Moreno Bison Dominance Network
A Bison dominance interaction observation dataset of 26 nodes and 314 edges, collected by KONECT. Each record contains directed edges: True, weighted: True, signed: False. This directed network contains dominance between American bisons in 1972 on the National Bison Range in Moiese (Montana). A node represents a bison and an edge represents dominance of the left bison over the right bison. The edge values indicate how often this dominance behaviour was observed.. 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-bison- Authors
- Lott, Dale F.
- Year
- 2010
- Source paper
- Dominance Relations and Breeding Rate in Mature Male American Bison
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1111/J.1439-0310.1979.TB00302.X
- License
- CC BY-SA 2.0 Germany (as stated by KONECT) (LicenseRef-CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE)
- Records
- 26
- Nodes
- 26
- Edges
- 314 (directed)
- Nodes are
- bison
- Edges are
- dominance
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2011 (2010s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
Provenance
- Originally published at
- http://moreno.ss.uci.edu/data.html#bison unverified
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 2.2 KB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
Citations
Dominance Relations and Breeding Rate in Mature Male American Bison
D. F. Lott
2010
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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{Lott_2010,
title = {Dominance Relations and Breeding Rate in Mature Male American Bison},
volume = {49},
issn = {0044-3573},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/J.1439-0310.1979.TB00302.X},
doi = {10.1111/j.1439-0310.1979.tb00302.x},
number = {4},
journal = {Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie},
publisher = {Wiley},
author = {Lott, Dale F.},
year = {2010},
month = Apr,
pages = {418–432}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Lott, D. F. (2010). Moreno Bison Dominance Network [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1439-0310.1979.TB00302.X
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Lott, Dale F. Moreno Bison Dominance Network. 2010, doi.org/10.1111/J.1439-0310.1979.TB00302.X.