Collective behaviours, such as flocking in birds or decision making by bee colonies, are
some of the most intriguing behavioural phenomena in the animal kingdom. The study of …

There is increasing evidence that competent handling of social interactions among
conspecifics has positive effects on individual fitness. While individual variation in social …

Introduction The cognitive abilities of animals play a crucial role in their capacity to adapt to
changing environments. Experiments to understand cognition are usually performed on …

Social groups repeatedly solving a complex task can improve their collective performance.
To study the mechanisms of collective improvement, we tested the effect of experience on …

HighlightsCollective decision making of social groups is a transdisciplinary paradigm that
links self-assembling unitsSocial insects, and particularly honey bees, have been model …

Behavioural lateralization is widespread across animal taxa. Consistent with the idea that
lateralization indicates advantageous specialization of the brain hemispheres, individuals …

In recent years, there has been a revolution in the way that we transmit information through
optical communication systems, allowing for fast and high-capacity data transmission using …

Individual differences in learning behavior within social groups, whether in humans, other
animals, or among robots, can have significant effects on collective task performance. This is …

Animal personality differences may have evolved as alternative strategies for negotiating
multiple stressor landscapes. Indeed, ecologists are increasingly recognizing that …

Sociality has evolved multiple times in animals. Social living is a balance between the
advantages and disadvantages of the increased presence of conspecifics. These costs and …