Although social behavior in vertebrates spans a continuum from solitary to highly social, taxa
are often dichotomized as either 'social'or 'non‐social'. We argue that this social dichotomy is …

How sociality evolves and is maintained remains a key question in evolutionary biology.
Most studies to date have focused on insects, birds, and mammals but data from a wider …

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 …

In recent decades, husbandry techniques have generally improved to better facilitate the
general health and welfare of captive reptiles, although many harmful practices remain. In …

Covering diverse species from garter snakes to Komodo dragons, this book delves into the
evolutionary origins and fascinating details of the mysterious social lives of reptiles. Reptiles …

Lizards, snakes and amphisbaenians (worm lizards) form a monophyletic group (the
squamate reptiles), which contains 9,712 species (Uetz & Hošek, 2015) in 61 families …

For ectotherms such as lizards, the importance of behavioural thermoregulation in avoiding
thermal extremes is well‐established and is increasingly acknowledged in modern studies …

Burrowing is an important form of locomotion in reptiles, but no study has examined the
energetic cost of burrowing for reptiles. This is significant because burrowing is the most …

Individual differences in growth and size of vertebrates often represent adaptive, plastic
responses to contrasts in ecological conditions. Recent studies show that vertebrates can …

Research on social behaviour has largely concentrated on birds and mammals in visually
active, cooperatively breeding groups (although such systems are relatively rare) and …