Roberto Vento

Project: Adaptive Social Flexibility - a powerful mechanism to cope with a rapidly changing world

The world is changing due to anthropogenic and environmental factors. Could sociality enable individuals to cope with these changes? Can animals adjust their social behaviour based on the unpredictability of resources, facilitating adaptability? By looking at the individual and group level on the Seychelles warbler, we aim to unveil under which circumstances groups are formed and persist, to apply this on a broader scale of social systems. Predicting how species may socially behave based on which condition could help us to understand the threats they are subjected to and better undertake conservation measures.