Social bonds increase fitness in a range of mammals. One pathway by which social bonds may increase fitness is by reducing the exposure to physiological stress, ie glucocorticoid …
A major goal of behavioural ecology is to explain how phenotypic and ecological factors shape the networks of social relationships that animals form with one another. This …
C Neumann, J Fischer - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
In socially living animals, relationships between group members are typically highly differentiated. Some dyads maintain strong and long-lasting relationships, while others are …