In many areas of animal behaviour research, improvements in our ability to collect large and
detailed data sets are outstrip** our ability to analyse them. These diverse, complex and …

Social complexity has been one of the recent emerging topics in the study of animal and
human societies, but the concept remains both poorly defined and understood. In this paper …

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 …

Measuring Behaviour is the established go-to text for anyone interested in scientific methods
for studying the behaviour of animals or humans. It is widely used by students, teachers and …

Social network analysis has achieved remarkable popularity in disease ecology, and is
sometimes carried out without investigating spatial heterogeneity. Many investigations into …

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 …

New technologies have vastly increased the available data on animal movement and
behaviour. Consequently, new methods deciphering the spatial and temporal interactions …

Mobile animal groups provide some of the most compelling examples of self-organization in
the natural world. While field observations of songbird flocks wheeling in the sky or anchovy …

Highlights•Association indices are widely used to describe relationships between
individuals.•Indices include built-in assumptions about how animals are observed.•These …

Socially monogamous birds have provided a major focus of research in the field of sexual
selection, providing insight into the evolution of ornaments, sexual dimorphism and sex …