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Tag: New methods

#StoryBehindThePaper, Guest post, Special features

Integrating new technological advances and classical ecological methods to uncover the secret lives of social animals

This blog post is provided by Jennifer Smith and Noa Pinter-Wollman and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Observing the unwatchable: Integrating automated sensing, naturalistic observations and animal social network analysis in the age of big data“, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology Animal Social Networks Special Issue. In recent decades, technology has radically changed our lives, with new applications and tools … Continue reading Integrating new technological advances and classical ecological methods to uncover the secret lives of social animals

Unknown's avatarBeth PrestonJanuary 20, 2021November 23, 2021Leave a comment

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