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Personality heterophily and friendship as drivers for successful cooperation | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Cooperation is widespread and arguably a pivotal evolutionary force in maintaining animal societies. Yet, proximately, what underlying motivators drive individuals to cooperate remains relatively unclear. Since ‘free-riders’ can exploit the benefits by ...

Does novelty influence the foraging decisions of a scavenger?

Behavioral, physiological, and genetic drivers of coping in a non-human primateAnimals experience stressful situations, from predation to social conflicts, but mostly deal with them successfully. This adaptive mechanism, coping, …

Prosociality in a despotic society

Even in an extremely hierarchical monkey society, individuals help each otherInsights from a new study by Debottam Bhattacharjee, Jorg Massen and colleagues have consequences for the understanding of the evolution of cooperative behaviours.

Kan je praten met dieren? gemist? Start met kijken op NPO StartStefano Keizers vraagt zich af of je kunt praten met dieren. Het team wetenschappers bouwt een spraakcomputer voor honden. Een talkshow met honden zal hierdoor tot de mogelijkheden behoren.

Adjustment in the point-following behaviour of free-ranging dogs – roles of social petting and informative-deceptive nature of cues - Animal Cognition

‘Bolder’ together — response to human social cues in groups of free-ranging dogs

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