… for the study of animal behaviour. One of the most attractive features of the network paradigm
is … with which we can study the social organisation of animals at all levels (individual, dyad, …

… Existing methods for studying animal social structure focus either on one animal … animal
social structure at all levels, from the individual to the population. No prior knowledge of network …

… However, the network approach has been applied to the field of animal … social network
structure is of great importance for biologists since the structural characteristics of any network will …

… However, the statistical analysis of network data … social network data. Here we review what
we consider to be key considerations associated with the analysis of animal social networks …

… for analyzing animal social networks from the … of animal social structures. Here, we highlight
methodological advances and conceptual challenges in the study of animal social networks, …

… focused on theoretical discussions of the potential of social network analysis for … animal
social networks to this literature for detailed descriptions of how to analyse animal social networks…

… in animal social network analysis. Section 10 provides guidelines for estimating the power
and precision of an observed network … new insight into animal social networks. This paper is …

… on animal social networks was primarily aimed at introducing the concept of social networks
to the fields of animal … More recently, a diverse body of evidence has shown that social fine …

… hypothesis testing in studies of animal social networks. Using simulated data containing a
… -network’) data consistently account for underlying structure in the generated social network…

… Finally, using this bottlenose dolphin social network, we will test how transitivity in association
departs from random. These analyses were implemented in Matlab using the Socprog …