Provisioning of juveniles is a defining characteristic of human life history. Human children
are also unusual in cooperating with their siblings, mothers and other adults in the exchange …

The mammalian gut is home to a diverse community of microbes. Advances in technology
over the past two decades have allowed us to examine this community, the gut microbiota, in …

Co-evolution in context: The importance of studying gut microbiomes in wild animals -
Microbiome Science and Medicine - Volume 1, Issue 1 (2013) - PSJD - Yadda Skip to main …

In all mammals, growth, development, pregnancy, and lactation increase nutritional
demands. Although primate field studies tend to focus on shifts in activity and diet as …

In a rapidly changing landscape highly impacted by anthropogenic activities, the great apes
are facing new challenges to coexist with humans. For chimpanzee communities inhabiting …

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) are ecologically flexible omnivores with broad diets
comprising many plant and animal foods, although they mostly eat fruit (including figs). Like …

The capacity for strategic thinking about the payoff-relevant actions of conspecifics is not
well understood across species. We use game theory to make predictions about choices …

One of the defining features of human evolution is our demographic success. As of August
2019, the world's population exceeds 7.7 billion. The human capacity for population growth …

Joint travel is a common social activity of many group-living animals, which requires some
degree of coordination, sometimes through communication signals. Here, we studied the …

Despite the spread of human-impacted wildlife habitats, few studies have examined how
animals adapt their socioecology in agricultural–forest ecotones. Anthropogenic processes …