Individual animals routinely face decisions that are crucial to their fitness. In social species,
however, many of these decisions need to be made jointly with other group members …

Humans routinely make many decisions collectively, whether they choose a restaurant with
friends, elect political leaders or decide actions to tackle international problems, such as …

Groups of animals often need to make communal decisions, for example about which
activities to perform, when to perform them,,,,,,, and which direction to travel in,,; however …

Darwin famously described special difficulties in explaining social evolution in insects. More
than a century later, the evolution of sociality-defined broadly as cooperative group living …

A social group can only be spatially coherent if its members synchronize activities such as
foraging and resting. However, activity synchronization is costly to individuals if it requires …

Theory predicts that individuals living in fission–fusion societies, in which group members
frequently change subgroups, should modify grou** patterns in response to varying social …

Self-organizing-system approaches have shed significant light on the mechanisms
underlying synchronized movements by large groups of animals, such as shoals of fish …

From November 1994 to March 1997, I studied the ecology of the White-nosed coati (Nasua
narica; Procyonidae) in the central portion of its geographical range, in the tropical dry …

Virtually nothing in nature is uniform. Observed at the right scale, most entities are clustered
rather than evenly distributed, spatially and temporally, and this applies across domains …

Background Animal movement is a behavioral trait shaped by the need to find food and
suitable habitat, avoid predators, and reproduce. Using high-resolution tracking data, it is …