One mystery many biologists want to solve is how complexity develops in nature. And among the many social systems in the natural world, multilevel societies stand out for their complexity. Individuals ...

Individual superb fairy-wrens help their families and friends before helping strangers, suggesting these songbirds recognize which social tier individual birds belong to A pair of adult superb ...

Multilevel societies are among the most complex societies known in nature. They are organised like Russian nesting dolls – individuals belong to family groups, which belong to clans, which belong to ...

Superb fairy-wrens are facing "imminent danger," and a well-studied population in Canberra could go extinct in the next 30 years if we don't urgently curb greenhouse gas emissions, according to an ...

The superb fairy-wren is likely to be extinct within 30-40 years, researchers from the Australian National University have found. In a new study published in the journal Nature, the research team said ...

To work out your personality type, you can take a test. To do the same for a bird, you might analyse its song. That's according to a study published today in Royal Society Open Science, which claims ...