BACKGROUND The social environment shapes human health, producing strong
relationships between social factors, disease risk, and survival. The strength of these links …

Social nonhuman animals are powerful models for studying underlying factors related to
lifelong health outcomes following early life adversities (ELAs). ELAs can be linked to …

Primate offspring often depend on their mothers well beyond the age of weaning, and
offspring that experience maternal death in early life can suffer substantial reductions in …

Adverse conditions in early life can have negative consequences for adult health and
survival in humans and other animals. What variables mediate the relationship between …

Biodiversity conservation strategies may prioritise certain values of nature over others.
Whilst there will likely always be a need for compromise in conservation planning, the …

The mother-offspring relationship is paramount in most mammals and infant survival often
depends on maternal investment. In species with prolonged periods of development or co …

When their mothers die, chimpanzees often adopt younger vulnerable siblings who survive
with their care. This phenomenon has been widely reported, but few studies provide details …

The importance of animal behavior to successful wildlife translocations has been
acknowledged in recent decades, and it has been increasingly considered and more …

The biological embedding model (BEM) suggests that fitness costs of maternal loss arise
when early-life experience embeds long-term alterations to hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal …

Mothers are crucial for mammals' survival before nutritional independence, but many social
mammals reside with their mothers long after. In these species the social adversity caused …