Individuals with more or stronger social bonds experience enhanced survival and reproduction
in various species, though the mechanisms mediating these effects are unclear. Social …

Postnatal development is protracted relative to lifespan in many primates, including modern
humans (Homo sapiens), facilitating the acquisition of key motor, communication and social …

The biological embedding model (BEM) suggests that fitness costs of maternal loss arise
when early-life experience embeds long-term alterations to hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (…

The wounding or death of a conspecific has been shown to elicit varied behavioral responses
throughout thanatology. Recently, a number of reports have presented contentious …

… Author links open overlay panel Patrick J. Tkaczynski a b , Verena Behringer a c , Corinne
Y. Ackermann d , Pawel Fedurek e , Barbara Fruth f g , Cédric Girard-Buttoz a b , Catherine …

Signalling plays an important role in mediating social interactions in many animal species.
For example, during approaches certain species produce ‘greetings’, which can take the form …

Consistent individual differences in social phenotypes have been observed in many animal
species. Changes in demographics, dominance hierarchies or ecological factors, such as …

… Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Patrick J. Tkaczynski,
Department of Primatology, Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, …

Mechanisms of inheritance remain poorly defined for many fitness-mediating traits, especially
in long-lived animals with protracted development. Using 6,123 urinary samples from 170 …

Strategic microhabitat selection allows animals in seasonally cold environments to reduce
homeostatic energy costs, particularly overnight when thermoregulatory demands are greatest…