Mother of all bonds: influences on spatial association across the lifespan in capuchins

In humans, being more socially integrated is associated with better physical and mental health and/or with lower mortality. This link between sociality and health may have ancient roots: sociality also predicts survival or reproduction in other mammals, such as rats, dolphins, and non-human primates. A key question, therefore, is which factors influence the degree of sociality over the life course.  Longitudinal data can provide valuable insight into how environmental variability drives individual differences in sociality and associated outcomes. The first year of life—when long-lived mammals are the most reliant on others for nourishment and protection—is likely to play an important role in how individuals learn to integrate into groups. Using behavioral, demographic, and pedigree information on 376 wild capuchin monkeys (Cebus imitator) across 20 years, we address how changes in group composition influence spatial association. We further try to determine the extent to which early mate..., , , # Data from: Mother of all bonds: influences on spatial association across the lifespan in capuchins

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.h70rxwdqw](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.h70rxwdqw)

Included here are all data and code necessary to replicate findings from “Mother of all bonds: influences on spatial association across the lifespan in capuchins” by Irene Godoy, Peter Korsten, and Susan E. Perry.

You will need to have R installed. All analyses were conducting using R version 4.3.1.

Download all files into one folder and set it as your working directory.

You can create a subfolder ‘objects’ to save model objects in.

We used the following R packages:

brms (Version 2.19.0)

tidyverse (Version 2.0.0)

The following files were used for visualisation but are not required for analyses:

rethinking

ggplot2

ggthemes

cowplot

bayesplot

#### THE FOLLOWING DATASETS ARE PROVIDED AS .CSV FILES:

**“data_1_matProx_sub.csv”** - file containing data on early maternal social environments

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