A5001276944- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Ecology and biodiversity studies
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Biomedical and Engineering Education
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
University of Exeter
2022-2025
University of Göttingen
2019-2022
German Primate Center
2019-2020
Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition
2019-2020
Abstract It has long been recognized that the patterning of social interactions within a group can give rise to structure holds very different places for individuals. Such within-group variation in sociality correlates with fitness proxies fish, birds, and mammals. Broader integration this research hampered by lack agreement on how integrate information from plethora dyadic into individual-level metrics. As step towards standardization, we collected comparative data affinitive affiliative...
Group-living animals often maintain a few very close affiliative relationships-social bonds-that can buffer them against many of the inevitable costs gregariousness. Kinship plays central role in development such social bonds. The bulk research on kin biases sociality has focused philopatric females, who typically live deeply kin-structured systems, with matrilineal dominance rank inheritance and life-long familiarity between kin. Closely related males, contrast, are usually not or familiar,...
Abstract Forming strong social bonds can lead to higher reproductive success, increased longevity, and/or infant survival in several mammal species. Given these adaptive benefits, understanding what determines partner preferences bonding is important. Maternal relatedness strongly predicts preference across many mammalian taxa. The role of paternal relatedness, however, has received relatively little attention, even though and maternal kin share the same number genes, theoretically similar...
Animal social systems are remarkably diverse. Linking this diversity to its ecological and evolutionary drivers consequences has been a major focus of biological research. Initial efforts have done within groups, populations, species. Equipped with information, researchers now turning investigations structure that comparative in nature. However, comparing networks remains considerable logistical analytical challenge. Here we present the ‘layers latency framework’, conceptual framework helps...
There is a vast and ever-accumulating amount of behavioural data on individually recognised animals, an incredible resource to shed light the ecological evolutionary drivers variation in animal behaviour. Yet, full potential such lies comparative research across taxa with distinct life histories ecologies. Substantial challenges impede systematic comparisons, one which lack persistent, accessible standardised databases. Big-team approaches building databases offer solution facilitating...
Abstract Competition over access to resources, such as food and mates, is one of the major costs associated with group living. Two socioecological factors believed drive intensity competition are size sex ratio. However, empirical evidence linking these physical aggression injuries scarce. Here, we leveraged 10 years data from free-ranging female male rhesus macaques test whether adult ratio predicted risk inter intrasexual aggression, well injury risk. We found for an optimal at which...
Abstract An individual’s social connections have strong effects on fitness. Despite this, there is pronounced among-individual variation in behaviour. This may be maintained if different types of environment-dependent fitness benefits, but this has rarely been tested. We applied network analysis to 37 years association data Soay sheep test hypothesis. Our results show that both relationship quantity (having many partners) and quality associations) are linked with survival. Crucially, the...
Affiliative social relationships have clear links to fitness in a variety of species, yet exactly why that is the case remains elusive. One major development has been recognition animals form different kinds relationships. These likely represent distinct evolutionary strategies, beneficial environments. To set stage for investigating this idea systematically, we unify theory from socio-ecology and network science forth testable predictions how ecological pressures drive adaptive variation...
Understanding the affective lives of animals has been a long-standing challenge in science. Recent technological progress infrared thermal imaging enabled researchers to monitor animals' physiological states real-time when exposed ecologically relevant situations, such as feeding company others. During social feeding, an individual's are likely vary with nature resource and perceptions competition. Previous findings chimpanzees have indicated that events perceived competitive cause decreases...
Understanding the evolution of group-living and cooperation requires information on who animals live cooperate with. Animals can with kin, non-kin or both, kinship structure influence benefits costs within-group cooperation. One aspect is composition, i.e. a group-level attribute presence kin and/or dyads in groups. Despite its putative importance, composition mammalian groups has yet to be characterized. Here, we use published literature build an initial dataset mammals, laying groundwork...
Abstract For many animals, social relationships are a key determinant of fitness. However, major gaps remain in our understanding the adaptive function, ontogeny, evolution, and mechanistic underpinnings relationships. There is vast ever-accumulating amount behavioural data on individually recognised an incredible resource to shed light onto biological basis Yet, full potential such lies comparative research across taxa with distinct life histories ecologies. Substantial challenges impede...
Abstract Competition over access to resources, such as food and mates, is believed be one of the major costs associated with group living. Two socioecological factors suggested predict intensity competition are size relative abundance sexually active individuals. However, empirical evidence linking these injuries survival scarce. Here, we leveraged 10 years data from free-ranging rhesus macaques where inflicted by conspecifics a high mortality risk. We tested if adult sex ratio predicted...
The relatedness between group members is a potential driver of variation in social structure. Relatedness predicts biases partner choice and formation strong relationships among members. As such, groups that differ their percentage non-kin dyads, i.e., kinship composition, should therefore the structure networks. Yet relationship composition remains unclear. Here, we used long-term pedigree data from population rhesus macaques to investigate connectivity, cohesion, for transmission...
The replication crisis in psychology and related sciences contributed to the adoption of large-scale research initiatives known as Big Team Science (BTS). BTS has made significant advances addressing issues replication, statistical power, diversity through use larger samples more representative cross-cultural data. However, while these collaborations hold great potential, they also introduce unique challenges their scale. Drawing on experiences from successful projects, we identified...
Members of social groups often form relationships, which are known to carry important fitness benefits. Kin selection predicts that these relationships should be prevalent between kin, yet there is increasing evidence that, in societies feature a mixture related and unrelated individuals, bonds also formed with non-kin. Nevertheless, quantitative research on non-kin remains rare, hampering our understanding their nature adaptive value. Here, we combined long-term pedigree data from...
ABSTRACT Some East African chimpanzee ( Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii ) communities, such as the Sonso chimpanzees, display an unusually limited range of tool-use, but it remains unclear whether this is due to ecological and/or cultural factors. Information on conditions and diet chimpanzees in relation neighbouring communities needed. Here, we studied three adjacent Budongo Forest (Sonso, Waibira, Kamira), presumed core area undescribed community (Mwera), Bugoma Forest. Through...
ABSTRACT Forming strong social bonds leads to higher reproductive success, increased longevity and/or infant survival in several mammal species. Given these adaptive benefits, understanding what determines partner preferences bonding is important. Maternal relatedness strongly predicts preference across many mammalian taxa. Although paternal and maternal kin share the same number of genes, theoretically similar would therefore be expected for kin, role has received relatively little...