Neophobia, the fear of novel stimuli, plays a major role in animal ecology. Here, we review
studies on predator neophobia and explore its underlying patterns within an ecological …

This paper reviews behavioural, neurological and cognitive correlates of innovation at the
individual, population and species level, focusing on birds and primates. Innovation, new or …

When I was an undergraduate in Oxford, we were taught economics almost as though it
were a natural science. The subject matter of economics might be different from physics, but …

Ecological innovation is the adoption of behaviours that allow individuals in a population to
exploit newly available, previously unused, or familiar resources in a new way. Innovative …

Researchers with diverse interests in topics ranging from the formation of dominance
hierarchies and social intelligence to animal personalities have predicted specific, and often …

Animals foraging in groups can either search for food themselves (producing) or search for
the food discoveries of other individuals (scrounging). Tactic use in producer–scrounger …

Intensification of agriculture since the 1950s has enhanced the availability, competitive
ability, crude protein content, digestibility and extended growing seasons of forage grasses …

Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 1449–1458 Abstract Trade‐offs between behavioural traits
promoting high life‐history productivity and mortality may fuel the evolution of animal …

Personality in animal behaviour describes the observation that behavioural differences
between individuals are consistent over time and context. Studies of group-living animals …

Decisions made by birds during migration to breeding grounds can strongly affect the fitness
of individuals. We investigated possible causes and reproductive consequences of inter …