Animals 'inherit' their social network from their mothers, study shows
Tuesday, June 28, 2016 - 13:41
in Psychology & Sociology
Two biologists have developed a mathematical model of the way social networks arise in animal populations. Though relatively simple, their model generated networks that faithfully recapitulated important properties of networks observed in field-collected data from four very different animal populations: spotted hyenas, sleep lizards, rock hyrax and bottlenose dolphins.