Soay Sheep Project
soaysheep.bsky.social
Bleats about all things Soay Sheep: field, research, puns 🐑 Home of the long term study of the Soay Sheep of St Kilda, Scotland 🏝️ Also check out our instagram: www.instagram.com/soaysheep/ and website: https://soaysheep.bio.ed.ac.uk/ 🔭🐏
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We welcome Josephine Pemberton at #PopGen Seminar tomorrow! She talks about "Evolutionary genetic studies in long term, individually-monitored wild animal populations". Streaming info: popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution #genetics @soaysheep.bsky.social @rumdeerresearch.bsky.social
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Exciting to share my first paper using the Soay Sheep system, and the project's first social network paper! @soaysheep.bsky.social 🐑 Huge thanks to @mattjsilk.bsky.social who co-led this work, plus all coauthors, long-term data collectors, and @royalsociety.org for funding. 🙏
Show PostOne result held regardless of conditions: females who consistently associated with a few key partners survived better. Even in fluid societies where group membership constantly shifts, investing a few relatively strong relationships pays off. 🐑
Show PostWet, stormy winters ⛈️: larger group sizes (quantity) boosted survival – likely through huddling & thermoregulation. Benign winters ☀️: stronger, more consistent associations with the same partners (quality) predicted survival – possibly by reducing conflict through familiarity.
Show PostUsing 37 years of data from Soay sheep on the remote island of St Kilda, we generated social networks and showed that both the quantity AND quality of social relationships predict overwinter survival. But which matters more? That depends on environmental conditions.
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