ABSTRACT A key benefit of grouping in prey species is access to social information,
including information about the presence of predators. Larger groups of prey animals …

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 …

Many prey species have evolved collective responses to avoid predation. They rapidly
transfer information about potential predators to trigger and coordinate escape waves …

Individuals can reduce sampling costs and increase foraging efficiency by using information
provided by others. One simple form of social information use is delayed local enhancement …

Learning can enable rapid behavioural responses to changing conditions but can depend
on the social context and behavioural phenotype of the individual. Learning rates have been …

Group living can lead to kleptoparasitism, the theft of resources by competitors. Under such
conditions, foragers may alter their behavior to minimize competition. However, it is unclear …

Carcasses are patchily distributed and often short‐lived resources, placing scavenging
animals under pressure to locate them before they rot or are depleted by competitors …

Social learning enables adaptive information acquisition provided that it is not random but
selective. To understand species typical decision-making and to trace the evolutionary …

Animals can use a variety of sources of information to learn about local predation threats,
including the behavior of conspecifics. Socially-acquired information about predation risk …

Sociality has evolved multiple times in animals. Social living is a balance between the
advantages and disadvantages of the increased presence of conspecifics. These costs and …