Kay E. Holekamp

TL;DR: In this paper, a new framework for integrating current knowledge on fission-fusion dynamics emerged from a fundamental rethinking of the term fission fusion away from its current general use as a label for a particular modal type of social system.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact of environmental and socio-ecological factors on livestock depredation by carnivores in pastoral villages adjacent to the Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya for a 14-month period.

TL;DR: An experiment to inquire whether specific neuroanatomical or socioecological measures predict success at solving a novel technical problem among species in the mammalian order Carnivora found that species with larger brains relative to their body mass were more successful at opening the boxes.

TL;DR: Study of the proximal factors influencing dispersal from the natal site in two free—living populations of Belding's ground squirrels in the Sierra Nevada of California found dispersal is apparently not caused by changes in juveniles' response thresholds to conspecific aggression or by juveniles' attempts to avoid members of their family units, nearest neighbors, or otherMembers of their local populations.

TL;DR: Female reproductive success varies with social rank in many gregarious mammals, including primates, ungulates and carnivores, and fertility among high-ranking females appeared to be less vulnerable to fluctuations in the food supply than was that among low- ranking females.