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Group behaviour: leadership by those in need.

David J T Sumpter1.   

Abstract

A new model of animal group behaviour shows that, when the need to reach a target outweighs the costs of splitting from the group, a minority of the most 'needy' individuals become the leaders of large groups.

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Year:  2009        PMID: 19409279     DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.02.049

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Curr Biol        ISSN: 0960-9822            Impact factor:   10.834


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1.  Personality and the collective: bold homing pigeons occupy higher leadership ranks in flocks.

Authors:  Takao Sasaki; Richard P Mann; Katherine N Warren; Tristian Herbert; Tara Wilson; Dora Biro
Journal:  Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci       Date:  2018-05-19       Impact factor: 6.237

2.  The effect of boldness on decision-making in barnacle geese is group-size-dependent.

Authors:  Ralf H J M Kurvers; Vena M A P Adamczyk; Sipke E van Wieren; Herbert H T Prins
Journal:  Proc Biol Sci       Date:  2010-12-01       Impact factor: 5.349

3.  Physical and biological determinants of collective behavioural dynamics in complex systems: pulling chain formation in the nest-weaving ant Oecophylla smaragdina.

Authors:  Thomas Bochynek; Simon K A Robson
Journal:  PLoS One       Date:  2014-04-23       Impact factor: 3.240

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