When living in a group, individuals have to make trade‐offs, and compromise, in order to
balance the advantages and disadvantages of group life. Strategies that enable individuals …

Advances over the last 15 years have made social network analysis (SNA) a powerful tool
for the study of nonhuman primate social behavior. Although many SNA‐based techniques …

Primate social systems are difficult to characterize, and existing classification schemes have
been criticized for being overly simplifying, formulated only on a verbal level or partly …

Highlights•Social network analysis is a tool for understanding patterns of sociality.•It is
unclear whether networks created from different techniques are comparable.•We used five …

Social network analysis is increasingly used by behavioral ecologists and primatologists to
describe the patterns and quality of interactions among individuals. We provide an overview …

Social network analysis (SNA) is rapidly gaining popularity in primatology, but its application
to the management of zoo‐housed primates has been largely overlooked. Here I use SNA …

This study applied a temporal social network analysis model to describe three affiliative
social networks (allogrooming, sleep in contact, and triadic interaction) in a non‐human …

In recent years, animal social interactions have received much attention in terms of
personality research (eg aggressive or cooperative interactions). However, other …

Within-group variation in sociality has been linked to correlates of fitness across vertebrates.
Individuals that form strong social bonds with a few partners, or are well integrated into a …

Among nonhuman primates, the evolutionary underpinnings of variation in social structure
remain debated, with both ancestral relationships and adaptation to current conditions …