2021
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.08.008
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Social connectedness and movements among communities of giraffes vary by sex and age class

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“…Our results showed that older calves associated less than younger individuals (lower strength and social time), which is in agreement with a previous study 33 . This might be due to higher social exploration 57 in younger calves while older calves become more solitary as they age, which has been shown in other species (i.e. giraffes 57,58 ).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
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“…Our results showed that older calves associated less than younger individuals (lower strength and social time), which is in agreement with a previous study 33 . This might be due to higher social exploration 57 in younger calves while older calves become more solitary as they age, which has been shown in other species (i.e. giraffes 57,58 ).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 71%
“…This might be due to higher social exploration 57 in younger calves while older calves become more solitary as they age, which has been shown in other species (i.e. giraffes 57,58 ). Additionally, older calves had lower centrality (social rank), higher closeness, and higher coefficient of variation.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 71%
“…Giraffes have a multi‐tiered social system based on fission–fusion dynamics, with temporary groupings that merge and split throughout the day (Bond et al., 2019; Carter, Brand, et al., 2013; Carter, Seddon, et al., 2013; Hart et al., 2019) embedded within larger, stable social communities (Bond, König, Lee, et al., 2021; Bond, König, Ozgul, et al., 2021; Lavista‐Ferres et al., 2021; VanderWaal, Wang, et al., 2014). Female giraffes form communities via long‐term associations with familiar, related females (Bercovitch & Berry, 2013; Bond, König, Lee, et al., 2021; Bond, König, Ozgul, et al., 2021; Bond, Lee, Ozgul, et al., 2021; Carter, Brand, et al., 2013; Carter, Seddon, et al., 2013).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Female giraffes form communities via long‐term associations with familiar, related females (Bercovitch & Berry, 2013; Bond, König, Lee, et al., 2021; Bond, König, Ozgul, et al., 2021; Bond, Lee, Ozgul, et al., 2021; Carter, Brand, et al., 2013; Carter, Seddon, et al., 2013). Subadult and younger adult males disperse, form temporary bachelor herds, and establish a dominance hierarchy, while older adult males roam alone among female communities searching for receptive females (Bond et al., 2019; Dagg & Foster, 1976; Knüsel et al., 2019; Lavista‐Ferres et al., 2021; van der Jeugd & Prins, 2000), so social associations among males are less stable over time (Carter, Brand, et al., 2013). Therefore sex differences between females and males in social connectedness, with females having higher social association scores but fewer affiliates than males (Lavista‐Ferres et al., 2021) follows from their life history strategies.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This knowledge gap is now filled by the work by Bond et al (2021) on social dispersal in giraffes, which also provides much needed novel robust information on dispersal patterns in giraffes, a socially complex yet until now mostly misunderstood species (Muller & Harris, 2021). Bond et al (2021) Journal of Animal Ecology BÖRGER female communities (12 social communities in the study area with around 60-90 individuals each) with overlapping space use, below which there is a dynamic group level with constant daily membership changes ('fission-fusion', within large individual home ranges of around 115 km 2 ), below which stable preferred associations between specific individuals can be recognised (see also Lavista Ferres et al, 2021). Specifically, the authors defined 'social dispersal' to occur when the calves consistently switched to a different female community from their natal community, without being seen associated again with individuals from the natal one (Figure 1).…”
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