Animal vigilance is concerned with the monitoring of potential threats caused by predators
and conspecifics. Researchers have argued that threats are part of a landscape of fear …

Perceiving, evaluating and reacting towards conspecifics' emotional states are important
challenges of social group living. Emotional contagion describes an alignment of emotional …

Glucocorticoids mediate physiological processes to obtain energy, presenting daily variation
in basal levels that may be related to behavioural activity pattern. Identification of plasticity in …

Simple Summary Research suggests that contagious yawning evolved to synchronize
activity and vigilance within groups. To date, yawning has shown to be contagious in a wide …

The number of welfare-oriented studies is increasing in animals under human care,
including odontocetes. However, validated welfare indicators are lacking for captive …

Animals constantly respond to stimuli from their surroundings, showing individual behavioral
and endocrine differences upon perceived challenging and/or threatening stimuli. The …

Behavioral responses of captive animals to the presence of visitors in zoos and wildlife
parks can be interpreted as signs of negative (disturbance), neutral or positive (enrichment) …

Background Predator avoidance can have immense impacts on fitness, yet individual
variation in the expression of anti-predator behaviour remains largely unexplained. Existing …

The neuropeptide oxytocin influences mammalian social bonding by facilitating the building
and maintenance of parental, sexual, and same‐sex social relationships. However, we do …

Highlights•We examined allopreening contagion using a promising noninvasive
method.•We compared behaviours in postpreening versus matched-control observations.• …