Despite the wide range of functional roles performed by marine sponges they are still poorly
represented in many research, monitoring and conservation programmes. The aim of this …

Bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay, Australia, live in a large, unbounded society with a fission–
fusion grouping pattern. Potential cognitive demands include the need to develop social …

What role does playful behaviour and playful thought take in animal and human
development? How does play relate to creativity and, in turn, to innovation? Unravelling the …

When published in 1980, Benjamin B. Beck's Animal Tool Behavior was the first volume to
catalog and analyze the complete literature on tool use and manufacture in non-human …

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 …

Animal Traditions maintains that the assumption that the selection of genes supplies both a
sufficient explanation of the evolution and a true description of its course is, despite its …

In Shark Bay, wild bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.) apparently use marine sponges as
foraging tools. We demonstrate that genetic and ecological explanations for this behavior …

Despite numerous attempts to define animal tool use over the past four decades, the
definition remains elusive and the behaviour classification somewhat subjective. Here, we …

Bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops cf. aduncus, in Shark Bay, Western Australia exhibit the most
complex alliances known outside of humans. Advances in our understanding of these …

Much of our understanding of the social complexity and intelligence of terrestrial animals
such as chimpanzees has been a direct result of long-term studies. Compiled observations …