C.crocuta.male {DynaRankR}

Male spotted hyena dominance data

Description

Data structures for inferring the ranks of adult male spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) from a single social group in the Maasai Mara National Reserve in southern Kenya. Data are from the Talek clan collected between 1988 and 1995 by the Mara Hyena Project.

Usage

C.crocuta.male

Format

List of 3 elements:

initial.ranks

Starting order of males in 1988.

contestants

Dataframe of 143 rows and 3 variables. There is one row per male per study year. id is the identity of the contestant. period is the study year. convention1 is the date that the male joined the clan, because male spotted hyena hierarchies are structured by a tenure-based convention.

interactions

Dataframe of 474 rows and 3 variables. Each row corresponds to the outcome of one aggressive interaction between adult males.