Amiyaal Ilany

Senior Lecturer

About us

Our lab utilizes a range of approaches to study animal sociality. We are involved in long-term studies of wild animals such as the rock hyrax and the Arabian babbler. We introduce state-of-the-art technologies to gain new insights into social networks and animal communication. We also develop theory to test our interpretation of observed patterns.

Interests

Behavioral ecology
Social networks
Communication

Selected Publications

Social inheritance can explain the structure of animal social networks

A. Ilany, E. Akcay

Nature Communications, (7), https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12084, 2016

Topological effects of network structure on long-term social network dynamics in a wild mammal

A. Ilany, A.S. Booms, K.E. Holekamp

Ecology Letters, (18), 7, pp. 687-695, https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12447, 2015

Variance in centrality within rock hyrax social networks predicts adult longevity

A. Barocas, A. Ilany, L. Koren, M. Kam, E. Geffen

PLoS ONE, (6), 7, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022375, 2011

Recent Publications

More Publications

A. Ilany. Complex societies, simple processes: a comment on Shizuka and Johnson. Behavioral Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arz107, 2019.

Y.A. Weissman, V. Demartsev, A. Ilany, A. Barocas, E. Bar-Ziv, I. Schnitzer, E. Geffen, L. Koren. Acoustic stability in hyrax snorts: vocal tightrope-walkers or wrathful verbal assailants?. Behavioral Ecology, (30), 1, https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/ary141, 2018.

D.N. Fisher, A. Ilany, M.J. Silk, T. Tregenza. Analysing animal social network dynamics: the potential of stochastic actor-oriented models. Journal of Animal Ecology, (86), 2, pp. 202-212, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12630, 2017.

V. Demartsev, A. Ilany, A. Kershenbaum, Y. Geva, O. Margalit, I. Schnitzer, A. Barocas, E. Bar-Ziv, L. Koren, E. Geffen. The progression pattern of male hyrax songs and the role of climactic ending. Scientific Reports, (7), 1, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-03035-x, 2017.

V. Demartsev, A. Ilany, A. Barocas, E. {Bar Ziv}, I. Schnitzer, L. Koren, E. Geffen. A mixed strategy of counter-singing behavior in male rock hyrax vocal competitions. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, (70), 12, pp. 2185-2193, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-016-2222-z, 2016.

A. Kershenbaum, D.T. Blumstein, M.A. Roch, C. Akcay, G. Backus, M.A. Bee, K. Bohn, Y. Cao, G. Carter, C. Casar, M. Coen, S.L. Deruiter, L. Doyle, S. Edelman, R. Ferrer-i-Cancho, T.M. Freeberg, E.C. Garland, M. Gustison, H.E. Harley, C. Huetz, M. Hughes, J. {Hyland Bruno}, A. Ilany, D.Z. Jin, M. Johnson, C. Ju, J. Karnowski, B. Lohr, M.B. Manser, B. Mccowan, E. Mercado, P.M. Narins, A. Piel, M. Rice, R. Salmi, K. Sasahara, L. Sayigh, Y. Shiu, C. Taylor, E.E. Vallejo, S. Waller, V. Zamora-Gutierrez. Acoustic sequences in non-human animals: A tutorial review and prospectus. Biological Reviews, (91), 1, pp. 13-52, https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12160, 2016.

E. {Bar Ziv}, A. Ilany, V. Demartsev, A. Barocas, E. Geffen, L. Koren. Individual, social, and sexual niche traits affect copulation success in a polygynandrous mating system. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, (70), 6, pp. 901-912, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-016-2112-4, 2016.

A. Ilany, E. Akcay. Personality and social networks: A generative model approach. Integrative and Comparative Biology, (56), 6, pp. 1197-1205, https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icw068, 2016.

A. Ilany, E. Akcay. Social inheritance can explain the structure of animal social networks. Nature Communications, (7), https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12084, 2016.

S. Chen, A. Ilany, B.J. White, M.W. Sanderson, C. Lanzas. Spatial-temporal dynamics of high-resolution animal networks: What can we learn from domestic animals?. PLoS ONE, (10), 6, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0129253, 2015.