Postdoc with @SavingGorillas and @CrabExeter researching gorilla social behaviour, social complexity, territoriality and the evolution of friendship.
Jul 29, 2020 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
How do measures of social complexity compare? Do bigger groups have a greater number of different relationship types? We studied this in mountain gorillas @ljnbrent@SavingGorillas 📸J.P. Samedi Mucyo, speech bubbles my own… doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2… (1/7)
We compared metrics of social complexity based on relationship diversity with the traditional metric of group size across 13 mountain gorilla groups over 12 years and found that relationship diversity was actually lowest in some of the largest groups (2/7)