Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Cohesion in Giraffe Societies

How scientists in Australia are using social network analysis to answer behavioral questions in the wild

2 comments:

Christopher Tunnard said...

Martin Everett, one of the authors of Ucinet, put on an entire conference at the University of Manchester (UK) on animal social nets last year.

Unknown said...

This has "weak ties" written all over it: "as immature female giraffes matured to young adults they appeared to increase their gregariousness by forming weaker relationships with a greater number of females". Granovetter would be proud!