Early‐life relationships matter: Social position during early life predicts fitness among female spotted hyenas

JW Turner, AL Robitaille, PS Bills… - Journal of Animal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
How social development in early‐life affects fitness remains poorly understood. Though
there is growing evidence that early‐life relationships can affect fitness, little research has …

[HTML][HTML] Are nonsocial species more social than we think? Seasonal patterns in sociality in a solitary terrestrial carnivore

RW Heeres, M Leclerc, S Frank, A Kopatz, F Pelletier… - Animal Behaviour, 2024 - Elsevier
Animal sociality, the extent and manner in which conspecifics associate with each other,
ultimately affects an individual's survival and reproductive success. It is shaped by the …

Opposite-sex associations are linked with annual fitness, but sociality is stable over lifetime

J Dunning, T Burke, A Hoi Hang Chan… - Behavioral …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Animal sociality, an individual's propensity to associate with others, has fitness
consequences through mate choice, for example, directly, by increasing the pool of …

Sexual conflict and social networks in bed bugs: effects of social experience

JL Yan, JR Rosenbaum, S Esteves… - Behavioral …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Living in groups can provide essential experience that improves sexual performance and
reproductive success. While the effects of social experience have drawn considerable …

Social migratory connectivity: Do birds that socialize in winter breed together?

TA Block, BE Lyon, Z Mikalonis, AS Chaine, D Shizuka - BioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Researching the complete life cycles of migratory animals is essential for understanding
conservation and population dynamics. Many studies focus on the breeding season, but …

[BOOK][B] Demographic and social influences on the winter ecology of a migratory songbird, the golden-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia atricapilla)

TA Block - 2021 - search.proquest.com
Social groups can range from cohesive and stable to fluid and temporary, with many
variations of the two. Social structure can effect selection pressures on individuals, and in …

Increased opposite sex association is linked with fitness benefits, otherwise sociality is subject to stabilising selection in a wild passerine

J Dunning, T Burke, AHH Chan, HYJ Chik, T Evans… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Animal sociality, an individual's propensity to association with others, has consequences for
fitness, and particularly mate choice. For example, directly, by increasing the pool of …