Journal
AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY
Volume 47, Issue 3, Pages 374-381Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2028.2008.00984.x
Keywords
group size; Kenya; reticulated giraffe; social networks; spacing
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- Office of the President of the Republic of Kenya [13/001/31C 23]
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This paper describes a method of scoring the neck pattern of reticulated giraffes as a simple code that can be searched for in an Excel spreadsheet. This enables several hundred individual giraffe to be recognized and repeatedly found within a database. Possible sources of error are described and quantified. Data on group size, dispersal within groups and social network patterns are described. The latter is facilitated using Ucinet 6.85 for Windows, a software package that helps to visualize and analyse such networks.
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