Damien Roger Farine

This study shows that sulphur-crested cockatoos form stable dominance hierarchies despite dynamic social interactions and open group membership.

The paper shows that dispersing vulturine guineafowl select open habitats like roads to reduce transport energy costs during long-distance movement.

This paper argues for moving beyond performance metrics in ML classification for animal studies and proposes simulations and biological validations to better assess model utility despite noisy data.

The paper quantifies the trade-off between foraging activity and thermal risk in vulturine guineafowl during resource scarcity and drought.

This study identifies a multitiered social network structure in zebra finches, with distinct tiers of social contacts maintained by different mechanisms.

The paper shows density increases network connectedness in wild animal populations, but effects saturate, with stronger spatial than social impacts.

The paper quantifies how tourism and fisheries impact behavioural states and transitions in Indian Ocean humpback dolphins using drone-based observations and machine learning.

This study examines how environmental and social factors influence space use consistency in non-territorial vulturine guineafowl groups.

This study shows that group size affects how vulturine guineafowl adjust their behavior to thermoregulation-foraging trade-offs, with intermediate group sizes showing more flexible use of open areas.

The paper uses an agent-based model to evaluate how sampling strategies affect the accuracy of social network metrics in animal studies, identifying optimal trade-offs between coverage, frequency, and duration.

This paper develops a deep learning and geo-referencing framework for drone-based animal tracking, achieving accurate geo-referenced trajectories across varying conditions.

This study examines how group movement affects energetic efficiency in vulturine guineafowl, finding that group members reduce transport costs but cannot match the efficiency of solitary individuals.

The paper investigates whether social associations between breeders and helpers in sociable weavers are linked to the help received, finding stronger foraging bonds and positive correlations between social affiliations and help provided.

This paper introduces a low-cost, low-energy animal tracking system using Bluetooth low energy beacons and crowd-sourced mobile phone networks to enable long-term tracking of small animals in urban and non-urban environments.

This study uses simulations to show how movement and social rules affect network structure and the spread of behavior, with varying impacts depending on transmission rules and network dynamics.

The paper shows that collective intelligence in group-living animals leads to better resource partitioning than solitary animals through frequency-dependent learning.

The study finds that leadership in collective movements incurs physiological costs, such as increased heart rate and reduced heart rate variability, particularly when leadership attempts fail.

The paper shows that habitat geometry maintains stable social structure in a wild bird population despite high generational turnover.