Animal social complexity: intelligence, culture, and individualized societies

I. Life History and Brain Evolution

1. Life History and Cognitive Evolution in Primates / Carel P. van Schaik and Robert O. Deaner

Case Study 1A. Sociality and Disease Risk: A Comparative Study of Leukocyte Counts in Primates / Charles L. Nunn

2. Dolphin Social Complexity: Lessons from Long-Term Study and Life History / Randall S. Wells

3. Sources of Social Complexity in the Three Elephant Species / Katy Payne

II. Evolution of Cooperative Strategies

4. Complex Cooperation among Tai Chimpanzees / Christophe Boesch

Case Study 4A. Coalitionary Aggression in White-Faced Capuchins / Susan Perry

Case Study 4B. Levels and Patterns in Dolphin Alliance Formation / Richard C. Connor and Michael Krutzen

5. Social Complexity of Spotted Hyenas / Christine M. Drea and Laurence G. Frank

Case Study 5A. Maternal Rank "Inheritance" in the Spotted Hyena / Anne Engh and Kay E. Holekamp

6. Is Social Stress a Consequence of Subordination or a Cost of Dominance? / Scott Creel and Jennifer L. Sands

Case Study 6A. Sperm Whale Social Structure: Why It Takes a Village to Raise a Child / Sarah I. Mesnick, Karen Evans, Barbara L. Taylor, John Hyde, Sergio Escorza-Trevino and Andrew E. Dizon

III. Social Cognition

7. Equivalence Classification as an Approach to Social Knowledge: From Sea Lions to Simians / Ronald J. Schusterman, Colleen Reichmuth Kastak and David Kastak

8. Structure of Social Knowledge in Monkeys / Robert M. Seyfarth and Dorothy L. Cheney

9. Social Syntax: The If-Then Structure of Social Problem Solving / Frans B. M. De Waal

Case Study 9A. Conflict Resolution in the Spotted Hyena / Sofia A. Wahaj and Kay E. Holekamp

IV. Communication

10. Laughter and Smiling: The Intertwining of Nature and Culture / Jan A. R. A. M. van Hooff and Signe Preuschoft

Case Study 10A. Emotional Recognition by Chimpanzees / Lisa A. Parr

11. Vocal Communication in Wild Parrots / Jack W. Bradbury

Case Study 11A. Representational Vocal Signaling in the Chimpanzee / Karen I. Hallberg, Douglas A. Nelson and Sarah T. Boysen

12. Social and Vocal Complexity in Bats / Gerald S. Wilkinson

13. Dolphins Communicate about Individual-Specific Social Relationships / Peter L. Tyack

Case Study 13A. Natural Semanticity in Wild Primates / Klaus Zuberbuhler

V. Cultural Transmission

14. Koshima Monkeys and Bossou Chimpanzees: Long-Term Research on Culture in Nonhuman Primates / Tetsuro Matsuzawa

Case Study 14A. Movement Imitation in Monkeys / Bernhard Voelkl and Ludwig Huber

15. Individuality and Flexibility of Cultural Behavior Patterns in Chimpanzees / Toshisada Nishida

Case Study 15A. Sex Differences in Termite Fishing among Gombe Chimpanzees / Stephanie S. Pandolfi, Carel P. van Schaik and Anne E. Pusey

16. Ten Dispatches from the Chimpanzee Culture Wars / W. C. McGrew

Case Study 16A. Spontaneous Use of Tools by Semifree-ranging Capuchin Monkeys / Eduardo B. Ottoni and Massimo Mannu

17. Society and Culture in the Deep and Open Ocean: The Sperm Whale and Other Cetaceans / Hal Whitehead

Case Study 17A. Do Killer Whales Have Culture? / Harald Yurk

18. Discovering Culture in Birds: The Role of Learning and Development / Meredith J. West, Andrew P. King and David J. White.