Experience of social density during early life is associated with attraction to conspecific odour in the common vole (Microtus arvalis)

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The Evolution of Social Behaviour

“…Oliveira and Bshary (2021) propose to include interspecific relationships into social behaviour, and Bender (2021) outlines the potential for ethology to improve the evolutionary understanding of human medical problems. Original Research papers ask whether naked mole rats express caste differentiation (Siegmann et al, 2021), whether rats are aware of the ability of partners to reciprocate food donations (Schweinfurth, 2021), propose novel imaging techniques in the study of sociality (Jungwirth et al, 2021), show how collective actions can lead to diversification of behaviours (Green et al, 2021) and illustrate the importance of the early social environment for learning abilities in cichlids (Fischer et al, 2021) and later life attraction to conspecific odours (Schneeberger & Eccard, 2021). Tebbich et al, (2021) provides the first quantitative account of self‐anointment in birds.…”