Fission-fusion dynamics in black-and-white ruffed lemurs may facilitate both feeding strategies and communal care of infants in a spatially and temporally variable environment

Resource seasonality and reproduction predict fission-fusion dynamics in black-and-white ruffed lemurs (Varecia variegata)

(2015) Andrea L. Baden et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Fission-fusion group dynamics in reindeer reveal an increase of cohesiveness at the beginning of the peak rut

(2014) Guillaume Body et al.   ACTA ETHOLOGICA

Behavioral and physiological responses to fruit availability of spider monkeys ranging in a small forest fragment

(2014) Rebecca Rimbach et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Roosting behavior and group decision making in 2 syntopic bat species with fission-fusion societies

(2014) D. Fleischmann et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Mean ecological conditions modulate the effects of group living and communal rearing on offspring production and survival

(2014) Luis A. Ebensperger et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Unraveling fission-fusion dynamics: how subgroup properties and dyadic interactions influence individual decisions

(2014) Gabriel Ramos-Fernández et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Fission-fusion dynamics of Guiana dolphin (Sotalia guianensis) groups at Pipa Bay, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

(2014) Diana G. Lunardi et al.   MARINE MAMMAL SCIENCE

Early social exposure in wild chimpanzees: Mothers with sons are more gregarious than mothers with daughters

(2014) Carson M. Murray et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Effects of predation risk on the grouping patterns of white-bellied spider monkeys (Ateles belzebuth belzebuth) in Western Amazonia

(2013) Andrés Link et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Nutritional correlates of the “lean season”: Effects of seasonality and frugivory on the nutritional ecology of diademed sifakas

(2013) Mitchell T. Irwin et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Reproductive correlates of social network variation in plurally breeding degus (Octodon degus)

(2013) Tina W. Wey et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Communal nesting, kinship, and maternal success in a social primate

(2013) Andrea L. Baden et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Patch size and isolation influence genetic patterns in black-and-white ruffed lemur (Varecia variegata) populations

(2013) Sheila M. Holmes et al.   CONSERVATION GENETICS

Fruiting phenology and implications of fruit availability in the fragmented Ngele Forest Complex, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

(2013) L.A. Hart et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Ecology and sociality in a multilevel society: Ecological determinants of spatial cohesion in hamadryas baboons

(2012) Amy L. Schreier et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Social network correlates of food availability in an endangered population of killer whales, Orcinus orca

(2012) Emma A. Foster et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Dolphins restructure social system after reduction of commercial fisheries

(2012) Ina C. Ansmann et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Forest elephants: fission–fusion and social arenas

(2012) Vicki Fishlock et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Spider Monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi yucatenensis) Cope with the Negative Consequences of Hurricanes Through Changes in Diet, Activity Budget, and Fission–Fusion Dynamics

(2012) Colleen M. Schaffner et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Fission–Fusion Behavior in Yunnan Snub-Nosed Monkeys (Rhinopithecus bieti) in Yunnan, China

(2012) Baoping Ren et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Direct fitness of group living mammals varies with breeding strategy, climate and fitness estimates

(2012) Luis A. Ebensperger et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Helpers at the Nest Improve Late-Life Offspring Performance: Evidence from a Long-Term Study and a Cross-Foster Experiment

(2012) Lyanne Brouwer et al.   PLoS One

Grouping and fission–fusion dynamics in Australian snubfin and Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins

(2011) Guido J. Parra et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Fission–Fusion Dynamics in Southern Muriquis (Brachyteles arachnoides) in Continuous Brazilian Atlantic Forest

(2011) Rebecca C. Coles et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Fitness consequences of maternal rearing strategies in warthogs: influence of group size and composition

(2011) A. M. White et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Collective decision-making and fission-fusion dynamics: a conceptual framework

(2011) Cédric Sueur et al.   OIKOS

Spatiotemporal environmental variation, risk aversion, and the evolution of cooperative breeding as a bet-hedging strategy

(2011) D. R. Rubenstein   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bats are able to maintain long-term social relationships despite the high fission-fusion dynamics of their groups

(2011) G. Kerth et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The dynamics of social networks among female Asian elephants

(2011) Shermin de Silva et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

A brief guide to model selection, multimodel inference and model averaging in behavioural ecology using Akaike’s information criterion

(2010) Matthew R. E. Symonds et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Grouping patterns in warthogs, Phacochoerus africanus: is communal care of young enough to explain sociality?

(2010) Angela White et al.   BEHAVIOUR

Adult predation risk drives shifts in parental care strategies: a long-term study

(2010) Kim Jaatinen et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Ecological determinants of herd size in the Thornicroft’s giraffe of Zambia

(2009) Fred B. Bercovitch et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Sex differences in the movement patterns of free-ranging chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii): foraging and border checking

(2009) Lucy A. Bates et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Association networks in spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi)

(2009) Gabriel Ramos-Fernández et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Fissioning minimizes ranging costs in spider monkeys: a multiple-level approach

(2009) Norberto Asensio et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Influences on dusky dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obscurus) fission-fusion dynamics in Admiralty Bay, New Zealand

(2009) Heidi C. Pearson   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Cyclicity in the structure of female baboon social networks

(2009) S. P. Henzi et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Group-size-mediated habitat selection and group fusion–fission dynamics of bison under predation risk

(2009) Daniel Fortin et al.   ECOLOGY

Group dynamics and local population density dependence of group size in the Pyrenean chamois, Rupicapra pyrenaica

(2008) Dominique Pépin et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Social and ecological determinants of fission–fusion dynamics in the spotted hyaena

(2008) Jennifer E. Smith et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Grouping Patterns and Competition Among Female Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii at Ngogo, Kibale National Park, Uganda

(2008) Monica L. Wakefield   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY