Bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay, Australia, live in a large, unbounded society with a fission–
fusion grou** pattern. Potential cognitive demands include the need to develop social …

Dolphins live in complex social grou**s with a wide variety of social strategies. In this
chapter we investigate the role that differing habitats and ecological conditions have played …

The book aims to integrate our understanding of mammalian societies into a novel synthesis
that is relevant to behavioural ecologists, ecologists, and anthropologists. It adopts a …

Animals lead rich social lives. They care for one another, compete for resources, and mate.
Within a society, social relationships may be simple or complex and usually vary …

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 …

Famed in story as" the great leviathans," sperm whales are truly creatures of extremes.
Giants among all whales, they also have the largest brains of any creature on Earth. Males …

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 …

Bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops cf. aduncus, in Shark Bay, Western Australia exhibit the most
complex alliances known outside of humans. Advances in our understanding of these …

Individual role specialization during group hunting is extremely rare in mammals.
Observations on two groups of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in Cedar Key …

Intraspecific group hunting has received considerable attention because of the close links
between cooperative behaviour and its cognitive demands. Accordingly, comparisons …