Moreno Cattle Dominance Network
A Cattle dominance interaction observation dataset of 28 nodes and 217 edges, collected by KONECT. Each record contains directed edges: True, weighted: True, signed: False. This directed network contains dominance behaviours observed between dairy cattles at the Iberia Livestock Experiment Station in Jenerette, Louisiana. A node represents a cattle and an edge represents dominance of the left cattle over the right cattle. The edge values indicate how often this dominan. Suitable for animal social network analysis.
Cite this dataset at
moreno-cattle.echo.directory
Analytics
Node size is centrality, colour is community. Hover a node for details; click one to isolate its community.
Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
moreno-cattle- Authors
- Schein, Martin W.; Fohrman, Milton H.
- Year
- 1955
- Source paper
- Social dominance relationships in a herd of dairy cattle
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1016/S0950-5601(55)80012-3
- License
- CC BY-SA 2.0 Germany (as stated by KONECT) (LicenseRef-CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE)
- Records
- 28
- Nodes
- 28
- Edges
- 217 (directed)
- Nodes are
- cattle
- Edges are
- dominance
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2005 (2000s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
Provenance
- Originally published at
- http://moreno.ss.uci.edu/data.html#cattle unverified
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 2.0 KB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
Citations
Social dominance relationships in a herd of dairy cattle
M. W. Schein, M. H. Fohrman
1955
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Irwin S. Bernstein · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 1981 · cited 559× - The probability of linearity in hierarchies
M. Appleby · 1983 · cited 413× - Effect of Animal Grouping on Feeding Behavior and Intake of Dairy Cattle
R. Grant, J. L. Albright · 2001 · cited 315×
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Citation data from Semantic Scholar, retrieved 2026-10-19.
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@article{Schein_1955,
title = {Social dominance relationships in a herd of dairy cattle},
volume = {3},
issn = {0950-5601},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0950-5601(55)80012-3},
doi = {10.1016/s0950-5601(55)80012-3},
number = {2},
journal = {The British Journal of Animal Behaviour},
publisher = {Elsevier BV},
author = {Schein, Martin W. and Fohrman, Milton H.},
year = {1955},
month = Apr,
pages = {45–55}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Schein, M. W., & Fohrman, M. H. (1955). Moreno Cattle Dominance Network [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0950-5601(55)80012-3
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Schein, Martin W., and Milton H. Fohrman. Moreno Cattle Dominance Network. 1955, doi.org/10.1016/S0950-5601(55)80012-3.