The emerging field of network science has demonstrated that an individual's connectedness within their social network has cascading effects to other dimensions of life. Like humans, spider monkeys live in societies with high fission–fusion dynamics, and are remarkably social. Social network analysis (SNA) is a powerful tool for quantifying connections that may vary as a function of initiating or receiving social behaviors, which has been described as shifting social roles. In primatology, the SNA literature is dominated by work in catarrhines, and has yet to be applied to the study of development in a platyrrhine model. Here, SNA was utilized in combination with R‐Index social role calculation to characterize social interaction patterns in juvenile and adult Colombian spider monkeys (Ateles fusciceps rufiventris). Connections were examined across five behaviors: embrace, face‐embrace, grooming, agonism, and tail‐wrapping from 186 hr of observation and four network metrics. Mann–Whitney U tests were utilized to determine differences between adult and juvenile social network patterns for each behavior. Face‐embrace emerged as the behavior with different network patterns for adults and juveniles for every network metric. With regard to social role, juveniles were receivers, not initiators, for embrace, face‐embrace, and grooming (ps < .05). Network and social role differences are discussed in light of social development and aspects of the different behaviors.

中文翻译：

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网络分析是了解蜘蛛猴社会发展的工具。

网络科学的新兴领域表明，个人在其社交网络中的联系对生活的其他方面具有连锁效应。像人类一样，蜘蛛猴生活在具有高裂变融合动态的社会中，并且非常社交。社交网络分析（SNA）是一种强大的工具，用于量化可能因社交行为的启动或接受而变化的联系，这被描述为社会角色的转移。在灵长类动物学中，SNA文献主要以卡他汀的研究为主导，尚未应用于白y模型的研究。在这里，SNA与R-Index社会角色计算结合使用来表征少年和成年哥伦比亚蜘蛛猴（Ateles fusciceps rufiventris）。从186小时的观察和四个网络指标中，检查了五种行为之间的联系：拥抱，脸部拥抱，修饰，激动和尾巴缠结。曼恩·惠特尼U检验用于确定每种行为的成人和青少年社交网络模式之间的差异。面对拥抱的出现是针对每个网络指标的成年人和青少年具有不同网络模式的行为。关于社会角色，青少年是拥抱，面部拥抱和修饰的接受者，而不是发起者（p s <.05）。根据社会发展和不同行为的方面，讨论了网络和社会角色的差异。