When living in a group, individuals have to make trade‐offs, and compromise, in order to
balance the advantages and disadvantages of group life. Strategies that enable individuals …

Besides focusing on the adaptive significance of collective movements, it is crucial to study
the mechanisms and dynamics of decision-making processes at the individual level …

The scientific study of networks-computer, social, and biological-has received an enormous
amount of interest in recent years. However, the network approach has been applied to the …

In group-living species, individuals gain significant advantages from establishing an
extensive network of social relationships. This results in complex organizations that are …

Sociality exists in an extraordinary range of ecological settings. For individuals to accrue the
benefits associated with social interactions, they are required to maintain a degree of spatial …

Almost all animal social groups show some form of fission–fusion dynamics, whereby group
membership is not spatio‐temporally stable. These dynamics have major implications at …

Of all the non-human primate species studied by researchers, the rhesus macaque (Macaca
mulatta) is likely the most widely used across biological disciplines. Rhesus macaques have …

Current understanding of collective behaviour in nature is based largely on models that
assume that identical agents obey the same interaction rules, but in reality interactions may …

Animals living in groups will profit most from sociality if they coordinate the timing and nature
of their activities. Self-organizing mechanisms can underlie coordination in large animal …

Predation risk is often associated with group formation in prey, but recent advances in
methods for analysing the social structure of animal societies make it possible to quantify the …