Social network analysis provides a broad and complex perspective on animal sociality that
is widely applicable to almost any species. Recent applications demonstrate the utility of …

Behavioural innovations have become central to our thinking about how animals adjust to
changing environments. It is now well established that animals vary in their ability to …

Animal social networks are descriptions of social structure which, aside from their intrinsic
interest for understanding sociality, can have significant bearing across many fields of …

The scientific study of networks-computer, social, and biological-has received an enormous
amount of interest in recent years. However, the network approach has been applied to the …

Animals use social information in a wide variety of contexts. Its extensive use by individuals
to locate food patches has been documented in a number of species, and various …

Highlights•Spatial examination and number of pecks reliably predicted exploration in
OFT.•Individual exploration performances were correlated in line with fast-slow …

Behavioral flexibility is an important adaptive response to changing environments for many
animal species. Such plasticity may also promote the invasion of novel habitats by …

For an animal invading a novel region, the ability to develop new behaviors should facilitate
the use of novel food resources and hence increase its survival in the new environment …

Blue tits are famous for the 'milk bottle'innovation, which emerged at numerous sites across
Britain in the early 20th century. However, overall we still know little about the factors that …

In recent years researchers have drawn attention to a need for new methods with which to
identify the spread of behavioural innovations through social transmission in animal …