Provides: (1) Tools to infer dominance hierarchies based on calculating Elo scores, but with custom functions to improve estimates in animals with relatively stable dominance ranks. (2) Tools to plot the shape of the dominance hierarchy and estimate the uncertainty of a given data set.

Simple animated versions of basic R plots, using the 'animation'
    package. Includes animated versions of plot, barplot, persp, contour,
    filled.contour, hist, curve, points, lines, text, symbols, segments, and
    arrows.

Synthetic generation of 1-D and 2-D correlated random walks (CRWs) for animal movement with behavioral switching, and particle filter estimation of movement parameters from observed trajectories using Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) model. See Ackerman (2018) <https://digital.library.temple.edu/digital/collection/p245801coll10/id/499150>.

Functions for generating and visualising networks for characterising the physical attributes and spatial organisations of habitat components (i.e. habitat physical configurations). The network generating algorithm first determines the X and Y coordinates of N nodes within a rectangle with a side length of L and an area of A. Then it computes the pair-wise Euclidean distance Dij between node i and j, and then a complete network with 1/Dij as link weights is constructed. Then, the algorithm removes links from the complete network with the probability as shown in the function ahn_prob(). Such link removals can make the network disconnected whereas a connected network is wanted. In such cases, the algorithm rewires one network component to its spatially nearest neighbouring component and repeat doing this until the network is connected again. Finally, it outputs an undirected network (weighted or unweighted, connected or disconnected). This package came with a manuscript on modelling the physical configurations of animal habitats using networks (in preparation).

All animal behaviour occurs sequentially. The package has a number of functions to format sequence data from different sources, to analyse sequential behaviour and communication in animals. It also has functions to plot the data and to calculate the entropy of sequences.