Analyzing Animal Societies Quantitative Methods for Vertebrate Social Analysis

Name: Analyzing Animal Societies Quantitative Methods for Vertebrate Social Analysis
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ISBN: 9780226895239

ISBN-10: 0226895238

ISBN-13: 9780226895239

Edition: 2008

Authors: Hal Whitehead

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Animals 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 AnimalSocietiespresents a conceptual framework for analyzing social behavior and demonstrates how to put this…

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List price: $41.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 0.79" wide x 0.90" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Hal Whitehead is a University Research Professor in the Department of Biology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.



Acknowledgments


Conventions and Abbreviations



Analyzing Social Structure



Introduction



What Is Social Structure?



Why Social Structure Is Important



Conceptualizing Animal Societies: A Brief History



Ethology and Behavioral Ecology



Hinde’s Ethological Conceptual Framework of Social Structure



Other Definitions and Concepts of Social Structure



Elements and Measures of Social Structure



The Functional Why Questions, and Ecology



Examples of Social Analyses



Problems with Analyzing Social Structure



Technical Matters



Modes of Scientific Enquiry



Basic Descriptive Statistics



Precision of Statistics: Bootstraps and Jackknives



Hypothesis Testing



Data Matrices



Ordination



Classification



Model Fitting and Selection: the Method of Likelihood and the Akaike Information Criterion



Computer Programs



Observing Interactions and Associations: Collecting Data



Types of Behavior



Interactions



Associations



Groups



Identifying Individuals &n