study social behavior in wild animals, with emphasis on social networks and communication patterns.
ABOUT MY WORK
I integrate behavioral ecology, network science, and social science, to study broad aspects of social behavior in the wild. I use empirical and theoretical methods to better understand behavioral phenomena. Much of my research focuses on the study of social networks and on principles of animal communication.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
1. D.N. Fisher, A. Ilany, M.J. Silk, T. Tregenza. Analysing animal social network dynamics: the potential of stochastic actor-oriented models. Journal of Animal Ecology, (86), 2, pp. 202-212, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12630, 2017.
2. V. Demartsev, A. Ilany, A. Kershenbaum, Y. Geva, O. Margalit, I. Schnitzer, A. Barocas, E. Bar-Ziv, L. Koren, E. Geffen. The progression pattern of male hyrax songs and the role of climactic ending. Scientific Reports, (7), 1, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-03035-x, 2017.
3. V. Demartsev, A. Ilany, A. Barocas, E. {Bar Ziv}, I. Schnitzer, L. Koren, E. Geffen. A mixed strategy of counter-singing behavior in male rock hyrax vocal competitions. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, (70), 12, pp. 2185-2193, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-016-2222-z, 2016.
4. Ilany, E. Akcay. Personality and social networks: A generative model approach. Integrative and Comparative Biology, (56), 6, pp. 1197-1205, https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icw068, 2016.
5. Ilany, E. Akcay. Social inheritance can explain the structure of animal social networks. Nature Communications, (7), https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12084, 2016.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
• ARABIAN BABBLER SOCIAL NETWORKS
• MODELING NETWORK DYNAMICS
• ROCK HYRAX SOCIAL NETWORKS