Topic: group organization

Space can be a limited resource. Many species including humans, evolved a compromise regulating space sharing and its occupancy based on social determinants. For example, students in a classroom tend to sit close to their friends, keeping the same spots across days, revealing the social structure in the classroom. This place preference suggests that factors such as social hierarchy and affiliation can shape space utilization; contrasting with classical random walk models of agents moving at random in any given direction. Here, we asked whether spatial occupancy of macaques (Macaca fascicularis