Topic: socio-spatial cognitive map

Animal brains and behaviours have evolved in the natural world – to allow different species to meet their daily life challenges. However, our understanding of how the brain deals with such diverse conditions stems from constrained laboratory experiments – where an animal exhibits one specific behaviour in one particular task. While this approach has revealed many instances of how the brain can encode isolated behaviours, it leaves the fundamental question unexplored: How does the brain actually represent the real world – in natural and multi-animal settings? To answer this, we caught wild Egyp