Information is a crucial currency for animals from both a behavioural and evolutionary
perspective. Adaptive behaviour relies upon accurate estimation of relevant ecological …

We summarize 20 years of empirical and theoretical research on causes and functions of
social influences on foraging by animals. We consider separately studies of social influence …

In this paper, a novel swarm optimization approach, namely sparrow search algorithm
(SSA), is proposed inspired by the group wisdom, foraging and anti-predation behaviours of …

Social organisation in animals takes many forms. It includes assemblages of territorial
animals, dominance hierarchies and social groups, among other things. The basic tenet that …

A new bio-inspired algorithm, namely Bird Swarm Algorithm (BSA), is proposed for solving
optimisation applications. BSA is based on the swarm intelligence extracted from the social …

Fish travel in schools, birds migrate in flocks, honeybees swarm, and ants build trails. How
and why do these collective behaviors occur? Exploring how coordinated group patterns …

The acquisition and use of socially acquired information is commonly assumed to be
profitable. We challenge this assumption by exploring hypothetical scenarios where the use …

Simple Heuristics in a Social World invites readers to discover the simple heuristics that
people use to navigate the complexities and surprises of environments populated with …

It has been suggested that increased predation rates may rival habitat alteration as a causal
agent in farmland bird population declines. Such a view may be over‐simplistic, however, as …

Animals foraging in groups can either search for food themselves (producing) or search for
the food discoveries of other individuals (scrounging). Tactic use in producer–scrounger …