It’s all about who you know when you’re an animal. For vampire bats sharing blood meals to survive, macaque monkeys forming grooming pacts after a deadly hurricane, and great tit birds learning the best way to steal milk, it pays to be well-connected.
In this tour of the animal kingdom, evolutionary biologist Lee Alan Dugatkin uncovers social networks that existed long before the dawn of human social media. He describes the latest findings in fields including animal behavior, psychology, anthropology, genetics, and neurobiology and incorporates insights from researchers who had adventures such as swimming with manta rays and stopping monkeys from stealing iPads. Dugatkin investigates social networks in giraffes, elephants, kangaroos, Tasmanian devils, whales, and bats, among other animals.
Dugatkin’s new book, The Well-Connected Animal: Social Networks and the Wondrous Complexity of Animal Societies (University of Chicago Press), is available for purchase.
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