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Experimental field evidence that out-group threats influence within-group behavior.
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- Dwarf mongooses pre-emptively alter their behaviour relative to the threat posed by different rival groups.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
- Oxytocin activity is not linked to out-group prosociality in wild bonobos.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Response to collective threat: Russian invasion unifies Ukrainians across ethnic, linguistic, religious and geographic lines.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- The role of between-group signaling in the evolution of primate ornamentation.Evolution letters · 2024Article
- Effects of Herd Establishment Time and Structure on Group-on-Individual Aggression Intensity in Farm Pigs.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Increased alertness and moderate ingroup cohesion in bonobos' response to outgroup cues.PloS one · 2024Article
- A positive effect of cumulative intergroup threat on reproductive success.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Chimpanzees make tactical use of high elevation in territorial contexts.PLoS biology · 2023Article
- Behavioural, demographic and fitness consequences of social instability in cooperatively breeding dwarf mongoose groups.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Fitness consequences of outgroup conflict.eLife · 2022Review
- Parochial cooperation in wild chimpanzees: a model to explain the evolution of parochial altruism.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Review
- Variation between species, populations, groups and individuals in the fitness consequences of out-group conflict.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Review
- Extended and cumulative effects of experimentally induced intergroup conflict in a cooperatively breeding mammal.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- The dynamics of social cohesion in response to simulated intergroup conflict in banded mongooses.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Experimental evidence for delayed post-conflict management behaviour in wild dwarf mongooses.eLife · 2021Article
- Impacts of additional noise on the social interactions of a cooperatively breeding fish.Royal Society open science · 2021Article
- Uniting against a common enemy: Perceived outgroup threat elicits ingroup cohesion in chimpanzees.PloS one · 2021Article
- Interactions with conspecific outsiders as drivers of cognitive evolution.Nature communications · 2020Review
- Intergroup aggression in meerkats.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Experimental evidence that intruder and group member attributes affect outgroup defence and associated within-group interactions in a social fish.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
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Abstract
In social species, conspecific outsiders present various threats to groups and their members. These out-group threats are predicted to affect subsequent within-group interactions (e.g., affiliation and aggression) and individual behavior (e.g., foraging and vigilance decisions). However, experimental investigations of such consequences are rare, especially in natural conditions. We used field-based call playbacks and fecal presentations on habituated wild dwarf mongooses (
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