Farm Sanctuary stepped in and offered to take all of them. When the show ended, the veterinarian and the show’s producer didn’t want to send Honey and her new family back into the dairy industry. Honey gave birth on set to a cow the cast called “Ca$h Cow” but was later renamed Meredith at Farm Sanctuary. So, both Betsy and Honey were pregnant when they appeared on the television show. Cows, like all mammals, begin producing milk only when they become pregnant so that they can feed their young. They were purchased from the dairy farm on which they lived by TV producers working on a reality series called “Utopia” to be used for their milk on the show. Honey has the classic “Jersey girl” markings and is a key member of her herd, spending time with all of the other cattle. Like her three companions, she came to our sanctuary on Novemfrom Farm Sanctuary‘s Northern California shelter. She loves food and has one of the fastest tongues in the west.Īlong with Betsy, she started her life as one of the more than nine million cows that produce milk for human consumption in the U.S. Honey and Betsy’s fate was quite different than most, however. You can now support the sanctuary by becoming Honey’s Bovine Buddy! Honey currently has 4 Buddies! This funder had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Born ~2007 (birthday celebrated November 10) Central Washington University, Primate Behavior Program Debra and Arlen Prentice Award (to JAF) This funder does not provide grant numbers. This funder had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. This funder does not provide grant numbers. Central Washington University Department of Anthropology and Museum Studies Pete and Sandra Barlow Award – JAF. This work received support from the following sources: Central Washington University College of the Sciences SURE fellowship – JAF. Our results have an applied component that can aid sanctuary staff in a variety of ways to best ensure the improvement of group welfare. Our results indicate that the conventional methods used to calculate individuals' dominance rank may be inadequate to wholly depict a group's social relationships in captive sanctuary populations. One chimpanzee emerged as the most dominant through agonism but was least connected to other group members across affiliative networks. Through agonistic networks, we found that group members reciprocally exhibited agonism, and the group's dominance hierarchy was statistically non-linear. Three individuals were most central in the grooming network, while two others had little connection. We analyzed our data using SOCPROG to derive dominance hierarchies and network statistics, and we diagrammed the group's social networks in NetDraw. We used focal-animal and instantaneous scan sampling to collect 106.75 total hours of associative, affiliative, and agonistic data from June to September 2016. In this study, we investigated the dyadic social relationships, group-level social networks, and dominance hierarchy of seven chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) at Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest. Gaining a greater understanding of captive chimpanzees through investigations of centrality, preferred and avoided relationships, dominance hierarchy, and social network diagrams can be useful in advising current management practices in sanctuaries and other captive settings. Social Network Analysis (SNA) is a useful tool for gaining a holistic understanding of the dynamic social relationships of captive primate groups. Different aspects of sociality bear considerable weight on the individual- and group-level welfare of captive nonhuman primates.
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