The last several decades of research on avian cognition have revealed surprising parallels
between the abilities of birds—most notably corvids—and great apes. Parrots, albeit far less …

Mobbing is an important anti-predator behavior where prey harass and attack a predator to
lower the immediate and long-term risk posed by it, warn others, and communicate about the …

Influential theories of the evolution of cognition and cooperation posit that tracking
information about others allows individuals to adjust their social associations strategically, re …

Current understanding of collective behaviour in nature is based largely on models that
assume that identical agents obey the same interaction rules, but in reality interactions may …

Collective behaviour is typically thought to arise from individuals following fixed interaction
rules. The possibility that interaction rules may change under different circumstances has …

Local social interactions among individuals in animal groups generate collective behavior,
allowing groups to adjust to changing conditions. Historically, scientists from different …

The rapid, cohesive turns of bird flocks are one of the most vivid examples of collective
behaviour in nature, and have attracted much research. Three-dimensional imaging …

Animal alarm calls can contain detailed information about a predator's threat, and
heterospecific eavesdropping on these signals creates vast communication networks. While …

Collective responses to threats occur throughout the animal kingdom but little is known
about the cognitive processes underpinning them. Antipredator mobbing is one such …

Numerical competence—the ability to represent, discriminate, and process numerical
quantity information—is a widespread cognitive ability in animals that influences survival …