1. Growing interest in the structure and dynamics of animal social networks has stimulated efforts to develop automated tracking technologies that can reliably record encounters in free-ranging subjec
Animal social network analysis (SNA) often uses proximity data obtained from automated tracking of individuals. Identifying associations based on proximity requires deciding on quantitative criteria
Our current understanding of animal social networks is largely based on observations or experiments that do not directly manipulate associations between individuals. Consequently, evidence relating to
The file dolphins.gml contains an undirected social network of frequentassociations between 62 dolphins in a community living off Doubtful Sound,New Zealand, as compiled by Lusseau et al. (2003). Plea