The collective behaviors of animals, from schooling fish to packing wolves and flocking
birds, display plenty of fascinating phenomena that result from simple interaction rules …

Cooperation is widespread in nature, occurring in every taxa on Earth. Nevertheless, the
contexts in which cooperation occurs—and the forms it takes—vary widely. In this Review …

Nature-inspired optimization algorithms, especially swarm based algorithms (SAs), solve
many scientific and engineering problems due to their flexibility and simplicity. These …

Urbanisation exposes wildlife to new challenging conditions and environmental pressures.
Some mammalian species have adapted to these novel environments, but it remains …

Despite considerable interest in the forces shaping the relationship between brain size and
cognitive abilities, it remains controversial whether larger-brained animals are, indeed …

Dynamics of predator-prey systems under the influence of cooperative hunting among
predators and the fear thus imposed on the prey population is of great importance from …

Observation of leadership in small-scale societies offers unique insights into the evolution of
human collective action and the origins of sociopolitical complexity. Using behavioural data …

Herding of sheep by dogs is a powerful example of one individual causing many unwilling
individuals to move in the same direction. Similar phenomena are central to crowd control …

The Primate Origins of Human Nature (Volume 3 in The Foundations of Human Biology
series) blends several elements from evolutionary biology as applied to primate behavioral …

Intergroup conflict persists when and because individuals make costly contributions to their
group's fighting capacity, but how groups organize contributions into effective collective …