Abstract 450 million years of evolution have given chondrichthyans (sharks, rays and allies)
ample time to adapt perfectly to their respective everyday life challenges and cognitive …

Simple Summary The study of animal personality is important to conserve animals because
it can help in selecting the most appropriate individuals to be released into the wild …

Elasmobranchs are highly diverse in movement, sensory capacity, and behavioural
responses to the environment, leading to differences in the function and nature of …

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 …

Optimal selection of foraging habitats is key to survival, but it remains unclear how naïve
individuals are able to locate patchily‐distributed resources and maximize energy gain in …

Tourism-related feeding of wildlife can result in detrimental, human-induced changes to the
spatial distribution, social behaviour and health of target species. The feeding of sharks as …

An understanding of behaviour is used in zoos, laboratories and agriculture to reduce
stressful aspects of the captive environment for animals. While fish are one of the most …

The average mammal or bird has a roughly ten times larger brain relative to body size than
the average ectotherm vertebrate. It has been surprisingly challenging to determine how this …

Social learning is widespread in the animal kingdom and is involved in behaviours from
navigation and predator avoidance to mate choice and foraging. While social learning has …

The whale shark is the world's largest fish that forms predictable aggregations across its
range, many of which support tourism industries. The largest non-captive provisioned whale …