Formidable females redux: male social integration into female networks and the value of dynamic multilayer networks

dc.contributor.authorBonnell, Tyler R.
dc.contributor.authorVilette, Chloe
dc.contributor.authorYoung, Christopher
dc.contributor.authorHenzi, Stephanus Peter
dc.contributor.authorBarrett, Louise
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-24T08:48:33Z
dc.date.available2022-08-24T08:48:33Z
dc.date.issued2021-02
dc.description.abstractThe development of multilayer network techniques is a boon for researchers who wish to understand how different interaction layers might influence each other, and how these in turn might influence group dynamics. Here, we investigate how integration between male and female grooming and aggression interaction networks influences male power trajectories in vervet monkeys Chlorocebus pygerythrus. Our previous analyses of this phenomenon used a monolayer approach, and our aim here is to extend these analyses using a dynamic multilayer approach. To do so, we constructed a temporal series of male and female interaction layers. We then used a multivariate multilevel autoregression model to compare cross-lagged associations between a male’s centrality in the female grooming layer and changes in male Elo ratings. Our results confirmed our original findings: changes in male centrality within the female grooming network were weakly but positively tied to changes in their Elo ratings. However, the multilayer network approach offered additional insights into this social process, identifying how changes in a male’s centrality cascade through the other network layers. This dynamic view indicates that the changes in Elo ratings are likely to be short-lived, but that male centrality within the female network had a much stronger impact throughout the multilayer network as a whole, especially on reducing intermale aggression (i.e., aggression directed by males toward other males). We suggest that multilayer social network approaches can take advantage of increased amounts of social data that are more commonly collected these days, using a variety of methods. Such data are inherently multilevel and multilayered, and thus offer the ability to quantify more precisely the dynamics of animal social behaviors.en_US
dc.description.departmentMammal Research Instituteen_US
dc.description.librarianhj2022en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipNRF (South Africa) and UNISA awards, NSERC (Canada) Discovery grants, the NSERC Canada Research Chair program, a University of Pretoria Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship, an FQNRT Post-Doctoral Fellowship, NSERC Canada Research Chair and Discovery Grants.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationTyler R. Bonnell, Chloé Vilette, Christopher Young, Stephanus Peter Henzi, Louise Barrett, Formidable females redux: male social integration into female networks and the value of dynamic multilayer networks, Current Zoology, Volume 67, Issue 1, February 2021, Pages 49–57, https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoaa041.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1674-5507 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2396-9814 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1093/cz/zoaa041
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/86935
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherOxford University Pressen_US
dc.rights© The Author(s) (2020). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Editorial Office, Current Zoology. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License.en_US
dc.subjectMultilayer networksen_US
dc.subjectMultilevel multivariate autoregressive modelen_US
dc.subjectPrimate social dynamicsen_US
dc.subjectSocial networksen_US
dc.subjectSocialityen_US
dc.subjectTime-aggregated networksen_US
dc.subjectVervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus)en_US
dc.titleFormidable females redux: male social integration into female networks and the value of dynamic multilayer networksen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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