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Dynamic Social Networks in Dairy Cows
Emil Grosfilley, Yujie Mu, Dap De Bruijckere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06372 https://arxiv.org…

Dynamic Social Networks in Dairy Cows
Social relations have been shown to impact individual and group success in farm animal populations. Fundamental to addressing these relationships is an understanding of the social network structure resulting from the co-habitation and co-movement of relationships between individuals in a group. Here, we investigate the social network of a group of around 210 lactating dairy cows on a dutch farm during a 14 days period. A positioning system called \emph{Cowview} collected positional data for the…