Interactions, Relationships and Social Structure

Hinde, Robert A.

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“…We tested the influence of sociodemographic parameters (group size, sex ratio and kin ratio) on network measures, using the Spearman rank correlation coefficient test. It was not necessary to correct values by phylogenetic distances since in each grade being studied, both species (rhesus/Japanese macaques on one side, crested/Tonkean macaques on the other side) were close in evolutionary terms (Fooden 1976;Hoelzer & Melnick 1996). The significance level was set at 0.05.…”

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“…When the benefits of cooperation exceed the costs it imposes, the creation of an extensive network of social relationships is advantageous for individuals (Krause & Ruxton 2002). Social relationships involve a succession of social interactions between partners that know each other (Hinde 1976). At the dyadic level, individuals can reliably predict the behaviour of the other.…”

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“…Here, we aimed to study these social styles at the level of social structures, that is, the networks of social relationships as defined by Hinde (1976). We used social network analyses to reveal novel dimensions in the social styles of macaques.…”

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A comparative network analysis of social style in macaques

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In group-living species, individuals gain significant advantages from establishing an extensive network of social relationships. This results in complex organizations that are difficult to quantify in a comprehensive manner. In this respect, network analyses are an ideal means to pinpoint the overall properties of social structures, and the place of each individual within these structures. We used network measurements to investigate cross-species variations in the social style of macaques, and studied 12 groups from four species. Two species (Macaca mulatta, Macaca fuscata) were characterized by a relatively weak social tolerance, a steep gradient of dominance and a strong preference for kin. The other two species (Macaca nigra, Macaca tonkeana) were known to display higher levels of tolerance, relaxed dominance and low kinship bias. We used a centrality index based on eigenvector centrality to show that in a comparison of intolerant and tolerant species, top-ranking individuals were more central than other group members in the former species than the latter. We also found that networks had higher modularity in intolerant species, indicating that kinrelated partners interacted more frequently in subgroups of these species than in those of tolerant species. Consistently, the matrix of body contacts was more strongly correlated with the kinship matrix in intolerant species. This study demonstrates the efficiency of network methodology in detecting fine and overall contrasts in social structures, and also reveals novel dimensions in the social style of macaques.Crown

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“…In gregarious species these decisions are compounded by the need to interact with conspecifics in relation to intrinsic and extrinsic influences such as prey availability (3)(4)(5)(6) or intra-specific competition (7,8). These influences often result in the emergence of complex social behaviour (9)(10)(11) and social structure (12)(13)(14)(15) which facilitate the decision-making process and often the need to reach consensus between individuals within a group (16,17). Many social species have developed signals that help members of groups or aggregations to coordinate their activities (18)(19)(20).…”

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Evidence for social role in a dolphin social network

2006

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Social animals have to take into consideration the behaviour of conspecifics when making decisions to go by their daily lives. These decisions affect their fitness and there is therefore an evolutionary pressure to try making the right choices. In many instances individuals will make their own choices and the behaviour of the group will be a democratic integration of everyone's decision. However, in some instances it can be advantageous to follow the choice of a few individuals in the group if they have more information regarding the situation that has arisen. Here I provide early evidence that decisions about shifts in activity states in a population of bottlenose dolphin follow such a decision making process. This unshared consensus is mediated by a non-vocal signal which can be communicated globally within the dolphin school. These signals are emitted by individuals that tend to have more information about the behaviour of potential competitors because of their position in the social network. I hypothesise that this decision making process emerged from the social structure of the population and the need to maintain mixed-sex schools.

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“…Lehmann & Boesch 2004). In fact, time dependence of social interactions (Hinde 1976;Whitehead 1995) can be caused by substantial changes in population composition, which would forestall interactions among temporally segregated individuals (Whitehead 1999;de Silva et al 2011). If a social network could embed such spatiotemporal dynamics in its structure, then social modules could emerge from the opportunities to interact, depicting individuals with similar habitat preferences or that composed the population during the same time.…”

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