Animals lead rich social lives. They care for one another, compete for resources, and mate.
Within a society, social relationships may be simple or complex and usually vary …

Social structure is an important level of biological organization, influencing processes at
both lower and higher levels. For instance, social structure seems to be closely related …

In large mammalian herbivores, the increase of group size with habitat openness was first
assumed to be an adaptive response, encoded in the individual. However, it could …

This paper presents a framework for analysing the social structure of populations in which
interactions between some identified individuals can be observed. Statistics describing the …

It is increasingly recognized that association patterns of most gregarious animals are
nonrandom. However, nonrandom patterns can emerge in any population that exhibits …

To use behaviours as indicators of stress it is important to understand their underlying
causation. For a prey animal in the wild, such as a sheep, behavioural responses have …

Human disturbance is of growing concern owing to the increase of human activities in
natural areas. Animal responses are manifold (immediate and/or delayed, short and/or long …

Le prolongement des liens mère–filles après sevrage est étudié, à partir de données
collectées durant 12 ans chez une population sauvage du sanglier (Sus scrofa L., 1758) en …

Generalist predators are expected to shape their diets according to the local availability of
prey species. In turn, the extent of consumption of a prey would be influenced by the number …

In increasingly anthropized landscapes, it is essential to understand animal behaviour, and
especially the movement patterns of domestic and wild species to ensure their management …