sociality
- Experience, but not age, is associated with volumetric mushroom body expansion in solitary alkali bees
Summary: Solitary bees experience neuroanatomical growth in response to social experience, but similar changes do not occur with age. This reveals how neuroplasticity may be related to social evolution.
- Behavioral and physiological evidence that increasing group size ameliorates the impacts of social disturbance
Summary: Social stability is vital for group productivity and long-term persistence. Here, both behavioral and physiological evidence conveys that larger groups are less susceptible to social disturbance.
- It's cool to be dominant: social status alters short-term risks of heat stress
Summary: Socially dominant birds thermoregulate more precisely than subordinates, maintaining wider thermal safety margins. Higher vulnerability of subordinates to heat stress could have implications for social-group dynamics under climate change.