It is often assumed in experiments and models that social learning abilities–how often
individuals copy others, plus who and how they copy–are species-typical. Yet there is …

Behaviour is typically regarded as among the most flexible of animal phenotypic traits. In
particular, expression of cooperative behaviour is often assumed to be conditional upon the …

Many animals, including humans, acquire valuable skills and knowledge by copying others.
Scientists refer to this as social learning. It is one of the most exciting and rapidly developing …

Observations of animals feeding in aggregations are often interpreted as events of social
foraging, but it can be difficult to determine whether the animals arrived at the foraging sites …

Social learning is fundamental to social life across the animal kingdom, but we still know
little about how natural selection has shaped social learning abilities on a proximate level …

Foraging animals commonly choose whether to find new food (as 'producers') or scavenge
from others (as 'scroungers'), and this decision has ecological and evolutionary …

Social foragers can use either a 'producer'strategy, which involves searching for food, or a
'scrounger'strategy, which involves joining others' food discoveries. While producers rely on …

Learning is a familiar process to most people, but it currently lacks a fully developed
theoretical position within evolutionary biology. Learning (memory and forgetting) involves …

Multimodal signalling can improve or maximize information exchange. A challenge is to
show that two independent signals, such as vocalizations and visual displays, are …

There has been extensive game-theoretic modelling of conditions leading to equilibria of
producer–scrounger dichotomies in groups. However there is a surprising paucity of …