Knowledge graph centered on Social network analysis (Sciuridae) with 74 nodes and 129 connections. Top connected: Social network analysis of animal behaviour: a pro, Marmota flaviventris, Does sociality drive the evolution of communicativ, Atriplex canescens, Rushes.
Direct observation of social interactions using binoculars and spotting scopes during peak activity periods. Interactions are classified as affiliative or agonistic and used to construct weighted directed social networks.
Synthesized from method descriptions across 47 papers using this protocol.
Steps below were extracted from the most recent peer-reviewed implementation of this protocol in the corpus — Multilevel selection on individual and group social behaviour in the wild (2025), Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. The protocol was originally introduced by Does sociality drive the evolution of communicative complexity? A comparative test with ground-dwelling sciurid alarm calls (1997), American Naturalist. Implementations in other papers (listed below) may differ.