@article{jmmss 748, author = {Aurelio José Figueredo, Sally Gayle Olderbak, Vanya Alessandra Moreno}, title = {A Social Relations Model for the Colonial Behavior of the Zebra Finch}, volume = {1}, year = {2010}, url = {http://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jmmss/article/id/748/}, issue = {1}, doi = {10.2458/v1i1.77}, abstract = {<p>A social relations model was developed for 5 years of behavioral recordings from a captive colony of Zebrafinches (Taeniopygia guttata). A quantitative ethogram was applied, using one-zero focal animal sampling on an ethologically comprehensive checklist of 52 behavioral items (Figueredo, Petrinovich, & Ross, 1992). Of the 9 ethological factors previously identified, only 4 of the 6 social factors (Social Proximity, Social Contact, Social Submission, and Social Aggression) were used. Major results were as follows: (1) Individual finches showed systematically different response dispositions that were stable over a 5-year period as both subjects and objects of behavior; (2) Interactions between finches differed systematically by the sexes of both the subjects and the objects of behavior; (3) Behavioral interactions between finches and their mates differed systematically according to the subjects' sex, but also differed systematically from those with other members of the objects' sex; (4) Behavioral interactions between finches and their relatives differed systematically between different discrete categories of relatives, but did not vary as a systematic function of either graded genetic relatedness or familiarity due to common rearing; and (5) Behavioral interactions between finches and their relatives showed an overall bias towards preferential interactions with male relatives.</p>}, month = {10}, pages = {19-34}, keywords = {social relations modeling,Zebra finch,ethological factor modeling,longitudinal,multiple-P-type factor analysis}, issn = {2159-7855}, publisher={University of Arizona Libraries}, journal = {Journal of Methods and Measurement in the Social Sciences} }