Interaction valence reveals contrasting social networks in dairy cattle

Abstract

arXiv:2608.19222v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Social relationships shape access to resources, exposure to conflict and group stability, yet automated livestock monitoring typically treats behaviour as isolated events. Here, we present a valence-aware social-network framework that transforms video-derived interactions into herd-level representations of affiliative and agonistic organization. A pose-based computer-vision pipeline analysed 7 h 39 min of continuous video from the pre-milking area