摘要
The use of social network analysis to examine the behavior of social animals has grown rapidly in the past decade. Highly accessible books introducing network analysis techniques to the animal behavior research community （Croft et al., 2008; Whitehead, 2008） provide a gateway to the field. Furthermore, periodical reviews outlining the progress of the field and introducing both new biological questions and new analysis techniques （Krause et al., 2007; Wey et al., 2008; Sih et al., 2009; Croft et al,, 2011; Blonder et al., 2012; McDonald and Shizuka, 2013; Pinter-Wollman et al., 2014） fertilize the growth of the use of social network analysis to study animal social behavior.
