Identifying the role that individual animals play in their social network

摘要: Techniques recently developed for the analysis of human social networks are applied to network bottlenose dolphins living in Doubtful Sound, New Zealand. We identify communities and subcommunities within dolphin population present evidence that sex- age-related homophily play a role formation clusters preferred companionship. also brokers who act as links between appear be crucial cohesion whole. The is found similar some respects but different others such level assortative mixing by degree population. This difference elucidates means which formed evolves.