Social grou** is omnipresent in the animal kingdom. Considerable research has focused
on understanding how animal groups form and function, including how collective behaviour …

There is increasing interest in understanding the processes that maintain phenotypic
variation in groups, populations, or communities. Recent studies have investigated how the …

Social relationships have been shown to significantly impact individual and group success
in wild animal populations, but are largely ignored in farm animal management. There are …

Behaviour is a key interface between an animal's genome and its environment. Repeatable
individual differences in behaviour have been extensively documented in animals, but the …

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 …

Social foraging theory suggests that group-living animals gain from persistent social bonds,
which lead to increased tolerance in competitive foraging and information sharing. Bats are …

The social environment is both an important agent of selection for most organisms, and an
emergent property of their interactions. As an aggregation of interactions among members of …

Studies of eusocial insects have extensively investigated two components of task allocation:
how individuals distribute themselves among different tasks in a colony and how the …

The term “social niche” is rapidly increasing in usage, particularly in the context of “social
niche construction.” But what (if anything) is a social niche? Here, we survey papers that …

Understanding how groups of individuals with different motives come to daily decisions
about the exploitation of their environment is a key question in animal behaviour. While …