Safeguarding human–wildlife cooperation

JEM van der Wal, CN Spottiswoode… - Conservation …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Human–wildlife cooperation occurs when humans and free‐living wild animals actively
coordinate their behavior to achieve a mutually beneficial outcome. These interactions …

Connecting and integrating cooperation within and between species

JL Bronstein, H Sridhar - Philosophical Transactions B, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
There has long been a fundamental divide in the study of cooperation: researchers focus
either on cooperation within species, including but not limited to sociality, or else on …

Foraging synchrony drives resilience in human–dolphin mutualism

M Cantor, DR Farine… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Interactions between humans and nature have profound consequences, which rarely are
mutually beneficial. Further, behavioral and environmental changes can turn human–wildlife …

Culturally determined interspecies communication between humans and honeyguides

CN Spottiswoode, BM Wood - Science, 2023 - science.org
Species interactions that vary across environments can create geographical mosaics of
genetic coevolution. However, traits mediating species interactions are sometimes culturally …

Guides and cheats: producer–scrounger dynamics in the human–honeyguide mutualism

DL Cram, DJ Lloyd-Jones… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Foraging animals commonly choose whether to find new food (as 'producers') or scavenge
from others (as 'scroungers'), and this decision has ecological and evolutionary …

A synthesis of coevolution across levels of biological organization

T Dixit - Evolution, 2024 - academic.oup.com
In evolutionary ecology, coevolution is typically defined as reciprocal evolution of interacting
species. However, outside the context of interacting species, the term “coevolution” is also …

When wax wanes: competitors for beeswax stabilize rather than jeopardize the honeyguide–human mutualism

DJ Lloyd-Jones, JJH St Clair… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Many mutualisms are exploited by third-party species, which benefit without providing
anything in return. Exploitation can either destabilize or promote mutualisms, via …

[HTML][HTML] Goats discriminate emotional valence in the human voice

MA Mason, S Semple, HH Marshall, AG McElligott - Animal Behaviour, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•We assessed whether goats discriminate positive and negative valence in human
voices.•Goats reduced behavioural responses following change in voice valence.•However …

Ancestry testing of “Old Tom,” a killer whale central to mutualistic interactions with human whalers

IM Reeves, JA Totterdell, EL Betty… - Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Cooperative hunting between humans and killer whales (Orcinus orca) targeting baleen
whales was reported in Eden, New South Wales, Australia, for almost a century. By 1928 …

Fishers' knowledge indicates that collective benefits outweigh the individual costs of coexisting with dolphins

G Hallwass, PER Pereyra, KC Vieira… - Journal for Nature …, 2024 - Elsevier
Understanding interactions between small-scale fishers and endangered dolphins is crucial
for informing coexistence strategies. We investigated the perceptions and encounters of 123 …