Human-wildlife interactions increase exponentially as more and more humans and wildlife
crowd into the same limited space. Such interactions often become conflicts when wildlife …

In Rock| Water| Life Lesley Green examines the interwoven realities of inequality, racism,
colonialism, and environmental destruction in South Africa, calling for environmental …

Background The use of accelerometers in bio-logging devices has proved to be a powerful
tool for the quantification of animal behaviour. While bio-logging techniques are being used …

Understanding pathogen exchange among human, wildlife, and livestock populations, and
the varying ecological and cultural contexts in which this exchange takes place, is a major …

Human-wildlife conflict has serious conservation consequences, both for populations of
wildlife and for the people who live alongside them. Connectivity analyses can incorporate …

Many primate populations inhabit anthropogenic landscapes. Understanding their long-term
ability to persist in such environments and associated real and perceived risks for both …

Conflict with humans poses one of the greatest threats to the persistence and survival of all
wildlife. In the Cape Peninsula, South Africa, human–baboon conflict levels remain high …

For most animals, the ability to regulate intake of specific nutrients is vital to fitness. Recent
studies have demonstrated nutrient regulation in nonhuman primates over periods of one …

A range of species exploit anthropogenic food resources in behaviour known as 'raiding'.
Such behavioural flexibility is considered a central component of a species' ability to cope …

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 …