Disentangling association patterns in fission–fusion societies using African buffalo as an example

By Paul C. Cross, James O. Lloyd-Smith, Wayne M. Getz. 2005

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Contacts and foot and mouth disease transmission from wild to domestic bovines in Africa (2013, background): “…females collared in the same herd ranged between 60 and 88%, indicating that individual females remained associated with the same herd during the course of our study, although occasional fusion-fission events of groups of female buffalo have been described in southern Africa (Cross et al. 2005).”
Rank-related partner choice in the fission–fusion society of the spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) (2007, unknown): “We elected not to use the fission–fusion decision index (Cross et al. 2005) because Crocuta do not satisfy its key assumption that travel costs are high when individuals move among subgroups within the territory (Kruuk 1972; Holekamp et al.”
Do social networks of female northern long-eared bats vary with reproductive period and age? (2010, background): “These dynamics result in variable group size and composition and have been most notably described for ungulates, marine mammals, primates, elephants, and, more recently, bats (Archie et al. 2006; Connor et al. 2000; Conradt and Roper 2005; Cross et al. 2005; Kerth 2008; Lehmann and Boesch 2004; Luss”
The social network structure of a wild meerkat population: 1. Inter-group interactions (2009, background): “One study looked at multiple natural groups of the same species (buffalo Syncerus caffer Cross et al. 2005 ) but concluded that these groups were very unstable with frequent fission and fusion events, and so, treated these groups as part of a single population.”
Multilevel social organization and space use in reticulated giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) (2014, background): “Fennessy (2004) described a small population of 17 giraffe that appeared to be divided into 2 core groups, each consisting of a cow and her calves.”
Disease, predation and demography: Assessing the impacts of bovine tuberculosis on African buffalo by monitoring at individual and population levels (2009, background): “Since buffalo frequently moved among herds and herds were difficult to frequently count, we were unable to assess the effects of group size in these analyses ( Cross, Lloyd-Smith & Getz 2005 ).”
A Comparison of Social Organization in Asian Elephants and African Savannah Elephants (2012, background): “1992; Dunbar and Dunbar 1975; Kummer 1984), but fission–fusion societies are not necessarily stratified hierarchically (Cross et al. 2005).”
A framework for analysis of dynamic social networks (2006, background): “Finding patterns of social interaction within a population has wide-ranging applications including: disease modeling [14, 22], cultural and information transmission [4, 6, 9, 18, 30, 32], intelligence and surveillance [4, 21, 26], business management [5, 8, 28, 29], conservation biology and behavior”
Social dynamics among females and their influence on social structure in an East African chimpanzee community (2013, unknown): “…patterns, dyadic associations are thought to reflect social relationships and preferences among individuals (e.g. African buffalo, Syncerus caffer: Cross et al. 2005; Asian elephants, Elephas maximus: de Silva et al. 2011; bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops spp.: Gero et al. 2005; spotted hyaenas,…”
Time as a constraint on group size in spider monkeys (2006, unknown): “Other species that have a similar multilayered society include hyenas (Holekamp et al. 1997), elephants (Wittemyer et al. 2005), bottlenose dolphins (Connor et al. 2001), bats (Kerth and König 1999), buffalos (Cross et al. 2005) and humans (Rodseth et al. 1991).”
Fission–fusion dynamics in wild giraffes may be driven by kinship, spatial overlap and individual social preferences (2013, background): “…relationships are of particular interest in populations with fissione fusion dynamics, in which individuals temporarily associate so that group membership and group size change frequently (e.g. Brager 1999; Cross et al. 2005; Bashaw et al. 2007; Smith et al. 2007; reviewed by Aureli et al. 2008).”
A framework for community identification in dynamic social networks (2007, background): “Social networks have attracted a large amount of attention from epidemiologists [21, 25, 28], sociologists [5, 29, 38], biologists (animal interactions) [7, 6, 10, 30, 36], the intelligence community (terrorism networks) [3, 23, 24], and more recently also from computer scientists [1, 11, 14, 17, 18”