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Figure 10.6
Exploration of patterns of spatial proximity can reveal some unexpected structure to
what appears superficially to be a random gathering. In the case of farm cats, these graphs, based
on G. Kerby's field study in Macdonald et al. (in press), reveal (A) that different age-sex classes of
individuals positioned themselves at significantly different distances to their nearest neighbors and
(B) that these positionings differed significantly depending on the age-sex class to which that neigh-
bor belonged. AF = adult female, AM = adult male, JF = juvenile female, JM = juvenile male, KF =
female kitten, KM = male kitten.
