Considering Complexity: Animal Social Networks and Behavioural Contagions.

The spread of behaviours through animal social networks have often been considered as 'simple contagions'. However, research across other disciplines now provides substantial grounding for the 'complex contagion' of behaviours. The study of animal behaviour could benefit greatly from generally expanding to incorporate these new insights.

[1]  Andrea Montanari,et al.  The spread of innovations in social networks , 2010, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

[2]  Marcel Salathé,et al.  Complex social contagion makes networks more vulnerable to disease outbreaks , 2012, Scientific Reports.

[3]  Marius Somveille,et al.  Movement and conformity interact to establish local behavioural traditions in animal populations , 2018, bioRxiv.

[4]  John L. Quinn,et al.  Dynamic Relationships between Information Transmission and Social Connections. , 2019, Trends in ecology & evolution.

[5]  Colin R. Twomey,et al.  Revealing the hidden networks of interaction in mobile animal groups allows prediction of complex behavioral contagion , 2015, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

[6]  Will Hoppitt,et al.  The conceptual foundations of network-based diffusion analysis: choosing networks and interpreting results , 2017, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

[7]  D. Farine,et al.  Pathways of information transmission among wild songbirds follow experimentally imposed changes in social foraging structure , 2016, Biology Letters.

[8]  Jens Krause,et al.  The evolutionary and ecological consequences of animal social networks: emerging issues. , 2014, Trends in ecology & evolution.

[9]  K. Laland,et al.  Social Learning: An Introduction to Mechanisms, Methods, and Models , 2013 .

[10]  Douglas Guilbeault,et al.  Complex Contagions: A Decade in Review , 2017, ArXiv.

[11]  David G. Rand,et al.  Dynamic social networks promote cooperation in experiments with humans , 2011, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.