ArticleBiology letters2022
Forced proximity promotes the formation of enduring cooperative relationships in vampire bats.
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- Social network dynamics under experimental manipulations of predation risk and food abundance in wild rock hyraxes.The Journal of animal ecology · 2026Pooled it
- Vocal convergence during formation of social relationships in vampire bats.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Long-term cooperative relationships among vampire bats are not strongly predicted by their initial interactions.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2024Article
- Hierarchically embedded scales of movement shape the social networks of vampire bats.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Mechanisms of collective learning: how can animal groups improve collective performance when repeating a task?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
- Shared stressful experiences affect social proximity in Merino sheep.Biology letters · 2023Article
- Forced proximity promotes the formation of enduring cooperative relationships in vampire bats.Biology letters · 2022Article
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Abstract
Spatial assortment can be both a cause and a consequence of cooperation. Proximity promotes cooperation when individuals preferentially help nearby partners, and conversely, cooperation drives proximity when individuals move towards more cooperative partners. However, these two causal directions are difficult to distinguish with observational data. Here, we experimentally test if forcing randomly selected pairs of equally familiar female common vampire bats (
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