Fish are one of the most highly utilised vertebrate taxa by humans; they are harvested from
wild stocks as part of global fishing industries, grown under intensive aquaculture …

Behavioural innovations have become central to our thinking about how animals adjust to
changing environments. It is now well established that animals vary in their ability to …

When published in 1980, Benjamin B. Beck's Animal Tool Behavior was the first volume to
catalog and analyze the complete literature on tool use and manufacture in non-human …

Discussions of the evolution of intelligence have focused on monkeys and apes because of
their close evolutionary relationship to humans. Other large-brained social animals, such as …

There are consistent individual differences in human intelligence, attributable to a single
'general intelligence'factor, g. The evolutionary basis of g and its links to social learning and …

Several comparative research programs have focused on the cognitive, life history and
ecological traits that account for variation in brain size. We review one of these programs, a …

Aim As urban landscapes expand, shifts in biodiversity are occurring. This is leading
biogeographers and ecologists to consider human‐dominated landscapes in their current …

The 'social intelligence hypothesis' was originally conceived to explain how primates may
have evolved their superior intellect and large brains when compared with other animals …

In recent years, there have been over 50 comparative analyses carried out in which social or
ecological variables have been used to explain variation in whole brain size, or a part …

Comparative psychologists interested in the evolution of intelligence have focused their
attention on social primates, whereas birds tend to be used as models of associative …