A central premise of the science of comparative affect is that we can best learn about the
causes and consequences of affect by comparing affective phenomena across a variety of …

Stable social bonds in group-living animals can provide greater access to food. A striking
example is that female vampire bats often regurgitate blood to socially bonded kin and …

Vocal communication is broadly distributed in a wide range of nonhuman animal species
and is hypothesized to play an important role in mate attraction, territory defence, predator …

Social competence, ie defined as the ability to adjust the expression of social behaviour to
the available social information, is known to be influenced by early-life conditions. Brood …

The drives of inter-individual relationships within avian social groups are largely unexplored
and relatively poorly understood, including how social landscapes affect the decisions of …

Behavioral responses of captive animals to the presence of visitors in zoos and wildlife
parks can be interpreted as signs of negative (disturbance), neutral or positive (enrichment) …

Ravens and other corvids are renowned for their 'intelligence'. For long, this reputation has
been based primarily on anecdotes but in the last decades experimental evidence for …

Crows and other birds in the family Corvidae regularly share information to learn the identity
and whereabouts of dangerous predators, but can they use social learning to solve a novel …

The two main theories of food-associated calls in animals propose functions either in
cooperative recruitment or competitive spacing. However, not all social animals produce …

The animal kingdom extensively exhibits the phenomenon of group formation. Groups can
provide safety against predators (Caraco, 1979), help to locate scattered food sources …