State-dependent foraging rules for social animals in selfish herds

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1557, 2004, Pages 2613-2620

  Rands, Scan A ^a,b   Pettifor, Richard A ^a   Rowcliffe, J Marcus ^a   Cowlishaw, Guy ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Group size; Optimization; Perceptual range; Social foraging

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROUP SIZE; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALORIC INTAKE; ENERGY; FORAGING; GAME; HERD; MODEL; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM GROUP SIZE; PREDATION RISK; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOPERATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 16644395021     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2906     Document Type: Article

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