Behavioural ecologists are increasingly using social network analysis to describe the social
organisation of animal populations and to test hypotheses. However, the statistical analysis …

When living in a group, individuals have to make trade‐offs, and compromise, in order to
balance the advantages and disadvantages of group life. Strategies that enable individuals …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Statistical pattern recognition is a very active area of study andresearch, which has seen
many advances in recent years. New andemerging applications-such as data mining, web …

Animal social networks are descriptions of social structure which, aside from their intrinsic
interest for understanding sociality, can have significant bearing across many fields of …

Many animals, including humans, acquire valuable skills and knowledge by copying others.
Scientists refer to this as social learning. It is one of the most exciting and rapidly develo** …

Null models are an important component of the social network analysis toolbox. However,
their use in hypothesis testing is still not widespread. Furthermore, several different …

SOCPROG is a set of programs which analyses data on animal associations. Data usually
come from observations of the social behaviour of individually identifiable animals …

Abstract The 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are set to change
the way we live, and aim to create, by 2030, a sustainable future balancing equitable …

The scientific study of networks-computer, social, and biological-has received an enormous
amount of interest in recent years. However, the network approach has been applied to the …