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zebras — Zebras (2002)

Description

Associations among 28 wild Grevy's zebras (Equus grevyi) in Kenya, from the study of S. R. Sundaresan, I. R. Fischhoff, J. Dushoff and D. I. Rubenstein (2007) comparing the social organization of Grevy's zebras and onagers. The authors show that Grevy's zebras form tightly knit cliques that occasionally associate with each other, and that females tend to form bonds with others in the same reproductive state. The data were distributed by L. C. Freeman on his network data page at the University of California, Irvine (no longer online), from which this version was obtained via the Internet Archive.

An undirected edge (i, j) indicates that zebras i and j were seen together at least once during the study. One zebra was never seen with another one, and is an isolated node.

The network has the following properties:

  • (Node) status: the reproductive class of the zebra (1: lactating female, 2: non-lactating female, 3: male).
  • (Edge) weight: 1 if the pair appeared together at least once, or 2 if the pair showed a statistically significant tendency to appear together.
Tags
Social Animal Weighted Metadata
Added
2020-08-11
Citation
  • S. R. Sundaresan et al., "Network metrics reveal differences in social organization between two fission-fusion species, Grevy's zebra and onager." Oecologia 151(1), 140-149 (2007) 10.1007/s00442-006-0553-6 Sci-Hub
Upstream URL OK
https://web.archive.org/web/20210115130726/http://moreno.ss.uci.edu/data.html#zebra
Networks
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Column legend
$\left<k\right>$
Mean degree
$\sigma_k$
Standard deviation of the degrees
$\lambda_h$
Largest eigenvalue of the Hashimoto (non-backtracking) matrix
$\tau$
Random walk mixing time
$r$
Degree assortativity
$c$
Global clustering coefficient
$\oslash$
(Pseudo-) diameter
$S$
Relative size of the largest component
NPs
Node properties
EPs
Edge properties
Name Nodes Edges $\left<k\right>$ $\sigma_k$ $\lambda_h$ $\tau$ $r$ $c$ $\oslash$ $S$ Kind Mode NPs EPs gt GraphML GML csv
zebras 27 111 8.22 4.76 11.25 7.43 0.72 0.84 4 0.85 Undirected Unipartite 2 KiB 2 KiB 2 KiB 2 KiB
Ridiculograms*
* These are automatically generated force-directed visualizations, and can be quite meaningless for networks both big and small. They should not be taken seriously as sources of scientific insight. See here for a discussion.