Studying the coevolutionary dynamics between bacteria and the bacteriophage viruses that
infect them is critical to understanding both microbial diversity and ecosystem functioning …

A reduction in individual vigilance with an increase in group size is one of the most
frequently reported relationships in the study of animal behaviour. It has been argued that …

Social organisation in animals takes many forms. It includes assemblages of territorial
animals, dominance hierarchies and social groups, among other things. The basic tenet that …

The author shares some lessons learned from a lifetime of working with and thinking about
groups. Three types of groups are described, including the impact they have on the …

Avoiding Attack discusses the diversity of mechanisms by which prey avoid predator attacks
and explores how such defensive mechanisms have evolved through natural selection. It …

For many years, field studies of birds have suggested that territorial individuals may be
attracted to one another, forming territorial clusters independent of resource distributions …

Fish schooling is a phenomenon of long-lasting interest in ethology and ecology, widely
spread across taxa and ecological contexts, and has attracted much interest from statistical …

Inducible defences against predators evolve because they reduce the rate of direct
predation, but this benefit is offset by the cost (if any) of defence. If antipredator responses …

Predator-prey interactions are vital to the stability of many ecosystems [1]. Yet, few studies
have considered how they are mediated due to substantial challenges in quantifying …

Schools of fish, flocks of birds, and swarms of insects are examples of three-dimensional
aggregation. Covering both invertebrate and vertebrate species, the authors investigate this …