LEADER 04071nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910820217703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786611966799 010 $a1-281-96679-7 010 $a0-226-89524-6 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226895246 035 $a(CKB)1000000000692784 035 $a(EBL)408184 035 $a(OCoLC)476227826 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000103111 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11126845 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000103111 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10061098 035 $a(PQKB)11049093 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC408184 035 $a(DE-B1597)524268 035 $a(OCoLC)310981455 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226895246 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL408184 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10265897 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL196679 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000692784 100 $a20071012d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAnalyzing animal societies $equantitative methods for vertebrate social analysis /$fHal Whitehead 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (351 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-89521-1 311 $a0-226-89523-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [309]-324) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tConventions and Abbreviations -- $t1: Analyzing Social Structure -- $t2: Technical Matters -- $t3: Observing Interactions and Associations: Collecting Data -- $t4: Describing Relationships -- $t5: Describing and Modeling Social Structure -- $t6: Comparing Societies -- $t7: What Determines Social Structure, and What Does Social Structure Determine? -- $t8: The Way Forward -- $t9: Appendices -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aAnimals lead rich social lives. They care for one another, compete for resources, and mate. Within a society, social relationships may be simple or complex and usually vary considerably, both between different groups of individuals and over time. These social systems are fundamental to biological organization, and animal societies are central to studies of behavioral and evolutionary biology. But how do we study animal societies? How do we take observations of animals fighting, grooming, or forming groups and produce a realistic description or model of their societies? Analyzing AnimalSocieties presents a conceptual framework for analyzing social behavior and demonstrates how to put this framework into practice by collecting suitable data on the interactions and associations of individuals so that relationships can be described, and, from these, models can be derived. In addition to presenting the tools, Hal Whitehead illustrates their applicability using a wide range of real data on a variety of animal species-from bats and chimps to dolphins and birds. The techniques that Whitehead describes will be profitably adopted by scientists working with primates, cetaceans, birds, and ungulates, but the tools can be used to study societies of invertebrates, amphibians, and even humans. Analyzing AnimalSocieties will become a standard reference for those studying vertebrate social behavior and will give to these studies the kind of quality standard already in use in other areas of the life sciences. 606 $aVertebrates$xBehavior$xMathematical models 606 $aAnimal societies$xMathematical models 606 $aSocial behavior in animals$xMathematical models 615 0$aVertebrates$xBehavior$xMathematical models. 615 0$aAnimal societies$xMathematical models. 615 0$aSocial behavior in animals$xMathematical models. 676 $a591.7/82 686 $aWT 3600$qSEPA$2rvk 700 $aWhitehead$b Hal$01713340 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820217703321 996 $aAnalyzing animal societies$94106257 997 $aUNINA