A key goal of conservation is to protect biodiversity by supporting the long-term persistence
of viable, natural populations of wild species. Conservation practice has long been guided …

Many marine populations and ecosystems have experienced strong historical depletions,
yet reports of recoveries are increasing. Here, we review the growing research on marine …

Ungulate migrations are assumed to stem from learning and cultural transmission of
information regarding seasonal distribution of forage, but this hypothesis has not been …

In the songs and bubble feeding of humpback whales; in young killer whales learning to
knock a seal from an ice floe in the same way their mother does; and in the use of sea …

Animal culture, defined as “information or behavior—shared within a community—which is
acquired from conspecifics through some form of social learning”(1), can have important …

The popularity of bioacoustics for threatened species monitoring has surged. Large volumes
of acoustic data can be collected autonomously and remotely with minimal human effort. The …

Migrating animals may benefit from social or experiential learning, yet whether and how
these learning processes interact or change over time to produce observed migration …

Human evolution has clearly been shaped by gene–culture interactions, and there is
growing evidence that similar processes also act on populations of non-human animals …

The emergence of technology has been suggested to coincide with scarcity of staple
resources that led to innovations in the form of tool-assisted strategies to diversify or …

Several populations of odontocete cetaceans, including at least 19 species, have modified
their behavior and adapted to foraging in association with trawlers. We review information …