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Rubenstein Lab

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Animal societies derive from the social relationships that exist among its members. Behavioral ecologists have focused on core social relationships that underlie mating systems to determine how environmental features shape social behavior. But interactions outside of core groups also play important roles in shaping the structure of multi-level societies, such as those of zebras. Our research on plains and Grevy’s zebras examines how natural and sexual selection operates within complex and multi-tiered societies to influence leadership, competitive, cooperative and reproductive patterns. We also examine how these behavioral patterns feedback and affect population processes and use these insights to design conservation and management interventions when population numbers and vital rates do not foster sustainable populations. Rubenstein along with Princeton colleagues and Kenyan scientists are studying how water moves over and through land, how different plants affect water retention, how

Rubenstein Lab Research ZEBRA SOCIALITY Animal societies derive from the social relationships that exist among its members. Behavioral ecologists have focused on core social relationships that underlie mating systems to determine how environmental features shape social behavior. But interactions outside of core groups also play important roles in shaping the structure of multi-level societies, such as those of zebras. Our research on plains and Grevy's zebras examines how natural and sexual selection operates within complex and multi-tiered societies to influence leadership, competitive, coope

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