Addressing important questions in animal ecology, physiology, and environmental science
often requires in situ information from wild animals. This difficulty is being overcome by …

In the 4.5 decades since Altmann (1974) published her seminal paper on the methods for
the observational study of behaviour, automated detection and analysis of social interaction …

Social network analysis has achieved remarkable popularity in disease ecology, and is
sometimes carried out without investigating spatial heterogeneity. Many investigations into …

Animal telemetry is a powerful tool for observing marine animals and the physical
environments that they inhabit, from coastal and continental shelf ecosystems to polar seas …

Compared with our cousins on the Tree of Life, humans are poor listeners. 1 Below the
lower end of human hearing lies deep infrasound: the realm of thunder and tornadoes …

Understanding how individual behavior shapes the structure and ecology of populations is
key to species conservation and management. Like many elasmobranchs, manta rays are …

Despite our critical dependence on aquatic wildlife, we lack a complete understanding of the
drivers of population stability and structure for most fish species. Social network analysis has …

Animals across vertebrate taxa form social communities and often exist as fission–fusion
groups. Central place foragers (CPF) may form groups from which they will predictably …

The occurrence of sharks on coral reefs has been well documented for decades, especially
since the advent of SCUBA diving. Despite this, it is only within the last decade that …

Background Central place foragers (CPF) rest within a central place, and theory predicts that
distance of patches from this central place sets the outer limits of the foraging arena. Many …