Tracking social networks

Zebra herd constantly form and break up, this group is trying to model this network. This also has applications in economics for tracking consumers! ["On an abstract level, the methodology is the same," Berger-Wolf said. "But I get much more excited when dealing with questions of conservation biology than marketing"].
Same principles, applied in different domains giving meaningful answers in the respective domains... mathematics is beautiful.

clipped from www.newswise.com Berger-Wolf, with Princeton University ecologist Daniel Rubenstein and University of New Mexico computer scientist Jared Saia, received a $900,000 National Science Foundation grant to create computational tools that provide a broader, more dynamic picture of animal social interactions.