Variance in centrality within rock hyrax social networks predicts adult longevity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Barocas, Adi ^a   Ilany, Amiyaal ^a   Koren, Lee ^a,b   Kam, Michael ^c   Geffen, Eli ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYRAX; LONGEVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM GROUP SIZE; PREDICTION; PROCAVIA CAPENSIS; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL NETWORK; SURVIVAL; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; SEDIMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; PROCAVIA CAPENSIS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYRAXES; LONGEVITY; MALE; PROBABILITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79960782042     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022375     Document Type: Article

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