BACKGROUND Culture—the inheritance of an array of behavioral traditions through social
learning from others—was once thought specific to humans. Recent and accumulating …

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 …

Although coexistence with wildlife is a key goal of conservation, little is known about it or
how to study it. By coexistence we mean a sustainable though dynamic state in which …

Simple Summary The zoological community continually looks for new ways to improve the
management of the animals under their professional care. This includes finding …

Land free of direct anthropogenic disturbance is considered essential for achieving
biodiversity conservation outcomes but is rapidly eroding. In response, many nations are …

Leading up to the Convention on Biological Diversity Conference of the Parties 15, there is
momentum around setting bold conservation targets. Yet, it remains unclear how much of …

Abstract We implemented Machine Learning (ML) techniques to advance the study of sperm
whale (Physeter macrocephalus) bioacoustics. This entailed employing Convolutional …

A mere few decades ago, culture was thought a unique human attribute. Evidence to the
contrary accumulated through the latter part of the twentieth century and has exploded in the …

This comprehensive introductory text integrates evolutionary, ecological, and demographic
perspectives with new results from field studies and contemporary noninvasive molecular …

The zone of latent solutions (ZLS) hypothesis provides an alternative approach to explaining
cultural patterns in primates and many other animals. According to the ZLS hypothesis, non …