Most studies of collective animal behaviour rely on short-term observations, and
comparisons of collective behaviour across different species and contexts are rare. We …

Collective behaviour has a critical influence on group social structure and organization,
individual fitness and social evolution, but we know little about whether and how it changes …

Is conservation working? The number of researchers and conservationists working on
primates, and the amount of data available, has grown dramatically over the past decades …

Modern studies of animal movement use the Global Positioning System (GPS) to estimate
animals' distance traveled. The temporal resolution of GPS fixes recorded should match …

Context Forest-agricultural mosaics are now considered critical for biodiversity. Within these
landscapes, the type of land use surrounding remnant forests influences the ability of …

Social bonds increase fitness in a range of mammals. One pathway by which social bonds
may increase fitness is by reducing the exposure to physiological stress, ie glucocorticoid …

Wildlife movement in urban environments can differ significantly from that in natural
environments due to intrinsic factors (individual phenotype) as well as extrinsic factors (such …

Anthropization affects wildlife feeding behavior due to changes in resource availability
related to land use and land cover change. To better understand the ecological responses of …

Glucocorticoids (GCs), a class of steroid hormones released through activation of the
hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis, perform many vital functions essential for …

Urbanisation is rapidly transforming and fragmenting natural habitats, disrupting ecosystems
and negatively impacting biodiversity. The City of Cape Town (CoCT) is situated in a global …