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Boldness and Stress Responsiveness as Drivers of Nest‐Site Selection in a Ground‐Nesting Bird
Publication · January 09, 2026
Context‐dependent stress responses and their connections to fitness in a landscape of fear
Publication · January 09, 2026
Personality, body condition and breeding experience drive sociality in a facultatively social bird
Publication · January 09, 2026
Investigating associations between nematode infection and three measures of sociality in Asian elephants
Abstract
Frequent social interactions, proximity to conspecifics, and group density are main drivers of infections and parasite transmissions. However, recent theoretical and empirical studies suggest that the health benefits of sociality and gr...
Publication · January 09, 2026
Timing of maternal nest building and perinatal offspring survival in a group-living small mammal
Publication · January 09, 2026
Managing elephants in the modern world: the impact of changes in traditional handling on semi-captive Asian elephant welfare
Publication · January 09, 2026
Evaluating the personality structure of semi-captive Asian elephants living in their natural habitat
Abstract
Data on personality for long-lived, highly social wild mammals with high cognitive abilities are rare. We investigated the personality structure of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) by using a large sample of semi-captive timber elephan...
Publication · January 09, 2026