Social animals have to coordinate joint movements to maintain group cohesion, but the latter
is often compromised by diverging individual interests. A widespread behavioral mechanism …

Early hominids searched for dispersed food sources in a patchy, uncertain environment, and
modern humans encounter equivalent spatial–temporal coordination problems on a daily …

Objectives Group living can be advantageous, but for motile organisms, collective
movements become necessary. We are just beginning to understand the many ways that …

A substantial body of work has addressed why animals live in groups. However, few studies
have described how group-living vertebrates are able to coordinate their actions and make …

The success of group foraging in primates is not only determined by ecological and social
factors. It is also influenced by cognition. Group foraging success is constrained, for …

When foraging in a social group, individuals are faced with the choice of sampling their
environment directly or exploiting the discoveries of others. The evolutionary dynamics of …

Many animal species live as a group and must therefore move as such. Several authors
have suggested that the mechanisms underlying collective movements in primate species …

Shared-decision making is beneficial for the maintenance of group-living. However, little is
known about whether consensus decision-making follows similar processes across different …

Primate groups need to remain coordinated in their activities and collectively decide when
and where to travel if they are to accrue the benefits and minimize the costs of sociality. The …

Individuals of gregarious species that initiate collective movement require mechanisms of
cohesion in order to maintain advantages of group living. One fundamental question in the …