Socialh: An R package for determining the social hierarchy of animals using data from individual electronic bins.

ABSTRACT: Cattle have a complex social organization, with negative (agonistic) and positive (affiliative) interactions that affect access to environmental resources. Thus, the social behaviour has a major impact on animal production, and it is an important factor to improve the farm animal welfare. The use of data from electronic bins to determine social competition has already been validated; however, the studies used non-free software or did not make the code available. With data from electronic bins is possible to identify when one animal takes the place of another animal, i.e. a replacement occurs, at the feeders or drinkers. However, there is no package for the R environment to detect competitive replacements from electronic bins data. Our general approach consisted in creating a user-friendly

SUBMITTER: Valente JPS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9348686 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature