This blog post is provided by Monica L. Bond, Derek E. Lee, Arpat Ozgul, Damien R. Farine, and Barbara König and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper ‘Leaving by staying: Social dispersal in giraffes’, which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. Like humans, animals seek independence around the time that they become sexually mature. They often do so by moving away from family, … Continue reading Leaving by staying: Dispersal decisions of young giraffes