Brain evolution has often been correlated with the cognitive demands of social life. Further
progress depends on our ability to link cognitive processes to corresponding brain part sizes …

Mate choice hypotheses usually focus on trait variation of chosen individuals. Recently,
mate choice studies have increasingly attended to the environmental circumstances …

Biomimetic robots that replace living social interaction partners can help elucidate the
underlying interaction rules in animal groups. Our review focuses on the use of interactive …

Social and sexual behaviors, including that of mate choice, are dependent on social
information. Mate choice can be modified by prior and ongoing social factors and …

Mate-choice copying is a fascinating and widespread mate-choice strategy. Individuals
gather public information about potential mates by observing others during sexual …

The ability of an individual to predict the outcome of the actions of others and to change their
own behavior adaptively is called anticipation. There are many examples from mammalian …

In most mating systems, males and females are commonly within signalling and receiving
distance of conspecifics during courtship and mating activities. Although it is well known that …

Males in various species adjust their mate choice to sperm competition risk and intensity
arising when females potentially mate with several competing males. If males use social …

The elaborate design of animal signals is challenging to explain. In 1991, Guilford and
Dawkins published their iconic paper on 'receiver psychology'in Animal Behaviour (42, 1 …

Collective motion is commonly modeled with static interaction rules between agents.
Substantial empirical evidence indicates, however, that animals may adapt their interaction …