The study of aggression and affiliation motifs in bottlenose dolphins' social networks.

ABSTRACT: Networks in biology have provided a powerful tool to describe and study very complex biological processes and systems such as animal societies. Social network analysis allows us to assess different processes occurring in animal groups. In the current study, we use this approach to investigate how conflict dynamics and post-conflict interactions shape the social networks of groups of captive bottlenose dolphins. We first examined temporal changes and aggression-affiliation motifs in the observed dolphins' network structure. Using the results of the previous analysis, we built two models that simulate the dynamics of aggression and affiliation in a small dolphin group. The first model is based only on the observed statistics of interactions, whereas the second includes post conflict memory e

SUBMITTER: Perez-Manrique A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9668813 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature