Multilevel social organization and space use in reticulated giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis)

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 17-26

  VanderWaal, Kimberly L ^a,b   Wang, Hui ^a   McCowan, Brenda ^a   Fushing, Hsieh ^a   Isbell, Lynne A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Association patterns; Community structure; Data cloud geometry; Network analysis; Social structure; Spatial overlap

Indexed keywords

HOME RANGE; NETWORK ANALYSIS; PHILOPATRY; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION; SPACE USE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; UNGULATE;

EID: 84890616291     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/art061     Document Type: Review

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