Explaining how animals respond to an increasingly urbanised world is a major challenge for
evolutionary biologists. Urban environments often present animals with novel problems that …

Animals often exhibit consistent-individual differences (CIDs) in boldness/fearfulness,
typically studied in the context of predation risk. We focus here on fear generalization, where …

Rapid urbanisation leading to habitat loss is a major problem for biodiversity conservation.
While urbanisation negatively affects the survival of many species, some species are well …

Human-wildlife coexistence is a pressing worldwide concern with significant impacts on
biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. Despite the growing interest in …

Individual identification contributes significantly towards investigating behavioral
mechanisms of animals and understanding underlying ecological principles. Most studies …

Affective states, such as emotions, are presumably widespread across the animal kingdom
because of the adaptive advantages they are supposed to confer. However, the study of the …

Human beings are an active component of every terrestrial ecosystem on Earth. Although
our local impact on the evolution of these ecosystems has been undeniable and extensively …

The field of animal cognition has advanced rapidly in the last 25 years. Through careful and
creative studies of animals in captivity and in the wild, we have gained critical insights into …

Rapid anthropogenic environmental changes, including those due to habitat contamination,
degradation, and climate change, have far-reaching effects on biological systems that may …

Independent human–wildlife feeding interactions (ie, the feeding of wildlife by the public
outside of organized ecotourism activities) represent an increasingly common way in which …