Consistent individual behavioral variation: what do we know and where are we going?

KL Laskowski, CC Chang, K Sheehy… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The study of individual behavioral variation, sometimes called animal personalities or
behavioral types, is now a well-established area of research in behavioral ecology and …

Animal social network theory can help wildlife conservation

L Snijders, DT Blumstein, CR Stanley… - Trends in ecology & …, 2017 - cell.com
Many animals preferentially associate with certain other individuals. This social structuring
can influence how populations respond to changes to their environment, thus making …

Constructing, conducting and interpreting animal social network analysis

DR Farine, H Whitehead - Journal of animal ecology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Animal social networks are descriptions of social structure which, aside from their intrinsic
interest for understanding sociality, can have significant bearing across many fields of …

[HTML][HTML] Consistent individual differences in the social phenotypes of wild great tits, Parus major

LM Aplin, JA Firth, DR Farine, B Voelkl, RA Crates… - Animal Behaviour, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•Social networks may be useful to quantify individual differences in sociality.•We
test this by measuring individual consistency in replicated social networks.•A population of …

Differences in resource acquisition, not allocation, mediate the relationship between behaviour and fitness: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

E Haave‐Audet, AA Besson, S Nakagawa… - Biological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Within populations, individuals often show repeatable variation in behaviour, called 'animal
personality'. In the last few decades, numerous empirical studies have attempted to …

Knowledgeable lemurs become more central in social networks

IG Kulahci, AA Ghazanfar, DI Rubenstein - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
Strong relationships exist between social connections and information transmission [1–9],
where individuals' network position plays a key role in whether or not they acquire novel …

Current directions in animal social networks

DP Croft, SK Darden, TW Wey - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•We review the application of social network theory to non-human animals.•Social
network theory provides a framework to link individuals to populations.•Questions can be …

Hanging out in the outback: the use of social hotspots by wild zebra finches

H Loning, R Fragueira, M Naguib… - Journal of Avian …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The social and spatial organisation of avian societies is often complex and dynamic with
individuals socialising with others in a local population. Although social interactions can …

Communication in animal social networks: a missing link?

L Snijders, M Naguib - Advances in the Study of Behavior, 2017 - Elsevier
Social interactions are central in the lives of many animals. Social partners can lower
individual stress levels (Rault, 2012), a process known in humans and primates as social …

When personality matters: personality and social structure in wild bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus

BD López - Animal Behaviour, 2020 - Elsevier
There is increasing evidence that animal personality can affect many aspects of an
individual's behaviour, life history and fitness. However, there have been few studies about …