Individual recognition (IR) behavior has been widely studied, uncovering spectacular
recognition abilities across a range of taxa and modalities. Most studies of IR focus on the …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Variation in communicative complexity has been conceptually and empirically attributed to
social complexity, with animals living in more complex social environments exhibiting more …

We demonstrate that the evolution of facial recognition in wasps is associated with
specialized face-learning abilities. Polistes fuscatus can differentiate among normal wasp …

Highlights•'Social complexity'is widely used but poorly measured.•We describe two common
flaws with measures of social complexity.•We propose a new definition that is both objective …

Runaway social selection resulting from partner choice may have shaped aspects of human
cooperation and complex sociality that are otherwise hard to account for. Social selection is …

Individual vocal recognition (IVR) has been well studied in mammals and birds. These
studies have primarily delved into understanding IVR in specific limited contexts (eg parent …

Social living goes hand in hand with communication, but the details of this relationship are
rarely simple. Complex communication may be described by attributes as diverse as a …

Polistes are an ideal system to study ultimate and proximate questions of dominance, and to
test theoretical predictions about social evolution. The behaviors typically associated with …

Discriminating among individuals is a critical social behavior in humans and many other
animals [1–3] and is often required for offspring and mate recognition, territorial or coalitional …