There has been considerable interest among biologists in the phenomenon of non‐human
animal personality in recent years. Consistent variations among individuals in their …

The first generation of research on animal social networks was primarily aimed at
introducing the concept of social networks to the fields of animal behaviour and behavioural …

A perplexing new question that has emerged from the recent surge of interest in behavioural
syndromes or animal personalities is–why do individual animals behave consistently when …

The scientific study of networks-computer, social, and biological-has received an enormous
amount of interest in recent years. However, the network approach has been applied to the …

Intraspecific food competition exerts powerful selective forces on all animals; successful
foragers thrive relative to weaker conspecifics. Understanding competition is therefore …

The mechanisms underpinning the structure of social networks in multiple fish populations
were investigated. To our knowledge this is the first study to provide replication of social …

There are widespread records of grouping behaviour in both adult and juvenile sharks and
rays (Class Chondrichthyes, Subclass Elasmobranchii). Yet despite burgeoning descriptions …

In contrast to the substantial number of theoretical papers that have examined the
mechanisms by which cooperation may evolve, very few studies have investigated patterns …

Fish have been shown to discriminate between individuals on very general bases such as
species, body length and colour. More recently, evidence has been accumulating from a …

The processes governing social interactions and the resulting relationships among
members of colonially organized animals are largely unknown. Using network analytical …