Investigations of collective movement and animal communication have often followed
distinct, though complementary, trajectories. Both subfields are deeply concerned with how …

Because of the diverging needs of individuals, group life can lead to disputes and
competition, but it also has many advantages, such as reduced predation risk, information …

Echolocating toothed whales (odontocetes) capture fast-moving prey in dark marine
environments, which critically depends on their ability to generate powerful, ultrasonic clicks …

Efforts to understand human social evolution rely largely on comparisons with nonhuman
primates. However, a population of bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay, Western Australia …

For over a century, the evolution of animal play has sparked scientific curiosity. The
prevalence of social play in juvenile mammals suggests that play is a beneficial behavior …

Human caregivers interacting with children typically modify their speech in ways that
promote attention, bonding, and language acquisition. Although this “motherese,” or child …

Episodic memory involves the conscious recollection of personally experienced events,
which has often been argued to be a uniquely human ability. 1–5 However, evidence for …

Cooperation and communication likely coevolved in humans. However, the evolutionary
roots of this interdependence remain unclear. We address this issue by investigating the role …

Animal communication is frequently studied with conventional network representations that
link pairs of individuals who interact, for example, through vocalization. However, acoustic …

The ability to attribute attentional states to other individuals is a highly adaptive socio-
cognitive skill and thus may have evolved in many social species. However, whilst humans …