California, Davis, who had co-authored both studies with Pruitt, wrote a blogpost about those
irregularities (see go. nature. com/39m535t). She had found multiple stretches of data that …

Collective personalities refer to temporally consistent behavioral differences between
distinct social groups. This phenomenon is a ubiquitous and key feature of social groups in …

Highlights•Most studies in community ecology neglect individual trait variation.•Personality
drives intensity and nature of sexual conflict and social organization.•Personality variation …

Animals typically display among-individual differences in behavior that are consistent over
time (ie, personality). These differences are often triggered by variable individual responses …

Describing the factors that shape collective behaviour is central to our understanding of
animal societies. Countless studies have demonstrated an effect of group size in the …

Evolutionary game dynamics in structured populations has been extensively explored in
past decades. However, most previous studies assume that payoffs of individuals are fully …

Many animals socialize in two or more major ecological contexts. In nature, these contexts
often involve one situation in which space is more constrained (eg shared refuges, slee** …

Behavioral characteristics importantly shape an animals' ability to adapt to changing
conditions. The notion that behavioral flexibility facilitates exploitation of urban environments …

Behaviours are the result of the interaction between genetic factors, past experiences, and
labile environmental and social influences. Usually, the behavioural variability of an …

The aforementioned field experiment sought to answer two questions: how group
phenotypic composition and group size influence collective behaviour (group-level …