Vocal production learning, the ability to modify the structure of vocalizations as a result of
hearing those of others, has been studied extensively in birds but less attention has been …

Field research on echolocation behavior in bats has emphasized studies of food acquisition,
and the adaptive value of sonar signal design as been considered largely in the context of …

Exceptionally long-lived species, including many bats, rarely show overt signs of aging,
making it difficult to determine why species differ in lifespan. Here, we use DNA methylation …

Social organisation in animals takes many forms. It includes assemblages of territorial
animals, dominance hierarchies and social groups, among other things. The basic tenet that …

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

The author shares some lessons learned from a lifetime of working with and thinking about
groups. Three types of groups are described, including the impact they have on the …

We summarize 20 years of empirical and theoretical research on causes and functions of
social influences on foraging by animals. We consider separately studies of social influence …

Bats are among the most diverse and most gregarious of all mammals. This makes them
highly interesting for research on the causes and consequences of sociality in animals …

Conformity—defined here by the fact that an individual displays a particular behavior
because it is the most frequent the individual witnessed in others—has long been …

Observations of animals feeding in aggregations are often interpreted as events of social
foraging, but it can be difficult to determine whether the animals arrived at the foraging sites …