Comparative Social Behaviour Survey

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We'd like to gauge interest, openness and perceived barriers to cross-species comparative research in social behavioural ecology. Please respond to questions below - should take no more than 5 minutes.

How vital is comparative research to social behavioural ecology?

not at all

extremely

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Have you conducted formal comparative analysis in social behaviour?

Yes, as lead scientist

Yes, as senior scientist

Yes, as collaborator or co-author

No, but my data have been used in a formal comparative analysis

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How likely are you to conduct comparative social behaviour research in the next 5 years?

very unlikely

extremely likely

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Would you be open to contributing data you own to a comparative social behaviour database?

Yes

Yes, but only if database was NOT open access

Maybe

Other:

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What do you think are the current barriers to comparative social behaviour research?

no access to available data

not enough data on different species exists

hard to identify/find collaborators

complications with large scale-collaborations (e.g., wrangling authors, long authors lists, etc)

too difficult to standardize the data

analytical limitations

doesn't fit remit of funding bodies

Other:

What is needed to facilitate a greater amount of comparative social behaviour research?

databases of social behavioural data

standardized databases of social behavioural data

communities of researchers open to collaboration

change to journal policies regarding author number, consortia appearing as 'authors'

changes to funding remits to be more open to comparative research

analytical developments to deal with confounds, multi-layer data structure

Other:

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