Individuals within social groups often show consistent differences in behaviour across time
and context. Such interindividual differences and the evolutionary challenge they present …

Starvation is defined as a failure to consume food following an extrinsic limitation. By
focusing on arthropods, I provide here a detailed review of how starvation affects foraging …

Describing the factors that shape collective behaviour is central to our understanding of
animal societies. Countless studies have demonstrated an effect of group size in the …

It has come to the authors' attention that the data on spider boldness reported in this paper
appear to contain irregularities in the form of an excess of duplicated values. These …

Establishing how collective behaviour emerges is central to our understanding of animal
societies. Previous research has highlighted how universal interaction rules shape collective …

Behavioural ecologists often note that one or a few group members appear to shape the
collective behaviour of social groups differentially. Our understanding of these keystone …

Deciphering the mechanisms involved in shaping social structure is key to a deeper
understanding of the evolutionary processes leading to sociality. Individual specialization …

Collective personalities refer to temporally consistent behavioral differences between
distinct social groups. This phenomenon is a ubiquitous and key feature of social groups in …

Social animals are extraordinarily diverse and ecologically abundant. In understanding the
success of complex animal societies, task differentiation has been identified as a central …

The behavioural composition of a group and the dynamics of social interactions can both
influence how social animals work collectively. For example, individuals exhibiting certain …