In the 4.5 decades since Altmann (1974) published her seminal paper on the methods for
the observational study of behaviour, automated detection and analysis of social interaction …

Animal 'personality', defined as repeatable inter-individual differences in behaviour, is a
concept in biology that faces intense controversy. Critics argue that the field is riddled with …

New technologies have vastly increased the available data on animal movement and
behaviour. Consequently, new methods deciphering the spatial and temporal interactions …

Determining the small-scale movement patterns of marine vertebrates usually requires
invasive active acoustic tagging or in-water monitoring, with the inherent behavioural …

Understanding how individual behavior shapes the structure and ecology of populations is
key to species conservation and management. Like many elasmobranchs, manta rays are …

Many terrestrial and aquatic taxa are known to form periodic aggregations, whether across
life history or solely during specific life stages, that are generally governed by the availability …

Background Central place foragers (CPF) rest within a central place, and theory predicts that
distance of patches from this central place sets the outer limits of the foraging arena. Many …

Social foraging, where animals forage in groups, takes many forms but is less studied in
marine predators as measuring social associations in the wild is challenging. We used …

Highlights•We used acoustic telemetry to record fine scale social dynamics in reef manta
rays.•Social affiliations were assorted into spatial communities.•Social structuring persisted …

Groups or aggregations of animals can result from individuals being attracted to a common
resource or because of synchronised patterns of daily or seasonal activity. Although mostly …