Self-organized huddles of rat pups modeled by simple rules of individual behavior

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 11-25

  Schank, Jeffrey C ^a   Alberts, Jeffrey R ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; HUDDLING BEHAVIOUR; NORWAY RAT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; GROUP DYNAMICS; MODEL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; THERMOREGULATION;

RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0031558725     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.1997.0488     Document Type: Article

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