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 …

Individual identification is a crucial step to answer many questions in evolutionary biology
and is mostly performed by marking animals with tags. Such methods are well‐established …

Random graph null models have found widespread application in diverse research
communities analyzing network datasets, including social, information, and economic …

Highlights•Monarchs are being tracked on local, regional, and continental scales using
traditional and novel approaches.•Advances in behavioral assays, neural imaging and …

Recent advances in animal tracking technology have ushered in a new era in biologging.
However, the considerable size of many sophisticated biologging devices restricts their …

In this paper, the BATS project is presented, which aims to track the behavior of bats via an
ultra-low power wireless sensor network. An overview about the whole project and its parts …

Theory predicts that social interactions are dynamically linked to phenotype. Yet because
social interactions are difficult to quantify, little is known about the precise details on how …

Female bats of temperate zones often communally rear their young, which creates ideal
conditions for naive juveniles to find or learn about resources via informed adults. However …

Social evolution has led to a stunning diversity of complex social behavior, in particular in
vertebrate taxa. Thorough documentation of social interactions is crucial to study the causes …

To understand both proximate and ultimate factors shaping vocal communication, it is
fundamental to obtain reliable information of participating individuals on different levels …