Proximity to humans affects local social structure in a giraffe metapopulation.

The Journal of Animal Ecology
Monica L BondD R Farine

Abstract

Experimental laboratory evidence suggests that animals with disrupted social systems express weakened relationship strengths and have more exclusive social associations, and that these changes have functional consequences. A key question is whether anthropogenic pressures have a similar impact on the social structure of wild animal communities. We addressed this question by constructing a social network from 6 years of systematically collected photographic capture-recapture data spanning 1,139 individual adult female Masai giraffes inhabiting a large, unfenced, heterogeneous landscape in northern Tanzania. We then used the social network to identify distinct social communities, and tested whether social or anthropogenic and other environmental factors predicted differences in social structure among these communities. We reveal that giraffes have a multilevel social structure. Local preferences in associations among individuals scale up to a number of distinct, but spatially overlapping, social communities, that can be viewed as a large interconnected metapopulation. We then find that communities that are closer to traditional compounds of Indigenous Masai people express weaker relationship strengths and the giraffes in these co...Continue Reading

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Jan 12, 2021·The Journal of Animal Ecology·Eric Vander Wal
Sep 9, 2020·The Journal of Animal Ecology·Maurício CantorDamien R Farine
Feb 11, 2021·Proceedings. Biological Sciences·M L BondB König
May 1, 2021·Animals : an Open Access Journal From MDPI·Ciska P J ScheijenFrancois Deacon

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