Animals within social groups respond to costs and benefits of sociality by adjusting the proportion of time they spend in close proximity to other individuals in the group (cohesion). Variation in cohesion between individuals, in turn, shapes important group‐level processes such as subgroup formation and fission–fusion dynamics. Although critical to animal sociality, a comprehensive understanding of the factors influencing coh...

Understanding how bovine tuberculosis (TB) is maintained in wildlife reservoirs is critical for the management of this disease impacting cattle in many countries. For the primary wildlife reservoir of the disease in New Zealand, the brushtail possum ( Trichosurus vulpecula ), transmission of this contagious bacterial disease among possums is often assumed to be linked to home range overlap. Identifying drivers of possum home r...