A data set measuring dominance and its behavioral measures in a captive wolf pack.
Arguments
Format
A data set with three variables
wolf
16 x 16 numeric matrix of dominance measures
wolf_age_diff
16 x 16 numeric matrix of difference in ages (column less row)
wolf_same_sex
16 x 16 numeric matrix of indicators of same sex
Details
This is data on a captive family of wolves in Arnheim, Germany. The 16 wolves studied here were housed in a large wooded enclosure and observed in 1978. This matrix displays deference acts. The number in a cell represents the number of occasions on which the row wolf was seen to exhibit a "low posture" display directed toward the column wolf. The behavior could involve approach or retreat, but the fact that it was performed in "low posture" suggests that it was deferent. Data obtained March 20, 2018 from http://moreno.ss.uci.edu/data.html#wolf.
References
Jan A. R. A. M. van Hooff and Joep A. B. Wensing, "Dominance and its behavioral measures in a captive wolf pack," Chapter 11 in Harry Frank, ed., Man and Wolf. Dordrecht: Junk, 1987, pp. 219-252.