Spotted hyenas pass down social ties and classes
‘We found overwhelming evidence that social connections of offspring are similar to those of the mother,’ says Bar-Ilan researcher.
A hyena family. Photo by Kate Shaw Yoshida
According to the study, recently published in
Science, the process of social inheritance among spotted hyenas not only determines how offspring relationships are formed and maintained, but also plays a very significant role in structuring the spotted hyena clan.
Amiyaal Ilany, a biologist at the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences at Bar-Ilan University, integrated behavioral ecology, network science, and social science to study broad aspects of social behavior in the wild.
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