captive reptiles, 2023 - Springer
An understanding of spatial and thermal factors, two fundamentally intertwined elements, is essential to the health and welfare of captive reptiles; carers cannot address one without …