Many animals preferentially associate with certain other individuals. This social structuring
can influence how populations respond to changes to their environment, thus making …

A prerequisite for copying innovative behaviour faithfully is the capacity of observers' brains,
regarded as 'hierarchically mechanistic minds', to overcome cognitive 'surprisal'(see 2.), by …

The age of individuals has consequences not only for their fitness and behaviour but also for
the functioning of the groups they form. Because social behaviour often changes with age …

Simple Summary The study of animal personality is important to conserve animals because
it can help in selecting the most appropriate individuals to be released into the wild …

Since group-living animals are embedded in a network of social interactions,
socioecological factors may not only affect individual behavioral strategies but also the …

In myriad biological systems, multiple lines of evidence indicate that modularity, wherein
parts of a network are organized into modules such as subgroups in animal networks, may …

The possible role played by individual attributes, sociodemographic characteristics and/or
ecological pressures in the interaction between animals and the development of social …

Material culture—that is, group-shared and socially learned object-related behaviour (s)—is
a widespread and diverse phenomenon in humans. For decades, researchers have sought …

From a cognitive point of view, management and knowledge of social relationships is
thought to be very challenging. Because of ecological and demographic constraints …

The extent of differentiation of social relationships within groups is a means to assess social
complexity, with greater differentiation indicating greater social complexity. Socio-ecological …