Disgust is an adaptive system hypothesized to have evolved to reduce the risk of becoming
sick. It is associated with behavioural, cognitive and physiological responses tuned to allow …

Pathogens generate ubiquitous selective pressures and host–pathogen interactions alter
social behaviours in many animals,,–. However, very little is known about the neuronal …

Baboons, members of the genus Papio, comprise six closely related species distributed
throughout sub-Saharan Africa and southwest Arabia. The species exhibit more ecological …

Parasite avoidance is a host defense that reduces an individual's contact rate with parasites.
We investigate avoidance as a primary driver of variation among individuals in their risk of …

Sick animals may act, look, sound, taste, and smell different than healthy animals. Similarly,
habitats harboring infectious agents, or infectious agents themselves, may leave …

Estimating population density and population dynamics is essential for understanding
primate ecology and relies on robust methods. While distance sampling theory provides a …

The baboons (Papio sp.) exhibit marked interspecies variation in social behavior. The thesis
presented here argues, first, that male philopatry is a crucial factor, arguably the crucial …

Several species mitigate relationships according to their conspecifics' parasite status. Yet,
this defence strategy comes with the costs of depriving individuals from valuable social …

Emerging infectious fungal diseases are responsible for the extinction of myriad species
across a range of phyla. As recently shown by the COVID-19 pandemic, social transmission …

Sexual selection can improve population fitness and purge deleterious mutation from the
gene pool by promoting condition‐dependent mate selection. One ecological factor that …