Social Experience of Captive Livingstone's Fruit Bats (Pteropus livingstonii).

ABSTRACT: Social network analysis has been highlighted as a powerful tool to enhance the evidence-based management of captive-housed species through its ability to quantify the social experience of individuals. We apply this technique to explore the social structure and social roles of 50 Livingstone's fruit bats (Pteropus livingstonii) housed at Jersey Zoo, Channel Islands, through the observation of associative, affiliative, and aggressive interactions over two data collection periods. We implement binomial mixture modelling and characteristic-based assortment quantification to describe the complexity and organisation of social networks, as well as a multiple regression quadratic assignment procedural (MRQAP) test to analyse the relationship between network types. We examine the effects of individ

SUBMITTER: Welch MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7460041 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature