Your animals' social network, visualised and analysed.
Affinities, conflicts, isolation: visualise social interactions within each group as an interactive graph. A unique tool to understand social dynamics and act accordingly.
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Animal Welfare Monitor
Animal Welfare Monitor
Relationships, a major welfare indicator
For social species, the relationships between individuals are a major welfare indicator. An isolated animal within a group can suffer as much as one that is poorly housed or poorly fed.
With sociograms and proximity matrices, you can identify affinities, conflicts, and isolated individuals at a glance.
A living network, built from your observations
- Green links: positive interactions — mutual grooming, play, resting in contact, voluntary proximity.
- Red links: negative interactions — aggression, avoidance, intimidation, one individual displacing another.
- Link thickness: proportional to the frequency or duration of the interaction, to spot the strongest relationships at once.
- Repositionable nodes and zoom: rearrange the graph and focus on a subgroup or a pair.
- Duration mode: links reflect the total time spent interacting.
- Frequency mode: links reflect the number of observed interactions.
Analyse the period and interactions that matter to you
- Time period: define a precise time window to compare two moments — before and after an introduction, an enclosure change…
- Animal selection: focus the analysis on a subgroup, a pair, or all individuals.
- Positive interactions only: isolate affinities by hiding conflicts, to spot pairs and tight-knit groups.
- Negative interactions only: identify tensions and sources of conflict within the group.
- Full view: display positive and negative simultaneously to get the overall relational balance.
Evaluate integration after an introduction
After introducing a new individual, the graph shows whether integration is going well — new positive links appear — or whether tensions are emerging.
Compare the social network from 6 months ago with today's. Are relationships evolving positively? Is the group more cohesive or more fragmented?
This lets you answer precise questions: what new relationships have formed since the new individual was introduced? Are there tensions since the enclosure change?
A valuable tool for transfers and recommendations
These sociograms show each animal's relationships, its affinities and its tensions, to better prepare its integration into a new group.
The graph helps you decide which individuals should not be separated, which would do better in another group, and how to recompose a group to improve social cohesion.
What social network analysis reveals
- Affinities identified
Two individuals spending a lot of time together in positive interactions? That's a pair you should not separate during a transfer or group change.
- Conflicts detected
Recurring negative interactions between two individuals? It may be time to review the group composition or enclosure layout.
- Isolation spotted
An individual with very few links? They could be marginalised by the group. An important welfare warning signal, especially for social species.
- Introductions evaluated
After introducing a new individual, the graph shows whether integration is going well or whether tensions are emerging.
- Evolution over time
Compare the social network from 6 months ago with today. Are relationships evolving positively? Is the group more cohesive?
- Documentation for transfers
During a transfer, the social graph shows the individual's relationships, affinities, and tensions to better prepare their integration.
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Connected modules
Social network analysis is automatically enriched with data collected by other modules.
- Individual managementEach node in the graph represents an individual with their photo and information.Explore module
- Behavioural analysisBehavioural observations directly feed the social graph with observed interactions.Explore module
- Welfare assessmentsAssessment results include social data as a welfare indicator.Explore module
- DashboardsIsolation and conflict alerts are automatically surfaced in the dashboard.Explore module
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