Cheetahs don’t usually come to mind when you think about animals that live in packs – but they do form small groups called coalitions that play an important role in cheetah society.

Underlying this is a set of theoretical developments examining why animals live in groups in the first place and why groups are of a particular size. Here, we focus on the question of "what ...

BBC Bitesize takes a look at four animals who live in the wildest of environments ... keep warm somehow and they do this by gathering in groups to share the warmth. To make it fair, the penguins ...

Organisms as diverse as amoebas and elephants frequently live in groups. Why do these and many other animals form complex societies? Aa Aa Aa Organisms are inherently competitive, yet cooperation ...

No, these aren't the trendy new buzzwords of some marketing campaign, but the strange names of certain animals, when in groups. Because some creatures, when there's more than one, have some very ...

They cover their long tails with smelly secretions and wave them in the air to determine which animal is more powerful. Ring-tailed lemurs live in groups known as troops. These groups may include ...

professor in the Department of Biology teaches courses on introductory biology and animal behavior research interests include animal social behavior and animal sociality (how and why animals live in ...