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***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** Hi Valdis, There is actually some history to nonhuman primate social networks. Clarence Ray Carpenter, in many respects the father of naturalistic primatology, spent a lot of time thinking about primate sociometry. You can see the germ of this in his early work on howler monkeys of Barro Colorado Island and the rhesus monkeys of Cayo Santiago. He sketched sociograms representing gibbon social organization in 1937 (these notes can be found in the Carpenter Papers housed at Penn State). Carpenter, it seems, was profoundly influenced by Moreno. He has a paper from 1945: Carpenter, C.R. 1945. Concepts and problems in primate sociometry. Sociometry. 8:56-61. In a truly remarkable book edited by Robert Hinde in 1983, there are a number of examples of nonhuman animal sociometry, complete with sociograms. Cynthia Moss and Joyce Poole have a terrific chapter on elephant social relationships that includes two circulant (weighted) sociograms depicting sex-specific association patterns of sexually active females. John Colvin also provides sociograms for the Cayo Santiago rhesus macaques. The full reference for this volume is: Hinde, R. A. (ed.) 1983. Primate Social Relationships. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications. Richard Conner has some great stuff on dolphin social networks, which I assume from your posting that you have seen. Hope this helps! Cheers, Jamie -- James Holland Jones Assistant Professor Department of Anthropological Sciences Building 360 Stanford, CA 94305-2117 phone: 650-723-4824 fax: 650-725-9996 email: [log in to unmask] url: http://www.stanford.edu/~jhj1 _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message.