Animals often live and forage in groups, though the extent of social organisation varies dramatically among taxa (Ward & Webster, 2016). The key to understanding the form, diversity and maintenance of group living lies in enumerating the balance of benefits and costs across two broad ecological contexts; anti-predator defence and foraging (Krause et al., 2002). In the former case, individuals in
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