Social mates dynamically coordinate aggressive behavior to produce strategic territorial defense
Fig 5
Paired territorial response networks vary across simulated threat contexts.
Network graphs capture population-level behavioral patterns for paired defense in response to simulated territorial intruders. All edges (lines) indicate significant, non-random correlations between behaviors (nodes/shapes) where solid green is positive and dashed pink is negative and line width indicates the strength of the correlation (Spearman's rho). Paired defense networks are plotted along eigenvector 1 (x-axis) and eigenvector 2 (y-axis) of the signed Laplacian matrix and distance in these planes is informative such that closer nodes are more similar and more distant nodes are less similar. Nodes are jittered slightly for visualization. We have plotted each network on just two eigenvectors for readability. However, each of these paired defense networks was clustered using 3 or 4 eigenvectors for defining motifs (see Methods for more information and see S1 Fig for eigengap plots for each context). Population level networks for paired defense in response to simulated intruders of: A) High Threat (long/fast drum), B) Mixed Threat (short/fast drum), C) Mixed Threat (long/slow drum), and D) Low Threat (short/slow drum).