Moreno Sheep Dominance Network
A Sheep dominance interaction observation dataset of 28 nodes and 250 edges, collected by KONECT. Each record contains directed edges: True, weighted: True, signed: False. This directed network deescribes the dominance relationships between 28 female bighorn sheep (<i>Ovis canadensis</i>) observed on the National Bison Range in western Montana (USA) in 1984. A node represents a female bighorn sheep and an edge represents dominance of the left female bighorn sheep over. Suitable for animal social network analysis.
Cite this dataset at
moreno-sheep.echo.directory
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-sheep- Authors
- Hass, Christine C.
- Year
- 1991
- Source paper
- Social status in female bighorn sheep (<i>Ovis canadensis</i>): expression, development and reproductive correlates
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1111/J.1469-7998.1991.TB03832.X
- License
- CC BY-SA 2.0 Germany (as stated by KONECT) (LicenseRef-CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE)
- Records
- 28
- Nodes
- 28
- Edges
- 250 (directed)
- Nodes are
- sheep
- Edges are
- dominance
- Attributes
- nodes have attributes; edges have attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2011 (2010s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
- Region
- United States · North America (inferred: named in the description)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- http://moreno.ss.uci.edu/data.html#sheep unverified
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 2.4 KB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
Citations
Social status in female bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis): expression, development and reproductive correlates
Christine C. Hass
1991
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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{Hass_1991,
title = {Social status in female bighorn sheep (<i>Ovis canadensis</i>): expression, development and reproductive correlates},
volume = {225},
issn = {1469-7998},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/J.1469-7998.1991.TB03832.X},
doi = {10.1111/j.1469-7998.1991.tb03832.x},
number = {3},
journal = {Journal of Zoology},
publisher = {Wiley},
author = {Hass, Christine C.},
year = {1991},
month = Nov,
pages = {509–523}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Hass, C. C. (1991). Moreno Sheep Dominance Network [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1469-7998.1991.TB03832.X
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Hass, Christine C. Moreno Sheep Dominance Network. 1991, doi.org/10.1111/J.1469-7998.1991.TB03832.X.