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@article{item_3619365,
title = {{MacaqueNet: Advancing comparative behavioural research through large-scale collaboration}},
author = {De Moor, Delphine and Skelton, Macaela and MacaqueNet,  and Amici, Federica and Arlet, Malgorzata and Balasubramaniam, Krishna and Ballesta, S{\'e}bastien and Beisner, Brianne and Bergh{\"a}nel, Andreas and Berman, Carol M. and Bernstein, Sofia K. and Bhattacharjee, Debottam and Bliss-Moreau, Eliza and Brotcorne, Fany and Butovskaya, Marina and Carosi, Monica and Chatterjee, Mayukh and Cowl, Veronica and De La O, Claudio and Dettmer, Amanda and Dhawale, Ashni K. and Erinjery, Joseph J. and Fischer, Julia and Garc{\'\i}a-Nisa, Iv{\'a}n and Giraud, Gwennan and Hammer, Roy and Hansen, Malene F. and Holzner, Anna and Kaburu, Stefano and Kone{\v{c}}n{\'a}, Martina and Kumara, Honnavalli N. and Larrivaz, Marine and Leca, Jean-Baptiste and Legrand, Mathieu and Lehmann, Julia and Li, Jin-Hua and MacIntosh, Andrew and Majolo, Bonaventura and Mar{\'e}chal, La{\"e}titia and Marty, Pascal and Massen, Jorg J. M. and Maulany, Risma Illa and McCowan, Brenda and McFarland, Richard and Meunier, H{\'e}l{\`e}ne and Micheletta, J{\'e}r{\^o}me and Mishra, Partha S. and Molesti, Sandra and M{\"u}ller-Klein, Nadine and Ngakan, Putu Oka and Palagi, Elisabetta and Pfl{\"u}ger, Lena S. and Polizzi di Sorrentino, Eugenia and Reichard, Ulrich H. and Riley, Erin and Rincon, Alan and Ruppert, Nadine and Sadoughi, Baptiste and Sah, Shahrul A. M. and Santhosh, Kumar and Schino, Gabriele and Singh, Mewa and Sinha, Anindya and Sosa, Sebastian and Stribos, Mathieu S. and Sueur, C{\'e}dric and Tkaczynski, Patrick J. and Widdig, Anja and Whitehouse, Jamie and Wooddell, Lauren and Xia, Dong-Po and Young, Chris and Sch{\"u}lke, Oliver and Ostner, Julia and Neumann, Christof and Duboscq, Julie and Brent, Lauren J. N.},
language = {eng},
issn = {0021-8790},
doi = {10.1111/1365-2656.14223},
year = {2025},
date = {2025-04},
abstract = {{1. There is a vast and ever-accumulating amount of behavioural data on individually recognised animals, an incredible resource to shed light on the ecological and evolutionary drivers of variation in animal behaviour. Yet, the full potential of such data lies in comparative research across taxa with distinct life histories and ecologies. Substantial challenges impede systematic comparisons, one of which is the lack of persistent, accessible and standardised databases.{\textless}br{\textgreater}2. Big-team approaches to building standardised databases offer a solution to facilitating reliable cross-species comparisons. By sharing both data and expertise among researchers, these approaches ensure that valuable data, which might otherwise go unused, become easier to discover, repurpose and synthesise. Additionally, such large-scale collaborations promote a culture of sharing within the research community, incentivising researchers to contribute their data by ensuring their interests are considered through clear sharing guidelines. Active communication with the data contributors during the standardisation process also helps avoid misinterpretation of the data, ultimately improving the reliability of comparative databases.{\textless}br{\textgreater}3. Here, we introduce MacaqueNet, a global collaboration of over 100 researchers (https://macaquenet.github.io/) aimed at unlocking the wealth of cross-species data for research on macaque social behaviour. The MacaqueNet database encompasses data from 1981 to the present on 61 populations across 14 species and is the first publicly searchable and standardised database on affiliative and agonistic animal social behaviour. We describe the establishment of MacaqueNet, from the steps we took to start a large-scale collective, to the creation of a cross-species collaborative database and the implementation of data entry and retrieval protocols.{\textless}br{\textgreater}4. We share MacaqueNet{\textquotesingle}s component resources: an R package for data standardisation, website code, the relational database structure, a glossary and data sharing terms of use. With all these components openly accessible, MacaqueNet can act as a fully replicable template for future endeavours establishing large-scale collaborative comparative databases.}},
journal = {{Journal of Animal Ecology}},
volume = {94},
number = {4},
pages = {519--534},
}