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Guiana dolphins form social modules in a large population with high ranging overlap and small demographic changes

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Author	Beirão Campos, L. Cantor, M. Flach, L. Simões Lopes, P. C.
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	The number and strength of social relationships are generally the products of group living trade-offs. However, they can be at least partially influenced by asocial factors such as the spatiotemporal opportunities for individuals to interact. We explored the social patterns of the largest population of Guiana dolphins—from dyadic interactions to the large-scale structure of their social network—considering their use of space and demographic changes during 6 years. We found that their society displays fission-fusion dynamics, characterized mainly by brief associations among individuals, and is weakly structured into four social modules. Spatial use and temporal demographic changes had minor effects on the patterns of associations among individuals. This suggests that the social modules unlikely represented spatiotemporal aggregations of individuals due to resource availability but rather involved social preferences among individuals. We show that Guiana dolphins can form social modules even in a large population with high ranging overlap and few demographic changes over time, although these social boundaries are blurred by the dynamic nature of the social relationships. Our findings illustrate and support the recent claims for the need of taking asocial processes in account when studying social structure of any animal species.Animal social relationships are dynamic, usually reflecting group living trade-offs. Simultaneously, they are influenced by the opportunities individuals have to interact. Group membership—co-occurrence in the same space and time—is the most used proxy for describing animal social relationships. Therefore, if the spatiotemporal context is not accounted for, the resultant social structure can be misrepresented. Here, we explore the social patterns of Guiana dolphins explicitly accounting for space use and temporal demographic changes. We show the largest population of Guiana dolphins displays fission-fusion dynamics, while it is structured into four distinctive sets of individuals. By accounting for asocial processes, we suggest such social modules were unlikely to result from unequal opportunities to interact but rather involved social preferences among individuals. Our findings highlight the importance of separating asocial from social processes while studying animal societies.
Starting Page	1821
Ending Page	1830
Page Count	10
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ISSN	03405443
Journal	Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Volume Number	70
Issue Number	11
e-ISSN	14320762
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publisher Date	2016-07-28
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Sotalia guianensis Social network Space use Social structure Population turnover Behavioral Sciences Zoology Animal Ecology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Animal Science and Zoology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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