Exploring Animal Social Networks

"Exploring Animal Social Networks shows behavioral biologists how to apply social network theory to animal populations. In doing so, Croft, James, and Krause illustrate the connections between an animal's individual behaviors and how these, in turn, influence and are influenced by behavior at the population level... Valuable for readers interested in using quantitative analyses to study animal social behaviors."--Choice "[T]his volume provides an engaging, accessible, and timely introduction to the use of network theory methods for examining the social behavior of animals."--Noa Pinter-Wollman, Quarterly Review of Biology "I love this book... [T]he authors have produced a volume that is well written and informative, but mostly I love it because Exploring Animal Social Networks is really useful... I suspect that this book will change the life history of network analysis application in animal behaviour, shortening the juvenile period and ushering us more quickly into adulthood."--Richard Connor, Animal Behavior "The behavioural scientist interested in the wider picture of how their work fits into the world of networks is recommended this book as a first port of call for classic citations."--Sean A. Rands, Applied Animal Behaviour Science "The book is a useful 'handbook' providing detailed, stepwise procedures sufficient to allow the reader to address a broad range of questions about social interactions... The book includes numerous examples of the kind of research questions one might ask, and, thus, it allows the reader to find the analysis that best fits the data set to be analyzed. Thus, even readers with minimal prior knowledge of social network analysis will be able to apply this approach. And if further assistance is needed, the authors provide numerous references to specific procedures that have been used by others."--Thomas R. Zentall, PsycCRITIQUES