Moreno Rhesus Monkey Grooming Network
A Rhesus monkey grooming observation dataset of 16 nodes and 111 edges, collected by KONECT. Each record contains directed edges: True, weighted: True, signed: False. This directed network contains observed grooming episodes between free ranging rhesus macaques (<i>Macaca mulatta</i>) in Cayo Santiago during a two month period in 1963. Cayo Santiago is an island off the coast of Puerto Rico, also known as Isla de los monos (Island of the monkeys). A node repres. Suitable for animal social network analysis.
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Analytics
Node size is centrality, colour is community. Hover a node for details; click one to isolate its community.
Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
moreno-rhesus- Authors
- Sade, D.S.
- Year
- 1972
- Source paper
- Sociometrics of <i>Macaca mulatta</i> I. Linkages and Cliques in Grooming Matrices
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1159/000155480
- License
- CC BY-SA 2.0 Germany (as stated by KONECT) (LicenseRef-CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE)
- Records
- 16
- Nodes
- 16
- Edges
- 111 (directed)
- Nodes are
- macaque
- Edges are
- grooming episode
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 1993 (1990s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
Provenance
- Originally published at
- http://moreno.ss.uci.edu/data.html#rhesus unverified
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 2.0 KB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
Citations
Sociometrics of Macaca mulatta. I. Linkages and cliques in grooming matrices.
D. S. Sade
Journal Article · Folia primatologica; international journal of primatology · 1972
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Citation data from Semantic Scholar, retrieved 2026-10-19.
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@article{Sade_1972,
title = {Sociometrics of <i>Macaca mulatta</i> I. Linkages and Cliques in Grooming Matrices},
volume = {18},
issn = {1421-9980},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000155480},
doi = {10.1159/000155480},
number = {3-4},
journal = {Folia Primatologica},
publisher = {Walter de Gruyter GmbH},
author = {Sade, D.S.},
year = {1972},
pages = {196–223}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Sade, D. (1972). Moreno Rhesus Monkey Grooming Network [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1159/000155480
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Sade, D.S. Moreno Rhesus Monkey Grooming Network. 1972, doi.org/10.1159/000155480.