Recent work in animal cognition has focused on how animals respond to new or changing
environments. Although many species are currently in decline, other species are thriving in …

Wildlife conservation and management (WCM) practices have been historically drawn from
a wide variety of academic fields, yet practitioners have been slow to engage with emerging …

Humans have altered up to half of the world's land surface. Wildlife living within or close to
these human-modified landscapes are presented with opportunities and risks associated …

Baboons, members of the genus Papio, comprise six closely related species distributed
throughout sub-Saharan Africa and southwest Arabia. The species exhibit more ecological …

In recent decades, researchers have increasingly documented the impact of anthropogenic
activities on wild animals, particularly in relation to changes in behaviour. However, whether …

The earliest studies of collective animal behaviour were inspired by and conducted in the
wild. Over the past decades much of the research in this field has shifted to the laboratory …

The concept of 'co-culture'is introduced as a novel framework for understanding the mutual
cultural evolution between animal species, including, but not only, humans. It explores the …

Proximate mechanisms of 'social ageing', ie shifts in social activity and narrowing of social
networks, are understudied. It is proposed that energetic deficiencies (which are often seen …

Collective behaviour has a critical influence on group social structure and organization,
individual fitness and social evolution, but we know little about whether and how it changes …

Despite increasing conflict at human–wildlife interfaces, there exists little research on how
the attributes and behavior of individual wild animals may influence human–wildlife …