The evolution of territoriality reflects the balance between the benefit and cost of
monopolising a resource. While the benefit of territoriality is generally intuitive (improved …

While for decades behavioural ecologists have studied the costs and benefits of group
living, solitary living has received little attention. Instead, it was assumed to be the default …

Most animals confine their activities to a discrete home range, long assumed to reflect the
fitness benefits of obtaining spatial knowledge about the landscape. However, few empirical …

Social groups typically form due to delayed dispersal of adult offspring when no
opportunities for independent breeding exist, or the costs of dispersal are higher than the …

Movement provides a link between individual behavioral ecology and the spatial and
temporal variation in an individual's landscape. Individual variation in movement traits is an …

Animals with large energy requirements are forced to optimize their hunting strategy, which
may result in differentiation of the diet between sexes and across seasons. Here, we …

Warming‐induced range shifts along elevational and latitudinal gradients have been
observed in several species from various taxa. The mobility and behavioral plasticity of large …

Abstract Information on site fidelity and ranging patterns of wild animals is critical to
understand how they use their environment and guide conservation and management …

Resource heterogeneity across the landscape prompts animals to make behavioral tradeoffs
to survive and reproduce. Behavioral thermoregulation can buffer organisms from thermal …

An individual's home range determines its access to resources, significantly influencing its
fitness. Food availability and population density are considered to be among the primary …