Within animal populations there is variation among individuals in their tendency to be social,
where more sociable individuals associate more with other individuals. Consistent inter …

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

Nature has been considered as an inspiration of several recent meta-heuristic algorithms.
This paper firstly studies and mimics the behavior of Scottish red deer in order to develop a …

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 …

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

Animal societies are shaped both by social processes and by the physical environment in
which social interactions take place. While many studies take the observed patterns of inter …

Highlights•We review the mathematical formalism of multilayer networks for animal
behaviour.•It allows the investigation of new research questions in animal social …

Infection may modify the behaviour of the host and of its conspecifics in a group, potentially
altering social connectivity. Because many infectious diseases are transmitted through …

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

32 For those unfamiliar with Social Network Analysis (SNA) terminology (highlighted in the
text with 33 asterisks), we provide a glossary in Table. 1. The mathematical formula of all the …