Studying animal behavior as collective phenomena is a powerful tool for understanding
social processes, including group coordination and decision-making. However, linking …

When living in a group, individuals have to make trade‐offs, and compromise, in order to
balance the advantages and disadvantages of group life. Strategies that enable individuals …

Conflicts of interest about where to go and what to do are a primary challenge of group
living. However, it remains unclear how consensus is achieved in stable groups with …

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 …

Compared to most other mammals and birds, anthropoid primates have unusually complex
societies characterised by bonded social groups. Among primates, this effect is …

From Australia to the Arctic, human groups engage in synchronous behaviour during
communal rituals. Because ritualistic synchrony is widespread, many argue that it is …

Sociality exists in an extraordinary range of ecological settings. For individuals to accrue the
benefits associated with social interactions, they are required to maintain a degree of spatial …

Cooperative hunting is believed to have important implications for the evolution of sociality
and advanced cognitive abilities. Variation in the level of hunt organisation amongst species …

Background The use of accelerometers in bio-logging devices has proved to be a powerful
tool for the quantification of animal behaviour. While bio-logging techniques are being used …

Synchronized behaviours are found in various species, among all taxa of live beings. Being
synchronized with other individuals is defined by doing the same thing, at the same time and …